Essays

This first new book of essays by Christopher Hitchens since 2004 offers an indispensable key to understanding his passionate and skeptical spirit.

From the New York Times bestselling writing team comes a hilarious new collection of essays that observe life from a mother/daughter perspective.

Over the past 30 years, William Gibson has been sought out by varying publications for his insights into contemporary culture. These essays and articles, never before collected, give insight into the mind of a writer whose thinking has helped shape our culture. 

In FARTHER AWAY, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. These pieces deliver on Franzen’s implicit promise to conceal nothing.

This is a definitive, hand-picked selection of Hunter S. Thompson's finest pieces ever published in Rolling Stone --- the magazine that helped to put him on the map in the 1970s. 

Nora Ephron takes a hilarious look at the past, the present and the future, bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life, and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn’t (yet) forgotten.

Critically acclaimed memoirist Wade Rouse has gathered some of America's best known humorists --- authors, comedians and actors --- to offer biting commentary on what it means to share a life, and a heart with a dog.

In this collection of essays and lectures, Margaret Atwood illuminates her lifelong relationship with the literary genre of science fiction.