The best American essays 2007 /

The best American essays 2007 / edited and with an introduction by David Foster Wallace ; Robert Atwan, series editor. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2007. - xxiv, 307 p. 21 cm.

and the Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson attempts to find common ground with the evangelical community. the essayist Richard Rodriguez wonders if California has anything left to say to America the novelist Marilynne Robinson explores what has happened to holiness in contemporary Christianity the poet Molly Peacock constructs a mosaic tribute to a little-known but remarkable eighteenth-century woman artist The twenty-two essays in this powerful collection - perhaps the most diverse in the entire series - come from a wide variety of periodicals, ranging from n + 1 and PMS to the New Republic and The New Yorker, and showcase a remarkable range of forms. Read on for narrative - in first and third person - opinion, memoir, argument, the essay-review, confession, reportage, even a dispatch from Iraq. The philosopher Peter Singer makes a case for philanthropy

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PS 688 / .B464 2007