TY  - BOOK
TI  - The best American essays 2007
SN  - 9780618709274
AV  - PS 688 .B464 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin
KW  - American essays
KW  - Essays
N2  -  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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