The Best American Essays 2017

This anthology edited by the New York Times –bestselling author of The Empathy Exams offers “essays that are challenging, passionate, sobering, and clever” ( Publishers Weekly ).   “The essay is political—and politically useful, by which I mean humanizing and provocative—because of its commitment to nuance, its explorations of contingency, its spirit of unrest, its glee at overturned assumptions; because of the double helix of awe and distrust—faith and doubt—that structures its DNA,” write