The best American essays of the century

Joyce Carol Oates

2000 ★ 3.3

A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again

David Foster Wallace

1997 ★ 3.7

Essays of E. B. White

E. B. White

1977

Women, fire, and dangerous things

George Lakoff

1987

Prejudices

H. L. Mencken

1921

Big secrets

William Poundstone

1983

Pure drivel

Steve Martin

1998

Writings from the New Yorker

E. B. White

1990

The night country

Loren C. Eiseley

1971

The Swiss family Perelman

S. J. Perelman

1950

In brief

Judith Kitchen

1999

Barbie Chronicles

Yona Zeldis McDonough

1999

Civil Wars

June Jordan

1981

High tide in Tucson

Barbara Kingsolver

1995

The Next American Essay (A New History of the Essay)

John D'Agata

2003

In our time

Eric Hoffer

1976

The best American essays 2000

Alan P. Lightman

2000

The Best American essays 1986

Elizbeth Hardwick

1986

The Friday book

John Barth

1984

Radios

Jerome Stern

1997

The best American essays

Susan Sontag

1992

Portraits and Observations

Truman Capote

1990

This simian world

Clarence Day

1920

Irons in the fire

John McPhee

1997

The best American essays, 1997

Ian Frazier

1997

Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers

2017

Broken vessels

André Dubus

1991

Make-believe town

David Mamet

1996

The Best American Essays 1991

Robert Atwan, Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates

1991

Madonnarama

Paul Smith

1993