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Three Cheers for the Maker of the Modern Essay: Michel de Montaigne I am a lover of essays. Every morning, shortly after dawn, I sit at my laptop, coffee at hand, and explore the internet looking for pieces to read for enjoyment or as a kickoff for an article of my own. On my bookshelves are scores of novels, once also a favorite genre, but over the years I have amassed equal numbers of volumes of essays, collections by such diverse writers as Joseph Epstein, Richard Mitchell, Alice Thomas Ellis, Hilaire Belloc, and Florence King. Here too are anthologies like Phillip Lopate’s “The Art of...

Print this article The trouble with being cool is that you have to make it look natural, effortless, almost accidental, and maybe inevitable. It isn’t a simple matter of the interests you’ve cultivated, the freewheeling eccentrics you’ve assembled as a tribe, the life you’ve lived, and the stories you can tell about it. Just as the Renaissance courtier had his sprezzatura, the modern badass must maintain an air of grace and nonchalance, never letting show the glue and cardboard and twine holding together the sturdy leatherbound edifice. And so, writing about being cool is often the r...

How Jeff VanderMeer Prevents Writer’s Block Credit...Jillian Tamaki April 15, 2021 “I get superstitious,” says the author, whose latest novel is “Hummingbird Salamander”: “I once had a book sent to me that was disrupting my ability to write a novel because of a superficial similarity between the two. I took that book and dug a hole and buried it deep in the backyard.” What books are on your night stand? I chose the night stand for its stalwart qualities and it is currently holding up well under the eclectic weight of an advance copy of John Paul Brammerâ€�...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Book World: Words of wisdom or wishful thinking? The problem with new books that aim to heal us. Mark Athitakis, The Washington Post April 14, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Edited by James Crews - - - - - - The Polish poet Adam Zagajewski, who died March 21, wasn't a household name. But there's a decent chance you know one of his poems. And if you lived through 2020, you have a bone-deep understanding of the mood it evoked. In "Try to Praise the Mutilated World," Zagajewski summoned the urge to sound a note of positivity amid death and chaos: "you've seen t...

Sure, books like “The Hill We Climb,” “Poems of Healing” and “How to Heal the World” mean well, but recovery on command is tricky.