The Best American Essays 2024

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A collection of the years best essays, selected by Pulitzer Prizewinning critic Wesley Morris.

Wesley Morris, Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and acclaimedNew York Timescritic, selectstwenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form publishedthe previous year.

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"An eclectic, accomplished collection rich in variety and talent." -- Library Journal (starred review), for The Best American Essays 2023

"[A] thoughtful entry in the long-running series...The works in this year's collection are a mix of the disconcerting, the probing, and the self-reflective, and well-suited to challenging times." -- Publishers Weekly, for The Best American Essays 2022

"These essays challenge personal and political assumptions and show us life in all its complexities and contradictions. Which in this American moment, and in every other, matters." -- USA Today, for The Best American Essays 2022

Author Bio

Wesley Morris is a critic at large forThe New York Times.Previous toThe New York Times, Morris worked atGrantlandas a staff writer and the Sportstorialist as a columnist. He was a film critic atTheBoston Globefrom 2002 to 2013, and before that attheSan Francisco ChronicleandtheSan Francisco Examiner.Morris was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his criticism atThe Boston Globein 2012, and while at Grantland, was a National Magazine Award finalist for Columns and Commentary in 2015. He won a second Pulitzer Prize for his criticism atThe New York Timesin 2021. Kim Dana Kupperman is the author of the award-winning essay collectionI Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives from the Other Side of Silence;a memoir,The Last of Her;and a historical novel,Six Thousand Miles to Home.She is the editor ofYou: An Anthology of Essays Devoted to the Second Personand the founding editor of Welcome Table Press, whose mission is to publish and celebrate the essay, in all its forms.