A one-of-a-kind anthology of American essays on a wide range of subjects by a dazzling array of mid-century writers at the top of their form—from Normal Maile

An American legend looks at Social Security and the promise of our oldest citizens.

Short stories, essays, and poems written in the mid-nineteenth century when Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville and Whitman were writing.

A dazzling anthology of essays by some of the best writers of the past quarter century—from Barry Lopez and Margo Jefferson to David Sedaris and Samantha Irby

A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith�