Do you have any favourite essays?
Hello. Thank you for the question, and sorry it took so long—as always—to work my way to this. I don’t know about favourite, but the following (off the top of my head) are exquisitely written—searing hot and furious, cool and elegant, intimate and sensuous, clinical, arch, playful…all of them have different voices and rhythms and lives contained with them:—
A Rumbling of Things Unknown, Jacqueline Rose
Let Them Drown, Naomi Klein
On Not Going Home, James Wood
After the Genocide, Philip Gourevitch
Two Kinds of Wilderness, Jeremy Miller
On Self-Respect, After Life, & Some Dreamers of The Golden Dream, Joan Didion
Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag
Where On Earth Are You? Francis Stonor Saunders
Being Sane in Insane Places, David L. Rosenhan
The Shape of My Impact, Alexis Pauline Gumbs
A Kind of Grace, Hannah Black
Not Knowing, Donald Barthelme
On Optimism And Despair, Zadie Smith
The Brain on Trial, David Eagleman
Beyond Anger, Martha C. Nussbaum
‘I Have No Choice But to Keep Looking’, Jennifer Percy
On the Violent Language of The Refugee Crisis, Christina Sharpe
Baghdad, Year Zero, Naomi Klein
The Opposite of Glamour, Delia Falconer
The Omega Glory, Michael Chabon
Hunger Makes Me, Jess Zimmerman
The Mark of a Masterpiece, David Grann
Giving Voice to the Women of Syria, Linza Mounzer
The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley
Into the Underworld, & The Last London, Iain Sinclair
The Laugh of the Medusa, Hélène Cixous
The Megacity, George Packer
Seeing Faster, James Gleick
On Not Knowing Greek, Virginia Woolf
Mythologies, Roland Barthes
I Have Seen The Tops of Clouds, Quinn Norton
The Algebra of Infinite Justice, Arundhati Roy
Speaking of Nature, Robin Kimmerer
What History Tells Us About the Refugee Crisis, Lyndsey Stonebridge
Looking for Zora, Alice Walker
Undefeated Despair, John Berger
Phew. There you are. Have a look through to see which ones stick with you. Hope this was helpful.
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