desirosie's review against another edition
5.0
I stumbled on this collection accidentally, and now I will have to go through other years in the series!
I bounced around the collection, not in order, and I don't think I necessarily read everything. The collection Solnit curated was sometimes too much for me and my despair heart.
One of the most beautiful ones in the volume, and one that I had not even heard about, let alone read before was "Forever Gone" by J. Drew Lanham.
I bounced around the collection, not in order, and I don't think I necessarily read everything. The collection Solnit curated was sometimes too much for me and my despair heart.
One of the most beautiful ones in the volume, and one that I had not even heard about, let alone read before was "Forever Gone" by J. Drew Lanham.
ostrowk's review against another edition
5.0
Solnit's excellently curated collection reminds me of the unique potential for the essay, generically, to take up the most urgent political questions of our time from the humble place of the personal. There's so much insight and grace and power here.
lilactea123's review against another edition
don’t want to rate this since I would rate all the essays individually!!!!
nathanshuherk's review against another edition
4.0
Really diverse set of authors. Great way to introduce yourself to some new voices you might want to read more from
lifeinpoetry's review
4.0
This is an unusually strong edition of Best American Essays. I usually skip a few out of disinterest but I read all excepting the ones I'd already read.
sskatierickard's review
It feels a bit wild to check in with essays from 2018 so much of it is so specific to that time while also showing parts of the political and cultural realities (and reckonings) of 2020.