Essays

On Risk

Maus Now: Selected Writing

New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History

On Decline

My Life: Growing Up Asian in America

In Praise of Good Bookstores

On Browsing

Fifty Forgotten Books

Everything Is Possible: Words of Heroism from Europe's Bravest Leader, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

On Writing and Failure: Or, on the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer

Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe

Is It Hot in Here (or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)?

Love That Story: Observations From A Gorgeously Queer Life

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business

Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

Tears Become Rain: Stories of Transformation and Healing Inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh

I'd Rather Not: Essays