Whether a personal reflection on a wife's decline from Alzheimer's, a critique of the overdiagnosis of mood disorders, a lighthearted look at menopause, a friend's commentary on David Foster Wallace's heartbreaking suicide, or a memoir of teaching underprivileged children, this collection highlights the best essays of the year with contributions from: Benjamin Anastas - Marcia Angell - Miah Arnold - Geoffrey Bent - Robert Boyers - Dudley Clendinen - Paul Collins - Mark Doty - Mark Edmundson - Joseph Epstein - Jonathan Franzen - Malcolm Gladwell - Peter Hessler - Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough - Garret Keizer - David J. Lawless - Alan Lightman - Sandra Tsing Loh - Ken Murray - Francine Prose - Richard Sennett - Lauren Slater - Jose Antonio Vargas - Wesley Yang "A trove of fine writing on big issues." -Kirkus Reviews

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