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The Best American Essays 2025
By Jia Tolentino, Kim Dana KuppermanNarrated by Jean Ann Douglass, Jensen Olaya, Rasha Zamamiri, Brittany Bradford, Sean Rohani, Sean Patrick Hopkins
Length14h 10m
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“The essay has taught me how to live,” writes Jia Tolentino, this year’s Best American Essays guest editor. In a time of escalating authoritarianism and disinformation, we turn to artists and writers to make sense of the world around us. The twenty-one authors featured in this collection do not proselytize, nor do they claim to have all the answers. Instead, they teach with vulnerability, raw truths, and open questions. This volume offers testimonies and personal narratives about war and fear; oblivion and memory; disease, grief, and boredom; nonhuman animals and plants; poverty and hyperabundance; consciousness and solipsism; the loss of literature and the work of art; pretense and respect.
THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2025 INCLUDES: ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS • SARAH AZIZA • JOHN JEREMIAH SULLIVAN • CAROLYN FORCHÉ • MOSAB ABU TOHA • CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN • WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ • CHRISTINA SHARPE • AND OTHERS
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length14 hrs 10 mins
Narrated byJean Ann Douglass, Jensen Olaya, Rasha Zamamiri, Brittany Bradford, Sean Rohani, Sean Patrick Hopkins
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 21, 2025
LanguageEnglish
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