Nineteen New Yorker pieces, from Cesar Millan reading dogs to why there are dozens of mustards and only one ketchup.
Ta-Nehisi Coates writes to his son about being Black in America; a letter in the tradition of Baldwin.
James Baldwin's two essays of 1963 on race and religion in America.
John Berger on how oil painting and advertising teach us to look; the BBC series as a book.
David Byrne on why music sounds the way the room lets it.
Scott McCloud explains how comics work, as a comic; the textbook of the form.
A botanist and Potawatomi woman on what plants teach about gratitude; the slow bestseller.
Pessoa's assistant bookkeeper Bernardo Soares and his fragments; the anti-novel of Lisbon.
Five hundred pounds a year and a room with a lock; Woolf's essay on women and writing.
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