Our editors and columnists share their recent forays into essays, Burma, the afterlife, migration, and Chinese poetry below. Download the list to find it fast at your local bookstore or library.
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In the middle of the library, surrounded by thousands of books, I consider only the one not written. There is no more new, no more next. My son's beloved character -- the one he has lived with for weeks, whose every episode has delighted and compelled, whose further adventures he has plotted for days -- has been robbed of resolution. Imagine if the wolf were left prowling on the roof of the brick house, if Sylvester's parents had never found the magic pebble, if Boo Radley had lurked forever in the shadows-- Obviously, this is a kind of death.
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This month, we feature an essay from our archives: Five Minutes by Dionne Ford. In this essay, Dionne describes a morning where she and her family find themselves running late from the minute they get out of bed. Once everyone is dressed, fed, and delivered to their morning destinations, she wrestles with how to best use the three hours she has to herself.
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With the idea that gifts (and books) transcend the world of commodity, our editors offer two of their favorite literary gifts.
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