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| V V: The best American essays | 04-JUL-09 |
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| Essays come in all shapes and many sizes. But however large the canvas, their distinguishing marks are intimacy and informality. They are rather like talking on paper, unhampered by preconceived notions of order and regularity, what Dr Johnson described as “a loose sally of the mind.” Probably this is what makes them so readable and the best of them in recent times originate in America—unconstrained, independent in their tastes, “a mixed genre without being a mixed up one,” as Adam Gopnik says in his Introduction to The Best American Essays, 2008 (Houghton Mifflin, $28). |
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