Meghan Daum: The Unspeakable

Julie Schumacher: Dear Committee Members

Adam Kotsko: Awkwardness

I. N. J. Culbard: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

Ben Lerner: Leaving the Atocha Station

Gene Yang and Sonny Lieu: The Shadow Hero

Arthur Miller: After the Fall

Frederik Peeters: Pachyderme

John Williams: Stoner

Dash Shaw: Doctors

Kristen Renwick Monroe: The Heart of Altruism

Susan Neiman: Why Grow Up?

Peter Mendelsund: What We See When We Read

Blaise Pascal: Pensees

Martin Vaughn-James: The Cage

James Wood: The Fun Stuff

Peter Toohey: Boredom

Erik Erikson: Childhood and Society

Joe Ollmann: Mid-Life

Christopher Hamilton: How to Deal with Adversity

Monique Canto-Sperber: Moral Disquiet and Human Life

Stephen Shapiro: Goal-Free Living

Chris Colin and Rob Baedeker: What To Talk About

Jean-Paul Flintoff: How to Change the World

Mark Epstein: The Trauma of Everyday Life

Oliver Burkeman: The Antidote

Thomas Ligotti: The Spectral Link

Julian Barnes: Levels of Life

Richard Ben Cramer: What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?

Glenn Stout: Fenway 1912

Gail Sheehy: Passages

Carl Wilson: Let's Talk About Love

H. G. Wells: The History of Mr. Polly

Julian Barnes: Nothing to be Frightened Of

Lars Iyer: Spurious

Jonathan Crary: 24/7

John Berger: Bento's Sketchbook

Arto Paasilinna: The Year of the Hare

Geoff Dyer: Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It

James Joyce: The Dead

Eckhart Tolle: The Power of Now

Stephen Mitchell: The Book of Job

Clare Carlisle: On Habit

Joshua Ferris: To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

Kate Atkinson: Life After Life

Stephen Grosz: The Examined Life

Tom Gauld: You're All Just Jealous Of My Jetpack

Tom Gauld: Goliath

Stephen Batchelor: Buddhism without Beliefs

Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism is a Humanism