Deborah Baum: The Jewish Joke

Mark Lynas: Six Degrees

Michael Robinson: La Philosophie de Cantona

Ernest Cline: Ready Player One

Christophe Chabouté: Herman Melville's Moby Dick

Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow: Personal Stereo

Albert Goldbarth: The Adventures of Form and Content

Robert Wright: Why Buddhism is True

Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman: Climate Shock

Jonas Karlsson: The Invoice

John McPhee: Draft No. 4

Matt Ruff: Lovecraft Country

John Hodgman: Vacationland

Daniel Clowes: Patience

Richard Rorty: Philosophy as Poetry

Paul Kingsnorth: Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist

David Grossman: A Horse Walks into a Bar

Justin E. H. Smith: The Philosopher

Richard Ayoade: The Grip of Film by Gordy LaSure

Jason: Athos in America

Donald S. Lopez: The Story of Buddhism

Tim Crane: The Meaning of Belief

Tom Gauld: Baking With Kafka

Michael Ignatieff: The Ordinary Virtues

Christophe Chabouté: Park Bench

Christophe Chabouté: Alone

Peter Serafinowicz: A Billion Jokes

Arthur C. Danto: The Transfiguration of the Commonplace

Geoff Dyer: Out of Sheer Rage

Larry Shiner: The Invention of Art

Victor LaValle: The Ballad of Black Tom

Fritz Leiber: The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich

Bill Henderson: Rotten Reviews Redux

Jeff Lemire: Collected Essex County

Caitlyn R. Kiernan: Agents of Dreamland

Neddi Okorafor: Binti

Tony Davies: Humanism

Alexandra Petri: A Field Guide to Awkward Silences

Marilynne Robinson: Gilead

Lydia Davis: The Cows

Tom Hart: Rosalie Lightning

Adrian Tomine: Shortcomings

Brian Dillon: Essayism

Yoshihiro Tatsumi: Abandon the Old in Tokyo

Hannah Arendt: Between Past and Future

Guy Delisle: Hostage

Amitav Ghosh: The Great Derangement

Sara Pascoe: Animal

Meghan Daum: Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed

Shawn Wen: A Twenty Minute Silence Followed By Applause