Ottessa Moshfegh: Death in Her Hands

Mariana Oliver: Migratory Birds

Louisa May Alcott: Transcendental Wild Oats

Ed Simon: An Alternative History of Pittsburgh

Mark Twain: The Jumping Frog

Nicolas Mahler: Party Fun with Kant

Frank Skinner: A Comedian's Prayer Book

Peter Counter: Be Scared of Everything

Hiroko Oyamada: The Hole

Michael D. Gordin: On the Fringe

Arthur Koestler: The Act of Creation

Ben Burgis: Canceling Comedians While the World Burns

Olivia Laing: Everybody

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht: Crowds

R. Bracht Branham and Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé: The Cynics

Ansgar Allen: Cynicism

Robin Wall Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Notes on Grief

Judd Apatow: Sick in the Head

Kate Murphy: You're Not Listening

Jean Casella, James Ridgeway, and Sarah Shourd: Hell is a Very Small Place