The Best American Essays 2007The twenty two essays in this powerful collection perhaps the most diverse in the entire series come from a wide variety of periodicals, ranging from n + 1 and PMS to the New Republic and The New Yorker, and showcase a remarkable range of forms. Read on for narrative in first and third person opinion, memoir, argument, the essay review, confession, reportage, even a dispatch from Iraq. The philosopher Peter Singer makes a case for philanthropy; the

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primate behavior

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and civil unrest

OCD and neurodegenerative disorders

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this final injustice stirs him to rebellion with a zeal not even his newfound love for Elzbieta can suppress

“A delicious domestic thriller

What’s their connection to the body in the river

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