A review by balletbookworm
The Best American Essays 2017 by Leslie Jamison, Robert Atwan

4.0

A good collection. A bit uneven. Stand-outs are Rachel Kushner’s “We Are Orphans Here” (from The New York Times Magazine), Catherine Venable Moore's “The Book of the Dead” (originally pubbed in Oxford American and Andrea Stuart’s “Travels in Pornland” (originally in Granta)