The Best American Essays 2020A collection of the years best essays selected by Andr Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name. An essay is the child of uncertainty, Andre Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking difficult thoughts, are what ultimately give the writing its depth, its magnitude,

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It needs a little TLC

reporting from a bombed-out Baghdad

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Beau begins to question everything he’s ever been told and sets off in search of a rebel who might hold the key to setting things right

Mary Magdalene is a potent and enigmatic figure

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The baby’s father—Jack—will have to help

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Alice comes to the realization that Janie might indeed be telling a strange truth