Best Seller The Best American Essays 2025

A collection of the years best essays, selected by critically acclaimed author and essayist, Jia Tolentino.

The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the countrys finest short fiction and nonfiction, and it is the most respectedand most popularof its kind.

Jia Tolentino, critically acclaimed essayist, editor, andNew Yorkerstaffwriter, selectstwenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form publishedthe previous year.

Jia Tolentinois a staff writer at theNew Yorker, the author of the essay collectionTrick Mirror,and a screenwriter. Formerly, she was the deputy editor atJezebeland a contributing editor at theHairpin.In 2020, she received a Whiting Award as well as the Jeannette Haien Ballard Prize. Her work has also appeared in theNew York Times MagazineandPitchfork,among other places. She lives in Brooklyn.

Kim Dana Kuppermanis the author of the award-winning essay collectionI Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives from the Other Side of Silence;a memoir,The Last of Her;and a historical novel,Six Thousand Miles to Home.She is the editor ofYou: An Anthology of Essays Devoted to the Second Personand the founding editor of Welcome Table Press, whose mission is to publish and celebrate the essay, in all its forms.

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publish Date: October 21, 2025
• Pages: 432
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9780063351592
• Dimensions: 8.3 X 5.5 X 1.1 inches | 16.0 pounds
• BISAC Categories: Literary Fiction