Portrait of My Body

Portrait of My BodyPhillip Lopate's richest and most ambitious book yet the final volume of a trilogy that began with Bachelorhood and Against Joie de Vivre Portrait of My Body is a powerful memoir in the form of interconnected personal essays. One of America's foremost essayists, who helped focus attention on the form in his acclaimed anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, Lopate demonstrates here just how far a writer can go in the direction of honesty and risk

With bold artwork and nostalgic Bronze Age comic style

Kathryn realizes it is time to move on with her life

Why are we feeling so depleted when God has promised us strength equal to our days

and a bitter jealous rivalry begins to rage between them

journalists throughout the world began to hear of the gang rape of a Pakistani woman from the impoverished village of Meerwala

David Baldacci: Aloysius Archer

Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library

Bess and Will must hope that the king can be persuaded to issue a royal decree allowing Will to marry again

Lemon-laced butterbean dip

or your clients

like the ones she grew up with in the former coal-mining town of Centralia in northeastern Pennsylvania

to wear the hijab