How we speak to one another: an Essay Daily reader

Here's how you use the lion mints: an introduction to How We Speak to One Another / Ander Monson --

Invisible engineering: the fine art of revising "The fine art of sighing" / Marcia Aldrich --

On Christ Marker's Sans Soleil / Kristen Radtke --

Majestic ruins: on the work of James Agee / Robin Helmley --

On essays, assays, and Yiyun Li's "Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life" / V.V. Ganeshananthan --

The assault on prose: John Crowe Ransom, new criticism, and the status of the essay / Robert Atwan --

On Joan Didion, Repo Man, and a '76 Malibu / Matt Dube --

On Collage, Chris Kraus, and misremembered Didion / Aisha Sabatini Sloan --

Looking for Samuel Delany / T Clutch Fleischmann --

Observations about writing memoir in my twenties, thirties, and forties / Rigoberto González --

On the mysterious Leslie Ryan and the structure of a trauma narrative / Katherine E. Standefer --

On Arianne Zwartje's "This suturing of wounds or words" and Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel's "Cannulated screw" / Julie Lauterbach-Colby --

Living within the ellipses: on Ilan Stavan's On Borrowed Words: a Memoir of Language / César Díaz --

On Joan Didion, on the morning after my twenties / Emily Deprang --

On writing young / Lucas Mann --

On losing yourself / Danica Novgorogoff --

Is the essay at the end of time? / Ken Chen --

Email / from Bonnie J. Rough --

On the essential art of failing / Peter Grandbois --

Leaping / Albert Goldbarth --

Julian Barnes brings light to a thanatophobe's conundrum / Alison Hawthorne Deming --

On Tom Junod's "The falling man" / Steven Church --

We sought but couldn't find: coming up empty in David Shields's "Death is the mother of beauty" / Bethany Maile --

Movie quotes as misery: on Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely / David Legault --

A paperback cabinet of wonder: unlocking the long lyric essay / Joni Tevis --

The essays of Ansel Adams: an allegory / John D'Agata --

10 thoughts on Elision / Meehan Crist --

On Donald Hall's "Out the window" / Thomas Mira y Lopez --

On the virtues of drowning: Lidia Yuknavitch's the Chronology of Water / Danielle Cadena Deulen --

On Hoagland, animal obsession, and the courage of simile / John T. Price --

On David Quammen and writing trout / Maya L. Kapoor --

On long winters, short essays, and a sky that stretches forever / Chelsea Biondolillo --

On Wendell Berry and why I'm not going to buy a smartphone / Megan Kimble --

It is a shaggy world, studded with gardens / Brian Doyle --

Nonfiction like a brick / Nicole Walker --

On the fugue, Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother?, DFW, and the resistance to the one thing / Paul Lisicky --

On The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling by David Shoemaker / Brian Oliu --

On Rick Reilly's "Need a fourth?" from Sports Illustrated, March 31, 1997 / Pam Houston --

On Jim Bouton's Ball Four / Dave Mondy --

On a little-known gem by Max Beerbohm / Phillip Lopate --

On Eliot Weinberger's "Wrens" / Amy Benson --

On Charles Lamb's "New Year's Eve" / Patrick Madden --

On the Book of Days / Elena Passarello --

On the false glint of fool's gold and cliché / Erin Zweiner --

The present of our past: on Alexander Stille / Patricia Vigerman --

A fat man story: on H.L. Mencken's "A neglected anniversary" / Ander Monson --

On endings: all in all, it was a really weird summer / Ryan van Meter.