Les dix meilleurs essais américains depuis 1950
The Ten Best American Essays Since 1950, According to Robert Atwan
- James Baldwin, “Notes of a Native Son,” 1955 (Read it here.)
- Norman Mailer, “The White Negro,” 1957 (Read it here.)
- Susan Sontag, “Notes on ‘Camp,’” 1964 (Read it here.)
- John McPhee, “The Search for Marvin Gardens,” 1972 (Read it here with a subscription.)
- Joan Didion, “The White Album,” 1979
- Annie Dillard, “Total Eclipse,” 1982
- Phillip Lopate, “Against Joie de Vivre,” 1986 (Read it here.)
- Edward Hoagland, “Heaven and Nature,” 1988
- Jo Ann Beard, “The Fourth State of Matter,” 1996 (Read it here.)
- David Foster Wallace, “Consider the Lobster,” 2004 (Read it here in a version different from the one published in his 2005 book of the same name.)