Considering the work of Virginia Woolf, Michel de Montaigne, Roland Barthes, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Georges Perec, Elizabeth Hardwick, Susan Sontag, E.M. Cioran, William Carlos Williams, and Maurice Blanchot, among others, Brian Dillon’s ESSAYISM—“a love letter to belle-lettrists, an account of the indispensable lifelines of reading and writing”—is out now.*

 

Brian Dillon, Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Non-Fiction (New York: New York Review Books, 2018).*

Elizabeth Hardwick.