Books by Joseph Epstein

Snobbery (2003)
A collection of essays making light of elitist behaviors shares the author's arch observations on su...

Gossip (2011)
An incisive exploration of the cultural practice of gossip defines the phenomenon as an eternal and ...

The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff and Other Stories (2010)
A latest collection of short tales by the author of Fabulous Small Jews features everyday Jewish men...

Essays in Biography (2012)
A collection of forty essays each describe a different individual, including such writers and thinke...

The best American essays, 1993 (1993)
Compiles the best literary essays of the year originally published in American periodicals...

The Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997)
An anthology of twentieth-century essays considers such wide-ranging topics as racial conflict, sky ...