• Gallimaufry

    A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits
    By Joseph Epstein
    Axios Press, 2020. Hardcover, 505 pages. $24.00
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    Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody’s list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down.

    Joseph Epstein’s Gallimaufry: A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits is the fifth such volume from Axios Press and contains fifty-seven essays.

  • The Ideal of Culture: Essays

    Essays
    Joseph Epstein
    Axios Press, 2018. Hardcover, 604 pages. $24.00
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    Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody’s list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down.

    The Ideal of Culture contains 63 essays on a wide variety of subjects, each a pure pleasure to read.

  • Wind Sprints

    Shorter Essays
    By Joseph Epstein
    Axios Press, 2016. Hardcover, 600 pages. $24.00
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    Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody’s list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down. Wind Sprints contains 142 short essays on a wide variety of subjects, each a pure pleasure to read.

  • A Literary Education and Other Essays

    By Joseph Epstein
    Axios Press, 2014. Hardcover, 537 pages. $24.00
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    Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Unquestionably Joseph Epstein. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down. How easy it is today to forget the simple delight of reading for no intended purpose. Each of the thirty-eight pieces in this book is a pure pleasure to read.

  • Essays in Biography

    By Joseph Epstein
    Axios Press, 2012. Hardcover, 603 pages. $24.00
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    Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Unquestionably Joseph Epstein. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down. How easy it is today to forget the simple delight of reading for no intended purpose. Each of the 40 pieces in this book is a pure pleasure to read.