New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 21 essays and speeches written mostly in the five years preceding publication. Among the topics are his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, his feelings about the suicide of his friend and fellow author David Foster Wallace, and a description of a trip to China to see first-hand the environmental devastation there - but where he also impressed by the pace of China's economic development and so the trip becomes a journey out of his own prejudices. 321 pp. ISBN: 978-0374153571.