Joseph Epstein is the author of, among other books, Snobbery, Friendship, and Fabulous Small Jews. He has been editor of American Scholar and has written for the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Commentary, Town and Country, and other magazines.
Books in order of publication:
Divorced In America: Marriage In an Age of Possibility (1975)
Familiar Territory: Observations on American Life (1979)
Life Sentences: Literary Essays (1980)
Ambition: The Secret Passion (1981)
Middle of My Tether: Familiar Essays (1983)
Plausible Prejudices: Essays on American Writing (1985)
Once More Around The Block: Familiar Essays (1987)
Partial Payments: Essays on Writers & Their Lives (1989)
The Goldin Boys: Stories (1991)
A Line Out for a Walk: Familiar Essays (1991)
Pertinent Players: Essays on The Literary Life (1993)
With My Trousers Rolled: Familiar Essays (1995)
Anglophilia, American Style (1997)
Narcissus Leaves the Pool (1999)
Snobbery: The American Version (2002)
Envy (2003)
Fabulous Small Jews (2003)
Alexis De Tocqueville: Democracy’s Guide (2006)
Friendship: An Expose (2006)
In A Cardboard Belt: Essays Personal, Literary and Savage (2007)
Fred Astaire (2008)
The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff & Other Stories (2010)
Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit (2011)
Essays In Biography (2012)
Distant Intimacy: A Friendship in the Age of Internet (2013) (co-authored with Frederic Raphael)
A Literary Education & Other Essays (2014)
Masters of the Games: Essays & Stories on Sport (2014)
Where Were We: The Conversation Continues (2015) (co-authored with Frederic Raphael)
Frozen In Time: Twenty Stories (2016)
Wind Sprints: Shorter Essays (2016)
Victimhood: The New Virtue (2017)
Charm: The Elusive Enchantment (2018)
The Ideal of Culture: Essays (2018)
Gallimaufry: A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits (2020)
The Novel, Who Needs It? (2023)
Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays (2024)
Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You’ve Had a Lucky Life (2024)
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