A vibrant, surprising and thought-provoking collection of essays from an exciting new literary voice who has been compared to John Jeremiah Sullivan, David Foster Wallace and Janet Malcolm

A thought-provoking collection of long-form non-fiction on contemporary sumo wrestling, ritual suicide, Russian animation, "The X-Files" and more.

'Phillips is a long-form journalist of the old school, a deep research artist, and a killer stylist . . . Impossible Owls is an absorbing and totally distinctive exploration of wildly disparate corners of our world'