Farther Away is a 2012 collection of essays by the American writer Jonathan Franzen. In The New York Times Book Review, the essayist Phillip Lopate wrote the pieces "demonstrate Franzen's generosity, humanity and love of fiction, as well as his own preference for the morally complex over the sentimental. The struggle to be a good human being, against the pulls of solipsism and narcissism, can be glimpsed in every page of these essays, which if nothing else offer a telling battle report from within the consciousness of one of our major novelists."