Essays
Great minds share their sharpest observations and most compelling arguments through the intimate art of the essay, exploring everything from creativity and culture to philosophy and the peculiarities of modern life. Whether wrestling with life's biggest questions or finding profound meaning in everyday moments, these carefully crafted pieces invite readers to see the world through fresh eyes.
Essays Book Summaries
Scam Goddess
Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes
Memoir
True Crime
Essays
Everything and Nothing at Once
A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future
Memoir
Essays
Race
The Language of the Night
Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
Writing
Essays
Literary Criticism
Every Day I Read
53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
Books About Books
Essays
Memoir
The Necessity of Exile
Essays from a Distance
Judaism
Jewish
Religion
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
Politics
History
Essays
Eminent Hipsters
Music
Biography
Memoir
On Looking
Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Arguably
Selected Essays
Essays
Politics
Philosophy
Never Let Go
A Philosophy of Lifting, Living and Learning
Fitness
Health
Philosophy
The White Album
Essays
Memoir
Classics
All Consuming
Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Food
History
Essays
Tell Me More
Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
Memoir
Essays
Self Help
The Notebook
A History of Thinking on Paper
History
Writing
Books About Books
In a Flight of Starlings
The Wonder of Complex Systems
Science
Physics
Essays
Against the Web
A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right
Politics
Philosophy
Essays
The Souls of Black Folks
History
Classics
Race
Vanishing Treasures
A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
Nature
Science
Animals
No Straight Road Takes You There
Essays for Uneven Terrain
Essays
Feminism
Politics
Run Towards the Danger
Confrontations with a Body of Memory
Memoir
Essays
Canada
The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism
The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
Philosophy
Politics
Essays
On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored
Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Philosophy
The Deadline
Essays
Essays
History
Politics
Una habitación propia
Classics
Feminism
Essays
How to Reform Capitalism
Economics
Philosophy
Politics
De ce este România altfel?
History
Romania
Romanian Literature
Did I Say That Out Loud?
Midlife Indignities and How to Survive Them
Humor
Essays
Memoir
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Nature
Memoir
Essays
In the Dust of This Planet
Philosophy
Horror
Theory
Southern Horrors and Other Writings
The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900
History
Race
Essays
Che Guevara Reader
Writings on Politics & Revolution
Politics
History
Philosophy
Moral Letters to Lucilius Volume 1
Philosophy
Classics
History
Democracy
Eleven writers and leaders on what it is – and why it matters
Politics
Essays
Philosophy
Magic
The Final Fantasy Collection
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Short Stories
On History
History
Philosophy
Essays
Heaven and Hell
Philosophy
Classics
Psychology
Good Prose
The Art of Nonfiction
Writing
Memoir
Reference
Letters From Gaza
By the People, from the Year That Has Been
Poetry
Essays
Politics
Bad Feminist
Feminism
Essays
Memoir
Latter-Day Pamphlets
Politics
Philosophy
Essays
I'm More Dateable than a Plate of Refried Beans
And Other Romantic Observations
Humor
Essays
Comedy
The Forgotten Language
An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths
Psychology
Philosophy
Mythology
Why Poetry
Poetry
Writing
Essays
Your Move
What Board Games Teach Us about Life
Games
Philosophy
Adult
The Undertow
Scenes from a Slow Civil War
Politics
History
Religion
Trivial Grievances
On the contradictions, myths and misery of your 30s
Essays
Memoir
Biography Memoir
Vivre le stoïcisme aujourd'hui
Philosophy
Self Help
Psychology
Free Gifts
Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
Politics
Theory
Environment
The Reactionary Spirit
How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World
Politics
History
Essays
The Death of Truth
Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
Politics
History
Philosophy
