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
The Good Immigrant
26 Writers Reflect on America
Essays
Race
Immigration
Death by Black Hole
And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Science
Physics
Astronomy
Dialogues and Essays
Philosophy
Classics
Essays
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
Essays
Politics
Philosophy
Dear Dolly
Self Help
Memoir
Essays
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Memoir
Poetry
Biography
How to Be Alone
If You Want To, and Even If You Don't
Memoir
Self Help
Essays
Well-Read Black Girl
Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Essays
Feminism
Race
Read Dangerously
The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
Books About Books
Essays
Politics
Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
Humor
Parenting
Memoir
Palm Sunday
An Autobiographical Collage
Essays
Classics
Short Stories
The Disappearance of Rituals
A Topology of the Present
Philosophy
Sociology
Psychology
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
Short Stories
Classics
Poetry
Sincerely, Your Autistic Child
What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Parenting
Disability
The Greatest
The Quest for Sporting Perfection
Sports
Psychology
Self Help
Dangerous Games
The Uses and Abuses of History
History
Politics
Philosophy
Ursula K. Le Guin
Conversations on Writing
Writing
Essays
Books About Books
What We Believe But Cannot Prove
Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty
Science
Philosophy
Essays
The Lonely Voice
A Study of the Short Story
Writing
Short Stories
Literary Criticism
Silence
In the Age of Noise
Philosophy
Psychology
Essays
You Are Your Best Thing
Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
Race
Essays
Social Justice
Gift from the Sea
Memoir
Classics
Book Club
The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born
From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
The Importance of Living
Philosophy
China
Self Help
Make Good Art
Art
Writing
Essays
A Man Without a Country
Essays
Memoir
Humor
Aftershocks of Disaster
Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
History
Politics
Social Justice
A Short Guide to a Happy Life
Self Help
Essays
Memoir
On the Brink of Everything
Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old
Spirituality
Memoir
Philosophy
Real Estate
Memoir
Feminism
Biography
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Humor
Self Help
Philosophy
Good Video Games and Good Learning
Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning and Literacy
Education
Teaching
Games
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
Essays
Memoir
Feminism
Can't We All Disagree More Constructively?
from The Righteous Mind (Kindle Single)
Politics
Psychology
Philosophy
The Mind’s I
Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
Philosophy
Science
Psychology
Ethics in the Real World
86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
Philosophy
Essays
Politics
What Is Your Dangerous Idea?
Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
Science
Philosophy
Essays
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
Stories of Life, Love and Learning
Short Stories
Self Help
Inspirational
Preface to Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Classics
Literary Criticism
Why Not Me?
Memoir
Humor
Biography
The Anna Karenina Fix
Life Lessons from Russian Literature
Books About Books
Russia
Memoir
Somehow
Thoughts on Love
Essays
Memoir
Spirituality
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Politics
Feminism
Race
On Drinking
Poetry
Short Stories
Classics
Draft No. 4
On the Writing Process
Writing
Essays
Memoir
Every Song Ever
Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty
Music
Art
Cultural
Letters to a Young Scientist
Science
Biology
Nature
SCUM Manifesto
Feminism
Politics
Philosophy
Novelist as a Vocation
Writing
Memoir
Essays
