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
Rethinking Capitalism
Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
Economics
Politics
Business
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
Essays
Memoir
Humor
Lezioni di letteratura russa. Gogol', Turgenev, Dostoevskij, Tolstoj, Čechov e Gor'kij nelle lezioni di un grande maestro
Literary Criticism
Russia
Russian Literature
Book Lust
Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
Books About Books
Reference
Writing
Design Your Work
Praxis Volume 1
Productivity
Business
Self Help
Best American Essays 2018
Essays
Anthologies
21st Century
Love That Story
Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life – An Emmy-Nominated Comedian's Essays on HIV, LGBTQ+ Rights, Grief, and Joy
Memoir
LGBT
Essays
A Life in Light
Meditations on Impermanence
Memoir
Essays
Spirituality
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
Black in Blues
How a Color Tells the Story of My People
History
Essays
Race
First Comes Love
Memoir
Biography Memoir
LGBT
Skipping Towards Gomorrah
The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America
Humor
Politics
Essays
Manhood for Amateurs
Essays
Memoir
Biography
Taking on the Plastics Crisis
Science
Activism
Social Justice
Age of Anger
A History of the Present
History
Politics
Philosophy
We Do This 'til We Free Us
Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Politics
Social Justice
Activism
Sucker Punch
Essays
Essays
Memoir
Canada
Unreliable Narrator
Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome
Memoir
Humor
Essays
The Comfort of Crows
A Backyard Year
Nature
Memoir
Essays
Backstory
Inside the Business of News
Journalism
Business
History
Find the Good
Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer
Memoir
Essays
Self Help
Welcome to the United States of Anxiety
Observations from a Reforming Neurotic
Humor
Memoir
Self Help
All Things Aside
Absolutely Correct Opinions
Memoir
Humor
Comedy
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Humor
Memoir
Essays
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life
Adventures in Anxiety – A Funny and Poignant Memoir from the Emmy-Winning Writer of Succession
Memoir
Humor
Mental Health
Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault
Essays from the Grown-up Years
Humor
Essays
Memoir
The Best Advice I Ever Got
Lessons from Extraordinary Lives
Self Help
Inspirational
Biography
The Stone Reader
Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments
Philosophy
Essays
Anthologies
Don't Worry, It Gets Worse
One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood
Memoir
Humor
Self Help
More Baths, Less Talking
Essays
Books About Books
Humor
Migrations to Solitude
Essays
Memoir
Sociology
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
Philosophy
Psychology
Classics
When We Cease to Understand the World
Science
History
Philosophy
Letters from Burma
Politics
History
Asia
Becoming Dangerous
Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers and Magical Rebels on Summoning the Power to Resist
Feminism
Witchcraft
Queer
We Need New Stories
Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent
Politics
Feminism
Essays
A Room of One’s Own
Classics
Feminism
Essays
Susan Sontag
The Complete Rolling Stone Interview
Philosophy
Biography
Essays
You Got Anything Stronger?
Memoir
Biography
Essays
The Poet's Guide to Life
The Wisdom of Rilke
Poetry
Philosophy
Classics
Dispatches from Planet 3
Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond
Science
Astronomy
History
Tough Titties
On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst
Memoir
Humor
Self Help
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Writing
Short Stories
Essays
Money Changes Everything
Twenty-Two Writers Tackle the Last Taboo with Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Staggering Debts, and Other Surprising Turns of Fortune
Essays
Money
Anthologies
The Rant Zone
An All-Out Blitz Against Soul-Sucking Jobs, Twisted Child Stars, Holistic Loons, and People Who Eat Their Dogs! – Dennis Miller's ... Commentary on Sports, God, and Society
Humor
Comedy
Politics
Context
Essays
Technology
Politics
Nonconformity
Writing on Writing
Writing
Essays
The Hidden Pleasures of Life
A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future
Philosophy
History
Psychology
On Quality
Philosophy
Essays
Spirituality
Old Age
A Beginner's Guide
Memoir
Essays
Humor
