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
Intellectuals
From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
History
Philosophy
Biography
Everything and Nothing at Once
A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future
Memoir
Essays
Biography Memoir
You Got Anything Stronger?
Memoir
Biography
Essays
Eminent Hipsters
Music
Biography
Memoir
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Writing
Short Stories
Essays
The Thirst for Annihilation
Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
Lectures on Russian Literature
Literary Criticism
Russia
Literature
A Room of One’s Own
Classics
Feminism
Essays
How to Reform Capitalism
Economics
Philosophy
Money
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
Classics
Horror
Short Stories
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
Philosophy
Psychology
Classics
When We Cease to Understand the World
Science
History
Philosophy
Scam Goddess
Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes
Memoir
True Crime
Essays
Did I Say That Out Loud?
Midlife Indignities and How to Survive Them
Humor
Essays
Memoir
Never Let Go
A Philosophy of Lifting, Living and Learning
Fitness
Health
Philosophy
Epistles 1-65
Philosophy
Classics
History
Tell Me More
Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
Memoir
Essays
Self Help
The Age of Reason
Philosophy
Religion
Classics
The Souls of Black Folk
History
Classics
Race
The Archaic Revival
Philosophy
Psychology
Spirituality
On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored
Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Philosophy
The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays
Economics
Philosophy
Politics
Against the Web
A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right
Politics
Philosophy
Essays
Arguably
Selected Essays
Essays
Politics
Philosophy
All Consuming
Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Food
History
Essays
The Serviceberry
Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Nature
Science
Indigenous
Every Day I Read
53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
Books About Books
Essays
Adult
Trivial Grievances
On the contradictions, myths and misery of your 30s
Essays
Memoir
Biography Memoir
The Language of the Night
Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
Writing
Essays
Literary Criticism
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
Religion
Epistles 1-65
Philosophy
Classics
History
No Straight Road Takes You There
Essays for Uneven Terrain
Essays
Politics
Feminism
Vanishing Treasures
A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
Nature
Science
Animals
Che Guevara Reader
Writings on Politics & Revolution
Politics
History
Philosophy
On Looking
Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
In a Flight of Starlings
The Wonder of Complex Systems
Science
Physics
Nature
Democracy
Eleven writers and leaders on what it is – and why it matters
Politics
Philosophy
History
The Necessity of Exile
Essays from a Distance
Judaism
Jewish
Religion
A Room of One’s Own
Classics
Feminism
Essays
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
Politics
History
Essays
Southern Horrors and Other Writings
The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900
History
Race
Essays
The Deadline
Essays
History
Politics
Good Prose
The Art of Nonfiction
Writing
Memoir
Reference
Epistles 1-65
Philosophy
Classics
History
Latter-Day Pamphlets
Politics
Philosophy
History
The White Album
Essays
Memoir
Classics
Heaven and Hell
Philosophy
Classics
Psychology
On Quality
Philosophy
Essays
Spirituality
De ce este România altfel?
History
Romania
Romanian Literature
