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
You Got Anything Stronger?
Memoir
Biography
Essays
Black in Blues
How a Color Tells the Story of My People
History
Essays
Race
Intellectuals
From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
History
Philosophy
Biography
A Room of One’s Own
Classics
Feminism
Essays
Scam Goddess
Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes
Memoir
True Crime
Essays
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Writing
Short Stories
Essays
Did I Say That Out Loud?
Midlife Indignities and How to Survive Them
Humor
Essays
Memoir
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
Classics
Horror
Short Stories
Epistles 1-65
Philosophy
Classics
History
Tell Me More
Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
Memoir
Essays
Self Help
Never Let Go
A Philosophy of Lifting, Living and Learning
Fitness
Health
Philosophy
The Souls of Black Folk
History
Classics
Race
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
Philosophy
Psychology
Classics
On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored
Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Philosophy
Trivial Grievances
On the contradictions, myths and misery of your 30s
Essays
Memoir
Biography Memoir
Fanged Noumena
Collected Writings, 1987–2007
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays
Economics
Philosophy
Politics
The Art of Always Being Right
Philosophy
Psychology
Classics
Epistles 1-65
Philosophy
Classics
History
Epistles 1-65
Philosophy
Classics
History
The Thirst for Annihilation
Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
The Age of Reason
Philosophy
Religion
Classics
The Archaic Revival
Philosophy
Psychology
Spirituality
When We Cease to Understand the World
Science
History
Philosophy
Against the Web
A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right
Politics
Philosophy
Essays
Democracy
Eleven writers and leaders on what it is – and why it matters
Politics
Philosophy
History
Vanishing Treasures
A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
Nature
Science
Animals
All Consuming
Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Food
History
Essays
A Room of One’s Own
Classics
Feminism
Essays
No Straight Road Takes You There
Essays for Uneven Terrain
Essays
Politics
Feminism
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
Adult
Run Towards the Danger
Confrontations with a Body of Memory
Memoir
Essays
Canada
Lectures on Russian Literature
Literary Criticism
Russia
Literature
The Deadline
Essays
History
Politics
The New Rulers of the World
Politics
History
Journalism
