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
Old Age
A Beginner's Guide
Memoir
Essays
Humor
Lost in Thought
The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
Philosophy
Education
Psychology
The Poet's Guide to Life
The Wisdom of Rilke
Poetry
Philosophy
Literature
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
You Got Anything Stronger?
Memoir
Biography
Essays
Our Noise
The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small
Music
Biography
History
Everything and Nothing at Once
A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future
Memoir
Essays
Biography Memoir
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Writing
Short Stories
Essays
When We Cease to Understand the World
Science
History
Philosophy
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
Classics
Horror
Short Stories
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
Philosophy
Psychology
Classics
Eminent Hipsters
Music
Biography
Memoir
A Room of One’s Own
Classics
Feminism
Essays
The Serviceberry
Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Nature
Science
Indigenous
The Archaic Revival
Philosophy
Psychology
Spirituality
Scam Goddess
Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes
Memoir
True Crime
Essays
Never Let Go
A Philosophy of Lifting, Living and Learning
Fitness
Health
Philosophy
How to Reform Capitalism
Economics
Philosophy
Money
Tell Me More
Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
Memoir
Essays
Self Help
The Souls of Black Folk
History
Classics
Race
On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored
Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Philosophy
Did I Say That Out Loud?
Midlife Indignities and How to Survive Them
Humor
Essays
Memoir
Every Day I Read
53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
Books About Books
Essays
Adult
The Language of the Night
Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
Writing
Essays
Literary Criticism
Arguably
Selected Essays
Essays
Politics
Philosophy
All Consuming
Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Food
History
Essays
Against the Web
A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right
Politics
Philosophy
Essays
On Looking
Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
Politics
History
Essays
Run Towards the Danger
Confrontations with a Body of Memory
Memoir
Essays
Canada
The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays
Economics
Philosophy
Politics
On Quality
Philosophy
Essays
Spirituality
The Necessity of Exile
Essays from a Distance
Judaism
Jewish
Religion
In a Flight of Starlings
The Wonder of Complex Systems
Science
Physics
Nature
Vanishing Treasures
A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
Nature
Science
Animals
The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism
The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
Philosophy
Politics
Essays
Epistles 1-65
Philosophy
Classics
History
The Notebook
A History of Thinking on Paper
History
Writing
Books About Books
A Room of One’s Own
Classics
Feminism
Essays
No Straight Road Takes You There
Essays for Uneven Terrain
Essays
Politics
Feminism
Epistles 1-65
Philosophy
Classics
History
Southern Horrors and Other Writings
The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900
History
Race
Essays
The Deadline
Essays
History
Politics
The White Album
Essays
Memoir
Classics
The Great Derangement
Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Climate Change
Environment
Science
Che Guevara Reader
Writings on Politics & Revolution
Politics
History
Philosophy
Democracy
Eleven writers and leaders on what it is – and why it matters
Politics
Philosophy
History
Trivial Grievances
On the contradictions, myths and misery of your 30s
Essays
Memoir
Biography Memoir
Heaven and Hell
Philosophy
Classics
Psychology
Entitled
How Male Privilege Hurts Women
Feminism
Philosophy
Politics
