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
Callings
The Purpose and Passion of Work
Short Stories
Memoir
Essays
Cinema Speculation
Film
Media Tie In
Memoir
How to Live
A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Philosophy
Biography
History
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Feminism
Essays
Womens
Sister Outsider
Essays and Speeches
Feminism
Essays
Race
Sex and Lies
Feminism
Essays
Morocco
Mad Men and Philosophy
Nothing is as it Seems
Philosophy
Essays
Tv
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Memoir
Indigenous
Essays
Monsters
A Fan's Dilemma
Essays
Art
Feminism
Star Wars and Philosophy
More Powerful than You Can Possibly Imagine
Philosophy
Star Wars
Pop Culture
What Is Existentialism?
Philosophy
Classics
Essays
Well-Read Black Girl
Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Essays
Feminism
Race
India Positive
New Essays and Selected Columns
Essays
India
Letters to a Young Contrarian
Philosophy
Politics
Essays
The Trouble with Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament
Science
Psychology
Biology
Letters to a Young Poet
Poetry
Classics
Philosophy
How to Be Alone
If You Want To, and Even If You Don't
Memoir
Self Help
Essays
Occupy
Politics
Philosophy
History
A Simpler Life
Philosophy
Self Help
Psychology
The Art Spirit
Art
Philosophy
Art History
Brave New World Revisited
Classics
Science Fiction
Philosophy
On Human Nature
Philosophy
Psychology
Classics
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
A Low Culture Manifesto
Essays
Humor
Pop Culture
What Young India Wants
India
Indian Literature
Essays
Read Dangerously
The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
Books About Books
Essays
Politics
Four Hundred Souls
A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
History
Race
Social Justice
Palm Sunday
An Autobiographical Collage
Essays
Short Stories
Classics
Think
A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
Philosophy
Academic
Psychology
Feminism for the 99%
A Manifesto
Feminism
Politics
Philosophy
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Philosophy
Classics
Art
Ursula K. Le Guin
Conversations on Writing
Writing
Essays
Books About Books
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
Essays
Memoir
Feminism
Sincerely, Your Autistic Child
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Parenting
Disability
Imaginary Homelands
Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
Essays
India
Politics
How to Tell When We Will Die
On Pain, Disability, and Doom
Disability
Essays
Memoir
Liberty
Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty
Philosophy
Politics
Essays
50 Successful Harvard Application Essays
What Worked for Them Can Help You Get into the College of Your Choice
Writing
Self Help
Essays
The Feminist Porn Book
The Politics of Producing Pleasure
Feminism
Sexuality
Queer
What If This Were Enough?
Essays
Essays
Self Help
Memoir
The Lives of a Cell
Notes of a Biology Watcher
Science
Biology
Essays
Aftershocks of Disaster
Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
Politics
History
Social Justice
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
Short Stories
Poetry
Classics
Bird by Bird
Writing
Memoir
Self Help
The Good Immigrant
26 Writers Reflect on America
Essays
Race
Short Stories
Listen, Little Man!
Philosophy
Psychology
Politics
What We Believe But Cannot Prove
Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty
Science
Philosophy
Essays
Danse Macabre
Horror
Writing
Essays
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
Feminism
Sexuality
Essays
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
Essays
Politics
Philosophy
A Man Without a Country
Essays
Memoir
Humor
