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
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Science Fiction
Classics
Literature
Letters to a Young Mathematician
Mathematics
Science
Philosophy
12 Bytes
How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next
Essays
Science
Technology
Draft No. 4
On the Writing Process
Writing
Essays
Memoir
The School of Life
Self Help
Philosophy
Psychology
SCUM Manifesto
Feminism
Politics
Philosophy
Decolonial Daughter
Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son
Memoir
Race
Essays
The Accidental Universe
The World You Thought You Knew
Science
Philosophy
Physics
The True Life
Philosophy
Essays
Psychology
Between Barack and a Hard Place
Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama
Race
Politics
Social Justice
On Drinking
Poetry
Short Stories
Essays
Novelist as a Vocation
Writing
Japan
Memoir
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Politics
Feminism
Race
Somehow
Thoughts on Love
Essays
Memoir
Spirituality
The Unsettling of America
Culture and Agriculture
Agriculture
Food
Nature
Nobody Knows My Name
Essays
Race
Classics
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings
Philosophy
History
Politics
Bowie's Bookshelf
The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life
Music
Biography
Books About Books
The Fire Next Time
Classics
Essays
Race
Essays and Aphorisms
Philosophy
Essays
Classics
Power, Politics and Culture
Interviews With Edward W. Said
Politics
Philosophy
History
Grace (Eventually)
Thoughts on Faith
Memoir
Spirituality
Religion
On Kindness
Philosophy
Psychology
Essays
I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet
Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
Memoir
Self Help
Christian
100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
History
Essays
Self Help
Men Explain Things to Me
Feminism
Essays
Politics
Inciting Joy
Essays
Essays
Poetry
Memoir
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
Philosophy
Religion
Atheism
Traveling Mercies
Some Thoughts on Faith
Memoir
Spirituality
Religion
I Can't Date Jesus
Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
Memoir
Essays
LGBT
Obsessives, Pioneers, and Other Varieties of Minor Genius
Part One from What the Dog Saw
Psychology
Business
Self Help
Trust Kids!
Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy
Parenting
Politics
Psychology
Strangers to Ourselves
Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
Psychology
Mental Health
Memoir
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Essays
Memoir
Travel
These Precious Days
Essays
Essays
Memoir
Book Club
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Essays and Arguments
Essays
Humor
Short Stories
Our Culture, What's Left of It
The Mandarins and the Masses
Politics
Essays
Philosophy
The Conquest of Happiness
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
Walden & Civil Disobedience
Classics
Philosophy
Essays
Called to Community
The Life Jesus Wants for His People
Theology
Faith
Christian
The Creative Writing Coursebook
Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry
Writing
Reference
Essays
We're Going to Need More Wine
Memoir
Biography
Essays
A Mathematician's Lament
How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
Mathematics
Education
Science
Free and Equal
A Manifesto for a Just Society
Philosophy
Politics
Economics
The Disappearance of Rituals
A Topology of the Present
Philosophy
Sociology
Psychology
The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
Essays
History
Philosophy
On Palestine
Politics
History
Middle East
Walking in Wonder
Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World
Spirituality
Poetry
Philosophy
Fallen Leaves
Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
Philosophy
History
Essays
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Politics
Environment
Science
