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
Find the Good
Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer
Memoir
Self Help
Essays
Small Pleasures
Philosophy
Self Help
Psychology
Letters from Burma
Politics
History
Asia
Best American Essays 2018
Essays
Anthologies
21st Century
Don't Worry, It Gets Worse
One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood
Memoir
Humor
Self Help
Daddy Issues
Feminism
Essays
Sexuality
Unreliable Narrator
Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome
Memoir
Humor
Essays
On Palestine
Politics
History
Middle East
Welcome to the United States of Anxiety
Observations from a Reforming Neurotic
Humor
Memoir
Self Help
The Empathy Exams
Essays
Memoir
Psychology
Old Age
A Beginner's Guide
Memoir
Essays
Humor
Context
Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century
Essays
Technology
Politics
The Best Advice I Ever Got
Lessons from Extraordinary Lives
Self Help
Inspirational
Biography
The Rant Zone
An All-Out Blitz Against Soul-Sucking Jobs, Twisted Child Stars, Holistic Loons, and People Who Eat Their Dogs!
Humor
Comedy
Politics
The Stone Reader
Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments
Philosophy
Essays
Anthologies
Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault
Essays from the Grown-up Years
Humor
Essays
Memoir
Manhood for Amateurs
Essays
Memoir
Biography
More Baths, Less Talking
Essays
Books About Books
Humor
The Hidden Pleasures of Life
A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future
Philosophy
History
Psychology
Nonconformity
Writing on Writing
Writing
Essays
Religion and the Rebel
Philosophy
Religion
Theology
Susan Sontag
The Complete Rolling Stone Interview
Biography
Philosophy
Essays
Industrial Society and Its Future
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Saving Time
Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
Self Help
Philosophy
Psychology
Becoming Dangerous
Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers and Magical Rebels on Summoning the Power to Resist
Feminism
Witchcraft
Queer
All Things Aside
Absolutely Correct Opinions
Memoir
Humor
Comedy
Sounds Fake But Okay
Queer
LGBT
Asexual
Tough Titties
On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst
Memoir
Humor
Self Help
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
Everything and Nothing at Once
A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future
Memoir
Essays
Biography Memoir
The Poet's Guide to Life
The Wisdom of Rilke
Poetry
Philosophy
Literature
Our Noise
The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small
Music
Biography
History
Age of Anger
A History of the Present
History
Politics
Philosophy
Eminent Hipsters
Music
Biography
Memoir
How to Reform Capitalism
Economics
Philosophy
Money
Gathering Moss
A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Nature
Science
Environment
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Essays
Music
Poetry
The Comfort of Crows
A Backyard Year
Nature
Memoir
Essays
You Got Anything Stronger?
Memoir
Biography
Essays
Humour
Philosophy
Humor
Essays
Sucker Punch
Essays
Essays
Memoir
Canada
Trick Mirror
Reflections on Self-Delusion
Essays
Feminism
Memoir
You Can't Make This Stuff Up
Writing
Memoir
Journalism
Did I Say That Out Loud?
Midlife Indignities and How to Survive Them
Humor
Essays
Memoir
The New Rulers of the World
Politics
History
Journalism
