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
Vital Little Plans
The Short Works of Jane Jacobs
Urban Planning
Cities
Urbanism
I am Not a Brain
Philosophy of Mind for the 21st Century
Philosophy
Unfinished
Science
Normal
Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude
Gender
Transgender
Queer
What On Earth Have I Done?
Stories, Observations, and Affirmations
Humor
Essays
Philosophy
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Essays
Music
Poetry
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
Essays
Memoir
Humor
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
The Art of Always Being Right
Philosophy
Psychology
Classics
Skipping Towards Gomorrah
The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America
Humor
Politics
Essays
Religion and the Rebel
Philosophy
Religion
Theology
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life
Adventures in Anxiety
Memoir
Mental Health
Humor
Find the Good
Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer
Memoir
Self Help
Essays
Best American Essays 2018
Essays
Anthologies
21st Century
Labyrinths
Selected Stories & Other Writings
Short Stories
Classics
Magical Realism
Manhood for Amateurs
Essays
Memoir
Biography
Age of Anger
A History of the Present
History
Politics
Philosophy
Welcome to the United States of Anxiety
Observations from a Reforming Neurotic
Humor
Memoir
Self Help
Migrations to Solitude
The Quest for Privacy in a Crowded World
Essays
Memoir
Sociology
The Dark Enlightenment
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
Letters from Burma
Politics
History
Asia
Unreliable Narrator
Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome
Memoir
Humor
Essays
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Humor
Memoir
Essays
Humour
Philosophy
Humor
Essays
We Need New Stories
Politics
Feminism
Essays
The Best Advice I Ever Got
Lessons from Extraordinary Lives
Self Help
Inspirational
Biography
You Can't Make This Stuff Up
Writing
Memoir
Journalism
Don't Worry, It Gets Worse
One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood
Memoir
Humor
Self Help
The Stone Reader
Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments
Philosophy
Essays
Anthologies
Susan Sontag
The Complete Rolling Stone Interview
Biography
Philosophy
Essays
All Things Aside
Absolutely Correct Opinions
Memoir
Humor
Comedy
Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault
Essays from the Grown-up Years
Humor
Essays
Memoir
Fanged Noumena
Collected Writings, 1987–2007
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
Nonconformity
Writing on Writing
Writing
Essays
Context
Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century
Essays
Technology
Politics
The Hidden Pleasures of Life
A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future
Philosophy
History
Psychology
More Baths, Less Talking
Essays
Books About Books
Humor
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
Tough Titties
On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst
Memoir
Humor
Self Help
Becoming Dangerous
Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers and Magical Rebels on Summoning the Power to Resist
Feminism
Witchcraft
Queer
Sucker Punch
Essays
Essays
Memoir
Canada
The Message
Politics
Essays
History
Sounds Fake But Okay
Queer
LGBT
Asexual
Old Age
A Beginner's Guide
Memoir
Essays
Humor
We Do This 'til We Free Us
Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Politics
Social Justice
Race
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
The Comfort of Crows
A Backyard Year
Nature
Memoir
Essays
The Poet's Guide to Life
The Wisdom of Rilke
Poetry
Philosophy
Literature
Lost in Thought
The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
Philosophy
Education
Psychology
Black in Blues
How a Color Tells the Story of My People
History
Essays
Race
Our Noise
The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small
Music
Biography
History
