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
This Is Water
Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Philosophy
Essays
Self Help
The Art of Fiction
Notes on Craft for Young Writers
Writing
Crafts
Reference
Talking Zen
Reflections on Mind, Myth, and the Magic of Life
Philosophy
Buddhism
Spirituality
Well-Read Black Girl
Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Essays
Feminism
Race
Letters
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Batman and Philosophy
The Dark Knight of the Soul
Philosophy
Batman
Pop Culture
Mad Men and Philosophy
Nothing is as it Seems
Philosophy
Essays
Tv
About Writing
Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
Writing
Essays
Crafts
The Wisdom of Life
Philosophy
Classics
Psychology
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
Politics
Psychology
History
This Will Make You Smarter
New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
Science
Psychology
Self Help
Twilight and Philosophy
Vampires, Vegetarians, and the Pursuit of Immortality
Philosophy
Vampires
Essays
The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
The Art of Happiness
Philosophy
Classics
Self Help
The Basic Writings of C.G. Jung
Psychology
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
Philosophy
Art
Essays
How to Be Alone
If You Want To, and Even If You Don't
Memoir
Self Help
Essays
Several Short Sentences About Writing
Writing
Reference
Crafts
Eloquent Rage
A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Feminism
Race
Essays
Brave New World Revisited
Classics
Science Fiction
Philosophy
Women & Power
A Manifesto
Feminism
History
Essays
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
Science
Physics
Biography
Zen in the Art of Writing
Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
Writing
Essays
Memoir
The Art of Travel
Travel
Philosophy
Essays
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Philosophy
Self Help
Biography
Read Dangerously
The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
Books About Books
Essays
Politics
Six Easy Pieces
Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Science
Physics
Popular Science
A Philosophy of Loneliness
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
Aftershocks of Disaster
Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
Politics
History
Social Justice
Sincerely, Your Autistic Child
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Parenting
Disability
Monsters
A Fan's Dilemma
Essays
Art
Feminism
Missing Out
In Praise of the Unlived Life
Psychology
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Letters to a Young Contrarian
Philosophy
Politics
Essays
On Human Nature
Philosophy
Psychology
Classics
India Positive
New Essays and Selected Columns
Essays
India
Minima Moralia
Reflections on a Damaged Life
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Memoir
Indigenous
Essays
In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
Philosophy
Essays
Politics
Lying
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
Conversations on Love
Self Help
Essays
Love
What We Believe But Cannot Prove
Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty
Science
Philosophy
Essays
Sex and Lies
Feminism
Essays
Morocco
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Feminism
Essays
Womens
Callings
The Purpose and Passion of Work
Short Stories
Memoir
Essays
What If This Were Enough?
Essays
Essays
Self Help
Memoir
Richard Dawkins
How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
Science
Biography
Biology
Between Barack and a Hard Place
Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama
Race
Politics
Social Justice
How Fiction Works
Writing
Literary Criticism
Books About Books
On the Shortness of Life
Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
Philosophy
Classics
Self Help
Life at the Bottom
The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
Politics
Psychology
Sociology
