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
The Art of Happiness
Philosophy
Classics
Self Help
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
Politics
Psychology
History
Diagnosis
Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
Medicine
Science
Medical
Aftermath
On Marriage and Separation
Memoir
Essays
Feminism
A Philosophy of Loneliness
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
On Love
Philosophy
Romance
Psychology
Six Easy Pieces
Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Science
Physics
Popular Science
Letters
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Batman and Philosophy
The Dark Knight of the Soul
Philosophy
Batman
Pop Culture
Talking Zen
Reflections on Mind, Myth, and the Magic of Life
Philosophy
Buddhism
Spirituality
About Writing
Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
Writing
Essays
Crafts
Telling True Stories
A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
Writing
Journalism
Essays
Conversations on Love
Self Help
Essays
Love
The Basic Writings of C.G. Jung
Psychology
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
This Is Water
Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Philosophy
Essays
Self Help
What Is Art?
Art
Philosophy
Classics
This Will Make You Smarter
New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
Science
Psychology
Self Help
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Books About Books
Education
Essays
Speech Acts
An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
Philosophy
Linguistics
Language
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
Science
Physics
Biography
Well-Read Black Girl
Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Essays
Feminism
Race
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
Lying
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
Mad Men and Philosophy
Nothing is as it Seems
Philosophy
Essays
Tv
Several Short Sentences About Writing
Writing
Reference
Crafts
The Art of Travel
Travel
Philosophy
Essays
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
Philosophy
Art
Essays
The Art of Stillness
Adventures in Going Nowhere
Philosophy
Self Help
Spirituality
Women & Power
A Manifesto
Feminism
History
Essays
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Philosophy
Self Help
Biography
Eloquent Rage
A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Feminism
Race
Essays
Brave New World Revisited
Classics
Science Fiction
Philosophy
Missing Out
In Praise of the Unlived Life
Psychology
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Richard Dawkins
How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
Science
Biography
Biology
How to Be Alone
If You Want To, and Even If You Don't
Memoir
Self Help
Essays
Zen in the Art of Writing
Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
Writing
Essays
Memoir
Studies in Pessimism
The Essays
Philosophy
Essays
Classics
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Memoir
Indigenous
Essays
Monsters
A Fan's Dilemma
Essays
Art
Feminism
Self-Knowledge
Self Help
Psychology
Philosophy
Minima Moralia
Reflections on a Damaged Life
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
India Positive
New Essays and Selected Columns
Essays
India
Star Wars and Philosophy
More Powerful than You Can Possibly Imagine
Philosophy
Star Wars
Pop Culture
In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
Philosophy
Essays
Politics
American Like Me
Reflections on Life Between Cultures
Essays
Memoir
Short Stories
Ursula K. Le Guin
Conversations on Writing
Writing
Essays
Books About Books
Occupy
Politics
Philosophy
History
How Fiction Works
Writing
Literary Criticism
Books About Books
How to Live
A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Philosophy
Biography
History
