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
Sister Outsider
Essays and Speeches
Feminism
Essays
Race
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
Philosophy
Psychology
Humor
Occupy
Politics
Philosophy
History
The Creative Writing Coursebook
Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry
Writing
Reference
Essays
The Crisis of Narration
Philosophy
Politics
Essays
How to Live
A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Philosophy
Biography
History
Star Wars and Philosophy
More Powerful than You Can Possibly Imagine
Philosophy
Star Wars
Pop Culture
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
A Low Culture Manifesto
Essays
Humor
Pop Culture
A Man Without a Country
Essays
Memoir
Humor
On Love
Philosophy
Romance
Psychology
Decolonial Daughter
Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son
Memoir
Race
Essays
Four Hundred Souls
A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
History
Race
Social Justice
What Is Art?
Art
Philosophy
Classics
Dialogues and Essays
Philosophy
Classics
Essays
Gravity and Grace
Philosophy
Religion
Theology
Palm Sunday
An Autobiographical Collage
Essays
Short Stories
Classics
Letters to a Young Poet
Poetry
Classics
Philosophy
Self-Knowledge
Self Help
Psychology
Philosophy
What Is Your Dangerous Idea?
Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
Science
Philosophy
Essays
Studies in Pessimism
The Essays
Philosophy
Essays
Classics
A Simpler Life
Philosophy
Self Help
Psychology
The Art of Stillness
Adventures in Going Nowhere
Philosophy
Self Help
Spirituality
Listen, Little Man!
Philosophy
Psychology
Politics
The Doctor and the Saint
The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate
India
History
Politics
Speech Acts
An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
Philosophy
Linguistics
Language
Letter to My Daughter
Poetry
Memoir
Essays
Can't We All Disagree More Constructively?
From The Righteous Mind (Kindle Single)
Politics
Psychology
Philosophy
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone
Politics
Philosophy
History
My Body
Memoir
Feminism
Essays
Ursula K. Le Guin
Conversations on Writing
Writing
Essays
Books About Books
Anna Karenina Fix
Life Lessons from Russian Literature
Russia
Books About Books
Memoir
Every Song Ever
Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty
Music
Art
Unfinished
The Greatest
The Quest for Sporting Perfection
Sports
Psychology
Self Help
50 Successful Harvard Application Essays
What Worked for Them Can Help You Get into the College of Your Choice
Writing
Self Help
Essays
Feminism for the 99%
A Manifesto
Feminism
Politics
Philosophy
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning
Short Stories
Self Help
Inspirational
On the Brink of Everything
Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old
Spirituality
Memoir
Philosophy
A Short Guide to a Happy Life
Self Help
Essays
Memoir
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
Feminism
Sexuality
Essays
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Memoir
Poetry
Biography
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
Short Stories
Poetry
Classics
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
Essays
Memoir
Humor
The Writing Life
Writing
Memoir
Essays
The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone
Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power
India
Politics
History
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
Essays
Memoir
Feminism
The Good Immigrant
26 Writers Reflect on America
Essays
Race
Short Stories
Bowie's Bookshelf
The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life
Music
Biography
Books About Books
I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet
Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
Memoir
Self Help
Christian
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Politics
Environment
Science
The 1619 Project
A New Origin Story
History
Race
Social Justice
