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
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Politics
Feminism
Race
What to Think About Machines That Think
Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence
Science
Artificial Intelligence
Technology
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Science Fiction
Classics
Literature
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten
100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Philosophy
Horror
Psychology
Letters from Burma
Politics
History
Asia
Thinking In Numbers
On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math
Science
Mathematics
Essays
More Baths, Less Talking
Essays
Books About Books
Humor
Books v. Cigarettes
Essays
Classics
Philosophy
Life in Code
A Personal History of Technology
Memoir
Technology
Science
The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
Context
Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century
Essays
Technology
Politics
I'd Rather Be Reading
The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
Books About Books
Essays
Memoir
How to Reform Capitalism
Economics
Philosophy
Money
The Outsider
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
Letters on Cézanne
Art
Poetry
Classics
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
Think
A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
Philosophy
Academic
Psychology
The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born
From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
Q is for Quantum
Science
Physics
Technical
Find the Good
Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer
Memoir
Self Help
Essays
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
Welcome to the United States of Anxiety
Observations from a Reforming Neurotic
Humor
Memoir
Self Help
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Philosophy
Classics
Essays
The School of Life
Self Help
Philosophy
Psychology
Our Noise
The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small
Music
Biography
History
It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
Humor
Essays
Self Help
Small Pleasures
Philosophy
Self Help
Psychology
How to Be a Person in the World
Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life
Self Help
Essays
Psychology
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
Philosophy
Classics
Politics
The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
Essays
History
Philosophy
Eminent Hipsters
Music
Biography
Memoir
The Unsettling of America
Culture and Agriculture
Agriculture
Food
Nature
And Here's the Kicker
Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft and the Industry
Humor
Comedy
Writing
Manhood for Amateurs
Essays
Memoir
Biography
This Is How
Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
Self Help
Memoir
Humor
Nonconformity
Writing on Writing
Writing
Essays
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
Essays
Memoir
Humor
Lyrical and Critical Essays
Philosophy
Essays
Literature
For the New Intellectual
The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
Soccer in Sun and Shadow
Sports
Football
Soccer
Magical Thinking
True Stories
Memoir
Humor
Short Stories
Sounds Fake But Okay
Queer
LGBT
Asexual
Susan Sontag
The Complete Rolling Stone Interview
Biography
Philosophy
Essays
Steering the Craft
Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew
Writing
Crafts
Reference
Daddy Issues
Feminism
Essays
Sexuality
The Best Advice I Ever Got
Lessons from Extraordinary Lives
Self Help
Inspirational
Biography
Uh-oh
Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door
Humor
Essays
Philosophy
