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
Unreliable Narrator
Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome
Memoir
Humor
Essays
How to Reform Capitalism
Economics
Philosophy
Money
Down and Delirious in Mexico City
The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
Travel
History
Memoir
The Art of Subtext
Beyond Plot
Writing
Crafts
Essays
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
Essays
Memoir
Humor
Daddy Issues
Feminism
Essays
Sexuality
Don't Worry, It Gets Worse
One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood
Memoir
Humor
Self Help
Do What You Love and Other Lies About Success and Happiness
Sociology
Politics
Economics
Manhood for Amateurs
Essays
Memoir
Biography
Skipping Towards Gomorrah
The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America
Humor
Politics
Essays
Reading the Silver Screen
A Film Lover's Guide to Decoding the Art Form That Moves
Film
Art
Reference
Normal
Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude
Gender
Transgender
Queer
Our Noise
The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small
Music
Biography
History
Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault
Essays from the Grown-up Years
Humor
Essays
Memoir
The Best Advice I Ever Got
Lessons from Extraordinary Lives
Self Help
Inspirational
Biography
Susan Sontag
The Complete Rolling Stone Interview
Biography
Philosophy
Essays
Sounds Fake But Okay
Queer
LGBT
Asexual
Eminent Hipsters
Music
Biography
Memoir
The Poet's Guide to Life
The Wisdom of Rilke
Poetry
Philosophy
Literature
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 Stone Reader
Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments
Philosophy
Essays
Anthologies
The Hidden Pleasures of Life
A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future
Philosophy
History
Psychology
All Things Aside
Absolutely Correct Opinions
Memoir
Humor
Comedy
Becoming Dangerous
Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers and Magical Rebels on Summoning the Power to Resist
Feminism
Witchcraft
Queer
Tough Titties
On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst
Memoir
Humor
Self Help
Everything and Nothing at Once
A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future
Memoir
Essays
Biography Memoir
Age of Anger
A History of the Present
History
Politics
Philosophy
Religion and the Rebel
Philosophy
Religion
Theology
The New Rulers of the World
Politics
History
Journalism
