Essays

An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition of an essay is vague, overlapping with those of an article and a short story. Almost all modern essays are written in prose, but works in verse have been dubbed essays (e.g. Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism and An Essay on Man). While brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like Joh ...more

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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
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Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
Make Believe
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay
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Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences
Bad Feminist
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
A Room of One’s Own
We Should All Be Feminists
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Men Explain Things to Me
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
The White Album
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again:  Essays and Arguments
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