Most Read This Week In 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

Most Read This Week Tagged "Essays"

Untamed
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
The Message
When We Cease to Understand the World
Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success
A Very Punchable Face
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service
My Body
Notes on Grief
Things in Nature Merely Grow
The Comfort Book
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
Yearbook
Dear Dolly
Death and the Gardener: A Novel
All Boys Aren’t Blue
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
L'heure des prédateurs
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Conversations on Love
Notes to John
The Soul of a Woman
Happy-Go-Lucky
Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember
Hijab Butch Blues
You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
The Undocumented Americans
I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays
The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich
Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats
You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
This Is Your Mind on Plants
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
These Precious Days: Essays
You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
Il fascismo eterno
What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?
Moi les hommes, je les déteste
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Women Living Deliciously
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature
I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself
Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
Kummer aller Art
The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
Crying in the Bathroom
Grief Is for People
Cinema Speculation
Solutions and Other Problems
The Nineties
Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos
Radikale Zärtlichkeit. Warum Liebe politisch ist
The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
Question 7
El peligro de estar cuerda
Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home
V13
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
Who’s Afraid of Gender?
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Nachmittage
Notes on Heartbreak
Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put
I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays
Love in Exile
Stai zitta. E altre nove frasi che non vogliamo sentire più
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
The Future of Truth
The Best of Me
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
Op een andere planeet kunnen ze me redden
Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere
Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories
Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
Gaza Faces History

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E.B. White
Surely the Board knows what democracy is. It is the line that forms on the right. It is the don’t in Don’t Shove. It is the hole in the stuffed shirt through which the sawdust slowly trickles; it is the dent in the high hat. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half the people are right more than half the time. It is the feeling of privacy in the voting booths, the feeling of communion in the libraries, the feeling of vitality everywhere. Democracy is the score at the beginning of ...more
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J.K. Rowling
Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, “Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless — discuss.
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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