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

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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love
Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
Yearbook
These Precious Days: Essays
Dear Dolly
The Comfort Book
Notes on Grief
Football
Conversations on Love
Light and Thread
Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations
My Body
The Message
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success
Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
L'heure des prédateurs
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service
Happy-Go-Lucky
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Гемінґвей нічого не знає
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
This Is Your Mind on Plants
101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
El peligro de estar cuerda
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
Scream With Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism, 1968-1980
All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays
The Nineties
Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember
V13
Delusions: Of Grandeur, of Romance, of Progress
You Could Make This Place Beautiful
You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put
History Matters
Broken (In the Best Possible Way)
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
The Future of Truth
Mit Männern leben: Überlegungen zum Pelicot-Prozess
The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences
Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Notes to John
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
Grief Is for People
The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs
Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
One Bad Mother
No-cosas: Quiebras del mundo de hoy
Writing Creativity and Soul
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived
Cinema Speculation
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich
The Crisis of Narration
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Infocracia: La digitalización y la crisis de la democracia
The Happiness Files: Insights on Work and Life
On Women
Love in Exile
Literatura infantil
Question 7
Notes on Heartbreak
Joyride: A Memoir
Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy
Dead and Alive: The illuminating new essay collection from the award-winning author of The Fraud
Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats
Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out – A Hilarious Guide for Book Lovers and Lifelong Readers
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
Huaco retrato
Unread: A Memoir of Learning (and Loving) to Read on TikTok
Nachmittage
Hèhè
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

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Christopher Hitchens
Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope—and the fear, because the encounter may also be embarrassing—that I shall draw a letter that begins, 'Dear Mr. Hitchens, it seems that you are unaware that…' It is in this sense that authorship is collaborative with 'the reader.' And there's no help for it: you only find out what y ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some women do not masturbate for pleasure; they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really need men (or at least not as much and as frequently as every single male chauvinist and every single misogynist believes).
Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay

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