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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Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences
Actually, Nevermind
The Land and Its People
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You
Trash! A Garbageman's Story
End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
Wrong Norma
Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
These Precious Days: Essays
The Comfort Book
Make Believe
How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay
Departure[s]
Conversations on Love
Dear Dolly
The Young Man
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love
Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
The Message
Profiles in Cowardice: A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era
The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living
Ghost Stories
I Want to Be Famous: When Everybody and Nobody Is a Celebrity
We Need to Tax Billionaires
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Yearbook
Happy-Go-Lucky
My Body
My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein
L'Heure des prédateurs
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service
Kummer aller Art
Notes on Grief
Light and Thread
Scream With Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism, 1968-1980
Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember
El peligro de estar cuerda
Mon vrai nom est Elisabeth
You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Fight Oligarchy
Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
Earth Angel
Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity
Triste tigre
La palabra mágica: Una vida escrita
Football
The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
Гемінґвей нічого не знає
Question 7
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
Nachmittage
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane
Hèhè
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
Broken (In the Best Possible Way)
Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Op een andere planeet kunnen ze me redden
Cinema Speculation
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Mit Männern leben: Überlegungen zum Pelicot-Prozess
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
V13
Notes to John
Didion and Babitz
Grief Is for People
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
On Women
Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem
Les Grandes Oubliées : Pourquoi l'histoire a effacé les femmes
This Is Your Mind on Plants
Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
The Gift of Not Belonging: How Outsiders Thrive in a World of Joiners
Notes on Heartbreak
Radikale Zärtlichkeit. Warum Liebe politisch ist
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
The Butterfly Season: What 64 Butterflies Taught Me About Nature's Great Mysteries and the Meaning of Life
The Future of Truth
The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You
Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
Pythian pratar
The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

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