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"

That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Untamed
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
When We Cease to Understand the World
The Message
The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays
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
Death and the Gardener
Notes on Grief
My Body
Things in Nature Merely Grow
Yearbook
Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats
All Boys Aren’t Blue
The Comfort Book
These Precious Days: Essays
L'heure des prédateurs
Conversations on Love
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Dear Dolly
The Undocumented Americans
Happy-Go-Lucky
Notes to John
We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
V13
You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember
The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
El peligro de estar cuerda
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Question 7
The Soul of a Woman
You Could Make This Place Beautiful
The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich
The Future of Truth
Hijab Butch Blues
The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
Moi les hommes, je les déteste
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
Grief Is for People
All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Lifeform
Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put
Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations
Il fascismo eterno
Scream With Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism, 1968-1980
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived
Why I Love Horror
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
The Happiness Files: Insights on Work and Life
Cinema Speculation
This Is Your Mind on Plants
A Vida Não É Útil
Solutions and Other Problems
Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
Dead and Alive
Beyond the Gender Binary
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth
I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself
Najgorsze randki świata i kilka udanych
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
Love in Exile
Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir
The Best of Me
Joyful Recollections of Trauma: A Hilariously Cathartic Memoir-in-Essays of Childhood Turmoil, Self Healing, and Finding Happiness
I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Broken (In the Best Possible Way)
Changing My Mind
I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays
No-cosas: Quiebras del mundo de hoy
Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere
Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
Nachmittage
Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

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