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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That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Yearbook
Death and the Gardener
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
The Comfort Book
Conversations on Love
Things in Nature Merely Grow
The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
My Body
Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service
Dear Dolly
The Message
Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success
Notes on Grief
L'heure des prédateurs
Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Happy-Go-Lucky
Winter: The Story of a Season
El peligro de estar cuerda
These Precious Days: Essays
Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
You Could Make This Place Beautiful
V13
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Гемінґвей нічого не знає
Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Notes to John
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
This Is Your Mind on Plants
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
Question 7
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
Joyride: A Memoir
I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself
Didion and Babitz
Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats
Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations
The Nineties
Broken (In the Best Possible Way)
Cinema Speculation
All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Scream With Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism, 1968-1980
Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich
The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Les grandes oubliées : Pourquoi l’histoire a effacé les femmes
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
Stai zitta. E altre nove frasi che non vogliamo sentire più
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put
Grief Is for People
The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You
How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived
Mit Männern leben: Überlegungen zum Pelicot-Prozess
Estuve aquí y me acordé de nosotros: Una historia sobre turismo, trabajo y clase
Lifeform
Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
The Future of Truth
Joyful Recollections of Trauma: A Hilariously Cathartic Memoir-in-Essays of Childhood Turmoil, Self Healing, and Finding Happiness
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
Nachmittage
Radikale Zärtlichkeit. Warum Liebe politisch ist
Literatura infantil
Dead and Alive
Inne i spegelsalen
The Happiness Files: Insights on Work and Life
Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
Writing Creativity and Soul
On Women
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
Unlearn Patriarchy
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
The Crisis of Narration
Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere
Najgorsze randki świata i kilka udanych
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
Who’s Afraid of Gender?
One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
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I'm a writer by profession and it's totally clear to me that since I started blogging, the amount I write has increased exponentially, my daily interactions with the views of others have never been so frequent, the diversity of voices I engage with is far higher than in the pre-Internet age—and all this has helped me become more modest as a thinker, more open to error, less fixated on what I do know, and more respectful of what I don't. If this is a deterioration in my brain, then more, please. ...more
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Christopher Hitchens
Kilmartin wrote a highly amusing and illuminating account of his experience as a Proust revisionist, which appeared in the first issue of Ben Sonnenberg's quarterly Grand Street in the autumn of 1981. The essay opened with a kind of encouragement: 'There used to be a story that discerning Frenchmen preferred to read Marcel Proust in English on the grounds that the prose of A la recherche du temps perdu was deeply un-French and heavily influenced by English writers such as Ruskin.' I cling to thi ...more
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