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
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service
When We Cease to Understand the World
The Message
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success
The Comfort Book
A Very Punchable Face
Dear Dolly
My Body
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Things in Nature Merely Grow
Notes on Grief
Yearbook
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict
These Precious Days: Essays
Death and the Gardener: A Novel
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
The Soul of a Woman
Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Notes to John
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
Il fascismo eterno
Conversations on Love
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
All Boys Aren’t Blue
Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations
You Could Make This Place Beautiful
The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich
Happy-Go-Lucky
Kummer aller Art
Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats
L'heure des prédateurs
The Undocumented Americans
I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays
This Is Your Mind on Plants
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Nachmittage
You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You
The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Moi les hommes, je les déteste
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
Grief Is for People
Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
Gaza Faces History
Estuve aquí y me acordé de nosotros: Una historia sobre turismo, trabajo y clase
Question 7
El peligro de estar cuerda
Radikale Zärtlichkeit. Warum Liebe politisch ist
Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays
V13
How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived
Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
Stai zitta. E altre nove frasi che non vogliamo sentire più
Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Najgorsze randki świata i kilka udanych
Women Living Deliciously
Hijab Butch Blues
Broken (In the Best Possible Way)
Who’s Afraid of Gender?
“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
The Best of Me
What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
Cinema Speculation
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
Altern
Joyful Recollections of Trauma: A Hilariously Cathartic Memoir-in-Essays of Childhood Turmoil, Self Healing, and Finding Happiness
Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home
Love in Exile
Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories
Sucker Punch: Essays
Sprache und Sein
Girlhood
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music
Notes on Heartbreak
Lifeform
On Women
The Nineties
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age
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Roxane Gay
Don’t flirt, have sex, or engage in emotional affairs with your friends’ significant others. This shouldn’t need to be said, but it needs to be said. That significant other is an asshole, and you don’t want to be involved with an asshole who’s used goods. If you want to be with an asshole, get a fresh asshole of your very own. They are abundant.
Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

Alexander Chee
I was by now used to people being surprised by me and my background, and their surprise offended me. I was always having to be what I was looking for in the world, wishing the person I would become already existed — some other I before me. I was forever finding even the tiniest way to identify with someone to escape how empty the world seemed to be of what I was.
Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

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