Essays category: 9344 books
Sightlines
A Conversation with the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Winner of the 2014 Orion Book Award for Nonfiction
Winner of the John Burroughs Association 2014 Medal for Distinguished Natural History Book
In Sightlines, Kathleen Jamie reports from the field—from her native Scottish “byways and hills” to the frigid Arctic in fourteen enthralling essays....
Far and Away
Reporting from the Brink of Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics’ Circle Award—and one of the most original thinkers of our time—“Andrew Solomon’s magisterial Far and Away collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays” (Vanity Fair).
Far and Away chronicles Andrew Solomon’s...
by Benjamin Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
This authoritative Bantam Classic edition presents readers with a wide-ranging selection of Benjamin Franklin’s most important writings, illuminating the complex and appealing character of this quintessential American who rose to fame as a publisher, inventor, educator, bon vivant, and statesman.
Here...
The Cross of Redemption
Uncollected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
The Cross of Redemption is a revelation by an American literary master: a gathering of essays, articles, polemics, reviews, and interviews that have never before appeared in book form.
James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century, renowned...
by Kiese Laymon
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerful new voices in American social and cultural commentary. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is a collection of Laymon's essays, touching on subjects ranging from family, race, violence, and celebrity to...
by Bertrand Russell
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
One of modern history’s great thinkers takes on prejudice, superstition, and conventional wisdom, using wit and insight to argue for a rational way of life.
In a brilliant series of essays, Bertrand Russell uses challenging skepticism and sharp humor to attack the obstacles to building a...
Chuck Klosterman X
A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
New York Times-bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman sorts through the past decade and how we got to now.
Chuck Klosterman has created an incomparable body of work in books, magazines, newspapers, and on the Web. His writing spans the realms of culture and sports, while also...
by Noam Chomsky
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
The Chomsky Reader brings together for the first time the political thought of American's leading dissident intellectual—“arguably the most important intellectual alive” (The New York Times).
At the center of practically every major debate over America's role in the world, one finds Noam...
Ten Windows
How Great Poems Transform the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
A dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work, from the master poet and essayist
“Poetry,” Jane Hirshfield has said, “is language that foments revolutions of being.” In ten eloquent and highly original explorations, she unfolds and explores some of the ways this is done—by...
The Emergence of Memory
Conversations with W.G. Sebald
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through published interviews with and essays on Sebald, award-winning translator and author Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers...
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble
Writing on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill, and My Mother
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
“Schama is a masterful stylist and storyteller.”
—Boston Globe
“A writer of gorgeous prose.”
—Washington Post
The ever erudite, always delightfully curious Simon Schama returns with Scribble, Scribble, Scribble, a wonderful compendium of thirty provocative, witty, enlightening,...
The Death of Adam
Essays on Modern Thought
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing "Calvinism" and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive "puritan" stereotype, or considering how the McGuffey readers were...
Fierce Pajamas
An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2001
When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he described it as a “comic weekly.” And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder’s description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists of the modern era—among them Robert...
Essayism
On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
A compelling ode to the essay form and the great essaysists themselves, from Montaigne to Woolf to Sontag.
Essayism is a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love letter to belle-lettrists, and an account of the indispensable lifelines of reading and writing....