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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I Have This Thing for Flowers: Essays on the Roots of Relationships
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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
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Trash! A Garbageman's Story
Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
Make Believe
End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
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Hyperpolitik
How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay
These Precious Days: Essays
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Bad Feminist
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
A Room of One’s Own
We Should All Be Feminists
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Me Talk Pretty One Day
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Men Explain Things to Me
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The White Album
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again:  Essays and Arguments
Upstream: Selected Essays
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The God Delusion by Richard DawkinsGod Is Not Great by Christopher HitchensThe Demon-Haunted World by Carl SaganThe End of Faith by Sam HarrisLetter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
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