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Essays
Short-form thinking at its best. Criticism, reportage, and the personal essay, one argument at a time.
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Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
Letters from a Stoic
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin
On Photography
Susan Sontag
Bluets
Maggie Nelson
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
Ways of Seeing
John Berger
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson
Consider the Lobster
David Foster Wallace
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
The White Album
Joan Didion
Wild
Cheryl Strayed
Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino
The Republic
Plato
Notes from a Small Island
Bill Bryson
Tao Te Ching
Lao tzu
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit