Essays category: 9344 books
Creationists
Selected Essays, 1993-2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. Now here are Doctorow’s rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists, Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms: from the literary (Melville and Mark Twain)...
Money Changes Everything
Twenty-Two Writers Tackle the Last Taboo with Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Staggering Debts, and Other Surprising Turns of Fortune
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2007
The editors of The Friend Who Got Away are back with a new anthology that will do for money what they did for women’s friendships.
Ours is a culture of confession, yet money remains a distinctly taboo subject for most Americans. In this riveting anthology, a host of celebrated writers explore...
Sherman Alexie
A Collection of Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Sherman Alexie is, by many accounts, the most widely read American Indian writer in the United States and likely in the world. A literary polymath, Alexie's nineteen published books span a variety of genres and include his most recent National Book Award-winning The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time...
Trick Mirror
Reflections on Self-Delusion
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
“From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire
“A whip-smart, challenging book.”—Zadie Smith • “Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion...
The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches
Essays and Sketches
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The Souls of Black Folk is the seminal work by Du Bois on race in late 19th-century North America. The way we think about and examine race today stems from his ideas. He spoke of the "double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others," and of the progress and obstacles to progress of the black American.
Expository Eureka
Model Expository Essays for Today's Secondary School Students
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Essays Eureka features the best of model expository stories written by English Language and Literature specialist, Diana Tham. Through her stories, as well as works by her students, Diana shows students how to apply model structures and writing techniques to their own writing, providing them with strategies...
by Roger Ebert
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
From America's most trusted and highly visible film critic, 100 more brilliant essays on the films that define cinematic greatness.
Continuing the pitch-perfect critiques begun in The Great Movies, Roger Ebert's The Great Movies II collects 100 additional essays, each one of them a gem of critical...
Acid West
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
A rollicking debut book of essays that takes readers on a trip through the muck of American myths that have settled in the desert of our country’s underbelly
Early on July 16, 1945, Joshua Wheeler’s great grandfather awoke to a flash, and then a long rumble: the world’s first atomic blast...
The Other Serious
Essays for the New American Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
An original collection of incandescent cultural criticism, both experimental and personal, full of pragmatic advice for how to live a considered, joyful existence in our era of screen living and hipster irony, by a Gen-X Princeton professor and contributor to The New York Times
The essays in...
Figures in a Landscape
People and Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
"A portrait of an optimist with curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms."**—**The New York Times Book Review
"Theroux is at the top of his game with his third collection of essays, a magisterial grouping of intimate remembrances, globe-trotting adventures, and...
Last Watch of the Night
Essays Too Personal and Otherwise
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Tender and passionate autobiographical essays by the National Book Award–winning author of Becoming a Man.
“Does it go too fast?” Monette asks about life at the beginning of one piece. The answer is a resounding “yes” for the individuals who populate this stunning work of nonfiction....
Senior Moments
Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
A moving collection of essays on aging and happiness
Drawing on more than six decades' worth of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, Willard Spiegelman reflects with candid humor and sophistication on growing old. Senior Moments is a series of discrete essays that, when...
The Essential West
Collected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Scholars and enthusiasts of western American history have praised Elliott West as a distinguished historian and an accomplished writer, and this book proves them right on both counts. Capitalizing on West’s wide array of interests, this collection of his essays touches on topics ranging from viruses...
In Fact
Essays on Writers and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
From the acclaimed novelist (Henry and Clara, Two Moons), essayist (A Book of One's Own), and critic (1998 National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing)—an engaging new collection of essays.
In Fact gathers the best of Thomas Mallon's superb criticism from the past twenty-two...