essay collections

Experiments With ChatGPT: Why Artificial Intelligence Can’t Replace Human Creativity

Linda Huang on the Collaborative Process of Designing the Cover of Vauhini Vara's “Searches”

 
By Linda Huang  September 20, 2024
Best of the Year

The Best Reviewed Essay Collections of 2021

By Book Marks  December 10, 2021
The Maris Review

Nichole Perkins on Writing As a Way to Break Generational Curses

By The Maris Review  September 23, 2021
Thresholds

Rachel Kushner: Everything Behind You Is Part of Your Present Tense

By Thresholds   May 12, 2021
Otherppl

Gina Nutt on the Creative Usefulness of Feeling Stuck

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 6, 2021
Mothers

Excerpts from A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing

By Kimberly Grey  April 30, 2021
Interview

Elissa Washuta on the Desire to Write a “Big Book”

By Eliza Smith  April 27, 2021
Patriarchy

Melissa Febos on How Patriarchy and Capitalism Conspire Against Women

By Elizabeth Lothian  April 2, 2021
Witches

Power and Control: On the Very Rare Case of a Male Witch’s Execution

By Kathryn Nuernberger  February 19, 2021
News and Culture

The Best Reviewed Essay Collections of 2020

By Book Marks  December 10, 2020
The Maris Review

Kiese Laymon on Walking Backwards to Explore the Now

By The Maris Review  November 19, 2020
Essays

Claire Messud in Praise of the Essays That Dwell in Uncertainty

By Claire Messud  October 13, 2020
The Hub

Zadie Smith wrote an entire essay collection in lockdown, and you can read it in July.

By Dan Sheehan  June 11, 2020
The Hub

Emily Ratajkowski is spending her quarantine writing a book of essays.

By Molly Odintz  May 21, 2020
On Craft

Fragmented Narratives Are Broken, Independent, and Honest

By Sinéad Gleeson  March 24, 2020
The Best of the Decade

The 10 Best Essay Collections of the Decade

By Emily Temple  December 23, 2019
Essay

Money, Guilt, and Returning to Hong Kong to Care for My Mother

By Xu Xi  March 18, 2019
Essay

Bob Shacochis: How Surfing Lead Me to Writing

By Bob Shacochis  July 8, 2016
What to Read

30 Books in 30 Days: Michele Filgate on Vivian Gornick’s The Odd Woman and the City

By Michele Filgate  March 10, 2016

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