Essays

A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented childr...

Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experie...

Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. Whites stroll around Manhattan remains the quinte...

Based on the NPR series of the same name, This I Believe features 80 Americans—from...

From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Think...

Unleashing the Power of Creativity: A "This I Believe" Essay by Bill GatesBased on the NP...

Professor of Classics Victor Davis Hanson contemplates the continuity of generations in "...

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color … Since ...

The Huck Finn of foreign correspondents provides a colorful account of old Honolulu, the ...

A new collection of inspiring personal philosophies from another noteworthy group of peop...

Andrew Sullivan reflects on what some of America's most fundamental values mean to him in...

A collection of essays celebrating the influential former first lady, by an array of accl...

When I Was a Child: A "When I Was a Child I read Books" Essat by Marilynne RobinsonMarily...

In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead ...

Authored by the most influential Indian President yet, this book delves into the obstacle...

The absorbing story of how one of the greatest directors of our time began his film-makin...

Musician Loudon Wainwright III explains that the joy in writing a song comes from the mys...

Public intellectual, conservative author and political commentator William F. Buckley, Jr...

Deidre Sullivan describes the lessons she learned from her father's advice to "Always Go ...

Frederic Reamer finds his belief in justice tested every time he faces criminals and vict...

John W. Fountain reflects on the importance of fathers, both biological and divine, in "T...

Animal expert Temple Grandin describes the benefits of the concrete thinking that accompa...

Unabridged Lectures: Charitable Effort - Filial Relations - Household Adjustment - Indust...

An inspiring collection of the personal philosophies and core values of a fascinating gro...

In a volume he describes as “a series of covert and no-so-covert autobiographical p...

This collection of eleven sensitively written vignettes highlighting experiences and rela...

A Finalist for the 2016 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayOne of T...

See You on the Radio gathers together over one hundred essays on everything from potholes...

This original recording-his first-features Trillin at his most uproarious, reading from h...

From the author of the monumental My Struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the mas...

Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our strugg...

Vivian Gornick, one of our finest critics, tackled the theme of love and marriage in her ...

In When We Free the World, acclaimed writer and activist Kevin Powell presents a stunning...

Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter...

Marcus Aurelius, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Napoleon Hill are some of the most notable name...

This collection, written between 1907 and 1920 by beloved children’s author A. A. M...

Grief, loneliness, Brexit, motherhood, identity, single parenthood, rootlessness, drinkin...

An incisive and comprehensive view of India’s legal process and its key issuesIndia...

William Gaddis published only four novels during his lifetime, but with those works he ea...

Dating is an undeniably daunting task, especially when you're done with casual flings and...

In this delightful collection; Ruskin Bond introduces us to the Dehradun he knows intimat...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike comments on how writing fiction can push the wr...

Professor of psychiatry Kay Redfield Jamison describes the power of intense emotions and ...

In this essay originally aired in the 1950s, historian Arnold Toynbee describes how relat...

Professor and attorney Michael Mullane says that we are all protected by and accountable ...

Elizabeth Deutsch Earle reflects on her original This I Believe Essay, first aired in the...

Critic, journalist, novelist, and feminist Rebecca West describes her discovery that huma...

In her contribution to NPR's This I Believe series, novelist Isabelle Allende reflects on...

In this essay originally aired in the 1950s, musical librettist and producer Oscar Hammer...

Miles Goodwin describes the profound impact of a small "Connection Between Strangers" for...