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Rebecca Solnit
Men Explain Things To Me
3.8
8 min
Brianna Wiest
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
3.8
11 min
Alain de Botton
The Art of Travel
3.8
13 min
Erasmus
In Praise of Folly
3.8
5 min
Alain de Botton
How Proust Can Change Your Life
3.8
13 min
Kelly Ripa
Live Wire
3.8
10 min
Francine Prose
Reading Like a Writer
3.8
8 min
Anne Lamott
Somehow
3.9
12 min
Sigmund Freud
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
3.8
6 min
James Bridle
New Dark Age
4.1
26 min
Michiko Kakutani
The Death of Truth
3.8
12 min
Slavoj Žižek
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
3.8
17 min
Alain Badiou
In Praise Of Love
3.8
20 min
Stefano Mancuso
The Incredible Journey of Plants
4.2
14 min
Slavoj Žižek
How to Read Lacan
3.9
8 min
Jenny Odell
How to Do Nothing
3.7
10 min
Luvvie Ajayi
I'm Judging You
3.7
10 min
Anne Lamott
Hallelujah Anyway
3.7
9 min
Alain de Botton
Religion for Atheists
3.7
19 min
Elbert Hubbard
A Message to Garcia
3.8
8 min
Simon Blackburn
Think
3.7
18 min
Jules Evans
Philosophy for Life
4.1
10 min
Ayn Rand
The Virtue of Selfishness
3.6
9 min
Jim Holt
When Einstein Walked with Gödel
4
17 min
Mark O’Connell
To Be A Machine
3.8
12 min
Simon Reynolds
Retromania
3.8
12 min
Thomas Nagel
What Does It All Mean?
3.6
15 min
John Milton
Areopagitica
3.9
5 min
Jenny Odell
Saving Time
3.6
14 min
Elias Canetti
Crowds and Power
4.1
12 min