Essays are underrated

My blog: https://magpiepinette.substack.com/ My Ko-Fi (including Discord tier): https://ko-fi.com/readingisaskill I'm on Twitter now: https://x.com/MagpiePinette My consulting page: https://magpiepinette.com/ My animal arts & crafts channel (on hiatus):    / @edgubi   Recommended books of essays: Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination by David Graeber – https://amzn.to/4vBuWZC The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature by David Quammen (TBR) https://amzn.to/3QdZSQw In Defense Of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton – https://amzn.to/4e4fsHS "Lilies that Fester" in The World's Last Night: And Other Essays by C. S. Lewis – https://amzn.to/4gdfb6H Essays by George Orwell – https://amzn.to/3SjhX0h Against Progress (Žižek's Essays #1) by Slavoj Žižek – https://amzn.to/4xmzR2i Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges – https://amzn.to/49Vn2BX Anathemas and Admirations by E. M. Cioran, trans Richard Howard – https://amzn.to/4vFtUvC Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin – https://amzn.to/4otengg What Are People For?: Essays by Wendell Berry – https://amzn.to/4xmxLzw Other books mentioned (with applicable affiliate links): Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber – https://amzn.to/4uxthUb The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber (long essays) – https://amzn.to/3QvfIqa The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction by David Quammen (not read) – https://amzn.to/4xiyHEY Heretics and Orthodoxy: Two Volumes in One by G. K. Chesterton – https://amzn.to/4sJZiav The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton (not recommend it as a starting point) – https://amzn.to/4aGRi3L The Complete Father Brown Stories by G. K. Chesterton – https://amzn.to/4v2kH0x We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite by Musa al-Gharbi – https://amzn.to/4cageRq Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu, trans Richard Nice (TBR) – https://amzn.to/4dclrcX The Managerial Revolution by James Burnham (TBR) – https://amzn.to/4u5BUVL Leviathan and its Enemies by Samuel Francis – https://amzn.to/4tO6CCY Zero Point (Žižek's Essays #2) by Slavoj Žižek (not read, not shown) – https://amzn.to/4uwbIns Liberal Fascisms (Žižek's Essays #3) by Slavoj Žižek (not read) – https://amzn.to/440hOBr Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – https://amzn.to/4vcOQL1 History and Utopia by E. M. Cioran, trans. Richard Howard (shown, not read) – https://amzn.to/4vm4yn3 Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen – https://amzn.to/43QINzk