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- true100 essays I don't have time to write : on umbrellas and sword fights, parades and dogs, fire alarms, children, and theater
- true1789 : twelve authors explore a year of rebellion, revolution, and change
- trueA North Country almanac : reflections of an old-school conservationist in a modern world
- trueA cry from the far middle : dispatches from a divided land
- trueA desert harvest : new and selected essays
- A handbook of disappointed fate
- A home for surrealism : fantastic painting in midcentury Chicago
- A house of my own : stories from my life
- A lowcountry heart : reflections on a writing life
- trueA man's world : portraits
- A map of absence : an anthology of Palestinian writing on the Nakba
- trueA measure of belonging : twenty-one writers of color on the new American South
- trueA naturalist at large : the best essays of Bernd Heinrich
- A perfect 10 : the truth about things I'm not and never will be
- trueA really big lunch
- trueA woman looking at men looking at women : essays on art, sex, and the mind
- trueAcid West : essays
- Acker
- trueAdventures of form and content : essays
- trueAgainst Everything : Essays
- trueAli's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- trueAlibis : essays on elsewhere
- All creatures great and small
- All the things I lost in the flood : essays on pictures, language, and code
- trueAll the wild hungers : a season of cooking and cancer
- trueAll the women in my family sing : women write the world--essays on equality, justice, and freedom
- trueAllegorizings
- trueAllies : real talk about showing up, screwing up, and trying again
- trueAlpine apprentice
- trueAm I alone here? : notes on living to read and reading to live
- trueAm I there yet? : the loop-de-loop, zigzagging journey to adulthood
- trueAmateur hour : motherhood in essays and swear words
- trueAmerican audacity : in defense of literary daring
- trueAmerican originality : essays on poetry
- trueAmerican rhapsody : writers, musicians, millionaires, movie stars, and one great building
- trueAn arrangement of skin : essays
- An inventory of losses
- trueAn outsider's guide to humans : what science taught me about what we do and who we are
- And it begins like this
- trueAnd we came outside and saw the stars again : writers from around the world on the COVID-19 pandemic
- trueAnd yet ... : essays
- And yet ... : essays
- trueAnimals strike curious poses : essays
- Anni Albers
- Arguably : essays
- Art can help
- Art in the age of the internet : 1989 to today
- trueAsk me what's for dinner one more time : inappropriate thoughts on motherhood
- trueAttention : dispatches from a land of distraction
- Azadi : Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
- Bad feminist : essays
- Beautiful flesh : a body of essays
- Bedded bliss : a couple's guide to lust ever after
- trueBehind the song
- trueBelievers : making a life at the end of the world
- Berenice Abbott : portraits of modernity
- trueBetween eternities and other writings
- trueBetwixt-and-between : essays on the writing life
- trueBeyond measure : essays
- Big white ghetto : dead broke, stone-cold stupid, and high on rage in the dank woolly wilds of the "real America"
- Bit rot : stories + essays
- trueBitch doctrine : essays for dissenting adults
- Black girl dangerous : on race, queerness, class and gender
- trueBlack ink : literary legends on the peril, power, and pleasure of reading and writing
- trueBlack joy : stories of resistance, resilience, and restoration
- trueBlack lives matter at school : an uprising for educational justice
- trueBlack love matters : real talk on romance, being seen, and happily ever afters
- trueBlack magic : what Black leaders learned from trauma and triumph
- trueBlack reconstruction : an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880, & other writings
- trueBland fanatics : liberals, race, and empire
- Bloodstained : one hundred years of Leninist counterrevolution
- trueBody horror : capitalism, fear, misogyny, jokes
- trueBody talk : 37 voices explore our radical anatomy
- trueBookends : collected intros and outros
- trueBoomers : the men and women who promised freedom and delivered disaster
- trueBorealis
- Brassaï
- trueBrief encounters : a collection of contemporary nonfiction
- trueBrilliant, brilliant, brilliant brilliant brilliant : essays
- Bring your baggage and don't pack light : essays
- trueBring your baggage and don't pack light : essays
- trueBroken stars : contemporary Chinese science fiction in translation
- trueBrowsings : a year of reading, collecting, and living with books
- Burn it down : women writing about anger
- trueBurning questions : essays and occasional pieces, 2004-2021
- trueBut what if we're wrong? : thinking about the present as if it were the past
- trueBut you seemed so happy : a marriage, in pieces and bits
- Calamities
- trueCall them by their true names : American crises (and essays)
- Calm in chaos : essays for anxious times
- Calypso
- trueCalypso
- Calypso
- trueCan you tolerate this? : essays
- Caos : nadie puede decirte quién sos
- trueCapitalism : a ghost story
- Capitalism's crisis deepens : essays on the global economic meltdown 2010-2014
- Ceng jing shi ji mo shu qing
- Children & other wild animals : notes on badgers, otters, sons, hawks, daughters, dogs, bears, air, bobcats, fishers, mascots, Charles Darwin, newts, sturgeon, roasting squirrels, parrots, elk, foxes, tigers and various other zoological matters
- trueChoice words : writers on abortion
- trueChronicles of a liquid society
- trueChuck Klosterman X : a highly specific, defiantly incomplete history of the early 21st century
- Chun shui jian cha,Ting yu kan hua : Zhou zuo ren san wen jing xuan ji
- Cindy Sherman
- trueCircadian : essays
- trueCitizen : an American lyric
- Civil rights in Black and Brown : histories of resistance and struggle in Texas
- trueClassic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- trueCoast range : a collection from the Pacific edge
- trueCollected essays & memoirs
- Collected essays and poems
- trueCollection of sand : essays
- trueCommitted writings
- Confesiones de una mala feminista
- trueConsider the lobster and other essays
- Consider the lobster and other essays
- trueCoventry : essays
- trueCritics, monsters, fanatics, and other literary essays
- Crossing borders : stories and essays about translation
- trueCrush : writers reflect on love, longing, and the lasting power of their first celebrity crush
- Crystal clear : reflections on extraordinary talismans for everyday life
- Crónicas de amor, de historia y de guerra
- trueCuba on the verge : 12 writers on continuity and change in Havana and across the country
- Cunshang Chunshu za wen ji
- Curiouser and curiouser : essays
- Dada : Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris
- Dancing at the edge of the world : thoughts on words, women, places
- trueDark matter : a century of speculative fiction from the African diaspora
- trueDark tourist : essays
- trueDead girls : essays on surviving American culture
- trueDear John, I love Jane : women write about leaving men for women
- Dear mister essay writer guy : on life, love, cannibals, truth in nonfiction, and the imminent polar bear apocalypse
- Dear upright African : a call to action for taking history into our own hands
- Deborah Roberts : the evolution of Mimi
- trueDeep Creek : finding hope in the high country
- trueDervish at the crossroads : a soundquest through the first two decades of the new millenium
- Desert cabal : a new season in the wilderness
- Devotion
- trueDisability visibility : 17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults
- trueDisability visibility : first-person stories from the Twenty-first century
- trueDon't Call Me Princess : Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life
- trueDon't let it get you down : essays on race, gender, and the body
- trueDon't save anything : uncollected essays, articles, and profiles
- trueDostoyevsky reads Hegel in Siberia and bursts into tears
- trueDragon at the edge of a flat world : portraits and revelations
- Dreams Deferred : a Concise Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict & the Movement to Boycott Israel
- Driven : reflections on love, career and the pursuit of happiness
- Earth almanac
- trueEat cake. Be brave
- Eat joy : stories & comfort food from 31 celebrated writers
- El arte de la distorsión
- El escándalo del siglo
- El infinito naufragio : antología general
- El laberinto de la soledad
- El lenguaje de la pasión
- El libro rojo de la independencia
- El pueblo soy yo
- Enduring ideals : Rockwell, Roosevelt & the four freedoms
- trueEnough : notes from a woman who has finally found it
- trueEntertaining race : performing Blackness in America
- Equipment for living : on poetry and pop music
- trueErosion : essays of undoing
- Essayists on the essay : Montaigne to our time
- trueEssays
- Essays
- trueEssays after eighty
- Essays and reviews
- trueEssays from the nick of time : reflections and refutations
- Essays that will get you into law school
- trueEssential essays : culture, politics, and the art of poetry
- trueEthics in the real world : 82 brief essays on things that matter
- Everyone leaves behind a name : true stories
- trueEveryone you hate is going to die : and other comforting thoughts on family, friends, sex, love, and more things that ruin your life
- trueEverything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- trueEverything lost is found again : four seasons in Lesotho
- trueEverything's trash, but it's okay
- trueEx Libris
- trueFar away from close to home : a black millennial woman in progress : essays
- trueFear icons : essays
- Feel free : essays
- trueFeel free : essays
- trueFeminasty : the complicated woman's guide to surviving the patriarchy without drinking herself to death
- trueFestival days
- trueFever swamp : a journey through the strange Neverland of the 2016 presidential race
- trueField recordings from the inside : essays
- trueFifty things that aren't my fault : essays from the grown-up years
- trueFire season : selected essays, 1984-2021
- trueFlash forward : an illustrated guide to possible (and not so possible) tomorrows
- Forms of enchantment : writings on art & artists
- trueFreedom fighters and hell raisers : a gallery of memorable southerners
- trueFreeman's power : est. 2015
- trueFreeman's, Home
- trueFunny girl : funniest. stories. ever.
- Gabriele Münter, 1877-1962 : painting to the point
- Gauguin : portraits
- trueGirl gurl grrrl : on womanhood and belonging in the age of black girl magic
- trueGirlhood : essays
- Girls can kiss now : essays
- trueGirls can kiss now : essays
- trueGod human animal machine : technology, metaphor, and the search for meaning
- God was right
- Good enough : a cookbook : embracing the joys of imperfection & practicing self-care in the kitchen
- trueGood things happen to people you hate : essays
- Goodbye, again : essays, reflections, and illustrations
- trueGraceland, at last : notes on hope and heartache from the American South
- Gratitud
- Greetings, carbon-based bipeds! : collected essays, 1934-1998
- trueGrowing up trans : in our own words
- Gypsy spirit : & other stories of childhood, nature, life choices, loss, and love
- trueHad I known : collected essays
- Had I known : collected essays
- Happy-go-lucky
- Harbors
- trueHard to love : essays and confessions
- trueHaving and being had
- Here in the middle : stories of love, loss, and connection from the ones sandwiched in between
- trueHigh notes : selected writings of Gay Talese
- Hilma af Klint : paintings for the future
- trueHogs wild : selected reporting pieces
- Hola Papi! : how to come out in a Walmart parking lot and other life lessons
- trueHomeland Security ate my speech : messages from the end of the world
- trueHomo irrealis : essays
- Hope nation : YA authors share personal moments of inspiration
- trueHorse girls : recovering, aspiring, and devoted riders redefine the iconic bond
- trueHow not to be a doctor : and other essays
- trueHow not to get shot : and other advice from white people
- trueHow should one read a book?
- How to be "normal" : notes on the eccentricities of modern life
- How to cuss in western : and other missives from the high desert
- trueHow to make a slave and other essays
- trueHow to ruin everything : essays
- trueHow to slowly kill yourself and others in America : essays
- How to start writing (and when to stop) : advice for authors
- trueHow we speak to one another : an Essay Daily reader
- How y'all doing? : misadventures and mischief from a life well lived
- trueHow y'all doing? : misadventures and mischief from a life well lived
- How y'all doing? : misadventures and mischief from a life well lived
- Hummingbirds between the pages
- Hunting buffalo with bent nails
- Hẹn hò nước Mỹ
- trueI can't date Jesus : love, sex, family, race, and other reasons I've put my faith in Beyoncé
- trueI hope we choose love : a trans girl's notes from the end of the world
- trueI might regret this : essays, drawings, vulnerabilities, and other stuff
- I might regret this : essays, drawings, vulnerabilities, and other stuff
- trueI miss you when I blink : essays
- I see life through rosé-colored glasses
- trueI see life through rosé-colored glasses
- I too sing America : the Harlem Renaissance at 100
- trueI used to be charming : the rest of Eve Babitz
- trueI want to be where the normal people are
- trueI will take the answer : essays
- trueI wrote this book because I love you : essays
- trueI'll be your mirror : essays & aphorisms
- trueI'll show myself out : essays on midlife & motherhood
- I'll show myself out : essays on midlife and motherhood
- trueI'm gonna say it now: : the writings of Phil Ochs
- trueI'm just getting to the disturbing part : on work, fear & fatherhood
- trueI'm telling the truth, but I'm lying : essays
- trueI've been wrong before : essays
- trueIdiot : life stories from the creator of Help Helen Smash
- Illustrating Spain in the US
- trueImpossible owls : essays
- In a narrow grave : essays on Texas
- trueIn praise of good bookstores
- trueIn rough country : essays and reviews
- trueIn the land of the cyclops : essays
- trueIn the margins : on the pleasures of reading and writing
- In the margins : on the pleasures of reading and writing
- trueIn the shadow of King Saul : essays on silence and song
- trueIn-between days : a memoir about living with cancer
- trueIndigo : arm wrestling, snake saving, and some things in between
- trueInfinite baseball : notes from a philosopher at the ballpark
- Infinity to dine
- trueInsane clown president : dispatches from the 2016 circus
- trueInter state : essays from California
- trueInterior states : essays
- Is everyone hanging out without me? (and other concerns)
- trueIt gets worse : a collection of essays
- trueIt's messy : on boys, boobs, and badass women
- Josef Albers : interaction
- trueJourneying : L'infinito viaggiare
- trueJourneys : an American story
- Junbungaku o hōmon suru : itō sei no ninshiki to hōhō
- trueJust us : An American conversation
- K-punk : the collected and unpublished writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016)
- trueKant's little Prussian head and other reasons why I write : an autobiography in essays
- Karmannyĭ orakul : ret͡senzii, statʹi, ėsse
- trueKeep moving : notes on loss, creativity, and change
- trueKingdom of olives and ash : writers confront the occupation
- trueKingdoms in the air : dispatches from the far away
- Knowing why : adult-diagnosed autistic people on life and autism
- trueKnown and strange things : essays
- Koya o mosu
- Krugom odin obman : rasskazy i ocherki
- Kuai le yi yuan
- Kŭrŏm edo pulgu hago
- La estafa maestra : graduados en desaparecer el dinero público
- trueLandslide : true stories
- trueLanguages of truth : essays 2003-2020
- trueLate essays, 2006-2017
- Laughter on the stairs
- trueLearning the birds : a midlife adventure
- trueLeaving isn't the hardest thing : essays
- trueLessons from a dark time : and other essays
- Let me clear my throat : essays
- trueLet me tell you : new stories, essays, and other writings
- Let me tell you what I mean
- trueLet me tell you what I mean
- trueLet's talk about your wall : Mexican writers respond to the immigration crisis
- trueLetter to a young farmer : how to live richly without wealth on the new garden farm
- trueLetters to a young farmer : on food, farming, and our future
- Libraries, leadership, and scholarly communication : essays
- Life sentences : writings from inside an American prison
- trueLike a boy but not a boy : navigating life, mental health, and parenthood outside the gender binary
- trueLike love
- trueLike streams to the ocean : notes on ego, love, and the things that make us who we are
- Limestone country
- trueLinea nigra : an essay on pregnancy and earthquakes
- trueLittle weirds
- trueLiving beyond borders : growing up Mexican in America
- trueLoitering : new & collected essays
- trueLong players : writers on the albums that shaped them
- trueLook alive out there : essays
- trueLosing Helen : an essay
- trueLost in summerland : essays
- trueLost wax : essays
- trueLoud and clear
- trueLoud black girls : 20 Black women writers in Britain ask: what's next?
- trueLove and other ways of dying : essays
- trueLove drones : essays
- Love that story : observations from a gorgeously queer life
- Lyrical and critical essays
- Made-up : a true story of beauty culture under late capitalism
- trueMaeve in America : essays by a girl from somewhere else
- Magic hours : essays on creators and creation
- trueMake it scream, make it burn : essays
- Maker Pro
- Managing expectations : a memoir in essays
- trueManaging expectations : a memoir in essays
- trueManly health and training : to teach the science of a sound and beautiful body
- trueMantel pieces : Royal bodies and other writing from the London review of books
- trueMaybe it's me : on being the wrong kind of woman
- Me & other writing
- trueMe talk pretty one day
- Men explain things to me
- Mi si ren de gu shi
- trueMidwest futures
- Moan : anonymous essays on female orgasm
- Modern ethics in 77 arguments : a Stone reader
- Monet & architecture
- Monet the collector
- trueMoranifesto
- trueMore alive and less lonely : on books and writers
- trueMothers, fathers, and others : essays
- Motions and moments : more essays on Tokyo
- trueMr. Know-it-all : the tarnished wisdom of a filth elder
- Mu guang
- trueMy Southern journey : true stories from the heart of the South
- trueMy body
- trueMy generation : collected nonfiction
- My life as a villainess : essays
- My life as a villainess : essays
- trueMy life as a villainess : essays
- trueMy lost poets : a life in poetry
- trueMy mother. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. And the last stand of the angry white man
- trueMy own words
- trueMy time among the whites : notes from an unfinished education
- Mùa hè đó gió thổi tôi đi
- Natural selection : a year in the garden
- trueNature is a human right : why we're fighting for green in a gray world
- trueNature, love, medicine : essays on wildness and wellness
- Nekkid in Austin : Drop your inner child down a well
- Nemnozhko inostranka : raskazy i ocherki
- New moons : contemporary writing by North American Muslims
- trueNight thoughts
- trueNo one asked for this : essays
- trueNo time to spare : thinking about what matters
- trueNobody cares : essays
- trueNobody's looking at you : essays
- trueNone of my business : P.J. explains money, banking, debt, equity, assets, liabilities, and why he's not rich and neither are you
- Notes from no man's land : American essays
- trueNothing good can come from this : essays
- trueNothing is wrong and here is why : essays
- Novels and social writings
- trueNow comes good sailing : writers reflect on Henry David Thoreau
- Nü ren quan li
- trueOf all that ends
- trueOn fire : the (burning) case for a green new deal
- trueOn haiku
- trueOn quality : an inquiry into excellence : unpublished and selected writings
- trueOn war and writing
- trueOne day you'll thank me : essays on dating, motherhood, and everything in between
- trueOne last lunch : a final meal with those who meant so much to us
- trueOne long river of song : notes on wonder
- trueOngoingness : the end of a diary
- trueOrgan grinder : a classical education gone astray
- trueOther people : takes & mistakes
- trueOur stories, our voices : 21 YA authors get real about injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America
- Out of the smoke and into the flame
- trueOut on a limb : selected writing, 1989-2021
- Over the hill and gaining speed : reflections in retirement
- truePain woman takes your keys, and other essays from a nervous system
- Paper concert : a conversation in the round
- truePersonal writings
- Personhood
- truePhilip Sparrow tells all : lost essays by Samuel Steward, writer, professor, tattoo artist
- truePick up the pieces : excursions in Seventies music
- Pieces of soap : essays
- truePilot impostor
- truePioneer girl perspectives : exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder
- truePlaces I stopped on the way home : a memoir of chaos and grace
- truePlaces I've taken my body : essays
- Playing by ear : reflections on sound and music
- Playing catch with strangers : a family guy (reluctantly) comes of age
- truePlease don't sit on my bed in your outside clothes : essays
- Pocket workshop : essays on living as a writer
- Policing the black man : arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment
- truePops : fatherhood in pieces
- Portraits of the mind : visualizing the brain from antiquity to the 21st century
- Positions of the sun
- truePractice resurrection : and other essays
- truePresent over perfect : leaving behind frantic for a simpler, more soulful way of living
- Present over perfect : leaving behind frantic for a simpler, more soulful way of living
- trueProxies : essays near knowing
- truePunching Nazis : and other good ideas
- truePushcart prize XXXVII, 2013 : best of the small presses
- Qian li huai ren yue zai feng
- Queer magic : power beyond boundaries
- trueQuiet places : collected essays
- trueRISK! : true stories people never thought they'd dare to share
- trueRadical hope : letters of love and dissent in dangerous times
- Raising the bottom : making mindful choices in a drinking culture
- trueRansoming pagan babies : the selected writings of Warren Hinckle
- trueRead dangerously : the subversive power of literature in troubled times
- trueRead harder : five more years of great writing from Believer
- Rebellious mourning : the collective work of grief
- Red lip theology : for church girls who've considered tithing to the beauty supply store when Sunday morning isn't enough
- trueRethinking America : from empire to republic
- trueReunion Beach : stories inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank
- trueRevise the Psalm : work celebrating the writing of Gwendolyn Brooks
- trueRevolution! : writings from Russia, 1917
- trueRiding through Katrina with the Red Baron's ghost : a memoir of friendship, family, and a life writing
- trueRipe : essays
- trueRough ideas : reflections on music and more
- Roughneck grace : farmer yoga, creeping codgerism, apple golf, and other brief essays from on and off the back forty
- trueRun towards the danger : confrontations with a body of memory
- trueRural voices : 15 authors challenge assumptions about small-town America
- Rò̂i ná̆ng mưa sẽ ở lại bên đời : tản văn
- trueSOS/Calling All Black People : a Black Arts Movement Reader
- trueSabers and utopías : visions of Latin America
- trueSay it loud! : on race, law, history, and culture
- trueScience in the soul : selected writings of a passionate rationalist
- trueScreen tests : stories and other writing
- trueSeeing as your shoes are soon to be on fire : essays
- trueShame and wonder : essays
- trueShe memes well
- trueShelter : a black tale of Homeland, Baltimore
- trueShrewed : a wry and closely observed look at the lives of women and girls : essays
- Sister outsider
- trueSix memos for the next millennium
- Sky theater : essays on rural life and community from the editor of Dakotafire Magazine
- trueSlight exaggeration
- trueSlipping : stories, essays & other writings
- trueSome of my best friends : essays on lip service
- trueSome of us are very hungry now : essays
- trueSome remarks : essays and other writing
- trueSomebody with a little hammer : essays
- trueSomething that may shock and discredit you
- trueSometimes I think about it
- trueSoul at the white heat : inspiration, obsession, and the writing life
- Soul at the white heat : inspiration, obsession, and the writing life
- Southern Lady Code : essays
- trueStakes is high : life after the American dream
- trueStargazing in the atomic age : essays
- trueStay hungry
- trueStellaris : people of the stars
- Stolen life
- trueStrangers assume my girlfriend is my nurse
- trueSuppose a sentence
- trueSure, I'll be your Black friend : notes from the other side of the fist bump