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Essays
An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition of an essay is vague, overlapping with those of an article and a short story. Almost all modern essays are written in prose, but works in verse have been dubbed essays (e.g. Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism and An Essay on Man). While brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like Joh
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The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great 2015 Book Preview II - Fall and Winter
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Alain de Botton
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His Favorite Books About Love: For February, Botton recommends five books that "seem particularly apt for understanding, appreciating and surviving love."
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Single guys can easily simulate some of the joys of marriage simply by installing one of those GPS devices that use a woman's voice.
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― Why I Hate Straws: An Offbeat Worldview of an Offbeat World
― Why I Hate Straws: An Offbeat Worldview of an Offbeat World
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Some women do not masturbate for pleasure; they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really need men (or at least not as much and as frequently as every single male chauvinist and every single misogynist believes).
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― On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
― On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
Reckoning is a nonprofit journal of creative writing on environmental justice. This is our recom…more
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