150 Great Articles & Essays to Read Online
The best short articles and essays, long reads and journalism to read online - examples of interesting nonfiction writing by famous authorsLife & Death
Attitude by Margaret Atwood
This is Water by David Foster Wallace
Why Go Out? by Sheila Heti
After Life by Joan Didion
30 more great articles about life
20 more great articles about death
Travel
The Book by Patrick Symmes
Shipping Out by David Foster Wallace
Death of an Innocent by Jon Krakauer
The Place to Disappear by Susan Orlean
50 more great articles about travel
Words and Writing
On Keeping a Notebook by Joan Didion
Everything you Need to Know About Writing by Stephen King
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard
Where Do You Get Your Ideas? by Neil Gaiman
15 more great essays about writing
Short Memoirs
Explicit Violence by Lidia Yuknavitch
Seeing by Annie Dillard
Call Me Loyd by David Owen
Three by David Sedaris
50 more great short memoirs
Growing Up
A Few Words about Breasts by Nora Ephron
The American Male at Age Ten by Susan Orlean
The Comfort Zone by Jonathan Franzen
Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes by David Foster Wallace
50 more great articles about growing up
Women
The Female Body by Margaret Atwood
Why Women Smile by Amy Cunningham
What Do Women Want? by Daniel Bergner
30 more great articles about women
Sex
Maxed out by Evan Wright
Revelations About Sex by Alain de Botton
Safe-Sex Lies by Meghan Daum
The Biology of Attraction by Helen E. Fisher
50 more great articles about sex
Feminism
The Women's Movement by Joan Didion
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
What the Hell Am I (and Who the Hell Cares)? by Neko Case
5 more great articles about feminism
Linguistics/Language
What the F***? by Stephen Pinker
English Is Not Normal by John McWhorter
A Linguistic Big Bang by Lawrence Osborne
15 more great articles about linguistics
Misc.
Pigeon Wars by Jon Mooallem
Violence of the Lambs by John J. Sullivan
25 more great articles about animals
Science & Technology
How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder by Philip Ball
On Being the Right Size by J. B. S. Haldane
A Star in a Bottle by Raffi Khatchadourian
How the First Gravitational Waves Were Found by Nicola Twilley
100 more great science & tech. reads
The Environment
The Fate of Earth by Elizabeth Kolbert
State of the Species by Charles C. Mann
Death of a Mountain by Erik Reece
30 more great reads about the environment
Climate Change
Losing Earth by Nathaniel Rich
Global Warming's Terrifying New Math by Bill Mckibben
The New Abolitionism by Christopher Hayes
25 more great reads about climate change
Computers
The Tinkering of Robert Noyce by Tom Wolfe
Creation Myth by Malcolm Gladwell
Mother Earth Mother Board by Neal Stephenson
50 more great articles about computers
The Internet
Forty Years of the Internet by Oliver Burkeman
A Nation of Echo Chambers by Will Leitch
The Long Tail by Chris Anderson
50 more articles about the internet
War
M by John Sack
Blackhawk Down by Mark Bowden
Hiroshima by John Hersey
25 more great articles about war
Money
To Have is To Owe by David Graeber
The Austerity Delusion by Paul Krugman
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
50 more great articles about money
Politics
The Hinge of History by Joan Didion
How the News Took Over Reality by Oliver Burkeman
Masters of the
Universe Go to Camp
by Philip Weiss
30 more great articles about politics
History
Does It Help to Know History? by Adam Gopnik
1491 by Charles C. Mann
A History of Violence by Steven Pinker
The Worst Mistake in History by J. Diamond
25 more great articles about history
Crime & Punishment
The Caging Of America by Adam Gopnik
The Crooked Ladder by Malcolm Gladwell
Cruel and Unusual Punishment by Matt Taibbi
20 more great articles about crime
True Crime
The Body in Room 348 by Mark Bowden
True Crime by David Grann
The Art of the Steal by Joshua Bearman
20 more great true crime reads
Race
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon
Time and Distance Overcome by Eula Biss
25 more great essays about Race
Food
The Last Meal by Michael Paterniti
If You Knew Sushi by Nick Tosches
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
35 more great articles about food
Psychology
Thresholds of Violence by Malcolm Gladwell
We Are All Confident Idiots by David Dunning
Fantastic Beasts and How to Rank Them by Kathryn Schulz
What is the Monkeysphere? by David Wong
50 more great articles about psychology
Love & Relationships
Love by Lauren Slater
Masters of Love by Emily Esfahani Smith
This is Emo by Chuck Klosterman
25 more great articles about relationships
Happiness
What Makes Us Happy? by Joshua Shenk
Money ? Happiness. QED. by Bill McKibben
The Real Roots of Midlife Crisis by Jonathan Rauch
15 more great articles about happiness
Success & Failure
The Art of Failure by Malcolm Gladwell
The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination by J.K. Rowling
What Drives Success? by Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld
10 more great articles about success
Health & Medicine
An Epidemic of Fear by Amy Wallace
The Score by Atul
Gawande
What's Killing America's Black Infants? by Zoe Carpenter
35 more great articles about health
Mental Health
The Epidemic of Mental Illness by Marcia Angell
Adventures in Depression by Allie Brosh
Surviving Anxiety by Scott Stossel
20 more great articles about mental health
Ethics
The Moral Instinct by Steven Pinker
Not Nothing by Stephen Cave
The Greatest Good by Derek Thompson
10 more great reads about ethics
Education
Getting In by Malcolm Gladwell
Learning by Degrees by Rebecca Mead
Building a Better Teacher by Elizabeth Green
20 more great articles about education
Sport
The String Theory by David Foster Wallace
The Istanbul Derby by Spencer Hall
The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved by Hunter S. Thompson
50 more great articles about sport
Music
Seduced by 'Perfect' Pitch by L. Anderson
One More Time by Elizabeth Margulis
Why Music? from The Economist
35 more great articles about music
The Arts & Culture
Inhaling the Spore by Lawrence Weschler
Death by Harry Potter by Chuck Klosterman
A One-man Art Market by Bryan Aappleyard
35 more great articles about the arts
Movies
FX Porn by David Foster Wallace
Flick Chicks by Mindy Kaling
The Movie Set That Ate Itself by Michael Idov
15 more great articles about movies
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