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Essays to Read - 2026
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A curated list of essays
Published
January 27, 2026
Essays to Read
Psychology/ Human nature/ Self
On Self-Respect by Joan Didion
Autobiographical Notes by James Baldwin
“Total Eclipse” by Annie Dillard
Some thoughts On the Common Toad by George Orwell
Notes on “Camp” by Susan Sontag
Once More to the Lake by E.B. White
Phiosophy of science/ progress
Degrees of Explanation by FA Hayek
The Possessed Machines
The problem with p-values by David Colquhoun
How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder
Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
Philosophy / Reasoning
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories: An Introduction by Juha Räikkä
Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
Thinking and Moral Considerations by Hanah Arendt
On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simone Weil
Essays of Immanuel Kant
Some sites
Aeon
The electric typewriter
The marginalian
sketchplanations
Electric Lit
Roberto Bolaño recommends
Paul Graham’s Essays