The Best American Essays 2025

Idiot: Life Stories from the Creator of Help Helen Smash

KSI: I Am a Bellend

The Origins of Totalitarianism

We Should All Be Feminists

Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics

How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division: From the Booker shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

So Much I Want to Tell You: Letters to My Little Sister

Violence. Speed. Momentum.

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You

The Haves and Have-Yachts: Field Notes from the Frontier of American Excess (t)

The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors

Ever Wonder Why?: And Other Controversial Essays

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

Controversial Essays

Why I Write

The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford,Reagan

The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage