The Best American Essays 2025

Idiot: Life Stories from the Creator of Help Helen Smash

KSI: I Am a Bellend

The Origins of Totalitarianism

The Hidden Power of F*cking Up

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

Ever Wonder Why?: And Other Controversial Essays

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

Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations

Flipping Patriarchy: Imagining a gender-swapped world

Why I Write

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

Controversial Essays

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

How to Be Right: The Art of Being Persuasively Correct