Cultural Essays

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    • Essays
    • By: Ross Gay
    • Narrated by: Ross Gay
    • Series: Essays Series
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 584 ratings
    • Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying collection of essays that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives....

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    • By: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8,861 ratings
    • James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

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    • A Memoir in Essays
    • By: Damon Young
    • Narrated by: Damon Young
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 594 ratings
    • For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker chronicles Young’s efforts to survive while battling and making sense of the various neuroses his country has given him....

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    • Accusations and Confessions
    • By: Myriam Gurba
    • Narrated by: Myriam Gurba
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and toxicity that has wormed its way into society—in our books, schools, and homes, as well as the systems that perpetuate them—from one of our fiercest, foremost explorers of intersectional Latinx identity.

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    • Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings
    • By: Reyna Grande, Sonia Guiñansaca
    • Narrated by: Avi Roque, Diana Pou, Marisa Blake, Christian Barillas
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A unique collection of 41 groundbreaking essays, poems, and artwork by migrants, refugees and Dreamers—including award-winning writers, artists, and activists—that illuminate what it is like living undocumented today....

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    • Essays and Outtakes
    • By: Anthony Veasna So
    • Narrated by: Keong Sim
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Songs on Endless Repeat gathers those essays together, along with previously unpublished fiction. Written with razor-sharp wit and an unflinching eye, the essays examine his youth in California, the lives of his refugee parents, his intimate friendships, loss, pop culture, and more....

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    • By: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 04-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 404 ratings
    • This stunningly personal document displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works....

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    • By: Christopher Hitchens
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 166 ratings
    • In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents....

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    • A Memoir in 4-Part Harmony
    • By: M.K. Asante
    • Narrated by: M.K. Asante, Dion Graham, Adenrele Ojo, Neph
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Waiting in the emergency room at Temple University Hospital in North Philadelphia where his eighteen-year-old nephew, Nasir, lay unconscious after being shot nine times, MK Asante began pouring his heart and soul into a series of letters to a beautiful, dying Black boy so full of life.

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    • 'Mark Foo's Last Ride,' 'After the Fall,' and Other Essays from the Vault
    • By: Jon Krakauer
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 353 ratings
    • Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism....

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    • And Other Essays
    • By: Edmund Morris
    • Narrated by: Edmund Morris
    • Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The essays in this audiobook cover 40 years in the life of a maverick intellectual who can be, at whim, astonishingly provocative, self-mockingly funny, and richly anecdotal....

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    • By: Athena Dixon
    • Narrated by: Emana Rachelle
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • What does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection, Athena Dixon invites us to consider this question with depth, heart, and ferocity....

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    • By: Colm Toibin
    • Narrated by: Colm Toibin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • From Colm Tóibín, an illuminating, intimate study of Irish culture, history, and literature told through the lives and work of three men - William Wilde, John Butler Yeats, and John Stanislaus Joyce - and the complicated, influential relationships they had with their complicated sons....

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    • Essays on (Allegedly) Figuring It All Out
    • By: Shenequa Golding
    • Narrated by: Aure Nash
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A blazingly honest essay collection from a refreshing new voice exploring the in-between moments for Black women and girls, and what it means to simply exist....

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    • Essays
    • By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
    • Narrated by: Chipo Chung
    • Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Tsitsi Dangarembga examines the legacy of imperialism on her own life and on every aspect of black embodied African life. This paradigm-shifting essay collection weaves the personal and political in an illuminating exploration of race and gender....

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