Essays
We host a variety of essays about anything from books and stories to life and culture. Find compelling pieces written through a personal lens about anything that makes us human, and anything that helps us grow together as world citizens.
With whispers about a recession everywhere, I wanted to share some unconventional tips for how we prepare for a recession together.
by David Olayiwola
Author David Olayiwola shares his story of how books and stories changed his life and inspired him to become a writer himself.
by Miranda Jensen
Writer Miranda Jensen translates golden advice from Stanislavski’s acting methods into functional advice for writers and fiction writing.
One third of American households with jobs, lifestyle creep is not the reason that the ability to build wealth is limited. There are far bigger and more systematic issues that are pushing more and more people into poverty. Lifestyle creep is not the problem.
by Jasmine Doan
Writer Jasmine Doan argues that placing a higher value on oral storytelling is a key step toward diversifying and de-westernizing academia.
by Saniya Ghalehdar
In a time of a heightened fight for civil rights yet again, Saniya Ghalehdar draws parallels between the loss of women’s rights in the United States and the loss of women’s rights in Iran in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Ghalehdar brilliantly emphasizes the immense need to fight back now through the eerie parallels between our two states.
by Mikada Green
Book bans don’t just make it difficult to find certain books, book bans are a threat to our cultural literacy as a whole. In this beautiful essay by Mkada Green, we discuss how harmful these bans really are.
There’s no precisely perfect term for what we’re talking about when we say people of the global majority, but here at Bookish Brews, this is the term we use most often. And this is why.
The world teaches us history as if it’s over, but what if we learned history as if it were now? What if we realized that the fight that they were fighting all those years ago is the same one we’re fighting today?