Essays audiobooks

Avati - Abridged

By: Carlos Alberto Dória

Narrated by: Gerson Esteves

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No paraíso só se come cru. Nada de suor do rosto, de trabalhos plasmados em preparações culinárias para guardar, comer depois, chamada avati, comida de homens. Só aqueles expulsos do paraíso tentam reconquistar seus sabores, cozinhando, cozinhando incessantemente. O crítico que vai a um restaurante tem uma ideia a respeito. E comentará o... Read more

Apequenamento dos peixes - Abridged

By: Carlos Alberto Dória

Narrated by: Gerson Esteves

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

O crítico gastronômico Luiz Américo Camargo tem defendido a boa causa dos peixes e postou uma denúncia sobre a diminuição de tamanho dos animais nas feiras e mercados (abaixo dos 35 cm permitidos), a par com seu encarecimento. Foi ele quem levantou, há anos, com grande impacto, a crise da indústria do salmão no Chile, mostrando o comprometimento... Read more

A Volta à África através do cuscuz - Abridged

By: Carlos Alberto Dória

Narrated by: Gerson Esteves

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A nossa lida histórica com o cuscuz é bastante curiosa. Ele nos chegou como prato, vindo do Magreb (Argélia, Tunísia e Marrocos), trazido por mercadores portugueses e, ao que tudo indica, penetrou a colônia a partir da Capitania de São Vicente. Historicamente, os fonds da culinária francesa derivaram dos vários tipos de pot-au-feu. São a... Read more

The Essays on History and Intellect

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection includes two of Emerson’s essays: History and Intellect. Emerson wrote most of his essays to be presented as lectures first, and later revised them for print. The essay History explores the nature and importance of historical understanding. Emerson holds that history is not simply a jumble of events and facts, but rather a living... Read more

Ever Wonder Why?

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Sowell takes aim at a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues in this latest collection of his controversial, never boring, always thought-provoking essays. From "gun control myths" to "mealy mouth media" to "free lunch medicine," Sowell gets to the heart of the matters we all care about with his... Read more

The Cooking Gene

By: Michael W. Twitty

Narrated by: Michael W. Twitty

Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and... Read more

Disequilibria

By: Robert Lunday

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Disequilibria: Meditations on Missingness is a hybrid memoir that recounts the 1982 disappearance of the author's stepfather, James Edward Lewis, a pilot and Vietnam veteran. Recounting his family's experiences in searching for answers, Lunday interrogates the broader cultural and conceptual responses to the phenomenon of missingness by... Read more

Modern Age Slavery

By: Mladen Jakovljevic

Narrated by: James M Flory

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Modern Age Slavery is a marvellous opportunity for people to find out some of the most hidden, uncensored truths about a seaman’s life on board cruise ships. This poignant memoir will open a sensational perspective about the cruel operational standards of cruise line companies globally. It is an excellent chance to sneak “behind the curtain” and... Read more

Los engaños del dinero

By: John R. Searle & Maurizio Ferraris

Narrated by: Miguel Ángel Álvarez

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

El dinero es uno de los pilares de la sociedad tal y como la conocemos. Todos lo utilizamos cotidianamente sin que su empleo presuponga ningún conocimiento específico en materia económica; y sin embargo, para entender qué es el dinero y cómo funciona es preciso recurrir a la filosofía, más aún cuando las crisis y las transformaciones históricas... Read more

Atacama fantasma

By: Cristóbal Marín

Narrated by: Ezequiel Romero

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Cristóbal Marín nos entrega en su segunda obra un recorrido por el norte de Chile, describiendo el desierto, la guerra, la pobreza, el esplendor de las oficinas salitreras y un conjunto de episodios insólitos.
Luego de su elogiado debut con Huesos sin descanso, Cristóbal Marín recupera en Atacama fantasma algunos recuerdos de viajes de ... Read more

Der Trost der Schönheit - Eine Suche (Ungekürzte Autorinnenlesung)

By: Gabriele von Arnim

Narrated by: Gabriele von Arnim

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Trost finden. In einer Welt, die so überwältigend, ängstigend, fordernd sein kann. Trost finden im Empfinden von Schönheit, weil das, so Gabriele von Arnim, nicht weniger ist als Selbsterhalt. "Ich brauche Schönheit. Den Trost der Schönheit. Denn wenn ich Schönheit sehe, höre, lese, spüre, dann glaube ich an Möglichkeiten. An Wege, Räume,... Read more

On Class

By: Deborah Dundas

Narrated by: Deborah Dundas

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Deborah Dundas is a journalist who grew up poor and almost didn’t make it to university. In On Class, she talks to writers, activists, those who work with the poor and those who are poor about what happens when we don’t talk about poverty or class—and what will happen when we do. Growing up poor, Deborah Dundas knew what it meant to want,... Read more

كيف تعاش الحياة أو حياة مونتاني - Abridged

By: Sarah Bakewell

Narrated by: يامن عبد النور

Length: 16 hours

Abridged: Yes

كيف تُعاش الحياة؟! سؤالٌ واحد، وعشرون محاولة للإجابة. يتناول هذا الكتاب سيرة حياة النبيل والفيلسوف، وكاتب المقالات الفرنسي في القرن السادس عشر، «ميشيل إيكيم دي مونتاني». تتتبع الكاتبة البريطانية «سارة بكويل» حياة مونتاني وفقًا للأسئلة التي طرحها على نفسه طوال حياته، وتستمد الإجابات من مقالاته. كان مونتاني واحدًا من أكثر الكتاب تأثيرًا في عصر... Read more

A Real Piece of Work

By: Erin Riley

Narrated by: Erin Riley

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This edition includes an additional essay exclusive to the audiobook.

'Language gave to me the body I knew was mine and brought into existence so many possibilities for what my gender can be.'

Across these twenty fresh and boldly intimate stories, Erin Riley writes about the things that matter most: family, heartbreak, humanity, justice and... Read more

Everybody's Favorite

By: Lillian Stone

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“Many have tried, and many will try, to capture the sweet, innocent insanity of life as a young girl during the ’90s and 2000s. None have come close to the comedic perfection Lillian Stone nails again and again in Everybody’s Favorite.” —Glamour, Best Nonfiction Books of 2023From one of the Internet’s favorite self-deprecating commentators comes... Read more

Watch Your Language

By: Terrance Hayes

Narrated by: Terrance Hayes

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the National Book Award–winning author of Lighthead, Terrance Hayes, a fascinating collection of graphic reviews and illustrated prose addressing the last century of American poetry—to be published simultaneously with his latest poetry collection, So to Speak

Canonized, overlooked, and forgotten African American poets star in Terrance... Read more

E-boca livre

By: Carlos Alberto Dória

Narrated by: Gerson Esteves

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

Já conhecido por um estilo polemista e provocativo, o sociólogo Carlos Alberto Dória, autor de vários livros sobre história e cultura culinária, nesse e-Boca Livre a sua visão sobre como a culinária e a gastronomia estão misturadas no cotidiano da vida. A perspectiva do distanciamento do dia a dia permite a reflexão do leitor a partir das coisas... Read more

Gastronomia brasileira: na linha do tempo

By: Roberto Pinto

Narrated by: Marcos Damigo

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Roberto Pinto traça, neste livro, um panorama da gastronomia brasileira nos últimos 40 anos. A pretexto de uma narrativa biográfica sobre mim e também dos chefs Mara Salles e Alex Atala, vai percorrendo as mudanças pelas quais passaram a cozinha brasileira desde a vinda dos franceses Claude Troisgros e Laurent Suaudeau para o Brasil, nos anos... Read more

لقد وصلت إلى وجهتك

By: الجوهرة الرمال

Narrated by: رهام حمدي زيدان

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

«الحياة بسيطة عندما تبدأ بنا. تتسع لكل شيءٍ حتى لأحلامنا العالقة بالسماء. كلما لامس جبيني الأرض في السجود، واختزنت عيناي بالدموع وملأني خشوع وانكسار؛ ذكرت ذاك الوعد الذي قطعته على نفسي بسجدة ودعاء، رددتها بكل كبرياء وثقة، بكل أمل وبكل حياة، فالجبناء وحدهم من يفشلون في مواجهة أقدارهم، ولا يستطيعون الركض باتجاه أنفسهم والعودة من جديد». مجموعة... Read more

On Argentina

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Narrated by: Diego Diment

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A literary guide to Argentina by its most famous writer

Jorge Luis Borges wrote about Argentina as only someone passionate about his homeland can. On Argentina reveals the many facets of his passion in essays, poems, and stories through which he sought to bring Argentina forward on the world stage, and to do for Buenos Aires what James Joyce did... Read more

Women and Water

By: Gale Straub, Hailey Hirst & Noel Russell

Narrated by: Sanya Simmons

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This inspiring collection contains powerful narratives from women who swim, surf, kayak, study glaciers, advocate for water conservation, carry forward their ancestral fishing traditions, and more. Collected by the team at She Explores, a media company and community that celebrates women in the outdoors, these first-person stories explore themes... Read more

Selected Non-Fictions

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Narrated by: Diego Diment

Length: 25 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

It will come as a surprise to some readers that the greater part of Jorge Luis Borges's extraordinary writing was not in the genres of fiction or poetry, but in the various forms of non-fiction prose. His thousands of pages of essays, reviews, prologues, lectures, and notes on politics and culturethough revered in Latin America and Europe as... Read more

Tabula Rasa: Volume 1

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction.

Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss Army, geophysical hot spots, ocean shipping, shad fishing, and dissident art in the Soviet Union, among myriad other subjects, he has consistently written narrative pieces of immaculate design.

In... Read more

Incendiary Circumstances

By: Amitav Ghosh

Narrated by: Sam Dastor

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A journalist who “illuminates the human drama behind the headlines” writes about today’s dramatic events, from terrorist attacks to tsunamis (Publishers Weekly).“An uncannily honest writer,” Amitav Ghosh has published firsthand accounts of pivotal world events in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and the New Yorker (The New York... Read more