The term "essay book" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, "I found an old essay book in the attic that my grandfather had written years ago."
But a well-assembled essay book can be as charismatic as a new rock album, especially if it introduces you to a youngish author whose work you'd previously missed.
"It will be a complete look, up to this moment, at what Yo-Yo Ma has done," Mr. Miller said, "plus some additional new materials, a photo essay book — about 88 CDs in all".
Her books include "The Name of War" (1998), which won the Bancroft Prize; "New York Burning" (2005), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history; "The Story of America" (2012), which was short-listed for the PEN Literary Award for the Art of the Essay; "Book of Ages" (2013), a finalist for the National Book Award; and "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (2014).
The Question being what makes the same Person, and not whether it be the same Identical Substance…" (Locke, Essay, Book II.xxvii.10).10
In the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke defends a theory of moral knowledge that negates the possibility of innate ideas (Essay Book 1) and claims that morality is capable of demonstration in the same way that Mathematics is (Essay 3.11.16, 4.3.18 20).
Whenever I read yet another article, essay, book, or blog on the Bible and homosexuality, I feel exactly the same way as Murray's character did, caught in an endlessly repeating loop of Bible bashing.
Rosenau has cited, as partial inspiration, Nicholson Baker's insightful, and still-relevant, 1995 New Yorker essay, "Books as Furniture".
I went in and said I loved essay books and was looking for a funny one after having finished the latest by the great Davids: Sedaris and Rakoff.
As a reader first and the author of five published novels second, I was infuriated by Cristina Nehring's essay "Books Make You a Boring Person" (June 27).
Rita Rudner -- Essay books come very easy to me and I find them relaxing to write.
The magazine features essays, book reviews, and interviews — and its first contributors include Geoff Nicholson (on Buster Keaton), and Jane Smiley (on Nancy Mitford).
