Simple digestable examples that show off power is kind of a cart before horse situation. However, I will try to feed your curiosity. One simple example I can d

Simple digestable examples that show off power is kind of a cart before horse situation. However, I will try to feed your curiosity. One simple example I can describe is from the book Practical Common Lisp and it is talked about to some degree in the SICP videos. The idea of the environment being captured as well as what it points to is a big idea. At the risk of not getting it explained 100% to everyone's satisfaction I would suggest reading about it. I also would suggest the problem of the N queens board. It is a pretty good starting point into how this problem can be solved in lisp. I suggest the MIT SICP lecture on it because it is well paced and interesting. Also it shows off some, for the time, advanced language features. Another good read is Norvig's PAIP book that you can read on Github. Lots of problems you can jump to with pretty good explanation in my opinion. I'm sure there are more interesting things I could point to. However, I still consider a read of Practical Common Lisp a good starting point. The book is fairly well paced and not bogged down with learn all the language first-isms. Also, the SICP videos are pretty good to watch. I hope these points are helpful to you.