The problem, he said in the essay, was that his dad would always hit him with the books in his house, so Chip kept his books short and paperback for his own safety. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

"And what was the focus of your essay?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile Professor Binns, the ghost who taught History of Magic, had them writing weekly essays on the goblin rebellions of the eighteenth century. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Ziman, in a recent Nature essay, points out, “the invention of a mechanism for the systematic publication of fragments of scientific work may well have been the key event in the history of modern science.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before any of that could happen, though, she had to write her essay. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But most important, I work on my essay for Howard University. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

That evening, after I'd finished the rest of my homework, the note about the essay caught my eye. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He attached his essay file to a “high priority” email addressed to Mr. Lemoncello at the Imagination Factory. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

A terrible silence overtook the room, and seeing no other option, I instructed my students to pull out their notebooks and write a brief essay related to the theme of profound disappointment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The essays are supposed to be about a significant event that occurred in our lives. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Helmuth recognizes the paper: It's his graduation essay, "The War of the Plutocrats." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

As Stephanie would later recall in a school essay, her mother came up to her afterward and said: “I am so sorry this happened, and I know you can be strong and get through it.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“That isn’t the answer I’m looking for. You’d get naught for that in an essay,” and I dig the gun in a little harder. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

There’s an essay sticking out of one of the books. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

For me, I gotta remember that I’ll start the essay at Mom’s house and turn it in while I’m at Dad’s. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“You know, Kyle,” said his dad, looking at his mother, who nodded, “since you worked extra hard and did such a bang-up job on your essay, I think we might consider suspending your punishment.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She posted these great rambling essays about her search for Halliday’s egg, which she called a “maddening MacGuffin hunt.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then she yanked the essay out of the student’s hand and clicked down the hallway, disappearing around a corner. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The day after my essay appeared in USA Today, the First Lady, who has a special interest in foster care and adoption, mentioned my essay on Rosie O’Donnell’s talk show. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

With that small victory, Lydia resumed work on her admission essay. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Our first essay. Please write about your summer vacation.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

So instead of beginning her essay, Stella busied herself with getting ready to get ready. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Torrance hosted yet another discussion in her English class, instead of working on an essay she had assigned for the following week. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In December, after I had submitted my last essay, I took a train to London and boarded a plane. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“These are all the books I need for the essay and test I have this week.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

After I’d been meeting with Professor Steinberg for a month, I wrote an essay comparing Edmund Burke with Publius, the persona under which James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay had written The Federalist Papers. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Rumor has it,” Charles whispered, “that your parents wrote your library essay for you.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Each year Cambridge University gave a prize for the best essay written in Latin. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I waited for him to say the essay was a disaster, the product of an ignorant mind, that it had overreached, drawn too many conclusions from too little material. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But Professor Snape sets so much of it, and writing the essay in two different ways. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

By dawn, Dill was ready to apply for college, complete with admission essay and financial aid documents. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Who did you send your essay to?” his mother asked. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I think about everything I learned about writing essays in high school, which are kind of like speeches. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ammu had corrected the spelling mistakes, and below the essay had written: If I am Talking to somebody you may interrupt me only if it is very urgent. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the Model T Ford on the American nation. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The teacher didn’t ask for the essays right away. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Harry didn’t have time to fathom the mystery of Hermione’s impossible schedule at the moment; he really needed to get on with Snape’s essay. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I just finished a draft essay about my career dream: a fair-trade company that invests in and designs eco-friendly clothes sewn and embroidered by Indian village women. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She is writing an essay about how media is used in social movements. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She didn’t care that I saw her essay when Mr. Nolan put it on her desk. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Not only did we have advanced academic classes, we were also taught time-management skills, essay writing, and public speaking. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“We have an annual essay contest, and the winner gets to deliver it,” the announcer said. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

And he turned back to his own writing—probably a sermon about hell’s torments, one of which was writing a short essay in thirty minutes. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

In our early days at the Cottages, the idea of not finishing our essays would have been unthinkable. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was assuming the spelling tests and five-paragraph essays didn’t kill me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

After working on the project for a few months, I was made acting supervisor of essays and straightway I ran into political difficulties. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A scholar named Thomas Cole, however, published an ingenious speculative essay in 1991.2 Corax’s name—giving extra piquancy to the judge’s joke—means “crow” in Greek, and Cole starts out arguing from common sense. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

My admittance essay was about how I didn’t let my race or religion stop me from getting ahead in a world that wasn’t kind to people who looked or worshipped like me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

One was an essay entitled: “The Most Important Invention of the Twentieth Century.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He stuffs the essay into his satchel and heads home. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Anne Frank, as punishment for talking in class, write an essay entitled ‘“Quack, Quack, Quack,” Said Mistress Chatterback.’” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I erased my entire hard drive last night. I need to load everything back on and rewrite that essay for English. Hey, Brady, remember those oxymorons we talked about in lit the other day?” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

In 1973 I wrote and had published two essays in which I said that I had been educated away from the culture of my mother and father. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I might be having coffee in a service station, staring at the motorway through the big windows, and my essay will pop into my head for no reason. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to turn my attention to my essay. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, it’s great,” said Ron glumly, who was attempting to mop up the sodden mass of ink that had recently been an almost completed essay. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“No, but if you’re pro-war, articulate your position clearly in the essay portion, using proper citations, and you get an A.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Wallace had asked him to send the essay to Charles Lyell, which Charles did. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was different this time were the piles of marked-up college admission essay drafts. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Most often, they themselves don’t know the point of their essay until they have written a first draft, and never go back to reshape the essay so that the point is clear at the beginning. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“No, Mom. It’s an essay. About Mr. Lemoncello’s amazing new library downtown.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I suggested he write a second essay, a letter to the dean of admissions that might anticipate his likely questions and reservations. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere in his essay, Greene does not hide the fact that many of his fellow physicists think that string theory and the multiverse are extravagant and unproven. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, “Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless — discuss.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It is a remarkable essay, tightly argued and organized, passionate and unrelenting. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

At first I don’t want Imani’s help—I want to write essays perfectly by myself. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I could see her screen from the bed—she was scrolling through comments on her stories as I read one of Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist essays for history. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Thanks, Dad. Can’t wait to write an essay on it,” I say, my tone perhaps a little too chipper. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I think my mother sensed that afternoon that the person whose essay she saw in a national magazine was a person unfamiliar to her, some Other. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one essay test, my sociology teacher even told me that he “didn’t expect me to do well anyway.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

After I finished reading the essay, I began to worry. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It included an essay Wallace had written called “On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imani removes her coat and unloads her bag, and I take out my essay but keep my coat on. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was, in fact, the lady next door to my parents—a librarian—who first mentioned seeing my essay seven years ago. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

What were they supposed to tell the record numbers of applicants who had been rejected—the ones with straight As, enthusiastic recommendations, polished essays, and long lists of activities? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, Kyle,” said his dad as the family walked across the parking lot, “your mother and I are extremely proud of you. Writing a good essay isn’t easy.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“I am sure,” Mrs. Myers was saying, “that all of you were as impressed as I was with Leslie’s exciting essay.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She saw in him a metamorphosis his senior year, a fascination with vocabulary and literature and trying to write essays with perception and clarity. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read the New Testament, once quickly, then a second time more slowly, pausing to make notes, to cross-reference, and even to write short essays on doctrines like faith and sacrifice. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But the essay is bold and funny, and she only praises him for that. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A college essay took me several nights to prepare. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t mind, I have a few questions about how conventions within genres—such as poetry, drama, or essays—can affect meaning.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Like the bluebells in Tomlinson’s haunting essay “The Lost Wood,” they were “expecting no evil” as they reoccupied their familiar territories. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t mean anything by it. I’m just wondering why you’d practice writing essays when you said you didn’t think we’d ever get to go back to school.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She narrates the whole piece like it’s an essay for a French class. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“We’ll see this afternoon,” she said, and she turned back to a pile of essays on her desk, spreading a red plague over them with her pen. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

His essay began with the notion that all nature is at war, one organism with another, or with external nature. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean I have to write an essay on Alexander Hamilton and I even know what he looks like. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He would need to make his essay really, really short. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, Everyone in Ms. G’s class is talking about their college application essay that was due today. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I hope the teacher doesn’t say, “Write an essay about your summer vacation.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Janet’s were hard because sometimes she had essay questions, but JR’s were harder because he liked to press his pencil into the paper so hard that it made mountains and rivers on the pages. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

That she’d come over to see Pearl, that Pearl was helping her with an essay. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She merely scowled and twitched her essay on The Principles of Rematerialization away from Ron, who was trying to read it upside down. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The consequences for minor offenses like being late to class or not participating were stupid—they wanted me to write an essay—so I took another day off school and Bingo! Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’d heard it was the best school in Alabama, so he wrote his application essay about how he wanted to go to a school where he could read long books. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Once we got to the Cottages, though, the essays took on a new importance. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you won’t believe the essays they want us to write.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But somehow—maybe we could see something in the guardians’ manner—no one really believed the essays were that important, and among ourselves we hardly discussed the matter. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

After reading my winning essay, the public relations people for Casey Family Services asked me to be a presenter at their postadoption services conference and also to address a Senate reception. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She really wants to read her essay, but, unlike me, Sabeen doesn’t hold grudges. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

At least ask me to write a real essay.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Seemingly utterly unconcerned that his essay hadn’t been chosen, Tony asked, “So when do we find out who won?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I turn on my bedside lamp and pick up the book of essays. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Unwanted, miscellaneous things are in boxes already: essays written in high school, under the name Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of those was a major writing assignment—an essay on the importance of friendship. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1637 he finally published the Discourse on Method and three essays on mathematics and natural science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

One of them had written an essay about being a refugee from Laos. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

One close friend calls to tell me she has read an essay of mine. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he quickly adds, “Of course, that was a very long time ago, and now you can simply enjoy it, and then I’ll have you write an essay on it.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A year later Farmer published an essay about his work in Haiti, “The Anthropology Within,”in a Harvard Medical School publication, and the anonymous donor suddenly surfaced. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He typed the essays, using the carbon paper to make multiple copies on the red paper, and stamped each one with a swastika to look official. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We only had one day to write the essay, so it was difficult for me to pinpoint what I wanted to say in so little time. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When Emerson ended his essay with “to be great is to be misunderstood,” it made me think about how many people have always misunderstood me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It gave me more time to write out long-winded college essays about how my illness shaped me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

This essay was so close to Charles’s theory as to make him very uncomfortable. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I print out my five-hundred-word essay just as the security guard announces that it’s five minutes till closing. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Hollander’s essay and the comments of Lethem and Plagens cede ground and seem to grant that art and literature are too soft to withstand scientific examination. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Or maybe they’d realized I got my essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He replaces the essay, claps the folder shut, slams his fist down on top. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He also started to write essays about his own past life. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m stealing some of the bullet points from my scholarship essay, but I feel like they work here.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Ms. Keaton stops me as I’m leaving English to let me know that my final timed essay has to be on The Tempest. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He started looking around frantically for his essay—under his desk, in his books. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

To prove my point, I had taken Liu’s essay and rewritten it for an African audience. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I discovered Emerson’s soporific qualities the hard way, by falling asleep with my face in the book, drooling all over an essay called “Self-Reliance” and having the vending-machine dream for the sixth time that week. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“This is how I gather my quotes for an essay.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Eager to see what was inside the new library, the twelve essay contest winners quickly gathered behind Dr. Zinchenko. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

And because we do what we do, they won’t bother you, so you can just worry about your schoolwork and your essay. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“We talked about the English essay a little.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

That is the desire I have read over and over in these essays. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I was publishing music reviews, articles, and essays in the local alternative newspaper, and this meant contact with more human beings. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Ron muttered to Harry one evening as Harry sat finishing a nasty essay on Undetectable Poisons for Snape. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But I cannot remember a single essay I wrote. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Banana peanut butter smoothie. I was up late working on that essay for social studies, and I didn’t have time for breakfast.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“What? You’re going to write your essay now? On the bus?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“How about — ‘We had to write an essay about our hero at school, Mr. Mason, and I wrote about you.'” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I was notified that I had won a year’s subscription to Life magazine as a result of the essay I had written on the book I would most like to see in Cinemascope. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

For the next Wednesday, I wrote an essay for Mrs. Baker about what Shakespeare wanted to express about being a human being in Romeo and Juliet. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I pointed to my tree and waited while Mom inspected it and read my essay. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Pearl, true to her word, handed Lexie a typed-up essay the next week—the story of the frog prince, from the point of view of the frog. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’d write an essay about how he used to bully a kid but then learned a lesson about why isms and bullying are bad. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

John Adams spent the summer before he became president reading Cicero’s essays. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

They decided that Charles should send them a paper, and they would present it together with Wallaces essay to the Linnaean Society in London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to be eligible to accept the award, we had to write an essay explaining why we would be good ambassadors for the occasion. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The feature on Betty Bright was more of a picture essay. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I filled everything out, even wrote my essay, but didn’t send it in. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And as a matter of fact, I really wanted to finish that essay. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Charles read the essay, he thought more about animals and plants than about people. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lesser rings were only essays in the craft before it was full-grown, and to the Elven-smiths they were but trifles — yet still to my mind dangerous for mortals. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Miss K suggested he could go to the library, look up facts about mice, and write an essay about them. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

‘That is not what Captain Hardcastle says. He says you were asking for help with your essay.’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

These accommodations are in place just for essays like this, the typing and the more time. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He said that it wouldn’t be fair to have me write another essay when I have so many finals this week. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The next essay was supposed to be fictional: “The Best Lost Homework Excuse Ever” in five hundred words. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

One of the essays, a particularly nasty one about shrinking potions, was for Harry’s least favorite teacher, Professor Snape, who would be delighted to have an excuse to give Harry detention for a month. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

"Your essay, shall we say, ends there," he said in this very sarcastic voice. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

A week after die funeral I turned in my new essay at school. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I would rip through an essay assignment in a matter of minutes, and Mom would be so proud. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I search for William Morris, read essay after essay, trying to find my favorite of his quotes. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I sat down immediately and wrote the two personal essays required as part of the application. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t that make a fine classroom essay: “My Revolutionary Summer”? I wanted to read the newspaper. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Before we start, I want your dementor essays,” said Snape, waving his wand carelessly, so that twenty-five scrolls of parchment soared into the air and landed in a neat pile on his desk. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Last Christmas, Pilar gave her a book of essays on Cuba called A Revolutionary Society. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kirby finished marking Bod’s essay and put it down on the pile. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He says that I have a great skill at reading and understanding language, and he wanted me to write an essay about To Kill a Mockingbird. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The clock was designed by Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens - who incidentally had published essays on the physics of music - and built by clockmaker Salomon Coster. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A natural writer, he quickly grasped the difference between e-mail chat and the more formal and grammatical prose the school wanted, and labored over his essay. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the more distant Hailsham grew, the less important the essays seemed. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

After being singled out as a lazy kfdtinvfm, I took to spending four hours a night on my homework, putting in even more time whenever we were assigned an essay. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of last year she’d assigned an essay and an oral presentation on a novel we’d read over the summer. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He was a whiz at the state’s Academic Decathlon, where he competed in quiz show-style competitions and wrote essays on deadline. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His goal was just to write a winning essay, but in the process he convinced himself. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You think this will make a good topic for my essay to get into Howard?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It did not help that even the tests had essay questions. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It appeared to be a college admission essay. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Even before his arrival in America, he had read a musicological essay published in Germany in 1882 called ‘On the Music of the North American Indians’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

‘Do you wish me to read the essay I have written?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Nervous, I stand up and read my descriptive essay about walking Mrs. Gilbert’s dog, with his “tiny needle teeth” and “smooshed-in snout.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Then Mr. Ward— that’s our teacher—asked us to write an essay about it. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My essay wasn’t even good enough to send in. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She kept tabs on homework assignments, essay scores. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I see,” she said, and she put the essay in a manila folder and left it on top of her desk. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Stuff. I don’t know. College essays. It’s like a running joke. We talk about the strangest possible essay questions and—” Miguel rested his forehead on the handle of his shovel. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I am told there are writers who can tap out a coherent essay in a single pass, at most checking for typos and touching up the punctuation before sending it off for publication. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He points to a collection of essays, mine, out of place among Papa's foreign dictionaries. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Malthuss essay was about society, and about people, most especially about how poor people succumb in an environment where there are limited resources. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was half­watching a PBS special on the plight of wolves in Minnesota, half-correcting essays from her summer-school class—she’d been teaching at the same school now for six years. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

One time, I half-assed my way through an essay about Langston Hughes’s use of dreams. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t have thought of a better way to begin my essay. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He assigned a three-hundred-word essay every Friday afternoon without fail and issued a list of twenty vocabulary words on which they would be tested the following Tuesday. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The writer George Orwell published a novel, Burmese Days, and several essays about life there. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was bad enough knowing our California vacation wasn’t much to hang a back-to-school essay on. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Betsy’s brother sent her a volume of essays “to improve my mind.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was busy scratching out some kind of essay. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I think that is why he wants me to write that essay about To Kill a Mockingbird. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Searching for the Man who lives in him was perhaps what he really meant, because certainly no beast has essayed the boundless, infinitely inventive art of human hatred. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I still expect to see an essay from you. I’ll give you another week.” Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to tell the whole thing in my college essay. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Fifth grade will probably post “Summer Vacation” essays. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

"You got to go, Ralph. You go away now-" He wagged his spear and essayed fierceness. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

"But that essay isn't about God and country. It makes an idol out of Hitler. And anyone who makes an idol out of a leader mocks God." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Or if we have essays, then I will be done like ten p.m., or ten- thirty p.m. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

One night, he wandered over to Mac’s cell and told him that he wanted to enter a newspaper contest that required an essay. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sandy, I submitted dress patterns and sample dresses I made. I talked about the sand sculptures in my essay.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

This was a good mind place for her to start drafting her college admission essay. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

"Your essay shows that a leader can lead with words as well as action." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The word essays has come to seem normal and natural to us—students write essays all the time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her essay—thanks to Pearl—was good, her SAT scores were strong, her GPA was over 4.0 thanks to her AP classes, and she could already picture herself on Yale’s campus. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Davila essays, in fact, became the basis for the first serious rift in his friendship with Jefferson. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In 1974 I published an essay admitting unease over becoming the beneficiary of affirmative action. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our middle grades’ entry,” Mrs. Grayson continued, “was written by Carolyn Malone. She wrote about the loss of her baby sister. Her essay is very brave.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ceramic plates and platters are displayed on open shelves, along with what seem to be hundreds of cookbooks, food encyclopedias, and volumes of essays about eating. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Aha! So you admit it. All the spelling in your essay wasn’t your own?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“An essay is like you asserting things you know or believe are true.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

To be fair, Maya was working on an essay. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She pushed my essay aside and tapped a key on her computer to make the screen brighten again. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“There,” said Hermione, some twenty minutes later, handing back Ron’s essay. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I was typing up an overdue essay for history class, but I was having a hard time focusing. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Two minutes later, Spoon said, “It’s a quote from Richard Jefferies, a nineteenth-century English nature writer noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

In Spanish the teacher hands back our in-class essays from the day before. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Stick bent over his essay again, but I kept watching the two of them in the kitchen. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

To write my essay I had to read books differently, without giving myself over to either fear or adoration. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The only essay writer not with the group was Sierra Russell, who, Kyle figured, was off looking for another book to read. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

This chapter is about the sense of style in passages longer than a sentence—a paragraph, a blog post, a review, an article, an essay, or a book. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The rest of us spent the afternoon writing essays about tolerance and kindness. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

But she knew from my application essay that I wanted to take Spanish and that I wanted to travel, so she said, “Jade, St. Francis provides opportunities for our students to travel the world.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Having wasted a lot of time worrying aloud about Apparition, Ron was now struggling to finish a viciously difficult essay for Snape that Harry and Hermione had already completed. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I could lay it on so thick when I wrote essays for him, and, of course, I had the highest grade in his Lit class. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Or I would mention that I had been awarded a thousand dollars for winning an essay contest I had not even entered. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Cameron isn’t the final judge. Mr. Lemoncello is. And since he’s a genius, he will definitely pick the essays you guys all wrote.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Mwila walked down the space that separated the girls and Ellis Carter from the boys, to hand out our second attempt at essay writing. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He had never heard of the advisers-for-hire who managed kids’ applications, edited their essays, helped them package themselves. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said she felt like maybe writing again, getting back to her essays and poems. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

By midnight he has an essay, titled, "Who Is Lying?" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She hitched up the long roll of parchment on which she was writing her Arithmancy essay and continued to scratch away with her quill. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Thanks, Dad. Can’t wait to write an essay on it,” I say, my tone perhaps a little too chipper. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

No one with an essay in their hand was saying anything, but they studied their marked sheets and made faces before turning their papers right-side down. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then she took my old essay out of the manila folder—which was still on top of her desk—and put in the new essay. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

My essays served as my ‘authority’ to speak at the Marriott Something or the Sheraton Somewhere. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I snap out of it and try to turn my attention to the essay. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I published essays admitting that I was not a minority—saw my byline in magazines and journals which once had seemed very remote from my life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freshman year it was an essay writing class that happened after school. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Her head ached from filling out college and scholarship applications, revising her admission essay, and working on a lengthy blog post critiquing the designs shown at Paris Fashion Week. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I can. And I’m kind of hoping I get to see it, too. After all, I wrote a real essay, not one sentence about balloons.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Keesing had a good laugh at my arguments, but when I proceeded to talk my way through the next class, he assigned me a second essay. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

"You chose to write about them for the optional essay question. Would you care to hear what you had to say?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I’ve been writing essays and poems in English my entire life. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Her seventh grade essay was entitled “The Cerebral Palsy Wheelchair Olympics Blues.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The first essay this semester was a dud: “Why America Is Great” in five hundred words. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I'm going to stick with the complete sentences, here,” she said, waving the essay at me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

If my essay wins, then the new Mars rover that launches next year will be called Persistence! Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Someone coughs while I’m putting the essay back into my folder. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He wrote magazine essays and articles and a book of short stories. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I did book reports, science essays, and math. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the stupid essay on the Great Depression that I didn’t want to write. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It only got worse in high school, where there were more spelling and essays tests, with more complicated words that seemed too impossible to memorize. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe, if the game maker wasn’t judging the essays until later that night, Kyle still had a shot. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He was now a finalist in the competition; would Mac write him another essay? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just before the heat wave, a rising young British writer had published a scalding essay on Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I scratched those lines into notebooks, into the margins of the essays I was writing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When I get to English class, Mr. Wise gives us a villainous smile that can only mean he’s finished grading our short essay quizzes on Thoreau. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It must have been around that time that I discovered an essay by Ralph Wiley in which he responded to Bellow’s quip. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The lead-up to her arrival began weeks before, with the guardians sifting through all our work—our paintings, sketches, pottery, all our essays and poems. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first result was The Method, which appeared in 1637, accompanied by three essays, on meteorology, optics and geometry. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I'd be the one to recite my essay as a spoken-word piece if it would increase my chances of getting in. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I had no idea what the teacher meant by the “essay form.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then he quickly adds, “Of course, that was a very long time ago, and now you can simply enjoy it, and then I’ll have you write an essay on it.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t copy her essays, and I lacked the factual and stylistic know-how to compose my own. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When we studied the seasons, Mrs. Brush assigned us an essay describing a winter holiday with our family and said the best one would be printed in the school newsletter. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Again, he says, handing you your flash drive with Hardwick’s almost finished persuasive essay on it. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I filled my time writing and reading—writing for my own amusement that year except for an essay contest run by Life magazine for “the book I would most like to see in Cinemascope.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

When Morgan won an essay contest at school, Don came home with a present for her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They were from Henry David Thoreau’s famous essay, “Civil Disobedience,” written in 1849. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I was certain no other sixth-grade class was being taught how to write an essay this way. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

When class started, Señor Ascencio explained that we each would have to create a family tree and write a short essay to go with it for our first big assignment due on Monday. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“You think Howard will take a collection of poems in place of an essay?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A good essay, Mrs. Lieberman had insisted, was what she needed to set herself apart from the pack. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Doctor Copeland put on his glasses and reread the essay with deep concentration. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Rummaging in my pocket, I fished out the coupon I’d gotten for winning an essay contest before winter break and handed it over. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The essay on optics described the workings of the eye and suggested ways to improve the telescope. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Have you read the essay your cousin wrote?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Miss Braden-Hammerschmidt. A project! You know that essay English teachers always make kids write? ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

When he invited her to write an essay about Jerusalem for extra credit and read it to the class, she gulped. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I might do some writing along the way, perhaps essays, surely notes, certainly letters. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been correcting social studies papers and had just finished reading Noah Gershom's essay on the First Amendment when the thought flew into her head. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was only one essay worthy of real consideration. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But winning that essay contest was the first thing to make her smile since the accident. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

With all of those red lines and squiggles dancing around on my essay, I wasn’t foolish enough to think he meant to tell me anything good. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

But then, buried among all those rambling journal entries and essays on pop culture, I discovered a hidden message. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Here was an essay: You cannot keep chickens, you cannot keep cats, your dog lives in a trailer park in Tucson, Arizona, and has a new name. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Hmmm...the Dark Mark we don’t know exists,” said Hermione skeptically, rolling up Ron’s dried essay before it could come to any more harm and handing it to him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Shortly after I published my first autobiographical essay seven years ago, my mother wrote me a letter pleading with me never again to write about our family life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finished the essay and sent it to Professor Steinberg. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t think anyone at school would be interested in reading that essay. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“You'd think everyone would be happy to write poetry! Shorter than an essay.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In 1844, he distilled the crucial parts of his thesis into a 255-page essay and mailed it to his friends to read privately. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

At lunch recess, I wrote a new Romeo and Juliet essay in the library. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The call came on a Friday evening as I was lying in bed, grading student essays. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Remember people are not reading you as entertainment, they’re reading you as cultural commentary. That’s a real responsibility. There are kids writing college essays about your blog,” he said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My voice gets stronger, bolder, as I remember the research I did for my essay. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe that’s what your essay could be about: How I learned about obstruction of justice by obstructing it. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Bring your daughter who wants to attend Columbia, bring her transcripts and civics essay and have her bring her violin. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only toward the end of my schooling and only because political issues pressed upon me did I write, and have published in magazines, essays intended for readers I never expected to meet. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent days crafting my answers to a few short essay questions. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

For now, all we have to worry about is a three-hundred-word essay from the point of view of one of these prisoners exploring the realm of belief versus the realm of knowledge. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I entered an essay contest at the bookstore in the mall,” she explains to me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

In 1752 David Hume published an essay, ‘Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations’, pointing out that the figures we find in classical texts are meaningless. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This was the point of a symphony; it was like an essay, or a detailed, blow-by-blow experiment. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“And he wrote a whole bunch of essays that are hard to understand.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Freshman English was taught by a cheerful woman in her late twenties who kept talking about something called the “essay form,” which, she assured us, we had learned in high school. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You were supposed to write a research paper, not a personal essay,” he says, handing me back the homework. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Although not reaching the virtuosic literary heights of incarceration essays penned by writers such as Thoreau or Martin Luther King Jr., the document was an oddly compelling account of the execrable details of his experience. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish you would’ve let me look over your essay before you turned it in.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“My brother has the ecstatic impulse,” I say, remembering Oscar’s essay. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She won for her essay titled “Salt: Enhancing Lives One Breath at a Time,” which focused on using salt water to help the breathing of young cystic fibrosis patients. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Bridge’s first English assignment of the year had been a one- page essay about “something of interest.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

My broken words helped me make sense of everything, so that when I pieced them back together in an essay, my truth was clearer. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I wrote the essay, trashed the book in a hostile but humorous sort of way. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I'd been wondering about the other winner of the essay contest. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I wrote my first autobiographical essay, it was no coincidence that, from the first page, I expected to publish what I wrote. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other essays were without any firm content at all. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

"This essay suits the ideals of National Socialism," explains Herr Meins in a faltering voice. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was initially stymied by the essays, which he tried to fire off as irreverent, impulsive e-mail messages. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only seventh graders at this school were eligible to enter the essay contest to win a spot at the library lock-in,” added Sierra. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were no more recommendations to collect, essays to write, or people to meet. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The writer of the essay that troubled him was Lancy Davis. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry. I don’t understand. Either you wrote an essay or you didn’t.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

We handed in our final essays for the term, then boarded a plane. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I wondered if my mom would send me my folder of old essays, or if she would think that was cheating. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

While I had been watching my classmates, Mr. Mwila had placed my essay on my desk swiftly and then gave Ellis his paper. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I handed the essay in to Mrs. Baker at the end of the day. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

There were essays on the Lincoln-Douglas debate, which I had never heard of. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I said, “Oh. And I have my final essay for you on In Our Time.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Bruno Latour, in an important essay entitled ‘Visualization and Cognition: Drawing Things Together’, which originally appeared in 1986, claimed that the printing press made facts ‘harder’; before printing, facts were too soft to be reliable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Last year we were asked to write essays about freedom for a contest sponsored by our local Rotary Club for the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple weeks ago we got an assignment: Write an essay about someone you know. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

You could say that his essay was philosophical; mine was historical. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was stuck for what to write about in my college essay,” I said. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why I al-ways hated turning my essays in, because the teacher would look at me as if he knew that I was going to fail. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was in class looking over our reading list for the year, along with our essay assignments, when I noticed a saddening lack of diversity. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It will include an essay on how the mind can assist—or resist—the body’s health. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I grab my small laptop and type the first words of my college application essay to Howard. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“And you’re always so sharp in AP English with all your comments and questions, and Maddie just about burst with pride when you won that essay competition. You see what I’m saying?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I need help with my essay,” I say, to get her off the hook. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A five-hundred-word essay on symbolism, how to find hidden meanings in Hawthorne. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, Kyle, your brother Curtis wrote excellent essays when he was in my class.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I only remember that the most frequent kind of essay I wrote was the book report. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The essay I wrote was very similar to the past few essays I wrote because everything Bill tells me to read or see are similar. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

How had she done math problems and written essays when she was surrounded by people who might hurt her if they found out who she really was? The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

First of all, Bill gave me a C on my To Kill a Mockingbird essay because he said that I run my sentences together. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

What he needs is more time to work on essays. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I wrote the essay for To Kill a Mockingbird last night, and I handed it in to Bill this morning. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He pored over “Old Waldo” Emerson and ruminated on the philosopher’s essay on “Compensation.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I handed the essay in, Mrs. Baker read it through. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the English class was taught by vuvv tech, which didn’t have much of a reason to care whether we could write five-paragraph essays or not. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

No one read the essays; I wrote them for myself, the way I imagined Tyler had studied for himself and himself only. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But he did not bother committing the essay to print. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I also needed to write an essay for school about a family subject or theme, so I decided to make my speech the same as my essay. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Milt essayed, “We can have it ready in ten days. We’ll deliver it during the day while your husband is at work.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She won a full scholarship by writing an essay on the pressure of writing an essay. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

After learning more about chickens and completing Lessons 1 and 2, you may wish to retake the quiz or write a 1,000-word essay on why you ought to be able to keep chickens. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

We still had our essays to finish, but it was well known we didn’t really have to finish them if we chose to start our training. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the essay on geometry considered the revolutionary insights stemming from that day in bed on the banks of the Danube. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The English teacher said we had to turn in a term paper or a photo essay on somebody we admired. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

But when he started, the first few minutes, it sounded like a high school essay—topic sentences followed by explanations. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

That, as it doesn’t take much noticing, is more or less how we’re taught to write essays at school. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

His academic writing has an orderly logic to it; by the end of an Ekman essay, each stray objection and problem has been gathered up and catalogued. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Two periods later is social studies, and Ms. Rochambeau is coming around to collect an essay that’s due—that I’ve yet again done a wonderful job of not doing. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I thought maybe you’d help me with my essays. Some of the tests make you write them.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

And besides, it wasn’t like the world was waiting with bated breath to read yet another essay about the importance of characterization in Spoon River Anthology. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He did ask me to watch a lot of movies, though, and write an essay about what I thought of all those movies. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I felt especially hopeless and depressed when I had to take an essay test where spelling counted toward my grade. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Here is the first sentence in my essay: What Shakespeare wanted to express about being a human being in Romeo and Juliet is that you better be careful who you trust. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I wish my essay could have been about the most significant event in my life; how my family immigrated to America. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Over time, they would fade from our minds, but for a while those essays helped keep us afloat in our new surroundings. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is quite characteristic of him at his best: well-told; several rhetorical monologues; a little essay on Love by the way. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Adams, on the other hand, he claimed that his remarks on the Davila essays had been misconstrued, that he was actually “not referring to any writing that I might suppose to be yours.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I don't know.Anyway, all things considered, I agree that this was a far more satisfying use of my time than writing English essays. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It was time to announce the essay contest winners. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Look! It’s an essay contest about how the Harry Potter books changed your life. Check out the prize.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She smiled with both sides when he said, “Here’s a college essay idea: Describe the shorts that changed your life in the form of a poem.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I will. This afternoon. So, did you write your extra-credit essay?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“But who is he?” she says, leaning forward, really expecting me to launch into an essay explaining who the Caliban in my life is. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

How can they say that, when I’ve won a special mention for my essay on Temperance, about drunken men having car accidents and freezing to death in snowstorms because the alcohol dilates their capillaries? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Harry managed to shake Neville off at the Fat Lady by telling him the password, then pretending he’d left his vampire essay in the library and doubling back. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It’s a book of essays about love and the body and one of his words sends me to the dictionary. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The essay was about Romeo and Juliet, our first journey into the mind of William Shakespeare. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The last time I sit in this school scrawling an essay with a cramped hand into a blue book. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She dropped the old essay into the trash, put the folder with the new essay into her desk, and then she looked up at me. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He worried about Etty and the baby, about George sick at school with measles, and about Wallace’s essay. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Temple touched on it only tangentially in his essay; it recedes into the background again in Swift’s Battle of the Books. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Wallace had not asked Charles to publish his essay, but Charles thought perhaps he was duty bound to arrange for publication. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first essay is on nature, by a writer I've never heard of who spends pages describing a lake. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In April 2012, The New York Times published a heart-wrenching essay by Claire Needed Hollander, a middle school English teacher in the New York City public schools. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I bet they’re aiming for the Ivy League. Oh, they could help you with your essays! You’ve never really been good at writing.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 1844, while Charles Darwin was writing his first essay on evolution, Galton left England to travel to Egypt and Sudan—the first of many trips he would take to Africa. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

That night, he told the warder he would write the essay in exchange for a pack of cigarettes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have to write an essay called “The Real Me.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Once, in tenth grade, Joaquin had had to write an essay in his English class about where he would go if he could travel back in time. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“You think maybe she didn’t send your essay because it was too, too—I don’t know—uh, dangerous?” he asked. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Professor Steinberg must have said more about the essay but I heard nothing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

You should write your book in stories— not as a series of essays. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Takeaway being, 1601 and you already have the ironic essay about essays. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Part 2 is Neil’s attempt to write the essay on Julian that Elizabeth, he presumes, would have composed had she lived longer. In Julian Barnes’s New Novel, a Teacher’s Pet Becomes Obsessed 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

When Jim sold the farm in Michigan to move to Montana, he wrote to me that he was thinking about an essay: Jim Harrison, Mozart of the Prairie 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

And I was nodding my head as I read David Myers’s letter about the “poetry” in Michael Cunningham’s essay on Virginia Woolf. Individual Consciousness, Lengthy Biographies and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

The essay appears, in a slightly different form, in your new collection, “The Unspeakable,” which will be published in November. Not Getting with the Program: An Interview with Meghan Daum 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

For him, poetry was “the most democratic art,” as he says in an essay about the West Indian poet Derek Wolcott. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

In his essay, Joe Klein pays tribute to the complexity and prescience of Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s thought. Was Daniel Patrick Moynihan Right About America? And Other Letters to the Editor 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

In another of her essay collections, “Karaoke Culture,” she writes about fan fiction, outsider artists, and mediocre YouTube stars. Dubravka Ugresic Returns to America 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

The essay continues in this manner, juxtaposing violent images of the protests with the author’s internal turmoil. What Kind of Worker Is a Writer? 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

“I am the one who lived to tell,” Kushner writes in the title essay of this collection, which includes memoir, journalism and criticism from the past 20 years. 15 New Books to Watch For in April 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

The midcentury middlebrow was defined most incisively by Russell Lynes, a brilliant magazine editor and pop sociologist whose 1949 Harper’s essay “Highbrow, Lowbrow, Middlebrow” remains instructive and amusing to this day. A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

And there are about half as many indies as there were when Amazon arrived, from about 4,000 to about 2,000, according to George Packer’s virtuoso New Yorker essay, “Cheap Words.” 5 reasons to wish Amazon an unhappy birthday 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Daniel Fish adapted the essay and will direct the show. ArtsBeat: Adaptation of Jonathan Franzen Essay Heads to Stage 2012-08-30T19:18:12Z

In a recent essay, Mr. Peck, who said he gained full access to Baldwin’s papers, recalled the eureka moment when Ms. Karefa-Smart handed them to him. James Baldwin’s Archive, Long Hidden, Comes (Mostly) Into View 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

McCarthy’s essay emerged from conversations with its current president, David Krakauer, a computational biologist, and from exchanges with many others colleagues and scientists there over the years. Cormac McCarthy Explains the Unconscious 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z

Both show and catalog were overseen by Clare Davies, associate curator in the Met’s department of modern and contemporary art, who has commissioned an insightful essay from the art historian Briony Fer. Best Art Between the Covers of These Holidayx Books 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

“Stonehenge could represent, symbolically, the opening by which Earth Mother gave birth to the plants and animals on which the ancient people so depended,” he wrote in an essay published in a medical journal. What Was Stonehenge For? The Answer Might Be Simpler Than You Thought. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

What I was just writing about in this Powell’s essay was how it turned out that I really did need all of that time. Hunter S. Thompson’s son shocker: “Hunter was surprised and pleased that I actually grew up apparently sane” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

His books include the essay collections “Bachelorhood” and “Against Joie de Vivre” and the novels “Confessions of Summer” and “The Rug Merchant.” Adrienne Kennedy among winners of arts academy prizes 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

Thirty-five years ago, Salman Rushdie published an essay titled “Imaginary Homelands,” in The London Review of Books. A Life Altered by War and Transmuted Into Fiction 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

The work’s best moments are in the more overtly picturesque sections, most notably “Almost Too Mechanical,” a colorful essay in robotic rhythms gone haywire, and its music-box-like counterpart, “Almost Too Calm.” Music Review | Grawemeyer Players: Award-Winning Works by Lutoslawski, Kurtag and Currier 2010-03-11T05:25:00Z

“By writing an award-winning essay, she and her family will be guests at the Ringling Brothers Circus.” Perspective | I won clown contests as a kid. It didn’t win me friends, but it showed me I could do anything. 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z

As Ms. Lichtenstein explains in her essay, the Surrealists initially viewed Atget’s work not as modern art but as a species of found photography, a kind of outsider art. Art Review | 'Twilight Visions': Shocking Is Poetic at International Center of Photography 2010-03-11T23:02:00Z

But when she essays anything like a sustained line, you're aware of shallowness in the tone. Cherubini: Overtures and Arias from Florence to Paris ? review 2012-02-08T15:30:02Z

There are limits to what personal essays can accomplish when they are written from behind such a sturdy wall of self-defense. The Hidden Vulnerabilities of @SoSadToday 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Twenty years ago, I read a New Yorker essay by Sidney Blumenthal called “The Ruins of Georgetown.” 'City of Conversation' playwright Anthony Giardina on America's politics of destruction 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z

His essays, poetry and fiction have fertilized a crop of great solace in my life, and helped to breed a healthy flock of good manners, to boot. Here's What Nick Offerman Is Thankful For 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

In 2015, “Gay Guerrilla,” a book of essays that takes its title from one of his works, was published. 28 Years After His Death, a Composer Gets a Publishing Deal 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

In an essay, “Song for the Special”, she confesses that she grew up thinking she would change the world. Tangible traces 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Last fall, Vivian Gornick published an essay in Harper’s Magazine that described the most extreme experiences of shame as tantamount to annihilation. The Many Uses (and Abuses) of Shame 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

W. H. Auden explores the journals of Virginia Woolf and considers the revolutionary nature of her essays and novels. Sunday Reading: Literary Chronicles 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

"Songs allow you to talk about the same subjects you'd write about in an essay in a different way," she says. The Handsome Family crafts a gem 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z

During Jawaharlal Nehru’s political ascent in the 1930s, the man who would become the first prime minister of India felt moved to write an essay, under a pseudonym, warning against his own deification. A Roving History of Mortals Considered Gods 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

Norton, read the essay and wondered why he hadn’t heard of the novel. Paula Fox, writer whose works resurfaced after years of neglect, dies at 93 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

The essays that frame the hundred or so full color plates in “Where We Find Ourselves” provide rich historical context for his work. The Democratic Vision of a Lost and Found Early-Twentieth-Century Portrait Photographer 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

This is, in fact, an essay on mortality as much as immortality. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Immortal Evening’ by Stanley Plumly

Read the obituary and an essay on the filmmaker. ‘Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles’: A Guide 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

“The composers and improvisers are not the ones producing the sounds of colonialism,” he wrote in a recent essay. Outspoken Composer to Lead International Contemporary Ensemble 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

“Stories of pious children tend to be false,” Flannery O’Connor once remarked, and I found this line in a book of essays and underlined it, because that was my experience. Religion ruined my childhood 2014-02-16T00:00:00Z

This new recording is thoroughly French, down to the pronunciation of the Latin, with its quirky French “u” and nasal vowels, and the informative booklet essay by Thomas Leconte. CD review: An enlightened new recording of de Lalande 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

In a guest post yesterday, Corbyn Hanson Hightower wrote a resonant, distressing essay from the point of view of the helpless child she was, cowering from the raging father she feared. Motherlode: Help for an Abused Family 2011-06-16T15:25:50Z

His collection of essays, United States, won the National Book Award in 1993, the same year that Vidal's friend Bill Clinton became president. Gore Vidal, US writer and contrarian, dies aged 86 2012-08-01T06:41:08Z

Specifically, I am reading an essay making fun of all those dopey baristas at Starbucks who misspell your name when they write it on the cup. ‘I am a genious’ and other cluelessly ironic spelling errors 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

A year after the Glorious Revolution, he released a series of essays that sought to finish off the old order. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

A 2008 essay I wrote on the topic never stopped circulating, apparently because it resonated for so many women and maybe some men. Rebecca Solnit: if I were a man 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

This volume prints some of his criticism for Time, including perceptive essays on James Whistler and Jackson Pollock. Review: In Robert Hughes’s ‘The Spectacle of Skill,’ an Aesthete’s Unsparing Eye 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

It takes the form of an extended cinematic essay, blending fictionalized re-enactments of plausible events with excursions into scholarship and fantasy. Review: ‘Francofonia,’ About World War II Foes Turned Allies, for the Sake of Art 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

One of the essays in here is titled "Victim." In "Pretty Bitches," women confront the words used to put them in their place 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

It was destined to be the mecca of black intelligentsia, Howard professor Kelly Miller asserted in his essay for “The New Negro.” Is this Howard University’s tipping point? 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

This is where the essay becomes a little confused, in my opinion. Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

She left after two years and then wrote the Atlantic essay that launched a million heavy sighs. She famously said that women can’t have it all. Now she realizes that no one can. 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

The director posted an essay on his website in which he apologized for casting Stone in the role of Allison Ng, who is described in the film as a quarter Asian and a quarter Hawaiian. Cameron Crow Apologizes for Casting Emma Stone as Asian Character in 'Aloha' 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Jones has added perspective and research to 10 years of essays in his new book, “Love Illuminated.” Notes from 10 years on the Front Lines of love 2014-02-05T23:15:18Z

In 2012, he wrote a book-length essay in 24 hours, in front of an occasional audience, called “I Am Sitting in a Room.” A Witty and Original Writer Shares His Love for the Essay 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

In an essay Smith describes actors as “cultural workers” reaching out, through words, into “that which is different from themselves.” Review: Embodying Justice in ‘Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992’ 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

My first moment of wanting to be a nonfiction writer was stumbling across an essay by Loren Eiseley called “The Bird and the Machine.” The Essay That Made Jo Ann Beard Want to Write Nonfiction 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

He takes the essays, makes corrections, then tells his sons to rewrite them so they’re half as long. A Father’s Love, Whether He Says Too Much or Not Enough 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

Eight years ago, Norton published “Cultural Amnesia,” a monumental collection of his biographical/critical essays about 110 key figures in modern art, literature, politics and history. Clive James’s ‘Last Readings’ review: A critic’s final homage to literature, life 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

On “Salon Stage,” she opened up about how her study of neuroscience and writing self-reflective essays informed her recent album “Chime.” The best live music sessions of 2018 from "Salon Stage" 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

“If there’s one thing American history can teach us about the essay,” he writes early on, “it’s that sometimes the best intentions are undermined by better experiments.” Dealing in uncertainty, the essay may be the perfect form for our time 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

It was engaging with his work that helped her write, in the essay “Modern Fiction,” what is possibly one of the most lucid and passionate advocacies for fiction: The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

Absolutely the essay is a dance with chaos. Steven Church talks essays, and his new book 'Ultrasonic' 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

At an awards ceremony for an essay contest in 2006, Lee told a reporter that one girl came up to her and informed her that Boo Radley lived across the street from her grandparents. My Harper Lee pilgrimage: Visiting Monroeville, in search of “Mockingbird’s” essence 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

Philip Bullock's essay took us back to two moments in 1913: the premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in London and, a month earlier, the death of suffragette Emily Davison under the King's horse. Radio review: Twenty Minutes ? Stravinsky and the King's Horse 2011-07-19T19:30:01Z

Lorde’s essay also seems to suggest that power imbalances in general are bad or harmful and we should strive for egalitarianism whenever possible. Rough sex can be empowering for women, too 2014-04-10T22:30:00Z

His full-time run began in July 1978 with an essay about the reporting of automobile fatalities on the Independence Day weekend, and he later became a regular feature of the program. Andy Rooney to end his regular run on "60 Minutes" 2011-09-28T17:49:34Z

The young Richard Wright was making essays for Jet and Ebony in 1951 or ’52. Artist Theaster Gates on W.E.B. DuBois and what Donald Trump doesn't get about Chicago 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Instead, it's a bit of a rant: an essay about the ways in which women's bodies are presented in popular culture. Why rapper Ana Tijoux won't be a sex object for her music 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

In one of the most affecting essays, Anna March writes about her hard-won ­battle to distance herself from her difficult mother, even after her mother’s stroke. ‘The Bitch in the House’ Has a Sequel: ‘The Bitch Is Back’ 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

Let’s give her the last word, from an essay she wrote after refusing the National Medal for the Arts in 1997: 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

April 18: Joyce Carol Oates , author of 50 novels, dozens of short stories, poetry, drama, essays and criticism, and a hero in the literary community for her indefatigable support of writers and writing. Seattle Arts & Lectures brings Elizabeth Strout, Tracy Kidder, Jonathan Franzen and more to the NW 2010-06-11T20:34:00Z

Do these essays — so rich in context — assist us in seeing the photographs any better? The First Photos of Enslaved People Raise Many Questions About the Ethics of Viewing 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

In “Found Poem,” an erasure of Woodrow Wilson’s 1924 essay on Robert E. Lee, Smith writes: Four Poets Write New Histories 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

James Baldwin, in his classic essay on movies “The Devil Finds Work,” helped define the affinity and disillusion that Poitier inspired. Sidney Poitier changed movies, and changed lives 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

The review is titled “Bush the Postmodernist,” and is structured around Michel Foucault’s famous essay “What Is an Author?” The Unclassifiable Essays of Eliot Weinberger 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

He worked as a manager for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and wrote plays and essays in Yiddish. Cara De Silva, Food Historian Who Preserved Jewish Recipes, Dies at 83 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

He is also the author of collections of essays and short stories, only one of which, “Hypothermia,” is available in English. Review: In Álvaro Enrigue’s ‘Sudden Death,’ a Farcical Duel With Topspin 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

In a new essay posted to her website last week, "The Color Purple" author, Alice Walker, defended the trans-exclusionary radical feminism views of fellow writer, J.K. Alice Walker defends J.K. Rowling's views in new essay 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z

Then he reads biographies of the composers, new historical essays or books, and related novels and plays, especially those that the composer was reading while creating the works. Daniele Gatti, Creative Risk-Taker, Picks Up Baton at Royal Concertgebouw 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

Personal essays have evidently been deemed not worth the trouble. The Personal-Essay Boom Is Over 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

In his great essay “The Painter of Modern Life,” he upheld the importance of all the aspects of beauty in that second category, the things that didn’t last: The pageant of fashion. Perspective | Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s wrap of L’Arc de Triomphe reads like a salient point on hollow glory 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

Without it you have no “essays,” you have only the Essais. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

I wanted it to become a book of essays probably early in 2015, though I didn't have an outline or even an overriding thesis of what this book was going to be. Cathy Park Hong: "Sometimes you just have to push back – being offended is part of the process" 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

I typically churn out five to seven essays  a week; not infrequently, I write more than one a day.  How the Internet made me a better writer 2014-01-27T23:59:00Z

Stephen Hebron, the Bodleian’s curator of the exhibition, carefully traces the changing meanings of genius since antiquity in a concise but wide-ranging catalog essay. ‘Marks of Genius,’ Works From the Bodleian, at the Morgan 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

“In the life of the Tortoise the drone is the first sound,” Mr. Young described in a 1964 essay. The Secret Muse of the Downtown Scene? Turtles 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

Taking inspiration from Pound’s “Cantos,” Delany poses the essays as “periploi”: contemporary versions of classical and medieval descriptions of coastlines, used as aids to early navigators. In Praise of Samuel R. Delany 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Before I realized what I was doing, I was burnin’ the ewe essay. Style Invitational Week 1383: Questionable Journalism 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Beginning of the year listicles covering everything from essays to dystopias, as well as free images, gay tours of the Vatican and unionization attempts at California art schools. Roundup: The Broad unveiled, digitized museums plus reports of art's death 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

Even if Pulido didn't address the latter in the essay, the map finds a way to expand the argument she begins. 'LAtitudes' navigates the histories and cultures of L.A. 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Having an outline is even more important for a one-day essay than for a week-long project with a similar word count. How to Write an Essay in 1 Day 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

I'll spare you the customary French translation here and simply note that I love the essay form because it's an opportunity to watch someone — including yourself, if you write them — think deeply, out loud. Have we forgotten how to read critically? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z

I loved Janet Malcolm's last book, Iphigenia in Forest Hills, and so will be falling upon her new one, Forty-One False Starts, a collection of essays and profiles, if only for the great title. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z

Rylance's acting was acclaimed as the performance of a lifetime, but the play seized the public imagination, I venture, because it offered something far deeper: an essay on the muddled, muddied state of Englishness. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre 2011-01-31T00:05:02Z

"Dylan codified Americana with the Basement Tapes," says Griffin, whose essay opens the official release. Back to the basement with Bob Dylan 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Which means these essays, at their finest, are often literary analyses. Review: In ‘The Violet Hour,’ Great Writers Facing the Inevitable 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

“On any person who desires such queer prizes,” E. B. White wrote in his classic essay “Here Is New York,” in 1949, “New York will bestow the gift of loneliness.” The Faces Behind Craigslist’s Strictly Platonic Personal Ads 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

To my husband and every other person out there who has loved someone with mental illness: here lies the reason I dug up this essay, two years later. Intoxicating highs and deep darkness: living and loving with bipolar disorder 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

So it continues, essay for essay, as Knausgaard summons all the Proustian and philosophical ramifications of a simple word. Knausgaard breaks away from ‘My Struggle’ to describe Earth to his unborn child 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

"I was making an essay in the language of film because that's the only type of media that I really understand." "Connected through inyeon": Teo Yoo reflects on the fate that guided his career and to "Past Lives" 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z

The book is dedicated to Klonopin, and its essays include “I’m in Love and It’s Boring,” “Thirteen Questions to Ask Before Getting Married” and “A Case for Remaining Indoors.” Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

They opted to address the songs through pointed essays in the liner notes. How to Handle the Hate in America’s Musical Heritage 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

Toward the end of the book, in an essay called “On Times I Have Forced Myself Not to Dance,” he describes moments of deep depression. How Hanif Abdurraqib Cuts Through the Noise 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z

The Times recently published its rankings, culled from the most frequently emailed and viewed weekly relationship essays. The New York Times’ “love life hacks”: What we can learn from the 10 most popular Modern Love columns ever 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

At Franzen’s 2007 event, he read an essay about selling his parents’ house, located in a neighborhood just a few miles away from where he stood. 12 Authors Write About the Libraries They Love 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

England becomes a nation of essayists every bit as much as it was ever one of shopkeepers, and the essay becomes … whatever we say it is. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

This essay and map were drawn from “Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas,” by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, which is out October 19th from the University of California Press. City of Women 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

I would go further and recommend this book-length essay to everyone who even thinks about wearing clothes. The Essay to Read If You Even Think About Wearing Clothes 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

The second and more relevant photo essay was “A Man Becomes Invisible,” a Life story celebrating the publication of “Invisible Man” in 1952. How Ralph Ellison’s World Became Visible 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z

She edits print features and web essays; he edits the books section. Julia Yost, Matthew Schmitz 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

Tasks that would seem to require a distinctively human capacity for nuance are increasingly assigned to algorithms, like the ones currently being introduced to grade essays on college exams. ‘Rise of the Robots’ and ‘Shadow Work’ 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

In 1843 he bitterly, but eloquently, recounted the tale of his imprisonment in his essay “A Short and Easy Method with the Saints.” Secularists are not atheists 2012-09-09T16:00:00Z

I wanted the essays in my cookbook to provide that same function. "Taiwanese food is an underdog": In her new cookbook, Clarissa Wei writes a love letter to Taiwan 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z

Four finalists — two from each side — receive $500 and a trip to New York Mills to read their essays and defend their positions before an audience. Confident that you can answer life’s big questions? Enter the Great American Think-Off. 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

This enchanting illustrated collection of essays and lectures by the British author best known for his children’s trilogy “His Dark Materials” is animated by wit, erudition and a passionate interest in how stories are made. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Heather Burtman’s essay was published this year in Modern Love and received an outpouring of responses from readers who also longed for a time before the male gaze. Modern Love Podcast: Cleopatra Coleman Reads ‘My Body Doesn’t Belong to You’ 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

A few weeks ago, The Financial Times published a sobering essay on an urgent subject: loneliness in the time of Covid. ‘Wintering’ Offers Hopeful Perspective on Embracing Difficult Times 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Rachel Kushner’s prison novel “The Mars Room,” poetry and criticism by Terrance Hayes and essays by Zadie Smith were among the finalists announced Tuesday for the National Book Critics Circle prize. Rachel Kushner among finalists for book critics prizes 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

This is an abridged version of an essay that appeared originally in the Horn Book. Perspective | R.J. Palacio: We met in Queens, as kids. Decades later, we reunited, as authors. 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

No fewer than half a dozen female friends forwarded me an essay in the New York Times about the “Lean In” movement. Perspective | I walked ‘like a man’ for a week, and here’s what I realized. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

In a 1973 essay in The New York Review of Books, Elizabeth Hardwick lamented the overexposure of its most prominent members — the “exhaustion” of Virginia Woolf and “the draining” of the writer Lytton Strachey. Life Lessons From the Bloomsbury Group’s Wardrobe 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z

In what turned out to be a collection of farewell essays, she closed by listing the things she would miss when she finally had to go. Nicholas Pileggi: the mob, Nora Epron's death and Vegas 2013-02-03T07:02:31Z

His experience with mescaline would form the basis of his 1954 essay "The Doors of Perception." Happy birthday, Aldous Huxley! 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

“De Aetna,” Watson explains, was “an essay, written in dialogue form,” about climbing Mt. Sympathy for the Semicolon 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

Inside were quotations from James’s novels, stories, and essays, one for every day of the year, “selected and arranged” by Evelyn Garnaut Smalley. The Bookish Pleasures of a Henry James Yearbook 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

The book’s eight essays take up two poems each, many among the best known in the English language. Poetry’s Hanging Judge Tries On a Detective Hat 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

The question of authority hovers over these essays — white, patriarchal authority.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

In 2008, Rebecca Solnit wrote an essay titled “Men Explain Things to Me,” a biting critique of a condescending male behavior that drowns out and belittles women’s voices, that went viral. Review | Rebecca Solnit, who inspired the term ‘mansplaining,’ explains herself (sort of) 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

There was one part of Norton’s essay that I did find funny. Dear Johns: Actually, You Should Be Ashamed to Buy Sex 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

That was Jung's notes on Sabina and then her dissertations and several papers, essays about her and then diary entries. Keira Knightley details her hysteria in "Dangerous Method" 2011-11-22T13:04:52Z

Let me close with a pair of wide-ranging essay collections, the first by Barry N. Malzberg, the notoriously mordant science fiction author and critic, the second by Douglas A. Anderson, a distinguished expert on J.R.R. Review | This is getting weird: Critics on horror, science fiction and fantasy 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

Herbert’s focus is on the human race, which, as the writer Jordan S. Carroll notes in a fascinating essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books, hasn’t prevented white supremacists from embracing the book. ‘Dune’ Review: A Hero in the Making, on Shifting Sands 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

Along with a short retrospective essay by Ms. Lippard, chapters by the exhibition’s organizers, Catherine Morris and Vincent Bonin, clearly and engagingly explicate a genre that casual observers often find stupefyingly obscure. Books for Art Lovers 2012-11-22T20:15:43Z

They brought to London, in Gidal's words, the "unified photo report" – what we now call the photo essay. Unsung hero of photography Thurston Hopkins turns 100 2013-04-12T14:56:00Z

As a result, some of the essays wind up hinging on accidental wordplay more than insights into the music itself. Review: ‘Emotional Rescue’ Ruminates on Life and Music 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z

But it may also be seen as an abstract essay in rhythmical, colored movement. Contemporary Art Works of Often Subtle Beauty 2010-10-08T15:11:00Z

The essay, which won the silver prize for documentary at the Third Coast International Audio Festival in 2020, was an attempt to synthesize everything he knew about poetry, reporting and sound design. Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr. and the Voices of ‘Resistance’ 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

The photographers sparred publicly in serialized essays that ran in the pages of Camera Craft magazine in 1934. 'American Grotesque' resurrects William Mortensen's photos 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

This soon puts Jane in a moral predicament when she realizes that the job isn’t to help but rather to write the entire essay. ‘Jane the Virgin’ Season 2, Episode 19: Money Issues 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

Rather, argued Asquith in an ingenious essay teasing out the two art forms' "common element – rhythm", the idea was to reach a stage where "the whole film will dance". How Diaghilev's Ballets Russes kept British cinema on its toes 2010-12-22T15:08:50Z

It’s a tricky balance to find: a combination of biography, history and literary essay, based on two lives already more than thoroughly documented. ‘Careless People’: the true story that inspired ‘Gatsby’ 2014-02-05T21:18:30Z

What do you want people to take away from your essays? “What's wrong with being 57?”: Supermodel Paulina Porizkova questions the value of youth in beauty 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z

Military Academy at West Point, where the reading lists for her courses veer from urbane essays by Zadie Smith to the "Meditations" of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. At West Point, warriors shaped through Plutarch and Shakespeare 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Indeed, as Pinckney points out, LeRoi Jones, in his essay collection “Home,” from 1966, “sneered at Baldwin” for being popular on the “white liberal cocktail circuit.” Darryl Pinckney’s Intimate Study of Black History 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

“I grew up watching him deliver contemplative and contextual prose with his famous short essays, bringing class and dignity to his industry,” Jim Nantz, the lead CBS Sports announcer, said in a statement. Jack Whitaker, Hall of Fame sports broadcaster, dies at 95 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

In The Village Voice in 1980, he published an essay called “Confessions of a Former Anti-Semite.” ‘S O S: Poems 1961-2013,’ Works by Amiri Baraka 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

Genteel Potatoes is really an essay, not a story, about my grandmother. AL Kennedy on her first book, Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains 2013-01-01T17:00:09Z

In a later essay, “Transactions,” Ratajkowski reprises the metaphor from the Maldives. In a World That Exploits Women, Emily Ratajkowski Exploits Herself. Is That Progress? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

Though Schumer didn’t reference the Guardian story specifically she cited the same quote about a “blind spot” and ended her Twitter essay with a plea for commentators to address more pressing race issues. Amy Schumer Fires Back at Claims of Racial Insensitivity 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Baldwin associated with many of these students, mostly ex-G.I.’s, writing about his experiences with them in the essay “A Question of Identity.” James Baldwin’s Paris 2014-01-17T21:44:03Z

The publisher announced Wednesday that Kelly, who manages Tretick's estate, would contribute an "insightful, heartwarming essay" about the photographer and the president. Kitty Kelley writes 'heartwarming' text on Kennedy 2012-04-18T17:01:04Z

He concludes an essay on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 154 with this line: “I’m the poet here; I’m the loser who gets to decide how the poem ends.” Wayne Koestenbaum’s Cerebral, Smutty Essays Playfully Disobey the Rules 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

In an essay called “Fascism as ‘Heritage’ in Contemporary Italy,” the historian Joshua Arthurs describes the controversy that ensued. The Meaning of Names at Princeton and Yale 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

In his essay, Adams stated: "Photography is an objective expression; a record of actuality." 'American Grotesque' resurrects William Mortensen's photos 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

Later, in an essay on scam artists and confidence men, she depicts capitalism as the ultimate scam — one exposed once we reckon with the arbitrariness of success, or even of survival. Jia Tolentino on the ‘Unlivable Hell’ of the Web and Other Millennial Conundrums 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z

Of course, for a few years now so-called yacht rockers have been trying to essay a latterday version of the mullet funk mavens' hi-tech disco pop, but this is one of the more successful attempts. New band of the day: Night Works (No 1,398) 2012-11-19T17:40:35Z

Father memoirs or essays sometimes provide the means for children to come to terms with negligent or destructive fathers. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z

I already expected my students to use electronic devices to read course materials, to communicate with me and with their families back home, to write essays for class, and to navigate London. Handwritten diaries may feel old fashioned, but they offer insights that digital diaries can't match 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

The poetry of Whitman, and the leadership of King and Jackson offer insight into the distinction that the British poet and pamphleteer, Samuel Johnson, made in his essay on patriotism. How Bruce Springsteen – and the left – can reclaim and cultivate a vocabulary of patriotism 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

Was there one book, story or essay that especially helped you prepare for your role in “The End of the Tour”? Jason Segel: By the Book 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Several of the essays here marinate in the fish sauce that is literary gossip. Books of The Times: Jonathan Lethem?s ?Ecstasy of Influence? - Review 2011-11-08T23:22:25Z

Another who had ALS wrote a Newsweek essay about how his body was his Shawshank, and the movie motivated him to find ways to tunnel out. The unlikely greatness of ‘The Shawshank Redemption,’ 25 years later 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Based on an essay by David Sedaris, this small-town drama shows a serious side to the author of “Me Talk Pretty One Day.” SIFF 2013, week 2: 11 movies to see 2013-05-23T18:03:35Z

Lomax worked both in academic and popular circles, and increased awareness of traditional music by doing radio and television programs, organizing concerts and festivals, and writing books, articles and essays prodigiously. ?The Alan Lomax Collection From the American Folklife Center? 2012-01-31T00:30:23Z

The authorship of the later essays – there's a "New Frontiers" section – also becomes untidy. The Great Explorers by Robin Hanbury-Tenison ? review 2011-01-15T17:47:01Z

For some, it was one of the most important foreign policy essays since George Kennan’s famous “X” article, which called for the “containment” of Soviet Communism. Francis Fukuyama Predicted the End of History. It’s Back (Again). 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

Since the 1970s, when the essays in Sontag’s book were written, the global glut of images has grown almost beyond measure. Movie Review: ‘Samsara,’ a Documentary Directed by Ron Fricke 2012-08-23T22:26:32Z

This sharp contrast of the way each novel represents consciousness itself is, I think, the crux of the essay. The Long Shadow of “Two Paths for the Novel” 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

These spiky, impassioned essays are themselves classics of criticism in which the iconoclastic English novelist examines the work of Hawthorne, Poe and Melville: “The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.” Review | The copyright has expired on thousands of books. Here are the best ones to read. 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

All this is chronicled by Alan W. Moore, one of the original “Real Estate Show” organizers, in a fascinating essay published for the present exhibition. Art in Review: ‘The Real Estate Show Was Then: 1980’ 2014-04-17T19:10:50Z

He would spell it out — make it plain — the way he does so well in his essays, articles and blog posts. Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me’ 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

That would make for a better ending to this essay. Is It Funny for the Jews? 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

How did “Unearthing” go from a print essay to a more ambitious multimedia project? Alan Moore Digs Up 'Unearthing' and Lays His Comics Career to Rest 2010-07-26T22:05:00Z

I'd find clues to her life — in a play, a journal, an essay, or a letter. Author brings Wendy Wasserstein's complexities, gifts to light 2011-08-24T22:32:03Z

Wainaina’s sharply satirical essay “How to Write About Africa” is also essential reading for roving book lovers. Around the World in Books 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

“I am bone of the bone of them that live in trailer homes,” Sarah Smarsh writes in “Poor Teeth,” a recent essay for Aeon. Weekend Reading: A Violin Heist, New York City Through a Child’s Eyes, and More 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

Nor has he bothered to provide this book with an introductory essay, leaping instead directly into Austen and James. Books of The Times: Colm Toibin’s ‘New Ways to Kill Your Mother’ Looks at Writers 2012-06-11T20:19:38Z

There’s an excellently bonkers essay, titled “Cat’s Robo-Cradle,” in which she posits a moral way to eliminate feral cats that decimate the bird population. In Margaret Atwood’s Essays and Speeches, Some Hazards of the Trade 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

But it is in his essays, a form capable of expressing both political passions and responses to life in its sensual immediacy, that a more complex Orwell can be seen. What George Orwell’s Roses Tell Us About His Politics 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

In that essay Davis also asserts that universities that stifle dissent will kill intellectual vitality. Today’s Trumbo: Try telling academic critics of Israel McCarthyism is behind us 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

In a 1944 essay, he rails against not only the unchanging nature of that repertory but also the idea of the masterpiece itself. Virgil Thomson’s Enduring Critique of Classical Music in America 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Her essay about coeliac disease, the food allergy that kept her from devouring every delicious “collapsible calorie”, is a deft portrayal of children’s failure to appreciate parents’ passion for protecting them. Tangible traces 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

How she negotiated the fiendish pedalling and half-pedalling, on which whole essays are written, must remain a secret, since her feet were all but hidden beneath her flowing jade and aqua outfit. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les p?cheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z

Her essay, first published anonymously, ended up on Gawker and the Huffington Post, where millions read it. “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother” writer Liza Long: I’m not scared of my son anymore 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

In his catalogue essay for Paul Graham's imminent retrospective at east London's Whitechapel Gallery, the photography writer and curator David Chandler borrows a telling quotation from Richard Ford's novel, The Lay of the Land. Paul Graham: 'The photography I most respect pulls something out of the ether' 2011-04-11T06:00:06Z

Mr. Krein’s essay on James Burnham’s critique of the “managerial elite” takes whacks at both parties. Talking Trumpism: A New Political Journal Enters the Fray 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

SCHIFF: Dumped guys in their own beds, had to take taxis home from dumping them, moved within Brooklyn, taught essay writing by the sea, mom had breast cancer, dad stayed already dead. “A guy in my MFA program once described my stories as ‘cutesy’”: 5 authors on the worst words critics have used to describe their work 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

One thinks of Joan Didion’s essay “Goodbye to All That.” It?s Not Me, It?s You: How to End a Friendship 2012-01-28T11:00:06Z

He addressed these problems in a seminal essay published in 1950, “The Analytic and the Synthetic: An Untenable Dualism,” and at greater length in “Toward Reunion in Philosophy,” which he dedicated to Goodman and Quine. Morton White, Philosopher of Holistic Pragmatism, Dies at 99 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

His sporadic essays and reflections are collected in the thin, but invaluable The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers. Writing and photography ? is a picture really worth a thousand words? 2010-08-04T05:00:00Z

Here is a sampling of our reviews of his work, which also includes an essay he wrote for us in 1987 and an interview he did in 2012, announcing his retirement. A Philip Roth Reader 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

When he was 30, Film Culture published Andy’s essay on Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, the movie that for many critics announced the arrival of film as something between an art and a religion. Remembering Andrew Sarris: A Great American Film Critic 2012-06-21T12:39:03Z

Other award categories include essay collection, science writing, sports writing and biography. ArtsBeat: PEN Announces Finalists and Judges for Book Prizes 2013-07-11T15:02:33Z

Arendt’s urbane and unceremonious style is in full display in these essays from the last two decades of her life. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Lonesome Traveler is more a collection of essays about Kerouac working and travelling around the States. Visions of Jack Kerouac ... in an epic 13 volumes 2013-07-24T18:00:01Z

Such was the overwhelming evidence offered by responses to my essay on great acting remembered, which ran last month. ‘The Whole Audience Was Vibrating’: Your Memorable Performances 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

“I’m writing a collection of essays on Latino culture,” he says. Cheech Marin, a singular Renaissance man, talks about comedy, pottery, pot, art and his new memoir 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

Each novel, each essay, each speech challenges us to reckon with our past if we are to have even the slightest chance at a future. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Marks, in an essay for Opera magazine, also points out a crucial contrast between Britten's War Requiem and Tippett's King Priam. King Priam, a pacifist's opera, can still shed light on the trauma of war 2012-05-24T09:32:34Z

His new “Why am I not where you are” — though obviously evoking the ballroom idiom of Balanchine’s ballet “La Valse” — is an essay in Powell-and-Pressburger neo-Romanticism. Dance Review: New York City Ballet?s Architecture of Dance 2010-04-30T23:01:00Z

The telltale signs of the confessional essay include a warm, pseudo-confiding tone and a penchant for lists and adverbs like “humiliatingly” and “embarrassingly.” This Book of Essays by the Head Writer of ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ Is Hilarious 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

Norman Podhoretz, in a controversial essay, once confessed that "we white Americans are . . . so twisted and sick in our feelings about Negroes." Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

He detailed his frustrations with the German language in his essay “The Awful German Language.” Germans can’t get enough Mark Twain 2013-01-10T22:39:00Z

Begun in October 2013 and completed in May, the show now consists of an archive and a recently released book of pictures, descriptions, essays and discussions about design objects used for violent purposes. Review: ‘Design and Violence,’ Online at MoMA 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

He teaches philosophy at Antioch University and is the author of the recent essay "The Real Monster in 'Game of Throne' Is Its Hidden Reactionary Ideology," which can be read at Truthout. "Game of Thrones" isn't "just fantasy": Westeros is a reflection of our terrible realities 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

I’ve been working on a long essay about the nature of wisdom in a tragedy that privileges experience over other forms of knowledge, and I badly needed Shakespeare’s long view to pull me through. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

Kalka’s essays are, in short, anything but conventional. ‘Truth thrives in the margins’ and other insights from a master essayist 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

A portion of his book was published as an essay called “My Family’s Slave” in The Atlantic. How Libraries Saved Cheryl Strayed 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

The essay “Why Aren’t You Laughing?” delves into his memories of his alcoholic mother, both when she was sober and when she was drunk. Review | After nine books, what more could David Sedaris have to say? A great deal. 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

She ends the essay with a call to destroy the system that lets in so few people, and it reaffirms that she wasn’t talking to me, someone on the outside trying to get in. A response to 'On Pandering' 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

This posthumous essay collection from the historian and travel writer Morris, who died last year at 94, ranges from a brief ode to sneezing to an alternative history for Princess Diana. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

Davis’s essays are packed with these windows of opportunity to think more deeply — or at all — about many subjects. Translation Is Hard Work. Lydia Davis Makes It Thrilling. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

Bookforum was one of the few remaining publications devoted to books, running a mix of reviews, essays and interviews. Bookforum Is Closing, Leaving Ever Fewer Publications Devoted to Books 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

The essays, too, are full of short declarations and displays of emotion that are familiar from the @SoSadToday account. The Hidden Vulnerabilities of @SoSadToday 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Mr Mishra associates liberalism with what he describes, in a related essay in the Guardian, as a “mechanistic and materialist way of conceiving human actions”, partly a consequence of the primacy of free-market economics. The deep roots of modern resentment 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

As the subtitle suggests, it’s more a poetic essay on Twombly’s art and elusiveness than a chronicle of his days. A Life of Cy Twombly Brings a Poet’s Eye to the Artist’s Mythic Work 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

“Do not ask me to write of the strike and the terror,” her essay begins. What Kind of Worker Is a Writer? 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

When I first conceived of this essay, I imagined it would be purely literary. What the Church Meant for James Baldwin 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z

As Janet Malcolm writes in her New Yorker essay about the Bloomsbury Group, “A House of One’s Own,” “Every character in a biography contains within himself or herself the potential for a reverse image.” Vivian Maier and the Problem of Difficult Women 2014-05-10T04:00:00Z

We don’t hold back when we talk to ourselves about ourselves, and that’s what Gay has given us here: elegantly rendered essays with the intimacy of an inner monologue. Roxane Gay: ‘If I was conventionally hot and had a slammin’ body, I would be president’ 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

In the book’s introduction, I say that even though the essays might appear to reveal all, every disclosure has been carefully chosen. Not Getting with the Program: An Interview with Meghan Daum 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Nominations skewed heavily in the early years toward detailed, well-tailored essays by critics and scholars who wrote accompaniments for jazz, classical and roots Americana recordings. Thulani Davis and the Secret History of Women Writing Album Liner Notes 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

“My essay made no impression at my little magazine full of people who report to me,” she said. A Certain Word Is Really Getting on My Nerves 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z

In her essays and interviews, she has decried her homeland’s alarming descent into authoritarianism, and in return both Shafak and her husband, the journalist Eyup Can, have been targets of Erdogan’s intimidation. Review | In Elif Shafak’s ‘The Island of Missing Trees,’ a surprising narrator makes sense of surreal events 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

Then he embarked on a peripatetic life that included extended periods in Berlin, New York, Milan and Portugal, where he wrote novellas, short stories, essays and articles. Simon Lane obituary 2013-01-28T12:23:36Z

And then the essay “The Fire Next Time,” and then the collection of film criticism “The Devil Finds Work.” Barry Jenkins on “The Fire Next Time” and “If Beale Street Could Talk” 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

Then, several days later, he noticed Mr. Pavelski tweet a link to Medium, a popular blog for cathartic, personal essays. What Happens When Millennials Run the Workplace? 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

That question is not easy to resolve — nor is it irrelevant to Gay, a strikingly fresh cultural critic who will publish a collection of essays in August titled “Bad Feminist.” Book review: ‘An Untamed State,’ by Roxane Gay

It was actually one of the hardest parts of the book to write, because I wanted to set it up in a way that didn't deter anybody from reading these essays. Zosia Mamet on pushing for a trigger warning for stories about food and feelings 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

Fifteen years ago, the rock critic Robert Christgau published a survey-of-the-literature essay called “In Search of Jim Crow: Why Postmodern Minstrelsy Studies Matter,” in The Believer. The Rock Critic Robert Christgau’s Big-Hearted Theory of Pop 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

She is the editor of "Selfish, Shallow and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids," as well as author of the new essay collection "The Unspeakable." Festival of Books: Female writers talk 'mansplaining,' un-motherhood 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

This book expands on that widely shared essay. 17 New Nonfiction Books to Read This Season 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

The essay Delia mentioned came on the heels of the “It Gets Better” movement, columnist Dan Savage’s campaign to help prevent suicide among bullied teens. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z

It also includes a memoir of childhood, a short story called “The Raspberry Sherbet Heart” and an essay about Lowell’s 1954 mental breakdown and extended stay at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic. Why Robert Lowell, Famed as a Poet, Should Be Remembered for His Prose 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

Instead, read this six-step guide to writing an essay in a day: How to Write an Essay in 1 Day 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

I wouldn’t call it funny in the way that a roast, a David Sedaris essay or a knock knock joke is funny. One Mississippi: Tig Notaro bares her scars in intensely dark comedy 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

But those now-famous opening lines were far more provocative when Truman Capote wrote them in his 1959 essay “Brooklyn Heights: A Personal Memoir” for Holiday magazine. Spare Times for Nov. 6-12 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

The essay chronicled her history with mental illness and the pressures of producing a debut book, examining how she had allowed herself to accept the ethical sin of copying someone else’s work. Her Novel Was Pulled for Plagiarism. Her Explanation Was, Too. 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

Even the onset of his illness, he recalled in an essay in “Flying Solo,” was not entirely devoid of hope. Leonard Kriegel, 89, Dies; Wrote Unflinchingly About His Disability 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

In a separate essay about the latter novel’s significance, Wallace gives us a heady but stirring manifesto on the necessity of great literature in contemporary life. ‘Both Flesh and Not’: essays by David Foster Wallace 2012-12-27T19:23:07Z

In his influential essay “Against Epiphanies,” Baxter decried the “phony aura” of stories that end with a thunderbolt of insight. Lives intertwine in Charles Baxter’s ‘There’s Something I Want You to Do’ 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Her essays “On Being a Cripple” and “Sex and the Gimpy Girl” made the point, defiantly. Nancy Mairs, Who Wrote About Her Mental Illness and Multiple Sclerosis, Dies at 73 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

In Jessi Klein’s terrific collection of essays, You’ll Grow Out Of It, she continues the story after her wedding, describing her fertility struggles and the toll this took on her relationship. Brad and Angelina proved there's no such thing as the perfect marriage: so why do we pretend? 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

The friend, who was staying with Solnit “in flight from an awful soon-to-be ex,” told her that such an essay was definitely worth writing — younger women needed it. How Rebecca Solnit Found Her Voice 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

In addition to sustaining a heavy teaching load, Mr. Rosand was a productive writer, publishing many scholarly essays and producing, or contributing to, more than a dozen books. David Rosand, an Art History Scholar Whose Heart Was in Venice, Dies at 75 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

She even liked this essay, telling me after reading it: “I’m so glad you get it. I wish more divorces ended up like this. It’s better for the kids and the parents.” An Optimist’s Guide to Divorce 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

"The Black Artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it," Baraka wrote in an essay from the time. Playwright, poet and activist Amiri Baraka dies at 79 2014-01-10T03:33:27Z

You bring up “The March of the Penguins” in your essay, which turns into a brilliant little scene in the TV episode. How an Almost-Divorce Kept Them Together 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

Among his finest essays on the wages of sex is his 1964 novel The Blue Room. Review: Sex and Death, French-style, in The Blue Room 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

Unlike “Just Kids,” Smith’s previous memoir, “M Train” is not a sustained narrative but a collection of short, loosely connected essays. The Theology of Patti Smith 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

His contribution to “Africa,” the album’s droning title track, was an essay on wooden flute, expressive and gorgeous. Music Review: Big Bang?s Echoes, 50 Years Later 2011-04-22T21:52:51Z

Soon, they had a dedicated group of literary translators — who often spend years working on books for small academic presses — speed translating essays, poems and wartime dispatches. An urgent mission for literary translators: Bringing Ukrainian voices to the West 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

One of my other favorite essays in this book is when you talk about beauty and the beauty politics surrounding your identity and just all of the different phases of seeing yourself throughout your childhood. "True equality is embracing mediocrity": Aparna Nancherla on imposter syndrome and fear of failure 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z

The author of more than 50 novels, countless short stories, essays and articles, she also worked as a cabaret dancer, actress, mime and beauty consultant. The childhood home of lauded author Colette is open to the public in this small French village 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

I recently stopped by to visit with her and Grace Dunham, who contributed an affectionate and well-written essay to the catalog for the New Museum show. A Conversation With Nicole Eisenman and Grace Dunham 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

On good days, when Lulu would say: 'I'm so glad you made me write that second draft of my essay. Retreat of the 'Tiger Mother' 2011-01-15T04:14:04Z

In her new collection of essays, Robinson lifts the curtain on her own theological thinking. Top 10 Nonfiction Books 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

He had an essay in the New Yorker last week. R.I.P. Ray Bradbury: He Jumped Off Cliffs and Never Hit the Ground 2012-06-06T17:50:51Z

“The genuine artist creates at a distance from his own time, even for a time beyond,” Korngold wrote in his 1955 essay “Faith in Music!” Has the Time Come for a Long-Ignored Korngold Symphony? 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

But while scholarly essays in the hefty, 320-page catalog do just that, the show itself only partly and obliquely brings out the most interesting issues relating to women and the art of Gustav Klimt. Klimt’s Women, Real and on Canvas 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

It was, in some sense, the one big story Bellow told — and retold in novels and shorter fictions, in essays and lectures and interviews. ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964,’ by Zachary Leader 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

His shorter essays seem chiselled out of it. Postscript: John Berger, 1926-2017 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

In a guest column for Esquire published on Wednesday, Elliot Page penned an emotional, freeform essay reflecting on coming out as transgender, the state of the world, and what makes him happy now. Elliot Page said “Juno” red carpet appearance almost killed him before coming out as transgender 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Greene was hardly alone in this misperception; it continues to crop up in essays about the movie and on its Wikipedia page. News Anchors Mad as Hell in ‘Network’ and Suicidal in ‘Kate Plays Christine’ 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

The result is this lyrical, moving book: part essay, part memoir, part surprising cultural study. New & Noteworthy, From Harold Bloom to the Women of Congress 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

The quotation comes from an essay in which Naipaul refers to Walcott's poetry as "unpeopled": reading this collection, you can see his point. White Egrets by Derek Walcott | Book review 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z

The British novelist Hilary Mantel, who died on Thursday at age 70, left a wide-ranging and hard-to-classify body of work that encompassed memoir, story collections, contemporary novels and brilliant, querulous literary essays. What to Read by (and About) Hilary Mantel 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

A year later, she was sent to Paris during the couture shows to shoot a photo essay with its fashion editor, Grace Coddington. Annie Leibovitz, the Un-Fashion Photographer 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

The catalogue for the exhibition includes short essays by other artists, critics, writers, curators and scholars. Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: Blockbuster exhibition reveals a brilliant but bleak legacy 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Its main essay, chosen by Mr. Schoener, was a term paper written by a 17-year-old Harlem high school student and was laced with anti-Semitic slurs in the guise of sociology. What I Learned From a Disgraced Art Show on Harlem 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

All 18 slots in her morning section of College Composition I, which teaches students how to write academic essays, are filled already. Jill Biden returns to the classroom, live and in person 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

“Die Feen” is a number opera — far from the “endless melody” Wagner would describe in his 1860s essay “Music of the Future.” Wagner’s Early Operas Shouldn’t Be Mere Curiosities 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

Yet each of these things, or groups of things, is a study in complication, a visual essay on the ambiguities that surround conventional notions of measurement, meaning, value and time. Art Review: Alighiero Boetti Retrospective at Museum of Modern Art 2012-06-28T21:40:05Z

These are just some of the things the great and, unbelievably, now late included in her list of "Things I won't miss" in her last collection of essays, the mortality-tinged I Remember Nothing. Nora Ephron: how I'll miss her 2012-06-27T15:55:01Z

I couldn’t bridge the gap, and even after my essay was published, I was still straddling it. “What a horrible mother”: How a call from a “good samaritan” derailed these mothers’ lives 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

Maude turned in an essay in which she described herself as “the awkward, slightly O.C.D., preppy, motherly, nerd who knew barely anything about being a ‘regular teen.’ ” Maude Apatow Is Growing Up Writing 2012-08-24T22:19:51Z

She does not name them in the essay. ‘Luckiest Girl Alive’ Author Jessica Knoll Makes a Revelation 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

It’s a gift, a collection of interviews and essays that talk about the craft of what he does. Robert Caro Reflects on Robert Moses, L.B.J., and His Own Career in Nonfiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

This piece is an excerpt from an essay titled “The Billion-Dollar Sketchbook,” forthcoming in the February/March issue of The Surfer’s Journal. When SpongeBob SquarePants Was Just a Sketch on a Beach in Baja 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

But also, I think what's so powerful about that essay, is we talk about slavery through Black women. "Justice requires repair": Nikole Hannah-Jones on why Hulu's "1619 Project" is essential viewing 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

I will admit to enjoying an oblique approach to the subject in this essay. Steven Church talks essays, and his new book 'Ultrasonic' 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

This is not the essay in which to debate in depth the efficacy of SSRIs. Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z

For information on how to submit an essay, click here. My Voice Got Deeper. Suddenly, People Listened. 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

In an essay called "Fail Better," not included in the collection, Smith wrote that "reading, done properly, is every bit as tough as writing." 2009-12-10T17:55:00Z

I met C.D. and Forrest first at a writers conference, in a remote part of New England, while I was working on an essay about her. Poet C.D. Wright was 'one of the great ones' 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

At a question-and-answer session after a reading at the Kennedy Center in April, a fan asked about Sedaris’s father, who appears in many essays. Review | After nine books, what more could David Sedaris have to say? A great deal. 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

“Feminism that prioritizes the individual will always, at its core, be at odds with a feminism that prioritizes the collective,” she writes in her essay on scammers. Jia Tolentino on the ‘Unlivable Hell’ of the Web and Other Millennial Conundrums 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z

There were also poems, book-length essays such as “The White Goddess,” and translations, including “The Greek Myths,” a respected retelling of the classic myths. Robert Graves Found ‘Perfect Tranquillity’ in Majorca 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

We will present some of your stories alongside Mr. Tommasini’s essay. ArtsBeat: What inspired you to work in classical music? 2013-07-12T16:09:05Z

Sitting in his cluttered office at a desk he made himself, Rooney delivered more than 1,000 such essays, holding hold forth on a range of topics of varying degrees of relevance. Former CBS News commentator Andy Rooney dies 2011-11-06T09:19:51Z

In a personal essay in February, Williams acknowledged that audiences enjoy “grift stories,” but she lambasted the Netflix show and said she was not involved in making it. She says ‘Inventing Anna’ made her look ‘greedy.’ Now she’s suing Netflix. 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

There are repetitions and a general bagginess to the essays, taken together, but Scranton at his best is an incisive dispenser of tough love. Finding Alarm and Consolation About the Apocalypse in Two New Books 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

And, Michael, you originally called your book of essays “Essaying Bach and Religion.” A Literary Couple Grapple With Bach and His God 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

That piece, “I Was a Cable Guy. I Saw the Worst of America,” led to her essay collection, “Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing,” which recently spent two weeks on the paperback nonfiction list. Want to Become a Writer? Lauren Hough Recommends Bartending. 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

This year's exhibit showcases a limited-edition book, "Rock Paper Show," an archive of 25 years of shows, with essays. Bumbershoot art exhibits in new location 2011-06-07T22:40:05Z

Yes, its new editorial component features video essays that aren’t as exciting as the ones from Keyframe, and on the whole seems less robust, but there’s still that great movie library, which is continually expanding. Filmatique: Where to Stream Foreign Movies You Can’t Find Elsewhere 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

In some of the essays here, Atwood recalls the gestation and reception of her best-known novels, including “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Alias Grace” and “Oryx and Crake.” In Margaret Atwood’s Essays and Speeches, Some Hazards of the Trade 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

“She was guileless, and we were predatory,” he wrote in a recent essay. The Quiet Comeback of Margaret Trudeau 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z

Yalom, who is now in his mid-eighties, recently published his 14th book, entitled “Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy,” a stunning collection of essays chronicling his years as a therapist. “Not living a life that’s full of regrets”: Legendary psychotherapist Irvin Yalom on the challenges of living in fear 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

It is hard not to notice the similarity between what Frankfurt describes in his essay and the current discourse of Donald Trump. Donald Trump’s reign of bullsh*t: He’s not lying to us, he’s just completely full of it 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

Harrington’s first book of essays explores parenting, marriage, childbirth, education, unemployment — and the special slice of hell that is navigating two toddlers through a rest area bathroom. The Struggles of Modern Motherhood in Essays, a Thriller and a Dystopian Novel 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

His essays from this time, many still extant, extoll the virtuous life available through reason and correct moral choice. Seneca Could Have Written the Anonymous Times Op-Ed About Trump 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

With the help of Joan Didion, a friend, she sold an essay to Rolling Stone in 1971. A Breezy Look at Eve Babitz, a Writer With a Born Feel for the Charms of Los Angeles 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

“Flyboy 2,” published earlier this month by Duke University Press, largely consists, like its predecessor, of critical essays, interviews, profiles, and short riffs. The Critic Who Convinced Me That Criticism Could Be Art 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Below are highlights from Kakutani’s tenure at The Times — her reviews of major novels and autobiographies, her obituaries and appreciations, her profiles and essays. 38 Years on Books: The Essential Michiko Kakutani Reader 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

It puts you at the center of your writing, but it’s a tricky balance because it’s also not an essay about you. Behind the Byline: Meet arts critic Moira Macdonald 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

First, unlike a story or essay, conventionally expected to add up in a way that makes sense, the diary lets fragments float. Alice Walker's "Gathering Blossoms Under Fire" and the rare gift of Black women's published journals 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

Jointly authored short story or essay collections with more than three contributors are not eligible.• Enter the Guardian first book award 2013 2013-04-16T07:00:00Z

Hegel came straight out and said it: the novel is the civic class's epic poem, and it shows a realistic world using characteristics of the essay. Li Er: the future of the novel in China 2013-03-15T15:49:26Z

White wrote in his most celebrated essay, does bestow upon its citizens the “gift of loneliness,” if you can call it that. Everybody Goes to Burger Heaven 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

This hefty essay collection showcases Cohen’s skill as a verbal prestidigitator on subjects ranging from Barnum and Trump to the Holocaust writer A. G. Adler. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

The actress playing the editor is Abigail Thaw, saying good day to a young actor essaying the role that will be forever identified with her late father. PBS brings back beloved Inspector Morse — as a young man 2012-06-29T19:10:04Z

After Ms. Kipnis published an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education in February of 2015, titled, “Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe,” she was subject to a complaint under Title IX for creating a “hostile environment.” Author Is Sued Over Book on Campus Sex 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

I just wrote an essay for Powell’s Books, for the store’s newsletter, and the essay is about why it took me nine years to write this book. Hunter S. Thompson’s son shocker: “Hunter was surprised and pleased that I actually grew up apparently sane” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

It’s a beautiful moment in a sweet and moving essay, and although Chabon found his thing — writing — early on, he didn’t find his people until he married Waldman and became a father. Michael Chabon and his new novel, 'Moonglow' 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

In a New York Times Magazine essay titled “Life After ‘Sex’” — the HBO series — she discussed being in relationship with a woman. “Am I LGBT or W?”: Maria Bello rejects existing sexuality labels in favor of “whatever” 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

A helpful essay explains how the story changed over the years. Review | J.R.R. Tolkien’s latest posthumous book may actually be the last 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

In a 1972 essay called "A Few Words About Breasts," Ephron wrote, "If I had them, I would have been a completely different person." 'Sleepless in Seattle' writer Nora Ephron dies at 71 2012-06-27T01:41:54Z

“Sargent and Impressionism” has its own catalog, too, with an essay by the Sargent scholar Elaine Kilmurray that delves into a newly published cache of letters between Sargent and Monet. Art Review: John Singer Sargent, a Realist Who Tried Another Style 2010-12-01T07:45:00Z

Words, not vamping for the camera, were his stock in trade since his first "60 Minutes" essay in 1978, just as words were his business for more than 30 years before that. Andy Rooney: Each Sunday he looked at the everyday 2011-11-05T12:52:13Z

I was suddenly writing these essays, trying to explain myself to the humorless, explain comedy, what context means. What comedian Patton Oswalt did on his Twitter-free summer vacation

Mr. Harris, a cultural critic, is no less impassioned in his own writing, from his essays for New York magazine to his book-length deep dives into Hollywood. For Tony Kushner, It’s Angels Over the Breakfast Nook 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

Lena Dunham on Monday shared a snap of the book jacket for her forthcoming collection of essays, “Not That Kind of Girl.” Take a look at Lena Dunham’s book cover 2014-02-10T20:50:00Z

Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village is both a marvellous descriptive poem and a powerful political essay. Poem of the week: The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith 2010-05-31T09:35:00Z

That essay framed a landmark challenge to the materialist view of the mind that was then prevailing and helped cement Mr. Nagel’s reputation as one of the most incisive and imaginative of contemporary philosophers. Thomas Nagel Is Praised by Creationists 2013-02-06T22:56:34Z

As I was writing the book, I read Abraham Verghese’s essay in the New York Times. Should doctors withhold bad news? 2012-06-07T15:20:00Z

His suffered from gout, and his essay about it, “One Foot in the Grave,” collected in “The Raw and the Cooked,” is probably the finest we have about this malady. An Appraisal: Taking Big Bites of Jim Harrison’s Voracious Life 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

This self-involvement is akin to the turning away from realism by novelists that Tom Wolfe, in a much-discussed 1989 essay in Harper’s, bemoaned as an abdication of both responsibility and power. Photographing Life as It’s Seen, Not Staged 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

I get an idea in my mind, and if concentration forms around it, it becomes a book or an essay. Book Talk: Marilynne Robinson returns to familiar terrain in Lila 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

What she has put in and left out are her creative decisions for this essay at this time. No Sound, No Fury, No Marriage 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

When the cubs attacked a more senior official, he was punished and made to write long essays of contrition. Ni Kuang, Prolific Hong Kong Novelist and Screenwriter, Dies at 87 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

Too big for a column, really, or even for a long, viral essay written by a former friend. Perspective | The messiness and meaning of Caroline Calloway 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z

Whenever I teach Levy’s essay, and I teach it frequently, my students often praise it for being “unsentimental.” A Memoir of Motherhood Lost 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

There is also a section called “Connections,” in which staff members present distinctive video essays about their aesthetic passions, with allusive titles like “Magic” or “Dark Energy.” Web Site Review: The Metropolitan Museum?s New Web Site 2011-10-06T22:45:35Z

The emphasis on the trauma of war is consistent with Ms. Christov-Bakargiev’s view of Documenta as a show born of trauma, expressed in an essay in one of the show’s three catalogs. Art Review: Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany 2012-06-14T21:44:01Z

Yet in the almanacs, the routine daily weather predictions were practically afterthoughts; essays, data charts, cartoons and advertisements dominated the pages. Antiques: A Restored Louisiana Plantation and Its Lifeblood 2013-07-25T18:56:22Z

In her essay "Illness as Metaphor," Sontag argued for "clarity, rational thought, and medical information" when confronting disease — as opposed to romantic mythologizing. In 'The Violet Hour,' Katie Roiphe looks at five great writers shuffling off this mortal coil 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Dialogues, manifestos, notes, essays – a paper mountain of engaging writing remains from this period. Theatremakers, don't be coy ? blog about your work 2011-02-18T15:29:17Z

And that didn’t happen without, last week, an essay in the New York Times labeling Scandal producer Shonda Rhimes and some of her characters “angry black women.” Review: A Family Seeks Its True Colors on black-ish 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

Without a studio base, unable to find directing work for much of the ’70s, Mr. Suzuki wrote essays and books and acted in other people’s films. Seijun Suzuki, Director Who Inspired Tarantino and Jarmusch, Dies at 93 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

In his catalog essay Mr. Ray elegantly summarizes the problem many viewers have with Chamberlain’s late works. Art Review: ?John Chamberlain: Choices? at Guggenheim Museum 2012-02-23T23:23:12Z

“Five or six of these essays are obvious masterpieces of the form, their sting utterly intact,” our critic Dwight Garner writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

The essay struck a nerve with readers and attracted widespread critical attention. William McPherson, Book Critic and Novelist, Dies at 84 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

"The use of "guy" for both male and female eroded the ability of children to easily feel confident in which gender they were," Walker writes in her essay, defending Rowling's views. Alice Walker defends J.K. Rowling's views in new essay 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z

Her essay made me think about finding an audience for my own work. A response to 'On Pandering' 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

One essay was about getting to know my ex-wife’s father, Charles, who is a huge part of the book. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: An Unlikely Relationship With Guns 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

There’s an excerpt from a ponderous essay she wrote when she was 14, and a drawing of a cat she sketched at age 12. Amy Tan, the Reluctant Memoirist 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

Through her prolific essays, she began building a reputation as a penetrating thinker with an urbane and unceremonious style that she would attribute to her zest for “pearl diving” in history. The Philosopher in Dark Times 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

It’s among many pieces with a political edge, a unifying theme not mentioned in Stanley’s essay. Review | In the galleries: Art 101, a sampling event for beginners 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

Despite their differences, these essays come together to assert the value of the writer’s vocation. Review | In ‘Not a Novel,’ Jenny Erpenbeck continues to evolve 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

So the tricky pulse of a ballad called “Mariana,” with its implication of five against four, all but dissolves in the face of an essay by Chris Cheek on tenor saxophone. New Music: New Releases From Travis Porter and Melody Gardot 2012-05-28T22:04:52Z

Her poetry and essays seemed to tap into a deep well of pain, too — sharp and emotional, accessing the same damaged part.” Books of The Times: Robert Kolker’s ‘Lost Girls’ Delves Into Killings 2013-07-16T16:45:32Z

“The Confederate flag was the wallpaper of the South when I was a kid growing up in Gainesville, Florida,” writes Tom Petty in a new essay on Rolling Stone’s web site. Tom Petty on Confederate flag: “People just need to think about how it looks to a black person. It’s just awful.” 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

Expanding on the author’s June 2020 article about the personal and political power of laughing with her daughter, these 36 essays counter the narrative that Black life consists only of struggle and trauma. Newly Published, From Black Joy to Tech Policy 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

I was even more persuaded by it when I first encountered it in her 1998 essay collection, “The Death of Adam.” Marilynne Robinson’s Essays Reflect an Eccentric, Exasperating, Profound and Generous Mind 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

HG Wells wrote an essay on the “vivid, scorching and variegated” world of cursing, yet the worst word in War of the Worlds is “tripod”. Bleep me up Scotty: why is sci-fi suddenly so sweary? 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

The digital release, available on Bandcamp, includes liner notes that contain several worthy essays about the opera’s history. 8 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

Editors Amye Archer and Loren Kleinman sew themselves into the fabric of the anthology, with a page or two of introduction to each essay and sometimes personal anecdotes. Review | School shooting survivors speak out in a new book. Their pain is terrible — and vital — to hear. 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

She wrote at the end of a different essay: “Thems my sentiments and I am sticking by them.” In Zora Neale Hurston’s Essays, the Nonfiction of a Nonconformist 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

The archive features important essays generated by the show, links to outside coverage, as well as documentation, photography and other research material.  Why the Hammer Museum's new free digital archives are a game changer 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

These essays are works of both criticism and imagination. ‘The Right to Sex’ Thinks Beyond the Parameters of Consent 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

Over four years he made more than 60 half-hour episodes containing freewheeling informative interviews and video essays covering a wide range of topics in American indie film. A Brief History of American Independent Film: ‘Split Screen’ on FilmStruck 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Fast-forward 30 years, and graduate students at some of our newer universities are writing essays about "why Bernard Shaw is neglected in feminist and gender scholarship". George Bernard Shaw and feminism 2011-01-23T22:30:01Z

I thought the essay did a great job of discussing the importance of acknowledging privilege while also critiquing the ways “check your privilege” gets thrown around. Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist Is a "Manual on How to Be a Human" 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

The title was somewhat misleading, because the essay delved into the psychology of collecting, and didn’t shy away from talking about the positive aspects of purging purchased music. Sell your records, sell your soul?: How I learned to stop hoarding and embrace the cloud 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

In a new essay, Paul Farmer, the chief executive of Mind, and Jenny Edwards, the chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation, say it can be both a cause and effect of mental health problems. Loneliness: a silent plague that is hurting young people most 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

And that sometimes resulted in frustration and battles, as Huang noted in an essay he wrote for New York Magazine. TCA 15: 'Fresh Off the Boat' producers talk changing perceptions 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Ms. Suzuki doesn’t dwell on the dark side of this milieu in her catalog essay, but she says enough to evoke the shadows. Toulouse-Lautrec’s Groundbreaking Prints at MoMA 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

But for both of you, when you’re writing them and when you’re reading them, what do you want to see in an essay? Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z

Students began writing essays asking, “What good is this music, these empty enchantments, that only entrench the bourgeoisie and isolate the poor?” Review: In ‘Do Not Say We Have Nothing,’ a Portrait of Souls Snuffed Out 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

The result was a viral essay titled “I Found the Best Burger Place in America. And Then I Killed It,” which inspired fervent praise and some fervent criticism, too. It’s Never Just About the Burger 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Ranging from broad cityscapes to up-close portraits, objects and scenes, Cole’s photos and short essays give snapshots of place. The 10 best travel writers you’ve never read but should 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

More urgent, he wanted me to recognize that I had no clue how to write an essay. Tuesdays with William Zinsser 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

He takes a similarly cheerful view of the ruckus over the essay. ‘Charge the Cockpit or You Die’: Behind an Incendiary Case for Trump 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z

They also found soiled women’s scarves, photos of girls and young women, a knife used in another crime and an essay from a girl. Six black girls were brutally murdered in the early ’70s. Why was this case never solved? 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

"Kayak Morning" was written after the essay was turned into a best-selling book. 'Kayak Morning': moving with the current of mourning 2012-01-25T23:34:08Z

A lovely essay, and the timing is perfect. Migrant, Refugee, Gay: You’re All Welcome at This Table 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

One essay from 2012 celebrates the European Union’s ban on the use of battery cages for hens, a ban he and others helped to bring about through protests beginning in the 1970s. How to live well 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

About a decade ago Mr. Sedaris started work on a movie adaptation of “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” his first best-selling collection of humorous essays. Kyle Patrick Alvarez Films ‘C.O.G.,’ by David Sedaris 2013-01-19T00:22:59Z

But these essays had me thinking about the whole notion of “guilty pleasures,” and if our understanding of that term is shifting, as it should. Review | How one critic’s once-iconoclastic views about television’s ascendancy went mainstream 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

In the wake of Tanner’s essay, it was highly pleasurable to discover that the first novel from John Waters — film director, essayist, artist, non-woman, known hater of poignancy — is about … “generations of women.” John Waters’s First Novel Is Manic, Hyperbolic and Deviant. Surprised? 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

Those essays are a bit like the written form of “Schitt’s Creek.” Tim Gunn’s Happy Place Is ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ Washed Down With Good Gin 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

Talking animals present a challenge to our humanist bearings, which is what Plutarch was getting at with his yapping pig Gryllus in his essay "On the Use of Reason by 'Irrational' Animals". It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z

I always learn something new from your essays. "He could make you laugh. He could make you think": How Biggie Smalls became a rap legend 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z

In an essay on the topic, she reports that while she and her husband miss “the sleepy ease of morning sex,” there are other ways their passion for each other has been rekindled. There is sex after childbirth: What to expect in the bedroom when you’re done expecting 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z

Speaking of Sherlock, here are essays, mainly by younger devotees of the great detective, on all 60 of his canonical cases. Looking for a mystery to cozy up with? Michael Dirda has some suggestions. 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Like death, the essays end with startling abruptness. In 'The Violet Hour,' Katie Roiphe looks at five great writers shuffling off this mortal coil 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

“The city was wearing me out; my job was wearing me out; America was wearing me out,” he wrote in an essay. Forget New York. For writer Saeed Jones, Columbus, Ohio, is the place to be a literary star. 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

There are the eclectic letters, but also a long essay on writing that is insightful, if shoehorned in. Tim O’Brien, a Veteran of War and Fatherhood, Opens Up to His Sons 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

Click on reut.rs/2VItCDv to see a related photo essay. New mothers suffer nerves, guilt as maternity leave ends 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

His political essays were “like razor blades in print,” Subramanian says. The Groundbreaking Scientist Who Risked All in Pursuit of His Beliefs 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

“The Too Difficult Box”, a collection of essays edited by Mr Clarke, sheds light on these challenges. A difficult truth 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

In his February essay, Guns, King wrote that "political discourse as it once existed in America has given way to useless screaming". Stephen King makes 'substantial' donation to Maine gun control group 2013-04-24T14:55:24Z

The remedy, as so often for such linguo-pessimists, is George Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language", about whose loopy prescriptions I have previously recorded my own reservations. Internet English debasing the language? Not IMHO | 2013-05-28T10:10:43Z

Slate reporter Aymann Ismail wrote a thoughtful essay about the Joe/Hunter relationship, and how uncomfortable it can be for some men to witness that kind of intense, intimate fatherly love. Perspective | Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and the politics of unconditional love 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z

She carefully re-emerged in the public eye in 2014, with an essay and TED Talk about public shame. Speaking of Britney … What About All Those Other Women? 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z

In his essay for the booklet accompanying the Criterion Collection’s home video release, critic Matt Zoller Seitz describes the film as “a freewheeling take on freedom – what it means and what it costs”. Easy Rider at 50: how the rebellious road movie shook up the system 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

When compiling an anthology of essays from leading women writers and thinkers, to be published early next year, what was the only possible title? EL James, JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel … the women who dominated publishing in 2012 2012-11-30T22:55:17Z

Many political observers have recently noted the renewed relevance of the essay “Civil Disobedience” with Donald Trump moving into the White House, but that’s not the only reason the 19th-century thinker is on our minds. Celebrating Two Centuries of Thoreau 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

This essay was originally published on Medium, and is republished here with permission from the author. Lawyers and Secondary Traumatic Stress, or: On the dispersal of brain matter in a Kentucky trailer 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

And Roxane, in your essay you say about writing or talking about gender that we have to be more interested in making things better than just being right or interesting or funny. Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z

But he noted that Ms. Shaw’s essay crystallized something larger about painters and their subjects. Unclothed in Andrew Wyeth’s Art 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

Now is the time of the essay film: that way of taking an idea for a walk. Mark Cousins: the kids stay in the picture 2013-05-20T18:00:02Z

In March, he wrote an essay in the Times lamenting the lack of young adult fiction that examined the lives of inner-city youth, particularly blacks and Latinos. Walter Dean Myers, children’s author, dies at age 76

“Everything about archaeology is thrilling,” he wrote in an essay published in Casa Cabana, an anthology of home decorating published last year. Robert Kime, Decorator for Nobility and Other Notables, Dies at 76 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

“How to Travel with a Salmon,” his essay about storing said fish in a hotel minibar fridge, was a delight to read. On interviewing Umberto Eco, 'the most erudite person on earth,' by Glen David Gold 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

If so, this would be the first of many Germanic attempts to understand Leonardo, including Goethe's famous essay on The Last Supper, and Sigmund Freud's book Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood. D?rer's Melencolia I ? a masterpiece, and a diagnosis 2011-03-18T10:52:50Z

The elder Rich brother, who moved to New Orleans in 2010, also writes essays about science and culture for The New York Review of Books, Slate and The New York Times. Nathaniel and Simon: The Brothers Rich 2013-01-04T21:32:05Z

In June, novelist Jessica Knoll wrote a viral opinion essay for the New York Times, “Smash the Wellness Industry.” Is bread back on the table now? 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

Many of these essays could have been written tomorrow. Two New Volumes by Adrienne Rich, Game-Changing Feminist, Poet and Essayist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Andrew Sean Greer, read the droll raconteur’s latest book — essays that are mostly about family and love — on a plane, while medicated. New in Paperback: ‘The Best of Me’ and ‘Piranesi’ 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

Her potent, evocative fiction still impresses itself on new readers; her essays give clear and vivid insight into a writer’s mind at work. Beholding Virginia Woolf Through the Women in Her Life 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

People writing the most honest things—in many cases, the only personal essays—they’ll ever write. The Power and Limitations of Victim-Impact Statements 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

Indeed, as the essays in “Against Interpretation” indicated, the saturnine spirit of serious art existed nicely alongside the rhythms of the Supremes. The New Sensibility of Susan Sontag & Tom Wolfe: The “dark lady” and the man in white were an unlikely pair, but both were looking to liberate American culture 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

At the same time, as Marina Warner put it in an essay on Caillois for Cabinet in 2008, he exulted in "their inscrutability and their lack of affect, their silence, their sheer stoniness". Things get curiouser and curiouser at the Turner Contemporary 2013-05-18T08:01:28Z

The New Yorker staff writer delivers an essay collection exploring the myriad modern-day forces deranging us, our ideas and our cultural values. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

This is where you’ll find one of the most influential essays of the past 50 years. Relationship advice: Forget Venus and Mars 2012-09-04T12:00:00Z

Moran herself is so relentlessly likable, cranking out a superhuman stream of columns and articles for British newspapers, as well as television appearances, interviews, tweets and the bestselling essay collection, “How to Be a Woman.” Caitlin Moran and the pitfalls of the essayist-turned-novelist 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z

“Time as we live it and as we create it embodies our progressive disappearance,” he wrote in an essay in 1987. Roman Opalka, an Artist of Numbers, Is Dead at 79 2011-08-10T03:10:38Z

“Policing the Black Man,” edited by the activist and law professor Angela J. Davis, brings together 11 essays from scholars and criminal justice practitioners who offer forward-thinking policy suggestions. Three New Books Discuss How to Confront and Reform Racist Policing 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

A faculty member of Pacific Lutheran University's Rainier Writing Workshop assembles "a series of lyrical essays about life in a maddeningly complex family during the even more maddeningly complex fifties and sixties." Local books: a private-eye mom; the case for life on Mars and a civil-rights quest 2010-04-06T00:07:00Z

With the start of school, it won’t be long before your child walks through the door in proud possession of yet another adorably misspelled “essay” or charmingly childish painting. Apptitude: Is your child’s artwork or performance worth Keepy?

Mr. Hollander later dismissed his earlier poetry as “verse essay” or “epigram literature.” John Hollander, Poet Known for His Range, Dies at 83 2013-08-18T22:06:10Z

Larry Neal, in one of his early essays, said “The Black Arts Movement is radically opposed to any concept of the artist that alienates him from his community.” Four Black Artists on How Racism Corrodes the Theater World 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

“A writer of her talents can take a small moment like that and turn it into an essay.” Notes from 10 years on the Front Lines of love 2014-02-05T23:15:18Z

I was particularly struck and amused by the art that accompanied the essay about Self’s drive in the Los Angeles countryside. 2010-01-01T00:14:00Z

In the early months of the pandemic, the playwright Clare Barron published an essay titled “Not Writing,” which she accompanied with photographs of her cats, empty La Croix cans and unwashed laundry. Clare Barron on ‘Shhhh’ and How Playwriting Is Her ‘Kink of Exhibitionism’ 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

In his famous essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” Hughes expresses fondness for “the low-down folks, the so-called common element.” How Langston Hughes Brought His Radical Vision to the Novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

By now, we’ve all read—or refused to read—a million “My First Encounter with Star Wars and How It Changed My Life” essays, most of them written by men under 50. The Problem With That Major Force Awakens Scene 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

The Jennings scholars who've contributed thoughtful essays to an accompanying booklet write rather cautiously about them, but I think Family Portrait, his contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain celebrations, ranks among his best work. The Complete Humphrey Jennings Volume Three: A Diary for Timothy 2013-07-27T23:05:17Z

It was, in part, their wry essay imagining the ignominies of being Courteney Cox’s assistant, which include making an appointment to bleach a certain area of the actor’s anatomy, that kick-started Mx. They Live in Public 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z

Empson’s recently rediscovered essay about sculptural depictions of the Buddha is the work of a passionate amateur who just happens to be the most dazzling literary critic of the 20th century. Michael Dirda’s holiday book picks 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

This new collection of essays, many of them previously published, covers some of the same dispiriting ground. Finding Alarm and Consolation About the Apocalypse in Two New Books 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

We will present some of your stories alongside Mr. Cotter’s essay. ArtsBeat: What Inspired You to Work in the Visual Arts? 2013-08-09T17:40:45Z

Near the end of her talk she tried to read the final passage from a tender and heartbreaking essay called “Winter in the Abruzzi,” about Ginzburg’s last winter with her first husband. The Book That Taught Me What I Want to Teach My Daughter 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

In his 1967 essay “Objectivity and the Shrinking Self” he lamented the intellectual timidity of the art history of his day. Leo Steinberg, Adventurous Art Historian, Dies at 90 2011-03-14T23:19:13Z

Facebook stalking his ex-girlfriend Topics: Searched and Destroyed, , , , , , South Africa, , "Searched and Destroyed" is a personal essay series about the shocking discoveries of the Internet. Facebook stalking his ex-girlfriend 2013-01-08T01:00:00Z

The fourth collection of Amis’s nonfiction and Zadie Smith’s new book of essays find these two celebrated writers, friends from different generations, addressing politics, aging, art and more. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

A week later, he was named a finalist for the National Book Award for his essay collection “A Little Devil in America.” How Hanif Abdurraqib Cuts Through the Noise 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z

The intellectual setting seemed appropriate; Ms. Myers encouraged introspective and journalistic work from her writers, including essays about abortion, political and cultural profiles, and an extensively reported piece about a murder abetted by social media. Departing Elle Editor Robbie Myers Gets Party, Tells of Fire 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

These original essays by a New Yorker staff writer whose voice our reviewer, Maggie Doherty, called a mix of “force, lyricism and internet-honed humor” is a millennial examination of personal essay writing itself. New in Paperback: ‘Wildhood’ and ‘Beaten Down, Worked Up’ 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

“I bluffed my way into an essay collection,” she said. Researching Your Book? Hit the Casino 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

The reaction to Epstein’s essay says much about his message, but it also says a few things about the form it came in, too. How the dusty old op-ed pages became the red-hot outrage-generating machine of 2020 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z

Behind the laughter, James hankered after seriousness, plugging away like Sisyphus at poetry and critical essays, and later some fiction. Clive James – a life in writing 2013-07-05T07:45:01Z

Of course, I had some leanings; I had essays I thought might be some of the key pieces that had been excluded from the earlier collection. Jonathan Lethem on his new mega-literary, meta-literary collection 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

As usual, Grafton presents largely unfamiliar material — his last essay looks at precursors to Spinoza’s rationalist approach to biblical interpretation — in a clear, even breezy style. Review | My nightstand runneth over: A proud nerd recommends new intellectual and cultural histories 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Mr. Berger’s essay concerns the emergence of zoos, pet-keeping, and animal toys, a signal achievement of the period of modernization that he describes was the birth of cinema. Animals Continue to Fascinate Humans: Films Prove It 2012-03-31T06:36:09Z

In his philosophical works and essays too, a single draft sufficed. Henri Poincaré: the unlikely link between Einstein and Picasso 2012-07-17T11:48:23Z

In more than a dozen books and many articles and essays, Ms. Himmelfarb melded scholarship of Victorian Britain with barbed reflection on contemporary affairs. Gertrude Himmelfarb, Conservative Historian of Ideas, Dies at 97 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

Quoting Heidegger at the beginning of an essay on Waiting For Godot, Robbe-Grillet writes that the human condition is "to be there". In theory: Towards a New Novel 2010-05-13T15:17:00Z

Book tours used to be a thing back in 2015 when I published my first essay collection, "The Beast Side." The airport security shakedown: Air travel always costs me extra, one way or another 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Walker's essay "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" celebrates a revival of arts like quilting, cooking and gardening, all mentioned in her journal entries. Alice Walker's "Gathering Blossoms Under Fire" and the rare gift of Black women's published journals 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

A good essay, she said, “inevitably sets the reader to thinking,” and “meditation is highly contagious.” ‘The Glorious American Essay,’ From Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

In 1959 the prolific author and professor of biochemistry Isaac Asimov wrote an essay about the formation of ideas and how to spur creativity. Never-before-published Isaac Asimov essay reveals the secret to true creativity 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

“If ‘In Praise of Older Women’ goes not much of anywhere as a novel,” he wrote, “as an essay on erotics it is refreshing.” Stephen Vizinczey, ‘In Praise of Older Women’ Author, Dies at 88 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

By 1939, he observed, “Not a single pronouncement by any writer had the slightest effect . . . no book, pamphlet, essay, or poem” could inspire the masses to resist Hitler’s push to war. When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

In round-ups of pho or dim sum, reviews and write-ups, Counter Culture columns and essays of the sort that garner a Pulitzer, he toured readers through the culinary gems of Los Angeles. When nobody else could, Jonathan Gold helped me understand & then love LA, one restaurant at a time 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

Hosted by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, it includes video games, fashion design and architecture, as well as painting, poetry, essays and fiction, some presented at listening stations and on iPads. Spare Times for Children for June 12-18 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

The website augments those performances with interviews, rehearsal videos and essays that provide insight into Cage’s work. John Cage's Music Receives a Dedicated Website 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

Boehm detailed his experience and Viva’s story in a first-person essay on Vice. Here's how that mysterious In-N-Out burger ended up on the street in Queens 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

No catalog with grandly conceived, fascinatingly provocative essays, but rather a collection of concerts, several handed over to other ensembles. NY Phil Biennial laudable, yet in need of curatorial vision 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

These two essays deliver a writer in full. Books of The Times: ?Driving Home,? by Jonathan Raban - Review 2011-09-15T21:30:23Z

But it works equally well as an essay on the Ben Stiller persona. Film: Ben Stiller: There?s Something About Mortification 2010-03-12T04:24:00Z

The result was “Carnival Strippers,” a raunchy, poignant study of sex and class, audiences and performers that is among the great photo essays of the late 20th century. ‘Susan Meiselas: Meditations’ Review: Turning Subjects Into Collaborators 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

Yes, the book is slight, but that’s because Your Cat speaks in captions, not essays. Perspective | The ‘Downton Abbey’ movie trailer is out. What to read while you wait for the film. 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Yet another essay considers the ethical implications of a once-advanced weaponry, in this case the submarine. ‘Truth thrives in the margins’ and other insights from a master essayist 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

His first book was an essay collection called “Barrel Fever.” David Sedaris Leaves His Audiences Weeping. And Still Wanting More. 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

Still, as Jones recalled in a recent essay for The Times: “For my grandmother, the 19th Amendment was only a starting place.” ‘Vanguard’ Spotlights the Black Women Who Fought for the Vote 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

That sentiment was echoed in a more alarmist tone by the critic William Deresiewicz in a recent essay in The Atlantic titled “The Death of the Artist.” For the Walker Art Center, a Shop That Peddles Evanescence 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

In an essay, Patton Oswalt wrote that he never found Mr. Bruce funny, and that comics who said they did were lying. Lenny Bruce Shattered Taboos, but Was He Funny? 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

Even at the time, some cinephiles perceived Kael’s essay as an effort to discredit the auteur theory, the then-ascendant notion that the best directors were responsible for the stylistic imprints of their films. Who Wrote ‘Citizen Kane’? It’s No Mystery 2020-12-06T05:00:00Z

But that sort of organized advocacy for a particular parenting ideal might be part of the problem, Brooks asserts in a new essay for BuzzFeed. “I love my children. But I don’t always love being a parent”: Kim Brooks on the reality — and rights — of parenting freely 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

More surprisingly, in more than one essay, Sebald expresses a preference for prose that is, in a way, disposable. Books of The Times: ‘A Place in the Country,’ Essays by W. G. Sebald 2014-02-09T22:17:26Z

These lines, says Glazer, were inscribed on the inside cover of a collection of essays given to him by a friend. Jonathan Glazer: 'Nazism took hold like a fever. It's happening again' 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

Rather, as Mr. Adams writes in an essay accompanying the excellent recordings, “this is music that aspires to the condition of place.” Musical Travel Companions for a Year of Going Nowhere 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

Within a few short years in New York, she was published for the first time, writing essays about U.S. relations in the Pacific for The Far Eastern Survey. Connie Converse’s Time Has Come 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

This spring, Ms. Ellis debuts her first essay collection, “Southern Lady Code.” Researching Your Book? Hit the Casino 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

One day, they were helping each other write their application essays. Global Athlete: Trekking Beyond Limits in Antarctica 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z

“This was serious business,” he wrote in an essay called “Mr. Vonnegut in Sumatra,” which appears in “The Braindead Megaphone.” George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z

She is working on a collection of personal essays. A Double Portrait of Two of the Cold War’s Most Successful Double Agents 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

"I am among those who are most free from this emotion," he declared in his essay "On Sadness". Too much grief 2011-08-19T21:55:11Z

Within days of the book being published, Morell took to Politico with an essay: "Debunking the Benghazi Myths: It's Clear Pundits Don't Understand Intelligence Work." 'The Great War of Our Time' goes inside the CIA, to a point 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

The next morning, she wrote an essay, “To the White Parents of My Black Son’s Friends,” on her parenting blog. A white mom’s plea ‘to the white parents of my black son’s friends’ 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Secretary of State James A. Baker III and former White House aide Karen Hughes are among the contributors to an e-book of essays written after the death of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. James Baker contributing essay to bin Laden book 2011-05-05T23:19:07Z

Brodsky was interested in the poet’s role in society, and these essays, which deal with politics, literature and his own personal experience of exile, all get at this question. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

There's one essay in this book that is fiction — about a blossoming relationship between teachers — and the format you write it in is emails. Mindy Kaling on her new essay collection 'Why Not Me?', David Foster Wallace and life with books 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

Have you ever written an essay in 25 minutes? How to Write an Essay in 1 Day 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

In a 1958 essay for The New York Times, he described writing his “Rose of Sharon” cycle in an outpouring of emotion lasting almost a year. John LaMontaine, Composer, Dies at 93 2013-05-15T02:27:49Z

Although Sweeney's first submission was rejected, she was encouraged by the editor to try again, and her essay, "My Dirty Book," made it into print. Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney reflects on family, her midlife turn to fiction and the bidding war over her first novel, 'The Nest' 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Anne Carson compares her to Hesiod, and even in the new book, a slender essay collection called “The Condition of Secrecy,” you get a sense of her dazzling, polymathic intelligence. Times Critics Discuss the Year in Books, From Triumphs to Disappointments 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Overseen by the 16-year-old editor in chief, Jade Atkins, the juniors wrote essays and drew illustrations, reported articles and designed colorful graphics. Students Create a Magazine to Salute Their Heroes: Chefs of Color 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

In fact, it’s really more of a film essay, in the methodical way it introduces, dissects, and draws conclusions from ideas applied to real-world developments. Do you trust your computer? New film explores perils of technology 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

She published some of her correspondence with Good Weekend, pointing to inconsistencies in Naparstek’s recollection of events, and wrote an essay recounting the events for Jezebel. The many layers of Caitlin Stasey: 'A lot of people think I'm a really angry person' 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

Modern Loss is a repository of essays, resources and advice that the founders try to edit so that it doesn’t sound glib, overly religious or trite. An Online Generation Redefines Mourning 2014-03-21T21:07:21Z

Last summer he wrote an essay for The New York Times about his favorite models, riffing on the relative merits of a Hermes 2000, a 1930s Remington or a mid-century Royal. Type(writer) Casting: A Book of Short Stories From Tom Hanks 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

This book, like your others, is a collection of essays, reminiscences, philosophy and advice. Comedian Tom Papa on the McCarthyism of the Left: "It's a terrifying moment" 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z

In one, passages from a scholarly essay about the Homeland Security Department’s color-coded terrorism alert system are calibrated to its colors. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

She is currently working on a book of essays about life without alcohol. How I Survived Wedding Season in My First Year of Sobriety 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Strange as it seems, Griswold was also Poe's literary executor, and he expanded the obituary into a biographical essay that accompanied Poe's collected works. How Edgar Allan Poe became the darling of the maligned and misunderstood 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z

In this essay she is not looking for answers, just some understanding and support. Motherlode: A Son's Demons 2011-08-01T18:26:40Z

The forms that became increasingly common—flashy personal essays, op-eds, and news aggregation—were those that could attract viral audiences on the cheap. The Personal-Essay Boom Is Over 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Wang’s recently published essay collection, “The Collected Schizophrenias,” explores the peculiar questions of identity that the ill, and especially the mentally ill, must contend with. In “The Collected Schizophrenias,” Esmé Weijun Wang Maps the Terrain of Her Mental Illness 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

In one essay, Mr. Baker writes about his curiosity, his love of research, his ardor for old-fashioned scholarship. Books of The Times: Nicholson Baker, ‘The Way the World Works’ 2012-08-12T20:34:47Z

Jackson’s forthcoming book, “Christmas in Baltimore,” is a collection of essays. Library of Congress National Book Festival: History Stage schedule 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

Collections of essays and reviews are the neglected stepchildren of book publishing, generally undertaken to please or placate an author rather than as sales-worthy ventures in themselves. From Don DeLillo to Marilyn Monroe: Lorrie Moore’s First Essay Collection 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

Her course involved writing an essay about UK funky, "the social elements around it and how it developed and stuff", which she probably knew more about than the person marking her. Katy B: One step beyond 2011-03-29T20:30:01Z

He wrote a remarkable essay about that time and the end of that relationship, “Chicago Christmas, 1984,” years ago for The New Yorker. George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z

Daniel Jones: Your essay was published seven years ago, and it was about events that took place years before that. Stepping Forward Into Marriage, Round Two 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

In her essay “Two Paths for the Novel,” Smith also evoked the same basic idea, poking fun at realism for its “often unexamined” belief in “the essential fullness and continuity of the self.” An Answer to the Novel’s Detractors 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

The point of an essay like this one, written in the hours after a writer’s death, is in some regard to blow “Taps” over a meaningful life. Toni Morrison, a Writer of Many Gifts Who Bent Language to Her Will 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Among the other books also included below: a new history of hoaxes, a posthumous collection of essays by Oliver Sacks and an astronaut’s memoir of time spent in space. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Your essays seem to mourn the fact that literature doesn’t have the prominence it used to. Cynthia Ozick, with her new collection 'Critics, Monsters, Fanatics,' on her writing life 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Mistral worked as a rural teacher’s aide and sent poems and essays to local newspapers in her spare time. Move Over, Pablo Neruda. Young Chileans Have a New Favorite Poet. 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z

She kept teaching despite ongoing spells of illness, writing books and publishing essays in magazines like The Atlantic Monthly on the side. “The Boxcar Children” and the Spirit of Capitalism 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

The tone of the essay was similarly sardonic. Holy Joker: Father John Misty releases “Pure Comedy” 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

In an essay in The Guardian, Hale was the first to admit that her actions were ill advised, even creepy. Bully or the Bullied? Kathleen Hale Is Both 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

How do these essays try to hold opposing ideas? Instead of Sobbing, You Write Sentences: An Interview with Charles D'Ambrosio 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

They were chosen after the catalogue essay written about him was deconstructed and key search terms were fed into the National Museum Wales's databases. Artists on Artes Mundi shortlist explore death, memory and immigrants' rights 2012-10-04T16:22:26Z

In his debut collection, a “memoir in essays,” Young fires an admirable volley into the robust field of memoirs by black American men. His Blog Explored Notions of Black Masculinity. His Memoir Explodes Them. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

He favored “anything produced by persons unscathed by artistic culture,” as he wrote in his 1949 essay “Art Brut in Preference to the Cultural Arts.” Review: Drawings? Maybe, but Certainly the Art of Frustration 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Other essays detail his relationships with his father and his pets. Review | James Whiteside isn’t a typical ballet star, and his memoir isn’t a typical ballet story 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

McCarthy’s essays are richly varied, and one surmises the abundant intersections of art and race were in large measure informed by his own experiences growing up Black in America and in France. To This Essayist and Cultural Critic, the Black Tradition Is Resistance 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

If the genre is dying, he wrote in a 1997 essay in The New York Review of Books, to which he was a frequent contributor, “its death spasms are certainly momentous.” Joseph Kerman, Colorful Critic of Musicology, Dies at 89 2014-03-25T04:23:17Z

The essays in “You Don’t Know Us Negroes” take aim at a range of topics. In Zora Neale Hurston’s Essays, the Nonfiction of a Nonconformist 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

Well, that was from an essay that I wrote a couple years ago for Lenny Letter. "GLOW" star Betty Gilpin on battling "implanted patriarchy" and women "cycling through selves" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

Atwood, author of more than 40 books of fiction, poetry and critical essays, said it was surprising to many that signs of totalitarianism were manifesting themselves in the United States of today. We are closer than ever to 1930s-style totalitarianism - Atwood 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z

The threads that tie this somewhat miscellaneous package of essays and reviews are slender. Tretower to Clyro: Essays by Karl Miller ? review 2011-07-08T10:43:01Z

Five years ago, readers salivated over “it happened to me” essays posted daily on women’s websites. Jia Tolentino on the ‘Unlivable Hell’ of the Web and Other Millennial Conundrums 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z

Twelve years later, James Wood's famous essay holds up. What Ever Happened to Hysterical Realism? 2012-07-11T14:00:31Z

Below is a condensed and edited version of that essay. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: The Last of Us, Revisited 2013-12-30T16:34:38Z

One of the practitioners, Ms. Montiel de Shuman, complained in a public essay about an exhibit of a Gauguin painting, “Spirit of the Dead Watching,” that shows a young Tahitian girl, 13, lying naked. Has the Detroit Institute of Arts Lost Touch With Its Home Town? 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

In a later essay, he notes that his books usually steer clear of graphic sex and violence just because they tend to distract the reader from the story itself. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Getaway Car,’ a collection of Donald E. Westlake pieces

There’s a certain kind of personal essay that, for a long time, everybody seemed to hate. The Personal-Essay Boom Is Over 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

He was a regular contributor of criticism and essays to The New York Review of Books. Charles Simic, Pulitzer-Winning Poet and U.S. Laureate, Dies at 84 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

This is an essay about the first time I got high. The First Time I Got High 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Once, after I sent a detailed critique of an essay, he paid me the supreme compliment: “You care about commas!” Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

In his 1922 essay “Neo-Plasticism: Its Realization in Music and Future Theater,” he searched for a direct correlation between sound and color. Want to Understand Mondrian’s Paintings? Try Dancing to Them. 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

On Tuesday, Ms. Barnes published an essay on Gawker about the film and her assault that was seen more than 1.6 million times. Dr. Dre Apologizes to the ‘Women I’ve Hurt’ 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

In another essay, a writer processes her father’s suicide while traveling in Alaska. A Travel Magazine With a Focus on Feminism 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the project is most interesting — and very interesting — when viewed through a critical essay written by Camnitzer and available as a takeaway. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

At the time, I was working on an essay about dating apps in contemporary fiction, and I asked ChatGPT if it too could recommend books where people swipe in search of sex, I mean love. The A.I. Concierge, Fictional Fiction, Real Vodka 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z

This fall, a new collection of essays and criticism about “Maus” and its enduring resonance, called “Maus Now,” was released by Pantheon. Art Spiegelman on Life With a ‘500-Pound Mouse Chasing Me’ 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

More people know her works from pictures in catalogs and essays in textbooks than from seeing them in the flesh. 'Sturtevant: Double Trouble' show at MOCA will dispel misinterpretations 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

You mention in your essay on Louis Auchincloss that it is an article of faith with Americans that only a good person can write a good book. Interview: Gore Vidal 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

These framing essays are critical for navigating this massive volume, as are the annotations accompanying the individual letters. Ralph Ellison’s Letters Reveal a Complex Philosopher of Black Expression 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

All along I was guided by the idea of echolocation as a way to describe both the process of writing the essays and also of moving through each essay and the book as a whole. Steven Church talks essays, and his new book 'Ultrasonic' 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Image: Chris Ware In a recent essay, writer and designer Craig Mod outlined what he termed Subcompact Publishing – simple, small-scale publications suited to the internet and digital reading. Big magazine reads for the small screen 2012-12-23T00:05:27Z

This examination of the power struggle between writer and reader makes for an engaging essay, but you still want to turn the page and see her working it out for herself. 2009-12-10T17:55:00Z

And no matter what you think of Williamson’s work in general or the right to abortion in particular, toward the end of his essay he makes a crucial point about what’s happening to us all: Perspective | Twitter is no place to consider abortion — but a novel might be 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

And here is Straight’s essay “Sex in a Pan.” Books: Food and the stories we tell, plus glam rock and YA in the age of Trump 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

Kirsch’s essays are expertly made, each one deftly including just enough historical context, healthy portions of summary and exposition, and the lightest sprinkling of interpretation and evaluation. From Kafka to Kushner, Touring the 20th Century’s Jewish Canon 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

But as you read each writer’s essay about their space, you understand the resonance these ordinary, simple things convey to each of them. T Magazine: Editor’s Letter 2013-08-23T23:30:18Z

Every weekday, we recommend one piece of exceptional writing from The Times — a narrative or essay that takes you someplace you might not expect to go. Letters to the Editor From Steven Pinker, Jonathan Gottschall, and Others 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

An announcement of Todd’s award is there, so is an essay called “What can I do for My Country,” by Cassie Nylan Gray, which was published in a national magazine. Mass. woman relishes scout leadership for 55 years 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

How and why did that essay transform into a work of fiction? John Jeremiah Sullivan on Writing Unconsciously 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

She had written voluminously about her difficult relationship with Mr. Wurtzel, who divorced her mother when she was young; in the essay, she reassessed that angst. Elizabeth Wurtzel, ‘Prozac Nation’ Author, Is Dead at 52 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

We’ll see the publication of his left-handed writing across genres: letters, a book of travel essays, an etiquette primer. Jeffrey Eugenides’s Short Stories Salvage Wit From Life’s Grind 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Her humorous observations will likely provide fodder for her upcoming book of essays too. Anna Kendrick plays Egg Russian Roulette, loves motivational tweet posters 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

At once deeply personal and unreservedly political, the book often reads like a collection of essays illustrating the author’s prismatic identity. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

No. At an event in Edinburgh about Book 6, I started to read the essay part in the middle, and I couldn’t recognize the thinking. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

There was also the issue of gender bias, leading Pauline Oliveros to write an essay for The New York Times in 1970 asking “Why have there been no ‘great’ women composers?” She Brought New Sounds to Colombia. The World’s Catching Up. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

As regular Salon readers know, I'm a huge fan of Malick -- I even did a five-part series of video essays on the director for the Museum of the Moving Image, . Your guide to Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life" 2011-07-02T16:54:00Z

For all my admiration, though, I never once hoped her essay would become a book. A Memoir of Motherhood Lost 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

The authors of this issue's trio of Holiday essays would agree. | Editor's Letter 2012-11-30T21:00:55Z

But in 2010, the university began reaching out to applicants whose essays raised gay themes. Generation LGBTQIA 2013-01-09T21:10:18Z

But that year she accepted an invitation from a photojournalist to travel by car and create a “very personal” photo essay. Destinations Await in the Summer’s Best Travel Books 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

But during the shut down, while Dr. Marriott was giving therapeutic massages for Cleveland Clinic doctors and nurses to help them recover from the pain of working stressful days, she won an essay contest. After Months of Obstacles, a Happy Ending 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

Wilson said he read other celebrity memoirs and essay collections in preparing to write his own. Rainn Wilson gets spiritual in his memoir 'The Bassoon King,' and Dwight Schrute has something to say about it 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Taking her cue from an esoteric academic essay arguing that Hamlet was in fact a woman, the Danish star Asta Nielsen formed her own production company to get this silent version made. The best Shakespeare films – ranked! 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Later, in an autobiographical essay entitled Named for Victoria, Queen of England, he told how, like Queen Victoria, he "lost his Albert". Chinua Achebe obituary 2013-03-22T13:56:09Z

Mr. Houston-Jones writes in an essay for the “Lost and Found” catalog. Danspace Project Remembers the Lost Unknown Ghosts of AIDS 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Perhaps it’s the same impulse that’s behind the ellipses at the end of so many of her essays; her writing rarely winds up, but wanes with unnerving preoccupation. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

“How do I convey these stories of atrocities without your shutting down, quickly turning the page or feeling too disturbed?” she wonders in an essay that was originally written for Glamour. In ‘Reckoning,’ Eve Ensler Unveils a New Name but Familiar Targets 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

The name Elisha Otis appears in Kennedy’s essay only once, in a sentence about “other early inventors and patentees of portions of elevator machinery.” The most important invention in the history of the modern city 2014-02-23T13:00:00Z

In that essay, “Judas’ Gift,” Mr. Phillips wrote: “Somewhere in ourselves we associate being loved with being betrayed, and being betrayed with growing.” ‘The Art of Rivalry’ Dissects Four Jostling Pairs of Artists 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z

A subject that I devoted the whole first chapter of my book to—the alphabet—Marcolongo dispenses with in less than a paragraph, in the penultimate essay. An Instant Classic About Learning Ancient Greek 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

An essay could be written about the occasions, big and small, that occupy the collective unconscious of the average American who came awake in the 1940s. ‘Let Me Tell You,’ by Shirley Jackson 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

That is an unfashionable attitude today, but Padilla's extraordinary photo essay shows that this small voice still resonates. Darcy Padilla's Julie Project: when photography becomes humanitarian 2011-01-25T15:36:46Z

Why a piece of theatre, as opposed to an essay or a speech? Bernard-Henri Lévy on Anti-Semitism, American Elections, and the Future of Europe 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

These ruminative and wide-ranging essays explore Messud’s growth as a person and as a thoughtful literary citizen. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

"I remember writing essays and waking up in the middle of the night with ideas and wanting to write them down." Gwendoline Riley: 'The buck stops here? I've got bad blood' ? interview 2012-05-18T10:45:03Z

This essay is adapted from his book, “Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood,” out this month. The Tallest Man I Ever Loved 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

Soon after Buruma departed, the magazine issued a statement acknowledging “failures in the presentation and editing” of the essay. New York Review Names 2 Top Editors 5 Months After Ian Buruma’s Departure 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

William Logan is the author of five poetry collections and, most recently, the book of essays “Broken Ground: Poetry and the Demon of History.” One Last Book From an Outback Poet Who Was Part Hero, Part Pariah 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Watch the essays for more insight, including in the cineaste-friendly cinematography category. The Carpetbagger: If Cineastes Could Pick the Oscar Winners 2014-02-07T13:30:26Z

Was this something that you were aware of as you were writing the essay? Not Getting with the Program: An Interview with Meghan Daum 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Emerson's nine-minute video essay on the "Salt" sequence is embedded below. "Realism" is in the eye of the beholder 2011-09-13T14:01:00Z

Poetry, biographies of artists or activists, fiction, essays, spirituality, art history, including books on textile, design and fashion, and especially books on houses. Sandra Cisneros Loves to Read About Women Waging Battle 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Ms. Rosler, who once referred to MoMA in an essay as “the Kremlin of Modernism,” said she was happy for the chance to open up shop there. Martha Rosler’s ‘Meta-Monumental Garage Sale,’ at MoMA 2012-11-17T02:07:13Z

To get access to other special recipes, how-to's and essays, be sure to subscribe. You deserve a better fruit salad 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z

She had learned how to produce thorough, precise, intellectually sterile essays. Universities think I’m disposable, but my non-tenured status makes me a better teacher 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z

This collection of essays about racial politics and culture in America offers a full portrait of Kennedy’s thinking as a law professor and public intellectual, demonstrating his commitment to reflection over partisanship, thinking over feeling. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

In your essay "Lady Kluck," you talk about the lack of characters on television and in movies that you could identify with as a young girl. Lindy West is the troll-fighting feminist warrior you've been waiting for 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

E. Lily Yu is the author of the novel “On Fragile Waves” and of two forthcoming books — the story collection “Jewel Box,” coming in October, and an essay collection to be published next year. The Life and Times of China’s Pirate Queen 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

An essay or work of polemic finds it hard to describe the texture of such fluctuation, whereas the novelist understands that to tell a story is to novelise an idea, to dramatise it. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z

It included manuscripts in Douglass’s hand of some of his later essays and speeches, but also correspondence with his children. Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

So it makes sense that the current trend in essay writing might take on some of those qualities, as well as the sticky narcissistic sludge of Facebook and the like. Have personal essays gotten too personal? 2013-03-17T17:00:00Z

“In the early morning, in my footie pajamas, I cracked open the door to my mother’s bedroom,” the essay begins. Review | James Whiteside isn’t a typical ballet star, and his memoir isn’t a typical ballet story 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

In another instance, CW-1 adjusted a student's college essay to appeal to Georgetown's tennis team and after allegedly bribing the university's tennis coach. "Be stupid": The most outrageous details in the college admission cheating investigation 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

The captious, however, might complain that Levi’s autobiographical writings are somewhat repetitive, his essays a bit dry and his fantasy fiction rather labored. ‘The Complete Works of Primo Levi’: A literary treasury on humanity 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

This delicate question was the subject of an essay by Susan Cheever in The Fix, titled “Is It Time to Take the Anonymous Out of A.A.?” Challenging the Second ?A? in A.A. 2011-05-06T22:42:58Z

Despite a certain triumphal tone, this essay communicates an excitement, anticipation and, above all, an ambition that the exhibition completely fulfills. In ‘Artek and the Aaltos,’ Caution — Sleek, Modernist Curves Ahead 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Less complicated is the criticism, articulated most exactly by Sarah Churchwell in a New York Review of Books essay, that Massini’s play glosses over the Lehmans’ participation in the slave trade in Alabama. The Story of the Lehman Brothers, from Bavaria to Alabama, and From the Heights to the Crash 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

First published as an appendix to A Tramp Abroad, the essay is available separately in German bookstores. Germans can’t get enough Mark Twain 2013-01-10T22:39:00Z

Accompanying the show was a slim catalogue, with a supremely clear-eyed introductory essay by Martin. Aboriginal artists find a surprising new champion: Steve Martin 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

In his essay on the academy, Lessig first writes scathingly of the psychiatric profession. Two Leading Intellectuals Analyze What Ails America 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

"Publicity" — something normally associated with celebrities — "is no longer scarce," Dave Morgan, the chief executive of Simulmedia, wrote in an essay this month. Upending anonymity, the Web unmasks everyone 2011-06-21T05:32:30Z

So there seemed no better moment for Eric to bring together his most celebrated essays on Marx into a single volume, together with new material on Marxism in light of the crash. From Marx to the Milibands 2011-01-16T00:04:08Z

In this essay and lecture collection, the National Book Award winner draws from a lifetime of writing and teaching to reflect on the technical and intangible parts of the art of fiction. Newly Published, From a California Wildfire to Kendrick Lamar 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

Xavier Solomon, the museum’s chief curator, will write the essay. Books From the Frick to Offer Authors’ Views on Major Works 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

As she put it in a 2013 essay for New York magazine, “I made a career out of my emotions.” Elizabeth Wurtzel, ‘Prozac Nation’ Author, Is Dead at 52 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Soon afterward, this: “I keep on with the essays, although energy continues to diminish. The brain is still there, but I’m not sure about the right knee!” Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

To top it all off, she's the author of the book Your Second Act: Inspiring Stories of Reinvention, a collection of essays and advice that came out from Simon & Schuster last year. Emmy Award winner Patricia Heaton's most inspiring tips for a great life 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

The first assignment was to write an essay about an early encounter with a person of color. Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

With this slender collection of essays, Mayle begins by recalling his midlife origin story: stumbling upon the region, buying a house, finding a French teacher while in line at the bakery. A Parade of Francophiles, With Peter Mayle in the Lead 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

But fueled both by the profound reaction to his essay and by his career as a journalist, Teague was wedded to authenticity. When Some Critics Reject the Film That’s About Your Life 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

The writer Roxane Gay announced that she would no longer be writing an in-progress essay that had been commissioned by the magazine. New Yorker Festival Pulls Steve Bannon as Headliner Following High-Profile Dropouts 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

Jonathan Bailey, the author of the website Plagiarism Today, wrote on Monday that Ms. Bello’s essay “included poor paraphrasing without attribution of an article that I wrote over a decade ago.” Her Novel Was Pulled for Plagiarism. Her Explanation Was, Too. 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

Readers will be spared essays by CEOs on the joys of breastfeeding or dressing for success. New spring nonfiction dips into social issues and politics 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

Although not explicitly stated, her essays begin to reveal that she uses this philosophy in every aspect of her life. Comedian Ali Wong's book "Dear Girls" tells a magical, raunchy love story 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Tray, a high school senior in Brooklyn, is struggling with a scholarship essay. ‘brownsville song (b-side for tray),’ at Lincoln Center 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Last fall, Gary created an illustrated essay for a new McSweeney’s food magazine, Lucky Peach, to celebrate the peanut patties, Tex-Mex, barbecue and other Texas staples that he savors in his hometown. Texas Monthly: Mel and Gary Panter Have a Father-and-Son Art Exhibition in Sulphur Springs 2012-01-08T05:20:28Z

He has continued to write extensively and has published two books: “Sordid Rituals,” a book of poetry, and “Excuse Me: One Nigerian’s Funny Outsized Reality,” a compilation of essays. History and Humor Inspire Victor Ehikhamenor’s Art 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

With its blend of gently self-deprecating humor and easily digested science, this essay epitomizes our pursuit of perfection through process, otherwise known as the “life hack.” The New York Times’ “love life hacks”: What we can learn from the 10 most popular Modern Love columns ever 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

In the equally entertaining sequel, her French family come to stay over Halloween with the 38-year-old Marion, now a single mother and about to exhibit her latest photo essay, and her black lover. 2 Days in New York ? review 2012-05-19T23:05:44Z

The essay, an antisemitic screed that argues Jewish composers could only imitate, and never truly create, also lingers on the composer’s visceral hatred for the Jewish “voice.” Germany Reckons With Wagner: Cultural Jewel, or National Shame? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

In an earlier essay here at Salon, I described Donald Trump’s campaign as a political death cult. The ghouls have won: The first night of Donald Trump’s RNC was a political death cult 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

His tenderness for the essay is for the moment when its reach exceeds its grasp. A Witty and Original Writer Shares His Love for the Essay 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

It's funny essays about other humans' experiences because we're all living from the same brochure, so learn from that and just your life will be easier. Comedian Tom Papa on the McCarthyism of the Left: "It's a terrifying moment" 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z

It's not an image of "sky," but a textless photo essay on the artist's familiarity with this sky. 'The Digital Eye': photographic art in the electronic age 2011-08-10T20:11:06Z

Back in the early 1990s, David Foster Wallace wrote an essay urging young American novelists to find a way to come to terms with the role of television in contemporary life. How novels came to terms with the internet 2011-01-15T00:06:06Z

“Why should a piece of writing,” he asks, “be excluded from the essay kingdom simply because it follows a coherent line of reasoning?” ‘The Glorious American Essay,’ From Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

Mark Greif is an associate professor of English at Stanford and the author, most recently, of the essay collection “Against Everything.” Was Saul Bellow a Man or a Jerk? Both, a Monumental Biography Concludes 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Each essay begins at death's door, rolls back time to explore the writer's attitudes toward mortality before they were up against it, and finally describes their final moments on this mortal coil. In 'The Violet Hour,' Katie Roiphe looks at five great writers shuffling off this mortal coil 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

The comparison between the two forms needn’t be made; we know the difference, yet it might explain my relative comfort, even ease, with the personal essay and my fear of any public sort of dialogue. When the school is the bully 2012-05-18T16:15:00Z

His new book, “White,” is a set of personal essays in which he dismisses millennials as “Generation Wuss” and gets shirty about filtering culture through identity and not capital-A art. Perspective | Where’s the great millennial novel? A Gen Xer wonders. 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

This collection of essays by Solnit, dubbed the “voice of the resistance,” explores a range of topics, including the role of emotions in our political life. New & Noteworthy 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

When he was growing up in Illinois, an English teacher assigned him to read "As I Lay Dying," and he protested with an essay called, "As I Die Reading." Miss. hometown marks half century post-Faulkner 2012-07-04T17:16:04Z

“Anxiety is conductive,” argues the designer Mike Monteiro, in an old essay that got a new surge of online attention a few weeks ago. Calm down! Anxiety is contagious 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

“Even then I hung my head,” Mr. Goldman wrote in a 1981 essay for The New York Times about the insecurities of a writer’s life. Bo Goldman, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter, Dies at 90 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z

Instead of essays, she offers notebook entries, discrete blocks of text organized around themes like “Insomnia,” “Photographs” and “Twitter.” Katie Roiphe Feels Ambivalent About Feeling Ambivalent 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

"I wrote my essay to get in - I was asked who I most wanted to meet - and I said Jules Fisher." Carnegie Mellon cheers 'bumper crop' of Tonys 2013-06-14T12:50:10Z

Letter to Jane is simply a deconstructionist essay/harangue, narrated by Godard and Gorin, critiquing the photo of Fonda, and also US leftism and Hollywood stardom. Jane Fonda's 10 best films – ranked! 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

“I wrote the essay for myself, a healing thing,” she said. Cecily Strong has a raw new memoir about grief. That surprises her too. 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

Stevenson’s essay is a brisk and eloquent snapshot of the history of American crime as seen through the lens of race. Review | With his camera, Gordon Parks humanized the Black people others saw as simply criminals 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

There was also an up-in-arms essay on CNN.com that asked “what if this book was about blacks, or Muslims, or Jews?” – which, of course, it was – and low-key accused us of causing child abuse. Adam Mansbach: My year on the bestseller list 2012-12-12T01:00:00Z

Levy’s new memoir, “The Rules Do Not Apply,” is much more than just an extension of that essay. A Memoir of Motherhood Lost 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

In August a young blogger named Nick Divers posted an essay online revealing that there is more to the paint than immediately meets the eye. An Artist?s Alfresco John Hancock 2010-09-18T00:13:00Z

“The Weaker Sex” is also the withering title of an essay Knightley wrote for a collection called Feminists Don’t Wear Pink And Other Lies, published in October. Keira Knightley: 'I can’t act the flirt or mother to get my voice heard. It makes me feel sick' 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

Ephron wrote essays for major US magazines from the late 1960s, as well as several non-fiction books, including two recent memoirs. Hollywood writer Nora Ephron dies 2012-06-27T08:09:52Z

“In effect,” he wrote in an essay published in January in The New York Review of Books, “A.L.S. constitutes progressive imprisonment without parole.” Tony Judt, Author and Intellectual, Is Dead 2010-08-07T16:18:00Z

What Marx meant in his essay The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is that history does not repeat itself at all. London burning: history just went sci-fi 2011-08-08T11:46:42Z

Mr. Kerman, the author of a number of admired books and essays, disliked what he saw as the intellectual isolation of musicology and encouraged a more multidisciplinary approach. Joseph Kerman, Colorful Critic of Musicology, Dies at 89 2014-03-25T04:23:17Z

The title of the essay refers to the rooms in which Brodsky lived with his parents, the same empty rooms that may someday be the core of the Brodsky museum. St Petersburg's homely tributes to Russia's great artists 2012-11-20T13:56:01Z

New work by an intriguing cross-section of 14 young London-based artists is brought together here in the ad-lib style of the Arnold Bennett collection of essays from which the show takes its name. This week's new exhibitions 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z

Ironically, the academic essays that accompany the exhibition fall into the same trap, calling up the Bauhaus, the Futurists, the Situationists, as well as Andy Warhol. Loud Flash: the art of punk 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z

Director Robert B. Weide, a friend of Allen’s, wrote an essay on The Daily Beast in late January that has been widely referenced by those in this camp. Crimes and misdemeanors: Woody Allen and what we get wrong about sexual abuse 2014-02-06T13:00:00Z

In a recent honors class, one of the two finest essays in the class integrated our literature course texts with the Federalist Papers. I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z

I actually did talk about the essays that didn't make it in the book. Cathy Park Hong: "Sometimes you just have to push back – being offended is part of the process" 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Rich in self-deprecating juvenile shtick, these personal essays by the actor and screenwriter amount to an autobiography of sorts. New & Noteworthy, From Seth Rogen to an Elephant in Belfast 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

Smith’s gifts as a novelist animate her essays. In ‘Intimations,’ Zadie Smith Applies Her Even Temper to Tumultuous Times 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Simic speaks often about his early childhood in these essays, the years in Belgrade with the “droning planes, deafening explosions, and people hung from lampposts.” Review: Charles Simic Displays a Poet’s Voice and His Passions 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

What you see here, however, is only a small piece of the larger project, as Mr. Price has disseminated his essay in a variety of formats to bypass established institutions. ‘Sites of Reason’ Underway at Museum of Modern Art 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

“Once upon a time, in the early 1990s,” Meghan Daum writes in “The Unspeakable,” her new essay collection, Generation X was “the cohort people were interested in.” ‘Unspeakable,’ Essays by Meghan Daum 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

In a series of essays, Kelleher investigates the darker sides to our adornments: the crushed-up beetles in our lipstick, the cow bones in our dishware. 11 New Books Coming in April 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

Several of the novel’s “Coming to America” essays, short discrete immigrant stories, were woven into the overarching narrative. ‘American Gods’: Why a Story About Ancient Deities Is Timely 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Never show them your back Topics: Body Image, Body Issues, Body Wars, Exhibitionism, , Moles, Personal essays, This is the first installment in "Body Issues," a series of personal essays about obsessions with our own bodies. Never show them your back 2012-11-24T01:00:00Z

Suffice it to say that “Project Greenlight” has, whether it meant to or not, provided several essays’ worth of commentary on the delicate subjects of race, gender, professionalism and respect. HBO’s ‘The Leisure Class’: As expected, Jason Mann’s precious movie stinks 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

On the same day she broke her inauguration news, her transgender older sister, Juliet, published an essay in Teen Vogue titled, “How Juliet Evancho Came Out to Her Family, and the Entire World.” Inauguration gig boosts Jackie Evancho's concert ticket sales 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

The next section reprints “Other People’s Trades,” Levi’s major book of essays and a reflection of his “vagabond and dilettantish curiosity.” ‘The Complete Works of Primo Levi’: A literary treasury on humanity 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

“I was nervy and racked by caffeine and nicotine — one morning I even overdosed on coffee, no mean achievement,” Self confesses in his opening essay, “Walking to The World.” 2010-01-01T00:14:00Z

Meanwhile he'll be printing a book of essays, doing a gallery talk and organising an artist discussion group to spread the word. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z

The award-winning writer works in many forms -- poetry, performance, fiction, essay, criticism -- and often addresses issues of gender, race, slavery and colonialism. Avant-garde &Now literary festival kicks off at CalArts 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

But the essay starts to slide off the rails. Leslie Jamison and the Anxiety of Authorship 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Another client insisted I finish eight supplemental essays with her child in just three weeks — despite knowing that the child struggled mightily to finish the first essay in double that time. Perspective | My dilemma as a college essay coach: How to walk the fine line between helping and cheating 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

But annoying the reader isn't a bad way to start a book of essays, especially if you are an English writer — think Oscar Wilde and G.K. Jane Smiley on Geoff Dyer: hard to take but worth the attempt 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

This essay appears as a foreword to “Bedrooms of the Fallen,” by Ashley Gilbertson, which will be published in June by University of Chicago Press. Knowing War Intimately 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

She also wrote a book of essays, “I’ve Heard the Vultures Singing,” and a short-story collection, “Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain.” Lucia Perillo, Whose Illness Shaped Her Poetry, Dies at 58 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

What the writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal said of Benjamin’s essay on Goethe still rings true: it was, and is, “absolutely incomparable.” Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z

In her essay, Lee performed a magnificent literary concerto, keeping tempo and hitting the right note with every heartstring pluck. Reflecting on a Lifetime of Reading and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

The catalog is virtually an artist’s book, laden with pertinent essays and treats, including three seemingly autobiographical posts from Mr. Prince’s blog, Bird Talk. Richard Prince’s New, Late Style Is One of His Best 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

And now he is publishing his first book, a collection of absurdist essays, cartoons, sketches and other “funny things” that he’s compiled over the years called “A Load of Hooey.” Bob Odenkirk’s advice to young people: “Get out of comedy, because it’s about to collapse” 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

And it requires some effort on the viewer’s part to parse the curatorial essay on art, ethnology and morality they are part of. Documenta Kassel: Using Art as Their Witness 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

The “crystalline pieces” of this book, Sehgal says, offer “a sense, never belabored, of the stakes of creating essays and the consolations of loving them.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

Under house arrest, Panahi conjures up an engrossing, witty and original essay on artistic creation and the limits of control. What to Know About Jafar Panahi, the Imprisoned Iranian Filmmaker 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

Later he produced novels, original works of history and a variety of essays that reflected his unique, ironic sensibility. The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

The title track, for example, is a beautiful piece of music: twitchy, tense, but captivatingly melodic and brilliantly arranged, it essays a new form of intelligent but never arid, electronic urban soul. New band of the day ? No 769: James Blake 2010-04-20T15:20:00Z

Like all reflective objects though, the act of essaying has a twoness about it. Review | In the loopily expansive ‘Figure It Out,’ Wayne Koestenbaum ponders everything from Robert Rauschenberg’s shoes to the notion of the line 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

“What about the farmer beyond that gorgeous meadow who works seven days a week from morning to night and is still starving?” he wrote in another essay. Charles Simic, Pulitzer-Winning Poet and U.S. Laureate, Dies at 84 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

Volume IV includes “The Dyer’s Hand,” which assembles many of Auden’s greatest essays. ‘The Complete Works of Auden’ showcases writings beyond the poetry 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

In an essay about translating Proust’s letters, Davis voyages to the apartment where he wrote much of “In Search of Lost Time.” Translation Is Hard Work. Lydia Davis Makes It Thrilling. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

I freelance, writing personal essays, pop culture criticism and television recaps for various significant websites. A response to 'On Pandering' 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

An essay on Nov. 3 about Edith Wharton’s novel “The Age of Innocence” misstated the given name of one character. Does Race Matter? Who Gets to Ask That Question? 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

His essays, above all those on Dante, dwelt, among other themes, on the political predicament of the intellectual. Edoardo Sanguineti obituary 2010-05-26T17:23:00Z

“I am losing my sight to a degenerative disorder called retinitis pigmentosa,” she wrote in a 2016 essay in The Independent. Susie Steiner, Author of Acclaimed British Crime Novels, Dies at 51 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

Could you have published an essay about your mother when she was alive and written it with the same degree of honesty? Not Getting with the Program: An Interview with Meghan Daum 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

The limbo that Knausgaard essays in this book is, like so much of his life, particular to him but also highly familiar to everyone else. Review: Book 5 of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental memoir 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

Her broad authority and the quality of the prose — astute, compassionate and lethally funny — are what make these essays remarkable. An Essayist Navigates the Labyrinth of American Health Care. Barely. 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

When do you know you have the material for an essay? Not Getting with the Program: An Interview with Meghan Daum 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

“The original essay was not about the American Revolution,” she said, adding that she “didn’t know that that would be such an asset for those who wanted to try to discredit the project.” Perspective | Nikole Hannah-Jones isn’t done challenging the story of America 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

The essay writer discussed the "genre" in terms of the writer's disgust and prophesied its imminent demise. Open door: The readers' editor on? entertainment writing and 'torture porn' 2010-09-05T23:05:00Z

The essay was extremely difficult to read, and indescribably sad. “Come from nothing, blow up and die”: Reflections on Scott Weiland dig into the self-destructive rock star myth 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

Seven years ago, I had the good fortune to watch a young woman, Amy Leach, defend a collection of essays about nature in front of a committee. Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z

The theme for these two collections of essays might be considered to be the search for knowledge about subjects, such as ancient civilisations, about which we can never be totally sure. Evan S Connell obituary 2013-01-14T17:21:15Z

A recent essay about “The Bachelor” on the Paris Review’s website asked, “We’re not still supposed to feign embarrassment when we admit we watch trashy TV shows, are we?” Andy Cohen: Oozing, desperate, likable 2012-06-07T00:00:00Z

Even four years later, Spector, in the essay, acknowledged that, “‘Blind’ will, no doubt, elicit strong emotional responses.” Maurizio Cattelan’s New Work Pays Visceral Tribute to the Pain of 9/11 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

Art historian Jennifer Greenhill offers a deconstruction of this painting in her fascinating essay for the Atlantic a few months back, one of very few attempts to treat McNaughton's work seriously: Trump propaganda painter Jon McNaughton: "Greatest" artist of our time? 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

Thinking I have found an acceptably serious way to discuss the Brat Pack, I ask if he read Molly Ringwald’s essay in the New Yorker about her mixed feelings about The Breakfast Club. Emilio Estevez: ‘Brat Pack will be on my tombstone’ 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

Criterion's new DVD and Blu-ray edition include new and vintage interviews, plus a video essay. Christopher Nolan's bold, offbeat 'Interstellar' 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

The notion of the outsider is central to Rich’s thinking, a key that opens subjects ranging from literature to feminism to politics, which, in both essays and poems, are all effortlessly — and necessarily — interwoven. Two New Volumes by Adrienne Rich, Game-Changing Feminist, Poet and Essayist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

Holt offers a series of previously published essays and sketches of scientific thinkers that answer these questions and other mysteries from the world of physics and math. New & Noteworthy 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

More trivially, the title of Martin Amis's essay collection, The War on Cliche, is self-defeating. Rules for writing: block that metaphor! 2013-05-23T14:40:46Z

Her autobiographical essays capture her difficult childhood, her transformation into a fiction writer and the personal unraveling that came with success in her adopted language. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

I read it for a New Yorker essay I was writing on novels involving plagues. The Best Book Jill Lepore Ever Got as a Present Is One She Hates 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

These essays toggle between Young’s dueling narrative styles, and in the end the reader cannot be certain which is the definitive one. His Blog Explored Notions of Black Masculinity. His Memoir Explodes Them. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

“Maybe I belong nowhere,” he wrote in a 1990 essay, “and I am simply dangling somewhere in the middle.” Janusz Glowacki, Polish Playwright of Terror and Dark Humor, Dies at 78 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

And during the time I’ve worked on this essay, several long-term friends have told me they’ve never noticed my freckles and had to look at photos to picture me with them. Hiding my freckles 2012-12-27T22:35:00Z

If a couple of the lighter essays here are in danger of floating away, others succeed without Ms. Daum’s needing to insist they be connected to weightier themes. ‘Unspeakable,’ Essays by Meghan Daum 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

O. Scott, a film critic for The Times, in an essay noting that Oscar season shares this time of the year with a “less-heralded seasonal ritual: the spectacle of great actors appearing in bad movies.” ArtsBeat: Arts & Leisure Preview: Good Actors in Bad Movies, 'The Book of Mormon' and More 2011-02-18T20:57:58Z

Does his latest essay collection rise above it? 10 books to read in October 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

But Rich, in her seminal poems and essays, took this reimagining as her central subject. Two New Volumes by Adrienne Rich, Game-Changing Feminist, Poet and Essayist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

The essay helps explain, in a way that the show by itself cannot, why Marin was so esteemed by the cognoscenti of his time and why he appears less compelling today. Art Review: Testing the Waters of Abstraction 2011-08-04T22:02:30Z

I tried to modulate across the book so that more lyrical essays bumped up against starker prose-poem-ish studies of people or geographies. "Dear Damage" author on when your family's tragedy makes headlines 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

An essay on her childhood habit of collecting nests twines with her youthful skepticism of domesticity, how nests render birds — exhilarating in their freedom — suddenly so painfully vulnerable. Helen Macdonald’s ‘Vesper Flights’ Sees Wonder — and Refuge — in the Natural World 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

James Hamblin, the usually brilliant health correspondent at the Atlantic, recently wrote an essay chastising Trump as the “climax of America’s masculinity problem.” Trump’s “alpha-male” paradox: How gender bias makes his behavior seem manly, no matter what 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

And so, she says, while her experience informs some of her essays, she does not bring her critique of women in film to the set. Dakota Fanning: ‘There was an expectation – to fail, to succeed’ 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

Originally I was not in a lot of these essays. "Florida hasn't always been the weird state": Florida Man pens book reframing the Sunshine State 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

I don't know if that's exactly Havrilesky's deal, but it's definitely mine, which is why I identified her essay persona as a kindred spirit, years before she learned my name. Have we forgotten how to read critically? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z

Jointly authored short story or essay collections with more than three contributors are not eligible. Guardian first book award 2012: 10th book terms and conditions 2012-05-22T09:45:48Z

If we decide strength is about structure and elucidation, then most of these essays are heavyweight boxers. Up Close and Personal: New Essays From Leslie Jamison 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

As Ms. Bell puts it in her essay, she’s been “crumpled by the invisible weight of unrequited love — killed by it, even.” Review: Sex, Death and Little Subtlety 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Ms. Rodgers contributed essays on poetry and black culture to myriad journals and taught at several schools, including the and Indiana University, and, in Chicago, Columbia College and Harold Washington College. Carolyn Rodgers, Poet, Dies at 69 2010-04-19T04:28:00Z

Mr. McMurtry’s many books included three memoirs and three collections of essays, including “Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen,” published in 1999. Larry McMurtry, Novelist of the American West, Dies at 84 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

Sontag was writing primarily about still photographs and paintings, but her essay touched on perhaps the most enduring and disquieting impulse of cinema, one that’s on particularly extravagant display this season. ‘The Hateful Eight’ and ‘The Revenant’ bring the pain, but what do we gain? 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

The essays were invariably coupled with a portrait in which the author appeared preternaturally composed. One Year of #MeToo: We Need a More Inclusive Language of Abuse and Victimhood 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Byrne's essays add up to a fine appraisal of the novelist's environment, truly Austenish in the way they burrow into a sequestered and often secretive private world. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z

The detail that stuck with me from her essay about the inventive Italian chef Massimo Bottura wasn’t a dissection of one of his “dishes as metaphors.” The Cookbook Addict 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

She wrote her essay in the form of a personal ad. My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Several of the pieces here poke around in what Manny Howard, in his essay, calls “stunt cooking” — the male need to put on a show and, say, bury a whole pig somewhere. Books of The Times: The Manly Art of Cooking Has Its Bards 2011-05-31T23:55:18Z

Tate admires DeLillo, but, in the essay, he muses playfully on the vast literary terrain available to the alienated white male writer. The Critic Who Convinced Me That Criticism Could Be Art 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

The essay was written by David Hlavsa, a professor at St. Martin’s University. The Modern Love Podcast: Sterling K. Brown Reads ‘My First Son, a Pure Memory’ 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

In the L.R.B., the first essay about Lessing was titled “What to Call Her?” Jenny Diski’s Way of Seeing Beyond the Story 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

Orwell's 1946 essay Politics and the English Language is being given away for free from the Orwell prize's website, as well as published in a 99p edition by Penguin. George Orwell Day 2013-01-21T10:40:54Z

He writes novels – he wrote his second in this office, and is currently writing his third – along with journalism and treatments for TV and film, and has edited two collections of essays. 'This building gives me so many ideas': creatives on the spaces that inspire them 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

Reports on topics like the living conditions and drug use inside correctional facilities accompany personal essays and interviews with criminal justice experts and the previously incarcerated. A New Video Series Explores Criminal Justice From the Inside Out 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

Now, thanks to that college essay, Ms. Lovelace is finally getting her due. ‘The Innovators’ by Walter Isaacson: How Women Shaped Technology 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

In his excellent catalog essay, Mr. Wile sees in Watteau a shift in ideas about representing human psychology. Watteau’s Peacefully Bittersweet War Scenes 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

“A lot of people speculate that Bowie was actually the glue that was holding the universe together. It’s certainly been a bit different since he tragically passed away,” Barker wrote in an essay. ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’-style homage to celebrity deaths of 2016 runs out of space 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

His intention is not to create finished, gleaming, varnished objects, but great stumps or fragments or semi-formed embryological expressions: essays in the incomplete which allude to the impermanence of everything in the physical world. Cannes film festival review ? Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow 2010-05-16T17:14:00Z

Mr. Dyer starts with an essay about a deeply unsatisfying attempt to retrace the footsteps of Paul Gauguin on the centenary of the artist’s death. Review: ‘White Sands’ Asks Why We Visit the Places We Do 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

As the exhibition’s organizer and Storm King’s curator, Nora R. Lawrence, tells it in her exhibition catalog essay, Mr. Oppenheim was commissioned to create a public sculpture for Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport in 2000. Dennis Oppenheim, a Sculptor Who Moved Heaven and Earth 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

There is a version of this essay that makes a case for Maxwell based on the uncanny timeliness of his fiction. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

In his essay "Unreal" in his book "The Thing Itself: On the Search for Authenticity," Richard Todd said much the same thing. Motherlode Blog: What Will You Do in the Name of Malala? 2012-10-10T16:33:02Z

But much of the play’s primary dialogue is between the narrator’s critical oration and the indignant responses Rankine received to her essay, which ensemble members recite directly to the audience. ‘Help’ Review: Blindfolds (and Kid Gloves) Off. Let’s Analyze Whiteness. 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

I see the essay as a capacious form and a coalition of many genres. Cathy Park Hong: "Sometimes you just have to push back – being offended is part of the process" 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Davis’s essay began: Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages . Angola Prison and the Shadow of Slavery 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

She’s the author of Axiomatic, a collection of essays blending memoir and reportage to explore trauma and grief. From Chernobyl to concentration camps: why the morbid fascination with places of death and disaster? 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

In her collection of essays Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay writes about the apparent contradictions of labelling herself with the “f” word. Think pink: how the colour is being reclaimed 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

I can't imagine the time and effort that goes into writing a whole essay about something as simple as food. At Momofuku Nishi, David Chang’s Magic Shows a Little Wear 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

So wrote Harry Harrison in a 1990 essay that described science fiction, the genre in which he wrote more than 60 novels, as “rubbish.” Harry Harrison, a Prolific Writer of Satiric Science Fiction, Dies at 87 2012-08-18T02:52:27Z

His first essay, “Getting Your Dream Job is as Easy as ABT,” delivers what we expect from a dancer’s memoir — a standard ballet star journey. Review | James Whiteside isn’t a typical ballet star, and his memoir isn’t a typical ballet story 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

The greatness of the Pips There is also an essay called 10 Bands I Wish I'd Been In, which singles out Gladys Knight's backing group the Pips. Robert Forster: me and my bridge 2010-07-14T20:31:00Z

Row, whose 2014 novel “Your Face in Mine” satirized liberal desires to dissolve racial difference into a vague concept of “togetherness,” works like a Freudian analyst in these searching, loosely structured essays. Reading the Hidden Racial Life of American Fiction 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Her arrival had been preceded by a long anecdote, in which Michael described how, many years ago, he discovered an essay in which Andy detailed plans to fake his death. Comedian Kaufman 'faked his death' 2013-11-14T11:59:34Z

Together with her second collection of essays, Even the Stars Look Lonesome, which was published four years later, the essay collections were dubbed “Angelou’s wisdom books” in the New Yorker by Hilton Als. Maya Angelou's most notable books 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

“Something for everyone,” said Ali Wentworth, who had sold out of her humorous essay collection, “Ali in Wonderland,” early and was fleeing with George Stephanopoulos, her husband. Scene City: At the East Hampton Library Authors Night 2012-08-15T21:28:02Z

Vulnerability and verve run thick in this show, this vigorous, clamorous essay in clay, color, texture and space. At the Pit in Glendale, sculpture that keeps you on your toes 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

The topless photo was accompanied by an essay by Ms. Dalbesio, reconciling her feminism with being a model. Myla Dalbesio: A Model Who Makes a Stand With Feminist Art 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

In the title essay, he considers the setting of nearly all Anne Tyler’s work: Baltimore, particularly the neighborhood of Roland Park. Reading the Hidden Racial Life of American Fiction 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Barbara A. Brewer, an English teacher at the school, assigned 49 freshmen to write essays about the frescoes. These High School Murals Depict an Ugly History. Should They Go? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Writing novels didn’t seem to burn off enough energy, so Dickens wrote essays on the side, and put on amateur theatricals of high enough caliber that they were performed for the Queen. Charles Dickens: An Author of Demonic Energy 2011-10-19T10:00:49Z

Educators were thrilled by how their students connected with it, writing their own essays and creating art inspired by it. How the 1619 Project took over 2020 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the most old-fashioned idea about the “Anthology” is its format — a heavy physical box, loaded with images and essays, and nine CDs in an era where CD players are increasingly rare. How Do You Capture Four Decades of Hip-Hop? Very Broadly. 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

A couple of pages might see the narrative breeze through the Oracle of Delphi, the philosophy of Aristotle, the fiction of Gogol, and the essays of Montaigne. Anatomies: The Human Body, Its Parts and the Stories They Tell by Hugh Aldersey-Williams – review 2013-02-28T08:00:01Z

There are too many essays about Seattle, and they overlap and reprise one another. Books of The Times: ?Driving Home,? by Jonathan Raban - Review 2011-09-15T21:30:23Z

Photo: Susannah Ireland/Rex Simon and Overmyer had been chomping at the bit to essay their vision of New Orleans for years. Down but not out 2010-04-09T23:11:00Z

The basic arguments from that essay found their way into her magnum opus, “The Origins of Totalitarianism.” The power of ordinary people facing totalitarianism 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

And it’s true that “The Master of Disaster”, as essayed by Carl Weathers from Rockies I-IV, was a raffishly charismatic foil to the “Italian Stallion”. Creed adds to short list of boxing films starring a black hero 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

The downside, not surprisingly, is that the essays are dramatically uneven. What book changed your life? 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

Later that year she cemented her status as a provocateur with an Op-Ed essay in The New York Times that proclaimed Madonna “the future of feminism.” Camille Paglia Scowls at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-09-27T22:19:53Z

Springing from a New York Times Modern Love column, Calhoun’s memoir reads like a series of light and funny essays, formed from original, engrossing anecdotes interspersed with somewhat more predictable life lessons. For Better, for Worse: Three Memoirs Report From Marriage Country 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Last week, Bar-Lev, who had interviewed me for “Long Strange Trip,” sent me a link to a long reply that Hunter wrote, in 1996, to a scholarly essay that called his lyrics meaningless. Robert Hunter Gave the Grateful Dead Its Voice 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

In 1990 he published Marxism and the French Left: Studies On Labour and Politics in France 1830-1982, a collection of scholarly essays. Tony Judt obituary 2010-08-08T17:38:00Z

Decades later, both Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. credited Thoreau’s essay “Civil Disobedience” with helping inspire their own nonviolent activism. This new biography of Henry David Thoreau is the masterpiece he deserves 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

You’ll need a glossary to get through the late David Foster Wallace’s brainy, brawny collection of previously published essays, “Both Flesh and Not.” ‘Both Flesh and Not’: essays by David Foster Wallace 2012-12-27T19:23:07Z

We learn about her remarkable, underappreciated life in an effective introductory video and program essay. Review: Dance Theater of Harlem Returns to Sparkling Form 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

In a 2015 essay, Mr. Redzepi admitted to bullying his staff verbally and physically, and has often acknowledged that his efforts to be a calmer, kinder leader have not been fully successful. Noma, Rated the World’s Best Restaurant, Is Closing Its Doors 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

Then she took to the page herself, producing a body of work—novels, criticism, essays, speeches—that would come to be recognized as the central monument of American letters. Kara Walker’s Toni Morrison 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

“I’m a f**king idiot,” Ali Wong writes in the preface of her book of essays, “Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life.” Comedian Ali Wong's book "Dear Girls" tells a magical, raunchy love story 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

According to the catalogue essay, something else is going on: "The vaunted phallicism of the 'shooting' camera lens is invoked here." David Bailey: out of his skulls 2010-08-25T20:30:00Z

Next fall, there will be a coffee-table book she is contributing to, to be published by Turner Classic Movies and Running Press, with essays as well as vintage film studio and family photographs. A Mother’s Death, a Daughter’s Life: Remembering Natalie Wood 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

Her essay chronicling her collaboration with Mr. Oldenburg is one of the delights of the catalog. Art Review: Before the Rebellion, Playful Pop Art Novelty 2010-10-14T21:54:00Z

Friends and supporters in an outpouring of tributes on Wednesday shared his work including his biting essay “How to Write About Africa.” Kenyan author, LGBT activist Binyavanga Wainaina dies at 48 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

In late 1968, according to “Going Into the City,” an editor assigned him a rock-is-dead piece, and he responded by turning in an essay arguing why it was very much alive. The Rock Critic Robert Christgau’s Big-Hearted Theory of Pop 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. My 5 seconds of air time created an array of malicious feedback that is all associated with my face,” he said in the Psychology Today essay. 'Peloton Husband' confused by viral fame: 'I’m grappling with the negative opinions' 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

He also objected to certain elements of a separate essay by Hannah-Jones last summer advocating reparations for Black Americans. One of the voices objecting to Nikole Hannah-Jones’s hiring at UNC: A newspaper baron — and major donor 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

The magazine went online-only in 2008 and now features daily updates, interviews, album and concert reviews, and essays by writers from all over the country. No Depression Festival is a musical education in Americana 2010-08-19T21:06:00Z

In his 1924 essay “A Letter From Germany,” Lawrence is uncannily prescient about Europe’s shifting temperament. From Nabokov and Lawrence, Giants of 20th-Century Fiction, New Volumes of Nonfiction 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

The essay bumped and blundered through a forest of dark themes and discontent, from a lengthy lament about environmental destruction to a brief critique of golf and bowling. How publishing a 35,000-word manifesto led to the Unabomber 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Critic Ben Davis has an absolutely essential essay on the show’s context: within art and within Chinese history. Essential Arts & Culture: Rage and grief at the Taper, art of color and movement, Obama's library 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

I could write an essay about Keanu’s walk: rangy and relaxed, but precise; the gait of a man who never needs to hurry. Why I love… Keanu Reeves 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

Coulter’s debut collection of essays, “Nothing Good Can Come From This,” examines what happened to her life when she stopped drinking, and discovered that giving up a habit leaves a space that’s hard to fill. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for August 2018 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

In her essay for Eater, writer Mikki Kendall said the lyric was the singer’s way of talking to the Southern and Great Migration Black Americans listening. From unicorn desserts to pumpkin spice, here are the most memorable food trends of the 2010s 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z

What rises to the top of the site’s page for most popular reviews ranges wildly: There are obscure memes, diaristic essays and sprawling screeds packed with pseudo-academic jargon. Is Letterboxd Becoming a Blockbuster? 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

"Master of None" star Aziz Ansari, who penned an essay in June for the New York Times entitled "Why Trump Makes Me Scared for My Family," quipped on stage, "I've decided I'm going with Trump." Trump gets skewered, Clinton finds support at TV's Emmy awards 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

In addition to fashion, there were cultural essays and think pieces that presaged the discussion on gender and celebrity that is common today. Remembering Grace Mirabella and Her Inventive Magazine 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

Three other essays talk about race and whiteness. Wesley Yang and the Search for Asian-American Visibility 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

On a website dedicated to this show are a number of fascinating essays about Mirza's work. Vinyl, UFOs and the patter of tiny feet 2013-05-20T15:59:18Z

Recently, I read a Salon essay by Ann Bauer, a novelist who said she can only afford to write because her husband supports her. Against being “sponsored”: I never wrote less than when my boyfriend supported me 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

“I can’t begin to enumerate for you the number of dissertations and essays and articles and anthologies that over the years have been scotched one way or another by his demands,” Mr. Scroggins said. Paul Zukofsky, Virtuoso Violinist and Literary Executor, Dies at 73 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

Taylor’s anonymous essay was published in 2018 by The New York Times, infuriating the president and setting off a frantic White House leak investigation to try to unmask the author. Former DHS official says he wrote ‘Anonymous’ Trump critique 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

To go back to Poniewozik’s essay, fans of “High Maintenance” may simply be delighted that Blichfeld and Sinclair have gotten the recognition they deserve, and the artistic opportunities that an HBO deal affords. “Lonely and Horny” and Little Comedy 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Long on generalizations and short on sources, the bot’s essay was a sturdy summary of conventional wisdom. When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Ms. Lawrence touched on this double standard in her essay: “I’m over trying to find the ‘adorable’ way to state my opinion and still be likable!” Jennifer Lawrence Speaks Out Against Gender Pay Inequality 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

Kennedy, a Harvard law professor, takes up everything from Frederick Douglass to George Floyd’s legacy in this collection of new and previously published essays. 19 New Books Coming in September 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Joan Kelly offers tantalizing clues in her essay, “Did Women Have a Renaissance?” Obsessed with Anne Boleyn 2012-06-18T22:01:00Z

Generally, Shepard’s essays are right on target — thoughtful, colloquially written and, like Kehr’s, highly amusing. How Movies Work 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

He began writing essays for literary journals and articles for Life and The New Leader, some of which were included in “The Omni-Americans.” Albert Murray, Essayist Who Challenged the Conventional, Dies at 97 2013-08-19T16:57:56Z

Derived from a podcast of the same name, this blend of essays and photography reflects on the private journeys and healing of Black women. Newly Published, From Musical Masterpieces to the End of Trump’s Presidency 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

In 2014, Rock wrote a frank essay for The Hollywood Reporter where he referred to Hollywood as “a white industry” that remains unchanged at the top. Academy president 'disappointed' with all-white Oscar nominees 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Codes of secular decency were promulgated by Joseph Addison in his universally popular “tea table” essays: short and in themselves decent enough for an evening’s listening by mixed male, female and younger audiences. We Are What We Read 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

These shows brought a lot of work to a good many African American actors; but I wanted no part of that continuing degradation so turned my hand to the novel and later the essay. Django Unchained: is its portrayal of slavery too flippant? 2013-01-10T21:00:04Z

This article is part of T’s Book Club, a series of essays and events dedicated to classic works of American literature. The Many Faces of Patricia Highsmith 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

The prose in this essay is hilarious and humane. Books of The Times: ?Holidays in Heck,? by P. J. O?Rourke - Review 2011-11-29T23:13:18Z

Most of the essays in this new book were delivered as speeches, and some repetition is inevitable. Marilynne Robinson’s Essays Reflect an Eccentric, Exasperating, Profound and Generous Mind 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Some volumes are laser-focused on one place, some sprawling essay collections. World class: Remembering legendary travel writer Jan Morris 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

Ms. Smith also created a dating app meant to combat the loneliness of online dating that her essays describe. All the Writers’ Workshops 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

In the essay, he recounted his experience being fired from his job as the host of “Q,” a culture program for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, in 2014 amid reports about his behavior. New York Review of Books Editor Is Out Amid Uproar Over #MeToo Essay 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

The companion book is much more balanced on the past few presidents, with the newer essays written by Beschloss. Historians question White House presidential bios 2011-04-05T13:26:27Z

As for historians, I'm a great admirer of Jill Lepore, who writes essays for the New Yorker in addition to her many books. BookTalk: John Brown's "Midnight Rising" 2011-12-22T10:03:38Z

I began writing this short essay last June, and then put it aside, because it was too painful to come to this part and write: I do not know how the court will decide. The wrong kind of queer 2014-01-06T01:00:00Z

This essay originally appeared in Salon Food's weekly newsletter, The Bite. I can't stop thinking about Cosmo's early aughts, ill-fated foray into diet yogurt 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

“Nothing Could Be Finer” is the name of one relative’s scabrous essay about boozy college life in Chapel Hill. Books of The Times: Beach Reads From Stephen King, Kevin Kwan, Carl Hiaasen and More 2013-06-06T21:14:31Z

As you study for your exams, include a bit of practice with editing essays. 7 Last-Minute Exam Tips for Students 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

Literary Drinking Games Geoff Nicholson's delightful essay on the thin line between rules for drinking and rules for writing got me trolling the Web in search of some fun literary drinking games. Wanda Sykes to Watch Over Orphans 2010-08-11T17:16:00Z

A prolific writer who has published some 40 plays, as well as novels, poetry, essays, children’s books and works of translation, Fosse has long been revered for his spare, transcendent language and formal experimentation. Jon Fosse, Norwegian Author, Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z

The catalog essays dwell excessively on Ms. Thomas’s revisions of French painting, and to a certain extent they are justified. Art Review: ‘Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe,’ at Brooklyn Museum 2012-09-27T22:04:12Z

But I suspect that none of those other writers could have gathered together a book that’s as good as “Pulphead,” Mr. Sullivan’s brainy new collection of essays. Books of The Times: ?Pulphead,? by John Jeremiah Sullivan ? Review 2011-10-27T22:16:57Z

And while he ended up writing other poetry, essays and drama, “Cane,” published in the Jim Crow era, was a sensation in its time and remains his contribution to the American literary canon. Scholars Say Chronicler of Black Life Passed for White 2010-12-26T21:46:48Z

Our reviewer wrote that the accumulation of similar details across the essays speak to the “gray permanence” of the situation in Israel. What to Read Before a Jewish Heritage Trip 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

But then another essay begins and the danger passes. This Book of Essays by the Head Writer of ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ Is Hilarious 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

Animated essay on the futuristic aspects of the city. This week's new films 2013-03-02T06:00:09Z

Vidal, who died last month, was always better known for novels, essays, screenplays, quips and controversies. How to write a bestselling play 2012-08-22T12:27:28Z

After stepping down, he continued to pursue the life of a public intellectual, publishing essays and reviews in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Weekly Standard. Donald Kagan, Leading Historian of Ancient Greece, Dies at 89 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

Once, when I was preparing an essay on the choreography of Paul Taylor, Bob entered my office in a sideways-hopping Taylor step. Robert Gottlieb Didn’t Just Shape Manuscripts. He Shaped Dance, Too. 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

Featuring essays by Zadie Smith and others, this illustrated tale by a Nigerian American artist renders in charcoal, pastel and pencil two elite families in a Nigeria untouched by colonialism and the slave trade. Newly Published, From James Baldwin to a Life-Changing Dog 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

Wodehouse was a deep admirer of Orwell, who wrote an essay in his defense after the radio debacle. Books of The Times: ‘P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters’ 2013-01-30T21:01:45Z

Now a handsome, more permanent version has arrived, 16 essays, poems and artist’s statements, one interview and one screenplay, sandwiched between introductions by five writers and curators and two manifestoes by Mr. Pendleton. The Best Art Books of 2017 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Ms. Thomas was a metaphorical explorer of deep mental space, a fellow traveler of the Afrofuturists, as Ms. Haynes observes in her catalog essay. ‘Alma Thomas,’ an Incandescent Pioneer 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

One thing I attest to: Each of these essays, in one way or another, left my mind and heart a little richer. 2014′s best of the literary Web: From “Mansplanation Nation” to “The Original ‘Gone Girl’” 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

He wasn't immediately dismissed with, but why did you wait 15 years to write this essay? This is not just a story about Ryan Adams 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

One could write an essay, for example, on Allen's largely unsung mastery of the long take... if one were a film school grad or Cahiers critic, but you get the idea. Is Woody Allen a Great Filmmaker? Discuss 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

The essay, which is always worth revisiting, specifically addresses political writing and attacks such bad habits as “stale or mixed images,” “prefabricated phrases,” “needless repetitions” and “humbug and vagueness generally.” George Orwell was not a language fascist: Why we keep misinterpreting his words 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

What emerges is something special — a polyvocal novel, an essay on inherited trauma and a quiet metafiction about telling stories we don’t own. Refugees, Ghosts and a Story About Stories 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z

Americans don’t think about sex nearly enough — this occurred to me after reading “The Right to Sex,” Amia Srinivasan’s quietly dazzling new essay collection. ‘The Right to Sex’ Thinks Beyond the Parameters of Consent 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

To read more about Ken Ilgunas’ adventures, you can also read his Salon essay, “I live in a van down by Duke University.” My crushing student debt 2013-05-18T23:00:00Z

"A Subtlety" inspired any number of essays, in particular one on the website Colorlines that reflected on how this nude black female figure was being ogled primarily by white audiences. Kara Walker on the bit of sugar sphinx she saved, video she's making 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

“Some felt like essays, others felt too pithy.” Our Prices Are Going Up, but We’re in This Together 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z

Now, Broder explained to Rolling Stone, she was publishing a book of personal essays, also titled “So Sad Today,” based on the Twitter account but under her real name. The Hidden Vulnerabilities of @SoSadToday 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Hannah-Jones, who would win a Pulitzer Prize for her introductory essay, needed an assistant to handle all the speaking requests. How the 1619 Project took over 2020 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

She teaches grade school now and commended me on an essay I’d written about bullying for Salon. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z

Click here reut.rs/2trx2zL for a photo essay that depicts the crocodile industry in Thailand. Thailand: Home to some of world's biggest crocodile farms 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

In response to the essay about his free-market alternative to Obamacare, for example, Carson just said, “I think probably the writer doesn’t fully understand my proposals.” Ben Carson’s critics weigh in — at Ben Carson’s invitation

By the time “Out the Window” was published, Hall had at least three other essays under way. Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

These essays are all very brief, many only a page long. Books to Watch Out For: September 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

The book collects for the first time many Keillor stories, essays and his signature Prairie monologues, along with new works, including "Cheerfulness," an essay dedicated to his mother. Book Talk: Keillor says he still has 'distance to cover' 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

But it’s worth it for the very rare gems — searing personal essays, fascinating reporting and hilarious trend pieces. The year in sex writing 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z

Oakley’s rise to Internet prominence, though, didn’t happen overnight, and his recently released collection of humor essays “Binge” discusses his Internet journey. YouTube star Tyler Oakley on being famous online and beyond: “My inclination is to always go back to the Internet, even if things are rough” 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

The Los Angeles Review of Books, in collaboration with Flaunt magazine, recently published a series of essays on the palm trees of Los Angeles. Weekend Reading: A History of L.A. Palm Trees, Two Civil War Families 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

I remember back to what it had been like to read those essays. The Origins of 'Privilege' 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

Horning also quotes the author Colson Whitehead’s New York Times essay about the reality television show that is becoming our digital lives, where in the data lie both a “loser edit” and “winner edit.” Your Data Are Not Your Life Story 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

The Singles range from memoirs and original reporting to essays and short stories. Amazon Makes Like a Publisher With Kindle Singles 2011-11-04T11:00:05Z

The grosbeaks survived in the essay, but the hummingbirds stopped biting. Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

This week we will begin publishing essays by New York Times critics about their cultural first crushes — the moments or works that prompted them to write about the arts. ArtsBeat: What Inspired You to Work in TV? 2013-07-08T14:53:28Z

If I was motivated by #MeToo to write this essay, then I probably wouldn't put it in, because it would have felt disingenuous. "Survival Math" author Mitchell Jackson reckons with his "All-American" life 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

With his essay and his film, D’Ambrose suggests that he’s searching for a way to make films that break with the dominant mode of independent filmmaking. A Filmmaker Trying to Break Free from Instagram Modernity 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Coming on the heels of an impassioned essay by Mr. Lawrence, it began quietly, broodingly. Music Review: Azar Lawrence Quintet at Jazz Standard - Review 2011-12-15T23:04:44Z

It's a key Beat document, like Ginsberg's Howl or Frank's 1955-6 nationwide road trip, which produced The Americans, the photo essay often called "the other On The Road". Why On The Road's journey is a bumpy ride 2012-10-05T16:00:00Z

After Nussbaum’s essay, I started noticing abstract nouns, values and personality traits “weaponized” in headlines and columns across the media spectrum. One nation, “weaponized”: What this in-vogue verb tells us about our divided culture 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

Late in the book comes a delicious surprise in the form of two autobiographical essays, about Dillon’s mother and aunt. Ways of Seeing 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

He knew that Freud, inspiration of the surrealists, wrote about Michelangelo – and in fact Ernst read Freud's essays on Renaissance art in depth. Max Ernst's Piet? opens our minds to the psychology of religious art 2011-01-25T17:15:22Z

The sentiment became popularized when The Atlantic published Thoreau’s essay “Walking” in May 1862, with the line as the centerpiece, a month after his death. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

We are also introduced to the loose-shingled red barn that “looks romantic from a distance,” and serves as the repository for Maggie’s students’ old essays. When the Aftermath of a Shooting Is as Devastating as the Crime 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

At the very least, the author recognizes this sense of entitlement, and the essay is an exercise in grappling with the misogyny he continues to unlearn. Review | In ‘What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker,’ Damon Young turns an unflinching eye on himself and society 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

In an autobiographical essay published in 1985, he wrote that his mother was illiterate and that he taught her to read and write. Tonino Guerra, Italian Screenwriter and Poet, Dies at 92 2012-03-23T04:08:37Z

Angela Carter’s essays, collected in “Shaking a Leg,” were a treat. Times Critics Discuss Their Year in Books, From New Talents to Old Favorites 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

In the title essay of “Last Girlfriend,” for example, every woman but one is believed dead. Nathaniel and Simon: The Brothers Rich 2013-01-04T21:32:05Z

Albert Camus asked after watching the world descend into war, fascism, and genocide in his 1975 book length essay, "The Rebel." In Joan Osborne's revolution, you can dance 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z

Nathan’s essay is disturbing — especially in hindsight — but where do you draw the line? When the Aftermath of a Shooting Is as Devastating as the Crime 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

S. Lewis took the results-oriented approach in his landmark essay, “On Three Ways of Writing for Children.” The “Goosebumps” Conundrum: What Makes a Children’s Book Good? 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

Citing a Random House source, Mr. Wolff wrote that the publisher was also swayed by “a junior staffer’s objection to the title of Mailer’s 1957 essay, ‘The White Negro.’” Was Norman Mailer Canceled? His Publishers Say No. 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

Kirch’s argument is that the new essays are “exclusively about the self,” whereas great essays in the past could use the self and still be expansive and universal. Have personal essays gotten too personal? 2013-03-17T17:00:00Z

Over four decades of teaching undergraduates, I have been fortunate rarely to read an essay on church history this bad: it's Sellar and Yeatman without the jokes. Our Church by Roger Scruton – review 2013-06-19T11:29:56Z

Observations like this one are at the heart of “Busted in New York,” a new essay collection by the novelist and essayist Darryl Pinckney. Darryl Pinckney on Race, Class and Being ‘Busted in New York’ 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

It’s a disquieting way to kill two hours, as affirmed by the sheen of dread covering every “I rewatched Contagion today, oh boy” essay. Exposure therapy: why we're obsessed with watching virus movies 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

Taken together, the essays in “The Way the World Works” create a sort of self-portrait of the author. Books of The Times: Nicholson Baker, ‘The Way the World Works’ 2012-08-12T20:34:47Z

This set of essays was given a thumbs up/thumbs down review from the New York Times, but it has enough choice bits to satisfy the foodie in my family. Holiday book-shopping lists 2011-12-23T19:51:47Z

He gets high a few times in these essays and even buys weed in Jamaica as a gift for Bunny Wailer. Books of The Times: ?Pulphead,? by John Jeremiah Sullivan ? Review 2011-10-27T22:16:57Z

In 1972, the great music critic Andrew Porter, who died on April 3, opened a New Yorker essay with these words: “Why, they ask me, do you so much enjoy living in New York?” Review: City Ballet’s Balanchine Dances Open Spring Season 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

“We used the essays as a base, but this is new reporting. Because ‘The 1619 Project’ is not about the past, it’s about the present.” Perspective | Nikole Hannah-Jones isn’t done challenging the story of America 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

The irony is that the more the couple mocked Hollywood in essays, the higher their script fees rose. Five Joan Didion Movies You Can Stream Right Now 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

On this week’s podcast, the actress Minnie Driver reads “Our Story Ended With a Slow Fade to Black,” an essay about seeking normalcy after a terminal cancer diagnosis. Modern Love Podcast: Minnie Driver Reads ‘Our Story Ended With a Slow Fade to Black’ 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

Her biggest journalistic success, however, was her 1955 essay in the magazine Encounter entitled “The English Aristocracy.” The Arbiter of Aristocracy: And No, It’s Not Downton’s Dowager 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

In the last interview he gave before his untimely death, in 2001, Sebald credited the insight to reading Virginia Woolf, and particularly her essay “The Death of the Moth,” The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

She is also developing the essay collection “Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning” for series television. Greta Lee Is Still a Pool Shark 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

In architecture and museum circles the essay is on its way from trendy to ubiquitous. Why 'unpacking' is a perfect — and perfectly overused — metaphor for our cultural moment 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Because I am a white female writer of a certain age – five years older than Lena Dunham, but an author of personal essays nonetheless - people invariably asked me: “Is it like Girls?” 'Is it like Girls?' How I found recognition and relief in Brooklyn's TV daughters 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Take Andy Field's essay for Exeunt to mark the opening of The Tanks at London's Tate Modern, the gallery's "permanent home" for live art. Noises off: do institutions kill art? And radical theatre lives! 2012-07-13T12:13:09Z

A posthumous collection of essays by the National Book Award–winning nature writer. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

This essay collection presents writings on over 30 authors to highlight significant Jewish books. New in Paperback: ‘Wild Minds’ and ‘People From My Neighborhood’ 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

Men who made my legs Topics: , , , , , Prosthetic Limbs, Editor's Picks, "Body Issues" is a personal essay series about obsessions with our own appearance. Men who made my legs 2012-12-03T02:00:00Z

“The Analog Sea Review” is a biannual arts-and-letters journal, concentrating on short essays and interviews. Review | What to read in April: A critic’s pick of books that aren’t on the bestseller list 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

Laila Lalami is the author of several novels including “The Moor’s Account” and, most recently, the essay collection “Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America.” The Comforts of Clutter 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

As India celebrated Independence Day on Aug. 15, Roy published an essay in the New York Times on what she describes as the “prison camp” that is Kashmir. Arundhati Roy — beloved for her fiction, derided for her politics — won’t be silenced 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

The site is free and will include primary source material, essays, biographies and guidelines for classroom activities. New website for women’s history to launch Friday 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Here are the 7 most Swift-y lines in Swift’s confessional essay: The 7 most Taylor Swift-y lines in Taylor Swift’s essay about the music industry 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Jerkins is a writer to watch — she publishes widely and her debut essay collection “This Will Be My Undoing” is forthcoming from Harper Perennial in 2018 — and it’s easy to see why. Must-reads and where to be read on this week's literary web 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Since opening, they’ve hosted artist talks, performances and exhibitions, and commissioned art essays by local black leaders. Stop in for coffee and a story: A Central District home becomes a gathering place for black art and history 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

But he said he hoped teachers would use the anthology itself, which opens with an essay by Mr. Miles discussing these debates, “to scrutinize the category.” Norton’s Latest Anthology Explores World Religion 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z

But the title essay, “I Used to Be Charming,” which recounts the brutal aftermath of the accident, is new, and was a particularly heavy lift for the book’s editor, Sara J. Kramer. The Eve Babitz Revival 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

“In my mind, lithography has been linked to the great white whooping crane, which, like lithography, was on the verge of extinction when Tamarind Lithography Workshop came into being,” she wrote in a 1990 essay. June Wayne, Painter and Printmaker, Dies at 93 2011-08-28T00:23:03Z

In this collection of essays she “extracts endless thrills from the painstaking process” of working with language, our critic Molly Young writes. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Frequent New Yorker essay contributor Lena Dunham published her first “Shouts and Murmurs” column for the magazine this week, and it was… okay. Celebrities are rarely funny in the New Yorker: Here are the bold-faced “Shouts & Murmurs” bylines you can actually trust 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Part urban travelogue, part first-person essay, the show is, at its core, an anthropological exploration of people — most often New Yorkers — in their native habitats. John Wilson Reveals the Absurd Poetry of New York 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

Colette started writing in her early twenties, and by the time she died, in 1954, at the age of eighty-one, she had published nearly eighty works: fiction, memoir, essays, drama, and collected journalism. Good, Clean, Fun: A Revival of “Gigi” 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

Mahler labeled the second and fourth movements each “Nachtmusik,” usually translated as nocturne, though Bernstein called it music of nightmares in his 1967 essay “Mahler: His Time Has Come.” Music Review: Embracing the Ambiguity of Mahler?s Seventh 2011-02-24T23:27:09Z

This essay is part of a collaborative project with Black History, Continued. Our Bond Was Thicker Than Blood 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

This essay is from an introduction to a new Italian translation, by Anna Nadotti, of “To the Lighthouse,” which will be published later this month by Einaudi. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

In a catalog essay, the show’s curator, Beatrice Galilee, explains that the works were digitized with photogrammetry software and laser scanners. A Mini-Met-Mashup on the Museum’s Roof, With Summer Views 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

The last word should go to Tom: they are the last words of that essay. Tom Lubbock obituary 2011-01-10T18:34:36Z

In the introduction to In Praise of Messy Lives, Roiphe makes a case for the essays’ cohesiveness by suggesting that the book is an inquiry into her status as “a failed conventional person.” In defense of Katie Roiphe 2012-09-04T19:52:00Z

In the essay, Simon basked in victory before slowly realizing that Nathaniel maybe let him win. Nathaniel and Simon: The Brothers Rich 2013-01-04T21:32:05Z

The essay "Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism" is the centrepiece of this book, and makes for essential reading. The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas, by Isaiah Berlin – review 2013-07-23T11:27:37Z

Maybe he sees what he’s doing as reverse feminism, an act of empathic dislocation — which is the argument made by the poet Frank Bidart in the catalog essay. Art Review: ‘James Franco: New Film Stills’ Arrives at Pace Gallery 2014-04-22T20:20:35Z

In a Times essay in 1982 with the headline “What Ails Today’s Broadway Musical?,” Hal Prince, Giant of Broadway and Reaper of Tonys, Dies at 91 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

Many of the essays observe that mainstream white feminists have been bigoted, callous or insular, and they gesture at opportunities to make the movement better reflect the full range of women’s experiences. Three New Takes on Feminism: In the Dorm, in the Economy and Around the World 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

This stylish sentence is entire final section of the essay. Against “Against [X]” 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

The more visceral parts that, in part, made the essay so memorable were omitted: specifically Teague’s role in the grotesque art of wound-packing and the physical horrors that accompanied it. When Some Critics Reject the Film That’s About Your Life 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

As Packer wrote in the essay quoted earlier, the press may have excelled itself in Baghdad, but "Iraq has not been a photographer's war". The human heart of the matter 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

The trip, now mercifully ended, instead provided a rolling photo essay of international embarrassment. Donald and Melania Trump’s Last Judgment 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

My photos suited their words and they simply needed a photo essay to illustrate them. What is life like for emerging student photographers? 2012-11-12T16:20:43Z

What's more, Forster is now a rock critic: The Ten Rules of Rock and Roll, a collection of his reviews and essays for Australian magazine The Monthly, has just been published. Robert Forster: me and my bridge 2010-07-14T20:31:00Z

Goddard also contributes a balanced essay, neither prosecutorial nor fully forgiving, to “Gauguin: Portraits,” the catalog for a major exhibition that originated at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. We’re Still Talking About Gauguin 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Each essay — written during the eight years of the first black presidency — is preceded by a new, short introduction by Coates. New in Paperback: ‘Lou Reed,’ ‘The King Is Always Above the People’ 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

No wonder, then, that when he sketched this indictment in an essay in The American Scholar, his text went viral. ‘Excellent Sheep,’ by William Deresiewicz 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Elizabeth Hardwick, in a 1953 essay, was in especially brutal form when she got at the bedrock hypocrisy of many intellectuals on this topic. The Story of Appalachia, With Plenty of Villains 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

She is the author of two well-received collections of personal essays, “I Was Told There’d Be Cake” and “How Did You Get This Number.” Sloane Crosley Unclasps Cloak of Secrecy About Authorship 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

It’s the true story behind Gatsby, a mix of biography, social history and literary essay. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z

Take the short essay "Constitution of Athens", now attributed to the anonymous "Old Oligarch". 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

This is an essay about getting high for the first time. The First Time I Got High 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

The young climate activist calls for action with a collection of scientific essays by environmental experts. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

A great essay takes some little leap out of the ordinary, it has alchemy to it, it has magic. Have personal essays gotten too personal? 2013-03-17T17:00:00Z

What headline did they choose – which was antithetical to the essay's very point? Lionel Shriver: 'If you're thin, you are a kook; if you're fat, you're a failure' 2013-05-11T07:00:27Z

Mr. Ghomeshi’s essay, which was half as long, was published online last Friday. New York Review of Books Editor Is Out Amid Uproar Over #MeToo Essay 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Through a series of profiles, reminiscences, essays, interviews and recipes, “Why We Cook” explores many facets of women in the world of food. A Book to Inspire in the Kitchen 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

A few other essays scratch at the surface only to find more surface. Review: ‘The Fire This Time,’ Stoked by Baldwin’s Legacy 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

Exactly 70 minutes later, she returns to her modest one-bedroom apartment to write a brief essay about Freud and daydreaming, file her thrice-daily blog entries and schedule her regimen of 50 Twitter messages a day. This Life: Maria Popova Has Some Big Ideas 2012-11-30T21:35:52Z

The great English ballet conductor Constant Lambert, in a well-known essay from 1946, made this point. Ratmansky’s Beauty Wakes Up 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

Or from the Nobel laureate George Stigler, whose essay “The Intellectual and the Marketplace” would have leavened Bacevich’s book with something it lacks: wittiness. The Mind of Conservatism 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

It would be surprising if the Library of America – motto "Seeking the Enduring" – published Narratives of Empire, and surprising if it didn't find room for his essays on the list. Adam Mars-Jones: my lunch at the Dorchester with Gore Vidal 2012-08-03T07:00:37Z

Perhaps more important, essays by Ms. Samuel and others invite further thought about the degree to which high-tech visuals today shape, for better or for worse, comprehension of our bewilderingly complicated world. Books for Art Lovers 2012-11-22T20:15:43Z

In the future, I’d love to do some workshops or courses on essay writing, especially for those who typically shy away from this kind of expression. “Comment sections are brilliant and extremely relevant”: Christy Wampole on the awfulness of Facebook, the utility of “think pieces” and why you might be reading the Internet all wrong 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

In an essay for the Los Angeles Times, she ascribes some of the power of Dead Girl narratives, and of crime tales in general, to “that intense identification between reader and victim.” Dead Girls, Female Murderers, and Megan Abbott’s Novel “Give Me Your Hand” 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

A few of the essays in “Otherwise Known as the Human Condition” are thin, cooked to order. Books of The Times: Inducements to Filthiness and Other Paradoxes 2011-03-22T11:00:00Z

The ambitious catalog contains essays by Mr. Jhaveri and Ed Halter, founder and director of Light Industry, a film and electronic art venue in Brooklyn, which consider some of these issues. A Sci-Fi Showdown at the Met Museum’s Rooftop Garden 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

The essay’s closing sentence surprised even him: “There is only one road.” Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

Sometimes a conversation might make its way into White’s fiction or essays, Gullo said. Living With Edmund White 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

For the last two weeks of April, I took a break from my Thursday book reviews and essays. Review | When the world was too much with me, here’s what I read for some R&R 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

“Mantel Pieces” includes the author’s most celebrated essay, “Royal Bodies.” Hilary Mantel Takes On Royals and Rebels in a Book of Essays 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

The essay, which The Guardian published, included the line, “In today’s all too real world, Captain America’s most nefarious villain, the Red Skull, is alive on screen and an Orange Skull haunts America.” Marvel Revises Comic in Which Captain America Called U.S. ‘Deeply Flawed’ 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

As Packer put it in his recent collection of essays, Interesting Times: "The press redeemed in Baghdad what it had botched in Washington." The human heart of the matter 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

The next year, her agent, Jennifer Lyons, urged her to turn the essay into a full-length memoir. Past Lingers in Present, and the Sorrows Go On 2013-09-11T20:11:51Z

Its people, their attitudes and their politics were the subject of countless articles and essays in just the last year. What the People of Appalachia Want 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

“I have added the camera and its products to the traditional tools of the painter/sculptor,” he wrote in an essay reprinted in the catalog. Art Review: Michael Snow’s Photographs and Other Works in Philadelphia 2014-02-06T22:40:04Z

The passage above is excerpted from the CCP’s English-language newspaper Global Times, but the cultural organs of the Chinese state are versed in IAE, as Triple Canopy points out in their essay. When artspeak masks oppression 2013-03-07T22:48:00Z

The reviews of Honey and her second play, A Lion in Love, read like a depressing essay in sexism. My hero: Shelagh Delaney by Jeanette Winterson 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

In October, his essay collection "Half Empty" won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Acclaimed humorist David Rakoff dies at 47 2012-08-10T16:05:12Z

There’s more: This author of the bestselling essay collection “Bad Feminist” also discusses the politics of weight today and harshly critiques the thinness industry. Best books of 2017: The best nonfiction 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

In an essay called “Born a Square,” Stegner imagines a young Western writer discovering himself to be at odds with both the dominant literary mores and the background that should provide material. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

This—“the rest”—is D’Agata’s definition of the essay, which leaves him room to trace the genre’s American flowering with a striking, and, in the end, unconvincing, breadth. What Makes an Essay American 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

It'll be fun if his teacher sets his class the "What I did on my holidays" essay when they go back to school. World Of Lather: a month in soap 2012-08-17T23:05:00Z

Michael Dirda, who reviews books every Thursday for The Washington Post, contributed an essay to the recently published “Browse: The World in Bookshops,” edited by Henry Hitchings. This librarian loves ancient manuscripts and wants you to love them, too 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

Despite my admiration for Mendelsohn’s writing, over the years I have occasionally rolled my eyes while beginning to read one of his essays. A Father and Son Sail Through Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ Together 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

The "home" in the title piece of Jonathan Raban's latest book, a sterling collection of more than 40 essays written and published over the past two decades, happens to be Seattle. 'Driving Home': Jonathan Raban all over the map 2011-09-14T21:46:04Z

“I went for fiction – twice – I went for film, I went for poetry, and I went for art,” he writes in an essay for an anthology called Should I Go to Grad School? It’s time to bring James Franco's reign of half-assed artistry to an end 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z

In the title essay, she catalogues writers who lapsed into literary silence. What Kind of Worker Is a Writer? 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

The point of the essay is not that everyone is great at art or that all art is equal. Stop saying you’re sorry: “Women will apologize to inanimate objects for bumping into them” 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Let's start with the essay that you and I worked on together for Salon. Scammers hid behind his face — but he had hidden for years, too 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

It follows the publication last November, by Duke University Press, of an anthology of her essays and interviews. Lorraine O’Grady, Still Cutting Into the Culture 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

With voice-overs excerpted from Brodsky’s poems and essays, “A Room and a Half” is one Russian artist’s attempt to channel the sensibility of another, using every resource available. 2010-01-20T05:20:00Z

It’s striking both how many of the essays in this collection originated as lectures or other forms of public speech and how many were commissioned by organizations of a religious bent. Philip Pullman’s ‘Daemon Voices’ Casts an Entrancing Spell 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

As Mendelson notes, “The essay was rejected and he was paid nothing.” ‘The Complete Works of Auden’ showcases writings beyond the poetry 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

“White Sands,” his latest collection of essays, contains his trademark blend of wit, sharpness and melancholy. Book Gift Ideas: Who Needs Wrapping? They’re Already Covered 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

His recollection of that adventure appeared in one of the many essays he wrote for The Times — in this case, on the occasion of Copland’s 85th birthday. Ned Rorem, Composer Known for Both His Music and His Diaries, Dies at 99 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

Stein wrote that koan in a Vanity Fair essay where she grappled with her own success. Vanessa Hudgens: ‘I always wanted to be the indie girl playing a drug addict or stripper’ 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

What many of these essay writers focus explicitly on are questions of truth and facticity. Dealing in uncertainty, the essay may be the perfect form for our time 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Trump figures only slightly in Smith’s essays, which were written almost entirely before his presidency. Two Generations on View in Essays by Martin Amis and Zadie Smith 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

In an essay for Glamour magazine, Baldwin wrote sharing her story might help her and other women dealing with a miscarriage “to find support.” Hilaria Baldwin describes decision to share miscarriage news 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

I haven’t read Johnson’s book yet; I’m still stalled out in the Nighttown section of “Ulysses,” so in my side reading lately I tend to favor digestible chunks of essays or stories. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

He had solicited advice and essays from feminists while making the film and personally thought the outcome “impudent, honest, and humorous.” Fellini’s “City of Women” 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z

One fan even published an essay titled “A Moral Defense of Chidi’s Swoleness”, which asked: “Is it ethical to be that jacked?” William Jackson Harper on the end of the Good Place 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

He loved writing poetry and essays in French, which had been the language of his education. My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

In the essays, she describes the pain and fatigue and the injuries she suffered when, woozy from the drugs, she had several bad falls. Jenny Diski’s Way of Seeing Beyond the Story 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

More books followed: The superb essays collected in “Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.,” considered her masterwork. Review | A new look at Eve Babitz: Artist, provocateur and unlikely feminist icon 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

Or at least: Some literary biography is modifying its field of play and, without deviating from the highest standards of scholarship, stretching toward essay and even life writing. The Blind Poet Who Saw Visions of Religious and Political Freedom 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

"The narratives of the men in my family are separate from the narratives in the essays," Jackson writes in the author's note. "Survival Math" author Mitchell Jackson reckons with his "All-American" life 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. Crouch’s books include the essay collection “Considering Genius,” the novel “Don’t the Moon Look Lonesome?” and “Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker.” National Endowment for the Arts Names New Class of Jazz Masters 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

The topic of slavery reparations is finally trending again, nearly five years after Ta-Nehisi Coates' essay in The Atlantic making the case. Reparations are overdue: "Confronting the truth" about slavery means paying for it 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

“I spent nine months with Stanley before we started shooting, watching violent movies every day,” McDowell recently revealed in an essay for The Guardian. Malcolm McDowell looks back at "Clockwork Orange" and Stanley Kubrick stealing his pay 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

In one essay, composed in Switzerland, he asks what that country has given us except cuckoo clocks and fondue. A Pulpy New Novel and Juiceless Old Essays From Mario Vargas Llosa 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

His unforgettable autobiographical essay collections, written in just the last quarter-century — works such as “Barrel Fever,” “Me Talk Pretty One Day” and “When You Are Engulfed in Flames” — have become modern classics. David Sedaris on his new book, 'Theft by Finding' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

The poet Lavinia Greenlaw is now working on a book containing her own selection from Morris's Icelandic journals and "a longish essay about questions of travel". Morris in Iceland 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z

In a new essay collection, “The Givenness of Things,” Robinson touches on everything from neuroscience to the New Testament. Marilynne Robinson talks religion, fear and the American spirit: “The left, at a basic level, lost courage, because they don’t know how to deal with the proclaimed religiosity of the other side” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

I started to write essays because the form allows you to vent those thoughts that have no other outlet. “Comment sections are brilliant and extremely relevant”: Christy Wampole on the awfulness of Facebook, the utility of “think pieces” and why you might be reading the Internet all wrong 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

When asked in an interview in 2015 which book had been the last to make him laugh, Lane answered “Intimacy Idiot,” Oliver’s collection of essays from the same year. 8 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

How did the essay take you to that material? Steven Church talks essays, and his new book 'Ultrasonic' 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

There are seven new essays — for a total of 18, by as many contributors — and woven through the book are photographs as well as poems and short fiction inspired by historical events. A Landmark Reckoning With America’s Racial Past and Present 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

Steinberg had been writing an extended essay on the painting. Leo Steinberg obituary 2011-04-12T16:56:17Z

In her essay “?” Deesha Philyaw explores “the relative absence of black women’s voices in mainstream U.S. media discourse about motherhood in general.” Michelle Obama: The one woman in America who actually has it all 2013-12-05T19:26:00Z

We're sitting here now five years later and I'm wondering if you can talk about the journey and how the themes from that first essay set the tone for this book? D. Watkins speaks for himself: "I think we can have tough conversations, make each other upset" 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

She wrote 11 books, including six novels and several collections of short stories and essays. Mississippi author Ellen Douglas dies at 91 2012-11-08T01:46:07Z

Perhaps the most arresting essay is a previously unpublished piece in which Mr Singer urges readers to spare a thought for the poor, benighted turkey during Thanksgiving. How to live well 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

“I cherished a secret grudge against Auden,” Rich reflects in one essay, “not because he didn’t proclaim me a genius, but because he proclaimed so diminished a scope for poetry, including mine.” Two New Volumes by Adrienne Rich, Game-Changing Feminist, Poet and Essayist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

Her journey began with an essay Glamour magazine published in 2016, two years before the viral New Yorker piece. Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner is fighting for joy through grief 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

Aiken wrote a brief essay, probably in 1952, about her unconventional living arrangements. The Practical Magic of Joan Aiken, the Greatest Children’s Writer You’ve Likely Never Read 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

The adjunct essay came about because it's another type of grief that basically showed up at the same time these family events transpired. "Dear Damage" author on when your family's tragedy makes headlines 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

The essays in “Coventry” first appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Granta and other places. Rachel Cusk’s Essays, as Sharp and Glittering as Her Fiction 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

The siblings, many of whom once appeared in a New York Times Magazine photo essay, found one another online. ‘Future People’ Review: Connected by Biology, Bonded by Love 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

Their curriculum seems focused on reading books and writing essays about what they read. A Father’s Love, Whether He Says Too Much or Not Enough 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

“All of the oaths I swore were sincere reflections of what I felt — what I thought I knew and understood,” he wrote in a 1990 essay. Activist author Amiri Baraka dead at 79 2014-01-09T23:19:00Z

What follows is a series of essays — sometimes more like memories or musings — that don’t subscribe to a particular classification. Writing, and Cooking, Across Borders 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

Lawrence to publish “Seven Pillars of Wisdom,” lent moral and financial support to Edward Thomas — “the finest poet of his generation” — and produced the first major essay on Thomas’s American friend Robert Frost. Review | The literary tastemaker who helped bring Joseph Conrad and E.M. Forster to light 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

In the Sunday Styles section this past weekend, Ms. Anderson wrote an essay about her own marriage. Motherlode: Do as I (Usually) Say, Not as I (Often) Do 2011-02-16T23:12:24Z

“Very little is actually known about what causes accidents,” Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote in “Epidemic on the Highways,” his pioneering essay on highway safety, published in 1959. The Failed Dream of the Easy Commute 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

Years ago, I wrote an essay about our failed attempt at living on the land, which was published in The Sun magazine and reprinted in High Country News. The fight to save our off-the-grid forest home 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z

This limited release includes a lavishly produced book with several excellent essays and a review of the opera’s premiere by none other than Hector Berlioz. CD reviews: Exhuming an operatic ‘Herculanum.’ 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

“I knew she could write, having read her essays and having been the recipient of texts,” said the actress Zoe Kazan, also a friend of Ms. Gilpin’s. Betty Gilpin Is a Vivid Talker 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

The book’s 16 essays follow Mr. Harris from his days as a stage-struck kid in Sand Springs, Okla., who longed to play Helen Keller in an amateur production of “The Miracle Worker.” Music Review: Sam Harris Presents a Cabaret Act Based on His Book 2014-01-16T23:02:00Z

There are lists, descriptions of editing sessions, a filmography, online essays. ‘Innocents and Others’: Female friendship through the lens of film 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

Ellmann tackles the climate crisis, war and feminism in this collection of 14 searing essays on the beauty industry, ecotourism, crime fiction, Donald Trump and more. Newly Published, From the Vanderbilt Family to the Former PepsiCo CEO 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Fussell begins his essay by lamenting that the famed critics of his generation never turned their attention to The Official Boy Scout Handbook. Paul Fussell, the critic who fought the cant of military sacrifice 2012-05-24T20:52:53Z

It provoked essays claiming its powers of social criticism and others knocking it as a fashion show. Why we loved the men and women of “Mad Men”: “They’re the only characters in television history who are 100 percent consistent in their behavior” 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

“So I focused my essays on things like going to a sumo practice in Japan as a foreigner,” he said, “and what I learned from that.” The World According to Tim Ferriss 2011-03-25T21:44:29Z

The title of your essay today — “It Is Accomplished” — quotes Jesus’ final words on the cross. A Word With: Andrew Sullivan 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

In a recent essay about teaching the American Revolution, Jane Kamensky, a professor of history at Harvard, argued that historians need to do more to shore up “our fragile democracy.” The Battle for 1776 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

She is the author of many books and essays, including the bestselling My Life On The Road. Gloria Steinem: ‘I shouldn’t have been a Playboy Bunny – even to write an exposé’ 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

His other recent book is “Latest Readings,” a collection of essays in which the author revisits favorite books and takes the temperature of some new ones. Review: Clive James, Writing Toward the Twilight 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

The title of your book, "The Witches Are Coming," is based on an essay you wrote in the New York Times where you said, "Yes, I'm a witch, and I'm hunting you." Lindy West reclaims the "witch hunt": On comedy, feminism and why terrible men think they're victims 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z

Fascinated by “Ulysses,” Arroyo said in a 1991 essay that imagining the illustrations kept him alive when he was hospitalized in the late 1980s for peritonitis, an inflammation of the abdominal lining. A New Look for ‘Ulysses’ 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

In a catalog essay, the art historian Will Rea delivers an even broader superlative, calling Bamigboye one of the “most important known artists of Africa.” Bamigboye, Nigeria’s Tour-de-Force Sculptor, Claims His Fame in the World 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z

There were others, a lot of half finished essays and ideas that just didn't make it. Cathy Park Hong: "Sometimes you just have to push back – being offended is part of the process" 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Liars use fewer negative emotion words like “sad” and “upset,” and they write shorter online personal essays. Online Dating as Scientific Research 2011-11-12T15:00:05Z

Through brief essays composed of anecdotes, mini-histories and cultural criticism, Biss explores the contradictions of capitalism from within its clutch, meditating on the twisted individual experience of class and money in America. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

Hannah Selinger’s long essay for Eater about her time working for David Chang was published just before Christmas, at the end of a punishing, turbulent year for chefs and food media. From Toxic Chefs to Covid, Restaurant Workers Deserve Better 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

Her opening essay alone is enough to make this collection a winner. Books to Breeze Through This Summer 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

In his 1919 essay, Freud linked the uncanny to a “morbid anxiety” caused by the return of a primitive belief we’ve done our best to repress. The Horror Novel Lurking in Your Busy Online Life 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z

The only reason not to write a learned essay on the topic is that’s it’s too depressing. REVIEW: Don't Dare Watch This Sex Tape 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

There are, I must admit, a lot of resonances for me in Gina Williams’ essay “Tooth and Nail,” up at Okey-Panky this week. In Okey-Panky, Gina Williams tells the story of her teeth 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

The final test of an essay collection is stylistic. An Essayist Searching for Alternate Worlds 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

The only reason for cutting through it all and writing a short book might be to offer a fresh and challenging interpretation, a speculative essay to get us all thinking differently about the conflict. World War Two: A Short History by Norman Stone – review 2013-02-13T15:09:49Z

Desperate to escape the rising tide of five-paragraph essays about the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock, I eventually struck upon the ridiculous idea of reviewing books. Review | Irritated by tweedy academic types? Read this wonderful campus comedy. 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

The play is a hybrid: thriller, metaphysical essay with poetic moments and occasional bleak jokes. Doktor Glas – review 2013-04-19T16:41:16Z

In a recent interview, Jackson discussed his writing process, the essay that angered his editor the most, and how truth-telling is the connective thread in his work. "Survival Math" author Mitchell Jackson reckons with his "All-American" life 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

Aykroyd’s essay appears in Empire magazine’s farewell to the Star Wars actor, who died in December aged 60. Dan Aykroyd writes tribute to 'soaring love' Carrie Fisher 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

Each entrant must produce a brief essay that explains “Why whatever is, is right and why we still can improve it.” Review | In ‘Kraft,’ German author Jonas Lüscher pokes fun at Silicon Valley’s shiny elitism and rabid faith in technology 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

“There just hasn’t been much oxygen left for the kinds of essays that feel marginal or navel-gazey.” The Personal-Essay Boom Is Over 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

By 1967, the author was an open critic, portraying the Kennedys as cold and manipulative in the essay "The Holy Family." Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z

Literary events Anne Lamott The popular author of writing advice, novels and inspirational essays discusses her new book, "Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers" at two Seattle events: at 2 p.m. James Bond, Abe Lincoln, plus 14 things to do this week 2012-11-12T15:01:13Z

In a 1916 essay, Sigmund Freud pointed to Richard as an example of the correlation between physical disabilities and "deformities of character." On screen and on stage, disability continues to be depicted in outdated, cliched ways 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z

Your essay for New York, calling Donald Trump’s rise a sign of “the fragility of our way of life and the threat late-stage democracy is beginning to pose to itself,” stirred a lot of conversation. Andrew Sullivan on His Brief Return to the Online Political Fray 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

The question of authority hovers over these essays — white, patriarchal authority. Coming of Age — and Becoming a Writer — in an America Obsessed With ‘Dead Girls’ 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

If his memorial is essayed in song, there won't be a dry eye at McKinley High. Cory Monteith: how will Glee producers deal with his death? 2013-07-16T10:50:20Z

Bush’s opening essay and the capsule biographies he writes about each subject are charming. George W. Bush’s best-selling book of paintings shows curiosity and compassion 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

In the ensuing essays, he succeeds, sometimes devoting more than a dozen pages to a short formulation. Celebrating Strange Faces, Gorgeous Sentences and Circular Prose 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

These were the questions I got the most after my husband’s Modern Love essay. Dear David’s Wife, Can You Diagnose My Husband, Too? 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

By that time, Ms. Letissier had fully conceived the new persona and written an essay about it. Gender Is a Construct. Christine and the Queens Built a Bulldozer. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Nor is it surprising, given their dates of composition, that these new essays speak to our current historical and political moment. Democracy’s Fierce Defender 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

The inspiration arrived courtesy of Joan Didion's collection of essays, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem." Andrew Bird narrates the "Inside Problems" that plague our atomized age 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

I’m going to make an Internet on which my essays go out in pneumatic tubes to just who I want them to go to, and no one else.’ ” The Personal-Essay Boom Is Over 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

His essay on Sappho draws on recently discovered fragments of her work, which reveal a poet who might not conform to current expectations. A Critic Considers the ‘Ecstasy and Terror’ of Today With the Help of a Few Ancients 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Lawrence peppers her essay with her trademark self-deprecating tone: “It’s hard for me to speak about my experience as a working woman because I can safely say my problems aren’t exactly relatable.” Jennifer Lawrence expresses anger at Hollywood's gender pay gap 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

This essay is drawn from the conclusion to the author’s photo book “Ángel Gitano.” The Fierce and Seductive Men of Flamenco 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

Hall’s essays are often polemical, and frequently very funny. Donald Hall’s Life Work 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

His essay collection “Magic Hours” was reissued in paperback in March. Michael Pollan Drops Acid — and Comes Back From His Trip Convinced 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

His essays received a National Magazine Award and were collected in his final book, “The Writer Who Stayed,” in 2012. William Zinsser, author of the classic guide ‘On Writing Well,’ dies at 92 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

One of Seattle's deepest-thinking authors — science fiction, nonfiction, essays — discusses "Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing" in conversation with Stranger book editor Paul Constant. 14 top entertainment picks for the week beginning Aug. 5-11, 2012 2012-08-01T21:20:05Z

About three and a half months later, Groucho wrote to Eliot to say that he had just read an essay about Eliot, by Stephen Spender, that had appeared in the Times Book Review. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

That essay, a review of three recently published books about old age, was subtitled: “Why Caring for My Aging Father Has Me Wishing He Would Die.” Noticed: In Aging Parents, a Generation Finds Common Ground 2012-06-13T18:44:51Z

I was in year six at school, and I'd never even written a proper essay. Writing with your dad…writing with your daughter 2013-06-26T11:49:20Z

Wilder didn't necessarily intend to become a writer, though she did hold onto scraps of poetry and essays from her school years. Little house of maybe: "American Masters" on fact, fiction and the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

We will post a new essay each week exploring a variety of disciplines, from classical and pop music to dance and video games. ArtsBeat: What Inspired You to Work in TV? 2013-07-08T14:53:28Z

The photo essay includes images of Kenyans at fashion shows and horse racecourses, playing golf and enjoying the city's nightlife. Fashion and fairways: Slice of life in Nairobi 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

She settled on a book of mostly comical essays about growing up with Joan, filled with revealing tidbits: She loved crossword puzzles so much that Melissa put some in her casket. Melissa without Joan: A daughter deals with loss the Rivers way 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

By the mid-aughts, only 15 percent of SAT essays were submitted in script. From punishing to pleasurable, how cursive writing is looping back into our hearts 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

I’m not a huge fan of his recommended reading list, either, to be honest, or the essay that goes with it. Recommended Science Books For Non-Scientists 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

Hiding my freckles Topics: , , , Irish, Freckles, Molly Ringwald, Self-image, Goth, The Cure, , "Body Issues" is a personal essay series about obsessions with our own shape. Hiding my freckles 2012-12-27T22:35:00Z

His last was a serious essay collection, "The Book of My Lives," which concluded with the devastating story of the death of his young daughter. Aleksandar Hemon's 'Zombie Wars' springs to humorous life unexpectedly 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

You could read a lot of interesting essays about Emily Dickinson’s relationship to the war, from a poetic as well as a historical perspective. ‘Dickinson’ Uses the Civil War to Explore Modern Divisions 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

“The circus is back in town,” declared Mark Fuhrman, the former Los Angeles detective whose racist remarks were weaponized in 1995 by Simpson’s defense team, in an essay for FoxNews.com. O.J. Simpson is granted parole, closing another chapter in a neverending saga 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

The photo essays of Smith and other contributors to Life magazine were early inspirations. Dave Heath, Photographer of Isolation, Dies at 85 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

Stay organized When you are under pressure, your tendency may be to start writing and to see where your essay goes. How to Write an Essay in 1 Day 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

This essay is adapted from their book, “Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning,” published by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in April. Ditch the 10,000 hour rule! Why Malcolm Gladwell’s famous advice falls short 2014-04-20T15:30:00Z

Cruz's character is a Hispanic writer from Brooklyn who writes everything from short stories to essays and movie scripts. 'Sesame Street' gets new Hispanic character 2013-05-10T20:54:12Z

Here are few of the essays that captured my fancy this year. 2014′s best of the literary Web: From “Mansplanation Nation” to “The Original ‘Gone Girl’” 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

The pages often contain biographical essays about collectors and handwritten annotations of buyers’ names and prices paid. Antiques: Vintage Auction Catalogs With Personal Provenance 2014-01-30T22:37:18Z

“Letter to My Nephew” is what James Baldwin called the first part of his enduringly urgent essay “The Fire Next Time.” Review: A Message-Heavy Bill T. Jones Dance-Theater Collage 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

But social media has tilted things so that books by contemporary authors — let alone essays — are no longer portable worlds that awaken when a reader enters and slumber when one leaves. Have we forgotten how to read critically? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z

But this is a memoir, a collection of thematically linked true essays. Review: ‘Not That Kind of Girl,’ by Lena Dunham

“Boys, boys, boys!,” the essay’s sarcastic opening lines read. Critic?s Notebook: Women Playwrights and Gender Stereotypes on Broadway 2011-12-24T01:47:25Z

As insurance, I write the “first draft” of an essay on three-by-five cards, typing sentences in no particular order, taking my own dictation. Instead of Sobbing, You Write Sentences: An Interview with Charles D'Ambrosio 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

“I could have cut them out, but instead I used them to write an essay about Golding.” Edmund Epstein Dies at 80; Gave ?Lord of the Flies? Wings 2012-04-07T21:31:02Z

Because even though it was cloaked in second person, I knew this raunchy essay was about me. I'm an editor, not your mistress 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

This book, featuring essays from a number of scholars, focuses on how early maps depicted the natural world. ‘You Are Here’: Mapping Climate Change, Make Believe and Murder 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

Live since the aughts, her site, bitchesgottaeat.com, has spawned three previous books of essays. Some Personal News From Samantha Irby 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

But so too is our desire for more — for the refinement of her ideas instead of the rehashing — especially since the final essay, which takes an unexpectedly personal turn, delivers like no other. Marilynne Robinson’s Essays Reflect an Eccentric, Exasperating, Profound and Generous Mind 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Marron, who is an International Council member at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, has published two previous books, compilations of essays on public squares and public parks. A Bumper Crop of Gardening Books 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

Roder estimates a couple of hundred people from the United States and overseas submitted essays on this year’s question. Confident that you can answer life’s big questions? Enter the Great American Think-Off. 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

At least we still have his remarkable novels, short stories and essays. Perspective | Philip Roth died before he could win a Nobel Prize. He didn’t need it. 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

She’s here with “”Rookie on Love,” a collection of essays from the magazine. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for February 2018 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

Now none but a parodist dare essay the Burns stanza. My Hero: Robert Burns 2013-01-25T09:30:01Z

Ms. Menke wrote in a 2009 essay for The Guardian about how she and Mr. Tarantino first worked together on his debut feature. Sally Menke, Film Editor for Tarantino and Other Directors, Is Dead 2010-09-28T17:13:00Z

The painters also shared this: Their work aspires to, and at times achieves, “the sublime” — “a term,” Plumly once wrote in an essay, “of breathtaking, soaring, awe-inspiring fear and fascination, a traveling word evoking out-of-the-body.” Review | Poet Stanley Plumly takes a lyrical look at John Constable and J.M.W. Turner 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

The fact that we need to read and earnestly discuss an essay debating this is further proof that writers are suspected feral until proven otherwise, and perhaps deservedly so. #AmWriting, please RT: A few twitter offenses that are worse than retweeting compliments 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

“The End of the End of the Earth” collects five years of essays, reviews and speeches covering politics, art and the environment, and like many such anthologies, it’s uneven. Review | Jonathan Franzen has some baggage. Does his latest essay collection rise above it? 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. Ricard wrote in “The Radiant Child,” an essay that propelled Basquiat to prominence and that many consider a seminal text in contemporary art criticism. Rene Ricard, Art Arbiter With Wildean Wit, Dies at 67 2014-02-07T01:26:22Z

The tendency to group black writers together, he theorized in an essay for Saturday Review in 1963, was a way to ensure that only one at a time could become successful. John A. Williams, an Underrated Novelist Who Wrote About Black Identity, Dies at 89 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

She writes about the Ellison essay that provides her title, “His beautiful, clinical descriptions emit a kind of hostility.” Books of The Times: A Young Writer Goes Searching for Harlem 2011-01-25T18:58:36Z

Rich was sometimes charged with being more polemicist than poet, but “these essays tell a different story,” our critic Parul Sehgal writes. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

These were also some of the questions I was exploring through my essay. Where are the women Kerouacs? 2013-03-13T22:28:00Z

In her new book, “The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks,” Tempest Williams considers the meaning and role of the parks in 12 eloquent personal essays. Terry Tempest Williams thinks, breathes and writes deeply in our national parks 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

The magazine’s photo shoot with her is accompanied instead by a short essay on her star quality by Margo Jefferson, who won a Pulitzer for criticism while at The New York Times. Beyoncé Is Seen but Not Heard 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

The contested Mailer essay was criticized by James Baldwin for its hypersexualization of Black people, among other issues. Reports of Norman Mailer’s cancellation have been greatly exaggerated 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

Ms. Scovell’s essay touched a nerve, perhaps in part because it was from the perspective of someone inside the industry. She Speaks Truth to the Funny Men in Power 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

David Foster Wallace also wrote an essay on the future of fiction to work out many of the issues that would dominate the novel he was then working on. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z

“Some news show called my essay a ‘bratty display’ and I was like, thank you for proving my point,” the actress told Entertainment Weekly, which just named Lawrence its annual Entertainer of the Year. Jennifer Lawrence Responds to Pay-Gap Essay Backlash 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

There are other good things in “Driving Home”: perceptive essays about Philip Larkin and Robert Lowell, much flinty writing about sailing. Books of The Times: ?Driving Home,? by Jonathan Raban - Review 2011-09-15T21:30:23Z

This essay on the last years of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's life exhibits all of Sebald's strengths as a writer – and all of his strange, gnomic, secretive foibles. WG Sebald: Reveries of a solitary walker 2013-04-20T07:00:25Z

"How do you do?" is also just long enough to prove your credentials, allow the primeval centres of your brain to check your potential enemy for weapons, and essay a smile. Lucy Mangan: how do I do? Much better without canapes and kisses, thanks 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

He also writes novels, but he reveres the essay and says it can move us as much as the novel. Cynthia Ozick, with her new collection 'Critics, Monsters, Fanatics,' on her writing life 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

After she published an essay about how much she loves drones, the Daily Dot wrote that Martha was “trolling the Internet into oblivion.” Forget the handmade wreaths. Now Martha Stewart hangs with Snoop Dogg and makes weed jokes. 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z

When he sent me a 26-page essay to edit, I glanced through it and quickly assessed that it was another grotesque love letter to me. I'm an editor, not your mistress 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

I warn them about ending paragraphs — and especially ending essays — with a quote, in case their readers decide that their writing pales in comparison to that of the author they're discussing. Letters to the Calendar section 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z

It became his base of operations, where he met with political activists and wrote his speeches and essays. George Lamming, Who Chronicled the End of Colonialism, Dies at 94 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

He calls for three "reasonable measures" to curb gun violence in an essay titled "Guns," released Friday as a Kindle single through Amazon. Stephen King writes post-Newtown essay on guns 2013-01-25T21:49:13Z

“Two Trains Runnin’,” Sam Pollard’s compact, resonant documentary — part essay film, part road picture, part musical anthology — is built around an astonishing historical coincidence. Review: In ‘Two Trains Runnin’,’ the Convergence of Idealism, Brutality and Artistic Genius 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

And yet, the essay is a dance with chaos, don’t you think? Steven Church talks essays, and his new book 'Ultrasonic' 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

I spend a winter reading anti-semitic tracts, a month studying Charles' essays on Dürer. Small things 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

And the novel is brightly studded with allusions not just to “Hamlet” but also to “Macbeth,” “Lolita,” “A Tale of Two Cities,” Montaigne’s essays, Dante, Nietzsche and Kafka. Review: ‘Nutshell,’ a Tale Told by a Baby-to-Be (or Not-to-Be) 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

“Brox writes beautifully about the silence woven through daily tasks and between prayers in the medieval monastery,” our colleague Gal Beckerman declares in an essay devoted to two books on the subject. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

So begins the Lives essay in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine. Motherlode: Tips on Having Twins 2011-04-01T14:00:34Z

What makes the essay hum, for D’Agata, is its ability to go beyond mere reportage, to exist “between chance and contrivance, between the given and the made.” Dealing in uncertainty, the essay may be the perfect form for our time 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

He turned out numerous magazine articles and scores of catalog essays for museum and gallery exhibitions and lectured widely at museums and universities. Sam Hunter, Curator and Museum Founder, Dies at 91 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

As Lawrence joked in her essay, Hollywood stars negotiating for a few extra million dollars, a few more lines and a few fewer nude scenes might elicit eye rolls from most. Women Flip the Script on Hollywood 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

And my favorite part of the New Yorker’s new fiction issue: the personal essays. The New Narrative, the writer's life and, yes, cats 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

There’s also a novel and a story collection, a book of essays about being black and female in white male society, and a graphic novelist’s celebration of rebellious women in history. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

An attractively produced mix of quick-hit jokes, cartoons, fake advertisements, interviews, first-person essays and deep-dive satire, the magazine is united by an arch tone that provides a nice backdrop for its periodic descent into silliness. Titanic Still Afloat: The American Bystander Publishes Second Issue 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

I’d believe him more if the book didn’t end with two essays placed with intent. In These New Essays, John McPhee Finds Poetry in the Material at Hand 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

And then I literally just wanted to write a pristine little one-page essay of like, man versus chaos, a battle of the little guy against all of chaos. "Why Fish Don't Exist" explores eugenics in the US, a Hawaiian murder plot, and the meaning of life 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

But his greatest work may be the essay he wrote in 2015 for Esquire magazine, titled “The Friend.” When Some Critics Reject the Film That’s About Your Life 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

I do believe that genre distinctions matter, and when I’m writing an essay, I’m writing an essay. Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z

He wrote an essay, “Out the Window,” that turned a simple idea into a poignant expression of human endurance. Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

Years after recovering his written text, Ellison published it in “Shadow and Act,” a 1964 collection of essays, but none of Parks’s photos appeared with it. Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison, Artistic Giants of Postwar Harlem 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

The last essay, “Greek and Us: A History,” might well be read first. An Instant Classic About Learning Ancient Greek 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

Like Penthouse, the magazine he founded, edited and frequently shot photo essays for, Bob Guccione radiated a sleazy erotic charisma. Penthouse's Bob Guccione: The Dark Prince of Porn 2010-10-21T08:45:00Z

David Frum, a speechwriter to George W Bush, wrote a much-noticed essay for the Atlantic titled, “How to build an autocracy”. The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest hour. Are you paying attention? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

The essay describes daily interventions to prevent Trump from acting on his worst impulses, thereby protecting the state and, indeed, the entire global order. Seneca Could Have Written the Anonymous Times Op-Ed About Trump 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Yet through essays by humanists, artists and scientists she shows how objects are of central importance to thought and emotion. Prized Souvenirs, Found for Free 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

I just hit the end of my rope and wrote this scorched-earth confessional essay, saying, "Hi, I'm a fat person, and I work in your office, and we are friends." Lindy West is the troll-fighting feminist warrior you've been waiting for 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Writers emote like it’s 2015 again, the heyday of the personal essay. In Search of Time Lost and Newly Found 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

Other items on display include a handkerchief bearing lyrics for It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary, a schoolboy essay about airship raids over London, and a knitting pattern for balaclavas. WW1 show explores role of humour 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

In her essay for the show’s catalog, Jody Graf, assistant curator and organizer of the show, writes of Susiraja, “Her photographs may be funny, but they are never a joke.” Iiu Susiraja: She Has Issues? No, You Have Issues 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

The entirety of one issue was dominated by an extensive visual essay on knots. Jacqueline de Jong Paints It All 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

In what amounts to a lengthy critical essay disguised as a scoop, writer Martha P. Nochimson looks far and wide for insight into what remains perhaps the most confounding finale in television history. Is Tony Soprano dead? David Chase responds to debate that won't die 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

This collection of thematically linked essays, by a poet who is also the Book Review’s poetry columnist, grapples with the chaotic and unknowable nature of catastrophe, even as real-world crises press in from all sides. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Five years ago I wrote an essay for Salon about being a 33-year-old virgin. I lost my virginity at 37: What that night at the Bunny Ranch really taught me 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

In the essay, Wright describes Depp as “a brother” – and a “person I loved very much”. Amber Heard's friend explains why she called police on Johnny Depp 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

Wonderful essay - full of the true spirit of Thanksgiving!! Migrant, Refugee, Gay: You’re All Welcome at This Table 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes warned in his essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" that Black artists must embrace their Blackness, not bleach it out to appeal to white America. “Sorry to Bother You” exposes the danger of bourgeois integration 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

As it turned out, I was reading him—I had a book of his essays out from the library. #MeToo and Encounters That Resist Easy Moralizing 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

Sacks not only achieved that peace but managed to convey it beautifully in these essays. Oliver Sacks’s posthumous gift: ‘Gratitude’ 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

Gone from “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About” are some mischievous and kinetic essays that appeared in that earlier collection. Review: Revisiting Saul Bellow’s Words, on Society, Chicago and Other Writers 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

Though the essays are signed, one can’t be sure whether the signers chose the tracks, and you won’t find out how the anthologizers, individually or as a body, really feel about anything in particular. Arts & Leisure Preview: Ultimate Box of Jazz? Not Exactly 2011-03-17T17:46:52Z

In one of the later essays, he recalls a night at a hospital when the plastic bag taped to his leg to collect urine suddenly broke. Clive James’s ‘Last Readings’ review: A critic’s final homage to literature, life 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

Hussman, who is White, said he objected to Hannah-Jones’s assertion in her 1619 Project essay that American colonists waged the Revolutionary War to preserve slavery, a statement that the Times later clarified. One of the voices objecting to Nikole Hannah-Jones’s hiring at UNC: A newspaper baron — and major donor 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

After all, Nancy may not be on hand to help with his embarrassing college application essay now. Here's Everything We Know So Far About 'Stranger Things' Season 3 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

Hannaham blended these interests and anxieties with his impressions of Lisbon to form “Pilot Impostor,” a hybrid work of stories, essays, poetry, jokes and visual art. A Book’s Unlikely Pairing: Fernando Pessoa and Plane Crashes 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

Since its publication in February of this year, Laura Kipnis’s essay, “Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe,” has not ceased to create controversy.  Sexual melodrama on campus: The real story about college assault that David Brooks and Laura Kipnis don’t understand 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Yes, Berry said, there were antisemitic tropes in Wagner’s music dramas, and antisemitic politics in his essays. Germany Reckons With Wagner: Cultural Jewel, or National Shame? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

Perhaps Ann Dorsey best summed up the feelings of many today in her essay when she said, “I think a lady President would be nice for a change.” “A Lady for President?” Third Graders Respond 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

Dizzying, layered patterns formed borders around photo essays about the domains of robber barons, moviemakers, prisoners, hospital patients, orphans and star-struck teenagers. A Panorama of Design 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z