| 单词 | essayist |
| 例句 | “Are you really? Well, you know what they say—God will not look you over for medals or diplomas, but for scars. That’s Elbert Hubbard, an American essayist, if you’re interested.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z There are, to be sure, stand-up comedians, shaggy- dog raconteurs, consummate essayists, and authors of mystery novels who can build up curiosity and suspense and then resolve it all with a sudden revelation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But Wilfrid Sheed, an American novelist and essayist, penned a comment just before the match ended that many would later regard as prescient. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Still, those writers would likely have been thinking of Indians without him—the essayist Montaigne had noted the same antiauthoritarian attitudes a century earlier. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Daum, a sharp critic and essayist, takes on the excesses and oversimplifications of contemporary feminism in a book she says she’s “never been more afraid of writing” or “more certain I had to.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z A personal essayist reporting on his anthropological fieldwork on corruption and hypocrisy, he combines the digressively meditative style of performance artist Spalding Gray with the gadfly relentlessness of documentary filmmaker Michael Moore. Trump as theater: Mike Daisey's one-man show, 'The Trump Card,' delves into the Donald phenomenon 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z O’Toole, a prolific essayist and critic, calls this inventive narrative “a personal history of modern Ireland” — an ambitious project, but one he pulls off with élan. The 10 Best Books of 2022 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z There is a sizable Crist contingent working in journalism today — critics, essayists and writers who were driven to write savvier, and think bigger, by this professor’s blunt assessments. Remembering Judith Crist, Savage Critic and Inspirational Mentor: One Student’s Appreciation 2012-08-07T22:14:56Z He was an electric polemicist, one of the crucial essayists of the 20th century. Review: ‘The Fire This Time,’ Stoked by Baldwin’s Legacy 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z I asked my friend Davie Lerner, the noted dance essayist who studied at the School of American Ballet on the G.I. Bathing Beauty: The Wet and Wild Life of Esther Williams 2013-06-13T15:28:43Z Kristen Millares Young is a prizewinning journalist, essayist and the author of the novel “Subduction,” which won silver Nautilus and Independent Publisher Book Awards. Review | In ‘Rites,’ Savannah Johnston portrays the aching, farcical nature of existence with stunning clarity 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Henry David Thoreau, the essayist and poet whose book "Walden" still resonates with fans of nature and the environment in the modern era, was born 200 years ago Wednesday. Happy 200th birthday, Henry David Thoreau! 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z The late novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace is best remembered for writing "Infinite Jest," a sprawling 1,079-page opus full of ironic wit and dynamic, digressive prose. 'End of the Tour' trailer: Jason Segel takes on David Foster Wallace 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z She also wanted to catch something of the essayist’s way of suddenly opening “trap doors,” of changing the subject as it were without losing the line of thought. With remarkable concert at Soka, the young Calidore String Quartet declares: Take note 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z JJS, as I have come to think of him, may be the best essayist of his generation. Is John Jeremiah Sullivan the New Tom Wolfe? Yes. Yes He Is. 2011-10-27T05:45:54Z Most of the essayists are professional writers, and despite their differences in temperament, race and sexual orientation, their concerns do fall into a similar bucket. ‘The Bitch in the House’ Has a Sequel: ‘The Bitch Is Back’ 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Both EB White and James Thurber wrote for The New Yorker magazine: White was a consummate essayist and children’s book author — "Charlotte’s Web," "Stuart Little" and "The Trumpet of the Swan." Please shut up, Mr. President, and read some books 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Anyone already familiar with her work as a poet and essayist would not be shocked to find that Ms. Broder radiates an immediate, cozy candor. In ‘The Pisces,’ a Woman and a Merman Fall in Love. Aquatic Erotica Ensues. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Rather, Young, like the best essayists, writes with humorous self-regard about her own lived small moments, which reveal as much about us as they do about her. Review | A New Zealand poet turns a lyrical eye on her homeland through essays in ‘Can You Tolerate This?’ 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z “The ‘no means yes’ thing is there in the books,” said Sady Doyle, an essayist who often writes about “Game of Thrones.” For ‘Game of Thrones,’ Rising Unease Over Rape’s Recurring Role 2014-05-03T01:43:04Z Montaigne man … Cohen is clearly a descendant of the great French essayist. Attention!: A (Short) History by Joshua Cohen – review 2013-06-21T10:00:01Z 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 An exquisite essayist, he embarks on a wondering examination of indigenous coastal tribes, the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet,and the continuously necessary labor of memory. Movie Listings for Oct. 30-Nov. 5 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z At 55, Martin, a prolific philosophy professor and essayist, has had more lives than a cat. From a Suicide Expert, an Unflinching Guide to Saving Lives 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z 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 Mr. Lescher’s first marriage, to Mary Cantwell, who was an essayist and editorial writer for The New York Times, ended in divorce. Robert Lescher, Literary Agent, Is Dead at 83 2012-12-07T02:40:48Z Except, that is, in “The Kiss: Intimacies From Writers,” edited by Brian Turner, himself an essayist, as well as a poet and memoirist. Writers Pay Lip Service to a Universal Gesture of Love 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Like Voltaire and Diderot, who frequently feature in his writing, Bruckner writes across a variety of forms and genres, as a philosopher, a polemicist, an essayist and a novelist. Pascal Bruckner: 'Happiness is a moment of grace' 2011-01-23T00:05:40Z Baudelaire described the flâneur as a passionate spectator, one who was fond of “botanizing on the asphalt,” as the essayist Walter Benjamin would later put it. Solo in Paris 2014-05-02T18:00:32Z He writes with the confidence and even arrogance that all good essayists should have. Attention!: A (Short) History by Joshua Cohen – review 2013-06-21T10:00:01Z Meanwhile, in America, Sheed had begun to make a name for himself as a pithy essayist, his style a "curious transatlantic brew" that reflected his cross-cultural upbringing. Wilfrid Sheed obituary 2011-02-21T19:01:03Z Most of the essayists are well-established writers of a certain age who, like their editor — indeed, like this reviewer — are slightly too young to have experienced the Beatles contemporaneously. Ask me why: Great writers on the Beatles songs they love most 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z The essayist and novelist David Shields, whose forthcoming book is “The Very Last Interview,” used to idolize Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” Why David Shields Can’t Read the ‘Greatest Book Ever Written’ Anymore 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z At least that was the hypothesis of Robert Menasse, an Austrian novelist and essayist who moved here in 2010 to try to get under the bureaucratic skin of the place. Brussels, E.U. Capital, Gets a Novel, Both Tart and Empathic 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z The late essayist Christopher Hitchens once referred to the novel as “a love story enfolded in a bildungsroman and wrapped in a conspiracy theory” — using a $10 word for a coming-of-age tale. Iran’s Iraj Pezeshkzad, who wrote ‘My Uncle Napoleon,’ dies 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z The poet and essayist considers how the act of caring for others can encourage connections that may soothe adversity. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z But Ms. Tamblyn, 38, an actor, director, poet, novelist, essayist and activist, didn’t much care about her score. Amber Tamblyn Goes Dancing With Bowling Shoes 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Do you guys think that essayists need to have a political stance in each essay that they’re writing or even overall, as they’re thinking and applying themselves to their form? Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z Finding the pearliest treasures at shorelines called for avoiding crocodiles, spiny urchins and “burning sea slime,” Claudia Swan, one of the essayists, points out. 5 Design Books That Are Easy on the Eyes 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Gay: You know, I think that women have always been essayists but … now we have more access than we traditionally have had and so it helps. Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z The award-winning novelist, poet and essayist died in 2017, but this year brings a final collection of his lyrical, sometimes mystical pieces about life and its gifts. Review | The best books to read — and gift — in December 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Many essayists make big claims, describing narrative achievements for which you might not have known you were searching. Review | ‘B-Side Books’ adds to your must-read stack with the best books you’ve never heard of 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z This is the first proper biography of this important poet, essayist and feminist, and it’s a good story well told. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Gospel traditions, erotic need, African American vernacular English and plenty of blank space on well-organized pages come together in this wide-ranging debut poetry collection by an established essayist. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z The visiting friends include a tech C.E.O., a hot young essayist, a sickly high school buddy and a globe-trotting gourmand. Gary Shteyngart’s Pandemic Novel Is His Finest Yet 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Wright, renowned poet and essayist, completed “Casting Deep Shade” just before her sudden death in January of 2016. A Poet and Essayist Meditates on the Deep Roots Binding Humans and Trees 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z But I also think women essayists still aren’t taken as seriously as men. Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z I felt an expanded sense of my cultural lineage in learning that there were many different kinds of storytellers, novelists, essayists, playwrights, and poets. The Ancestral Blessings of Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z The acclaimed Seattle-based novelist and essayist discusses his collection of travel writing and commentary, “Driving Home: An American Journey,” new in paperback. Washington State Fair in Puyallup, the Eagles highlight post-Bumbershoot week 2013-08-28T22:54:41Z And covering a 2000 revival screening of “Breathless,” the essayist and novelist Philip Lopate said he felt as exhilarated by the film as when he first saw it 40 years before. Jean-Luc Godard, Daring Director Who Shaped the French New Wave, Dies at 91 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z When Ms. Daum is locked in like this, balancing self-analysis with observation of the outside world, she’s among the best personal essayists of a searching, cynical generation that’s lucky to have her. ‘Unspeakable,’ Essays by Meghan Daum 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The magazine announced Tuesday that Rich, 61, would begin in June as an essayist, commentator and editor-at-large. NYT's Frank Rich joining New York magazine 2011-03-01T17:33:19Z Thanks largely to their interventions, he kicked his opium habit for extensive periods, made his mark as an essayist, and published three collections of verse before a final descent into dereliction. Poem of the week: An Arab Love-Song by Francis Thompson 2012-12-17T10:52:15Z Perhaps Auden’s only fault as an essayist is an occasional tendency to adopt a slightly dogmatic, schoolmasterly tone. ‘The Complete Works of Auden’ showcases writings beyond the poetry 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z That’s where the birds come in, as the essayist Matthew Gavin Frank explains in “Flight of the Diamond Smugglers,” his rumination on brutality and resistance in the mines of South Africa. Pigeons: Nuisance Animals, or Expert Accomplices in Diamond Smuggling? 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Which writers — novelists, essayists, memoirists, poets — working today do you admire most? Michael Ondaatje: By the Book 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Katha Pollitt, better known as a journalist and essayist, is not a new poet, but to meet her again in this collection is a treat. A Raging Pandemic Inspires Poetry With Little Bite 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z This brilliant young essayist made me actually enjoy pondering the deeper meaning of rock icon Axl Rose. 4 good reads from National Book Critics Circle awards' finalists 2012-02-03T20:50:10Z Additionally, it’s the case that Montaigne, our greatest and original essayist, was moved to write because, Lehrer argues, he was gutted by the death and absence of his dearest friend. Jonah Lehrer returns with 'A Book About Love.' Can it rescue his reputation? 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z He also reflects on his own activity as a poet, essayist, filmmaker and novelist. ‘Pasolini’ Review: One Rebellious Filmmaker’s Tribute to Another 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z His movie encourages us to remember that, in addition to the essayist critiquing America, Baldwin was a man of real appetites, of real beauty. Can we Trust the Beauty of Barry Jenkins’s “If Beale Street Could Talk”? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z An essayist for the Gentleman’s Magazine of 1891 echoes the lexicographers’ insistence that these words were common, opining that “the ‘bad language’ of the present day must be characterized as obscene rather than profane.” The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from 2013-05-11T12:30:00Z But there were many others throughout his life, each encompassing a side to the avuncular essayist most readers didn’t see. “Every man reads one book in his life, and this one is mine”: E.B. White’s lifelong conversation with Thoreau’s “Walden” 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Always a better essayist than a novelist, in Homage to Catalonia he is a book-length essayist trying to capture the intimacy of the first-person novelist. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z Novelist and essayist Geoff Dyer, who has read it, agrees that it's a novel of real quality. A serious man 2010-08-14T23:06:00Z There Marilynne Robinson, the award-winning novelist and essayist, became her teacher, thesis adviser and mentor, putting her in touch with an agent who quickly sold her book to Knopf. Buzz Over Ayana Mathis’s ‘Twelve Tribes of Hattie’ 2012-12-10T22:42:33Z “Caste” lands so firmly because the historian, the sociologist and the reporter are not at war with the essayist and the critic inside her. Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ Is an ‘Instant American Classic’ About Our Abiding Sin 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z There are essayists who can take the most arcane or trifling subjects and make them enthralling. An Essayist Searching for Alternate Worlds 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z A central figure is novelist and essayist Aldous Huxley, an early advocate of psychedelic drugs. Work-in-progress 'LSD: The Opera' is powerful musical theater 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z Dombek, an essayist and occasional advice columnist for n+1, is after the deep, deceptive narcissism inherent in that very view of the world. What Happens When We Decide Everyone Else Is a Narcissist 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Instead, it’s a searing account of the essayist’s lifelong struggle with her weight, which once topped 500 pounds. Roxane Gay decided to write about being overweight. It took her to some painful places. 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z That hasn’t deterred Joshua Rivkin, a poet and essayist, from trying. A Life of Cy Twombly Brings a Poet’s Eye to the Artist’s Mythic Work 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z “I might be close to solvent,” the poet and essayist Brian Blanchfield said, “but I still think like a deeply insolvent person.” Helping Writers With a Windfall Avoid a Downfall 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Abdurraqib, a poet, cultural critic and essayist, uses the tales of Black performers to make powerful observations about race in America, gliding through music, television, film, minstrel shows and vaudeville. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z “A really good middle-grade novel,” says the New Yorker essayist, whose debut collection is “Trick Mirror,” “will supersede a lot of contemporary fiction in terms of economy, lucidity and grace.” Jia Tolentino Wants You to Read Children’s Books 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Ephron's honesty about her own worries, her own pains, her own anxieties was one of the defining characteristics of her work, particularly as a journalist and essayist. Nora Ephron: how I'll miss her 2012-06-27T15:55:01Z This is not to say that the acerbic essayist and commentator is without feelings. Fran Lebowitz on Trump: "No one in New York thinks he's a New Yorker" 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z G. Willow Wilson — essayist, journalist and comic-book author — offers a memoir that focuses on her conversion to Islam and the events that follow. 'The Butterfly Mosque': Learning to live with love and Islam 2010-06-09T23:48:00Z Olivia Campbell is a journalist and essayist specializing in medicine, mothering, arts, and history. 'She’s good, but she’s big': my years as a 'fat' ballerina 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z “This terrible and occasionally illegible prose never quite overcomes the reader’s trust in Faulkner’s profound creative power,” says the essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra, whose new novel is “Run and Hide.” Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z In effect, his site’s archives make up a valuable critical guide for anyone who enjoys “the normal recreation of noble minds,” as the essayist Philip Guedalla once called the reading of detective stories. Reading for a winter’s night: The detective fiction of Todd Downing 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z I admire too many poets to name them all, but I’m often struck by the work of the essayist and poet Hanif Abdurraqib. Elizabeth Acevedo Understands That ‘People Read Like They Eat’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Who are the best writers — novelists, essayists, biographers, journalists, poets — working today, in your opinion? John Lewis Gaddis: By the Book 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z As a poet and essayist, she has mined her own life again and again. 'Excavation' digs up memories of an illicit child-teacher relationship 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Playwright David Hare said today that Vidal didn't have "a fictional bone in his body", but that he was a "genius essayist". The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z Walter Benjamin, the German Jewish philosopher, essayist and cultural critic, spent the better part of his professional life planning for what he described to his friend Bertolt Brecht as “the demolition of Heidegger.” The Men Who Reinvented Philosophy for Turbulent Times 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z These days the word “essayist” sounds fussy and a little old-fashioned, nearly as archaic as “bookman” and “poetess.” Review | We blog, we tweet, we post to Facebook: Let’s instead savor the art of the essay 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z “There is no truth but in transit,” said the essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson in the mid-19th century, while Alexis de Tocqueville marvelled at the “feverish ardour” of the rootless American. Roof down, music up: American Honey and the neverending search for the American dream 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z She anticipates, in the next pages, the novelist and essayist Zadie Smith’s castigating contribution. Can 48 Artists in 14 Rooms Capture Michael Jackson? 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z And so I think we’re in a golden age of women essayists, but in what publications? Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z In his introduction, Davenport — an essayist of the most sophisticated literary intelligence — noted that O. Henry’s reputation has long stood extremely high in Europe. Review | Why O. Henry is so much more than those short stories you had to read in school 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Not a context in which many people would find themselves tempted to self-identify as “essayists.” The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z The best essays record the tacks and turns of an interesting mind, and Hustvedt — also an accomplished art critic and essayist — is never not interesting. Was That Really Me? A Novelist Discovers Her Younger Self 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z The comic essayist leads us on a variety of personal adventures, including climbing an active volcano and freezing her eggs. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z 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 The creator of the dearly departed television series “30 Rock,” “Saturday Night Live” alumna, sometime movie star and best-selling essayist, Ms. Fey has one of the most appealing satirical sensibilities on offer. Review: ‘Mean Girls’ Sets the Perils of Being Popular to Song 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z Edoardo Sanguineti, one of 's leading intellectuals, who has died aged 79, was primarily a poet but also made his mark as a playwright, literary critic, academic and essayist. Edoardo Sanguineti obituary 2010-05-26T17:23:00Z Terry Tempest Williams, an essayist, naturalist and a visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School, taught Rogers in a class called “Finding Beauty in a Broken World.” Maggie Rogers’s Higher Calling 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z In her first book, Newton, a critic and essayist, digs deep into her family’s past, from Depression-era Texas to witch-hunting Massachusetts, not flinching at what she sees. 17 New Nonfiction Books to Read This Season 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Like the senior Alcott, the fictional Samuel Hood is an essayist and educator. Review | ‘The Illness Lesson’ alludes to ‘Little Women’ but will remind you of darker works 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z "Truth," as historian and essayist Rebecca Solnit has written, "is whatever the powerful want it to be." In the house of alternative facts: How my parents' lies prepared me for post-truth America 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z “The authors of periodical essays,” wrote a French critic in 1834, “or as they’re commonly known, essayists, represent in English letters a class every bit as distinct as the Novellieri in Italy.” The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Jill Bialosky, a prolific poet and essayist who is a top editor at W. W. Norton & Company, is facing accusations that passages in her new memoir, “Poetry Will Save Your Life,” are plagiarized. Jill Bialosky, Poet and Editor, Faces Plagiarism Accusations 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Kristen Millares Young is a prizewinning journalist, essayist and the author of the novel “Subduction,” which won silver Nautilus and Independent Publisher Book awards. Review | In Maggie Nelson’s ‘On Freedom,’ liberation and entrapment aren’t easy to untangle 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Monson is perhaps best known as an essayist, though his back catalogue includes poetry and a novel-in-stories, his work distinguished by his sharp, inventive excavation of form. "Everyone can and should get our own 'Predator,'" says writer who's watched film 146 times 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z The essayist Adam Gopnik joins the players of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, reading original writing among the movements of Schubert’s Octet. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z His stuff is yet more proof that Britons are better travel writers and essayists than Americans; drier, funnier, more argumentative. Books of The Times: ?Driving Home,? by Jonathan Raban - Review 2011-09-15T21:30:23Z Christopher Hitchens, the brilliant, pugilistic essayist and journalist, died Thursday of cancer at age 62. Christopher Hitchens, RIP 2011-12-16T14:27:21Z D’Ambrosio stands here revealed as one of the smartest, most literary essayists practicing today. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z That was how it happened for the novelist and essayist Sloane Crosley, 41, at 8 a.m. a few weeks back at Sam’s Deli, a bodega in the West Village. Together Apart? How About Totally Losing It? 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z In “Reality Hunger,” Proust is described as “at base an essayist.” Books Of the Times: ‘How Literature Saved My Life,’ by David Shields 2013-02-03T20:49:32Z Both men were mesmerizing writers, though with different styles — Churchill was a master of rhetoric; Orwell a superb essayist. What do George Orwell and Winston Churchill have in common? A new book has the answer 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Making a movie about the late novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace would seem challenging on several counts. Sundance 2015: In 'End of the Tour,' David Foster Wallace, explained 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Nor was it just selections from the great essayists, including William Hazlitt, Thomas de Quincey and Samuel Johnson. The new Penguin English Library is a far cry from its 1963 version 2012-05-24T07:00:00Z The Thorn allows Annie to grow as an essayist, even as its own cultural footprint shrinks. With ‘Younger’ and ‘The Bold Type’ Ending, Will TV Turn the Page? 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Readers, may I introduce you to UConn literature professor Gina Barreca — feminist, humorist, essayist and noted academic with strong opinions about the president of the United States and the people who support him. Perspective | President Trump: The new Mae West? Let us explain. 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z McLarin is an essayist, novelist and professor of writing at Emerson College. ‘Team Seven’ is an authentic, affecting story of a young black man’s struggle to survive "The awards burnish the careers of novelists, translators, essayists, and poets; equally, they enhance the diverse landscape available to readers. They celebrate and confer the freedom that is a prerequisite to great literature." PEN announces award-winners and shortlists 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Something I’m always curious about, as a fellow essayist: What gave you the confidence to become an essayist? “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 That honor goes to the complicated personal and professional relationship she had with the meta-novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace. Sexism and Genius Collide ‘In the Land of Men’ 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z The award is given to those “who have had an impact on American society in ways similar to the distinguished 19th century novelist and essayist best known as Mark Twain.” Stand-up guy: Mark Twain Prize recipient Jay Leno returns to his comedy roots He was a prolific novelist, playwright, short-story writer, poet and essayist whose fiction was much influenced by the self-conscious styles of Laurence Sterne and Xavier de Maistre. The Alienist by Machado de Assis – review 2012-12-23T00:10:26Z Witnessing this sacrilege was Jorge Carrión, a Barcelona-based novelist and essayist who at the time was preparing a cultural history of bookstores. A Love Affair With Bookstores 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The late French essayist and novelist Georges Perec understood the anxiety of shelving. Perspective | Why bother organizing your books? A messy personal library is proof of life. 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Its dirty little secret is that David was probably a better novelist than he was an essayist. David Rakoff’s Last Deadline 2013-07-03T16:16:53Z None have done so as systematically as Coates, a master essayist. Kanye West rebuked by Ta-Nehisi Coates in biting essay called ‘I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye’ 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z He was primarily known for unleashing that arsenal in scabrously witty and linguistically daring novels, but he was also an essayist, memoirist and critic of the first rank. A Brief Guide to Martin Amis’s Books 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Writing in 1869, the English essayist and art critic Walter Pater pictured Leonardo “tracking the sources of expression to their subtlest retreats.” Review | Quiet, please. At the Louvre’s ‘Léonard de Vinci’ exhibition, you’re in the presence of genius. 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z People often compare me to other humor essayists. Author Sloan Crosley 2010-07-14T08:00:00Z For a start, it sounds a little like a whistlestop tour of topics that have featured in Ephron's five decades-long career as a journalist, screenwriter and essayist. Nora Ephron: how I'll miss her 2012-06-27T15:55:01Z Mr. Martínez was also known as a journalist, essayist and critic. 2010-02-06T07:20:00Z “He was an inspiring figure as a literature professor and an ace of great virtuosity as a novelist, short story writer, essayist and raconteur,” Mr. Roth said in a telephone interview on Thursday. Richard G. Stern, a Writers’ Writer, Is Dead at 84 2013-01-25T03:25:06Z The look at essayist and novelist James Baldwin is competing for an Oscar in the best documentary category. Box Office: 'Split' Tops 'Rings,' as 'Space Between Us' Bombs 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z These charmingly insouciant short stories by the noted critic, poet and essayist exhibit the same surreal whimsy that distinguishes his work in other formats. New & Noteworthy, From Jazz-Age Cairo to a Catholic Memoir 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z After arriving in Cuba on March 24, the royals will pay their respects to essayist, poet and Cuban national hero Jose Marti. Britain's Prince Charles to make first royal visit to Cuba in March 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z For critical models, he turned to essayists who were able to wrestle ideas big and small from all varieties of American popular culture. The Rock Critic Robert Christgau’s Big-Hearted Theory of Pop 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The awards ceremony will honor Sonia Sanchez, a poet, essayist and educator. Spare Times for July 19-25 2013-07-18T22:37:17Z The Harlem-born civil rights activist and essayist had written a letter, titled “My Dungeon Shook,” to his 14-year-old nephew on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. A civil rights photographer's march through years of American struggle 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z A poet, essayist and children’s book author as well as a novelist, she became well known early in her career as an editor of a literary magazine and as a newspaper columnist and critic. Rosario Ferré, Writer Who Examined Puerto Rican Identity, Dies at 77 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z “I am reduced to my irreducible self,” the poet and essayist Wendell Berry wrote in “An Entrance to the Woods,” after camping alone along Kentucky’s Red River Gorge. The Case for Covering Your Ears in Noisy Times 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Citizen won for the poetry award for Claudia Rankine, while The Essential Ellis Willis, an anthology of the late critic and essayist, was cited for criticism. Marilynne Robinson wins fiction prize 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z When Joseph Brodsky was asked whether he was American or Russian after receiving the Nobel prize for literature in 1987, he answered: "I am Jewish – a Russian poet and an English essayist." Dan Vyleta's top 10 books in second languages 2011-02-16T12:01:20Z His last book was a study of Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine essayist and poet: “Borges, Between History and Eternity.” A Debut Novel. A Tiny Press. A Pulitzer Finalist. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Charles Lamb, the English essayist, hoped his last breath would be inhaled through a pipe and exhaled in a pun. Recipes for a Tidy and Tasty Death 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z To help explain the twins’ place not just in their own world but in ours as well, he enlists the help of anthropologists, botanists, novelists, essayists and philosophers. Who Were the Original Siamese Twins? 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z A novelist, short story writer and essayist, Davis is also an acclaimed translator. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z “There are tons of books about imaginary worlds,” the essayist Noel Perrin once wrote in The Washington Post. Zilpha Keatley Snyder, celebrated author of ‘The Egypt Game’ and other classics, dies The hugely successful novelist and essayist is often characterized as an “intellectual loner,” with the shadow of his 2001 feud with Oprah seemingly still following him. “Intellectual loner” Jonathan Franzen shows fallibility as “Power Player” on “Jeopardy!” 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Before he departed New York for a television job in Los Angeles in 2014, he was well known in his hometown as an essayist, novelist, performer and bon vivant. Brooklyn Man Finds New Life in Crime (Writing) 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Pope's wit is famously caustic, so it's surprising how often the essayist advocates charity and humility. Poem of the week: An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope 2013-07-08T09:59:20Z Benbow, the theologian and essayist, argued that the publisher of “Bad and Boujee” should go beyond simply pulling the book and use this moment to extend more opportunities to Black women. White author’s book about Black feminism pulled after outcry 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z A day after that, it was essayist and feminist activist Lindy West’s turn to say farewell — “at least for a while,” she wrote. Will leaving Twitter make life better for these outspoken liberals? 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z In that sense, her heritage as a poet, as an essayist and as an Angeleno begins at the library. Should L.A. have a Wanda Coleman Memorial Library? 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z In a treatise published in 1757, Edmund Burke, an Irish essayist and statesman, outlined the differences between the beautiful and the sublime. Looking for the Sublime? It’s in This Swiss Valley 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Ephron, the essayist, author and filmmaker who challenged and thrived in the male-dominated worlds of movies and journalism and was loved, respected and feared for her devastating and diverting wit, died Tuesday in Manhattan. Nora Ephron, writer-filmmaker, dies at 71 2012-06-27T03:28:11Z In fact, the allegation most often levelled at a confessional essayist tends to be that they are writing in a trite and essentially superficial way about themselves: the literary equivalent of navel-gazing. Confessions in new women's lit: Emily Gould, Meghan Daum and Sloane Crosley 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z This is Atherton Lin’s first book, but it benefits from his extensive experience as an essayist and an editor of Failed States, a journal about places. A Memoir About Queer Identity, Told One Gay Bar at a Time 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Gay: I think that each essayist writes in the way they want to write and the way they need to write. Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z These essayists all return to a fundamental problem again and again: How do you know a thing is true? Dealing in uncertainty, the essay may be the perfect form for our time 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z The essayists reckon with their younger selves’ pain and confusion while consuming media that actively erased or misrepresented them. Review | Well-Read Black Girl’s Glory Edim continues to grow her empire — this time with a book 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z “I suppose it’s an interesting premise,” wrote the essayist Roxane Gay in an op-ed for the New York Times, “but as is often the case with interesting premises, at what cost?” Confederate: will a grassroots movement sink the controversial HBO series? 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Throughout her impressive career as a journalist, essayist, screenwriter and director, Ephron’s wit and sharp observations about human nature always shone through — and there’s nowhere that’s more apparent than in When Harry Met Sally…. 25 years later, "When Harry Met Sally" is still the perfect rom-com 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Philip Lopate argues that a good essayist must see oneself from the ceiling, must turn oneself into a character. When the school is the bully 2012-05-18T16:15:00Z Mr. Hitchens, a prolific essayist and the author of “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything,” discovered in June 2010 that he had Stage 4 esophageal cancer. Christopher Hitchens on Writing, Mortality and Cancer 2011-10-09T20:13:18Z In 1965, Mr. Simmons, an incisive, erudite reviewer and essayist, won a William Faulkner Foundation Award for “Powdered Eggs,” recognized as a notable first novel. Charles Simmons, Novelist and Critic, Dies at 92 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z The wry essayist publishes a new collection, and his life, his writing and the world around him all seem a little crueler and more shocking than before. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z When the poet and essayist, whose latest book is “Just Us,” finishes reading novels, she stores them in her guest room “or in a bag by the door to be given away.” Claudia Rankine Wishes More Writers Thought About Whiteness 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Zweig, the Austrian essayist, called it a “projectile,” as if it were a canister filled with sarin. Lenin and the Russian Spark 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Never more than now, with accusations of fake news flying, have these questions bedeviled writers — whether journalists or essayists or critics. Review: A Three-Way Smackdown Over ‘The Lifespan of a Fact’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Even the most didactic narrative films traffic mainly in feeling and story, leaving granular analysis of a many-faceted subject to essayists and debaters. From the streets to the screen: how Hollywood is tackling police brutality 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Sabato was also a prolific essayist who wrote about metaphysics, politics and tango. Argentine writer Sabato dies, 99 2011-04-30T17:27:36Z Poet, artist, novelist, composer, essayist, educator, Tagore was India’s Renaissance man. Footsteps: Where a Poet’s Vision Lives on in India 2013-02-01T18:07:13Z When he was in Los Angeles last week, he sat down for a freewheeling conversation about art and film with essayist Pico Iyer at an event organized The Broad museum. Q&A: Takashi Murakami talks monsters, movies and Fukushima 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Max Stafford-Clark directs an evening of witty repartee that celebrates the life and work of the 18th-century essayist, poet and compiler of the first English dictionary. This week's new theatre 2011-02-19T00:05:55Z Named in honor of the 18th-century essayist and lexicographer, the Samuel Johnson Prize is open to English-language books in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts. Book about secretive NKorea wins UK literary prize 2010-07-01T20:09:00Z A curiosity, then: the essay is French, but essayists are English. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z He held that post for two years, bringing essayists and fiction writers to its pages. Arnost Lustig, Writer of the Holocaust, Is Dead at 84 2011-03-05T05:58:42Z Mr. D’Agata said his only obligation as an essayist “was to try to make great art.” ArtsBeat: John D'Agata and Jim Fingal Address the Facts 2012-04-19T23:00:17Z Following her success as a journalist, Ephron became an essayist for outlets like Esquire, where her essay "A Few Words About Breasts" helped to establish her as a feminist voice of her generation. 8 fascinating facts about Nora Ephron 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z He was essentially an essayist with a brush, but a highly entertaining one. Art Review: ‘Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore’ at N.Y.U. 2012-09-06T22:07:05Z The government's 2002 "Game Plan" report, quoted by one essayist, declared that the Olympics "appear to be more about celebration than economic returns." The Art of Dissent: Adventures in London's Olympic State edited by Hilary Powell and Isaac Marrero-Guillamón 2012-07-31T10:45:01Z Lisa Lewis, a playwright and essayist, is the guest storyteller, but the microphone is open to all for stories of five minutes duration, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Spare Times for Jan. 13-19 2012-01-12T22:18:55Z None have done so as systematically as Coates, a master essayist. Kanye West rebuked by Ta-Nehisi Coates in biting essay called ‘I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye’ 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z A literary critic and gifted essayist, Moustafa brings his formidable skills as a reader of texts to his analysis of contemporary political culture. “All Muslim life in America is seen through the lens of terrorism” 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z As some readers know, several of those friends turned out to be essayists comparable to Valentine himself. Review | Forget the bestseller list: These lesser-known works deserve your attention 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z For two, he created ever more space between the halves of his career — the friendly, coruscating essayist and the difficult, hermetically inclined fiction writer — so that, eventually, there was little to connect them. Everything About Everything: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ at 20 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z In their introduction, West and Gates argue that, with this book, “Hurston takes her place as a major essayist of the 20th century.” In Zora Neale Hurston’s Essays, the Nonfiction of a Nonconformist 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z Obviously best-known as a philosopher and essayist, but also a dramatist of considerable skill. Making a sc?ne: the five French dramatists you should meet 2011-03-21T12:49:22Z Other essayists muse on the allure of poetry to children or examine the idea of family in children's books. New guide to children's books for parents 2010-10-16T01:40:00Z This year, the museum will honor Fran Lebowitz, the witty author and essayist — often called a contemporary Dorothy Parker — on Sept. 27, in conversation with the filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Art and Words Are Inseparable in the Sackner Collection 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z While I am decades past the era investigated by essayist Melissa Febos, her third memoir resonated with my own fraught emergence under surveillance and scrutiny. Review | Melissa Febos’s ‘Girlhood’ brilliantly illuminates how women are conditioned to be complicit in their own exploitation 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z Sarah Ruhl is a playwright, essayist and poet living in Brooklyn. An Acclaimed Playwright on Masks and the Return to the Stage 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Schlesak, a German-Romanian poet and essayist, sets his "documentary novel" in what he calls the "famous ashen gray zone" where lines blurred between jailers and prisoners, doctors and "inmates," masters and slaves. 'The Druggist of Auschwitz': at the core of a man without conscience 2011-04-22T21:20:31Z In this week's podcast, the novelist and essayist Siri Hustvedt reads a piece from her latest collection which addresses the subject directly. Guardian Books podcast: Writers as readers 2012-07-27T12:16:50Z Coleman, of course, was very much her literary descendant, a poet and essayist who also wrote scathingly about race and class. When Maya Angelou was reviewed by Wanda Coleman 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z As an essayist he is thought-provoking, tantalizing, irritating, abusing and amusing. Langston Hughes on James Baldwin’s ‘Notes of a Native Son’ 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z But by folding in a novelist, short story writer, and two poets alongside recognized essayists, D’Agata enlarges the scope and purpose of the essay as a genre. Dealing in uncertainty, the essay may be the perfect form for our time 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Since then, he was published more than 20 books as a poet, essayist, editor, and translator. Poet Martín Espada: "The imagination is absolutely critical to political activism" 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Tiny and frail even as a young woman, with large, sad eyes, she was a novelist, journalist, playwright and essayist. Joan Didion, peerless prose stylist, dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z He was a longtime essayist for Time magazine and the PBS “NewsHour.” Lucy Gordon, John Rosenblatt 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z In his guise as a political and historical essayist, he was a fearless critic of narrow orthodoxies and bullying cliques, from communist apologists to the Israel lobby, from "liberal hawks" to progressive educationists. Tony Judt obituary 2010-08-08T17:38:00Z Leach, a much feted American essayist, is one of those rare writers who fearlessly follows her muse through the maze. Things That Are by Amy Leach – review 2013-06-07T08:00:15Z Whom do you consider the best writers — novelists, essayists, critics, memoirists, poets — working today? Alice Walker: By the Book 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Since he is Alan Bennett — the diarist, essayist and writer of peerless comedies like “Single Spies” and “The History Boys” — he is considerably more eloquent in expressing such sentiments. Review: Song Trumps Senility in the Angry ‘Allelujah!’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z He was an aphorist, a progressive journalist, a provocative essayist and a tragedian. Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z I was given an audiobook of “Charlotte’s Web,” read by E. B. White, one of our great American essayists. The Essay That Made Jo Ann Beard Want to Write Nonfiction 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z I spoke last week with both essayists, together, about what works and doesn’t work in an essay, whether essays need to be political, and so much more. Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z The first is a hire that predates Zucker: poaching chef / travel essayist Anthony Bourdain from Travel Channel to host Parts Unknown on Sunday nights. Two Cheers for CNN 2013-04-24T16:40:55Z From this initial mushroom ring of essayists that crops up on the island around 1600, an infestation spreads. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Admittedly, the “Macbeth” prohibition has its origins in nonsense, as an invention of the 19th-century critic and essayist Max Beerbohm. Break a Leg but Never Whistle: How Stage Superstitions Live On 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Pity the personal essayist, fated to play with a reader’s tolerance for that most cursed of vowels. Up Close and Personal: New Essays From Leslie Jamison 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z The novelist, poet, essayist and literary critic will join the likes of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy who are either buried or commemorated in the famous location. Narnia author Lewis to be honored at Poets' Corner 2012-11-22T15:36:55Z All the essayists here are at pains to deny that there is an easily identifiable genealogy that shapes modern art history in which one great book begat the next. The Books that Shaped Art History – review 2013-04-20T10:00:01Z Both essayists described loneliness and anger, ecstasies of self-recrimination; neither spared much thought for the people they were said to have punched or fondled. One Year of #MeToo: “He Said, She Said” Is a Literary Problem, Too 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Agents and editors reached out with promises of book deals, envisioning her as a female counterpart to the vulgar essayist Tucker Max. There Is Life After Campus Infamy 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Parker, an award-winning poet and essayist, drew from her high school journals and an unfinished memoir to create this loosely autobiographical Y.A. debut. New Y.A. Crossover From Morgan Parker, Renée Ahdieh and More 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z When the essayist and novelist Jenny Diski, who died last week at 68, learned she had inoperable lung cancer, her first impulse was to make a “Breaking Bad” joke. Review: Jenny Diski’s ‘In Gratitude,’ an Uphill Life on and Off Cancer Road 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Do you see yourself in a tradition of advisers or essayists? The Trailblazer: Q&A with Wild author and advice columnist Cheryl Strayed 2012-06-14T14:46:49Z And I think we have to rail against that, we have to rail against the command that once you start to become an essayist, you have a response to every single thing that’s happening. Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z In 2015, Parks, a British novelist and essayist, participated in a project funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation which put writers in conversation with scientists. Do We Have Minds of Our Own? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Vishnevetsky, 24, is a contributor to The Chicago Reader and a critic and essayist for MUBI.com, a new Web site that operates as a kind of screening room and social networking forum for movie lovers. ArtsBeat: New Critic Named for New Ebert Movie Program 2011-01-04T17:50:27Z Adrienne Rich was a major American poet, cultural critic, essayist and activist. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z He published many well-received academic studies on aesthetics and literary criticism and, as a prolific essayist for newspapers and magazines, was one of Italy’s most prominent public intellectuals. Umberto Eco, best-selling author of ‘The Name of the Rose,’ dies at 84 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z She is an essayist and reporter, but sometimes her words are twisted and inverted. Urrea's 'Queen of America': Teresita returns 2011-12-02T18:38:04Z His full-time work as a reviewer and essayist for the Independent began in 1997. Tom Lubbock obituary 2011-01-10T18:34:36Z Cynthia Ozick, the essayist and novelist, once wrote that, whereas Sigmund Freud “dared only a little way past the margins of psychology, Scholem, whose medium was history, touched on the very ground of human imagination.” A Guide to Religious Anarchy: Gershom Scholem’s Kabbalah 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z The New Zealand poet and essayist writes many sly ars poeticas in her collection — a lovely, profound debut that spins metaphors of its own creation and the segmented identity of the essayist, that self-regarding self. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Here, the Swiss-born essayist lines up for the T: Travel Questionnaire. | Alain de Botton 2010-09-20T18:15:00Z When it came to being an adult, the biggest influences on me, what impressed me most, were essayists. Johnny Marr returns: “I was an 18-year-old guitar player … I wanted to be modern” 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z Jill Johnston, an essayist and dance critic for The Village Voice, spoke next. ‘The Town Hall Affair’ Recreates a Feminist Firestorm 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z He does everything I wish I could do as an essayist. Is John Jeremiah Sullivan the New Tom Wolfe? Yes. Yes He Is. 2011-10-27T05:45:54Z Exhibit A: Vicesimus Knox was a British headmaster and prolific essayist in the late 18th century. Perspective | Summer reading has a fraught history. But if there was ever a time to delight in escapism, it’s now. 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Jefferson, a uniquely curious and remarkably accomplished journalist and essayist, is at her best when she observes the experiences of others as an expression of self-awareness. Margo Jefferson reveals life inside the black elite in 'Negroland' 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z But to my eyes, it’s burdened by an “unseemliness of trying too hard,” to borrow a phrase from the essayist Chuck Klosterman in his new book “The Nineties.” Watching ‘Queer as Folk’ but Craving ‘Heartstopper’ 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z But that shared history does little, in Didion’s view, to elucidate what happened, to explain how one of them became a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army and the other an essayist and a novelist. The South (and the West) through Joan Didion’s Eyes 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z The long reading list showcases works by the critics and essayists I most admire, starting with W.H. Perspective | Clutter, says who? College essays, letters from Stephen King and Tucker Carlson: I’m keeping (almost) all of it. 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Although plans to accept electronic submissions are in the works, so far the project has been decidedly analog, starting with snail mail correspondence between potential essayists and a cadre of Hamilton student volunteers. For the American Prison Writing Archive, a ‘Shadow Canon’ Sheds Light 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z As novelist and essayist both, Robinson has always been something of an underwater archaeologist, diving into the twilight zones of memory to drag lost histories into the light. Democracy’s Fierce Defender 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z But I feel like we’re seeing more female essayists now than ever before, and do you guys think that’s the case too, and this is kind of a great time to be a female essayist? 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 has had a prolific career as a journalist, essayist and critic; among his notable critical works is a study of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Mario Vargas Llosa: Nobel Prize in Literature Goes with a Well-Known Name 2010-10-07T16:10:00Z In "The Argonauts," poet, critic and essayist Maggie Nelson addresses and dismantles this question from a deeply personal angle, weaving a loose yet intricate tapestry of memoir, art criticism and gentle polemic. An intimate look at a fluid family in Maggie Nelson's 'The Argonauts' 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Marti, a poet and political essayist, was living in New York at the time he drew up plans for an invasion of Cuba as part of the rebellion against Spain. Cuba unveils Jose Marti statue, a gift from Trump's hometown 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist, poet, essayist and journalist, was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced today. Mario Vargas Llosa: Nobel Prize in Literature Goes with a Well-Known Name 2010-10-07T16:10:00Z During the 1930s, Orwell had modest success as an essayist, journalist and novelist. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Dos Passos presents his eccentric biographical sketches of Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt alongside portraits of radicals: the Socialist Presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs, the radical essayist Randolph Bourne, the labor organizer Joe Hill. What John Dos Passos’s “1919” Got Right About 2019 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z The most uncanny images in “Dark Lens” evoke the essayist Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg’s observation that “fantasy is more powerful than reality, because it answers more adequately to the infinite demands of the spirit.” C?dric Delsaux?s Photographs of ?Star Wars? on Earth 2011-12-11T00:53:02Z Andrew, as well as being a novelist, essayist and playwright, is a film critic, so I have a plan. Six novelists on their favourite second artform 2013-04-27T07:00:18Z The rapper/singer/essayist has a new book out, “My Own Devices: True Stories from the Road on Music, Science and Senseless Love.” Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for September 2018 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Many of the series' essayists use the books in their own classrooms. The Meaning of Mad Men: Philosophers Take on TV 2010-08-07T07:45:00Z But some film critics and essayists viewed “Daisy” as a romanticized and simplistic portrayal of a relationship between a wealthy white woman and her black employee. Driving Ms. Redgrave Through a Reluctant Conversation 2011-02-15T13:00:00Z She performs a down-and-out version of what the essayist and critic Logan Pearsall Smith called a “swimgloat,” a triumphal glide through society. Leslie Jamison’s Memoir Finds Its Footing in Sobriety 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z For his first trick as an Internet essayist, Ryan inflates an anecdote about a very minor injury in a car accident into a tale of trauma. The Twentysomething Body-and-Soul-Searching of “Special” and “Shrill” 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Plus, The Broad museum is unveiled and the response is, like, totally whatevs and, according to sundry essayists, both art and artists are dead or dying. Roundup: The Broad unveiled, digitized museums plus reports of art's death 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Roxane Gay has long made a name for herself as one of the best cultural commentators and essayists, at Salon and other publications. Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z Lopate, himself an excellent essayist, is also a leading curator of the form; here, he collects examples from an extraordinary era that included Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, James Agee and more. New & Noteworthy, From Brilliant Essays to Stupid People 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Outside of a handful of more intimate pieces — on her great-great-grandfather’s meeting with Abraham Lincoln, for instance — she is not really an essayist, critical or personal, in a determined sense. For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z It’s a challenge that critic, essayist and advice columnist Heather Havrilesky also explores in her new collection of essays, “What If This Were Enough?” Heather Havrilesky asks a radical, essential question: “What If This Were Enough?” 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Though Mr. Black, a former rodeo rider and large-animal veterinarian, primarily identified as a poet, he was even more prolific as an essayist and radio commentator. Baxter Black, Who Elevated Cowboy Poetry to Folk Art, Dies at 77 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z A leading essayist of the Popular Front, regularly skewered by the far right, he vowed, as of July 1940, to confine his thoughts and feelings to a private journal. David Ball’s Translation of ‘Diary of the Dark Years’ 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Deresiewicz, a critic and essayist, interviews artists across a range of disciplines to assess the impact. New & Noteworthy, From Free Speech to True Crime 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z But those who arrive today to pay homage to Baldwin won’t find anything commemorating that American novelist, playwright and essayist. Battling to Save James Baldwin’s Home in the South of France 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z The novelist and essayist Lively hates the term “hobby,” preferring “consuming interest” to describe her passion for gardening. New in Paperback: ‘Life in the Garden,’ ‘The Mere Wife’ 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z She also sits on the board of directors of the Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship Fund, a nonprofit organization based in New York and named for the acclaimed poet and essayist. Robyn Finkelstein, Alex Tolston 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Overall, though, Valéry may be most attractive as an essayist and prose writer. Review | On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth, a celebration of verse 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z He had hoped to be perceived as “the urbane essayist or columnist or humorist,” he said, but realized that his most basic desire was to be a helpful instructor, “to pass along what I knew.” William Zinsser, Author of ‘On Writing Well,’ Dies at 92 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Even so, Bacon is the greatest in that little cluster of late-sixteenth-century English essayists and would seem to possess the clearest claim to the word in English. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Who are your favorite writers — novelists, essayists, critics, memoirists, poets — working today? Amanda Gorman, the Inaugural Poet Who Dreams of Writing Novels 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The deductive logic brought to bear by the various essayists would certainly earn the admiration of Holmes himself. Looking for a mystery to cozy up with? Michael Dirda has some suggestions. 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Leonard Kriegel, an American memoirist and essayist whose work blazed with rage at the loss of the use of his legs to polio, died on Sept. 25 in Manhattan. Leonard Kriegel, 89, Dies; Wrote Unflinchingly About His Disability 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z And I do think that women confront that taboo in a sharper way than men do, and I think that’s something that women essayists have to face in a different way than male essayists. Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z Gore Vidal was a better essayist than he was a novelist. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z It’s the age of what Thackeray will christen “the periodical essayists of the eighteenth century.” The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Now, the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and essayist widens her scope, surveying the artists who shaped her. 12 New Books Coming in April 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z The poet, translator, and essayist Alastair Reid died yesterday at the age of eighty-eight. Alastair Reid in The New Yorker 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z The essayist David Shields has written a new book, “The Trouble With Men,” which he describes as “a short, intensive immersion into the perils, limits and possibilities of human intimacy.” A Writer Gets Candid About Marriage and Humiliation in ‘The Trouble With Men’ 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Columbia University history professor and essayist Simon Schama derided "Downton" in a Newsweek commentary last month for "serving up a steaming, silvered tureen of snobbery" which celebrates a class system that still pervades modern Britain. "Downton Abbey" brings cool TV crowd to America's PBS 2012-02-08T13:33:09Z Several essayists from the series note that family recipes often come with scant direction. Why it's so hard to recreate your grandma's chicken 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z The essayist Michel de Montaigne thought that quoting well, in a piece of writing, was akin to arranging someone else’s flowers. Review: J. D. McClatchy’s Secret Autobiography, in Quotations 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The author, essayist and campaigner - who also championed African literature through the Kwani Trust he founded with other writers - passed away in Nairobi on Tuesday, the organization’s chairman, Tom Maliti, said. Kenyan writer Wainaina, challenger of African stereotypes, dies at 48 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Some of them were tenured professors or essayists who wrote for magazines such as The Atlantic and Reason. Meghan Daum to Millennials: Get off My Lawn 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z An exquisite essayist, he embarks on a wondering examination of indigenous coastal tribes, the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, and the continuously necessary labor of memory. Movie Listings for Nov. 13-19 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Each week, two writers drawn from a lineup of 12 novelists, critics and essayists offer responses of roughly 600 words to a given question. Kill the Bookends column: Why the New York Times Book Review’s most frustrating feature has to go 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Might one call Neel a kind of essayist of the canvas? The Inclusive Humanity of Alice Neel’s Paintings 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z One of his longtime girlfriends was Ellen Willis, the cerebral essayist and feminist who became the first pop-music critic at The New Yorker. Review: Robert Christgau Reflects on His Career as a Rock Critic 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z There is the whiff of Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and other 1930s documentarians, but also of W. Eugene Smith, a revered midcentury photo essayist, and David Goldblatt, a South African chronicler of apartheid. Art Review: ?The Loving Story? at International Center of Photography 2012-01-26T23:30:12Z One Russian liberal essayist wrote that “Leviathan” depicts a people who have fallen from God. Portrait of a country 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z According to the Kennedy Center, the prize is given to those who “had an impact on American society in ways similar to the distinguished 19th century novelist and essayist best known as Mark Twain.” Julia Louis-Dreyfus slams Kavanaugh and his “weird wall calendar” in Mark Twain acceptance sp... 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z An essayist, photographer, novelist and playwright as well as the author of myriad scholarly articles, Dr. Boym was best known to a general readership for “The Future of Nostalgia,” her widely praised book of 2001. Svetlana Boym, 56, Scholar of Myth and Memory, Dies 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z He is a novelist, poet, children's writer, critic, editor and essayist. Chinua Achebe: A life in writing 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z Biss is one of our most gifted essayists, although her new book is not a collection of essays, at least not in the traditional sense. David L. Ulin's best books of 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z “It was about humans and birds and science and the rights of animals to be free of human interference,” says the essayist and story writer, whose new collection is “Festival Days.” The Essay That Made Jo Ann Beard Want to Write Nonfiction 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z "I can't lie, Professor Watkins. Videos of those guys playing back in the day look really funny," Ebony, a young essayist said. Gen Z needs "Winning Time's" history lessons to understand why they enjoy the NBA now 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Adler’s career as an essayist and journalist has spanned over 50 years, and she has covered historical events such as the march to Selma and the Vietnam War. Spare Times Listings for April 3-9 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Like George Orwell as essayist, the subject of her latest book and her model, she deploys the full human instrument in service of her curiosity. What George Orwell’s Roses Tell Us About His Politics 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Besides being the author of novels and short stories, Sarna is also an easygoing brief essayist, often linking his bookish “second thoughts” to his official sojourns in Britain, Russia and Afghanistan. A treasure trove for book lovers: Michael Dirda picks books about books 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z In the long years of his retirement at Cambridge he capitalised on his uniquely well-stocked mind to establish himself as a stylish literary essayist. Frank Kermode: a tribute by John Sutherland 2010-08-20T23:22:00Z This novel, which I just began, is a major departure for Seattle author Griffith, a science fiction author and essayist. Fall books: Six must-read titles by Northwest authors 2013-08-23T21:23:08Z But she has simultaneously built a sideline as a feature writer on artists for publications like Artforum, as well as an essayist for exhibition catalogs. Debts of Gratitude Paid in Paintings, Silkscreens and Collages 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Novelist and essayist Laurens enters the adulatory fray with this volume, which is part historical chronicle, part artfully discursive personal response and part imaginative close reading of the sculpture’s past and present. Review | A fascinating look at the girl who inspired Degas’ ‘Little Dancer’ sculpture 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Johnson, a novelist, essayist and emeritus professor at the University of Washington, bristles when he speaks of movies where African Americans are portrayed as victims. ‘Emery Jones’: the adventures of a scientific whiz kid 2014-02-21T20:43:31Z Marti, a poet and political essayist, was living in New York at the time he drew up plans for an invasion of Cuba as part of the rebellion against Spain. Cuba unveils Jose Marti statue, a gift from Trump's hometown 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Gopnik also suggests that Christmas gains its power from a split personality, and springs to the defence of the essayist's art. Guardian Books podcast: Winter, kitchen technology and the joy of paper 2012-12-14T15:06:55Z And I’m wondering what we can do as essayists to make things better both for our hearts and our minds. Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z Cullen Murphy has had other notable successes as an editor, essayist and author, all presumably head-clearing pursuits that give him a valuable perspective lacking in those of us who rarely come up for air. The Comic Strip’s Heyday in ‘Cartoon County’ 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z For the author and essayist Sarah Vowell, the only clear Oscar front-runner this year is “The Iron Lady” for best makeup. The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Sarah Vowell 2012-02-23T20:24:02Z Julavits is not only a novelist, of course, but also an accomplished essayist. ‘The Folded Clock,’ by Heidi Julavits 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Sáenz, a poet, essayist and American Book Award winner, was cited for his collection of seven short works set on the south Texas border. Benjamin Alire Sáenz wins 2013 Faulkner Award for fiction 2013-03-19T20:26:59Z Ms. Didion did so daintily, the rock-star essayist now visibly a lioness in winter at the age of 78. ArtsBeat: Old Friends Help New York Review Celebrate 50 Years 2013-02-06T18:26:41Z With “Counting,” Cohen returns to his roots as a cinematic essayist. Forget story, plot and character. Filmmaker Jem Cohen’s ‘Counting’ is an experimental marvel. 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z A critic and essayist who contributed to many popular publications, including Esquire, Playboy and Harper’s, Mr. Morton was for many years a regular contributor of reviews and articles to The New York Times. Frederic Morton, Author and Essayist, Dies at 90 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z He also published many books as an editor, an essayist and a translator of the work of French, Serbian, Croatian and other poets. Charles Simic, Pulitzer-Winning Poet and U.S. Laureate, Dies at 84 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Unlike the digital personal essayist in her description, Tolentino considers the modern self not as something to be exposed or exploited, like a mineral deposit, but as something to construct and critique. Jia Tolentino on the ‘Unlivable Hell’ of the Web and Other Millennial Conundrums 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z But in the hands of a skilled novelist or essayist like Solnit — whose books include “Men Explain Things to Me” and “The Mother of All Questions” — a biography becomes something else entirely. Review | Orwell was more than a social critic. Rebecca Solnit’s new book finds him in the garden. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z For some time now, my favorite essayist has been an English writer named Mark Valentine. Review | These two books will lead you down a rabbit hole to unexpected literary delights 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Some day, the essayist mused, the Rainier “will give way to a modern skyscraper.” See Seattle’s first apartment house, ca. 1883 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z The key word there, of course, is ranging, for that is what an essayist does. Steven Church talks essays, and his new book 'Ultrasonic' 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Recently, I was among writers representing more than 60 countries converging on Quebec City for the PEN International Congress — poets, essayists, editors and novelists from all over the world. A year after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, slain editor Charb makes his case in 'Open Letter' 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Hugo House hosts regular literary series at its Capitol Hill theater, each themed show highlighting work from a few writers — essayists, poets, cartoonists — with a musician mixed in. Hugo House stages 'Brief Encounters' between musicians and writers 2011-02-17T22:28:16Z As essayist, activist, novelist and oral historian she is vital on the subject of land and people. The Classic Novel That Robert Macfarlane Just Couldn’t Finish 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z She is one of the most brilliant – that is, vivid, intense, astute, and penetrating – essayists in contemporary letters, and most contrarian: much of what you think she will passionately undo. The return of Renata Adler, most quixotic of writers 2013-03-18T14:20:35Z Grahame was a regular guest in the house of her father, the noted Cornish author, essayist and anthologist Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Willows edition sells for ?30,000 2010-03-23T09:48:00Z The novelist and essayist Carlos Fuentes died on 15 May in a hospital in Mexico City at the age of 83. VIDEO: Mexico mourns Carlos Fuentes 2012-05-16T18:36:06Z But as the American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Knowledge is the antidote to fear.” Play it safe: What kids should know about the coronavirus outbreak 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z It is named for novelist and essayist Samuel Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, and it honors humorists who have had an impact on American society. Q-Tip and Lorne Michaels join tribute to Dave Chappelle at Kennedy Center 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z A historian of Italy and Britain, a biographer of Kipling and the onetime viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, as well as a prolific essayist, he is ideally suited to the task. A Close-Up Look at the British Men and Women Who Ruled India 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z So I don’t know if I am necessarily your typical celebrity essayist. How Ziwe became your 'Black Friend,' and why she'd rather be loved than feared 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z In “Eve’s Hollywood,” essayist Eve Babitz describes a pachuca’s crowning glory, explaining that CC, her Mexican classmate, looks “tough” because of how she stacks her hair. The Edgar is all the rage among the foos 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z And so began, as historian and essayist Carey McWilliams wrote, “the long and sordid aftermath involving jury fixing, bribery, and murder.” Real estate, transit, oil — how early L.A. built fortunes and bred scoundrels 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Teju Cole is a novelist, an essayist and a photographer. Seeing Beyond the Beauty of a Vermeer 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z “The desire to deafen and respond with noise reflects a kind of discredit of the political discourse,” Christian Salmon, a French essayist and columnist for the online publication Slate, said in an interview. The Sound of France’s Pension Fury? The Saucepan. 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z “The desire to deafen and respond with noise reflects a kind of discredit of the political discourse,” said Christian Salmon, a French essayist. Your Tuesday Briefing 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z When I saw the cover of essayist Claire Dederer’s new book, “Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma,” with a photograph of Picasso wearing a bull’s head on the beach, I knew this would be an exciting read. Our monsters, ourselves: Claire Dederer explains her sympathy for the canceled 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Her breakthrough 2010 smash, “How to Live,” was an innovative exercise in writing the life of a sole subject — in that case, essayist Michel de Montaigne. Review | Sarah Bakewell takes us on a 700-year tour of humanism 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Contemplating the language of trees “might incline us to be less brutal, less extractive,” writes poet and essayist Ross Gay in his introduction. Review | ‘The Language of Trees’ could change how you think about nature 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z The ubiquity of the pots and pans has been such that Mr. Salmon, the essayist, drew a parallel to the “yellow vest” protests. The Sound of France’s Pension Fury? The Saucepan. 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Fiction writer, essayist, newspaper columnist, radio host — she was the literary heart and soul of the city, which she loved and resisted at once. The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Poetry 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z One of the most beloved works of Angeleno literary fiction was written by a famous essayist. The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Fiction 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Erika L. Sánchez is a poet, novelist and essayist whose books include “Lessons on Expulsion,” “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter” and, most recently, “Crying in the Bathroom.” Review | Three decades after her sister’s murder, a writer seeks justice 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z The Mark Twain prize recognizes “individuals who have had an impact on American society in ways similar to the distinguished 19th century novelist and essayist Samuel Clemens, best known as Mark Twain.” Adam Sandler gets Mark Twain Prize salute from loyal friends, co-stars 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z The prize is named after novelist and essayist Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name, Mark Twain. Adam Sandler honored with Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z “Rikers” is unflinching, like the way the essayist and novelist Yiyun Li describes sociopaths and corpses, and those words, in a sense, apply to the prison. Review | At Rikers Island, New York’s brutal jail, a kaleidoscope of suffering 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z “This is a leap that Octavia herself would understand and support,” said Lynell George, an L.A.-based journalist and essayist who wrote a book about Butler’s life and writings. How Octavia Butler inspired a pathbreaking Black-owned Pasadena bookstore 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z It wasn’t what she was wearing or what she was saying, according to essayist Jennifer Weiner; it was her “preternaturally smooth and extravagantly sculpted face.” Paulina Porizkova defends Madonna's new look: 'I respect her for paving her own road' 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z A published essayist since she was in her teens, Owens attempted to make sense of it all by writing a memoir — and then couldn’t get it published. A New York bookfluencer launches her first bricks-and-mortar shop ... in L.A. 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Prize-winning journalist and essayist Kristen Millares Young will lead an hourlong workshop on combining reportage and reflection into personal essays that reveal important truths about ourselves, our families and our societies. What to do around Seattle this week: Tacoma Home + Garden Show and more 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z In truth, DeSantis is a nearly perfect illustration of the essayist and critic Lionel Trilling’s description of conservative and reactionary impulses. Column: A cowardly NHL bows down to a bullying DeSantis 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z The essayist Curtis White argues that "it is capitalism that now most defines our national character, not Christianity or the Enlightenment." America's theater of the absurd: Our politics has become an endless carnival 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z The journalist and essayist of surgical precision got her start as a photography critic for the New Yorker. How Janet Malcolm, at death's door, finally took on her toughest subject — herself 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z “It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Fay Weldon, author, essayist and playwright.” her family said in a statement released by her agent. Fay Weldon, author of 'The Life and Loves of a She-Devil,' dies at 91 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Rather than leave it at that, however, I was encouraged to go further, to frame the collection not only on its own terms but also in relation to Gass’ monumental achievement as an essayist. A (hopefully premature) obituary for Bookforum and the magazines that connect us 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Marie, whom Out described as an essayist, poet and cultural strategist, told the magazine that she has learned the lesson that self-sacrifice is not sustainable and is happier for it. Lizzo grants queer writer Aurielle Marie's wish: A fab dress to wear to Out100 honors 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Writing in 1919, John Burroughs, a leading nature essayist of the time, offered perhaps the strongest criticisms. How fact-checking Thoreau’s observations at Walden Pond can inform modern research 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Waldie, the mild-mannered essayist behind “Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir,” wrote in his review of “Ecology of Fear” that the book presented “a vision so dismal that it’s ultimately paralyzing.” Mike Davis, 'City of Quartz' author who chronicled the forces that shaped L.A., dies 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z A short-form essayist — Schjeldahl never wrote a book, despite more than one failed attempt — he published several collections of his writing. Appreciation: Why New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl was the last of a breed 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z He’ll get no argument from me, but the great philosopher and essayist did leave out a fourth category: Some books we simply gobble up, unable to stop reading. Review | Darryl Pinckney’s new book is a dishy tale of literary Manhattan 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Each year, we invite essayists to forward their work to us after they’ve submitted their thoughts on money, work, social class and related matters as part of their college applications. ‘Miles Walked, Miles Driven’: This Year’s College Essays About Money 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z As an essayist, he forcefully spoke out about the invisibility that seemed to accompany the condition of being disabled. Leonard Kriegel, unsparing chronicler of polio, dies at 89 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Lives Lived: Leonard Kriegel, an academic and essayist, was best known for “The Long Walk Home,” a memoir in which he wrote about losing the use of his legs to polio. A Republican Burden 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Among the jeweled facets of “Runaway” is Keane’s writing, but her skill as a poet and essayist is accompanied by a journalist’s rigor. Review: A runaway's daughter dismantles the fairy tale of the rescuer and his muse 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Yes, there will be ephemera linked to the celebrated California-born essayist, who died late last year. 21 things our arts critics can't wait to do, see and listen to this fall in California 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z After all, Fairbanks never set herself the tasks of a literary essayist. Review | In post-apartheid South Africa, dashed hopes and moral struggles 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Patt Morrison talks with Salman Rushdie, the British Indian novelist and essayist. What is a fatwa? Salman Rushdie's backstory moves center stage after attack 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z He recruited contributors including Italo Calvino, a journalist, novelist and essayist who was one of the preeminent Italian writers of the 20th century, as well as an intimate friend from his youth. Eugenio Scalfari, elder statesman of Italian journalism, dies at 98 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z From the left, French essayist Roland Barthes dismissed the huge assembly of more than 500 photographs from 68 countries as “conventional humanism.” Review: Black photographers founded Kamoinge Workshop in 1963. Now their biggest show hits the Getty 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z He recruited contributors including Italo Calvino, a journalist, novelist and essayist who was one of the preeminent Italian writers of the 20th century. This week’s passages 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z “I don’t get it,” novelist and essayist Brandon Taylor wrote in a scathing essay about the movie. Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’ is having a moment. It’s about time. 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Bell, a comedian, essayist and TV host best known for the Emmy-winning CNN series “United Shades of America,” says that this approach is his trademark. W. Kamau Bell steps directly on that third rail with 'We Need to Talk About Cosby' 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z It has hosted virtually every Black author of note at least once and often several times, from civil rights icon John Lewis to prolific scholar/essayist Michael Eric Dyson to pre-presidential Barack Obama. Op-Ed: The enduring legacy of L.A.'s Eso Won Books — uplift and the written word 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z “It should not be this hard, am I right?” asked one of the essayists, S. Kent Butler, a professor of counselor education and school psychology at the University of Central Florida. Navigating Fatherhood as a Black Man 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z The essayists recall connections they made while backpacking through Asia, working on cruise ships, riding in a Paris taxi or traveling in ancestral homelands. How to watch 'Letter to a Stranger' night at the L.A. Times Book Club 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z “Lean forward just a little so I can throw behind you. I think I can hit him in the head,” said Angell, the best baseball essayist ever, who died Friday at 101. Perspective | Life was a ball with Roger Angell. How lucky we were to read about it. 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z McClay is a critic, an essayist and a contributing editor at The Hedgehog Review as well as a contributing writer at Commonweal. Kim Kardashian Evokes Marilyn Monroe and We Get to Judge 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z White, the renowned essayist whose supple, self-effacing prose became the hallmark of the magazine’s style and whose literary legacy included “Charlotte’s Web.” Roger Angell, editor, baseball writer at the New Yorker, dies at 101 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Batuman, a celebrated essayist who has written a book about her obsession with Russian novelists, once said novels should be made up of “all the irrelevant garbage” of life. Review: Youth's ecstasy and agony are Elif Batuman's specialties. But how are the novels? 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z The court has long benefited from a sense of mystery, Professor Murray said, recalling a remark from Walter Bagehot, the Victorian political essayist, about the British monarchy. A Leaky Supreme Court Starts to Resemble the Other Branches 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Writing in the second person, the essayists recall connections they made while backpacking through Asia, working on cruise ships, riding in a Paris taxi or traveling in ancestral homelands. Powerful stories in 'Letter to a Stranger' will transport you around the world 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z In 2003, she received a National Endowment for the Humanities medal that cited her achievements as an “author, essayist and social critic” who “has seen both sides of the American political divide.” Midge Decter, social critic and leader of neoconservative movement, dies at 94 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z What was our sin in the eyes of the conservative, business-friendly Journal essayist? Column: Don't kid yourself. The riots that shocked us 30 years ago could easily happen again. 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z He found that essayist and oral historian Jean Stein not only interviewed Hopper extensively, she also talked to his mother. The glamour and the underbelly of the hippest party house in 1960s L.A. 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z The Mark Twain prize is named after novelist and essayist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name, Mark Twain. Comedian Jon Stewart feted for humor, advocacy with Mark Twain Prize 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z “We spend so much of our lives in the company of people whose names we’ll never know, people we’ll never meet again,” writes Jamison, a novelist and essayist, in a foreword to the book. Powerful stories in 'Letter to a Stranger' will transport you around the world 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Black theater companies and regional theaters of integrity have made space for Cleage, who is also an established novelist, poet, essayist and political speech writer. Review: Phylicia Rashad beautifully directs 'Blues for an Alabama Sky' at Mark Taper Forum 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z PEN America is made up of novelists, journalists, editors, poets, essayists, playwrights and publishers. Florida has 3rd largest number of school book ban incidents 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Rebecca Phillips Epstein is a screenwriter and essayist based in Los Angeles. Perspective | I quit breastfeeding to take ADHD meds. Here’s why I’m glad I did. 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z The most prominent Transcendentalist was Ralph Waldo Emerson, a former Unitarian minister who forged a new career as an essayist and popular lecturer. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Ali is a poet and essayist living in Baltimore. Who will inherit Greg Tate's mantle of Black cultural critic-in-chief? I have a candidate 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Also a poet and an essayist, she spoke with The Times via Zoom, in a conversation that has been edited for clarity and length. Punk saved Sasha LaPointe's life. Her memoir on her Native roots helped her heal 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Stephen Marche is an essayist, cultural commentator, and author. The distorted "freedom" of the truck convoys: “A huge number of Americans want a dictatorship" 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z He was a political essayist in much demand and wrote for such prominent publications as the New Republic, the Atlantic and the Nation. Review | How Thomas Mann escaped to America and waged a moral battle against Hitler 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Newspapers, essayists, and ministers urged the “Daughters of Liberty” to practice their public virtue by rejecting British frippery and making essentials at home. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z If he were allowed to define his occupation, it wouldn’t be poet or novelist or essayist, but simply “human being.” Roberto Bolaño inspired him to write. Now Alejandro Zambra is the next Chilean breakthrough 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Ali, who lives with his wife and three children in the D.C. area, traces his winding journey from lawyer to playwright to essayist to TV commentator to book writer. Wajahat Ali on the ‘American Nightmare’ and the ‘American Dream’ of being a Muslim son of immigrants 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z This book is billed as a journey, but the most insightful moments occur when Perry is less a frenetic traveler than a thoughtful essayist. Review | An ‘exile’ from the American South finds the nation’s soul there 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z “You Don’t Know Us Negroes” reveals Hurston at the top of her game as an essayist, cultural critic, anthropologist and beat reporter. Review | Zora Neale Hurston was once forgotten. A new book reminds us why her voice must be heard. 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z Created in 1998, the national prize is named for the novelist and essayist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain. Jon Stewart to receive the Mark Twain Prize at the Kennedy Center in April 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z The national prize is named after novelist and essayist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain. Jon Stewart to receive Mark Twain Prize for American Humor 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, till recently, I wasn’t so keen about Eliot the essayist and literary critic. Review | T.S. Eliot may have been flawed, but a new book reminds of his greatness on the page 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Christian essayist Donald Miller has a practice that helps him be more focused and productive: He starts each morning by reading his own eulogy. Start the day with your eulogy for better focus, best-selling writer suggests 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z In Marie’s collection of poetry “Gumbo Ya Ya,” the Black and queer essayist, poet and cultural strategist takes a moment to scream, shout and unapologetically take up as much room as she wants. 4 books from small publishers you might have missed in 2021 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z The incisive US novelist and essayist examined the fragmentation of US life in books like 1968's Slouching Towards Bethlehem and 1979's The White Album. Joan Didion: US literary icon dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Joan Didion, the revered author and essayist whose provocative social commentary and detached, methodical literary voice made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic of a uniquely turbulent time, has died. Joan Didion dead at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Midge is a hilarious satirical essayist and nonfiction writer, and her work brings all the laughs. David Treuer on five Indigenous authors you should read right now 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Eric Zemmour’s supporters said the essayist, who has climbed in the polls despite having no hands-on political experience, would announce his candidacy around midday. Far-right pundit to launch campaign for French presidency 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z “Racism is very high. Antisemitism is very high. Hate is very high,” said Kupferman, who is an essayist and public relations professional for an autism advocacy group in Paris. How an American in Paris was given the rarest of French honors 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z The essayist and commentator on former political talk shows is widely expected to soon announce his candidacy in France’s April presidential election. Hate speech trial of likely French far-right candidate opens 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Fluent in Spanish and French, I am also a published essayist and winner of poetry awards. Opinion | For the love of teaching — but not of math 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z “For all the blink-and-it’s-gone sleights of hand,” writes essayist Lynell George in one such section, “here in Los Angeles, the deep past can catch you unawares.” L.A.'s memorial for 1871 Chinese Massacre will mark a shift in how we honor history 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Catherine Campbell, the head of brand marketing for a pottery company by day and a novelist and essayist by night, had stopped applying to the fellowship years ago because of the requirement. MacDowell artists residency drops reference letters requirement — for now 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Hanif Abdurraqib, 38, Columbus, Ohio, music critic, essayist, and poet forging a distinctive style of cultural and artistic criticism through the lens of popular music and autobiography. 25 MacArthur fellows awarded $625,000 in ‘genius grants’ 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z What distinguishes this tentative newcomer on the West Coast essayist scene? How an abuelo and a skateboard helped one writer understand California 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z As roots reggae’s foremost producer, Perry, wrote essayist and musician David Toop, built “an imaginal chamber over which presided the electronic wizard, evangelist, gossip columnist and Dr. Frankenstein.” Imagination, razor blades and ganja: How Lee 'Scratch' Perry changed the sound of popular music 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Before filming began in Illinois and Georgia, Smollett, a self-described “research junkie,” read works by Black writers from the period, including poet Gwendolyn Brooks, playwright Lorraine Hansberry and essayist James Baldwin. Jurnee Smollett wears 'Leti's armor' into 'Lovecraft Country' 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z E. Tammy Kim is a freelance reporter and essayist and a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times. Sesshu Foster and Arturo Romo have the antidote for the erasure of East L.A. 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Lauren Markham is a fiction writer, an essayist and a journalist who focuses on youth, migration, the environment and her home state, California. The Man Who Filed More Than 180 Disability Lawsuits 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z The essayist and novelist has a new book out about his adopted hometown, “Everything Now: Lessons From the City-State of Los Angeles.” How an abuelo and a skateboard helped one writer understand California 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Coates, the award-winning essayist and bestselling author of “Between the World and Me,” will also be joining Howard University’s faculty, occupying the Sterling Brown Chair in the Department of English. Howard-bound Nikole Hannah-Jones plans to 'even the playing field' for HBCUs. Here's how 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z Wilson, an essayist and poet, explores the unintended consequences of technological progress through the rise and fall of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons. Exploring Black Sci-Fi, Learning through Color, the Cost of Cooling, and Other New Books 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z You may find yourself concurring with an avowal of the poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky: “Life — the way it really is — is a battle not between Bad and Good, but between Bad and Worse.” How Much Must I Give Up for My Schizophrenic Brother? 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z McClay is a critic, an essayist and a contributing editor at The Hedgehog Review and a contributing writer at Commonweal. TV Is Full of Stories About Creative Work — Minus the Work Part 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z Bernard Ferguson is a Bahamian poet and essayist currently working on a book about climate change and small island states. Climate Change Is Destroying My Country. The Nations Causing It Must Help. 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z A poet and essayist, his latest collection of poetry, “Felon,” was a 2020 American Book Award winner. Poem: Triage 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Astra Lincoln is a graduate student at University of Victoria's School of Environmental Studies, and an essayist of the West. In a California town, a recreation boom kindles wildfire anxiety 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z The essayist and science writer Philip Ball points out that Ockham's Razor has been used both to advance the "Many Worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics as well as to critique it. As science advances, does Ockham’s Razor still apply? 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z “This is about power, and power comes in a lot of different forms,” Ms. Perhach, an essayist and a writing coach, told me this week. How to Buy Happiness (Responsibly) 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Salman Rushdie is a novelist, essayist and the author of “The Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020,” from which this essay is adapted. Opinion | Ask Yourself Which Books You Truly Love 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Salman Rushdie is a novelist, essayist and the author of “Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020,” from which this essay is excerpted. Opinion | Salman Rushdie: What’s irretrievable after a pandemic year 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z There are still some things that guest essayists shouldn't be allowed to do on the pages of the New York Times — chief among them inciting violence and advocating genocide. New York Times dumps "op-eds" for "guest essays": A great start, but not nearly enough 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Listen to a conversation between the poet, essayist and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib and Wesley Morris, a New York Times critic at large. Take a Drawing Class and Celebrate Easter With the White House 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z Her writing was distinguished by what essayist Benjamin Schwarz of the Atlantic magazine once called her gift for “photographic and psychological exactitude.” Beverly Cleary, beloved author who chronicled schoolyard scrapes and feisty kids, dies at 104 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z “I trust Jo Ann Beard more than other essayists because she challenges the form itself, the constructs of what is Real or Remembered, the flimsiness of any one reality,” Madden says by email. Fiction or not, everything is true in Jo Ann Beard's shape-shifting writing 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Roxane Gay, the novelist, essayist and TV writer, notes another distinction. Novelists are writing for TV more than ever. How it's changing the industry 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z As French American cultural essayist Jacques Barzun observed, “Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.” Perspective | Babe Ruth’s record was a mythical monument of white superiority. Hank Aaron tore it down. 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z On Monday evening, hours after the show, LCI fired Mr. Finkielkraut, a writer and essayist, from his position as a commentator, saying it “condemned” his words while supporting “respectful and reasoned debate.” Another French Intellectual Falls After Comments on Abuse Accusations 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z “There is unexplored history and opportunities for learning all around us,” says Elizabeth Alexander, the foundation’s president and a noted academic, poet, and essayist. Who owns America’s history? The answer will define what replaces fallen monuments. 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Martin Scorsese directed this documentary featuring the legendary essayist doing what she does best: opining. New trailers: Land, The Human Voice, and Pretend It’s a City 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z Keywords work best and are best handled in the manner of the literary essayist: as aids to reflection and self-criticism, and with subtlety, humility and humanity. Review | Delusions, justice, accountability and freedom in America 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Best known as a novelist, Lalami is also an acute and pointed essayist. The 10 best California books of 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z The late British essayist Christopher Hitchens once described Pakistan as a “humorless, paranoid, insecure” nation. Review | Revisiting Pakistan’s tangle of contradictions and violence 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z The legendary essayist wrote of America’s atomization and the painful realization that “things fall apart.” Opinion | Republicans were once the anti-radicals. They’re now battering American democracy. 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z In his piece, Epstein, an essayist and author, wrote that he taught at Northwestern University for 30 years, even though he held only a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Chicago. An opinion article argued Jill Biden should drop the ‘Dr.’; few were persuaded 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z And criticizing capitalism in this way reveals the essayist’s virtue in perhaps its purest form. Review | Delusions, justice, accountability and freedom in America 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z In addition to writing 11 works of fiction, Lurie was an essayist and a scholar of children’s literature who taught at Cornell University for years. This week’s passages 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z In his deceptively short book, the celebrated author and essayist takes us on a tour of his “weathered mind” at age 80. Review | Eighty years of memories that will stir readers’ own 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z For those who love both great movies and great writing, comes this new book from Lindy West, who, before becoming a feminist essayist and icon, was a movie critic for The Stranger. A&E gifts: The best books, music and movies for 2020 | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Zadie Smith has always been at least as phenomenal an essayist as she is a novelist. The 20 reads book people actually want this year 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z The idea for the anthology arose from conversations among New Light members, encouraged by Kissileff, an author and essayist. Attack, then pandemic: Pittsburgh Jewish congregations cope 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z Amid renewed calls for truth, reparations and justice, award-winning poet, Yale University professor and essayist Claudia Rankine discussed her newest work, “Just Us” — an urgent talk about a timely book. Claudia Rankine on Black Lives Matter, Naomi Osaka and justice for all 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z The poet, essayist and author, most recently, of “Just Us,” discusses the evolving movement toward racial justice with Professor Marcus Anthony Hunter. Opinion: What’s going on with all the white scholars who try to pass as Black? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z She’s a writer with a day job in marketing and a parallel career as a poet and essayist. Review | Meditating on disasters, she predicted a pandemic 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z An essayist, editor and author in his home country, Khashoggi was accustomed to criticism because of his outspoken calls for political reform. Records shed light on online harassment of Jamal Khashoggi before his killing 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z Claudia Rankine is a poet, playwright, essayist and adjunct professor of English and African American Studies at Yale University. Claudia Rankine: 'By white privilege I mean the ability to stay alive' 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z Poet, essayist and translator Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, whose poem “Apex Gazing” appears in the collection, touches on the inherent cognitive dissonance of living in America in this time. ‘Alone Together’ compiles stories of hope, heartache and more from the COVID era — with a heavy Seattle presence 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z The novelist and essayist’s slim new collection, “Intimations,” probes our COVID-19 reality as well as her own gifts, blind spots and vulnerabilities. Review: Money talks, and people talk money, in unsparing essays on capitalism 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Lippman references Ephron, the celebrated essayist and filmmaker whom she calls “the gold standard” of essay writing, in a couple of her own pieces. Laura Lippman on facing the villain in the mirror 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z I’m not complaining; for an essayist, that would be hypocrisy. Review: Zadie Smith gets intimate in a searching collection of quarantine essays 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z The working group, which is expected to produce a report by the end of the year, includes essayist D.J. Commentary: Goodbye, guy on a horse. A new wave of monument design is changing how we honor history 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Any essayist who used “Civil War” was immediately disqualified. Commentary: A fitting end to the last Confederate monument in Southern California 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z One of Biss’ critical subjects is the exemplar of this particular brand of essayist, Joan Didion. Review: Money talks, and people talk money, in unsparing essays on capitalism 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison, the author, essayist and winner of Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, famously encouraged would-be writers to take action. What’s on TV This Week: Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland and more 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z This is the essential job of the essayist: to explore not our innocence but our complicity. Review: Zadie Smith gets intimate in a searching collection of quarantine essays 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Maybe that was because, as one of the magazine’s two essayists, he could write about whatever he pleased, often linked to the news but not necessarily. Review | Life’s humor and heartbreak, and the joy of putting it into words 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z An author, essayist and playwright — notably hailed for his autobiographical 1985 play, “The Normal Heart” — Mr. Kramer had feet in both the world of letters and the public sphere. Larry Kramer, Playwright and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z How strange to have picked up a new book by Eula Biss, an essayist of a very different kind, and felt much the same way. Review: Money talks, and people talk money, in unsparing essays on capitalism 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z He is a historian, literary critic, author and essayist as well as a longtime columnist for the Irish Times. America the "pitiful": Fintan O'Toole on how our once-great nation devolved into "Trumpland" 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Boyer, a poet and essayist, is a professor at the Kansas City Art Institute. Colson Whitehead wins second fiction Pulitzer, Ben Moser's 'Sontag' wins for biography 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z George is a journalist and essayist and is at work on a book about Octavia E. Butler’s Southern California. Review: The cowboys of Compton, first a curiosity and then a legacy 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Are there less distant essayists who address the urgency and crisis of their moment, and still are of immediate relevance to the way we live now? Cynthia Ozick will spend her 92nd birthday 'contemplating mayhem' 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Cardenal was also an essayist and sculptor, and the herons he fashioned from stone and metal are highly prized in Central American cultural circles. Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan poet and priest, dies at 95 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Emerson, a great American essayist of the 19th century, wrote his line about striking at kings when a pupil, the future supreme court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, attempted to refute Plato. Trump seems to confirm campaign of 'grievance, persecution and resentment' 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z He also was a political essayist and author of opera librettos. Monty Python comedy star Terry Jones dies at 77 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z The essayist and editor Joseph Epstein once observed that the 1960s “are something of a political Rorschach test. Tell me what you think of that period and I shall tell you what your politics are.” Review | Searching for signs that God blessed America 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Porochista Khakpour, an author and essayist, said she was more worried for Iranians in the Islamic Republic than for Iranian Americans like her in the U.S. Across California, Iranian Americans are shocked, alarmed or relieved at the killing of Qassem Suleimani 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z Irving Kristol, who died in 2009, was an essayist and an editor of several influential journals, including Commentary, Encounter and the Public Interest, to which Dr. Himmelfarb often contributed elegant, forceful essays. Gertrude Himmelfarb, scholar of Victorian era and neoconservative thinker, dies at 97 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z After more than 40 years of directing funerals, Thomas Lynch, a poet and an essayist, believes that seeing the dead body “is the hardest and most helpful part” of accepting that a death is real. The Movement to Bring Death Closer 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Thompson is an award-winning essayist, a novelist and an author of a previous literary memoir of growing up in the post-civil-rights era. Review | A black writer on individualism, identity and indifference in Trump’s America 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z A fine opportunity to revel in the works of a figure that essayist Paul Theroux once described as “the embodiment of Oaxaca’s vortex of energy.” Datebook: Christopher Myers meditates on escape in textile works at Fort Gansevoort 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z He was an audiovisual essayist, the author and the “star,” as it were, of his series. Appreciation: Jonathan Miller, TV 'presenter' extraordinaire 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z An older brother, Milton, was an essayist and director of research for the American Jewish Committee. Gertrude Himmelfarb, scholar of Victorian era and neoconservative thinker, dies at 97 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Cuba’s revolutionary poet and essayist Jose Marti, a central figure in the island’s 19th-century independence struggle, was exiled in the early 1870s. Exiled in Mexico: Bolivia's Morales joins list of famous refugees 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z An essayist of uncommon depth and breadth, O’Toole is a Dubliner known for his work on Ireland. From Little Englanders to Brexiteers 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Novelists, essayists and poets, photographers and painters have all evoked the region in its inscrutability and calamity, but Didion’s measured cadence is embedded in our consciousness. Joan Didion's California captured in sweeping new collection 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Harper’s Magazine has a new editor, effective next Monday: Christopher Beha, a novelist, essayist and the author of a memoir recounting the year he spent reading all 50 volumes of the Harvard Classics series. A New Top Editor Takes the Hot Seat at Harper’s Magazine 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Sure, the historians and essayists wrote about America as a “nation conceived in liberty” or “a city on a hill.” Review | P.T. Barnum, the showman and grifter who held up a funhouse mirror to America 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Witty and provocative, ‘Darwin’s bulldog’ was among the most in-demand essayists of the day. How science has shifted our sense of identity 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z It is days since the death of the iconic American essayist and novelist Toni Morrison. Ibram X Kendi on why not being racist is not enough 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z For example, a person of the old world might not expect, when meeting the best young essayist in the world, to find her in denim cut-offs scrolling Instagram behind a Brooklyn café. Jia Tolentino: ‘I like to write about instincts that are in some way good and in some way dangerous' 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z L.A. essayist Lynell George describes a writer who “was both a mirror and a map. She reflected our experience back to us and to the world: but also, projected her own.” Newsletter: Essential Arts: Fury after mass shootings felt in Mozart's Requiem at the Bowl 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Rebecca Solnit calls her “the best young essayist at work in the United States,” and Zadie Smith says her book “filled me with hope.” What to do in L.A. — 6 book talks for the week ahead 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z In addition to professorial duties at Yale and Princeton universities, Ms. Morrison was an essayist and lecturer, weighing in with withering force on race and its role in the events of her times. Toni Morrison, Nobel laureate who transfigured American literature, dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Alongside her novel writing, Morrison proved herself as an essayist, specialising in race issues, a playwright and a songwriter. Obituary: Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z An essayist who explores what it’s like to live right now, no – now, remains, at 30, rebellious and contradictory in ticklish ways. Jia Tolentino: ‘I like to write about instincts that are in some way good and in some way dangerous' 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z The best novelist, one of the best essayists, one hell of an editor, and sometimes one of our greatest poets in the midst of her prose. 'Rest, Toni Morrison. You were magnificent': leading writers on the great American author 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Sarah Galvin, 33, a Seattle poet and essayist, joined the club when she 24. Dead Baby Bikes Downhill brings ‘gleeful mayhem’ to Seattle streets 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z Some of her videos hit 45 minutes in length, and it’s a trend that’s seen throughout the essayist community. YouTube videos keep getting longer 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z The Wall is the fifth novel by Lanchester, a writer and essayist who is celebrated for his ability to explain hugely complicated things in accessible terms. Author of dystopian climate crisis novel is 'deeply optimistic' 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z But to my delight Tracy Daugherty — essayist, novelist, and biographer of Joseph Heller and Joan Didion — has uncovered a small gem within the history of astronomy. Review | An astronomer’s poetic soul meets Dante’s scientific mind 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Her mother, the former Julia Weismann, was a composer and pianist; her father, Alfred Kerr, was a prominent essayist, critic and radio broadcaster with a socialist bent. Judith Kerr, refugee from Nazi Germany who wrote ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea,’ dies at 95 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z His favorite essayist was George Orwell, whose leftist politics were accompanied by a clear-eyed assessment of the totalitarian horrors that can flow from dogmas on the left or the right. Perspective | The Red Scare targeted my family. America hasn’t shaken its demons yet. 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z He was a critic, a poet, an essayist, a novelist and an editor who lived freely with his wife and the various boyfriends that stayed in the couple’s townhouse. Where Are the Statues of L.G.B.T.Q. Pioneers? Here Are 11 Worthy New Yorkers 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z The literary essayist Leslie Fiedler once explained Mr. Wouk’s critical reputation by comparing him with Nobel laureate Saul Bellow. Herman Wouk, Pulitzer Prize-winning master of sweeping historical fiction, dies at 103 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Woods has refused to return to the micro-blogging site after being suspended for daring to tweet a famous quote by American essayist and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. Microsoft uses artificial intelligence to bind users to its definition of ‘inclusive language’ 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z At the Los Angeles Times’ book fest last week, I was especially struck by a panel exchange featuring essayist Heather Havrilesky. Not just a sloppy kiss, a wake-up call — and a reminder to chase small pleasures 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z A music essayist, poet and cultural critic, Abdurraqib is wildly prolific, with a vast curiosity. Hanif Abdurraqib’s ‘Go Ahead in the Rain’ is a biography of A Tribe Called Quest. It’s also much more. 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z |
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