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Or maybe not so incipiently, according to maritime analyst John Konrad, in his widely read essay partly titled, “What If the U.S. Navy isn’t in a Hurry to Reopen the Strait?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Her memoir, which was based in part on Burden’s popular New York Times Modern Love essay “Was I Married to a Stranger?”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

Together, they create a documentary that looks like a moodboard colliding with a fashion archivist’s YouTube video essay.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026

He had done a good deal of writing at the table beneath that tree, calling it a “strong-willed, powerful thing in-itself, reaching up and reaching down” in his 1924 essay “Pan in America.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Mrs. Torrance hosted yet another discussion in her English class, instead of working on an essay she had assigned for the following week.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro