essayist
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But, as the radical essayist Thomas Paine warned, “America is above your reach.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Could the same be said of a disingenuous essayist?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025
Critics, including a guest essayist for the New York Times, have called his Oval Office remodel a "Gilded Rococo Nightmare".
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
The author is a writing professor for Antioch University and a published essayist who lives in Los Angeles County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025
Still, those writers would likely have been thinking of Indians without him—the essayist Montaigne had noted the same antiauthoritarian attitudes a century earlier.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
And his influences included writers who worked in that tradition: writers and essayists such as Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Jorge Luis Borges and Euclides Da Cunha.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2025
Several essayists have described common characteristics of the “Star Wars” generation in terms of its existence at a technological turning point.
From Salon ● May 25, 2024
“Palestine’s poets, scholars, novelists and journalists and essayists have risked everything, including their lives and the lives of their families, to share their words with the world,” the letter reads in part.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
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.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2022
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.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
