essayist

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What the French essayist offers us “shall smack of the earth and of real life, sweet, or smart, or stinging.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 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

Waldie, essayist and cultural historian, is the author of “Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place,” among other books.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 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