literati

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The book—a masterpiece of the genre—chronicles the circuitous path he took from Brownsville, then a scrappy Jewish neighborhood, to the tony milieu of New York’s literati.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

The floating ships in the fantasy role-playing game Honkai: Star Rail are populated with traders, gourmets and literati who surf their texts on jade abacuses.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2023

What was supporting the grand mansions and the literati in England in the middle of the 19th century?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023

In the world of literature, for example, authors who are “othered” outside of the elite literati typically are boxed into othering themselves just to parlay their creativity into a career.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2023

Thomas-à-Kempis was but the forerunner of a race of distinguished literati.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den