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Recent Examples of essayist
Below, the essayist and translator names six favorite books available in English translation.
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The Week Us, theweek, 10 Dec. 2024
The publication of the essayist’s private letters undermines a writer famous for her control.
—Lynn Steger Strong, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2025
There goes America’s competitive advantage in a warming world, by Robinson Meyer, guest essayist, The New York Times.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2025
She’s been an opinion writer here at The Times (from 2005 to 2016) and a personal essayist of sometimes provocative proclivities for decades.
—Charles Arrowsmith, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2025
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The Week Us, theweek, 10 Dec. 2024
The publication of the essayist’s private letters undermines a writer famous for her control.
—Lynn Steger Strong, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2025
There goes America’s competitive advantage in a warming world, by Robinson Meyer, guest essayist, The New York Times.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2025
She’s been an opinion writer here at The Times (from 2005 to 2016) and a personal essayist of sometimes provocative proclivities for decades.
—Charles Arrowsmith, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for essayist
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The novelists’ parents were Patrick and Maria Brontë, an Irish clergyman and a Cornish gentlewoman who married in 1812.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 May 2025
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Indies held their own on super start-of-summer weekend as Jane Austen, the late 18th century British novelist and early feminist continued her box office run in Jane Austen Wrecked My Life.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
25 May 2025
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Wright is a playwright, screenwriter and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, among other notable works.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
28 May 2025
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Later on, the English playwright Noël Coward and his partner John C. Wilson, a Broadway producer, owned the stately spread, and over the years, several stars of screen and stage used Pebbles as a summer getaway, including Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, and Richard Rodgers.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
28 May 2025
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Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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White is simply too gifted a dramatist, and too acute an observer of human foibles, for these concerns to feel forced.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
11 Feb. 2025
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By Timothy O'Grady July 8, 2024 Belfast: city of riveters, inventors, linen mill girls, boxers, pamphleteers, revolutionaries, Lambeg drummers, Irish bagpipers, mission hall preachers, and mustachioed burghers with pocket watches.—
Timothy O'Grady,
Condé Nast Traveler,
8 July 2024
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However Elena’s modelling career takes off, while Eddie spends his days wandering the streets of New York getting into fights with pamphleteers.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
19 May 2024
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The Visionary Tribute is designed to recognize boundary-pushing work that will inspire the next generation of storytellers.—
Hilary Lewis,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2025
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The collaboration will also inform the development of new AI tools, ensuring that emerging technologies align with the needs of storytellers.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
20 May 2025
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House Bill 1277 could have been written by the satirists at The Onion.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
19 May 2025
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Charlie Brooker, the mastermind behind Black Mirror, began his career as an edgy British satirist with a gift for skewering mainstream TV and a passionate love for video games.—
Martha Bayles,
National Review,
15 May 2025
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Gifted screenwriter and director Ryan Coogler has been married to his wife Zinzi Evans since 2016, and the two have been a favorite of everyone’s for some time.—
Victoria Uwumarogie,
Essence,
23 May 2025
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The residency is designed for directors and screenwriters working on at least their third feature film.—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
23 May 2025
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White worked for the infamous InfoWars media site run by fabulist Alex Jones.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
30 May 2025
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The Irishman — long and boring, based on the self-serving memoirs of a fabulist and a creep — was supposed to be the film of the year.—
Bill Wyman,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2025
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