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Jessica Kiang Film critic, essayist and programmer with bylines in Variety, Sight & Sound, Criterion, Mubi, The New York Times, The LA Times, The Washington Post, Film Comment and Rolling Stone, among other outlets.
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2025
The essayist and Transcendentalist kingpin was impressed.
—James Marcus, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Here the great essayist puts her sharp eye to engaging some of the contradictions in Gerwig’s spin on a classic.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 24 July 2025
Like the essayists in Life and The New York Times, the candidate recognized that the country needed more than policy prescriptions.
—Time, 23 July 2025
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2025
The essayist and Transcendentalist kingpin was impressed.
—James Marcus, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Here the great essayist puts her sharp eye to engaging some of the contradictions in Gerwig’s spin on a classic.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 24 July 2025
Like the essayists in Life and The New York Times, the candidate recognized that the country needed more than policy prescriptions.
—Time, 23 July 2025
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“Essayist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/essayist. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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essayist
noun
es·say·ist
ˈes-ˌā-əst 
: a writer of essays
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