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How Iran might strike back, by Colin P. Clarke, guest essayist, The New York Times.
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Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 23 June 2025
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.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 June 2025
Lewis had always brought an essayist’s sensibility to the art of editing.
—Donovan Hohn
june 13, Literary Hub, 13 June 2025
Theatre, as every essayist turned performer discovers, depends less on elegance of expression than on character, context, and event.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 14 May 2025
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Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 23 June 2025
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.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 June 2025
Lewis had always brought an essayist’s sensibility to the art of editing.
—Donovan Hohn
june 13, Literary Hub, 13 June 2025
Theatre, as every essayist turned performer discovers, depends less on elegance of expression than on character, context, and event.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 14 May 2025
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“Essayist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/essayist. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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essayist
noun
es·say·ist
ˈes-ˌā-əst 
: a writer of essays
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