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Recent Examples of essayist
As an essayist, Dasgupta has contributed to distinguished outlets such as Harper’s, Granta, and The New Statesman.
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Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
In the latest issue of the magazine, the writer and essayist Leslie Jamison reports on the many negative health effects of perfectionism.
—Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
On this day in 1924: Novelist, essayist, playwright and activist James Baldwin was born in New York City.
—AZCentral.com, 2 Aug. 2025
This is who’s really driving the decline in interest in liberal arts education, by Jennifer Frey, guest essayist, The New York Times.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 18 July 2025
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Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
In the latest issue of the magazine, the writer and essayist Leslie Jamison reports on the many negative health effects of perfectionism.
—Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
On this day in 1924: Novelist, essayist, playwright and activist James Baldwin was born in New York City.
—AZCentral.com, 2 Aug. 2025
This is who’s really driving the decline in interest in liberal arts education, by Jennifer Frey, guest essayist, The New York Times.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 18 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for essayist
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Cleyvis Natera, a literary novelist, turns to the genre for craft elements.—
Rebecca Ackermann,
The Atlantic,
5 Oct. 2025
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Daniel’s commercial failure as a novelist impelled him to move to Los Angeles to try writing for the movies.—
David Kamp,
New Yorker,
4 Oct. 2025
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Ronan Day-Lewis, 27 Ronan is the older son of the two children Daniel shares with his wife, Rebecca Miller, who is the daughter of legendary playwright Arthur Miller.—
Alyssa Davis,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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Graham often grabs stories straight out of the news, and both Sherwood and Punch are based on real events (as were Tammy Faye and Ink, the prolific playwright’s last visits to Broadway).—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
30 Sep. 2025
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Conrad Earp, Asteroid City Of the three dramatists on this list, Earp is obviously the most developed.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
2 June 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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Even with all his diplomatic ties, Franklin was powerless to assist Platt because of the Treason Act’s suspension of habeas corpus. Advertisement Newspaper editors and pamphleteers circulated stories about the horrible conditions in the British prisons holding thousands of Americans.—
Time,
Time,
9 July 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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If so, this pocket-sized storyteller will be an instant favorite.—
Emily Glover,
Parents,
2 Oct. 2025
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Hafez has also conceived the hub as a launchpad for emerging storytellers giving them access to the necessary tools and support to refine their voice and craft world-class content.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
2 Oct. 2025
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In the days following the podcast appearance, the author shared a parody by British satirist Intel Lady that characterizes Watson as contradictory and fame-hungry.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Sep. 2025
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Authoritarians historically come for the comics first, and most recently under Putin, satirist Idrak Mirzalizade was jailed and deported for mocking Russian housing.—
Lizz Winstead,
Time,
27 Sep. 2025
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The screenwriter, Nora Garrett, has achieved an amusingly florid Hollywood simulacrum—one that tilts into knowing parody—of an intensely self-regarding world.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
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Buzzy emerging screenwriter Morgan Lehmann has sold the pitch for an untitled WAGs comedy to Amazon MGM Studios‘ United Artists and Scott Stuber, Deadline has learned.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
29 Sep. 2025
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Trouble doubles down with the arrival of Baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrhorn (Ana de Armas), a big-talking fabulist who arrives on the island like a Real Housewife of Floreana, with dreams of building a luxury hotel on the island.—
Adam Graham,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Aug. 2025
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Many people do not know when LLMs are lying to them, which is unsurprising given that the chatbots are very convincing fabulists, serving up slop with unflappable confidence to their unsuspecting audience.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
15 Aug. 2025
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