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Recent Examples of essayist
The publication of the essayist’s private letters undermines a writer famous for her control.
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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
At least, that’s what happened to English critic, essayist, and newspaper editor Leigh Hunt (1784–1859), one of Britain’s most historically ruthless writers.
—Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 4 Apr. 2025
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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
At least, that’s what happened to English critic, essayist, and newspaper editor Leigh Hunt (1784–1859), one of Britain’s most historically ruthless writers.
—Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for essayist
Noun
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The internet is already a part of us, inside of us; and maybe what remains for the digital novelist is to get outside, to gather up the whole snarled mess of tubes and plunk it down on an examination table.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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Among its most renowned figures were novelists Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster; painters Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, and Duncan Grant; nonfiction writers and critics Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, Desmond MacCarthy, and Leonard Woolf; and economist John Maynard Keynes.—
Jenny Noyce,
JSTOR Daily,
14 May 2025
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The film marks the debut feature for playwright and director Jordan Tannahill.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
17 May 2025
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Additionally, the Variety and Golden Globes Creative Impact Icon Film Award will be presented to actor and playwright Jeremy O. Harris.—
William Earl,
Variety,
15 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 best storytellers will use this technology to go faster but never shallower.—
Yael Klass,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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Artists, the natural storytellers of our culture, couldn’t get platforms to share their vision.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
10 May 2025
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As beginnings go, the filmmaker offers up a hilarious theme-setting blind date that even a premier satirist like George Saunders would envy.—
Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Apr. 2025
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Greg Gutfeld, Fox News’s late-night satirist, scoffed at the idea that Mr. Newsom and Mr. Walz were trying to define masculinity for the Democratic Party.—
Laurel Rosenhall,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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Filmmaker Eric Aronson spent 22 years in Hollywood as a screenwriter before moving back to his native Boston and deciding to take a new approach to movies.—
Nancy Tartaglione,
Deadline,
13 May 2025
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The film, inspired by true stories, is written by screenwriters Eva Pauné and Mirjam Ziegler.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
13 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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The infamous Long Island fabulist needs revenue from the podcast to pay the $205,000 in forfeiture cash that would be due a month before sentencing, his lawyers wrote in a letter to Federal Court Judge Joanna Seybert.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
8 Jan. 2025
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