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Recent Examples of essayist
Senna is a novelist and essayist.
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Time, 27 May 2026
Gabrielle Glancy is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Poetry Review.
—Gabrielle Glancy, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2026
As a poet, novelist, and essayist, Wendell Berry is one of the great modern voices of agrarian values.
—René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026
Economist and essayist David Oks argued in an influential, widely read Substack post that most of this ATM story is just half the tale.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 4 May 2026
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Time, 27 May 2026
Gabrielle Glancy is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Poetry Review.
—Gabrielle Glancy, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2026
As a poet, novelist, and essayist, Wendell Berry is one of the great modern voices of agrarian values.
—René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026
Economist and essayist David Oks argued in an influential, widely read Substack post that most of this ATM story is just half the tale.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 4 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for essayist
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Spencer went on to marry Raine, Countess of Dartmouth — her mother was the romantic fiction novelist Barbara Cartland, who showered Diana’s world with pulp romance.—
Simon Perry,
PEOPLE,
18 June 2026
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James Lasdun’s new book, The Family Man, reckons with the Alex Murdaugh murder case, which the poet, novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer covered for The New Yorker.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
17 June 2026
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Production has wrapped on Ages of the Moon, the feature film adaptation of the play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
18 June 2026
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Season 3 of Rivals will be executive-produced by the duo, Olivier Award-winning playwright Laura Wade (The Riot Club) and Felicity Blunt.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2026
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The theater was built by songwriter, dramatist and playwright Arthur Hammerstein to honor his father, Oscar Hammerstein I, and opened as Hammerstein’s Theater in 1927.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
22 May 2026
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In transcripts of hearings of the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Garber finds an upwelling of voices from the literary past, among them Christopher Marlowe, the revenge dramatist Thomas Kyd, and, from first to last, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare.—
Charlie Tyson,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
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To be a good poet or pamphleteer, like Thomas Paine or Samuel Johnson, requires a kind of day-to-day daring, with triumphs made in conversation and correspondence; a good banker or stockbroker makes his in columns of numbers.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2026
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Even when insulted or thwarted – by Spanish intrigues on the Florida frontier, by British seizures in the Caribbean, by pamphleteers accusing him of being a monarch in disguise – Washington’s tone remained measured.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
12 Jan. 2026
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Far from lumps of rock, the trojans, along with DJ and Dinkinesh (which is the Ethiopian name for the Lucy fossil), are windows into the past, and the storytellers of the Earth's most ancient history.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
19 June 2026
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Sun Yi is an award-winning personal brand strategist, storyteller, TEDx speaker, podcaster, and founder of Night Owls and Night Owl Nation.—
Sun Yi,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Jan. 2026
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For a satirist or a cynic, Esperantists are easy fodder.—
Katie Thornton,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 2026
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But satire, as a rule, falls flat when the satirist has so little to say.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
12 May 2026
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Sure, there’s a new director (Aaron Sorkin, the screenwriter of the original, is taking over for David Fincher) and a new actor is playing Mark Zuckerberg (Jeremy Strong replaces Jesse Eisenberg, who turned down the project).—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
17 June 2026
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The Jurassic Park screenwriter notes that aliens, both real and fictional, might exist entirely outside of the bounds of human comprehension.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 June 2026
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