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Recent Examples of essayist
Below, the essayist and translator names six favorite books available in English translation.
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The Week Us, theweek, 10 Dec. 2024
The publication of the essayist’s private letters undermines a writer famous for her control.
—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
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The Week Us, theweek, 10 Dec. 2024
The publication of the essayist’s private letters undermines a writer famous for her control.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for essayist
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Veteran screenwriter and novelist Kazuki Nakashima penned the screenplay, with character designs by Takashi Okazaki and music by Yugo Kanno.—
Sara Merican,
Deadline,
13 June 2025
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Novels about novelists struggling to write novels have proliferated since the medium’s advent, from Joyce to Miller to Bolaño to Lerner to Chabon to Byatt to Baldwin.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
12 June 2025
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Now, a living playwright can be both a blessing and a curse.—
Sarah Paulson,
HollywoodReporter,
3 June 2025
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Roberts also included a couple of snapshots of Richardson enjoying the party alongside the partygoers, including Danielle Brooks, Purpose producer Debra Martin Chase and Purpose playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
3 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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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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Dante is a masterful storyteller and unflinching in his recollections.—
Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
6 June 2025
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Comedian, storyteller and public speaker Ali Siddiq is on the way to the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach with his In the Shadows tour stop on Dec. 20.—
Ben Crandell,
Sun Sentinel,
5 June 2025
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House Bill 1277 could have been written by the satirists at The Onion.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
19 May 2025
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Charlie Brooker, the mastermind behind Black Mirror, began his career as an edgy British satirist with a gift for skewering mainstream TV and a passionate love for video games.—
Martha Bayles,
National Review,
15 May 2025
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Alien: Covenant followed in 2017, also helmed by Scott, but The Leftovers' Damon Lindelof was swapped out as screenwriter for a team comprised of John Logan (Gladiator) and Michael Green (Logan), among others.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
5 June 2025
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The show was created by Scream screenwriter and Dawson’s Creek creator Kevin Williamson.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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The Texan outlaw John Wesley Hardin, on the other hand, was no fabulist.—
Paul Begala,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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White worked for the infamous InfoWars media site run by fabulist Alex Jones.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
30 May 2025
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