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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.
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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
The works of African American novelist and essayist John Edgar Wideman were read by WORDTheatre members Gary Dourdan, Chris Chalk and Ronald Guttman at the Players Club.
—Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 18 May 2025
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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
The works of African American novelist and essayist John Edgar Wideman were read by WORDTheatre members Gary Dourdan, Chris Chalk and Ronald Guttman at the Players Club.
—Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 18 May 2025
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In March 1886, Chekhov received a letter from Dmitry Grigorovich, an elder novelist, out of the blue.—
Ha Jin
July 28,
Literary Hub,
28 July 2025
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In those same intoxicated days, Amos Oz—a young novelist who was raised in Jerusalem under British rule and served in a tank unit during the Six-Day War—emerged from the fighting wary of expansionism and the abuse of power.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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However, the pivotal moment that inspired her transition from lawyer to playwright was the #MeToo movement.—
Cheryl Robinson,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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And, as a Connecticut resident, Rodgers was in good company: The playwright Noël Coward owned a stately residence nearby, which hit the market for $10.3 million earlier this year and where Rodgers was known to pop by from time to time.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
21 July 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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One of the most effective ways to help build brands and marketing success is to be an effective storyteller.—
Edward Segal,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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Different baskets, regalia, or stories can be the time machine, the storage container, the religious fulcrum, the food carrier, the knowledge bearer, or the storyteller.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 July 2025
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Skinner is a particularly sharp satirist of the relentless policing of masculinity by other men.—
Marina Harss,
New Yorker,
13 June 2025
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Gilbert and Sullivan were sharp satirists but also savvy businessmen.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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Lionsgate is releasing the film domestically, with Universal handling distribution in the rest of the world except for Japan, which is handled by Kino Films. Antoine Fuqua directs, with John Logan as screenwriter and Jaafar Jackson starring as his late uncle.—
Pat Saperstein,
Variety,
24 July 2025
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Nelson, who's also a playwright, screenwriter, and director, will launch his second novel, Superhero, on Dec. 2, and Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive first look at the cover.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
23 July 2025
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George Santos to report to prison George Santos, the fabulist former New York Republican lawmaker, is set to report to prison Friday — and he’s had a lot to say about it.—
Zach Schonfeld,
The Hill,
23 July 2025
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Many of the hustlers and fabulists who populate Crews’s fiction are typical American strivers.—
Charlie Lee,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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