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Previous Picks Aflame by Pico Iyer (Riverhead) Nonfiction For more than three decades, Iyer, an essayist and a novelist, has spent several weeks a year at a silent retreat in a monastery in Big Sur, California.
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The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2025
The courtly Time-magazine essayist who described the American Century with wit, outrage, and wry wisdom
By Roger Rosenblatt
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Mann was aiming at his brother Heinrich, a novelist and an essayist of nearly equal renown, whose liberal politics led him to support Germany’s enemies, France and Britain.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
Like Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, the essayist lights out for the territories, never sure of the next sentence until the words show up on the page.
—Harper’s Magazine, Harper's Magazine, 2 Oct. 2024
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The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2025
The courtly Time-magazine essayist who described the American Century with wit, outrage, and wry wisdom
By Roger Rosenblatt
Read On
The Seasoned Traveler
Enrique Olvera The Mexican chef behind Cosme and Pujol reveals his travel routine
Read On
Going Anywhere Soon?
—airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024
Mann was aiming at his brother Heinrich, a novelist and an essayist of nearly equal renown, whose liberal politics led him to support Germany’s enemies, France and Britain.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
Like Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, the essayist lights out for the territories, never sure of the next sentence until the words show up on the page.
—Harper’s Magazine, Harper's Magazine, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Essayist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/essayist. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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essayist
noun
es·say·ist
ˈes-ˌā-əst 
: a writer of essays
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