In the 16th century, French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, who is considered to be the progenitor of the modern essay, explained that his “essais” (the French word means “attempt”) were meant to ...

The invaluable Library of America continues its great work with the publication of a new volume of collected essays by Wilson. U.S. policymakers and academic students of international relations are ...

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This fall’s literary nonfiction disproves, or at least complicates, the notion that the writer’s life is a lonely one. Collections of correspondence capture authors in conversation with family members ...

'One might, at an early age, wish to be a poet or a dramatist or a novelist or even possibly a critic," Joseph Epstein writes in "A Literary Education," his 13th collection of essays. "One somehow ...

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What is an essay? For most people the word conjures up memories of the things you were forced to write at school by people like Miss Peecher the teacher, in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend, whose essays ...

Fittingly for uncertain times, this fall authors emphasize the value of returning to old literary favorites. The season won’t be strictly nostalgic, however, and will see its fair share of debuts and ...