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 ...
'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 ...
On any given afternoon, in classrooms across Uganda and beyond, literature teachers are confronting a quiet but profound ...
Wigtown Company has today launched the 2026 Anne Brown Essay Prize for the best literary essay by a writer in, or from, Scotland.
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Literary Awakenings: Personal Essays from the Hudson Review edited by Ronald Koury (Nov. 15, trade paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8156-1078-6). Over the past three decades, the Hudson Review has become a ...
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“You don’t have your own field to plough, so you go to plough in other people’s fields,” said a commentator about literary translators, in the context of an incident that was discussed widely on the ...