As the college essay program manager for Write the World, a nonprofit writing organization for teens, I oversee a group of advisers who guide students through the essay writing process. I have seen ...

It started as a sort-of-joke writer Kyle Chayka made a few weeks ago, after he’d been reading a lot about bots. personal chatbots are prob the new newsletters. Ask my bot how my weekend was Chayka ...

It’s hard to read Phillip Lopate’s “The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present” without recalling John D’Agata’s three-volume “A New History of the Essay,” ...

EVOLUTION OF THE ESSAY FORM; The Old School, the Modern and the Art Nouveau -- Three Striking Examples of Stages in Literary Development Found in Sir James Stephen, Balfour Browne, and Maeterlinck.

The word essay derives from the title of a 1580 collection of writings by the Frenchman Michel de Montaigne. In his Essays, Montaigne set down his thoughts on whatever subject snared his ...