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Recent Examples of essayist
Tendler can’t square how to both love men and live under patriarchy — something writers, philosophers, and essayists have long been pondering.
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Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
Comics essayist and Batman historian Chris Sims offers a theory.
—Abraham Josephine Riesman, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
The latter film looks at a seminal period in the life of James Baldwin, the extraordinary essayist, novelist and playwright who was born 100 years ago this year.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
In addition to technology leaders like Altman and Gates, Oprah interviewed Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin from the Center for Humane Technology, FBI Director Christopher Wray, YouTuber Marques Brownlee, chaplain Kaiser Aslam, and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson.
—Gena Cox, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
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Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
Comics essayist and Batman historian Chris Sims offers a theory.
—Abraham Josephine Riesman, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
The latter film looks at a seminal period in the life of James Baldwin, the extraordinary essayist, novelist and playwright who was born 100 years ago this year.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
In addition to technology leaders like Altman and Gates, Oprah interviewed Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin from the Center for Humane Technology, FBI Director Christopher Wray, YouTuber Marques Brownlee, chaplain Kaiser Aslam, and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson.
—Gena Cox, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for essayist
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This version features the star casting of Nick Jonas as the novelist Jamie, with Adrienne Warren (of Tina) as the shiksa goddess Cathy.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
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The insider crowd at the opening party at a modernist house in Baldwin Hills included a healer, a graphic novelist, a magician, a rapper.Travis Diehl, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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Movies are the great compensatory art, the creative redemption for people who are novelists, poets, musicians, playwrights, painters, photographers, or even philosophers at heart but not in practice—or those who have artistic souls but no preferred art form at all.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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As a dramatist, Baker has long excelled at conveying complex emotion with something as simple as a pause, and the silences of Janet Planet are just as powerful on the big screen.David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
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But great dramatists recognize that our lives exist largely in gray zones, and that no ideology can contain our contradictory humanity.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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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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However Elena’s modelling career takes off, while Eddie spends his days wandering the streets of New York getting into fights with pamphleteers.Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 May 2024
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From iconic performers and gifted storytellers to fearless activists and pioneering visionaries, these figures left an indelible mark on the world and our communities.Okla Jones, Essence, 12 Jan. 2025
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On behalf of all of our readers, thank you, Dan, for being Baltimore’s voice, advocate, and an exceptional reporter and storyteller.Trif Alatzas, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2025
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Opened by Irishmen Mike Jewell and Danny McDonald in 1995 and named after the Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, the East Village’s Swift Hibernian Lounge checks all those boxes.airmail.news, airmail.news, 7 Aug. 2024
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In his second theatrical film, multi-hyphenate Mehran Modiri, one of Iran’s most beloved TV satirists, turns his hand to the thriller genre with mixed results.Alissa Simon, Variety, 14 Dec. 2024
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Founded in 1909, the organization annually brings together a cadre of film industry professionals including filmmakers, actors, producers, and screenwriters to select the best content of the year.Sam Falb, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
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The romantic outing comes months after the Tony Award-winning actress filed for divorce from husband Ted Griffin, a screenwriter, in October.Christina Dugan Ramirez, Fox News, 7 Jan. 2025
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The infamous Long Island fabulist needs revenue from the podcast to pay the $205,000 in forfeiture cash that would be due a month before sentencing, his lawyers wrote in a letter to Federal Court Judge Joanna Seybert.John Annese, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025
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Then there are the fabulist reimaginings, like the Coen Brothers classic O Brother, Where Art Thou?Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2024
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