We published 227 pieces of original writing in 2025, by nearly as many contributors. Our “Best of 2025” post is a chance to revisit a favorite essay, or discover a piece you missed the first time ...

I’ve been told numerous times to ‘forget everything I learned in high school’ when it comes to college essay-writing. Great, ...

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The young conservatives are mostly men, so you can talk about male struggles in a postindustrial economy or how the ...

Readers discuss an essay by Anand Giridharadas about Jeffrey Epstein’s circle. Also: The White House ballroom; Medicare for All; immigrant fears.

Samantha Fulnecky went viral on X last month with a controversial essay about how people are perceived based on societal expectations of gender. The University of Oklahoma student referred to the Bibl ...

Abstract: An essay-based discourse analysis system can help students improve their writing by identifying relevant essay-based discourse elements in their essays. Our discourse analysis software, ...

For all Zadie Smith’s talents and successes as a novelist, some in the literary world think her real strength is non-fiction. And she is, indeed, one of the essay form’s modern masters. Her new ...

In an analysis comparing college admission essays generated by artificial intelligence to 30,000 human-written essays from before ChatGPT was released, Cornell University researchers found that AI ...

Film analysis essays offer more than summaries of what unfolds on screen. They help readers understand how directors use cinematic techniques, like camera angles, symbolism, dialogue, and pacing, to ...

The first essay anybody writes is for school. Same here. But the only examples I remember are the ones I wrote at the end, in my A-level exams. One compared Hitler to Stalin. Another, Martin Luther ...