Every lover of liberty should have a good reading list that promotes freedom. At the same time, one should develop the ...

Attention high-school seniors: Deadlines are coming up! Polish your dream-college applications, hit send, and hope the admissions game isn’t rigged with “race proxies”! To stay ahead of the curve, ...

The ninth instalment of Sight and Sound’s dedicated poll has brought a record number of participants (72) and video essays (255) mentioned. While the video essay form still escapes definition, and is ...

The Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis aims to become a leading global think tank committed to decoding China's complexities with an "inside-out" approach by offering ...

A writer who says that she learns more about herself through every book she reads, essayist Jia Tolentino is this year’s guest editor for the annually published anthology showcasing the best essays of ...

A high school teacher went viral this week with a video showing his students’ horrified reaction to his instructions to write a paragraph. When he clarifies that a paragraph means five complete ...

Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and ...

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 ...

Novelist and critic Smith (Feel Free) brings an incisive eye and keen wit to art, music, fiction, politics, and more in these wide-ranging essays. Whether analyzing the misogyny faced by female muses; ...

In an experiment last year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, more than fifty students from universities around Boston were split into three groups and asked to write SAT-style essays in ...

On Writers and Writing: Essays by Henry James, edited by Michael Gorra (New York Review Books, 408 pp., $24.95) The criticism of Henry James (1843–1916) is replete with imperiousness. We can hear this ...