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The Magazine Cover Story, Endangered and Essential
How flagship features get commissioned, photographed, and sold — and why the form still matters on a screen.
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Letters as Literature
The epistolary form taught prose intimacy, immediacy, and doubt — and it never really went away.
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Family volunteering ideas — Volunteering as a Family: Where to Start
Age-appropriate service projects that build a habit, not a one-off pang of guilt.
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Essays in Love and the Essay as Confession
Alain de Botton's first book blurred the line between novel and essay, and readers have expected books about feelings to think as well as confess ever since.
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Essays Michel De Montaigne — Montaigne's Essays: A Beginner's Road Map
Where to start with the man who invented the personal essay, without drowning in editions.
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How to Edit Your Own Essays Without Cringing
Distance, passes, and the discipline of reading your own work as if a stranger wrote it.
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Essays of Elia: Why Lamb Still Reads Fresh
Two centuries on, Charles Lamb's borrowed persona still teaches writers what the essay form is for.
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Cover Story Celia Laskey: The Novel Everyone Misread
Celia Laskey's title does half the work — and the word 'cover' does the rest.
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Essays That Worked: What Admissions Readers See
The application essays that survive a long reading day share habits, not topics — and most of those habits are older than the application itself.