When I was in my twenties I put writers on a pedestal, believing that writing is an exertion of power. I still largely feel this way because in our present time, where attention is fleeting, to be ...

The Writing Center Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2 (2019), pp. 93-126 (34 pages) Heeding previous scholars' calls for a critical investigation of the role of reflection in the professional development of ...

WASHINGTON — Twenty-five years ago this week, I wrote my first column. I’m not much given to self-reflection — why do you think I quit psychiatry? — but I figure once every quarter-century is not ...

Traditionally, essay writing was seen as an academic exercise, but not anymore. An essay is a piece of writing that is written to convince someone of something or to inform the reader about a ...

Since 2002 I have written somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 articles and blog posts for various publications. This one is my 109th Email Insider column. I had planned to use my 100th Email Insider ...

In January, longtime NewsHour essayist Roger Rosenblatt returned to our studio to talk about his new book on a subject that many of our viewers and readers hold dear. Unless It Moves The Human Heart: ...

“Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir,” Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, by Deirdre Bair Deirdre Bair has spent her life writing well-received biographies of some of the 20th ...