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Montaigne's Essays: A Beginner's Road Map

Where to start with the man who invented the personal essay, without drowning in editions.

Kara Williams

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Distance, passes, and the discipline of reading your own work as if a stranger wrote it.

Amara Okonkwo

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Two centuries on, Charles Lamb's borrowed persona still teaches writers what the essay form is for.

Javier Hughes

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Celia Laskey's title does half the work — and the word 'cover' does the rest.

Amara Okonkwo

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The application essays that survive a long reading day share habits, not topics — and most of those habits are older than the application itself.

Kara Williams