“Each section centers around a theme and is introduced with a short essay by one of the editors.”

“Here I made my first real essay at cooking. My eyes sympathized with the smoke, I sweat terribly, but the boys pronounced the bean soup superb.”

“An essay was conducted to determine the presence of a breast cancer gene.”

“Plutarch wrote in his native Greek and was a prolific essayist, philosopher, biographer, and historian.”

“The novelist and essayist Thomas Mann was one of Nazism's most penetrating critics.”

“He was an inveterate essayist and letter writer, renowned for the forceful expression of his opinions and the ebullience of his wit.”

“Turning to our Nineteenth Century essayists, we find chloroform is everywhere, and curare nowhere.”

“Susan Sontag is one of America's best known and respected essayists and novelists.”

“There also is usually a diverse mix of essayists and letter writers on our op-ed page.”