College students face a common enemy. The blank page. The blinking cursor. Writing essays can feel like torture. Professors want polished academic writing. But who actually practices that in real life ...

Famed for her fearless literary takedowns, Lauren Oyler adopts a softer tone in the new essay collection “No Judgment.” Credit...Miguel Porlan Supported by By Erin Somers Erin Somers is a reporter for ...

This article is featured in the 2025 Winter Carnival Special Issue. On April 2, 2024, The Dartmouth staff published a book titled “50 Dartmouth Application Essays That Worked: Crafting a Compelling ...

The essay form is a response to minds, art, communities and culture, understood through a writer’s body, intellect and being.

Foreword: writing & the book -- The word made flesh -- Writing as artifact -- Visual poetics -- Artists' books past and future -- The future of writing -- Personal writing -- Conclusion -- Appendices ...

Let’s face it: Most of us own entirely too much stuff, yet the desire to buy more, more, and more can be difficult to quell. It’s precisely this tension that lies at the heart of writer Emily Mester's ...

Matthew Sharpe receives funding from the ARC on the history of the idea of philosophy as a way of life. In our guides to the classics, experts explain key literary works. It’s 400 years since the ...