The seven essays in Anne Fadiman’s new collection, “Frog and Other Essays” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) are not all amphibious in theme. While the title essay recalls the so-called life of her family’s ...

Applying to an Ivy League school can be a daunting task for any high school senior. To make it more fun, a teen from Brentwood, Tennessee, wrote about her love of pizza in one of the essays she wrote ...

I’m sitting in one of the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning’s Writing Center’s tiny study rooms with a student I’ve worked with before. The spring 2023 semester has just begun. His assignment ...

The eldest child of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner used her experience living through the Palisades Fire with her celebrity mom as content for her recently published college academic essay. Violet ...

Director's foreword -- Acknowledgments -- An introduction / Elisabeth Hodermarsky -- Note to the reader -- Part 1. 1869 to1949 -- No longer "A harmless occupation for ...