How could The Humble Essayist resist Robert Vivian’s newest book of “Dervish Essays.” Each piece is lyrical, tracing the solitary mind at work and letting it...

Kathleen Jamie was born in the west of Scotland. She is one of Britain's leading poets and the author of acclaimed works of non-fiction, Among Muslims (1992)...

Our stunning Paragraph of the Week is by New Yorker writer Hilton Als. Check it out here: www.the-humble-essayist.com. Also, note our new video-essay archive...

We're excited about this week's commentary which is a first for The Humble Essayist: a video essay based on a paragraph by Jill Talbot. The Paragraph of the ...

For years now poet and essayist Amy Wright has been writing prose translations of Emily Dickinson under the title “The Butterfly Nail.” I first discovered t...

The Paragraph of the Week comes from a recent essay called “The Lawns, So Well-Tended” by Ana Maria Spagna. In it the author reluctantly finds nuance and sma...

We kick off our fifth year with a feature from Stumbling into Joy by Kate Hopper about accomplishing in midlife her dream of playing the bass guitar. It begi...

The Paragraph of the Week, taken from William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life, is about the need to nurture private contemplation which is under fre...

This week at The Humble Essayist the writer, Sonya Huber, takes on the old writing workshop chestnut "show, don't tell." The terse command is a problem for a...

The Paragraph of the Week, from by T Fleischmann, explores art and the body, identity and community from the author's transgendered perspective. The symbol f...

“In his essay ‘Elegy for Ebbets’ Michael Steinberg overcomes cynicism and sentimentality to reclaim his childhood love of baseball.”—THE A founding editor of...

Judith Kitchen who died the first week of November five years ago, practiced the art of essay and memoir with consummate skill and probably did more than any...

In his 2007 book Blessed Unrest the environmentalist Paul Hawken called for “an assembly of humanity that is representative but not centralized” to attack th...

A guide for decades in the in Yosemite and the Grand Tetons who also hiked the mountains of Peru, Nepal, Pakistan, China, Tibet, and India, Jack Turner is sk...

Linda Hogan is an essayist and novelist of Chickasaw ancestry and co-editor of the anthology Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals. As part of ...

In 2017 we started a new feature at The Humble Essayist called The End of Nature Series in honor of Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking essay and book The End of ...

“Why do writers put themselves through such painful remembering Fleda Brown asks in ‘Grass-covered Chest?’” This week we take on an issue at the heart of per...

I am pleased that Brevity magazine has chosen to feature my essay “The Wordless Woods” in its new September edition. Thanks to Dinty Moore and his staff for ...

The Paragraph of the Week at The Humble Essayist goes to Jill Talbot. Check it out www.the-humble-essayist.com.

We’ve made it quick and convenient for you to manage your blog from anywhere. In this blog post we’ll share the ways you can post to your Wix Blog. Blogging ...