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

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,...

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...

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....

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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