Authors and editors in the humanities know that journals are more likely to accept scholarly essays with strong introductions and that such essays are more likely to influence academic conversations.

Some years ago, I spent a morning being interviewed for tenure-track jobs in English and that afternoon as the grad student member of an interview committee. Never have I experienced such cognitive ...

Journal publishing in the humanities is slow, even by academic standards. Writers often wait several months to hear that an essay has been rejected. In the instance of a "revise and resubmit," the ...

Students from Snider and Whitko high schools won top honors in a Journal Gazette essay contest focused on career and technical education. The top three essay writers will receive a combined $1,000.

The word essay derives from the title of a 1580 collection of writings by the Frenchman Michel de Montaigne. In his Essays, Montaigne set down his thoughts on whatever subject snared his ...

Guernica, a non-profit journal publishing work at the intersection of art and politics, published a powerful essay by a literary interpreter working in Israel and her experience in the wake of October ...

The Wall Street Journal made the unusual decision to let Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. pre-empt ProPublica’s article about him in its opinion pages. By Katie Robertson The Wall Street Journal faced ...