Her father, Clifton Fadiman, who died in June at the age of 95, was a reviewer, critic, essayist and general book collector.

ECONOMIST: Small but perfectly formed | The

Kyle Smith is a reporter, critic, and essayist for the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal, and People.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The novelist, critic, and essayist has a new book out called Reading Like a Writer, and joins us to answer the question that haunts every frustrated genius: can creative writing be taught?

NPR: Could You Be the Great American Novelist?

In the late 1920s, Tarsila do Amaral, a painter, and her husband, Osvaldo de Andrade, a writer, essayist and art critic, coined the term, anthropophagy, which they saw as a way of constructing a cultural identity by cannibalising other cultures without losing your individuality.

ECONOMIST: Brazilian art