Comedian, actor, and author Jenny Slate‘s “Lifeform” is a collection of essays about life, love and having a child. The book came out in paperback on Oct. 14. We revisit a conversation Slate had with ...

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life. - Harvey MacKay Take this flashlight and watch out for rats. - Peter Bodett, circa 1964 My father never played with me.

The most challenging part of college applications is typically writing essays.

Re “My Daughter’s Future Was Taken From Her, and From Us,” by Sarah Wildman (Opinion, May 21): My heart aches for the writer of this essay, and as someone who has also lost a child, I can assure you ...

With affirmative action banned, application essays ask about “life experience,” the one place in admissions where discussing race is still explicitly legal. By Anemona Hartocollis and Colbi Edmonds — ...

The tennis pro making waves at the US Open opens up about body image, self-worth, and breaking generational curses. When Taylor Townsend sat down to pen an essay in 2021 for The Players’ Tribune ...

Olivier Knox is the son of college professors and worked in admissions as a student at his dream school. He has a 100% success rate guiding the next generation of applicants into their first-choice ...

Richard Russo, whose “Fool” trilogy is beloved for the characters he created to populate a fictional upstate New York town, freely admits he’s always pulled from his real life to write his novels. “I ...