Elegant and insightful essays on charisma and personality.

In an insightful essay accompanying the first recording of the work, Tippett writes:

Rogoff's most insightful essays turn out to be those on opera, especially as he explores the necessity of drama within the musical form.

Thanks for the most insightful essay I've read in years.

To the Editor: Bernard Holland had it almost right in his insightful essay.

In another tough, insightful essay, the critic Denis Donoghue assesses the impact that these same developments have had on literature and our habits of reading.

Nixon is to be commended for a timely and insightful essay that may help initiate future dialogues on this important, but long neglected, issue.

"No gripping novels, no witty plays, no insightful essays, no great poetry."

To the Editor: Roxana Robinson's insightful essay raises profound, if implicit, literary questions.

She has contributed insightful essays to books documenting India's social transformation.