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Kathryn Murphy
On Essays: Montaigne to the Present
Oxford. Oxford University Press. 2020. 380 pages.
IN HER INTRODUCTION
to
The Best American Essays 1992
, Susan Sontag writes: “The culture administered by universities has alw…