His elegant essays filter interesting biographical data about the philosophers through the prism of his playful mind.

Fifty essays - elegant, trenchant, angry and funny - that sum up the author's view of the 80's aim to make us think (and wince).

"In elegant and witty essays on the backs of albums, he creates this interesting character, all this iconography that jumps off the page."

His follower, Montaigne, argued on the same lines in elegant essays.

In 1992 our reviewer, Alan Brinkley, praised these "elegant essays," which have been revised and updated.

If you're still all gung-ho about exceptions, read Raymond Chen's essay Cleaner, more elegant, and harder to recognize.

It is a collection of lucid, elegant essays that survey the intellectual terrain.

Sullivan's elegant and far-reaching essay on the rise of a "scolding, moralizing conservatism" deserves a follow-up.

He published some elegant essays and translations in The World of English, a Beijing-based journal.

And also words, insists Woodward, pointing to the elegant essays in the gardening journal Hortus.