as in appendix
a part added at the end of a book or periodical
the author included an afterword about developments in cancer treatment since the book was written
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Reviewed: Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill, with an afterword by Lena Dunham
New York Review Books, 232 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Vivian Gornick
Vivian Gornick is the author, most recently, of Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time.
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Vivian Gornick, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2025
Thrilled to Death collects a career-spanning selection of her short stories starting from the early ’90s, with an afterword by Lucy Sante.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
Venuti, in his afterword, points out that parts of the novel can be read as a critique of Fascist machismo.
—Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
This essay is adapted from the afterword to the forthcoming paperback edition of his latest book, On China (Penguin, 2012).
—Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2012
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Vivian Gornick, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2025
Thrilled to Death collects a career-spanning selection of her short stories starting from the early ’90s, with an afterword by Lucy Sante.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
Venuti, in his afterword, points out that parts of the novel can be read as a critique of Fascist machismo.
—Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
This essay is adapted from the afterword to the forthcoming paperback edition of his latest book, On China (Penguin, 2012).
—Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2012
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appendix
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Democrats has cast the appendix to his book as something of an enemies list, as Patel had previously said those listed should be investigated.—
The Hill Staff,
The Hill,
17 Sep. 2025
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Publish the attestation and reference architecture where buyers will actually see it (security questionnaire, RFP appendix).—
Jagbir Kaur,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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