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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Kraus ends with an appendix of messages the murderers exchanged leading up to the crime…These texts are not rich text.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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While the appendix could be removed that morning, the tumor would require an entirely different battle.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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