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These poems invent verbal models of movement through time, their own temporal construction also serving as their subject, always nonchalantly expressed.—
Dan Chiasson,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025 -
Perched nonchalantly on a nearby roof, Terry seems to relish every moment of the tense encounter, staring right back without flinching.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 July 2025
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The titular sisters of this expansive, lightly metafictional novel, the Mikkolas, are haunted by an intergenerational curse.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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The image is lightly executed: there is no background; the dress, arms and hands are minimally, even clumsily, drawn.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Aug. 2025
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Those that are too short or too simple or too easily guessed.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Those who are easily offended may want to steer clear of this Netflix movie, co- scripted by Tartakovsky (Samurai Jack, Hotel Transylvania) with Jon Vitti (The Simpsons).—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Aug. 2025
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“Stoically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stoically. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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