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It helps that Early’s vision of our media-steeped contemporary lives sees through the shiny, digital facade.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

Outside that genre, he enjoys a reputation for being an acutely psychological chronicler of contemporary anxieties, as in his award-winning 2008 drama of job loss and family secrets, “Tokyo Sonata.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

I tend to read novels that have already stood the test of time, rather than contemporary fiction—but that’s my personal taste.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Lycett has worked with other local contemporary artists on the collection, including his own mum, who took up painting watercolours after retiring as a designer at Cadbury.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

The more contemporary term is recombination—the ability to generate combinations of combinations of genes.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

His contemporaries would have been surprised to learn that Romans came to embrace Christianity in the fourth century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Unlike many of his contemporaries working in the big-budget space, Nolan has no affection for the slow build.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

As the exhibit’s days count down, the inspired visions from Kahlo, Rivera and their contemporaries continue to transfix visitors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

The rejection of Victorian moral earnestness after World War I made the colorful Disraeli a more appealing character than his contemporaries, especially Gladstone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Thus it is important to see that when we hail Theodoric as an important scientist our judgement is essentially anachronistic: he did not seem important to his contemporaries or successors, and his influence is negligible.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton