afterword
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“My way of covering the case was to chronicle the vibe,” Ms. Lemann explains in an afterword.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
You also write in the afterword about leaving Gaza and going to Lebanon, only to find the war following you there.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2025
As critic Gary Scharnhorst writes in an afterword to a recent edition of this classic: “The riposte to ‘it can’t happen here’ is ‘it already has.”
From Salon ● May 17, 2025
Haushofer’s 1963 novel, “The Wall,” was reissued by New Directions in 2022 with an afterword by Claire-Louise Bennett.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
Michael Frayn, in an afterword to his play Copenhagen, notes that several words in German–Unsicherheit, Unschärfe, Unbestimmtheit–have been used by various translators, but that none quite equates to the English uncertainty.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Forewords, prefaces and afterwords rank squarely among literature’s stepchildren — above marginalia and non-David Foster Wallace footnotes perhaps but below prologues and postscripts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2019
Holocaust novels—for adults as well as for young readers—tend to include extensive afterwords detailing the stories on which they are based and the ways, if any, in which they deviate from their sources.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 16, 2018
Try massage therapy afterwords, but having that highly valuable degree is always something to fall back on.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2017
I filled out an affidavit and voted, but afterwords an official said to take it up with the NY Board of Elections as "they weren't the brightest people."
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2016
The forewords and afterwords are evidently also from another pen.
From The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Anderson, Rasmus Björn
