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In tart scenes poking at doctor consultations, psychiatric sessions and legal snafus — the institutional hoops where binary, normative strictures are most assertive — Preciado dexterously implies these gauntlets push life’s fictions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2023

This idea is at the forefront in “Punch,” the feature debut of the New Zealand writer-director Welby Ings, which dexterously balances familiar emotional beats and an impressive, nimble approach to form.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023

These are narratives she dexterously braids with William Faulkner’s “The Golden Land,” which, if not Faulkner’s best work, paints a cautionary picture of youthful libertinage in sunny Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2021

Petitjean dexterously shifts from tracing Kahlo’s artistic and biographical trajectory to tracking his father’s progression from an associate at the Ethnographic Museum to a gallery assistant at Galerie Renou et Colle, where Kahlo exhibits.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2020

Milton Stephanides, a twenty- year-old college student, stood at his own bedroom window, dexterously fingering his clarinet.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides


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