afterword

“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

With a foreword by Alexis Pauline Gumbs and an afterword by Imani Perry, the editors of this carefully curated collection weave a mosaic of narratives from those who studied with and were mentored by Jordan.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025

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

“Goldenseal‘s” premise is based, Hummel writes in her afterword, on Sándor Márai’s “Embers,” which similarly follows two men meeting four decades after an event that tore their friendship apart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

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

At the other extreme, the exquisite silence of the plates in lavish monographs is sometimes protected by only the slimmest prefaces or afterwords.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2018

Try massage therapy afterwords, but having that highly valuable degree is always something to fall back on.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2017

Soon afterwords I heard the command given: "Forward!"

From Thirty Years a Slave by Louis Hughes