polemical

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Yet, despite this occasional datedness, “Love and Death in the American Novel” remains wonderfully alive, being iconoclastic, polemical, exhilarating and, not least, fun to read.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

At the same time, groups that feel like they’re under attack will look for their own messengers to deliver polemical responses which reject every criticism and assign blame somewhere else; this is what “stanning” is.

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2024

Through Sinclair, a socialist firebrand best known for his polemical 1906 novel, “The Jungle,” Kiesling found a way into writing an individual story through a global lens.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2023

“Minx” introduced Joyce as an idealistic Vassar grad pitching her mock-up for a polemical journal, The Matriarchy Awakens.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2023

The little pile before her included scientific treatises, poetry and articles of a polemical nature, and she read it all; but she was chiefly interested in the hair-breadth escapes, pluck and martyrdom of the revolutionists.

From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham