riveting
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Rather, it is a riveting, haunting, incisive and melancholy document that provides the ultimate example of a writer bearing witness and holding evil to account.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
His latest, “King of Ashes,” is riveting and terrifying, and continues to receive wide acclaim.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
Turner, an inveterate traveler, was rarely without a sketchbook in hand, and manifold drawings and watercolors, many dating from his continental expeditions, underscore his riveting sense of color and drama in nature.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
The new novel from the author of ‘My Absolute Darling,’ is a riveting read featuring two desert rat teens climbing to escape the precarity of the American Dream.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026
And, most riveting of all, “They found real weapons at Number Thirty-eight.”
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
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