folkways
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Ms. Somers is a wonderfully wry chronicler of millennial folkways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Its nine stories concern the complicated Bengali families in India and America, and Lahiri’s elegant, observant prose is constantly alert to the ways that lore and folkways shape or abrade relationships.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
“His witty, wistful songs celebrate a uniquely American cast of characters and seaside folkways, weaving together an unforgettable musical mix of country, folk, rock, pop, and calypso into something uniquely his own.”
From Washington Times ● Sep. 2, 2023
Bureaucratically, its folkways are still allergic to change.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2022
Their authors often were adversaries of the Indians they wrote about, usually did not speak the necessary languages, and almost always had an agenda other than empathetic description of indigenous folkways.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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