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Hemingway’s seminal “iceberg theory” explained that a skilled author could omit things he knows—a husband’s suicide, a traumatic war wound—yet make readers feel them as intensely as if he had actually stated them.

He makes a further, more radical claim: “the idea that all human beings were created in God’s image was seminal to the creation of the modern West.”

The special hardcover edition of the seminal LGBTQ+ coming of age memoir includes commentary by Kobabe as well as other comic creators and scholars.

The seminal Clintonian theme of “opportunity” — with little regard for outcome — aimed for a wide political audience.

"About a decade ago, there was a seminal publication that found out that Maxwell lattices can exhibit a topological phase," McInerney said.