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It’s a peculiarly hefty tome if you buy Sellers’s own oft-repeated claim that he had no personality of his own.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
But what I found when I dug into the nearly 500-page tome is that we never should have listened to Attia in the first place.
From Slate • Feb. 26, 2026
The onscreen version of Keaton is stumped when Alvy Singer brings her a copy of the philosophical tome “Death and Western Thought.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2025
In the tome of essays, author and educator Patricia Pisters discusses Madonna’s ability to transcend the traditional objectification and victimization that famous women are usually subject to.
From Salon • Aug. 23, 2025
He brought it down: a huge tome bound in pale-green velvet with a filigreed layer of silver scrollwork laid over it.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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