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These three novellas were written in the 1920s, after the fall of the empire, and in their baroque translation by John Batki they cast back upon bygone times with wistfulness, charm and winking humor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Millions of people were evacuated, as minds cast back to the devastating tsunami of Boxing Day 2004 in the Indian Ocean and Japan 2011, both triggered by similarly large earthquakes.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2025

And most of the book starts from 2016 forward, but there's a chapter at the beginning that cast back a little bit.

From Salon • Jun. 14, 2021

And Prokofiev’s “Classical” Symphony was a conscious exercise in writing without involving piano — and with eyes cast back to the era of Haydn.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2021

It was the desolation of having found the place that fits, the one true place, and experiencing the first heady sigh of rightness before being torn away and cast back into random, lonely scatter.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor