afterword
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As the author notes in an afterword, “Agrippa left behind no speeches, few letters and only a couple of sentences of direct quotation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
With a foreword by Alexis Pauline Gumbs and an afterword by Imani Perry, the editors of this carefully curated collection weave a mosaic of narratives from those who studied with and were mentored by Jordan.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025
You also write in the afterword about leaving Gaza and going to Lebanon, only to find the war following you there.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2025
Haushofer’s 1963 novel, “The Wall,” was reissued by New Directions in 2022 with an afterword by Claire-Louise Bennett.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
Michael Frayn, in an afterword to his play Copenhagen, notes that several words in German–Unsicherheit, Unschärfe, Unbestimmtheit–have been used by various translators, but that none quite equates to the English uncertainty.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Forewords, prefaces and afterwords rank squarely among literature’s stepchildren — above marginalia and non-David Foster Wallace footnotes perhaps but below prologues and postscripts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2019
Holocaust novels—for adults as well as for young readers—tend to include extensive afterwords detailing the stories on which they are based and the ways, if any, in which they deviate from their sources.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 16, 2018
At the other extreme, the exquisite silence of the plates in lavish monographs is sometimes protected by only the slimmest prefaces or afterwords.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2018
Try massage therapy afterwords, but having that highly valuable degree is always something to fall back on.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2017
But a storm afterwords arising, these adventurers were driven out to sea, and, without finding their unfortunate countrymen, returned to England.
From An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 by Alexander Hewatt
