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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
Like James, I left the rest of the cast back in Harrogate and filming there.
From Salon • Feb. 19, 2024
One other part of the episode worked for me: seeing the original cast back together in one room for the first time all season.
From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2023
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
