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Bradford provides similarly interesting exegeses of autobiographical echoes in other Highsmith novels, but this generally valuable material gets lost in an endless parade of lovers and equally endless litany of Highsmith’s appalling personal conduct.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2021

Is the Book of Esther amusing enough to warrant seven different exegeses?

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2017

You’ll find it in Mad Men exegeses, literary criticism in the New Yorker, all sorts of movie reviews, theater criticism, and music reviews.

From Slate • Nov. 1, 2015

The President was eager to put out the message that if people had questions he had answers—and, as the exegeses on the technical aspects of inspection regimes demonstrated, he pretty much did.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2015

Also, various paraphrases and elaborate exegeses of the words spoken to her; a great abundance of added commentary upon what she saw inwardly or outwardly.

From The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) by Tyrrell, George