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Boo, who spent three years at the slum, emphasizes family ties and writes luminously about the daily struggles of Mumbai’s poor.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025

She handles her instrument like a great soprano handles her voice, with muscular lyricism and a luminously penetrating sound capable of reaching the farthest seats at a whisper.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024

Reviewing “The Eight Mountains,” which begins streaming on the Criterion Channel on Tuesday, I wrote: “Vast and intimate at once, their luminously languid adaptation of Paolo Cognetti’s bestseller reaches sublime heights.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 20, 2023

Contrary to their name, dark stars could typically have glowed a billion times more luminously than the sun and grown to a million times its mass.

From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 2023

And suddenly it was luminously clear to the Savage what he must do; it was as though a shutter had been opened, a curtain drawn back.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley




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