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While Mr. Livingston is unstinting in his admiration for Mr. Sumption’s opus, and often cites it in his endnotes, he offers many valuable insights of his own, delivered in a lively, conversational style.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The Most Awful Responsibility” is a well-written opus unpacking Truman’s—and America’s—complicated relationship with nuclear weapons.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Top Gun: Maverick,” perhaps the ultimate military movie in terms of tone, character and Tough Life Lessons, was the highest-grossing film in the Tom Cruise opus, and it’s OK that you’ve rewatched it three times.

From The Wall Street Journal

Recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, and featuring multiple arrangements from Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw, it's a radical, rebellious operatic opus that sounds like nothing else in the pop sphere.

From BBC

Her first self-described opus was a collection of poems, “Rhyming Cats,” before she moved on to a morality puppet play featuring a ghost and an “expose of false narratives.”

From Los Angeles Times