perceptive
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“The Bloody Crossroads,” published in 1987, isn’t the kind of book you expect a journalist to write: a collection of perceptive, thoroughgoing literary essays on important writers from Henry Adams to Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Her essential judgments on persons and events, as quoted, make her look wise and perceptive, which is her general reputation, but she was also indiscreet.
We put store in knowing what people look like: hence the value of perceptive portraits.
Taylor is one of the most emotionally perceptive fiction writers working today, and his third novel, set in the New York art world, is his best.
From Los Angeles Times
Unburdened by the contemporary setting that sometimes trips up a filmmaker’s boldest ideas, Mona Fastvold’s “The Testament of Ann Lee” is perhaps the year’s most extraordinarily perceptive film.
From Salon
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