personal history

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This notion of a relentless, unshakable personal history serves as the novel’s through line: Try as they might, none of its characters can avoid the fallout of mistakes and misdeeds committed long ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

During our conversation via video after a New York show, I’d ask one question, then follow Nihill as he ambled through his personal history.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

Doesn’t she have a kind of tangled personal history and reasons not to maybe want to have this American oversight?

From Slate • Jan. 5, 2026

It’s too late to rewrite your personal history, but you can change the final chapters.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 2, 2025

Of course this magic depends on one’s personal history of learning.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker