portrait

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Compressing and occasionally revealing all that she has been through in “The Handmaid’s Tale” and before, what she manages to make Aunt Lydia is both Dorian Gray and his portrait.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

I ended up with this cool portrait and priceless memories.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

The rest of his career was largely devoted to complicating and enriching the portrait, transforming himself, as his best biographer, James Gindin, observed, from a satirist into a practitioner of the “novel of compassion.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

He has already hung portraits of himself inside the White House, breaking with the tradition that a president wait until the end of his term to be invited by a successor to unveil a portrait.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

By spring, he was sending Maggie gifts again, like the engraved portrait of himself created for his upcoming book.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock