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These are not novels that pull you forward so much as hold you in place—patient, thorough evocations of a vanished world, almost Proustian at times, especially as they progress.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

But in March, Indeed’s Job Postings Index did lose steam, giving back the majority of the progress gained over the prior four months.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

SpaceX's Starship has continued to show progress through recent successful tests.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

But that’s because he’s confident you’ll leave bursting with thoughts and feelings about the price of progress, the weight of history and the ways we struggle to do right amid so much that’s wrong.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Since the outset of their voyage through featureless ocean and anonymous ice pack, the officers and crew of Endurance had been able to track their exact location and chart their zigzagging progress on their maps.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong