prose

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“It writes with absolute, unwavering confidence but strips out all specific, concrete details, resulting in prose that sounds authoritative but evaporates the moment you try to extract actual meaning from it.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

Ms. Millet is efficient and empathetic in her prose, but her message—that we must reckon with environmental catastrophe and our own moral complacency—blows through this novel like its own bracing storm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

When he showed it to readers he trusted, they told him, “‘This isn’t a novel, it’s a screenplay in prose.’

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

In coarse, colloquial prose, translated by Kate Webster, these loosely united vignettes glance upon the lives of villagers who seem cursed by the land.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

A natural writer, he quickly grasped the difference between e-mail chat and the more formal and grammatical prose the school wanted, and labored over his essay.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz