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But where Hofstadter is playfully enigmatic and brashly brainy, Chalmers’s writing is perspicuous and teacherly — an approach that keeps it from collapsing into recalcitrant obscurity.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2022

Those teacherly moments may be this collection’s only flaw.

From Slate • Aug. 17, 2020

Daniel Mendelsohn’s review of Book 6 of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “My Struggle” is a testament to the weight of Knausgaard’s gambit because Mendelsohn, though a teacherly and engaged reviewer, did not get it.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2018

Their to-and-fro banter, pitching from her teacherly curiosity to his drawling voice of experience, is one of the show’s great strengths.

From The Guardian • Jul. 1, 2018

Sister Mukumbu would have given me the plain, pure, teacherly truth.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia