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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
She gives him her teacherly Settle down, now face, but she’s holding back a smile.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
