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Touchstones ranged from Disney cartoons to Max Ophuls.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2022

Touchstones to which those who design our cars will most likely aspire.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022

In addition to publishing new installments in our cultural series Touchstones, we also expanded our offering of interactive poetry features, including works by Ilya Kaminsky, Kaveh Akbar, Eliza Griswold, and Shane McCrae.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 26, 2019

Touchstones such as Caitlyn Jenner’s transition, the bathroom controversy, and the Amazon series “Transparent” have also made the topic a bigger part of the political and cultural conversation.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2018

The students of men and manners find him as good as meat and drink; but we cannot all be Touchstones, and perhaps, on the whole, it would be well if he were buried.

From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie