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How This Style Works: Lesser Ruins by Mark Haber

How This Style Works: Lesser Ruins by Mark Haber What that synopsis doesn’t reveal is how hysterically funny this book […]

How This Style Works: Peter’s Troubled Interiors in Intermezzo by Sally Rooney Twenty-two-year-old Ivan, a chess prodigy, was closer to

How to Write Better Academia: Organize Your Thoughts with a Narrowing Focus The trick is to deliberately organize your thoughts

How This Theme Works: Transition in Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan We’re in Scotland. It’s 1986, and Thatcherism is at its

How This Setting Works: Rural Montana in Winter Range by Claire Davis The plot traces a messy, slow-burning love triangle

Part 3. In Praise of the Passive Voice: Where to Use It and How to Explain Your Choices This is

Part 2. In Praise of the Passive Voice: Ergatives and Other Commonly Accused Verb Phrases This is the second post

Part 1. In Praise of the Passive Voice: Effacing the Subject to Showcase the Object This is the first of

How This Symbol Works: Blue in The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller First, it helps to know that Eric

Spike That Comma: When to Mess with a Compound Predicate These are the commas that come between a subject and