as in appendix
a part added at the end of a book or periodical
the author included an afterword about developments in cancer treatment since the book was written
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Silver Snarling Trumpet features a foreword by John Mayer, an introduction by Dead biographer Dennis McNally, and an afterword by Brigid Meier, a longtime friend of Garcia and the band.
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Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2024
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside, and with an afterword by Claire-Louise Bennett
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Maurice Samuels’s Alfred Dreyfus is a biography of the very private man at the center of one of the greatest public controversies of modern times.
—The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2024
There’s also a handful of the mag’s excellent regular columns and some afterwords, along with a lengthy history of the magazine itself (Robbins has never been a man of few words).
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 18 Mar. 2024
This book gathers the best of these portraits, along with a foreword by Vanity Fair editor in chief Radhika Jones and an afterword by actor Alan Cumming.
—Anna Tingley, Variety, 5 Mar. 2024
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Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2024
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside, and with an afterword by Claire-Louise Bennett
The Unwilling Celebrity
Maurice Samuels’s Alfred Dreyfus is a biography of the very private man at the center of one of the greatest public controversies of modern times.
—The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2024
There’s also a handful of the mag’s excellent regular columns and some afterwords, along with a lengthy history of the magazine itself (Robbins has never been a man of few words).
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 18 Mar. 2024
This book gathers the best of these portraits, along with a foreword by Vanity Fair editor in chief Radhika Jones and an afterword by actor Alan Cumming.
—Anna Tingley, Variety, 5 Mar. 2024
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