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Ferrous ions precipitate around its dissolving form, which is preserved as though in a mold.
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Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Two deportees from India slept with the TV on, as though tourists free to use the hotel pool or visit the casino across the street.
—Federico Rios, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
The untethered, anarchic, comic brio of Robbins’ novels feels incompatible with today’s world, as though the intervening years have been explicitly designed to stamp out this spirit and replace it with something that can be bought and sold, something governable.
—John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2025
The hotel is historic (the restoration of the property took five years) but the aesthetic leans avant-garde, with works of art that feel as though they’ve been plucked straight from La Biennale di Venezia rather than a museum.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2025
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Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Two deportees from India slept with the TV on, as though tourists free to use the hotel pool or visit the casino across the street.
—Federico Rios, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
The untethered, anarchic, comic brio of Robbins’ novels feels incompatible with today’s world, as though the intervening years have been explicitly designed to stamp out this spirit and replace it with something that can be bought and sold, something governable.
—John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2025
The hotel is historic (the restoration of the property took five years) but the aesthetic leans avant-garde, with works of art that feel as though they’ve been plucked straight from La Biennale di Venezia rather than a museum.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2025
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