heavy oil and tar sand: In situ combustion: The mechanics of heavy oil displacement in an in situ combustion operation is similar to that in the steam-flooding process except for one difference. Unlike in the latter, steam is produced by vaporizing water already in the rock formation or water that…

construction: Concrete: …building site; this is so-called in situ concrete. The other method is called precast concrete, in which building components are manufactured in a central plant and later brought to the building site for assembly. The components of concrete are portland cement, coarse aggregates such as crushed stone, fine aggregates such…

Kanha National Park: Flora and fauna: In situ (from Latin, meaning “in position”) conservation involves conserving a species (or a genetic resource) in its natural habitat. Along with the species, the entire ecosystem is therefore protected through in situ conservation. It usually takes place by designating protected natural areas, such as…

atmosphere: Measurement systems: …atmosphere are of two types—in situ measurements and remote sensing observations. In situ measurements require that the instrumentation be located directly at the point of interest and in contact with the subject of interest. In contrast, remote sensors are located some distance away from the subject of interest. Remote…

oil shale: In situ processing: In situ processing differs from aboveground processing in that retorting to produce oil and gas takes place underground. No in situ processes are in use on a commercial scale, but several companies have investigated methods for heating large volumes of oil shale…

materials science: Precursors: …environmentally safe is known as in situ synthesis. In this method, dangerous reagents would be generated on demand in only the desired quantities, instead of being shipped cross-country and stored until needed at the semiconductor processing plant.

cancer: The noninvasive stage: …it is known as a noninvasive tumor (or an in situ tumor). A tumor at that stage lacks its own network of blood vessels to supply nutrients and oxygen, and it has not sent cells into the circulatory system to give rise to new tumors. It also is usually asymptomatic—an…

Big Star: …solid but unremarkable studio album, In Space (2005). A box set of Big Star’s early work was released in 2009, and the band was to be featured at the South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas, in 2010. But Chilton died on the second day of the conference, and…

Ernst Jünger: …he published In Stahlgewittern (1920; The Storm of Steel), a novel in the form of a diary; it contains vivid recollections of his life in the trenches and his experiences in combat as a company commander. In a dispassionate, matter-of-fact voice, Jünger describes the heroism and suffering displayed by himself…

Anthimus VI: 6, 1848, In Suprema Petri Apostoli Sede (“On the Supreme Throne of Peter the Apostle”), which invited the Orthodox Church to reunite with the church of Rome.

Hortense Calisher: Her short-story collections In the Absence of Angels (1951) and The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher (1975), a compilation of previous collections, contain stories featuring Calisher’s alter ego, Hester Elkins, a Jewish child living in New York City with her extended family. The recipient of numerous O. Henry…

Phil Collins: Solo career: …album Face Value, featuring “In the Air Tonight” as its lead single. The song became an international hit, reaching number two on the U.K. charts.

William Carlos Williams: …prose, Williams in the book In the American Grain (1925) analyzed the American character and culture through essays on historical figures such as Cotton Mather, Daniel Boone, and Abraham Lincoln. Three novels form a trilogy about a family—White Mule (1937), In the Money (1940), and The Build-Up (1952). Among his…

Eliot Spitzer: …program, which was subsequently retitled In the Arena. It struggled in the ratings, and in July Spitzer stepped down as host after CNN announced that the show would be canceled. He later hosted Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer (2012–13) on Current TV, a cable channel founded by Al Gore. In 2013…

John Updike: In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996) draws parallels between religion and popular obsession with cinema, while Gertrude and Claudius (2000) offers conjectures on the early relationship between Hamlet’s mother and her brother-in-law. In response to the cultural shifts that occurred in the United States…

Sissy Spacek: Other film and TV credits and honors: …of a murdered son in In the Bedroom (2001). She later appeared in the fantasy Tuck Everlasting (2002), the horror film The Ring Two (2005), and the drama North Country (2005). She received a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of an eccentric artist in the television movie Pictures of…

Richard Kostelanetz: …approach, Kostelanetz produced the novel In the Beginning, which consists of the alphabet, in single- and double-letter combinations, unfolding over 30 pages. Most of his other literary work, often printed in limited editions at small presses, also challenges the reader in unconventional ways. Kostelanetz’s nonfiction work The End of Intelligent…

American literature: The Off-Broadway ascendancy: …of The Scarlet Letter called In the Blood (1999), and Topdog/Underdog (2001), a partly symbolic tale of conflict between two brothers (named Lincoln and Booth) that reminded critics of Sam Shepard’s fratricidal True West. She later adapted George and Ira Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess in 2012, and her Father Comes…

Paul Simon: Later work and assessment: On In the Blue Light (2018), Simon reworked several of his lesser-known songs through a jazz lens.

David Rabe: Rabe’s subsequent plays included In the Boom Boom Room (1975), about the degradation of a go-go dancer in Philadelphia; Hurlyburly (1985; film 1998) and Those the River Keeps (1991), two related dramas about disillusionment in Hollywood; A Question of Mercy (1998); The Dog Problem (2002); The Black Monk

Henry James: Career—middle phase: …Turn of the Screw and In the Cage (1898), and The Awkward Age (1899), James began to use the methods of alternating “picture” and dramatic scene, close adherence to a given angle of vision, a withholding of information from the reader, making available to him only that which the characters…

Robert Lowell: Lord Weary’s Castle, first Pulitzer, and service as poet laureate: His poem “In the Cage” from Lord Weary’s Castle (1946) comments on this experience, as does in greater detail “Memories of West Street and Lepke” in Life Studies. His first volume of poems, Land of Unlikeness (1944), deals with a world in crisis and the hunger for…

George Lamming: His highly acclaimed first novel, In the Castle of My Skin (1953), is an autobiographical bildungsroman set against the backdrop of burgeoning nationalism in the British colonies of the Caribbean in the 1930s and ’40s.

the Jam: …in the Jam’s first album, In the City (1977), which solidified the group’s guitar-bass-drums lineup. Later records, particularly All Mod Cons (1978) and Setting Sons (1979), reflected more influences, which eventually included those of the Kinks, the Beatles, Motown, and soul. Those albums also showcased the

Robert Frost: Works: Even in his final volume, In the Clearing, so filled with the stubborn courage of old age, Frost portrays human security as a rather tiny and quite vulnerable opening in a thickly grown forest, a pinpoint of light against which the encroaching trees cast their very real threat of darkness.

Hoagy Carmichael: …Nearness of You,” and “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening,” which won an Oscar for the best film song of 1951. One of his best-known compositions of the 1940s was “Skylark,” another collaboration with Mercer, and a song that reflected Carmichael’s jazz influences in that, according to…

Edward Hoagland: Novels and short stories: …An African Apocalypse (2013) and In the Country of the Blind (2016).

King Crimson: Formation and early success: …that year King Crimson released In the Court of the Crimson King. The album stood out from the radio-friendly pop rock of its era, presenting instead a complexly composed fusion of psychedelic rock, jazz, and classical symphonic music. The songs themselves range from bombastic and loud rock tracks to slower,…

Jane Campion: …Kate Winslet; and the thriller In the Cut (2003). In 2009 Campion earned accolades for Bright Star, which chronicles the romance between poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne. She later cowrote and codirected the eerie TV series Top of the Lake (2013, 2017), about a female detective.

Susan Faludi: Her later works included In the Darkroom (2016), a memoir that centres on her estranged father, who underwent gender reassignment surgery when he was in his 70s.

Tryggve Andersen: …work, I cancelliraadens dage (1897; In the Days of the Councillor), short stories tied together by their central figure, Andersen portrayed the world of rural civil servants in Norway. His other novel, Mot kvæld (1900; “Toward Evening”), deals with middle-class narrow-mindedness. Andersen also published four volumes of short stories. His…

James Levine: …2006 premiere of Elliott Carter’s In the Distances of Sleep, commissioned by Carnegie Hall.

Buchi Emecheta: …later collected in the novel In the Ditch (1972). That work was followed by Second-Class Citizen (1974), and both were later included in the single volume Adah’s Story (1983). Those books introduce Emecheta’s three major themes: the quests for equal treatment, self-confidence, and dignity as a woman. Somewhat different in…

Sir Arnold Bax: …in 1909 the symphonic poem In the Faëry Hills. He spent the year 1910 in Russia. During the following years, under the pseudonym Dermot O’Byrne he published short stories and poems in Ireland, where he spent much time. In 1916 and 1917 he wrote three symphonic poems, The Garden of…

Gabriel Josipovici: … (1974), Four Stories (1977), and In the Fertile Land (1987). Josipovici’s later nonfiction works included A Life (2001), a biography of his mother, the poet Sacha Rabinovitch, and Whatever Happened to Modernism? (2010), in which he offered a harsh assessment of contemporary English literature. Forgetting (2020) explores both remembering and…

In the First Circle, novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, titled in RussianV kruge pervom. The original manuscript, reflecting Solzhenitsyn’s own imprisonment, was 96 chapters long when completed in 1958, but, hoping to avoid censorship, the author deleted 9 chapters. Though the modified version was

Edna O’Brien: Other novels: …Down by the River (1996), In the Forest (2002), and The Light of Evening (2006). Many of these works examined the social and cultural changes—and the conflicts ignited by these changes—in modern-day Ireland. The wrenching novel Down by the River, for example, was based on a notorious case in which…

Walter Abish: …and the experimental stories of In the Future Perfect (1977) juxtapose words in unusual patterns. How German Is It/Wie Deutsch ist es (1980), often considered Abish’s best work, is a multilayered novel about postwar Germany and its past. Other works by Abish include Duel Site (1970), a collection of poems;…

Robert Z. Leonard: Later films: Leonard next directed Garland in In the Good Old Summertime (1949), an appealing musical remake of Ernst Lubitsch’s The Shop Around the Corner (1940).

Ron Howard: Directing: …Moby Dick was based in In the Heart of the Sea (2015). He next directed Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), an installment in the popular sci-fi series. Hillbilly Elegy, an adaption of J.D. Vance’s best-selling memoir, was released on Netflix in 2020. The drama Thirteen Lives (2022) is a

Mariska Hargitay: TV roles: …guest roles in the series In the Heat of the Night and Freddie’s Nightmares and joined the cast of the prime-time soap opera Falcon Crest for a season. She continued making guest appearances in TV shows, including Baywatch, Wiseguy, thirtysomething, and Booker, until

Quincy Jones: Shift from jazz to pop: >In the Heat of the Night (1967), and In Cold Blood (1967).

Jon M. Chu: Career: …Chu directed the musical drama In the Heights (2021). Based on the stage musical of the same name by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the movie recounts the stories of several people living in a predominantly Dominican American area of Manhattan. Chu is also the director of the movie adaptation of the musical…

Lin-Manuel Miranda: …first draft of the musical In the Heights, which was set in Washington Heights, a northern Manhattan neighbourhood similar to that of his own childhood.

LL Cool J: …roles on the situation comedy In the House (1995–99) and the drama NCIS: Los Angeles (2009–23). He also continued to record, with Mr. Smith (1995) becoming perhaps his most commercially successful release to that date. Though subsequent albums such as 10 (2002), Todd Smith (2006), and Authentic (2013) generated the…

Ngugi wa Thiong’o: …War (2010), about his childhood; In the House of the Interpreter (2012), which was largely set in the 1950s, during the Mau Mau rebellion against British control in Kenya; and Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening (2016), a chronicle of his years at Makerere University.

Amrita Sher-Gil: Sher-Gil’s death and legacy: In 2021 In the Ladies’ Enclosure (1938) was auctioned for 37.8 crore rupees (about $5 million), making it the fifth most-expensive Indian painting ever sold. In 2023 her painting The Story Teller (1937) broke the record for most expensive Indian painting ever sold (at 61.8 crore rupees,…

Tim O’Brien: The Things They Carried and In the Lake of the Woods: O’Brien followed up with In the Lake of the Woods (1994), which was named the best book of the year by Time magazine and won the Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction (formerly called the James Fenimore Cooper Prize). However, O’Brien has said that after finishing the…

Angelina Jolie: Directing: …screenwriting debut with the Bosnian-language In the Land of Blood and Honey, a turbulent love story set during the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s. She then helmed the World War II drama Unbroken (2014). The script for the film, based on the true story of an Olympic runner and U.S.…

Liam Neeson: The 2000s and beyond: …hanging up his hat in In the Land of Saints and Sinners, a film set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Neeson later played a police detective in The Naked Gun (2025), a remake of the popular 1988 slapstick comedy; Pamela Anderson costarred as a true-crime novelist.

Adam Brody: Stardom: From The O.C. to movies: …more frequently in films, including In the Land of Women (2007), Jennifer’s Body (2009), and Scream 4 (2011). Besides several other big screen projects in the 2010s, Brody took on the role of pornographic actor Harry Reems in Lovelace (2013). He was cast as Captain Everypower, the superpowered alter-ego of…

Garth Brooks: …hits” that were collected on In the Life of Chris Gaines (1999). While the album featured impeccable production from the likes of Babyface and Don Was, its content was overshadowed by questions about why Brooks would take his career in such an unexpected direction.

Clint Eastwood: Films of the 1990s of Clint Eastwood: …Wolfgang Petersen’s popular action thriller In the Line of Fire (1993).

Sam Smith: Big break and In the Lonely Hour: The breakout single from In the Lonely Hour, “Stay with Me,” a keening falsetto ballad that wistfully implores a one-night stand for affection, became a radio staple following its release in 2014. Smith cited the influences of singers such as Houston and Aretha Franklin, who both propelled their powerful,…

James Gandolfini: …train hijacking; the political satire In the Loop (2009); and Where the Wild Things Are (2009), an adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s children’s book.

When it comes to your finances, are you comfortable acting as captain of your own ship? Or would you feel better with a financial pro holding the wheel? If you’ve decided you would like (or need) to use a financial advisor, you’ll have to identify and choose one. You can start by asking for

Theatre of Fact: Robert Oppenheimer (1964; In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer) re-created the American inquiry into Oppenheimer’s loyalty because of his opposition to the development of the hydrogen bomb.

Gwendolyn Brooks: In the Mecca: …1963, followed in 1968 by In the Mecca, half of which is a long narrative poem about people in the Mecca, a vast, fortresslike apartment building erected on the South Side of Chicago in 1891, which had long since deteriorated into a place of serious neglect and poverty. The second…

Janet Frame: In the Memorial Room (2013)—written in 1974 and also, because of its autobiographical elements, purposely withheld from publication until after Frame’s death—was a roman à clef about her time in France.

Meena Alexander: …also wrote a one-act play, In the Middle Earth (1977); a volume of criticism, Women in Romanticism (1989); a semiautobiographical novel set in Hyderabad, India, Nampally Road (1991); and a memoir, Fault Lines (1993).

Wilson Pickett: …was a smash single, “In the Midnight Hour” (1965). From that moment on, Pickett was a star. With his dazzling good looks and confident demeanour, he stood as a leading exponent of the Southern-fried school of soul singing. His unadorned straight-from-the-gut approach was accepted, even revered, by a civil-rights-minded…

Ambrose Bierce: Legacy and major works: Bierce’s principal books are In the Midst of Life (1892), which includes some of his finest stories, such as “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” “A Horseman in the Sky,” “The Eyes of the Panther,” and “The Boarded Window”; and Can Such Things Be? (1893), which includes “The Damned…

Isabel Allende: Other novels and fiction: …Más allá del invierno (2017; In the Midst of Winter), about the friendships that form after a car accident in Brooklyn, New York, during a blizzard. In Largo pétalo de mar (2019; A Long Petal of the Sea), a man and a woman become exiles following the Spanish Civil War…

Wong Kar-Wai: …Kong for Fayeung ninwa (2000; In the Mood for Love), which concerns the growing attachment between Chow Mo-Wan (Leung) and Su Lizhen (Maggie Cheung), a man and a woman whose spouses are having an affair. The film’s lush score and detailed recreations of 1960s fashions and interiors, as well as…

John Carpenter: Later films: …of an Invisible Man (1992), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), Village of the Damned (1995), Escape from L.A. (1996), Vampires (1998), and The Ward (2010). Although these were not as popular as his earlier movies, some of them developed devoted followers.

Julia Alvarez: Alvarez’s other novels include In the Name of Salomé (2000), Saving the World (2006), and Afterlife (2020). Alvarez has also written poetry, including that collected in The Other Side (1995) and The Woman I Kept to Myself (2004). Her nonfiction books include Something to Declare: Essays (1998), Once upon…

Daniel Day-Lewis: …adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel; In the Name of the Father (1993), which earned him an Academy Award nomination; and The Crucible (1996), based on Arthur Miller’s play. After appearing in The Boxer (1997), Day-Lewis took a break from acting and worked for a time as a cobbler’s apprentice in…

Abbott and Costello: …included Hold That Ghost (1941), In the Navy (1941), Pardon My Sarong (1942), Lost in a Harem (1944), and The Naughty Nineties (1945). Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)—in which they battled the famous Universal characters of Frankenstein’s monster, Dracula, and the Wolfman—is generally regarded as their best film.

F.S. Flint: Flint’s first volume of poetry, In the Net of the Stars (1909), was a collection of love lyrics, clearly showing the influence of Keats and his contemporary Percy Bysshe Shelley. The same year, he and a group of young poets, all dissatisfied with the state of English poetry, began working…

Hortense Calisher: The novel In the Palace of the Movie King (1993) follows a dissident Russian movie director who finds himself in New York City, while In the Slammer with Carol Smith (1997) describes a world of mental illness and homelessness in Spanish Harlem. Sunday Jews (2003) explores issues…

In the Penal Colony, novella by Franz Kafka, written in 1914 and published in German as In der Strafkolonie in 1919. An allegorical fantasy about law and punishment, it was also viewed as an existential comment on human torment and on strict devotion to an ambiguous task. The tale is

In the Penal Colony, novella by Franz Kafka, written in 1914 and published in German as In der Strafkolonie in 1919. An allegorical fantasy about law and punishment, it was also viewed as an existential comment on human torment and on strict devotion to an ambiguous task. The tale is

Ha Jin: Literary works: …of fiction include the novella In the Pond (1998), the novel The Crazed (2002), and the short-story collections The Bridegroom (2000) and A Good Fall (2009).

Massive Tomes: 10 of the World’s Longest Novels: In the Realms of the Unreal by Henry Darger: The full title of this highly unusual magnum opus by 20th-century American outsider artist Henry Darger is The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian…

Mowgli: …appeared in Kipling’s story “In the Rukh” (1892; collected in Many Inventions, 1893). In this story he is an adult who, from time to time, refers to his unusual childhood.

The following is a small list of sailing terms included in the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, originally published in 1768–71. If you are a particular fan of sailing, you may recognize some of these as terms still in use today, although some of them are a bit more obscure. If you’ve

Mileva Marić-Einstein: Death and a disputed legacy: A 1969 biography titled In the Shadow of Albert Einstein: The Tragic Life of Mileva Einstein-Marić, originally published in Serbian and written by Desanka Trbuhović-Gjurić, asserted that Marić was a coauthor of many of Einstein’s major papers, including those of 1905. The biography spurred a narrative that Marić had…

Jane Goodall: …aspects of her work, notably In the Shadow of Man (1971). She summarized her years of observation in The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior (1986). Goodall continued to write and lecture about environmental and conservation issues into the early 21st century. In 2002 she became a UN Messenger of…

Art Spiegelman: …is my muse,” Spiegelman published In the Shadow of No Towers (2004), a collection of broadsheet-sized meditations on mortality and the far-reaching consequences of that day. In 2008 he released Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, which repackaged his long out-of-print Breakdowns collection as part of a…

J.M. Synge: …and basing his one-act plays In the Shadow of the Glen (first performed 1903) and Riders to the Sea (1904) on islanders’ stories. In 1905 his first three-act play, The Well of the Saints, was produced.

Anne Hébert: …Les Fous de Bassan (1982; In the Shadow of the Wind; filmed 1987), which won France’s Prix Fémina, one of the narrators is a murdered teenage girl. The novel L’Enfant chargé de songes (1992; Burden of Dreams) won her a third Governor General’s Award. Also in 1992, Hébert saw the…

Canadian literature: Fiction: Ranging from 1920s Toronto (In the Skin of a Lion, 1987) to Italy during World War II (The English Patient, 1992; Booker Prize) and Sri Lanka wracked by civil war (Anil’s Ghost, 2000), Ondaatje’s lyrical, elliptical narratives spotlight a small coterie of people drawn together by a mystery that…

Hortense Calisher: …in New York City, while In the Slammer with Carol Smith (1997) describes a world of mental illness and homelessness in Spanish Harlem. Sunday Jews (2003) explores issues of identity in an eclectic family, which includes an art expert, an atheistic rabbi, an anthropologist, and an agnostic Irish Catholic. In…

Robert Louis Stevenson: Life in the South Seas: …on the South Seas (In the South Seas, 1896; A Footnote to History, 1892) are admirably pungent and perceptive. He was writing first-rate journalism, deepened by the awareness of landscape and atmosphere, such as that so notably rendered in his description of the first landfall at Nuku Hiva in…

Peter Matthiessen: His book In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983), about the conflict between federal agents and the American Indian Movement at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1973, was the subject of a prolonged libel suit that blocked all but an initial printing and was not settled until…

William Merritt Chase: , In the Studio (1880–83). His mature style is notable for its bold and spontaneous brushwork and other marks of virtuoso execution.

Julia Alvarez: Alvarez’s second novel, In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), is a fictional account of the lives of the Dominican Mirabal sisters, who were involved in the underground movement to overthrow Trujillo and his government. In 2001 it was adapted as a TV movie starring Salma Hayek. Alvarez’s…

Judy Blume: Novels for adults and campaigns against censorship: … (1983), Summer Sisters (1998), and In the Unlikely Event (2015). She collected letters from young readers for the book Letters to Judy: What Your Kids Wish They Could Tell You (1986). Proceeds from that book and select others went to the Kids Fund, which she established in 1981 to offer…

Tommy Lee Jones: …an Iraq War veteran, in In the Valley of Elah (2007).

King Crimson: Formation and early success: …period, releasing the studio albums In the Wake of Poseidon (1970), Lizard (1970), Islands (1971), Larks’ Tongues in Aspic (1973), Starless and Bible Black (1974), and Red (1974).

Frank Sinatra: The Capitol years: …team made for Capitol—such as In the Wee Small Hours (1955), Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! (1956), and Only the Lonely (1958)—are masterpieces.

Frank Bidart: He followed the retrospective In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965–90 (1990) with Desire (1997) and the chapbook Music Like Dirt (2002), both of which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. The poems of Music Like Dirt were later included in Star Dust (2005), which also features new material,…

Aharon Appelfeld: …fiction included Bagai ha-poreh (1963; In the Wilderness), Badenheim, ʿir nofesh (1979; Badenheim 1939), Ha-Ketonet veha-pasim (1983; Tzili: The Story of a Life), Bartfus ben ha-almavet (1988; The Immortal Bartfuss), Katerinah (1989; Katerina), Mesilat barzel (1991; “The Railway”), and Unto

American literature: The Off-Broadway ascendancy: …dramatized racial confrontation, while Bullins’s In the Wine Time (1968) made use of “street” lyricism. Maria Irene Fornés’s Fefu and Her Friends (1977) proved remarkable in its exploration of women’s relationships. A clear indication of Off-Broadway’s ascendancy in American drama came in 1979 when Sam Shepard, a prolific and experimental…

Maxim Gorky: Last period: …My Childhood), V lyudyakh (1915–16; In the World), and Moi universitety (1923; My Universities). The title of the last volume is sardonic because Gorky’s only university had been that of life, and his wish to study at Kazan University had been frustrated. This trilogy is one of the finest autobiographies…

Britney Spears: Princess of Pop: …Baby One More Time, Oops!…I Did It Again, and In the Zone: Its follow-up, In the Zone (2003), sold nearly three million, partly on the strength of the hit single “Toxic.”

Brandi Carlile: Returning to Myself and other later albums: Carlile’s later albums include In These Silent Days (2021), which debuted at number one on the Billboard Top Rock and Americana/Folk charts. In 2022 Carlile again received multiple Grammy nominations, including song of the year for “Right on Time” (off In These Silent Days), which also was nominated for…

Ellen Glasgow: Her last novel, In This Our Life (1941), had a similar theme and, although not her best work, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. She had been awarded (1940) the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1943 Glasgow published a collection of critical essays…

Robert Fisk: …the British in Ulster (1975), In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality, 1939–1945 (1983), Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War (2001), The Great War for Civilisation—the Conquest of the Middle East (2005), and The Age of the Warrior: Selected Essays (2008). Fisk’s work was profiled in…

Mavis Gallant: …Balloon: Stories of Paris (1985), In Transit (1988), and Across the Bridge (1993).