His films require us to live with his characters for a while before we decide who they really are.

NEWYORKER: Stranger, The (Agantuk)

His fiction was immature but promising, extolling male bonding while describing unsatisfactory love affairs between his male and female characters.

ECONOMIST: French writers

Her years of experience researching, teaching, directing and acting in his plays are integral to the polished, intellectual appeal of "Women of Will, " in which she analyzes and enacts quite a few of Shakespeare's female characters while correlating their evolution to possible developments in his personal life.

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For while his Lincoln is far more integrated into the fabric of his society than any of his other characters, he remains a man who struggles against a sense of isolation, whether personal or political, amid the maelstrom.

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While the stories themselves are quite dark, Sanderson avoids a trend in gritty fantasy by refusing to pen all his characters as morally nebulous.

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