Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 64 lyrical prose 62 poetic prose 61 authorial voice 58 prose 57 formidable intellect 54 sly wit 54 J. Hoberman 54 eminently readable 54 Ozick 53 drollery 53 engagingly 53 Le Carré 53 prose poems 53 wonderfully evocative 53 bitingly funny 53 Darkly 53 sardonic humor 52 incantatory 52 Laurence Sterne 52 unpretentiously 52 Feydeau 52 arrestingly 52 Deborah Jowitt 52 captivatingly 52 master storyteller 52 watercolor illustrations 52 poet essayist 52 imagistic 51 Francine Prose 51 Introspective 51 Impeccably 51 perceptiveness 51 Nancy Mitford 51 Bostridge 51 Martha Gellhorn 51 MFK Fisher 51 wryness 51 compulsively readable 51 omniscient narrator 51 beguilingly 51 evocatively 51 evocative 50 suspenseful thriller 50 Bruce Chatwin 50 lyricism 50 uninflected 50 Stephen Spender 50 sonic textures 50 luminously 50 unconventionality 50 sarcastic wit 50 Plainsong 50 unshowy 50 WG Sebald 50 narrative nonfiction 50 Andrew Bovell 50 Cavafy 50 beautifully photographed 50 unpretentiousness 50 quirkily 50 ravishingly 50 affectingly 50 sparely 50 aphoristic 50 epigrams 50 roman clef 50 breeziness 50 wit charm 50 Fran Lebowitz 50 noir ish 50 concision 49 David Pittu 49 Michael Dirda 49 spareness 49 Ben Macintyre 49 leisurely paced 49 grippingly 49 gifted storyteller 49 Margaret Drabble 49 heartbreakingly beautiful 49 compellingly 49 Anais Nin 49 Grace Paley 49 Percy Bysshe Shelley 49 poetic 49 wry wit 49 rhyming couplets 49 Pinteresque 49 Antonia Fraser 49 Ashbery 49 poet WH Auden 49 sunniness 49 sensualist 49 Gilkyson 49 erudition 49 resonantly 49 profundities 49 Dave Itzkoff 49 Italo Calvino 49 novelette 49 Tóibín