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While his thoughts drive the narrative, he is also seen prismatically through other characters, a typical Strout device.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

What does not fail is the language Betts sends prismatically through his experience, rendering the entire spectrum of the prison-industrial complex visible.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2019

History is also prismatically revealed in Zachary Treitz’s 2015 drama, “Men Go to Battle,” set in a corner of Kentucky that didn’t join the Confederacy and remained loyal to the Union.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 9, 2018

Roth takes his place in that list, without question, although his singular narrators were themselves plural, as Portnoy-Zuckerman-Roth prismatically refracted the nation, and the man, back to themselves.

From The Guardian • May 26, 2018

Experiments followed: iron, sodium, copper, etc., were heated to incandescence and their colours prismatically separated.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry