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Ms. Serpell’s tone is ardent and sometimes spicily polemical, but at heart this is informed, accessible literary analysis that demonstrates that Morrison’s true genius was as a stylist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

Explained to the barkeep that we wanted a Negroni and “something like a Negroni,” and satisfying the latter demand, he spicily fixed a rye-based old pal on the rocks.

From Slate • Nov. 12, 2012

In these spicily vigorous lectures, Sloterdijk attempts a genealogy of the idea, so natural-seeming to us, that theoretical thinking should be associated with an ascetic retreat from life.

From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2012

It is tersely, accurately, spicily written, replete with statistics, pictures, charts which make it indispensable for any nautical library.

From Time Magazine Archive

September and October slipped away quietly, their warm, hazy days gay with turning leaves and spicily fragrant with the drying vegetation and ripening 287fruits.

From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Ritchie, Lily Munsell