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These are the techniques that Mr. Lerner transposes to his novels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

“Living” transposes “Ikiru” to a gloomy postwar London filled with buttoned-up men of dignity; bowler-hat-wearing worker bees who commute in and out of the city with the solemn demeanor of churchgoers.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2022

Woolly Mammoth Theatre, too, has embarked on a restart with “Teenage Dick,” a reasonably diverting comedy that transposes “Richard III” to an American high school.

From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2021

Understated in its complex ruminations, Ford’s succinct debut transposes the discourse around the #MeToo movement from whiteness to a Black female lens.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2021

Lachmann transposes this and the two following stanzas to after St. XVI, Twenty-eighth Adventure, where they form the beginning of his Sixteenth Lay, which ends with St. XLIV, Twenty-ninth Adventure.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown