For a second, I have a fantasy of getting better and getting out of here and going to Mr. Dunlap’s house, to relieve him of his burden, to reassure him that it’s not his fault. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lazlo had known the passage for years, and had assumed it was fantasy—but he had discovered in Thanagost that it was real. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It’s intimidating and thrilling, living up to that kind of rich, untouchable fantasy. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’d spent hours playing that fantasy through in my head but today the reel wouldn’t take. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was Praise, sometimes history, and a lot of the time it was pure fantasy, but told with such authority that they all believed it. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re stories, boy. Stuff and fantasy. There was no elixir of immortality. If anything, it was just sugared blood.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“About the fruit free for the taking. But later I thought it had to be a fantasy dreamed up for hungry children.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Bo’s story about all his friends living together in a movie theater had just been a fantasy after all, nothing more. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a fantasy book. The Wicked Wizard War. My character, Ben-Jamin, is the chosen one in this war between wizards.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

There’s pictures, too, pictures that come to yer mind in a rush, no matter how much you don’t want ’em, pictures of memories and fantasies and secrets and plans and lies, lies, lies. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But that day on the beach, in the gray-light sky, that fantasy just wouldn’t hang. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Martin was no longer this faceless fantasy—he was real. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Briony was lost to her writing fantasies—what had seemed a passing fad was now an enveloping obsession. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But my revenge fantasy had already gone bust. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Our thoughts, visions and fantasies have a physical reality. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Money, rent, jobs were not a concern; she did not think about these things in her real life, so they did not appear in her fantasy life either. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Going into damage control, CBS announced its regret that a few listeners who had heard only parts of the program “mistook fantasy for fact.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure how much was real and how much was fantasy, but it didn’t matter because it made her smile. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I mean, it’s the fantasy suite,” I say. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Well, not me. As I was walking over here, I was thinking...I have this fantasy of being a bike messenger.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I was a kid I read these books, the Redwall books, fantasy books about a bunch of warrior mice, and the mice had this war cry that I always thought was cool: “Eulalia.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was pure fantasy. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

People whispered that his story of the paper birds was just a fantasy. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

So,” said Wood, at long last, jerking Harry from a wistful fantasy about what he could be eating for breakfast at this very moment up at the castle. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The dream was an appealing one, the architects agreed, and no one doubted Chicago’s sincerity in imagining this fantasy precinct of lagoons and palaces, but the reality was something else entirely. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

No science fiction or fantasy is going to help me. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There were adventure stories and mysteries and love stories and fantasies. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

To begin with, some researchers—many but not all from an older generation—deride the new theories as fantasies arising from an almost willful misinterpretation of data and a perverse kind of political correctness. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She had fantasies of students whispering in the halls—Those signs? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In one of his favorite theatrical fantasies, his stage name was Perry O’Parsons, a star who billed himself as “The One-Man Symphony.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can we talk about the fantasy suite now?” she says. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Normally she’d start spinning fantasies about an octopus’s garden and curtains of kelp and trout on the hassock but she’s giving me nothing. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But the best I can do is to give her my deepest fantasy, the one I’ve been too self-conscious to share. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

During the whole flight down, Bull allowed his fantasies to roam the country of his eyes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what I’d expected; for all my fantasies of the past month, I’d never really considered what it would be like in a real situation like the one unfolding at that moment. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only during fleeting moments did I allow myself to have fantasies of what it might be like to sing with the chorus or perform in the Thanksgiving program. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like winning the lottery, finding Halliday’s Easter egg became a popular fantasy among adults and children alike. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, he’d split his mental gymnastics, leaving his imaginary board to swing a fantasy baseball bat and knock an invisible ball into the left-field stands of the Ebbets Field in his mind. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He knows he is on such solid ground that he can afford fantasy. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Okay, fine. They are stereotypically hot. They’re like the male fantasy.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

If you think I am indulging in fantasy about the trip, how can you explain that Charley knew it was over too? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, they are all just a fantasy because of Seth Greggory. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I knew there were things going on in my head, a fantasy life, that somehow corresponded to the books I read. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

When Sarai first glimpsed the craft in the dreams of the older of the two faranji women, she had dismissed it as fantasy. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In the gray and steely morning light, the evening before now looked like a childish fantasy. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s not a fantasy, and it’s not that big a deal,” I say. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

We honed our egos on her, padded our characters with her frailty, and yawned in the fantasy of our strength. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You pathetic fool! Someday you’ll wake up from your little fantasy and learn just how good of a friend he is. Now, has! Enough of this. Give us that kite.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Your apartment was cloaked in shadow and the fantasy always faded away in seconds. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty sure this is going to be my new nighttime fantasy. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But the connections had never been broken, she now saw, and anyway her parents were absent in their different ways, Briony was lost to her fantasies and Leon was in town. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Imagine flying through a fantasy world of dragons and elves. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The reality of Keav’s death is too sad so I create a fantasy world to live in. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the weeks went on, the men began to embellish the dogloos into architectural fantasies, adding church spires, minarets, porches, and domes. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Like mendicants imagining fantasy meals, scholars have for centuries imagined the lost contents of the Great Library. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

But one day something happened to cause me to think twice before declaring white terror more the fantasy of movies than the reality of day-to-day living. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The good news is that I read the book, and because of its fantasy nature, I could not pretend that I was in the book. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’d had pathetic daydreams and silly fantasies and had devoted many pages in my journal to entirely forgettable people I’d known and quickly discarded over the years. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

So at least someone can see through her wretched fantasies. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

This was done at the insistence of many child psychologists, who felt that to mix fantasy and reality would be misleading to children. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe wanting to tell stories is “living in a fantasy world” or me with my “head in the clouds.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The children of violent men develop vivid powers of fantasy. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a way, I’ve been doing them all my life, assuming they were only fantasies, when actually, they were much more. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were too heavy to read, she wouldn’t play the pianoforte for fear of another embarrassing encounter, and she most certainly wouldn’t amuse herself with fantasies of what the feast was like. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Like it was a fantasy story,” she says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The idea is so appealing that she briefly indulges in one of those fantasies that momentarily feels real. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“And please, all of you, call me Gary. My real name is Gary Mark Kozlowski, but who wants to read a fantasy novel by a Polish serial killer, right?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Why would anyone give up the perfect fantasy reality just because they have to give up their freedom? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But the one thing she always said about her job was, “I can’t let these kids live in a fantasy land.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The inside of the tree had been filled with a stock of arrows to be used in a fantasy battle at first, then in a battle fought amongst themselves. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had taken the girl’s fantasy from her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

To be Styx’s brother would be some kind of fantasy—nothing ordinary in that. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Death fantasy or death flash—either way, the old guy completely felled me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

To me the illusions and fantasy of the movies were the stark reality of a world I was forbidden to enter. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So Michael D. claims to have used the fantasy suite for talking,” Alice says. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

One of the consequences of his decampment into the world of fantasy was leaving his meager group of friends—mostly from church—behind. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

In a blink of pure fantasy, I suddenly saw myself walking away from Dell Duke's grimy car with a tiny glass vial of her blood sample for genome sequencing. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe wants something important to happen to him, even if the important thing is horrible. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

For a few minutes, he wasn’t lost in his head, or a play, or some dream fantasy. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

One look at Mr. Reilly and the students would understand that the note was the meaningless fantasy of a sick mind. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man was lost in the fantasy now, and his eyes looked far away to the jungles where the fabled king had lived. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what was so sad, I realized, was that Canada had become a pitiful fantasy. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she knew, Shay could at least prepare herself before this fantasy world came tumbling down. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Moniek’s fantasy was to have a whole loaf of bread all to himself. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sky glowed a Persian blue, and the black silhouettes of the buildings gave the neighborhood a fantasy quality, like the chimney-sweep scene in the Mary Poppins movie. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He was making her into one of his fantasies, not speaking to a real person at all She said indignantly: “Will you be so kind as to address me by my title, Mordred?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved fantasy and sci-fi, and read books about what to do to survive a nuclear attack; he imagined he’d live in an underground house. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

No lawsuit was going to make my fantasy of a different life with my mother come true. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

As though her reversion had triggered an end to the fantasy, Lazlo reverted, too, and was himself again. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The brides were not fantasies, but flesh-and-blood women whom we actually knew. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved fantasy, loved to get lost in worlds that didn’t exist. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

That seemed much less of a fantasy than the twenty-first century. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When urban renewal tore down my parents’ laundry and paved over our slum for a parking lot, I only made up gun and knife fantasies and did nothing useful. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was having one such fantasy while shelving cigarettes one Saturday morning in July. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

There are other fantasies involving magic powers, impossible wealth, and the ability to sing and dance. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The adventures he had always dreamed of, also the serenity and the security, were already a part of the past, impossible fantasies. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lolled on my back and worked on my tablecloth listlessly, to preserve my mother’s fantasy that I’d be getting married one day, and after a while it began to draw me in. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It never occurred either to him or to Fernanda to think that their correspondence was an exchange of fantasies. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It’s something for them to dream about, a little fantasy. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, rose to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

During the Depression, the studios, which were mostly run by immigrant Jews, turned out a string of formulaic fantasies about life among the Gentile upper crust. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

How do the physics of this light/dark fantasy work themselves out for guys, I wondered. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

But at some point in my midtwenties I abandoned my boyhood fantasy of climbing Everest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It’s a lot like when the hero in some blockbuster fantasy film is standing in the rubble of his war-ravaged village, bombed because the villains couldn’t find him. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We probably knew they couldn’t be serious, but then again, I’m sure we didn’t regard them as fantasy either. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And there’s a kid in freshman AP English who writes these great fantasy short stories, and he submitted a few of them. I picked one of those, too.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“My fantasies are more interesting than the real world and machines and tools are more interesting than you guys’ fantasies.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

In her fantasies, she carried the others away with her, but they never reached a destination because she couldn’t imagine what place there could be in the world for the likes of them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

At enough speed, in the right kind of light, it became the plane of Luke’s childhood fantasies. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t have left the country twice, listening to my pleas of an aging mother and fantasies of beefsteak. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How is it every time we’re talking about the real world, you manage to bring up fantasy, and every time we’re talking about fantasy, you manage to bring up the real world?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Instead of using the tiny Lego bricks, I had started building with larger ones since I now had so much more space—an entire, huge storage room to build my fantasy fortress. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The fantasies that run through my mind aren't like the childish ones I had before the camps: dreams of wandering through cool, dark forests, catching fairies hidden among ferns. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It had been years since I’d even allowed myself the fantasy of imaging he was still alive, and yet here we were, together. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

What was needed was a piece of pure fantasy. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I hope so, oh, I hope so very much, because writing allows me to record everything, all my thoughts, ideals and fantasies. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Being on show like this, outside in the middle of the hood, made Harmonee even more like a fantasy city, all bright and bizarre. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He nursed these fantasies throughout his life, even long after it was evident that he would receive nothing by way of inheritance. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That sounds suspicious to me. I hope you're using your brain and not living in the clouds. This sounds like something out of your fantasy world.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My fantasies were as constant as I was: Edmond and me. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was free to live his fantasies, and free even to die, the how and the when of which held no interest for him. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked them all unless they branched out into fantasy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like most uglies, Tally had often indulged the fantasy that one day she might be on the Committee, and help decide what the next generation would look like. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was nice to pretend that its sleek outline wasn’t back there, hunting, but it was a fantasy. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

What if this was only an absurd fantasy? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’d been hallucinating, or his martyrdom fantasies had gotten the better of him. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I’m sure in my outlaw fantasies I would’ve been as defiant as Shea, but something about this situation had soured me on romantic rebellion. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But an orphan he was, and a Strange, and though he was prone to fantasy, he never had any delusions about that. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

These fantasies were no longer a reflection of my reaction to the white people, they were a part of my living, of my emotional life; they were a culture, a creed, a religion. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truth was so much better than the fantasy. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The book is Lolita word for word, and I'm allowed to write it because, under the conditions of the fantasy, Vladimir Nabokov never existed. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In his autobiography, Morrow wrote that she was the “quintessential geek girl,” unabashedly obsessed with Monty Python, comic books, fantasy novels, and videogames. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Up till now, there’s been a fantasy quality about all this, but hearing names like Michael and Caroline makes everything very real. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

For three years she must have nurtured a feeling for him, kept it hidden, nourished it with fantasy or embellished it in her stories. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His favorite old theatrical fantasy, the one in which he thought of himself as “Perry O’Parsons, The One-Man Symphony,” returned in the guise of a recurrent dream. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than practicing my irregular verbs or trying to make sense of my day, I pass the time by replaying one of my current, ongoing fantasies. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Read- ing and dancing in secret, alone in the house, living a life in dreams and fantasies. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My fantasy was soon interrupted when someone entered the store. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

His restraint, his courtesy, his indifference, all of which pushed her into fantasy. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to let off some steam before homework, so I open up my self-insert fantasy novel that I’ve been working on since January. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But I did come up with a couple perverted fantasies involving getting stuck in a snowdrift and sending Chas and Joey out into the cold to search for help. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was immersed in fantasies about my quiet, safe weekend. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them had a strange, secret-basement plot that led me astray, while I lay in bed trying to fall asleep, into long fantasies that felt sinful. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of school you might find in a storybook, a fantasy for a public school kid. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And this was no fantasy, this was real, this was his near future, both desirable and unavoidable. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

My fantasies were a moral bulwark that enabled me to feel I was keeping my emotional integrity whole, a support that enabled my personality to limp through days lived under the threat of violence. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes—a puree of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and fantasy. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like happy endings—even if they are only fantasies. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It kind of blended more into my own fantasy style so that by the time the structure reached my city section, it was made up of everything straight out of my head and all dream-kissed. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Do not trouble yourself with fantasies, boy,” he growled. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And someday—here the fantasy began to twirl and sparkle like a firework against the night sky—there would be a baby. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her entries consisted of artistic manifestos, trivial complaints, character sketches and simple accounts of her day which increasingly shaded off into fantasy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The briefest fantasy: Mabel appears at the doorway, catches sight of me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I guess I came on a little strong in my last letter, but it was only because your paranoid fantasy disturbed me, rooted as it possibly was in your unhealthy attitude toward sex. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clara spent this time wrapped in her fantasies, accompanied by the spirits of the air, the water, and the earth. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was very happy, living in this world of fantasy and escapism. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something magical about an island—the mere word suggested fantasy. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I looked around the room that I had never in my wildest fantasies imagined I would see. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fantasy vanished like a puff of smoke. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They all swung their hips when they walked and filled my head with fantasies. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wishing she could be the co-adventurer in the fantasy she lit in the first place, introducing me to the magical escape of musical comedy. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She was caught in a familiar trap for young women and girls—the fantasy that she alone could change her man. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I’d had fantasies of her winning a hundred dollars in a spitting contest and the two of us going to a nice motel in Atlanta and ordering room service with the prize money. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Henry made us read portions of Walden Pond, and afterward I’d had fantasies of going to a private garden where T. Ray would never find me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Realizing their work wouldn’t be tying them to one spot, her parents decided to make their fantasy of living once in every state a reality. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He left St. Louis for a job editing a rural Michigan newspaper but found that the realities of being a small-town editor did not live up to the fantasy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But once you’ve gone this far, I must point out, with primary, secondary, auditory, olfactory, and labial hallucinations, as well as tactile and optical fantasies, it is pretty bad business. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s all it takes for my fantasy to become another fool’s dream. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

They grew too tall, too old to spend their time on fantasies—to believe that the plane held any magic. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

This particular fantasy had been creeping up on my dreams for weeks, invading the slips of time when I wasn’t holed up practicing my abilities. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My favorite was for a young man who had died more than a hundred years before, but to whom I had attached more than one of my romantic fantasies. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And her face—it’s not so much familiar as it is reminiscent of girls I’ve seen in secret fantasies. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Hazel might have plunged into a mysterious fantasy woods after an evil witch with a pack of wolves at her disposal, but at least she’d brought a compass. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

In my fantasy I was the first wife but I knew there was no guarantee of that; I might be hidden anywhere in the long chain of wives. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I know I’ve had that secret fantasy about Neil and me being this power couple for as long as I can remember. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We are only gate-crashers in this fantasy, however, forced to pay for our presence with backaches and perpetual thirst. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our teacher perches on the edge of her desk in her bright batik pants, careful not to upset the stack of fantasy novels on the corner. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Despite his obvious intelligence, he did poorly in school, because most of his attention was focused on computers, comic books, sci-fi and fantasy novels, movies, and above all else, videogames. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The fantasy never got beyond that—I didn’t let it—and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn’t sobbing or out of control. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been a massive riot there in 1929.1 thought about my anger and frustration after I’d been slugged in A-block, my fantasy of the building and all its contents going up in flames. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that Russell Quitman’s fate had been sealed, I was feeling very guilty for all the zombie fantasies in which I had chopped off his head. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Another person shared his experience of quitting school and realizing that life isn’t a fantasy world. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Briony will be as much of a fantasy as the lovers who shared a bed in Balham and enraged their landlady. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Since the fantasy, which W'as the beginning of it all, you have been undergoing a period of crisis which is culminating in overt sexual aberration. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a pleasant fantasy that gave her hope and kept her going—which was exactly what the Hunt was for me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Each time she closed her eyes, her head filled with forebodings and fantasies of the morrow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And yet, all the time, I think we must have had an idea of how precarious the foundations of our fantasy were, because we always avoided any confrontation. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew not whether he had enjoyed her in flesh; regardless, he now enjoyed her in fantasy. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

After two weeks at Half-Blood Hill, the real world seemed like a fantasy. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is necessary to take into account the interaction of ideas, images and fantasies as well. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think you realize how many Abby-related fantasies live in this brain. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The sound of fish leaping from the water interrupted my fantasies. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a fantasy, a lie, but the lies of men are as vivid as their truths and I can see every bit of it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The colors were ebbing from her fantasy, her self-loving pleasures in movement and balance were fading, her arm was aching. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her northern fantasy, those first weeks in the attic, was a mere sketch. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But the truth was, those of us who’d grown close to her, we each played our part in preserving the fantasy and making it last for as long as possible. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fed it with fantasies, idealized it, savagely defended it, stripped it of its prosaic truth, and turned it into the kind of love one found in novels. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days later, I discover the house from my fantasy, only it’s yellow instead of purple, and more like a palace than a house. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just finished Perseus. That there is Algol—the demon star. This here is pretend outer space—or fantasy outer space—so we’re not really interested in arranging the constellations the way they usually appear.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

French fries—ten dollars’ worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now the facts were re-established, and gone were all the fantasies, such as the Olympic Games for a.d. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

That sneaky spider ruined our Cheetah Girls fantasy. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Kids who talked openly about anger and alienation, or who confessed thoughts of revenge or fantasies of violence against people who’d been tormenting and excluding them, were hauled off to counselors. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My epic fantasies offer the illusion of generosity but never the real thing. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I even had one hazy fantasy where Miss Geraldine herself heard about it and gave Ruth a complete dressing-down in front of everyone. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other nations rush to pass mandatory Mind’s Eye legislation, and in a matter of months every person on Earth is living in a fantasy world. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

My stupid fantasies about ending up homeless are just that—the fact is that my parents will take me in anytime, anywhere. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Anything I said would sound foolish, a child’s fantasy. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I thought for a moment we were in a fantasy world—a magical land, a dream come true. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Naturally, I didn't know he was your insulator. I hadn’t heard about the strangling either. Any chance that this is just a child’s fantasy?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The fantasy about the arrest has all the classic paranoid qualities. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told myself that I was tired, that I must not judge these men who picked me up and for the price of a ride submitted me to the swamps of their fantasy lives. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It could be, of course, but not Malcolm’s. I believe him. If it’s a fantasy, it’s his friend’s.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was dribbling a basketball through the chairs, weaving skillfully through the inanimate defenders, the fantasy of crowd-choked arenas lighting up his mind’s eye and his ear filled with the applause of phantom thousands. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This fantasy takes care to avoid the more obvious Rocky I-IV comparisons. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He lived in that brief fantasy until the deputies got into their squad cars and pulled out of the parking lot. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Like a mermaid, the city is half fantasy, teasing us across a sea of myth. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, in my fantasies, I imagine there was someone who thought like this: We eat berries and roots. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Landscape gardening was no more than a bohemian fantasy, as well as a lame ambition—so he had analyzed it with the help of Freud—to replace or surpass his absent father. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I let myself have a brief fantasy of Prince Dain’s coronation, of me dancing with a grinning Locke while Cardan is dragged away and thrown in a dark oubliette. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The paranoid fantasy of the arrest and accident was the first clue. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We, or at any rate I, had built such elaborate fantasies about him and the illusory mother that seeing him in the flesh shredded my inventions like a hard yank on a paper chain. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because there had to be something more than either the fantasy or horror. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Laughing like he knows this is a fantasy that won’t ever be real. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

By lucidly describing the process that produced an H-bomb blast, Lapp showed that a clean bomb was a fantasy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The cabbie’s question punctured my fantasy, letting all the colors run out of my lovely delusions. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The newspapers liked to impress the fantasy of the happy plantation and the contented slave who sang and danced and loved Massa. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Giant tapestries and a huge collection of fantasy artwork covered the walls, while gargoyle statues and suits of armor lined the hallways. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Gallien wondered whether he’d picked up one of those crackpots from the lower forty-eight who come north to live out ill-considered Jack London fantasies. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I play with the fantasy that I am a princess who, in penance for some tiny transgression, has undertaken to feed each of her subjects by hand. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem was that when the show was originally conceived, the decision was made that all fantasy elements of the show be separated from the real elements. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lori was working as a freelance artist specializing in fantasy, illustrating calendars and game boards and book jackets. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

So yes, like Ben, I harbored ridiculous prom fantasies. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Those were the kinds of fantasies that monopolized my thoughts at night...and during the day...and in the morning...and at dusk. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

At night, when Jagu was particularly restless, consumed by his fears and fantasies, she put him to bed like a child, with her hand on his forehead. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

As the dismantling proceeded, it still felt like a fantasy to me, but my father's faith in Schindler never wavered. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The heroine, believing her honor to be in question, had a series of paranoid fantasies in which she was lying on a bed with her libertine. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I don’t say anything, it turns back to the fantasy paintings. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“That's a good point. I thought you were going to say medieval times or something because you like all those fantasy games, but you're right—they would've arrested you for heresy or something.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I knew revenge was nothing more than a childish fantasy. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I liked their readiness to act, but they seemed lost in folly, wandering in a fantasy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack’s fantasy was much more elaborate: My perfect meal, prepared by my mother, of course, begins with rich chicken soup brimming with fat handmade noodles. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

No, there was only one Pikes, and he was a man stripped of his fantasies now, no place on Earth to go, no one to show off to. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stuck with him not only because we could work well together, but because our teamwork was so automatic that I was free to indulge my romantic fantasies at the same time. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once in a while, Papa’s words “but we’re broke too” entered my mind, but I pushed them out with fantasies of playing with my very own ball. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

However, we won’t go into that aspect of the fantasy because I know how dedicated you are in your opposition to sex of any sort. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he gets his fix of heroism and combat from fantasy books. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Epic in scope, violence, and imagination, Deathstorm is a new benchmark in the fantasy genre and cements forever G. M. Pennington’s status as the American Tolkien. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He was tormented inexorably by morbid fantasies involving them, by dire, hideous omens of illness and accident. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Several news publications looked into the predictions of powerful yet clean nuclear weapons made by Lawrence, Teller, and the president and determined they were talking fantasy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was stupid, but that's what she did with him, even in her fantasies—even where anything was possible. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I’m an idiot for believing my fantasy could be real. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It was not uncommon for people to turn away from the war, some to fantasy and some to vice and some to crazy gaiety. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t much into fantasy, but the book must’ve been good, because the guard took a while to look up. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

With cinder-block walls coated thick with layers of white paint and a green-and-white-checkered linoleum floor, the place looked more like a hospital than the dorm room of my fantasies. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

From up here, it felt like looking out over a fantasy world, a world wrought by Dwarvish cunning and Elven magic. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

For just a moment, I let myself enjoy the fantasy, but then I looked down at my sleeping daughter and I knew that was all it was. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most recently, he sent me an utter fantasy in which he faces off against a goblin knight and somehow wins. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I have a bookcase filled with all kinds of stories: mysteries, fantasy adventures, sci-fi. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The hope that some final fantasy will come to pass that will make everything sad untrue. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t even thought about it, beyond my perverted fantasy about Annie, but it suddenly dawned on me that I couldn’t go. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Had I not been conscious of what I was doing, I could have easily lost my way in the fogbound regions of compelling fantasy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Concealed within relativism there thus lies a dream of omnipotence, a fantasy recompense, perhaps, for the impotence and irrelevance of academic life. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Those were all the real things Hazel had left, other than the baseball—which was just a fantasy, really. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Stupid romantic fantasies can get a girl killed.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I never wanted to learn in the first place. My mother had this fantasy. One of many. I think my mother’s taking lessons now.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And, at those times, Tristran Thorn's daydreams were strange, guilty fantasies, muddled and odd, of journeys through forests to rescue princesses from palaces, dreams of knights and trolls and mermaids. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

A handful of the new affluent indulge their fantasies with gusto. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But then the Doctorita intrudes on my fantasy, barging into my dream house and flipping off the stereo. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You cling to the fantasy that you can make your enemies love you. You cannot, Reyna. There is no love for you at Camp Half-Blood.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It is a lovely fantasy, to explore those worlds that never were. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mom had fantasies about the two of us bonding, and I tried, but that girl seriously did not like me,” Immie continued. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Fifteen years past, when they had ridden forth to win a throne, the Lord of Storm's End had been clean-shaven, cleareyed, and muscled like a maiden's fantasy. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In this fantasy, eventually race will no longer be a factor in mortality rates, the spread of disease, educational or economic opportunity, or the distribution of wealth. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For several seconds, Tommy stayed in a sort of trance, for all I know playing over in his mind one of these old fantasies of giving me back my lost tape. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Nazis tried to deny the situation, calling it a “tropical fantasy.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But for that he needs to develop his skills of fantasy. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I saw now that my comrades were acting out a fantasy that had no relation whatever to the reality of their environment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not just because it has always been a fantasy of mine to blast our neighbors with my paintball gun—but because whether my dad knows it or not, I saw what was coming next. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They had no wish to create some fantasy shaped in their own minds. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt dangerous, bold, older by years, inspired by all the Marianas and Sofías whose emotional ups and downs had fed my romantic fantasies. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

This was the culminating romantic event of the school year on campus, and it seemed to me in my fantasy mode to be the perfect vehicle for our reconciliation. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Goodness knows what debased fantasy he’s having,” Ignatius commented. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no time for his mother’s fantasy world. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But when I glance at my fantasy paintings, they no longer look like any place I want to be. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was a living reverie for me: the mere sight of her sparked an almost infinite range of fantasy, from Greek to Gothic, from vulgar to divine. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But now at last, sweet fantasy has found root in your blessed soul! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was never the kind of girl who had crushes on rock stars or fantasies about marrying Brad Pitt. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

These fantasies gave Ajarry comfort when her burdens were such to splinter her into a thousand pieces. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My first glimpse of the flat black stretches of Chicago depressed and dismayed me, mocked all my fantasies. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enoch blinked at her, surprised, then said very calmly, “You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The other side he refused to hear were those who dismissed alchemy as a deception, a delusion, a fantasy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Others are bizarre beyond our most unconstrained fantasies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She curled up on the bed, feeling small and pink and tender as a cocktail shrimp, and let her fantasy go, like a balloon soaring into the sky until it burst. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His only thought was that she was even more beautiful than his fantasies of her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

That being said, I was feeling less and less guilty for all the nonzombie fantasies I had about Ada Taylor and her wrinkly skirt. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She developed the capacity to guess an astonishing percentage of the cards in a deck, and invented games of fantasy to play with her brothers and sisters. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1919, Rutherford had become the first scientist to achieve the medieval fantasy of chemical transmutation: by bombarding nitrogen with radioactivity, he had converted it into oxygen. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The idea of going all the way to London seemed like a fantasy of the night: Jordan College—sanctuary—safety—that was the priority now. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

To Lexie, the world seemed nearly perfect, and her fantasies were her real life with all the colors dialed up. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

What if he’s done the thing he swore he would never do, the thing he hates, and fallen in love with a prince because it was a fantasy? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then, in the library, confirmation of the worst, at which point, the whole fantasy crashed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

What starts out as hopeful scrolling quickly turns into defeat, and I sort of wish I could start a support group for all these people with their regrets and what-if fantasies. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Capricorn looked Elinor up and down as if amazed by such fantasies. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I mean he has some fantasy they’re all belly-button crop tops and low-rider Daisy Dukes. It’s moronic. He’s going to learn soon enough that all that eye shadow smudges like hell.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And now let us make the fantasy more fantastic,” said Poirot cheerfully. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

These days it seemed ridiculous, as the life she described was becoming more and more of a fantasy—trips to the mall, family vacations, and Friday night football games. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Usually they are not experts: their ambitions and fantasies are strong enough to brush aside the doubts which more cautious men might have. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

My fantasy meals grew to be the size of India. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing left was a vague sense of waiting for Hatsue—a fantasy—to return to him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There’s a bookshelf lined with paperbacks, teen books and fantasy I was into reading a few years back. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I suddenly remembered my childhood fantasy that, should I ever win a lottery, I would buy a grand piano for my mother. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I float alongside the fantasy, giving it breath and flesh and bone. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Apparently, wishing things into existence only works in fantasy. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Or maybe, dreaming big, someone fulfilled all our fantasies and threw a rock at the head of the nearest Psi Special Forces soldier. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He also lived out a fantasy that he had probably cultivated since childhood. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Realizing their work wouldn’t be tying them to one spot, her parents decided to make their fantasy of living once in every state a reality. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Despite the emotional authenticity of the protagonists’ dilemma, their journey comes off as a fantasy. “Booksmart,” Reviewed: Olivia Wilde’s Toothless Teen Comedy 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

Polgár understood that coercion was less valuable than small children’s need to enjoy fantasy play. How to raise a brilliant child without screwing them up 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z

The latter’s appearance is startlingly transgressive, as she features as the sexual fantasy of Chewie’s father, Itchy. May the farce be with you: the Star Wars Holiday Special they want us to forget 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

Sam asks Kate out and is gently turned away, but — per the fantasies of many a spurned man — he persists, and she finally gives in. ‘Sam & Kate’ Review: It’s a Family Affair 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

Whereas a lot of parents said, ‘It’s a dirty old man’s fantasy.’ ‘Kids,’ Then and Now 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

The constraints of Wick World put it safely on the side of full-blown fantasy, giving the series the feel of a grim fairy tale. ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Review: There Will Be Blood, Yeah 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

It’s a common fantasy that loved ones will magically step up in times of crisis. Do I Have Permission to Corona-Shame My Friend? 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

All three share a common point of origin, in terms of the psychological fantasies girding their premises. Men behaving badly: how the white middle-class everyman became 2017's antihero 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

Feel free to ask about anything related to fantasy football and we'll get to as many of your questions as possible. Sign honoring ex-mayor to be removed 2011-10-26T15:11:00Z

Because of the fantasy — and it is a fantasy — of townspeople suddenly learning sign language and welcoming the family they had previously ostracized. Is "CODA" the "Green Book" of films about deaf people? 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z

This is to be encouraged, even if it does risk encouraging audiences to read too much fantasy fiction. Prophetic and poetic: in praise of heavy metal 2010-08-31T19:00:00Z

In that regard, “American Sniper” hearkens back to the final scene of director Michael Cimino's “The Deer Hunter,” which was pure fiction and, in many scenes, utter fantasy. Is 'American Sniper' a litmus test for patriotism? 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

“Yeah, that was about fantasy too, wasn’t it?” Film: Neil Jordan?s ?Ondine,? Possible World of Impossible 2010-05-28T18:58:00Z

Obscuring bitter truths about historical crimes helps perpetuate the fantasy of American benevolence, which makes it easier to sell contemporary imperial adventures -- such as the invasion and occupation of Iraq -- as another benevolent action. Thanksgiving? Instead, let’s atone for the genocide that was committed 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

This recording “sounds as if Martha was entirely ‘in the zone,’ daring to allow her fantasy free rein, and with the means to bring off every poetic flight.” Hear the Martha Argerich Recordings That Inspired 8 Young Pianists 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

For Kuang — who at 26 has built a devoted following for her deeply researched and thought provoking fantasy novels — publishing a scorched-earth satirical takedown of the publishing industry was creatively and professionally risky. She Wrote a Blistering Satire About Publishing. The Publishing Industry Loves It. 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or done in a realistic way. Gillian Flynn isn’t writing “the next ‘Gone Girl'”: “I feel like I need a break from their voices in my head” 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

But Ms. Velsey’s fantasy of swanning from Pilates to trampoline to boot camp studio did not last long. Young Fitness Fogies Ditch $40 Classes for Hoops, Laps and Jogs 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

“The Leftovers,” a 10-episode HBO series, was one of the bleakest fantasies in recent years: One day, 2 percent of the world’s population vanishes. The Social Split Between TV and Movie Dystopias 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

Anna Miner found herself indulging in the typical vacationer’s fantasy: Can’t I just live here year-round? Meet some dreamers whose visions of being booksellers in resort towns became reality

In the years since, Mr. Edlund has continued to work as a writer, producer and director on fantasy and genre shows like “Firefly,” “Angel,” “Supernatural” and “Gotham.” Never-Ending Superheroes: Here Come the Defenders and the Tick 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

The adventurous “Pirate Laureate” and the brainy “Back to Methuselah” are both long, twisty fantasies and — not terribly common in the theater — second installments. Avast! Sunny pirates, a frosty ‘Frozen’ and a forecast from Shaw 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

The main realm of Act II is a complex mixture of Indian Empire and baroque fantasy. Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker,’ at Boston Opera House 2012-12-31T23:32:32Z

It was almost a real-life scene from “World War Z” only instead of zombies there were rabid fans of science fiction, fantasy and horror crawling on top of each other. ArtsBeat: Comic-Con: A Forced Smile for the Fans 2013-07-18T16:44:06Z

Her earlier books were dedicated, as this one is, to transfiguring the American domestic landscape by way of magic, fantasy, bewitchment, peculiarization. Aimee Bender’s Latest Is a Proustian Reverie 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

But it’s sad to see these artists sacrificed to a fantasy this tawdry and to technology that isn’t even exciting. Review: ‘Sleeping Beauty Dreams’ Is a Tawdry Tech Fantasy 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

In her humdrum existence — an endless back and forth from home to school flecked with the occasional unfulfilling party — it’s her fantasy life that sustains her. ‘Spring Blossom’ Review: Youth’s Fickle Desires 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

The fantasy of escape is underlined by the movie’s title. ‘Bronco Bullfrog’: Hello Young Lovers 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

But “Two Alike” is less concerned with such physical escapes than with the internal kind, by way of fantasy. Dance Review: Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson?s ?Two Alike? at the Kitchen 2012-05-21T05:16:46Z

For a book categorized as fantasy, the book is surprising unoriginal. Five Fantasy Epics That Would Have Made for Better TV Than Game of Thrones 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

No. 2, on the other hand, was a kettle of insecurities: introverted, anxious, tortured by voices and dark waking fantasies. Review: ‘Labryinths,’ Emma and Carl Jung’s Complex Marriage 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

The Mexican director is probably best known for the fantasy series he worked on for two years but didn’t get to make: The Hobbit. Despicable and Grown Ups Sequels Pummel Pacific Rim 2013-07-14T19:19:19Z

She concluded, “Perhaps you will understand that being in dire straits while enduring a fantasy of success and achievement makes it impossible to fulfill your request.” The Re-Enchantment of Carolee Schneemann 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

“Cirque’s incredible imagination will help bring the fantasy world of Oz vividly to life and give this great show a modern spin on the age-old story we all love.” 'The Wiz' is NBC's Next Live TV Musical 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

With burnished corners and a semi-gloss finish, it’s the perfect surface on which to project your fears and fantasies — even before you notice the corner, which is distorted into a ridge of horrifying ripples. 12 Galleries to Visit Now in Brooklyn and Queens 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Controlling her food intake fed the fantasy that she could finally shapeshift, after all. 'I just want to see the person I always saw in my head': the story of a face 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

Shauna’s fantasy of her baby is just realistic enough to fool the audience. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: Little One 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

While the video seems to refute all such claims, it is unlikely to stem the tide of conspiracism and fantasy in some right-wing precincts. The Responsibility of Watching 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z

After all, “Finian’s Rainbow” occupies its own special real estate in the universe of musical fantasy. Review: ‘Finian’s Rainbow’ and the Perils of a Pot of Gold 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

But it's disturbing that we've taken the same old hatreds into our new fantasy worlds. The player: racism in online gaming 2010-10-13T21:00:00Z

“The Fifth Season” recently won the Hugo Award for best novel, one of the top literary prizes for science fiction and fantasy writers. N. K. Jemisin on Diversity in Science Fiction and Inspiration From Dreams 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

So is the suggestion that living a misogynistic fantasy, even within the world of "Entourage," does end up putting a person in a lonely place. "Entourage" recap: 8x2 2011-08-01T06:01:00Z

In the oppressively orderly culture of prewar Europe, “Fantômas” offered a fantasy of violent escape and perfect autonomy. DVD: When Fant?mas Held All of Paris in His Criminal Thrall 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z

“Buffy” is power fantasy, but it speaks to something real about the ceaseless battle of living. Once more, with feeling: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” turns 20, but her ability to resonate is timeless 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

That’s the eternal fantasy, isn’t it — that just one more act of violence will even the score, and retribution will cease. ‘Balkan Bordello’ Review: A Tragic Tale Reborn for a Time of War 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z

It's not a surprise that medieval fantasy and fantasies about medieval society have long had a pull on the reactionary mind and supplied images and ideas that motivate actual fascists. "Cripples and bastards and broken things": Why the "Game of Thrones" ending was nearly perfect 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

It is a tale of lost love, of excess, of lies, of broken dreams, of rock and roll fantasy. Behind the music on “Vinyl”: Martin Scorsese’s premiere gets the New York Dolls right — and Led Zeppelin so wrong 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Mark Addy is currently dominating BBC One's weekend schedule with starring roles in Saturday's night's fantasy series Atlantis and Sunday night's new drama Remember Me. Addy on BBC1 domination 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

Even before his new novel, “Moonglow,” begins, it warps the barrier between his actual life and his fantasy life. Michael Chabon’s ‘Moonglow’ is a cunning dance with autobiography 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

While studying history at Georgetown University, Kuang took a year off and went to live in Beijing, and began writing episodes of a fantasy story that she sent to her father. She Wrote a Blistering Satire About Publishing. The Publishing Industry Loves It. 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

It’s a powerful fantasy, particularly in the Black Lives Matter era, to call on extreme heroics and vigilantism to deliver a message that will get heard. Review | ‘Black Lightning’ plays well to its strengths, rather than playing like a token effort 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

So why not let women have that same fantasy? My “Supergirl” hypocrisy: Female superheroes don’t need to be “broken” to kick ass 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

I didn’t think I would lose 70lb like Jean did, but I did let myself slip into fantasy. I’ve been on a diet since I was four. Can I finally make peace with my body? 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z

“My fantasy,” she added, “is that it’s kind of a dance record.” Anohni: Embracing a New Name, and Sound 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

But while the show was, indeed, partly inspired by a hot button cultural moment, it’s not a fantasy one. The Next Costume Institute Fashion Blockbuster Is Revealed 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z

Since the success of HBO's fantasy phenomenon, we've seen a swell of companies adapting fantasy and science fiction stories that they might never have had the daring to before. Why "The Wheel of Time" succeeds as an adaptation (and "The Witcher" fails) 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

More than any other genres, I think, science fiction and fantasy are in constant conversation with their past, present and future. The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

His verbalized fantasy of murdering Lorena, by the way, earns thunderous applause from the audience. "Lorena" confronts the truth about the Bobbitts — and how America failed her 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

It all has an aura of fantasy invoking a lost ancien régime — perhaps also reflected in the Ritz — one in which his own hustle would have hardly been needed had he been given high birth. Ludwig Bemelmans’s Madeline Celebrates a Milestone 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Terry's books tread the boundary where science fiction merges into fantasy. Why I'm going to the Discworld convention 2010-08-26T11:20:00Z

In this comedy, it drives him to hallucinations and strange fantasies. Fall Movie Release Schedule 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

It starts with the basic nerd fantasy about a random encounter with a gorgeous, mysterious young girl who "can't be alone tonight." ‘The Night Of’ Series Premiere: Fate at the Wheel 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

Until recently it might have appeared that the fate of the school story, once so popular in its own right, was to become merely a backdrop to the series; an adjunct to the fantasy genre. Has public school fiction passed the test of time? 2011-01-04T14:53:11Z

Didier made it his senseless mission to build his daughter into a superhuman, but to her credit, she shatters this fantasy to pieces by remaining human. A Memoir of a Childhood Crushed by a Despotic Father 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

It was fun a way to play this fantasy version of me playing those movie characters who I love so much and I want to emulate. “American Animals” could change how we tell true crime stories 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z

Like the old-fashioned cage elevators that hoisted the models, one by one, to the lacquered black stage, the accessories played to sexual fantasies. | Fashion Review: Exit Paris, Winking 2011-03-10T23:42:03Z

Yet I wanted to see if the fantasies my friends were feeding me about my ring were in any way true. Modern Love: A Gold Band Carries Baggage 2012-02-09T21:16:16Z

But there’s also a feverish focus on exuberant color, artifice-laden compositions and perceptual plays that slip back and forth across the thresholds between reality and fantasy, nature and culture. Artists at Winston Wächter gallery construct enticing ‘Summer Dreams’ 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

But for the film industry Lovelace’s tale is not just the latest example of harrowing reality transmuted into celluloid fantasy. Amanda Seyfried Plays Linda Lovelace in Biopic 2012-02-12T07:53:05Z

Disney has always discouraged actors from revealing who is behind the costume in order to preserve the fantasy peddled in its theme parks, but it has never before been a written policy, union officials said. Disney World characters complain after park warns not to reveal identities 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

It was a way of dancing that perfectly suited Ms. Guillem, who said she didn’t grow up with “the little girl’s fantasy of the tutu and the tiara.” Sylvie Guillem?s ?6000 Miles Away? at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-30T16:19:31Z

In an action-packed fantasy set in an alternate version of West Africa, strong female characters fight to save and keep magic in their kingdom. The 15 best tween and teen books of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Fiction, in Dahl's estimation, is more than fantasy — it is a source of secret knowledge that must be uncovered by author and reader alike. The real magic of 'Matilda' is in the story of a spirited, bookish girl 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

To the first two movies' clinking, clanking, clattering collections of caliginous junk, adds what has become a go-to staple of Hollywood fantasy: the retro-conspiracy theory. The New Transformers: Turn On the Dark 2011-06-29T21:00:00Z

These are fantasy scenarios, galling and unsettling, but reality TV is beginning to bridge the gap between documentary and dystopian nightmare. Critic’s Notebook: Discovery’s ‘Dude, You’re Screwed’ 2013-12-20T22:30:53Z

The suit further alleged that both works adopt a similar “dreamy” and “surreal” mood and rely on “fantasy sequences” of the main character. Playwright's family sues The Shape of Water film-makers over works' similarities 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

The production, directed by Lars Jan, is also about cinematic fantasy. Review: ‘Pandaemonium’ Gives Unhappiness a Light Touch 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

And therein lies the danger of the blurred boundary between fantasy and reality. Why Zoo's Kim Kardashian cover is wrong 2012-06-22T09:00:01Z

The movement shows which parts of life are routine and which fantasy. Dance Review: Third Rail Projects Takes Drama Outdoors in Lower Manhattan 2013-06-30T21:40:39Z

"Mad Men" also aired right after HBO's hourlong ratings juggernaut, fantasy epic "Game of Thrones." 'Mad Men' premiere draws 2.3 million, lowest season debut since 2008 2014-04-14T20:46:32Z

The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a festival screening of the fantasy/comedy during the festival. ArtsBeat: A 'Princess Bride' Reunion Planned for New York Film Festival 2012-09-24T05:00:36Z

After “La Doublure,” Roussel began “prospecting” for a new way of making work, which involved constructing an elaborate world of fantasy. How Raymond Roussel Put the Impossible on the Page 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

It also plays upon the earnest megalomania that is fed by every good fantasy series. Finally, a New Harry Potter Story Worth Reading 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

Not all viewers will be familiar with the national and personal references in his work, but there is a joy in the execution, and a freedom of fantasy and eccentricity that is ultimately disarming. Cambodian Art Emerges From Horrors of a Murderous Past 2010-12-29T15:30:02Z

Then you might share the clammy fantasy of crawling around inside each other’s heads. | 'Magic Trip': Stoned Archive: Wild Ride Of the Merry Pranksters 2011-08-04T19:00:07Z

"We kind of indulged in several different types of fantasies, I would say," the daughter said. Single woman throws wedding-gown party for mom who has cancer: Incredible gift of love 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

But “Perry Mason” does paint a pretty, gritty picture of a city where justice is one more Hollywood fantasy and of a protagonist whose guiding light is, “Everybody is guilty.” Review: ‘Perry Mason’ Returns, Hard-Boiled and Warmed Over 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

The inaugural season of the series took the summer by storm, introducing fans to fantasy tropes like hit points, 20-sided dice and the demogorgon. Dungeons & Dragons isn’t a spectator sport: What we lose when the game comes out of the basement and onto the screen 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

But where does fantasy end and reality begin? What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Captain Fantastic’ and Emily Blunt on ‘S.N.L.’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

The name she chose to write under, Ms. Rowling explained, is a mash-up of one of her heroes, Robert F. Kennedy, and a fantasy name, Ella Galbraith, that she chose for herself as a girl. Rowling Solves Some Mysteries About Her Mystery 2013-07-24T19:05:16Z

"To Kill a Mockingbird" as we experience is a great book, but it's also a near-bulletproof fantasy of what a book and its author should be. Is Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' bound for the 'Interstellar' trap? 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

“Honor Among Thieves” isn’t set in a generic fantasy land. A Beginner’s Guide to Dungeons & Dragons 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

Indeed, Neverland looks like a giant children's playground, a fantasy of slides and swings. Peter Pan ? review 2011-01-04T22:00:00Z

Afterwards, I would sort them into categories such as sensations, observations, anxieties and fantasies, in an attempt to understand myself better. 5:2 your life – the TV diet 2013-06-15T08:01:24Z

For an artist who often revels in fantasy, irony and otherworldly artifice, it was an endearingly down-to-earth moment. Best and Worst Moments From the 2022 Grammys 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

The opening credits call it a “dramatic fantasy,” but it is not simply drama, farce or tragedy. What Makes a French Comedy One of the Greatest Films of All Time? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

The romance of adventure has largely shifted from history to fantasy fiction, an easier, less contested playground for conquering white heroes. Review: Hearts of Darkness and Light in ‘The Lost City of Z’ 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Along the way, Ralphie negotiates with Santa Claus and his teacher, fights off a horrible bully and partakes in episodes of fantasy, melodrama and adventure. Dreaming of a white “Christmas Story”: A Yuletide classic’s “color-blind” racism 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

And just as Mr. Dodge evokes a multilevel never-never land with his hedges of artificial turf, Linda Cho conjures up a fantasy world of indolent luxury with her whimsical, mixed-period costumes. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Twelfth Night,’ at Hartford Stage 2013-05-31T23:50:19Z

“I enjoy other people’s weddings, but I never had a wedding fantasy growing up,” Ms. Adams said. The Amy Adams Method 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

I give into his fantasy, feeling so high that I can barely breathe. I am a recovered love addict 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

It’s an excellent example of the Chinese streaming-video industry’s capacity for making slickly disposable, highly enjoyable entertainment that combines elements of costume drama and special-effects-laden fantasy action with a healthy portion of romantic comedy. British Spies, Japanese Teens and a German Cop’s Wild Ride 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

I'm sure I consume it all the time, but I operate on the fantasy that it's all not manipulated that way. Love local and sustainable food? In the future data will drive more decisions than desire 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z

It’s a longstanding fantasy that avant-garde art opposes and subverts the homogenizing effects of consumerism, bureaucracy, industrialization and so forth. ‘Unorthodox’ Faces Paradox at the Jewish Museum 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

It does an excellent job of protecting the fantasy it has created by almost never putting audiences in a position where they have to ask if they really believe in a particular plot development. "Entourage" recap: 8x1 2011-07-25T16:40:00Z

The historical epic, fantasy, action and thriller genres have long filled China's domestic movie screens. Star: 'Lost in Thailand' clicked with modern focus 2013-03-28T12:01:04Z

Jacobs-Jenkins’s version turns the tale into a silly but serious revenge fantasy for all women who ever squirmed under the crushing weight of a patriarchy. Review: Partying to End the Patriarchy in a Dionysian ‘Girls’ 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z

So, for those fantasy BFFs watching at home, here are JLaw’s most endearing Golden Globes moments of the night, in chronological order. Golden Globes Tally: 7 Most Endearing Jennifer Lawrence Moments 2014-01-13T04:18:07Z

And author Amélie Wen Zhao canceled her own debut, a young adult fantasy novel, after an outcry over its depiction of slavery, and released it later after revising it. White author’s book about Black feminism pulled after outcry 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

This is a made-up language—and a group of people—in HBO fantasy Game of Thrones. And the Top TV Words of the Year Are… 2012-09-25T12:00:34Z

“I’d Love to Kill You,” one of four songs written with a new collaborator, Guy Chambers, is the fantasy of a would-be femme fatale whose kisses are lethal. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Ray LaMontagne, Katie Melua and J J Grey 2010-08-22T22:55:00Z

The main story, the part of the book that isn’t fantasy or flashback, is triggered by the end of Sunny’s five-year phase of motherhood and wig wearing. Books of The Times: ‘Shine Shine Shine,’ a Novel by Lydia Netzer 2012-07-04T21:05:09Z

Jack, in wooing me, nurtured the possibility that my romantic fantasies could come true, that I could be seen as a complex person rather than a fetishized token of someone’s imagination. He Made Affection Feel Simple 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

Like all great fantasy, though, it’s about much more than who rules the kingdoms or the dragons or the magic. Winter is here. ‘Game of Thrones’ returns April 14 for its final season. Here’s what to expect. 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

This historical fantasy follows the journey of a hunchback and a pilgrim through medieval France and Italy to collect mystical treasures. The 15 best tween and teen books of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Liszt’s visionary Sonata in B minor is an epic fantasy lasting nearly 30 minutes, shifting from bursts of wildness to passages of profundity. Review: Daniel Lebhardt Shows Daring Command in a New York Debut 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

If your niece likes castles and fantasy she might enjoy Diana Wynne Jones's Charmed Life and the rest of the Chrestomanci Series. I need books set in castles and on islands, please 2013-04-29T14:35:15Z

Two boys fighting over a girl is a fantasy for some women. Awkward – box set review 2013-04-04T14:00:02Z

“The Gold Room” rather turns inward, to fantasies and everyday doubts that many who share the playwright’s experience will recognize. ‘The Gold Room’ Review: Gay Sexuality on Shuffle Mode 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

The fashion/film complex is alive and well and serving its prime purpose: marketing a moment of fantasy and escape. On the Golden Globes Red Carpet, It’s Fantasy vs. Reality 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

I got up the nerve to ask show creator Bill Lawrence a question about the fantasy sequences on the show, which I was barely able to articulate as a teenager. Empire at the Paley Festival: why fans nearly faint when stars are in the room 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

Ah, but the Love McMansion is a fantasy destination, to which polished, preening males of the species flock for the right reasons. A suitor on “The Bachelorette” is revealed to be . . . possibly racist 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

He’s since won another $25,000 in a fantasy basketball tournament and is thinking about a new career. How Fake Sports Are Turning Man Cave Dwellers Into Millionaires 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

They had updated the look of the opera with costumes and sets partly inspired by anime, scrubbed the libretto of historical inaccuracies and recast much of the work as a video-game fantasy. Reimagining ‘Madame Butterfly,’ With Asian Creators at the Helm 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z

Might there be a silver lining here for those of us waiting with bated breath for the next big sci-fi, fantasy or comic-book movie? Could coronavirus-enforced streaming mean better blockbusters? 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

The fantasy of seeing Pryor do stand-up again is a large part of the appeal for any play about that comedian, but it’s also why pulling off the performance is so difficult. ‘Dark Meat on a Funny Mind’ Examines Richard Pryor 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

The red carpet of the Academy Awards is still the best example of Hollywood’s love for pageantry; it’s an event devoted to the fantasy of glamour that fashion can provide. Oscar-Fashion Report Card 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

In addition to drawing famous people, she enjoys drawing fantasy scenes and also does commercial work, including a current commission for a line of Spanish merchandise. Double Dutch: Artist draws with both hands at once 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Chenoweth, 51, is best known as an ebulliently American musical comedy diva, while McKellen, 80, is one of the all-time great British classical stage actors, with a lucrative sideline in fantasy action movies. When Home Is a Big Broadway Stage 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

Caroline becomes a character, too, a Southern-vivacious life force in flashbacks and fantasies. Review: Have You Heard the One About the Grieving Daughter? 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Back when the series started in 2010, I wrote that Parenthood was in a way about “an almost utopian fantasy,” a tight-knit family, living close by one another, available for games, meals and babysitting. Review: Parenthood's Finale Brings It All Back Home 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

“But by maintaining her virgin status, Britney wasn’t rising above these sexual politics—she was also playing to a male fantasy, just one that required slightly less eyeliner.” Sheldon and Amy will finally get it on: How this “Big Bang Theory” storyline breaks new TV ground 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Nothing wrong with a little fantasy now and then, of course. Will Hollywood grow up for boomers? 2010-08-02T19:34:00Z

And how about fantasy castings for forthcoming adaptations? Something Amis: why I already feel shortchanged by the BBC's Money 2010-05-20T12:31:00Z

“If I didn’t define myself for myself,” it says, “I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” Review: ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ on Netflix Is a Bold Reboot From Spike Lee 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

There is always an element of ownership and control about “exotic”—because the dreamer controls the fantasy—which is the downfall of real contact. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

We were making this man’s fantasy come true. I was a horrible hooker: Schoolgirl outfits, wealthy execs and Hawaii — Asa Akira remembers her two escort experiences 2014-05-11T22:30:00Z

One of the most alarming things about sex, I find, is the role of fantasy within it. Why sex and love don’t belong in the same bed 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

That fantasy doesn't belong to any party or political tribe. No, "Top Gun" isn't an anti-woke success story, but rather a tribute to aging Tom Cruise and balls 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

I like to use makeup to surprise and inspire myself with a bit of fantasy. Isabel Toledo’s Beauty and Fitness Regimen 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

The deal would add a seventh and eighth seasons to the epic fantasy series, which returns for Season 6 on April 24. HBO Eyeing a ‘Deadwood’ Return and ‘Game of Thrones’ Extension 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Quentin and his classmates soon encounter a darker side of the fantasy world. TV listings: Monday, Jan. 25, 2016 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

The fantasy of meeting her daughter's attacker is new for the 40-year-old. Norway, survivors still bear scars of Breivik shootings 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

The Levenger Catalog, which specializes in reader-friendly gewgaws, promotes a genteel fantasy of reading constructed around an “ergonomic and ambidextrous” reading table, personalized bookmarks, bespoke pens for note-taking and bespoke notebooks in which to scribble. Perspective | Where do you read books? I read at the mall. 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

The second is that this aspect plays extremely well to men and not at all to women — “Women sense that they are irrelevant to this fantasy, and it bothers them,” he writes. The 'GoodFellas' flap: How it gets a movie and both genders wrong 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

There is also a comment in the film about having a "fantasy of affirmation" — that success is a way of getting back at the schoolyard bullies. Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto give voice to the prickly friendship of authors "Truman & Tennessee" 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

Is their relationship going to suffer the impact of that fantasy versus the reality? Sarah Treem on ‘The Affair’ and Why She Loves the Character You Hate 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

But it wasn't fantasy, fantasy was not itself a character as it is in the West. Wayétu Moore on writing the immortal heroine of "She Would Be King": "She grew as I grew" 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

Away from the bridge table, Rosner was a sports enthusiast who loved fantasy baseball. Bridge: Remembering Warren Rosner, 3-Time National Champion 2013-09-08T22:00:39Z

At last, we sit to talk about “Chantrapas,” his autobiographical fantasy. Recounting a Life of Disobedience 2010-05-21T11:30:00Z

According to the Baltic Gallery in Gateshead, where Price exhibited earlier this year, she "draws upon historical film, photographic archives and collections of artefacts to generate fantasy episodes". Elizabeth Price wins Turner Prize 2012-12-04T13:02:04Z

The writers have to cram in a critical mass of the plot from George R. R. Martin’s sprawling “A Song of Ice and Fire” fantasy novels, while keeping things intelligible across seasons and episodes. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Game of Thrones’ Opens a Fourth Season 2014-04-04T21:45:49Z

“They are derisive about fantasies of racial purity, black or white. They are unsparing on the madness of racial classification but frank, and very beautiful, on the lure of racial belonging.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

And the meandering flow of the plot feels appropriate for the beginning of the silly season, when thoughts turn to fantasies of flight and contemplation of the ruts we’re stuck in. Review: A Shaggy Fish Story With a Bounty of Questing Heroines 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

But if I am sticking with secondary-world fantasy for a bit, one of my favorite current writers is Robert Jackson Bennett. Review | Fantasy noir combines the best of two genres. These are the books that do it well. 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z

Most successful horror movies also mitigate its impact by constructing a barrier of the impossible between our real and the dark fantasy within the story. Scare goes the neighborhood in Amazon's "Them," where trauma porn collides with our visceral reality 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

Yet foraging for my dinner satisfied a very primal itch that only helped me believe that I was living on a fantasy island. Kayak to Willapa Bay’s Long Island to camp among elk, oysters and ancient cedars 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

On the “Ye” track “Yikes,” he calls his bipolar disorder a superpower; last December, he declared, on Twitter, that he could not make “dark fantasy level music” when he was taking meds. Kanye West’s Sunday Service Is Full of Longing and Self-Promotion 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

Where Peele's disguised his social and racial commentary consciousness in a horror costume, "Little Fires Everywhere" veils its provocations in the sort of broad, WASP-y fantasy people so fondly devour. "Little Fires Everywhere" is a gripping, soapy reminder of that yesterday's ills are still present 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

The crucial element of horror is political and moral—the realities that metaphorical fantasies evoke. Review: Jordan Peele’s “Us” Is a Colossal Cinematic Achievement 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z

Shockingly enough, the pandemic seems to have depleted our appetite for apocalypse fantasy. Have hope for "The Last of Us," a drama about enduring at the end of the world, not just surviving 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

This is an exhibition that takes us on a journey from medieval England and the forest of Arden to Venice, Rome and Prospero's fantasy island. Shakespeare: Staging the World – review 2012-07-19T13:14:31Z

It's an eccentric architectural fantasy that Rattle and his wife, Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená, have made their own with a cornucopia of Czech carpentry. Simon Rattle: Baton charge 2011-02-15T21:30:00Z

More than 13 years after appearing in then indie director Justin Lin’s Better Luck Tomorrow, #StarringJohnCho is still only a fantasy. Fresh Off The Boat shows Hollywood there's life beyond yellowface 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

Simmering beneath the surface of single days are memories and frustrated fantasies of ghostly lives not lived, vying for attention. Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead – review 2013-07-21T13:00:00Z

Although the show’s title speaks to an antiquated Cinderella fantasy of marrying a rich man, Ms. Stanger’s actual message is more sentimental than materialistic. The Mating Game 2010-10-22T22:20:00Z

And like the operas Mr. Rihm admired as a child, “Dionysos” is mythical and magical: an operatic fantasy, he calls it. Music Review: Premiere of Wolfgang Rihm?s ?Dionysos? at Salzburg 2010-08-01T22:45:00Z

"Game," the HBO fantasy epic, won just four of its 19 nominations, all for technical categories. Emmy Awards score ratings win despite the odds and mixed reviews 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

“They’re memories, fantasies, dark comments. And you think it’s darkness, then you’re trying to position this darkness, then maybe it’s not so dark, then there are the memories of dark.” From Russia With Metaphors 2014-05-07T04:00:00Z

On the night I saw it, “Sideways” performed for a mostly female audience, but the surreal fantasies only went one way. Review: In ‘Sideways: The Experience,’ Bros Run Amok in Wine Country 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

They can only come together in an interlude of musical fantasy—there are a few of these—but the movie is less a musical than simply freewheeling; if Labaki likes it, she includes it. Where Do We Go Now?: Women in Black 2012-05-10T10:45:57Z

That fantasy is as much part of the charm of as the fast-paced dialogue and Martin Sheen’s wondrous ability to glower or charm. Revisiting The West Wing: A Stirring, Comforting Fantasy 2013-04-19T18:50:47Z

It is a fantasy, what my beer buddies jokingly refer to as “sweet drunk talk.” Perspective | For 20 years, happy hour has seen us through work — and life 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

But I think that push is not the need for fantasy, but a familiarity with the fantasy - also with melancholy: the color of dusk, night, death and separation are dominant in the prose. World literature tour: Indonesia 2011-07-18T11:22:40Z

For one thing, it marks the return of Neeson to the kind of substantive, mature roles his fans have craved while he’s been making science-fiction fantasies and franchise installments. In movies, violence against women lets filmmakers indulge toxic fantasies

Somehow the actors and writers throw equal parts of mundane reality into a bowl of bizarre and whipped the combination of reality and fantasy into a cream thick enough to hold up. Smart Watch: “David Makes Man” and “Lodge 49,” where fantasy and reality collide 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

But the postmodern wink that has been de rigueur with most versions of “Into the Woods,” acknowledging the arch incongruity of age-old fantasy tales told with contemporary, shrink-shrunk psychology, is entirely lacking here. ‘Into the Woods,’ Stripped Down by Fiasco Theater 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Other ideas that emerged during an extraordinary seven-day evidentiary hearing are a “fantasy” and a “hope,” based on “fear and supposition,” Patrizia said. Closing arguments presented in plan to break up Corcoran Gallery

After all, that is what the audience pays to see and achieve – a conduit and vehicle for an escape into the mental state of fun, ecstasy, and pleasure where fantasy bleeds into reality. Lemmy Kilmister lived the ultimate 70 years of sex, drugs and rock and roll 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

Underpinning this all is, of course, a fantasy of self-sufficiency. My virtual life as a jam maker in "Stardew Valley," where small-batch food takes down Big Business 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

A revolution would dispel those fantasies, of course, but not forever. Summer Arts Preview: NGA puts the varied works of Hubert Robert on display 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

More famous in his time than Theodore Roosevelt and better-traveled than The Grateful Dead in ours, Buffalo Bill basically invented the fantasy of the American West through his touring Wild West Show. Kanye, Out West 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

The clients noted that the scene looked less like a travel fantasy than a suicide. Don Draper: Stuck in place as 'Mad Men' drifts? 2013-04-08T03:03:08Z

Stark history and buoyant fantasy often link arms in The Wind Rises. Is Hayao Miyazaki Gone With The Wind? 2013-09-02T19:29:07Z

One listens to “Becoming Madeleine” primarily for clues to how such a genre-buster of a fantasy novel could emerge in the early 1960s, and from this particular author. For ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Fans, an Audiobook That Celebrates Madeleine L’Engle 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

Rowling has ever discussed the Battle of Britain as an influence on her fantasy universe, but she's precisely the right age to have been raised on such national mythological tales of Churchill-era nobility and sacrifice. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2": An action-packed curtain call 2011-07-14T00:01:00Z

The “Sweet Land” librettos are placeless and poetic; the music is reminiscent of known styles, but heard as if through a prism; the colorful costumes are works of arresting fantasy. An Opera About Colonialism Shows How History Warps 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

Charmed was one of the first popular fantasy series on TV, airing years before True Blood, Once Upon a Time, or American Horror Story: Coven ever mined the magical and horror worlds for material. CBS Conjuring Up Charmed Reboot 2013-10-25T19:11:43Z

Marlon James’s 2019 novel “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” was described as an African “Game of Thrones” — fantasy fiction on adrenaline, written by a Jamaican winner of the Booker Prize. Marlon James’s Moon Witch Tells Her Side of a Haunting Story 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

If fashion is chimerical fantasy, Mr. Happel brings a dose of earthbound reality to the work: Will all that detailed embroidery read from far away? The ‘Mad Professor’ Who Makes Sure the Tutus Swirl 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

In the meantime, what would your fantasy Proms lineup be? My fantasy Proms lineup 2010-04-07T15:26:00Z

For dreaming up fantasy fashion statements, combining any given celebrity with any given clothing ensemble like an infinite set of paper dolls. An AI-generated ‘Balenciaga pope’ fooled us all. How much does it matter? 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

Throughout “Wish I Was Here,” you are aware of how carefully its elements — from fantasy sci-fi sequences to deathbed confessions — are measured out in teaspoons. Zach Braff Directs and Stars in ‘Wish I Was Here’ 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Fox's dramas are darkly violent, including a gruesome update of the Ichabod Crane tale and an Abrams fantasy about cops being paired with androids. Old rules don't mean much to broadcasters 2013-05-19T14:52:11Z

Osborne does note, however, that academy voters tend to have a blind spot when it comes to big, visual-effects-laden fantasies. Best picture Oscar contenders often break the genre film barrier 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Crammed into a smallish, backwater meeting room at Comic-Con International, they watched a PowerPoint video that mingled “Star Wars” imagery with the kind of fantasies associated with H. G. Wells or Georges Méliès. Comic-Con 2015: 'Star Wars,' as Told by Steampunk Fans 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Klara Zieglerova’s set, with its brightly painted blues and greens, and a rocky perch or two, locates the play firmly in a kind of fantasy land, where it belongs. | 'The Shaughraun': Hiss at the Villain, Cheer the Vagabond 2011-05-10T21:35:45Z

For the briefest of seconds, he saw himself, hovering over her, fantasy and reality superimposed. The great Moon-rock heist - extract 2011-07-08T21:59:00Z

He talks about the role of fantasy in his life, the fanciful things he loved as a child. The Girl with the Eloise Tattoo 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

White—English author, most famously, of a great Arthurian fantasy, “The Once and Future King”. Birdsong 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

You start to invent your fantasy world, which conforms to your rules. Jarvis Cocker Keeps Hearing That Voice 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

But “divergence” itself, as an inherent mark of rebel superiority, feeds an even more basic fantasy—of teen exceptionalism. The Apocalypse Will Be Like High School 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

She showcased her ability to mix genres — spaghetti western, tragedy and hip-hop — in “Is God Is,” a tale of twins enacting a revenge fantasy. The Creators of ‘On Sugarland’ Build a Site of Mourning and Repair 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Greengrass also deals with the aftermath, the frail recovery of survivors and the trial of Breivik – for all his stunted fantasy life, not a child but a man of 32. From The Hunger Games to Utøya and The Hate U Give: how cinema declared war on the young 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

But on a deeper level — beyond the wigs — Annie and Hedwig are kindred spirits, plucky optimists so dedicated to their fantasies that they bend the world into new shapes.  'Annie' with a bad attitude: 'Hedwig' rocks the Pantages 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

The producers can't have planned this but they somehow landed upon a quartet built for the ideal fantasy quarantine house. "Great British Baking Show" was a showstopper, redeemed this season by fantastic contestants 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z

But what the producers and viewers want is what they call “good TV” — in this case, working-class fantasies aimed at men craving televised booster shots of testosterone. Arts & Leisure Preview: Grab a Brew While They Face Death 2011-03-24T16:56:52Z

“My conversations drop off sometimes when I realize the fantasy version of online dating and the reality of it” are at odds, he said. With Some Dating Apps: Less Casual Sex Than Casual Text 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Steel’s plans cannot really be seen as a fulfillment of Mr. Kellogg’s fantasy. Critic?s Notebook: For an Opera Company, a Troubled Vision Quest 2011-07-13T11:48:19Z

Morgan beat Benedict Cumberbatch, Matt Smith and Daniel Mays to win the award for his role in the fantasy show, which ended after five series in December. Strictly beats X Factor at NTAs 2013-01-24T01:31:31Z

Even the casual objectification of, say, Brett Ratner’s “Rush Hour” series — so often written off as harmless fantasy — is constructed to elevate men’s desires over women’s lives. How the Myth of the Artistic Genius Excuses the Abuse of Women 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

As the executive editor of the Vertigo imprint at DC Comics, she oversaw illustrated tales of fantasy, speculative fiction and outcast characters who did not fit into the publisher’s mainstream lineup of costumed adventurers. Comics’ Mother of ‘the Weird Stuff’ Is Moving On 2013-05-29T21:48:48Z

Jemisin, the Hugo Award-winning fantasy author, blends speculative and literary fiction in this, the first of a new series. Perspective | What to read in 2020 based on the books you loved in 2019 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

“This is from fantasy to reality in a matter of seconds.” ‘Younger’ Finale: Sutton Foster and Darren Star on Last Twist 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

At the Atlantic, Spencer Kornhaber argues that this is the whole point, that “Game of Thrones” means to frighten “not because it’s fantasy but because, in some deep way, it’s familiar.” Reveling in the darkness: “True Detective,” “Game of Thrones” and the missing critique in TV’s cult of gritty realism 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

Like Transformers or fantasy football teams, these meals are both modular and complete, constructed from parts that can be added or subtracted from at whim. When Dinner Proves Divisive: One Strategy, Many Dishes 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

“Star,” Lee Daniels’s new musical fantasy series for Fox, stars the relatively unknown Jude Demorest as a young woman named Star who wants to be a star. Review: A Chaotic Universe in ‘Star’ 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

But in more vainglorious moments, the fantasy might become literal. Can a live "30 Rock" succeed? 2010-10-14T16:40:00Z

Inspired by his childhood favorites, fantasies like Roald Dahl's "James and the Giant Peach" and "Labyrinth," Segel said he wanted to write a book that showed children that it's OK to be afraid. Festival of Books: How actor Jason Segel rescued his own 'Nightmares!' 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

I felt it would be a fantasy, unless I did an entire parallel show, to show the lives of black people through that world. Matthew Weiner on Life After ‘Mad Men,’ Sexual Harassment and His New Amazon Show 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

My literary début was now going to be set in a vast, planet-size fantasy archipelago. Start with the Map 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

He calls the result "a scary fairy tale," though it seems more grounded in truth than fantasy. 'My Joy' takes fascinating detours on a truck driver's bleak road trip 2012-01-19T20:43:04Z

Even in this lighthearted fantasy format, Israel is a country too small and too consumed with politics and its past to airbrush out the real world. ‘Real Housewives’ in Greece, Israel and Canada 2013-06-06T12:00:01Z

But precisely because classical music is a space of privacy and fantasy, Mao found it unacceptable. Chinese Composers With an Ear to the World 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

At least in David Fincher’s recent movie adaptation of “Dragon Tattoo,” she was also pretty clearly a male fantasy, to be ogled and exploited by the cool, predatory gaze of his camera. Arts & Leisure: Katniss Everdeen, a New Type of Woman Warrior 2012-04-04T12:00:00Z

Going down this rabbit hole, and acknowledging the intense satisfaction I got from these little revenge fantasies against 7-year-olds, got me thinking about the parameters of acceptable maternal behavior. When Mothers Bully Back 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

And so I love genre and I love fantasy and the supernatural, and "Yellowjackets" just fits the bill. Nicole Maines talks "Yellowjackets" 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

To Victorians this would look like a Lewis Carroll fantasy – a steampunk counterfactual that can only end in exploding boilers and squashed top hats and the mirror crack'd from side to side. Cameron and Clegg: the improbable coalition 2010-05-12T15:22:00Z

There’s a fantasy epic exultation to her music, but the singer-songwriter credited the simple “Ghost” for why she headlined her first festival Saturday. A look at how they lived the Sweetlife (Festival) 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

In both cases, the interchangeability contributes to their fantasy appeal. ‘Zero Hour: Tokyo Rose’s Last Tape’ at Japan Society 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

When a writer sets a fantasy novel in our dusty old real world, the general approach is: “Everything cruddy just like it is now, except, also magic!” Leigh Bardugo Brews a Witchy Tale of Ghosts, Dark Magic and Murder 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

I barked, but, for fear of seeming like a luddite, I conceded that maybe high fantasy wasn’t the appropriate genre for this first encounter. Too big? Too loud? Too real? Billy Lynn and other failed cinematic innovations 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Throughout the morning, he harbored a fantasy that maybe Rafael Nadal had somehow hung around after winning the men’s title the day before. They Can Act. But Can They Serve? 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

Though more women than ever are playing fantasy football, it’s still a male-dominated pursuit, with of participants. The League: 10 Things We Learned from the Cast and Creators 2013-10-31T09:45:44Z

And it's radically different from the bucolic landscapes associated with epic fantasy since "The Lord of the Rings." Review: 'Dragon Age II' creates a new urban legend 2011-03-09T11:35:10Z

There are all these fantasy rules for these various creatures, but I can never remember them so I draw what I want. From ‘The Simpsons’ to ‘Disenchantment’ 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

From a wintry studio Werther – here an artist rather than a poet – dreams of Charlotte and her happy, wholesome family, and these fantasies spiral him into increasing madness. Werther – review 2013-02-18T17:25:50Z

In its Season 3 finale on Sunday night, HBO’s popular fantasy series gave its fans a breather after the graphic slaughter that punctuated the previous week’s episode and inspired countless reaction videos. ArtsBeat: Unraveling the 'Game of Thrones' Season 3 Finale 2013-06-10T18:22:19Z

"Usually, the spy is the one committing an act — like taking someone out — and then becomes the hunted. It lifts the whole crime show into another level, in a fantasy world." Spies coming in from the cold for TV shows 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

There may not be the high-tech gadgets of something like Ghostbusters, but Doctor Strange shares with those futuristic paranormal fantasies the idea that no matter what the discipline, knowledge is power. Black magic surgeon: Doctor Strange brings the occult back to the big screen 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

James Nicola, artistic director of New York Theater Workshop, underscored this point: “There’s something very American about this fantasy of world domination, of fame and celebrity and how that blinds people.” Sad and Haunted Girls Who Couldn?t Play Worth a Lick 2011-05-22T00:45:25Z

We joked that perhaps he was fulfilling a fantasy. Joe Dunthorne short story: The Shapes We Made 2012-12-23T00:06:34Z

If working from your own kitchen sounds like a fantasy, it’s not all jammies and grits. At Just Right Farm, Plymouth Rock is a site for culinary pilgrims 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

Playing Dungeons & Dragons introduced me to fantasy and science fiction literature. Eddie Glaude Jr., an Expert on James Baldwin, Reveals His Favorite Baldwin Book 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

Fact, fantasy and science fiction mingle in this script, produced by Ars Nova and SoHo Rep, which unites an imagined Civil War soldier with the real-life artificial intelligence pioneer Ada Lovelace. Theater Listings for Oct. 2-8 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

“Fashion is fantasy,” he said with a shrug. Skin Deep: Fashion Week Experts Offer Tips on How to Apply Runway Makeup 2014-02-12T23:49:48Z

They were shown in certain theaters at 48 frames per second, and some viewers felt they had been transported to a movie set, not to a fantasy world. The Real Message in Ang Lee’s Latest? ‘It’s Just Good to Look At’ 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

It lifts from and melds with just about every type of cinema: comedy, sci-fi, action, romance, fantasy, documentary. When Is a Horror Movie Not a Horror Movie? 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

These fantasies of the carefree, nature-bound lives of the rural poor offer examples to be admired, but from a distance. Looking Close at the Fragile Beauty of Chinese Painting 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Their relationship in the new “Star Trek Beyond” illustrates one of the great fantasies of management literature, namely that interpersonal antagonism can be harnessed for productive ends. Even Superheroes Punch the Clock 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

One of the biggest challenges about the role, which the actress found exciting, was having to segue between reality-based scenes and the alternative fantasy universe that Susan has dreamed up for herself. In ‘Landscapers,’ True Crime Meets Hollywood Fantasy 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

"My experience is that closure is an extraordinarily compelling fantasy of mourning," he writes. The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz – review 2013-01-27T07:01:24Z

Niven was ahead of the fashion: nowadays a lot of fantasy writers are interested in the rules of magic, the physics that governs it and the theory that underlies it, the same way Niven was. Lord of the Ringworld: In Praise of Larry Niven 2012-06-13T13:25:03Z

“The idea that there are these incidentally huge-breasted women in designer dresses who kill people for money – it’s a total fantasy,” says Luke Jennings, author of the novels on which TV’s Killing Eve was based. Assassins in stockings and stilettos: is it time movies killed off hitwoman cliches? 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z

As for Amazon's rendition of the legendary fantasy franchise, the series is currently slated to have at least five seasons, with eight to 10 episodes per season. A “Lord of the Rings” anime prequel is on the way 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

But a disconnect between cause and effect is inevitable in a culture that wallows in fantasy and favors reality television over realism. The TV Watch: Where Alcoholism Drinks in the Laughs 2010-12-02T23:21:00Z

Because, of course, fantasy role-playing and the gender at the core of your being are totally the same thing. A transgender child’s victory 2012-09-28T19:42:00Z

By the time she was in her 40s and living largely apart from her husband, her fantasies were no longer about being a princess. Princesses for grownups: Diana and Grace of Monaco 2013-07-18T15:18:20Z

The blockbuster supernatural tale "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" and the action fantasy "The Last Airbender" tied for the most nominations Monday with nine each, including worst picture. `Twilight,' `Airbender' lead Razzies with 9 noms 2011-01-24T10:31:04Z

For one, they discovered that "the role of fantasy for men and women is different," the director said. Stripping taught `Magic Mike' cast about women 2012-06-28T13:53:08Z

Even after Yachine is chosen to lead one operation — the bombing of an Italian restaurant — he is shown shaking with fear, and his eyes do not burn with heavenly fantasies. ‘Horses of God,’ Nabil Ayouch’s Film About Islamic Extremism 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

In his novels and journalism, he dissected both the destructive attempts of post-colonial societies to remake themselves and the privileged Westerners who encouraged their fantasies. Reading Naipaul in Africa 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

Actually, I think they still play the same role in women’s fantasies — aggressive. Janet Evanovich and the plot twist of success 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

An advance look at the sets and English fashion designer Zandra Rhodes' costumes suggests a show that blends fantasy with a profound sense of dignity, even of awe. Seattle Opera plans a magic new 'Flute' 2011-04-29T21:44:52Z

Australian writers are making a name for themselves worldwide as purveyors of exciting new science fiction and fantasy, he argues. Your weekend reading: Brian Aldiss, AM Homes and Hannah Kent 2013-06-08T04:47:26Z

An average of 6.6 million watched the US network for the hit fantasy drama. Game of Thrones confirms new series 2014-04-09T09:32:38Z

British critics raved, comparing the book to George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” and to the fantasies of J. R. R. Tolkien, Jonathan Swift and A. A. Milne. Richard Adams, Author of ‘Watership Down,’ Dies at 96 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

In quarantine, so many of us were relying on fantasy so heavily because we were so isolated. Zoe Lister-Jones subverts sex in "Slip": "Through orgasm, she's being transported into a multiverse" 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

In the season of large-scale fantasy entertainment, documentaries may be ideal counterprogramming. Captivating Films, Complicated Truths 2011-07-23T00:03:17Z

Stirring his pot of nightmares, legends, fairy tales and human folly into stories, the British-born fantasy writer Neil Gaiman has produced more than 20 books for children and adults, most of them scary and strange. Neil Gaiman Follows the Guiding Light of Instinct 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Germany’s 1940 attack through the Ardennes had been its greatest success of the war, and for a moment Hitler’s fantasy of repeating this triumph seemed plausible. Review: In ‘Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge,’ Antony Beevor Is on Familiar Ground 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

For now, though, the first draft of fantasy arrives on Lifetime. A Lifetime Movie Nails the College-Admissions Scandal 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Shared lodging and communal spaces may be trending, but for those seeking more privacy than a “Do Not Disturb” sign offers, a spate of new private island resorts play to castaway-in-comfort fantasies. Four Resorts for a Private Island Vacation 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

The closely cropped compositions abstract the body into landscape, a political arena where people express their agendas and fantasies regardless of whether they mean harm or not. Works for the Now, by Queer Artists of Color 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

The technical crew pulls off impressive moments of reality morphing spookily into fantasy. On local stages: Hamlet's pals; a soldier returns 2012-02-03T04:23:04Z

In a series of multimedia works — from photography to meticulously rendered drawings — the artist looks at the culture of horse racing, touching on issues of fantasy, escapism and chance. Datebook: The art of an influential school, video dystopia, the drawings of a Chicano activist 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

The director Nancy Meyers doesn’t just make movies, she makes the kind of lifestyle fantasies you sink into like eiderdown. Review: ‘The Intern’ Proves Experience Doesn’t Have to Start at the Top 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Hungry for both fantasy and inspiration, readers crave protagonists who, after overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, triumph at the end of the day. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z

Making it in your own kitchen allows you to fulfill that fantasy of eating six, 10 or even 20 in one sitting. You Don’t Need a Party to Make Shrimp Cocktail 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

Nonetheless, "House of the Dragon," through the lens of fantasy, reflects a slice of the English medieval experience. HBO’s "House of the Dragon" was inspired by a real medieval dynastic struggle over a female ruler 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

Yvonne's indiscretion beneath the Houses of Parliament grows into a compelling cautionary tale of what happens when fantasy begins to occlude real life. Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty – review 2013-06-08T08:31:01Z

Niven dabbles in fantasy too — his Warlock stories posit a world where magic is a natural, unrenewable resource that is slowly and irreversibly being consumed. Lord of the Ringworld: In Praise of Larry Niven 2012-06-13T13:25:03Z

A recording of Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s “chiaroscuro fantasy of a bio-play,” as The New York Times put it last year, is available again. Theater to Stream: Star-Studded Digital Shorts and Escape Rooms 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

In her goofy fantasy, she imagines that one of them might propose and keep her number from hitting the dreaded 20. | 'What?s Your Number?': ?What?s Your Number?? With Anna Faris - Review 2011-09-30T04:23:03Z

Like the recent “Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie,” or the film spinoffs of “Sex and the City,” “Bridget Jones’s Baby” trades on nostalgia for the characters’ quaint misbehavior and silly fantasies of yesteryear. Review: A Zany Renée Zellweger and Mystery Daddy in ‘Bridget Jones’s Baby’ 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Ms. Cao had begun to immerse herself in another domain of escapist fantasy, that of the online reality of Second Life. Cao Fei Captures Modern Malaise in a Series of Inventive Videos 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

While the futuristic orientation of science fiction lends the genre an easy ability to reimagine the politics and economics of tomorrow, major works in fantasy rarely seem to challenge the social systems of the path. Why can't sci-fi and fantasy imagine alternatives to capitalism or feudalism? 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z

I think that many, many of the people who watch it are well along in the fantasy of ... The Odd Couple 2010-05-07T22:14:00Z

Running the country is hard work that doesn’t leave much time for watching the beloved HBO fantasy series, much less reading George R.R. Barack Obama is Tyrion Lannister: The “Game of Thrones” theory that explains eight years of demented dysfunction 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Later in the season, though, we'll be running a series of supplements, one devoted to each of the following genres: horror, comedy, crime, science fiction and fantasy, action and war, crime, and arthouse. The best films ever: help us complete our genre handbooks 2010-09-20T15:47:00Z

Is television supposed to sanitize life for us so that we can feel comfortable with our fantasies in our living rooms? ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 7: Of Love and Sacrifice 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z

It's only when he talks his way into her house that you see Wong subtly fix her grin in way that hints Amy is entertaining a dangerous fantasy. What makes "Beef" so seductive? Understanding the intimacy of rage sheds light on that ending 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z

Bong and his two families arrive at an ending that may offer a tiny, distant window of Dostoevsky-style hope, or may be nothing more than fantasy. "Parasite": A prickly, disturbing class-war thriller — and a signature film of 2019 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

Stahl is sent to Paris to make a film about the French Foreign Legion in World War I that is a fantasy even by Hollywood standards. Books of The Times: ‘Mission to Paris’ by Alan Furst 2012-06-03T22:37:20Z

Lewis fantasy, a man hops a cosmic bus trekking from something like Hell to someplace near Heaven, asking questions at every stop. Visions of Heaven (and how to get there) in C.S. Lewis’s ‘Great Divorce’ 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

This is the best kind of urban fantasy, filled with diverse characters and thought-provoking philosophies. New science fiction and fantasy for July

Luminous Julie Harris, Close Up and Afar As a child, long before I ever set foot in Manhattan, I entertained deep and near-religious fantasies about what Broadway theaters must be like. Critic’s Notebook: Luminous Julie Harris, Close Up and Afar 2013-08-25T21:50:35Z

Schwab’s Shades of Magic trilogy, which opened up the genre of fantasy fiction to him and remains a favorite. Great reads for the armchair traveler 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

The visual splendor is part of the fantasy that the producers hope to present. | Television: The New Season: ‘Revolution’ on NBC 2012-09-09T19:57:24Z

Now, after developing a cult following, Ms. Okorafor’s gritty, unconventional fantasies are catching on with a much larger, mainstream audience. Nnedi Okorafor and the Fantasy Genre She Is Helping Redefine 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

She didn’t create the financial bubble but she soared on it, profited from it, merged its fantasy of wealth and éclat with hers. Blue Jasmine: A Woody Allen Woman Under the Influence 2013-07-25T15:03:54Z

Progressing chronologically, you learn of the rise and fall of styles like Greek Revival, Gothic fantasy, Colonial Revival and Beaux-Arts. Art in Review: ‘Selling the Dwelling’: ‘The Books That Built America’s Houses, 1775-2000’ 2014-01-16T22:48:13Z

When Winner imagines a fantasy in which she’s able to seize control, the personality shift that might have been successful within the boundaries of the stage loses impact once the scene starts cutting around. ‘Reality’ Review: An Unusual Suspect 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

After all, isn’t it every book lover’s fantasy to have her favorite author come out from behind the editorial curtain and schmooze? On the Scene: At Lisa Scottoline’s Book-Club Party 2013-11-05T19:36:27Z

In this scene, Ms. Gugino reflects on the differences between fantasy and reality as she watches Disney’s “Cinderella” one night. ArtsBeat: In Performance: Carla Gugino of ‘A Kid Like Jake’ 2013-07-02T12:00:08Z

But we can do something much bigger,” Morrison said, alluding to a fantasy sequence involving Barrie and Sylvia’s children that’s been more elaborately re-created for the stage. 'Finding Neverland' ready to fly after a bumpy trip to Broadway 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

Two years after its series finale outraged fans around the world, HBO's controversial epic fantasy series "Game of Thrones" has become even more controversial. “Game of Thrones” alum Hannah Waddingham says she was “waterboarded” for 10 hours in filming 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

I get that a teenage stepmother is not your fantasy. My Stepmother? But She’s 19! 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

The notion of a younger generation calling out hypocrisy by actually taking the actions an older generation only bloviated about holds some appeal, but the play is more interested in validating several wearying middle-age fantasies. Review: In ‘Death of the Liberal Class,’ a Writer Tones Down His Anger 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

When it comes to the peplum, costumes are less important than projecting the fantasy of a pre-Christian civilization. ‘Gods of Egypt’ and ‘Alexander the Great’: Let Me Polish That Breastplate 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

You may think you're reading "The Illumination" as fantasy or parable. 'The Illumination': Kevin Brockmeier's fable of human pain made manifest 2011-02-24T00:04:07Z

It is not the first time that adapting Tolkien’s fantasy novels for the screen has required a search for unusual-looking actors. Lord of the Rings TV series issues New Zealand casting call for 'funky-looking' people 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

“Beyond the Lights” may be a fantasy — movies about love, like songs about love, tend to fall into that category — but it is an uncommonly smart and honest fantasy. ‘Beyond the Lights,’ a Diva’s Romance 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Others know her as the author of the "Earthsea" books, a fantasy cycle written for young adults but admired by readers of all ages. Ursula K. Le Guin will receive National Book Foundation award 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

But it’s also fair to say that if you’re tracking down only ladies, and encouraging others to do the same, you’re coming across as some kind of weird deviant playing out fantasies. Hey, “artists,” leave women who eat in public alone 2014-04-11T19:38:00Z

With a little romance — Tiki isn't sure whether to trust a handsome fellow thief — and plenty of adventure, this romp will attract fantasy and historical fiction aficionados. New kids' books: 12 days of a Washington Christmas and fairy tales for teens 2011-12-09T20:04:05Z

There are many things about Meyer’s fantasy universe that drive me crazy, but her constant sidestepping of accepted vampire lore comes close to topping the list. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn?Part I. More Like Breaking Yawn 2011-11-17T17:30:14Z

There is a realistic novel for teens about an Arab Indian American girl and a middle-grade fantasy with Bangladeshi American characters. A step toward greater diversity in children’s books: Hena Khan’s ‘Amina’s Voice’ 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

The new guard is aiming higher, reimagining romantic fantasies free from patriarchal norms and misogyny. The new rom com fantasy: A happily-ever-after based on equality and humanity 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

The company both democratized a luxury good, making it more attainable, and whitewashed the product, creating an American-made “Oriental” rug that replaced an Orientalist fantasy with a technological one. The End of the Wonder Rug 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z

If you’ve ever played Dungeons and Dragons, you may have encountered a dungeon master who took the game very, very seriously, attacking the task of fantasy world-building with excessive scholarly rigor and over-the-top imaginative zeal. ‘The Northman’ Review: Danish Premodern 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

The knives are out, but only notionally; the play’s hysterical climax, in which they, their daughters, their cats and their parakeets feast on one another as food, is merely a mutual fantasy. Review: Is Edward Albee ‘At Home at the Zoo’? You Bet He Is. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

Tolkien hit shelves Thursday, a century after the fantasy author first started working on it. A new J.R.R. Tolkien book hits shelves, 100 years after it was conceived 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

She did jaunty basics before they went mass, selling women a fantasy of lived-in elegance. What Is Lost in Hedi Slimane’s Celine 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

In imagining the futuristic fashion fantasy, the designer said he was inspired by the hope of better days ahead. Bella Hadid, Irina Shayk rock thong jeans on virtual Mugler runway 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

Some of the action hovers confusingly between fantasy and flashback. Cinderella ? review 2010-12-10T17:26:00Z

As for fantasy: "Harry Potter is a boy detective and Sherlock Holmes is, essentially, a magician." Crime fiction: Evidence points to a clash of genres 2012-07-19T08:15:53Z

Christopher Wilkinson and Stephen J Rivele's screenplay then transfers into strict fantasy territory as the former combatants team up to battle Chinatown gangsters. Birth of the Dragon: the Bruce Lee 'origins story' takes a flying leap forward 2013-02-20T14:11:20Z

“The Antlered Ship” aims for a dreamier, artier style of sea-faring fantasy. Masters of Illustration Bring Breathtaking Art to These Seafaring Stories 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

Here are five takeaways to help prepare us for the first instalment of the new fantasy trilogy. Five things we learned about Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

It’s an incandescent, unresolvable contest of fantasy and reality. Klimt, Schiele and Picasso: Erotic Visions From Three Modern Masters 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

The gap between thought and action allows space for human agency: self-control, the understanding that fantasy and reality are distinct, and the acceptance, essential to maturity, that not all desires can or should be gratified. Mind reading is possible! 2012-12-15T23:00:00Z

Olympus The fantasy drama about a young hero named Hero and his friends going up against the gods of ancient Greece ends its freshman season. Thursday's TV highlights: 'Food Fighters' and more 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

The last time a science fiction, fantasy or horror series won the outstanding drama series Emmy was in 2005 for the first season of "Lost." Emmys 2014: Little awards love for big 'Game of Thrones' 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

What she was meant to do was write fantasy, she realized. A Star of Y.A. Imagines a Supernatural Ivy League in Her Debut for Adults 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

It resembles the kind of meandering fantasies that clever children dream up, which take bizarre, illogical twists when whim strikes and don’t pay much mind to the pleasures of satisfying narrative. Critic?s Notebook: Nothing Left to Lose, or Too Dark to Contemplate 2010-09-07T22:17:00Z

Drag does that too: we also build worlds to stage our emotions and the fantasies we want to share with people. Sasha Velour: ‘Drag is darkness turned into power’ 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

The show takes an insouciant attitude toward the butterfly effect, the notion — central to most time-travel fantasies — that the slightest change made in the past will ripple forward and affect the present. Review: In ‘Timeless,’ a Time-Traveling Trio and a High-Stakes Chase 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

A mature, real man in an era of superhero fantasy, he radiates something rare in movie musclemen: a haunted gravity to match his outsize physique. Taken 2: Liam Neeson Proves Age and Body Count Are Just Numbers 2012-10-05T14:00:18Z

After all, the "Teen Wolf" franchise and similar projects have often explored the physical coming of age through fantasy storytelling. The best and absolute worst onscreen first periods, from "Carrie" to "Turning Red" 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

Two Paris stories made the cut, the family adventure "Hugo" and the romantic fantasy "Midnight in Paris." 'Help,' 'Bridesmaids' earn nods for producer award 2012-01-03T17:48:10Z

After dark, the bars and bridges light up with Vegas-like abandon, turning the city from seaside haven to cyberpunk fantasy. Eating My Way Through Vietnam’s Most Livable City 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

Most of Laurenston’s stories take place in an interconnected fantasy world populated by fierce, sarcastic animal shifters. It’s binge-reading season. Here are the genre-bending romance series to fuel your addiction. 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Their images are dark and rich in patina, calling to mind the Dutch Golden Age or Pre-Raphaelite fantasies more than any photographic precedent. Nordic Heritage Museum casts edgy ‘Weather Diaries’ exhibit 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

In recent years he has had a recurring role in the fantasy TV series Game of Thrones. Wilko Johnson diagnosed with terminal cancer 2013-01-09T16:00:00Z

In an inspired touch, this production places the confused lovers inside the movie house, where they wonder whether their meeting was a fantasy, after all. Opera Review: ‘Cendrillon,’ From Massenet, Is Playing at Juilliard 2014-04-24T22:40:30Z

As Kurt Andersen writes in a piece on America’s post-truth moment, the entire nation is slipping into fantasy, but the right is clearly more unhinged than the left. Satire’s war on stupid: This prank on the Democrats and an ACLU brief reveal our nation’s biggest battle 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

I think this book is good for girls and boys who like fantasy. Blart: The Boy who Didn't Want to Save the World by Dominic Barker - review 2013-03-30T09:00:00Z

And as I never liked fantasy and I've never liked science fiction, I suppose that leaves for one's comfort reading the detective story. On writing: authors reveal the secrets of their craft 2011-03-26T00:05:44Z

The Oscar nominee will reunite with his Drive co-star for the fantasy film, about a mother of two, Billy, whose son Bones discovers a secret road leading to an underwater town. Ryan Gosling to make directorial debut with How to Catch a Monster 2012-08-30T10:30:45Z

“There’s something about looking back at this Norman Rockwell 1950s fantasy,” she said, “there’s a rot underneath it.” 1950s vibes meet 2017 anxiety in Prom Queen’s ‘Doom-Wop’ 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Glass could easily have allowed the spell and subsequent upheaval to transform the plot into a revenge fantasy. ‘The Women’s War’ Is an Epic Feminist Fantasy for the #MeToo Era 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

When his next album did emerge, exactly a year later, it revealed a very different Bruce Springsteen to the one who had so enraptured America with Born to Run's grandiloquent urban romance fantasies. Bruce Springsteen: 'People thought we were gone. Finished' 2010-09-23T20:30:00Z

Shunning the hard, shiny-bright colors of many animated movies, Mr. Okiura uses velvety pastels to paint a sensitive fantasy around Momo, a grieving young girl whose father was lost at sea. ‘A Letter to Momo,’ a Hiroyuki Okiura Animated Film 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

They answer: fantasy, funny, comics, mystery, nonfiction, etc. Perspective | What are we teaching boys when we discourage them from reading books about girls? 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

In this fantasy world, based on the novel by Philip Pullman, children are born with shape-shifting animal companions that eventually settle into one permanent form as the child reaches adulthood. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Affair’ and ‘Dying to Belong’ 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

The creators choose not to create some kind of fantasy. In Max's hilarious and heartfelt "Young Love," I saw my own life 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z

Here in the UK, the private pool is entirely exotic, a fantasy belonging to rock stars and retired cockney gangsters on the Costa del Sol. Clip joint: swimming pools 2010-09-08T15:58:00Z

Arguments about states' rights or fantasies of antebellum gentility were scythed by her storytelling. Perspective | Toni Morrison not only remade American literature, she challenged us to resist the tenacity of racism 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Let the quest begin … Sean Bean in the HBO series Game of Thrones, adapted from George R R Martin's fantasy novels. The great sci-fi hunt: help us find the best independently published books 2013-02-22T12:02:18Z

But all Miller discovered was that the fantasy of a de-digitalled world revealing a deeper and richer reality was just that; a fantasy. How do you write about life when it's lived on computers? 2013-05-17T09:59:03Z

But, at moments when Western societies consider themselves under attack, the discourse is quickly dominated by an ahistorical fantasy of long-suffering serenity and fortitude in the face of provocation. Unmournable Bodies 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Reygadas doesn’t indicate if these rooms are real or fantasies, even if he has made it clear that Juan functions as a kind of authorial place holder and possibly a close filmmaker surrogate. Movie Review: ‘Post Tenebras Lux,’ Directed by Carlos Reygadas 2013-04-30T21:31:18Z

They say that slavery, a grave and longstanding scar on the national psyche, especially for black Americans, should not be trivialized for the sake of a fantasy TV series. ‘Confederate’ Poses Test Over Race for ‘Game of Thrones’ Creators and HBO 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

“It’s a pleasurable, seductive fantasy partly because, as we have known from the start of cinema, the sight of a running horse is a beautiful thing,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Saturday 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

But most studios are deeply reluctant to bet on these kinds of scripts, preferring to funnel money toward less risky comedies and fantasy films. New Venture Envisions Films Based on Gritty Journalism 2014-05-06T19:05:34Z

Speaking to a gathering at Oxford University, Gatiss acknowledged the show’s fantasy setting and also its tradition of diverse casting, but said he’d still had his doubts. The Handmaid's Tale's race problem 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

For him, all of the synapses and fantasies, the humanity and spirit, were there just for the plucking. Losing Max Ritvo 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

The show’s presentation of the fantasy of near-universal good parenting, or the will to attempt it, felt like a justifiable choice because the challenges and struggles within that were so painful and real. The “Parenthood” Finale and TV’s Emotion Revolution 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

She’s Everything He Wants, and Therein Lies the Problem Who hasn’t entertained a fantasy of romantic omnipotence in which a dream partner complies with your every wish? Movie Review: ‘Ruby Sparks,’ Written by and Starring Zoe Kazan 2012-07-24T21:46:52Z

She portrays a wacky professor, with a massive machine that brings fantasies to life. Circus Review: Big Apple Circus at Damrosch Park - Review 2011-11-04T22:16:52Z

The Renaissance created a cult of female beauty so all-pervasive that it shapes western perceptions and fantasies right down to today. Fading queen 2013-02-13T15:46:04Z

Even now, my “fantasies” are essentially rooted in the fantasies of my 14-year-old self. Did porn warp me forever? 2013-01-13T02:00:00Z

This fantasy of the “marriage” of the cultures persisted with odd consequences, including the need for a “Pocahontas” exception when Virginia passed racial-purity laws in the early 20th century. Review | The American Indian museum comes of age by tackling this country’s lies 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Hollywood looms in the background of “Red Rocket” much the way Disney World did in “The Florida Project,” as a fantasy and an industry that’s both sustaining and exploitive. Serendipity strikes for Simon Rex as an adult-film antihero 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

To make all this fantasy a reality, Disney more than doubled the size of Fantasyland, to 21 acres from 10 acres. Inside Disney’s New Fantasyland 2012-12-21T16:55:27Z

Her rivals include fictional characters in clashes from “Captain Marvel” and medieval fantasy television series “Game of Thrones.” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gets 'best fight' MTV Movie award nod 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

It honors a ceaselessly changing street that may forever be associated with a global fantasy factory but also happens to be a neighborhood, a thoroughfare, a place to make ends meet. Ed Ruscha’s stunning Sunset Strip art project lets you tour its full length, east to west — and back in time 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

I lost myself in fantasies of huge, glossy houseplants. In a world moving at breakneck speed, growing indoor plants is teaching me patience | Mel Campbell 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

The written word and vivid fantasies told with basic toys enabled children to create alternate realities away from the often sterile hospital environment. What terminally ill children taught this doctor about how to live 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

But she eventually realizes it is wrong to keep her fantasy family alive at the cost of imprisoning an entire town. "WandaVision" echoes myths of Isis, Orpheus and Kisa Gotami to explain how grief and love persevere 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z

This second installment in the series is a fantasy romance between Gemma, a war monk turned reluctant princess, and Quinn, an affable, annoying centaur helping her build alliances for her blacksmith sister’s claim to queenship. Three New Cinderella-Inspired Romance Novels 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

Fame, in “Atlanta,” has been a fantasy, a disappointment, an elusive taunt. The Most Memorable TV Episodes of 2018 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

HBO is developing four potential prequel series to replace the fantasy drama, which ranks as the network’s biggest hit of all time. The Showrunners Behind Game of Thrones Just Revealed Their Next HBO Show 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

Or should I keep exploring my body and hope that the pollution of XXX videos slowly clears from my masturbatory fantasies to reveal more dream-like, meditative, present, fleshy, alive states of mind and body? Did porn warp me forever? 2013-01-13T02:00:00Z

We get a glimpse of Allison's one fantasy in a dream sequence of her vacationing in Paris after successfully killing Kevin. From "Sex/Life" to "Kevin," TV offers new answers to whether women can “have it all” 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z

Like everybody else in the sixties, I read “The Lord of the Rings” and was temporarily impressed, but I didn’t read any other fantasy. The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z

Opening the summer after 9/11, the movie offered a timely fantasy of near-perfect intel, while raising questions about free will and the balance of freedom and safety. Review: In ‘Minority Report,’ a Case of Precognitive Dissonance 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

She stopped when she realized what the fantasy would require. She Built a Baltimore Restaurant Empire, but Still Works the Stove 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

All this is happening while South Korean idols like BTS' Jung-kook and V are sites on which women project their sexual fantasies. Women are ferally horny, according to TV and movies. Then why are they not having sex? 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z

Petit is a clear, effective dance storyteller partly because he doesn’t muddy the waters with complex characterization or relationships; instead, he distills narrative to its essentials, often blending realism and fantasy. Roland Petit: A French Choreographer, Most Savored in France 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

According to Netflix, the special reveals Wong's "wildest fantasies, the challenges of monogamy, and how she really feels about single people." From Kanye's documentary to the return of Leatherface here’s what’s new on Netflix in February 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z

Setting a fantasy story in a far-off land, alternate universe or parallel reality affords the writer a freedom from allegations of apostasy or heretical thinking. Black magic surgeon: Doctor Strange brings the occult back to the big screen 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

It produces an aura of suspense without a sense of real risk, and offers devotees of fashion an appealing, shallow fantasy of inside knowledge. Review: ‘Dior and I,’ a Documentary That Peers Into a Storied Fashion House 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

On the fantasy “Rob Myself” he realizes there’s no one richer around, so why not. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New CDs 2010-06-27T21:17:00Z

That’s just what Plato theorized in his famous explanation for the discredited, fantasy diagnosis of “hysteria” that was widely believed to plague women well into the 20th century. Seven crazy myths about the female anatomy 2012-08-24T13:37:00Z

Since college, the couple had a fantasy about a communal living space for family and friends they called the Magic Egg. The Home Designers Who Actually Move In 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

They mix fact and fantasy, as with a work filled with arcing and swooping lines being used as a lunch spot by an untroubled brown pig. Best Art of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

“Jesus Freak Lighter,” though, is all Hynes, fitting since it conjures a mood of digital-era solitude: “Got carried away,” he sings with a kind of muffled melancholy, “Living in my head, photo fantasy.” Björk Insists on Connection, and 11 More New Songs 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

The fantasy series that sent droves of eager children to buy hardcovers at midnight parties at bookstores is finally for sale as e-books. ArtsBeat: Harry Potter's New Adventure: Going Digital in E-Books 2012-03-27T12:19:10Z

“It’s one of the pillars of every authoritarian or totalitarian regime, that they want to reorder the past to their own fantasies.” A Museum Becomes a Battlefield Over Poland’s History 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

"I shall write a complete fantasy life of tearful-joyful stories for women," again in her journal in 1959, "tremulous with all variety of emotion." Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z

Like almost everything about the Academy Awards, it rewards tragedy rather than comedy, and grandiloquence rather than subtlety, so there is something operatic in lining up a five-part fantasy league of the best actress winners. Who is the best Oscar-winning lead actress of all time? 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

But it is a memoir, and part of it's a projection and a fantasy. A Minute With: Neil Young on his new album, film 2012-06-06T09:09:49Z

They're fantasies of some sort and like in “Lord of the Rings” the tiniest hobbits win against the biggest, most evil forces imaginable. Walter Mosley on the fantasy of Whiteness and how Dubya was worse than Trump 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

A night alone in the same bed isn't cheap sex, it's an "invitation to the fantasy suite." How "The Bachelor" hooked us -- again 2010-03-01T13:27:00Z

“The story is lady-oriented, their fantasy above life,” the censor board said. Indian film board clears Lipstick Under My Burkha for release 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

A patchwork of restrictions has made the idea of legal abortion in Utah seem like something of a fantasy for thousands of women, according to Torres. America’s abortion deserts: How the right turns back the clock on Roe 2014-01-16T12:44:00Z

A classic fantasy, in which the hero's thrill at possessing great power is offset by its burden of loneliness and secrecy. Laura Powell's top 10 heroes in disguise 2013-04-11T15:55:00Z

In Jemisin’s fantasy novel, ­civilization faces destruction and the earth itself is a monstrous enemy. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Left too late, they could devastate the boys’ fantasies of a flawless hero. How do I tell our sons about their father’s criminal past? 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

He appeared in the 1999 science-fiction spoof “Galaxy Quest,” in a role sending up classical British actors relegated to lightweight fantasy fare. Alan Rickman, Watchable Villain in ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Die Hard,’ Dies at 69 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

"There’s this fantasy that someone is going to show up and be like 'No, no, there’s a mistake. You’re magic.' " Festival of Books: How actor Jason Segel rescued his own 'Nightmares!' 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

And third, because Ms. Coddington was a great celebrator of the fantasy of fashion: its power to transport and transform. Grace Coddington, Accidental Celebrity of ‘The September Issue,’ Steps Down at Vogue 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Mine, All Mine: Ski Areas Rent Whole Mountains Having a private ski mountain seems the stuff of ski-bum fantasy. In Transit Blog: Mine, All Mine: Ski Areas Rent Whole Mountains 2012-12-25T18:00:43Z

“You can see why people want these fantasy worlds,” she said. Bloom and doom: Pokemon Go-like art project explores climate change 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Last week's episode of the fantasy epic brought in 6.9 million viewers to its 9 p.m. airing. TV ratings: Game 5 of the NBA Finals is up in early numbers 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

She also has alarming fantasies of motherhood, in which she sees an assortment of overstressed alter-egos pregnant or tending, exhausted, to needy newborns. In Revelatory Revivals, Women Sing Through the Pain 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

As he admits: "Nothing in this world seems to live up to my best fantasies." Jon Savage celebrates the film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment 2011-02-10T21:45:01Z

The stage is shorn of the usual Gypsies and bullfighters; Don José and the clinic’s employees, reading from scripts, embody archetypes in a fantasy of masculine revenge. Review: ‘Carmen,’ Boldly Rewritten as Therapy for a Modern Man 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

But by profoundly complicating our idea of Degas — demonstrating the massive role fiction, fantasy and high feeling played in the sensibility of this supposedly dispassionate “realist” — the curators lifted the experience into something sublime. Perspective | Best visual art of 2020: Sublime Degas, spellbinding El Greco, Dorothea Lange and a defining video for our time 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

Both men would later carve their place in English literature with children’s tales — Lewis with “The Chronicles of Narnia” and Tolkien with “The Lord of the Rings” — that explored the dark side in fantasy fiction. | 'The Screwtape Letters': Adaptation of C. S. Lewis Novella at Westside Theater 2010-06-11T22:44:00Z

“My fantasy is somehow finding the match,” he said. When Form Meets Function: Cuff Links Throughout the Centuries 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

There were countless hidden themes and, unlike so many other hard-core fantasy novels, it was so human too.  The Gathering Dark by Leigh Bardugo - review 2013-04-03T11:00:00Z

SS Nobody should knock escape and fantasy, dressing up like a Hollywood film star because they're getting away from it, escaping the nine to five. It's Blitz: Birth of the New Romantics 2010-05-14T23:37:00Z

“The Suicide Squad” dutifully serves up the same evergreen fantasy with amusing flourishes, disappointing stunt choreography and much cartoonish slicing and dicing. ‘The Suicide Squad’ Review: Train Them! Excite Them! Arm Them! 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

“We don’t want to be seen only as exotic fantasies.” A Fashion Visionary Reframing Creole Identity 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

This fantasy is the ickier side of a movie that crosses the line from sweet to saccharine. Movie Review: ‘Despicable Me 2’ Stars Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig 2013-07-02T15:52:08Z

And that was a big challenge for me because I’m not interested in fantasy. Vikings Star Travis Fimmel and Creator Michael Hirst Talk Season 2 Finale 2014-05-01T15:37:54Z

In addition to saving the girls from a male predator with my brute strength and righteous rage, I’ve had another recurring fantasy of saving the passengers on a plane hijacked by “911-esque” terrorists. My liberal white male rage: What should I do about it? 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

Get even slightly close to these drawings and the hand of the artist becomes abundantly clear, adding another layer of representation and fantasy. Review: An engaging show of 'Meteorites' at Winston-W?chter 2010-12-16T21:53:12Z

Finn–not a prodigy at anything but being decent–was a reminder that the show was not just about fantasy but about finding a way to accommodate your dreams to reality. Glee’s Goodbye to Finn Asks the Musical Question: “Why?” 2013-10-11T13:31:59Z

Part of the new line of multicultural fantasy novels overseen by Rick Riordan — he of the popular Percy Jackson series — “Dragon Pearl” is a clever mash-up of Korean mythology and science fiction tropes. New Fantasy Novels for Kids (and Adults) Ready to Go Beyond Harry Potter 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

“Home Again,” on the other hand, is wholly resistible, partly because it can’t fulfill the promise of that aspirational fantasy either on a craft level or in terms of its emotional and psychological portraiture. Review: In ‘Home Again,’ an Imitation of Life (and Mom) 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

For months, the brightness of the fantasy I created around how exciting and brilliant she was made everything else in my life seem dim by comparison. I fall for strangers: I thought my fantasies made me writerly and special — it took decades to see how they were ruining my life 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

But Rust Belt chic is at least partly a romantic fantasy, and that makes it a risky way to try to revitalize. Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun 2012-05-19T13:00:00Z

I started drawing maps of fantasy worlds when I was eight. Fantasy map-making: 'I like vintage style with a modern twist' 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

What ensues is a brisk, well-mounted children’s fantasy, with Cornish giving the story an entertainingly apocalyptic spin. ‘The Kid Who Would Be King’ Review: Cult Director Waxes Arthurian 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

What drew you to fantasy, and do you still read it? David Mitchell: By the Book 2012-10-20T09:00:06Z

Janacek’s music stamps out her ethereal fantasies with the brutal fist of reality. At the Salzburg Festival, Riches, Retreads and Notes of Caution 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

For example, Eugene Simon, who plays Lancel, said, “I think you have to understand ‘Game of Thrones’ is set in a fantasy world. Jeb’s medieval politics of shame: Upholding a long tradition of keeping women and girls in line 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

“The Campaign” does what it can to deliver on this fantasy, or at least to distract the audience from painful truths that might shatter it altogether. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘The Campaign,’ Starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis 2012-08-10T03:56:14Z

Being “friends” on Facebook is more of a fantasy or imitation or shadow of friendship than the traditional real thing. Cultural Studies: Crafting Fictional Personas With the Language of Facebook 2010-08-13T20:15:00Z

Consider this 1982 fantasy, which unfolds in ancient times on a distant planet that owes its existence not to the Big Bang, but to the genius of Jim Henson. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

This squares with what is now possible, and what keeps Westworld in the realm of speculative fiction rather than fantasy. The Good, the Meh and the Ugly: are Westworld's villains firing blanks? 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

Her reputation for clumsiness is based on a combination of earnest attempts to help and frequent daydreams into fantasy adventure sparked by guileless wonder at the world around her. 'Ramona and Beezus': Sisters come to life in sunny series of escapades 2010-07-22T21:44:00Z

This could mean the death of Tinder serendipity — swapping the romantic fantasy of stumbling into compatibility with a person you happen to admire for the calculated pursuit of a celebrity match. Swipe right, it’s actually Leo!: Tinder’s new verified accounts might be the death of romantic serendipity 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

Add to that, it’s summer, and though we’re no longer stuck indoors exactly, the usual seasonal pleasures seem a distant fantasy. 20 Under $20: Wines That Feed the Soul 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

I guess this counts as a minor spoiler, but Batman receives a startling beatdown in this movie, one that belongs more to the universe of crime films than superhero fantasy. “The Dark Knight Rises”: Christopher Nolan’s evil masterpiece 2012-07-18T20:50:00Z

We know it’s corny, it’s a fantasy and it’s not really about us. Seeing Native Americans Nowhere, and Everywhere 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

Her fantasy world is no better, where the other women in her life are her predatory natural enemies. The cosmic joke's on her: The antiheroine's journey through a cursed universe 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z

A lot of it was patronizing, and most of it was based purely on fantasy. Review | The American Indian museum comes of age by tackling this country’s lies 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

For many visitors, running the shop is the fulfillment of a lifelong fantasy. A Critic Sells Books Down by the Seashore 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

The word which best describes this type of fantasy books is 'unpredictability', because here, everything is possible and maybe this is the feature which attracts readers in the first place. What makes a good fantasy novel? 2013-07-26T09:00:00Z

Photograph: David M Alexander Jack Vance, who has died aged 96, was a writer of science and high epic fantasy whose work was oddly at variance with the journeyman genre in which it first appeared. Jack Vance dies aged 96: master of bold and bizarre science fiction 2013-05-29T23:13:06Z

I also always loved a bit of fantasy or mystery. For Ijeoma Oluo, Books and Bedtime Are a Perfect Combination 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

Since transporting me to movie heaven back in high school, I've been partial to Steven Spielberg's messy, rangy, magical extraterrestrial fantasy. Oscars: That didn't get nominated? 2011-02-18T16:49:00Z

But the fantasy is deeply rooted in realism. Turning Back Time on ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

The best fantasy has a grain of truth to it, and Game of Thrones is no exception. Here are the Real-Life Queens that may have Inspired Game of Thrones 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

In them, she is playing the part of the consort of the heir to the throne, an avatar of fantasy and someone who can bring it down to earth. Romancing the Royal Portrait 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

It’s also an astonishing, willful sexualization of black bodies, a fantasy of black sexual freedom and prowess, but a fantasy that the movie exalts through its specific grounding in women’s sexual freedom. “Magic Mike XXL” Grabs Our Convoluted Fantasies of Pleasure 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

All the while, the NFL, aided by the Internet's fascination with fantasy football, boomed. The NBA Lockout: All About Timing 2011-10-07T09:00:00Z

I really haven't seen this particular version of a fantasy film before. 2010-02-11T08:45:00Z

This is fantasy, after all — and medieval fantasy at that — so why not? Riff: The Bleak ?Game of Thrones? Needs More Light 2011-04-17T03:00:17Z

Syfy's effort to reclaim the science fiction and fantasy area arrives amid a rush of science fiction programming from major networks and cable channels. Syfy seeks hits with new dramas in the mold of 'Battlestar Galactica' 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

Will high-end designers pegging kid’s collections to fantasy movies become the new normal? | Jil Sander’s New Creative Director, Diane Keaton’s Kooky Sale and Stella McCartney’s Designs for Kids 2014-05-02T20:52:46Z

As in McPhee’s time Balinese music continues to be swept up in romantic fantasies of the primitive and exotic, which Westerners frequently confuse with authenticity. Sounds of Bali, Traditional Yet Evolving 2010-12-10T16:10:00Z

“A lot of the kids were also really interested in fantasy and color.” For Bronx Children’s Museum, a Long-Awaited Home 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

A teenage boy's struggle with his mother's terminal illness takes a surreal turn when he finds comfort in a giant talking tree monster, in the emotional fantasy drama "A Monster Calls." Fantasy meets tragedy in surreal drama 'A Monster Calls' 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

McIntyre’s “Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem” took as its interesting subject the choreographer’s fantasy of meeting his grandfather as a young man. 2018’s best dance: A year when human warmth burned brightly 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

That’s why, when fantasies succeed, they do so mightily—for instance, “The Future,” “Chi-Raq,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “Holy Motors,” and “Gentlemen Broncos.” In “Collateral Beauty” and “Passengers,” Two Tales of Gaslighting 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

It is a man's fantasy of being dominated by man-like women. Kimmel, Covfefe, ‘Wonder Woman’: Washington’s Views on Pop Culture in 2017 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

They are also symbolic, of course, and part of a long and rich tradition of agitated agitprop movie fantasy. Review: In ‘Money Monster,’ a Broke Investor Holds a Grudge and a Gun 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

The Gaiman/Sarrantonio and Chabon anthologies are similar beasts: stories with a fantastical edge, and brought to us from names not usually associated with such genres as science fiction, horror and fantasy. Gaiman's choice: shouldn't good writing tell a story too? 2010-06-23T10:41:00Z

The musical Into the Woods won in the fantasy film category. Birdman wins costume design prize 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Such fantasies are rarely easy to fulfill, involving, as they would, time travel — or at least fruitless searching through the pages of Vogues British or American and the social media posts of influencers. The Best-Kept Fashion Secret of ‘The Crown’ 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

Tolkien adaptations had become noisy, exotic fantasy worlds — fun to visit for three-hour stretches but easy to leave behind when the journey's done. 'In the Woods' leaps from musical theater to movie theaters 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

This year, HBO’s fantasy series “Game of Thrones” won the best drama honor for a third time and was the most-honored show with nine awards in total. Netflix ties longtime Emmy darling HBO in total wins 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

We travel from the colorful, cluttered daily reality of the characters into realms of memory and fantasy, most of them rendered in spare and beautiful black-and-white line drawings. Movie Review: ‘Consuming Spirits,’ an Animated Film by Chris Sullivan 2012-12-12T00:01:20Z

If we had done what he did in the book, suddenly a movie that is a drama about a group of friends becomes a fantasy film. ‘It Chapter Two’ Is Out. Let’s Talk About Where That Clown Came From. 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Snoopy, along with his sensationally wild imagination, reminds us that Halloween is a day to indulge our own fantasies. Snoopy is the true star of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z

Tarantino never suggests the existence of a world outside of Hollywood fantasy, one with ideas, desires, demands, and crises that roil the viewers of movies, if not their makers. Review: Quentin Tarantino’s Obscenely Regressive Vision of the Sixties in “Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood” 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

The Métropolitain, whose rumble was perceptible to the spiders on the ceiling, might as well have been a fantasy of HG Wells. Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

You seem to enjoy writing fantasy more than anything else. Marcus Sedgwick: 'the magical might be waiting for us, just around the next corner' 2013-03-23T08:00:00Z

The truth, though, is that the “culture vs. economics” dyad is largely a fantasy. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

I think it believes it must offer an ever-receding fantasy or no one will buy. Fashion's real victims 2012-02-13T19:30:01Z

This fantasy epic brilliantly peels back questions of humanity and friendship set against the perils of war and racism, all illustrated in a style that nods to East and West. The 10 best graphic novels of 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

With the design duo’s cinematic eyes, the show was more the hand-woven fantasy of home on the prairie than the gritty reality. Special Report: Fashion: Color Returns to the City 2011-02-16T17:42:22Z

Instead, despite my critical reservations about Grissmer’s fantasy and others like it, and about the medium he chose, I find myself in another argument. Basketball, the musical 2012-12-16T16:00:00Z

So while she set about filming an often gritty neo-realistic portrait of late-capitalist America, she campaigned to make an intergalactic fantasy about immortal beings endowed with cosmic superpowers. Chloé Zhao explains how ‘Nomadland’ and ‘Eternals’ are cinematic twins 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

The experience of the Royal Court, though, suggests that the director's hope for an unknowing opening of the Bennett may indeed remain a "fantasy". Spoiler alert: the tough task of keeping a play's plot secret 2012-06-26T10:59:19Z

Rand is just one of the 2,782 characters who appear in Wheel of Time, the bestselling saga of fantasy novels by Robert Jordan. What's the next Game of Thrones? All the contenders for fantasy TV's crown 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

A lot of the starry-eyed do-it-yourselfers tinkering in their garages and giving life to their boyish dreams back in the ’70s and ’80s turned out to be harboring superman fantasies of global domination all along. Review: In ‘Ready Player One,’ Spielberg Plays the Nostalgia Game 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Such undertakings also offer the ultimate escape fantasy: a chance to slip the surly bonds of social obligations for the entire summer, guilt free. Summer Vacation? Nah, I’m Taking a Creative Hiatus 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

A newspaper tycoon forces opera into the private fantasy he is imposing on his wife; Afro-Brazilian and African-American musicians negotiate a treacherous landscape of idolization, condescension, and repression. Orson Welles, Musician 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

But it also abounds in a teeming sense of invention, bubbling with fantasy, while his sense of narrative structure – influenced as much by contemporary literature and cinema as music – was extraordinarily audacious and potent. Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z

The video’s director, who goes by Mister Whitmore, said he and Mr. Mayer “thought long and hard about how to approach” the “fantasy element” of the concept without offending. John Mayer Knows He Messed Up. He Wants Another Chance. 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

There is nothing more empowering than being able to safely explore one’s desires and fantasies without fear of shame or feelings of remorse; sex is to be enjoyed, not regretted. The real sex ed: 11 sex tips experts wish they’d known sooner 2014-01-02T12:45:00Z

It had been going for about three or four seasons before I actually watched it because fantasy is not really my genre. ‘House of the Dragon’: Steve Toussaint on Playing Lord Corlys, Boat Guy 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z

Dan Gemeinhart is a creator of vividly believable worlds animated by whimsy and all the stuff of childhood fantasy, by kids and teenagers untethered from adult rules who make surprisingly grown-up decisions. This Novel Surprised Our Reviewer: It Didn’t Make Him Cry 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

Not in a kinder, gentler light, or as a fantasy, but as a source of memory and creation. Marc Jacobs and the Monumental Dream of New York 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

“Welcome to Happiness” is an airy fantasy of a film, cute but also frustrating. Review: ‘Welcome to Happiness,’ With Kyle Gallner Seeking Answers 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

At their yearly Winter Whites Gala last month, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge turned their Kensington Palace home into a frost-covered fantasy. | Wintery Solace 2013-12-07T04:23:48Z

But the fantasy of Larkin’s secret paternity in some ways improves on the actual literary succession. Good Night, Sweet Prince 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

Yes, she makes fantasy costumes, she said, but isn’t the runway all about fantasy? On the Runway Blog: Historical Dramas Play Out in Fashion, Too 2013-04-19T18:41:40Z

The lyrics speak to a longtime, distant friend, as feeo — the British songwriter Theodora Laird — ruminates on the passage of time, on feeling trapped by ambition, on fantasies of freedom and a new start. Bush Tetras’ Defiant Return, and 10 More New Songs 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

I didn't know that the gender police would get in the way of this fantasy one day – it was the 1980s, when all kids wore dungarees, climbed trees and hurled themselves regularly into the mud. Why I'd like to be … Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

"Don't play it like it's a fantasy and there's elves — it's real. And people were hurt. And people were angry and sad. And play those things real." "The Lord of the Rings" star Billy Boyd has advice for "The Rings of Power" 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z

But American Honey sees the dream for what it is – a fantasy born out of hardship – and appreciates it on its own terms. Roof down, music up: American Honey and the neverending search for the American dream 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

So described, this novel seems so simple it might be cleanly slipped into the genre marked “fantasy”. In ancient times 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

The menu’s “bigs from the grill” are a meat eater’s fantasy; go for the juicy New York strip steak, best enjoyed in the company of garlicky creamed spinach and crisp, finger-long fries. Review | Tom Sietsema’s 9 favorite places to eat right now 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

Her track Elastic Heart, a collaboration with The Weeknd and Diplo, will also feature on the soundtrack to forthcoming fantasy sequel The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Sia gives Eminem money to LGBT cause 2013-11-08T10:54:52Z

Like Oprah, she shared a bread fantasy: “I would have crusty bread with steak tartare. Pizza. I think I would rather have bread than pasta. I like crunch.” Bobbi Brown Is Ready to Slay the Wellness Industry. Nicely. 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

The story expands, though, as Patel's fantasy selves start to merge with Rau's: the ballerina she aspired to become, the cool Londoner. Hetain Patel: Be Like Water – review 2012-11-28T14:00:44Z

Under time pressure, we failed to double-check that we had the right player highlighted in Yahoo's fantasy system and accidentally took Carolina Panthers quarterback Derek Anderson. What fantasy football taught me about guys 2011-09-08T19:01:00Z

White led thousands of fans through a very specific musical fantasy of old-time blues and country, with his signature fiery electric guitar solos mixed in. Sasquatch 2012 Saturday review: Jack White, Portlandia, more 2012-05-27T18:53:54Z

“We do not identify with fictional characters, supernatural powers, or immortality, nor do we have any difficulty distinguishing between fantasy and reality,” Merticus says, adding that if anything, pop culture is catching up to them. Interview with a real-life vampire: why drinking blood isn't like in Hollywood 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

Believing you’re being watched or overheard is no longer a paranoid fantasy. Elvis Costello: ‘Believing you’re being watched is no longer fantasy’ 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z

Franco, whose ever-burgeoning collection of hats includes film student, musician and writer alongside actor and director, will next be seen in the Sam Raimi fantasy prequel Oz the Great and Powerful. James Franco to bring American Tabloid to big screen 2013-01-23T13:13:53Z

I’d look at them to see what fantasy they gave off. Guido Palau’s Good Hair Days 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

This sacrificial disabled person trope is a genre specialty, seen in a whole host of science fiction and fantasy from the gothic classic "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" to the 2021 film "Mother/Android." Frank deserves better than "Station Eleven." So do disabled stories 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z

When we talk about death and about childhood fantasies of ghosts they’re somehow related. A Conversation With the Top Prize Winner of Cannes 2010-05-23T19:04:00Z

As an adult, you can learn something from each loss and carry that on to the next one. But death for a child is like an incredible fantasy space. How music helps children to deal with bereavement 2013-02-24T19:00:01Z

“So my fantasy is to build a house from the ground up. I’ve seen these stone structures in Finland, something a little Scandinavian-looking and modern.” Design Wisdom from Oscar Winner Julianne Moore 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

My fantasies of moving to Kyoto were in full bloom when I picked up an unusual and entertaining memoir by Leslie Buck. Photos, Gardens, Birds, Trees: What’s Happening in the Great Outdoors 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

Amazon bought the TV rights to Tolkien’s literary classic two years ago when screens were ruled by HBO’s blockbuster fantasy series, “Game of Thrones”. New Zealand to be Middle-earth again in Amazon's The Lord of the... 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Photograph: HBO Since people spend billions every year betting on fantasy sports, why shouldn’t we bet on a fantasy television show? Game of Thrones: who's next in line to die? 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

But the belief that her story was something other than a projection of his psyche is ultimately just another fantasy. ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby.’ (Among Others.) 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

But once we got in the writers’ room, we stayed with family sitcoms and sitcoms that were on the brighter, optimistic side of the spectrum because it is a fantasy. How the ‘WandaVision’ Creator Brought Her Vision (and Wanda’s) to Life 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

It’s a cinematic fantasy that could be written off as a guilty pleasure, though the best erotic thrillers can be appreciated without taking an ironic distance. Where have all the erotic thrillers gone? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

“Stallone has rapidly become an almost mythological figure, representing every unknown’s fantasy of sudden success,” Variety reported. Sylvester Stallone: the wacky people's champ who battled his own ego 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Technology was also an integral part of plots in the stories, with characters "Googling" for answers rather than looking in books and using apps rather than rabbit holes or magical wardrobes to enter fantasy worlds. BlackBerry cupcakes and Googling: new study of UK children's language 2012-05-28T16:25:20Z

In 2007, he received a special Pulitzer Prize citation "for his distinguished, prolific and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy." Ray Bradbury, author of 'Fahrenheit 451,' dies 2012-06-06T15:02:47Z

In “Walter,” the title character is a ticket taker at a multiplex, a good gig for someone who enjoys fantasy. Review: ‘Walter’ Is Obsessed With Fate 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

And you turned specifically, after some time, to fantasy. The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z

It’s easy to see why these films scream out for musicalization: they already have one foot planted in fantasy, with characters whose lovingly accentuated quirks render them slightly larger than life. “Amélie” Arrives on Broadway 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Both fantasy shows ran their first seasons simultaneously, inviting direct comparisons and analysis of which was better. Emmys Politics 101: Why HBO dominates, "Dragon" overpowers "Rings" and some actors make history 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z

In addition to this, I think there's also a certain survivalist fantasy woven into zombie movies and television shows. Why we're drawn to "Contagion" and zombie flicks right now 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

He fought a running battle against critics who said fantasy could never be considered as literature. Obituary: Sir Terry Pratchett 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

"P-Valley" creator Katori Hall writes such moments to announce with incisive clarity that this series is not about fantasy girls, but real women. Eyes up here: In "P-Valley," the strippers and their grueling labor are the headliners, not men 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z

He also said that dinosaurs roamed the land with humans, which made me excited, because it offered some legitimacy to a long-standing fantasy of riding a T.Rex like a horse. My return to the Creation Museum 2012-07-31T00:00:00Z

Whether daily fantasy games open leagues and teams to the risk of match fixing is an open question. Daily Fantasy Sports Join Hands With the NFL 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Don’t say: “Look, the whole point of high fantasy is to take it very seriously.” Game of Thrones spoilers: how much damage can Ian McShane do? 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

The town was a candy-colored Victorian fantasy of wholesome amusements — an elaborate whirling carousel, the Crystal Maze fun house, baby parades. A Dead White Girl, a Black Suspect and Justice on the Jersey Shore 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Yet her fantasies, like those of many white foreigners intent on “helping” Africans, are fatally misaligned with those of the people they dream of helping. Uprooted for Their Husbands’ Jobs, and Eager to Shine on Their Own 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

It's a relief that he doesn't ruin the fantasy he created the night before, choosing to exit by a window instead of lay in wait to kill her, as he easily could have. The chameleonic importance of Lalo Salamanca on "Better Call Saul" is that his evil travels 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

Necklaces, handbags and ready-to-wear in the five figures are left for the touching, the aunt’s armoire leading to a Narnia of fantasy and possibility. Global Shopper: The New Ikram Store 2011-12-21T21:30:06Z

The fantasy pictures he conjures are compelling, but the truth sprinkled among them is even better. Music Review: A Quick Study of Status (Fine Watches Set to Rap) 2011-03-06T22:43:04Z

That said, I don’t need to escape too much — I’m not looking to travel to outer space or a fantasy world. Michelle Obama: By the Book 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

With the popularity of fantasy sports in America and the approval of the major pro leagues, the growth of FanDuel and its imitators is showing no sign of slowing down. How Fake Sports Are Turning Man Cave Dwellers Into Millionaires 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

The show, as it begins, is kind of a parody of the bachelor fantasy life. Review: The Last Man on Earth Is One of a Kind 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy is unquestionably one of the great fantasy trilogies of all time. Exclusive excerpt: Listen to a new “Golden Compass” story from Phillip Pullman 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

This romantically swoony vision of the beloved seems like a reverie from a bohemian fantasy, the kind once pursued by hungry young strivers in Paris and the old Greenwich Village. ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Review: Trusting Love in a World Ruled by Hate 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

Young Nigel fantasies about working in the local grocer's the way other boys do about winning the World Cup. TV highlights 30 December 2010-12-20T05:05:00Z

The quartet’s muscular playing, almost too exciting, brought out the taut energy of Mr. Tynek’s dance, a fantasy about sailors, their wives and the pitiless ocean. Dance Review: Dusan Tynek Dance - Review 2011-11-04T22:32:48Z

On the other, he has a strong anarchist streak and is deeply hostile to the Christian pastoral fantasy tradition of JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z

They are in purgatory between reality and fantasy and missing what’s right next to them. The much-chattered about opening scene of “La La Land” telegraphs a thoroughly stunted message 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

Alexander quoted fellow fantasy writer Ursula Le Guin in highlighting the importance of stories for shaping kids' imaginations and making the world a larger place than the one they live in. Erdrich wins National Book Award for fiction 2012-11-15T04:18:08Z

You think 'whorange' is funnier than the disparity between the fantasy these magazines propagate and the actual struggle to produce them? Summer TV season high on comedy shows but sadly short on actual comedy 2012-05-29T17:33:08Z

Roanhorse opens a new trilogy with “Black Sun,” an epic fantasy inspired by pre-Columbian Americans. Fall reading: 12 books to keep you occupied for the rest of 2020 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

“He’s not going to do the standard thing,” said Moshe Feder, the veteran editor at Tor who discovered him and who has edited prominent fantasy and science fiction writers like Michael Moorcock and Robert Silverberg. Brandon Sanderson Tops Best Sellers With ‘Words of Radiance’ 2014-04-16T21:20:10Z

The installation is fantasy; such sculptures would never have been seen like that. Philadelphia Offers a Full-Fledged Summer of African Art 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

But at the end of the summer, my fantasies evaporated when I handed in one of the two feature stories. My Klonopin fog 2012-07-28T22:00:00Z

The result is a joyously rule-breaking experimental feminist fantasy that tips its hat to the surrealist tradition, and the magic of silent-era serials. The 25 greatest summer films 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z

At one point, for instance, James confesses that, unused to having such an intimate, non-physical relationship with a woman, he has started having sexual fantasies about his therapist. Philippa Perry: Couch fiction 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z

Dystopias depicting white characters appeal to the target audience's darkest fantasies about being threatened by a world through which they can otherwise move safely. No, we're not living "The Handmaid's Tale" – it's worse, and a show highlighting how was passed over 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

“There’s nothing inherent in the ideas of fantasy, science fiction or any other genre that shouldn’t appeal to men and women equally — to everyone equally.” Fangirls Rule Comic-Con 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Whatever brings you to the theme parks — your honeymoon, nostalgia, business travel, unfulfilled childhood fantasies — there’s plenty of grown-up fun to be had. A Grown-Up’s Guide to Summer in Walt Disney World 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

We’d prefer it to be this crazy fantasy, this world that you couldn’t possibly imagine ever happening. Elisabeth Moss on Her Emmy Nomination and ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z

The last one I really enjoyed was Shadow of the Colossus for PlayStation 2 – you had to travel through all these weird fantasy lands to find the bosses, then kill them tactically. Ikonika: the woman pushing dubstep forward 2010-04-08T22:20:00Z

The odd thing is that, these days, this accomplished, serious actor looks more comfortable in fantasy roles. Review: The Judge: To Mock a Killing Bird 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Before we leave fantasy for reality, a server hands us a loaf of chocolate bread in a cloth bag. Review | This New York restaurant sets the standard for American fine dining 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

Ben climbs every mountain in Switzerland in order to get to the fantasy suites. The Bachelor Watch: Ben Picks His Swiss Misses 2012-02-28T12:55:55Z

If the classic-era actors were raw human power, the classic studios were perfection machines, fantasy factories of a ruthless industrial precision. Classic Hollywood Photos That Reveal Who Movie Stars Are 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, a family fantasy in which a young Parisian orphan is enraptured by the innovations of silent-cinema pioneer Georges Méliès. La La Land and Hollywood's everlasting love affair with itself 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

The Simpsons unveiled a fun fantasy world inhabited by Homer Serfson in Sunday night’s season premiere, but at the end of the episode, the animated comedy got serious about a dire real-world issue. 'The Simpsons' Calls For Aid to Puerto Rico 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z

Inside the Wynn the fantasy shifts with images of ripe flowers bursting into extravagant bloom in bouquets, floor patterns, paintings, even stage sets for the casino’s show. Museum Review: The Neon Museum in Las Vegas 2013-02-02T01:43:04Z

Maybe we’re finding more evidence at this cultural moment of women entertaining submission fantasies simply because it’s more acceptable. Girls would love science, if it was more like Katy Perry 2012-06-25T15:25:00Z

But in Soren’s pictures all of the men are in the throes of their own baseball fantasy. The Dream Chasers of Pro Baseball 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

It is not totally straight-faced — there is some wild humor in “Smile,” a fantasy of revenge against a man who suggests that Jackie could look happier — but neither is it a joke. Review: ‘Jackie Lynn,’ Further Proof That Haley Fohr Is Hard to Contain 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

Of all adaptations and spinoffs of the fantasy epic, an anime is certainly a new and refreshing departure, especially for the modern age. A “Lord of the Rings” anime prequel is on the way 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

The dividing lines between Meta and the natural environment, fantasy and reality, joy and despair are in constant flux. Nowhere Ending Sky by Marlen Haushofer – review 2013-07-13T07:30:01Z

The remarkable success of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story suggests audiences continue to be inspired by movies straddling the divide between science fiction and fantasy. Sci-fi and superheroes in 2017: can Luke Skywalker save us from Hollywood's bleak year ahead? 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

As they enjoyed the refined fantasy provided at the Nines, a man wearing a black velvet tuxedo jacket named Jon Neidich kept a close watch over things. Millennial Nightlife Swanks Up 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z

So like a lot of online gamblers, Steinberg is now into daily fantasy sites such as FanDuel. How Fake Sports Are Turning Man Cave Dwellers Into Millionaires 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

“Congratulations to filmmaker Petra Costa on her nomination for best fiction and fantasy,” the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, which was instrumental in Rousseff’s impeachment process, said on Twitter. Brazil documentary gets Oscar nomination, exposes division 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

There was no virtual world in the early nineties; you were forced to confront the physical world and reconcile it with your fantasy world. Douglas Stuart on Growing Up Queer Before the Internet 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

How Americans are drawn to epic dreams, fantasies and spectacles. Washington Post bestsellers: September 17, 2017 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

Pen & Pixel rightly understood hip-hop as a fantasy of abundance and made its covers into conspicuous consumption cornucopias. Celebrating the Fast-Moving, Bug-Eyed, Wily World of Hip-Hop Mixtape Covers 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

All these desires, these imperatives, lodge themselves into that little word “boyfriend,” into fantasies of men past and present, into those ghosts, who prove so necessary. ‘100 Boyfriends’ Tells Lewd and Lonely Stories of Desire and Heartbreak 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

The bachelor or bachelorette also goes with one or more of the suitors to the “fantasy suite,” the destination for the show’s only private moments. The ‘Bachelorette’ Makes Her Choice. Will She Regret It? 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

And Fike is a reasonable canvas on which to project fantasies about the future. The Twenty-Three-Year-Old Who Embodies the Hazy Future of Pop Music 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

And as part of a slow but steady rise in aesthetic standards, it at least feeds the fantasy that someday high-quality architecture will trickle down to the city’s shrinking middle classes. Architecture Review: One Madison Park Hints at a Better Design Future 2010-06-28T22:33:00Z

Martin’s Game of Thrones may want to set aside most of Tuesday to rewatch the fantasy epic’s entire first season, which will be released on DVD and Blu-ray. The Week Ahead?10 Things To Watch, Play and Listen To: March 5-11 2012-03-05T11:44:21Z

Maybe speaking to extraordinary times is too much burden to place on one middling action fantasy. An Alternative America Hits Home in ‘The Man in the High Castle’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

It's this fantasy and it just explores something in a really amazing way. "Lost Girls" star Miriam Shor: "I was enraged about how these women had been treated" 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

That’s what has happened in real life; clearly the movies have some catching up to do – even those set on far-flung and futuristic fantasy worlds. When it comes to interracial romances, the movies need to catch up 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

French culture is portrayed in a way that corresponds to American consumerist fantasies but does not question the tourist's idealized gaze. Advice for "Emily in Paris" season 2: Drop the Americanized fantasy and get to know the real city 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z

On this night she’ll speak about her exhibition, “Maiden, Mother, Crone,” and the inspirations for her art, which underscore that there is no reality without fantasy. Things to Do in N.Y.C. This February 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

All in all, it’s a middle-aged fantasy created by middle-aged entertainment executives who are foisting their insecurities on a public who would surely rather watch anything else. Flaked: Netflix serves up more man-boys behaving sadly 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

"Listen, movies are fantasy," said the marketing student in Los Angeles. What recession? 'Sex and the City 2' revels in $$ 2010-05-28T21:29:00Z

He or she becomes the container of another person's intimate thoughts, fantasies, fears and wishes – precious materials that must be handled carefully. Siri Hustvedt on the psychoanalyst in fiction 2012-06-08T21:55:19Z

In the end, Jensen opts for feel-good fantasy over hardened truths, but his dizzyingly chaotic methods amount to a dynamic, unexpectedly touching ode to the difficulties of baring your vulnerabilities to genuinely overcome them. ‘Riders of Justice’ Review: Just Give Me a Reason 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

Just like that, a seven-year fantasy was suspended because President Trump failed to corral enough votes. WATCH: Stephen Colbert throws Trumpcare into the “cabinet of broken Republican dreams” 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

In doing so it immerses you in the kind of fantasy world you usually get only when the lights are turned off. Architecture Review: Immersed In Images And an Age Of Blurred Boundaries 2011-01-13T22:01:16Z

Though the comic confection's clunky moments keep it from achieving soufflé delicacy, its bright zingers and seamless fantasy sequences amp the playfulness, and the mostly unforced performances complement the production's cartoonish exuberance. Songs and love, served with 'Cupcakes' 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

The series, titled Bad Vacations, includes this Japanese fantasy horror film from the director Nobuhiko Obayashi that follows a teenager and six of her classmates into her aunt’s remote country home. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Vow’ and ‘The August Virgin’ 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z

The domestic scene the speaker views with such uncanny clarity is clearly not meant to be a fantasy. Poem of the week: Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson 2012-12-24T09:00:14Z

Only Photo is a pre-wedding photography studio in an industrial park just out of Shanghai, with three floors of ‘old world’ romantic and fantasy sets. The fantasy world of pre-wedding photos: inside China's billion-dollar industry 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Their fantasy world becomes the ballet’s new reality. Review: Ratmansky’s Confectionery Shop Also Serves Ballet Poetry 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

While Logan opens up the subject to speculate on the difficult transition from adolescence to adulthood and the virtues of fantasy versus reality, his dialogue falls too easily into a mechanically antithetical format. Peter and Alice – review 2013-03-25T23:00:01Z

Even though Mr. Smith got to restyle “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” with himself in the title role, he didn’t give up other fantasies, like one that involved nothing more than wallpaper. Possessed: Michael Smith, A Man and His Wallpaper 2013-04-19T20:05:10Z

To claim these fees represent a customer “choice” is a fantasy. The worst travel fees, and how to avoid them 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

I like that fantasy aspect of it, that it can kind of elevate. Jessie Ware Centers Herself With ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z

Both the aging jock and the sushi burrito can still cling to the fantasy: The former remains an athlete in his prime, the latter is tied to traditional Japanese sushi culture. Buredo’s sushi burritos are over the top, in a very good way 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

It's not a high fantasy where you're inventing a whole new land. Fantasy author on Oxford's influence 2013-08-20T10:24:51Z

Rich, gay, habitually solitary, Roussel developed a literary mode in poetry, fiction and drama based on linguistic ingenuity and the use of super-realism to lift off into fantasy. Review: The Writer Raymond Roussel and His Legacy, at Galerie Buchholz 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

One of her jobs in Magic’s first sets was to edit the rules for clarity and to choose the quotations that lent the cards a fantasy “flavor.” The Twenty-Five-Year Journey of Magic: The Gathering 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

They said it was reactionary, a neocon fantasy. Jacking it in 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z

The fantasy story is set in the American South and follows the epic adventures of Edward Bloom and the effect on his son. 'Big Fish' musical premieres in Chicago next year 2012-09-06T18:44:09Z

They were accustomed to books about fantasy; students at sorcery school could ride brooms, after all. My children are hooked on Faulkner! 2012-12-03T20:30:00Z

Such fantasies rarely involve being, say, a burakumin, but Igort’s drawings of that posh, tidy vision are beautiful enough to get away with it. New Graphic Novels Detail Personal Journeys and Twists of Fate 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

But in my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z

A work that defies easy labels, “The Madwoman of Chaillot” delivers insightful social criticism with sharp-eyed realism, then veers abruptly into a whimsical utopian fantasy. At A Noise Within, 'The Madwoman of Chaillot' is the resistance to a self-serving president 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

This fantasy's purpose wasn't to make these fetes more desirable by studding them with stars, but to accurately suss out the source of a performer's charisma. The magical magnetism of Mads Mikkelsen 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z

Why do you think he responded to her sexual fantasy about Clark by subjecting her to rough, violent, clearly not fun for her, sex? ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: It’s Dark, It’s Raining, It’s Ugly Out There 2014-04-03T03:01:06Z

If “Letters From Max” were any other play, I would think dreaming up a fantasy bookstore display — which is essentially a fantasy reading list — was a strange response. Review: ‘Letters From Max’ Is a Sacrament of Grief, and a Comedy 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

The vibe was a mix of Burning Man, a Renaissance Fair and an apocalyptic religious fantasy. How to Prepare Now for the Complete End of the World 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

It was through Mrs. Vreeland, he wrote in his memoir, “The Chiffon Trenches,” published in 2020, that “I learned to speak the language of style, fantasy and literature.” André Leon Talley, Editor and Fashion Industry Force, Dies at 73 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

It’s a classic travel fantasy: flying to another country to learn a language through a combination of classes and swanning around, ordering meals at sidewalk cafes, shopping at street markets, slipping into darkened theaters. Want to Learn French? Italian? Russian? There’s No Time Like the Present 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Gaiman, whose cult novel American Gods was also adapted by Amazon, feels this change in attitudes to fantasy is as much generational as it is driven by Game of Thrones. What's the next Game of Thrones? All the contenders for fantasy TV's crown 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

Something completely different: "Fiction, something a bit more fantasy based." First sight: Floria Sigismondi 2010-08-26T22:30:00Z

“It seemed like what Robert Altman would show, a fantasy of fashion.” Male Models Say Mario Testino and Bruce Weber Sexually Exploited Them 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

These toys represent ideals of gender and of lifestyle: extremes of femininity and masculinity as defined by Western, twentieth- and twenty-first-century cultural norms, expressing middle-class Caucasian American fantasies of what women and men should be. Transgender people don’t all want to look like Barbie or Ken 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

“The Dark Is Rising” is the first contemporary fantasy story — that is, a fantasy set in the “real world” — that I remember reading as a kid. 6 Great Y.A. Fantasy Novels 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z

For some outsiders, the Peterses’ tradition of gathering every summer is a fantasy of togetherness, mutual support and love. This Life: Just One Big, Happy Family? 2013-08-30T20:36:44Z

Every Easter, the religious festival of Semana Santa transforms the streets of Seville, Spain, into a baroque Catholic fantasy. Meet the Young Designers Making Catholic-Inspired Fashion 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

The anonymous neighbors said other mean things about the actress that made me briefly resurrect my fantasy of rescuing her from peril. Ill Doctrine 2012-06-11T15:44:00Z

It takes the form of an extended cinematic essay, blending fictionalized re-enactments of plausible events with excursions into scholarship and fantasy. Review: ‘Francofonia,’ About World War II Foes Turned Allies, for the Sake of Art 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Part documentary, part fantasy and part autobiography, this black-and-white film by Guy Maddin weaves archival footage of his hometown with re-enactments of his childhood memories. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Adventure Time’ and ‘RBG’ 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

Terry Hands directs Rattigan's The Winslow Boy at Clwyd Theatr Cymru where you can also catch Thickskin's hugely enjoyable The Static, a story of what happens when our darkest fantasies come true. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-05-17T14:35:33Z

Good Show Sir Mining the rich seam of terrible sci-fi and fantasy book covers. Internet picks of the week 2011-08-05T23:08:37Z

A perfect introduction to the fantasy genre for young readers. The High Skies of Adventures by Blue Jay the Pirate by Scott Nash - review 2013-05-17T11:00:00Z

The mixture of historical fact and contemporary fiction/fantasy is startling. 'Even the Rain': A film-within-a-film about conquerors and their legacy 2011-03-03T21:01:06Z

While Pericles’ derring-do glistens with fantasy, his wife’s efforts to stay alive are more subtle and dextrous. Review | Mark Haddon’s ‘The Porpoise’ sounds like homework. It’s actually fantastic. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

Starting on Friday, it will play in roughly 3,700 theaters, with about half showing the action fantasy on at least one 3D screen and the others playing it in 2D only. "Clash of the Titans" set to win box office battle 2010-04-01T01:12:00Z

The movie even has a brief fantasy sequence of a satanic ritual in which figures dressed in black dance around a fire. Movie Review: ‘Devil’s Knot,’ Fictional Revisiting of West Memphis Crime 2014-05-08T22:58:26Z

On “The Five” Monday night, Watters dipped into a toy chest of fantasy references when covering the hurricane. Watch Fox News' Jesse Watters fall for Houston shark hoax 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

"Fire & Blood" isn't just a fantasy novel about the adventures of some rich, violent dragon-riders. Whose truth? On "House of the Dragon," what is unseen often matters more than what's onscreen 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z

With its combination of rigorously detailed historical re-creation, real-life archival footage and purely speculative fantasy — not to mention Portman’s searing physical and psychological performance — “Jackie” creates an unsettling, almost hallucinatory mix of fact and fiction. ‘Jackie,’ art and accuracy in a post-fact world 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

And the film's fantasy sequences really begin to bite when he returns to his adolescent bedroom, high above the railway tracks in the Holloway Road. Jon Savage celebrates the film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment 2011-02-10T21:45:01Z

In fact, Abu Dhabi is just peachy when it's a fantasy land where they ride around in limos and get comped an extravagantly vulgar $22,000 hotel suite. "Sex and the City 2's" stunning Muslim clich?s 2010-05-26T18:45:00Z

“I had this fantasy I would be working with Tarzan,” Sands sighs. ‘I didn’t want to be a Hollywood actor’: Julian Sands on controversy, fear and his best friend, John Malkovich 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

This year, fantasy "The Hunger Games" and comedy "Bridesmaids" will battle for the most awards as each landed eight nominations. Music takes center stage at MTV Movie Awards 2012-05-29T10:02:14Z

Tim Burton’s fantasy adventure “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” includes a number of eye-popping sequences. Tim Burton Narrates a Scene From ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home’ 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Would anybody be interested in watching Hollywood productions if they didn’t play into fantasy? Hollywood Uses the Very Women It Exploited to Change the Subject 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

Storms of expectation, disappointment and fantasy pass over her. Dance Review: ‘Being Becoming,’ by Malini Srinivasan, at Fringe Festival 2012-08-13T21:34:16Z

You’re supposed to be teased into reading the full, unexpurgated “House of Holes” by even the tiniest peek at its fantasies and taste of its lingo. Books of The Times: One Man?s Gluddle-Luddle Is Another?s Squoosh Squoosh 2011-08-07T20:05:53Z

As that show was wrapping up in 2011, she heard about “sort of a fantasy, medieval piece” the network was shooting in Britain. ‘Game of Thrones’: Meet the Woman Who Is the ‘Best Thing That Ever Happened to the Show’ 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

In this fantasy drama, he isn’t getting it from his bullying classmates or nasty grandmother, but he’s lucky enough to find a tree monster — terrifyingly tall but kind and wise — at his bedroom window. Fall Movie Release Schedule 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

“Resurrection” a new ABC series starting on Sunday, and “Believe,” which begins on NBC on Monday, are two fantasy dramas that are meant to scare but instead hurriedly defuse and reassure. Television Review: New TV Fantasies: ABC’s ‘Resurrection’ and NBC’s ‘Believe’ 2014-03-07T00:03:48Z

It was striking, but I think I always had these escape fantasies of other worlds that I could enter. Meet Chanelle Benz, whose debut book is 'The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead' 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

These high stakes may be why so many young-adult and fantasy authors find themselves ensnared by lawsuits. Cassandra Clare Created a Fantasy Realm and Aims to Maintain Her Rule 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

Not content to have made Jimmy's End and its prologue Act of Faith, he has thought up all sorts of surplus fantasies that might flavour future episodes set in the same world. Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood 2012-12-15T19:08:25Z

But rock ‘n’ roll fantasy aside, the vast majority of musicians in any genre are working hard to get by, and touring almost constantly for shrinking yields. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z

But this is a festival built on collective fantasies so sturdy that they become real too: about taste and discernment and cultural importance and leisure and entitlement. Coachella 2015: And So It Begins, With Drake, Jack White and AC/DC 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

Peele has already demonstrated that he, like the best American fantasy and sci-fi writers, can tell a ripping good yarn while making larger points about humanity. Jordan Peele's "Twilight Zone" in the Trump era 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

And whether fantasy or reality, the actress considers her life one long "turn of the wheel." Tilda Swinton finds life colliding with fantasy 2010-06-18T18:59:00Z

"Granpa" mistakes his granddaughter's imaginary strawberry ice cream for chocolate and indulges her fantasies of sailing to Africa. Penelope Harper's top 10 great grandpa books 2012-06-19T10:41:26Z

How about her fantasy, starting when she was a kid interviewing her teddy bears, to be a talk-show host? Sherri Shepherd Skates Through Life 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

That’s hardly unexpected, and it also scarcely matters because when a good fantasy fiction like this opens that door of perception called imagination it’s a total trip. Review: ‘Doctor Strange’ and His Most Excellent Adventure 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

I retreated into a fantasy world to protect myself. Grayson Perry: 'I’m an unapologetic fetishist' 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z

It’s the reason she came to embody the sleek fantasies of pleasure, painlessness and profit of the 1980s. Olivia Newton-John: That Headband Was a Crown 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z

It is reported to be a mix of fantasy science fiction and crime drama. 'Reject' Ioan Gruffudd lands part 2014-02-25T12:35:33Z

To be able to meet him and cook with him is a true culinary fantasy camp. Want to get into Rose’s Luxury? Start peeling potatoes. 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z

In a mad rush to investigate further, I bolted down a dinner of potato chips and cold coffee, pitched my tent, and spent the next two hours hiking through this fantasy of forested badlands. Rich in Surprises and Secrets, There’s a State Park Waiting for You 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

For better or worse, Cannes is a fantasy land. Cannes 2016 week one report: surreal scenes at the Palais 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

And yet, both Her and The Circle remain in the realm of fantasy. Her vs. The Circle: The Dangers of Trying to Remain Plugged In 2014-01-17T10:00:01Z

Thorgerson described his work as a kind of fantasy job - in both senses of the word. Pink Floyd album designer Storm Thorgerson dies 2013-04-18T21:01:30Z

A beleaguered audience indulged in fantasies of vicarious wealth and in preposterous extravaganzas. Culture of Recession? Or Vice Versa? 2010-12-17T14:43:26Z

He is a compulsive liar who creates his own fantasy world. Harvard psychiatrist Lance Dodes: Donald Trump is a "sociopath" and "a very sick individual" 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

That might be video games’ weirdest and most enticing work fantasy yet. In Fantasy Life and Other Games, Jobs and To-Do Lists 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

A few of their non-American lovers also believe in that fantasy. Why "Temptation Island" is back and "90 Day Fiancé" is having a moment 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z

It is a piquant collage of moods and colors, its buoyant fantasies shadowed by tragedy and loss. Movie Review: ?Chico & Rita,? Animated Film About Cuba and Its Music 2012-02-09T22:30:37Z

Yeah, there's a bit of the fantasy that we like with this glittery world, but, I think that the crime and the drama behind it is still sophisticated, and hopefully not too soapy. Julia Stiles gets Shakespearean again: On murder, betrayal and the powerful women of "Riviera" 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

But there are men out there who are able to avoid acting out their fantasy lives, so don’t settle for a situation where you don’t feel valued. My boyfriend wants me to go to a swingers’ party with him 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Amateur cricketers tend to be vain, anecdotal, passionate, knowledgeable, neurotic and given to fantasy. The Authors XI: A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon by The Authors Cricket Club – review 2013-07-07T11:00:00Z

The major addition is the Quest mode, a tired fantasy in which you and your bandmates conquer evil with the power of rock. Review: 'Rock Band 3' hits all the right notes 2010-10-26T21:32:00Z

Levy’s overarching argument is that we misunderstand American culture in fundamental ways because we habitually forget our own past in favor of happy, gauzy nostalgia and/or fantasies of progress. “Huck Finn” is not about race: The real subtext of Twain’s masterpiece 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

He was, according to Sims, a melancholy child, "plagued by wild fantasies and indefinable nostalgia", with a "vague sense of yearning and loss". The Story of Charlotte's Web by Michael Sims - review 2011-08-03T15:30:01Z

An area devoted to fantasies of the primitive includes prints by Max Beckmann, Picasso, Keith Haring and Jackson Pollock, along with a painting by Paul Klee and a kachina doll. Art Review: ?Print/Out? and ?Printin? ?at the Museum of Modern Art 2012-02-16T23:07:07Z

He organized the first camp in Miami in 1997, more than a decade after baseball fantasy camps began proliferating, thinking of it, he said, “as a one-off.” Rock Stars for a Night, and for a Price 2011-01-18T23:26:06Z

Roadside wonders and big promises of fantasy come true. ‘Word painting’ artist Wayne White brings 14-foot-tall puppets to the Seattle Art Fair 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

But the films’ common dependence on the tropes of superhero stories and revenge fantasies, whether explicit or in disguise, suggests the difficulty of making reality-based cinema out of the history we’re currently living through. The Unreality of Racial Justice Cinema 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

One glance at Google Hotel Search was all it took for my breezy island fantasies to collapse. Your Next Vacation, Paid For With Points 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

In the early 20th century, chocolate marketing in both the U.S. and England was very tied up in imperialist fantasies and in connecting brown skin with brown chocolate. The Real Story Behind Roald Dahl’s ‘Black Charlie’ 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

And all the networks are chasing the next “Game of Thrones,” HBO’s popular Emmy-winning medieval fantasy series, which has become the pinnacle of prestige TV. Better call Netflix? Streaming platforms poaching top TV talent 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

It's simply a grand fantasy playing on all the old archetypes, wrapped up in a package that appeals to today's filmgoer. Star Trek v Star Wars: Star Trek v Star Wars: fans weigh in on the timeless debate 2013-05-17T13:50:00Z

Downsizing is something entirely different – a large-scale, CGI-laced comic fantasy with a premise that demands we take the title literally. Alexander Payne on Downsizing: ‘The film isn’t a major statement – it’s a metaphor’ 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

“May I Come In?” is pure fantasy, designed to preserve the majesty of its subjects’ reputations, rather than flatten them into a logging exercise. The Beautiful Unrelatability of Wendy Goodman’s Book About Élite Homes 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

It all made Big Bird question his ability to distinguish fantasy from reality. 9 Times Big Bird Helped Us Be Better People 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

The fantasy sequence after Shauna gives birth spends time recounting the agony of not being able to breastfeed. "Yellowjackets": Eat or be eaten? It's called being a team player 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

Lewis, fantasy writer Terry Pratchett and Philip Pullman, author of the trilogy "His Dark Materials". Tales of triumph over terror win top children's UK book awards 2013-06-19T12:06:07Z

“For some reason that I don’t quite understand, a lot of women love these stories more than other types of fantasy,” Jackson said. Director talks about expanding ‘Hobbit,’ dragon anxiety 2013-12-12T00:32:07Z

How exactly would Netflix make this frightful fantasy world appropriate for all ages? "The Witcher" boss explains how Netflix’s "Witcher" kids show will work 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

Apparently the old pool house at the end of the drive to this Medina waterfront home was not a thing like this pool house: this Norman fantasy of elegance, comfort and practicality. New pool house is an elegant Norman conquest 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

Without revealing too many of the comic twists, it's safe to say that Mark's manhood takes a beating, one that will tap into many a revenge fantasy, and not just for women. 'The Other Woman' serves up revenge in comic female fantasy 2014-04-24T12:05:17Z

On the other side, “Metamorphosis” was completely a fantasy, but it was told in such a graphic way. How ‘Catcher in the Rye’ Influenced Lenny Kravitz’s Memoir 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

"The Boys" still presents a fantasy version of America where people can fly, rip metal apart with their bare hands and make people's heads explode using psychic powers – and it does that very well. "The Boys" versus The Big Sellout 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z

Let’s not use this show as a way of making the political point of what we could be in some fantasy. Paapa Essiedu Knows ‘I May Destroy You’ Is Hard to Watch 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

As the barrier between worlds grows steadily thinner, reality and fantasy, dreams and waking life, begin to blur together. Review | Twenty years after ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ Stephen Chbosky delivers a thrilling surprise 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

“I think the signature scent is a fantasy for a lot of people,” says Denyse Beaulieu, author of “The Perfume Lover: A Personal History of Scent.” | The Perfume Diaries 2014-02-12T00:06:48Z

“Carnival Row” is a rarity among television fantasies these days because it did not begin life as a comic book, novel, film or other existing property. Review: Orlando Bloom Among the Immigrant Beasts in ‘Carnival Row’ 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

Terry Brooks is a grandmaster of the fantasy genre, and his latest will both captivate and surprise readers. Terry Brooks delivers in latest fantasy tale 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

It occupies a liminal space in the collective imagination, somewhere between fiction and fact, fantasy and reality — which was not unlike how I internalized my experience of that day. Following a Folk Tale Through the Himalayas 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

He mainlined fantasy, horror, science fiction and drama growing up, and started as a fanboy. Max Landis Is a Hollywood Disrupter With an Attitude 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

With songs like "Good Vibrations," "I Get Around" and "California Girls," the quintet embodied the fantasy of West Coast beach life. Beach Boys announce 50th anniversary reunion tour 2011-12-17T02:46:34Z

It was easier to imagine dressing like the fantasy guy I saw in countless mirrors than it was to imagine an actual life of men’s rooms and shoulder claps. Trans, but not like you think 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Fans of fantasy intrigue will like this one. Review | Best science fiction and fantasy books out this month 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

But this effort, which may in five years be seen as as primitive as the old flickering fantasies of the Lumière brothers, shows the potential of the medium’s capacity for utopian epiphanies. Review | It takes only 6 minutes to be fully convinced of the immense power of virtual reality 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

Cue a fantasy scene at a swamp that bubbles with distinctly flatulent sounds. ‘The Place of No Words’ Review: Shared Illusions 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

It is this story’s attractive premise—as it is that of children’s own make-believe fantasies—that feats of heroism as grand as the one Sadie and Sherman contemplate are well within their grasp. Masters of Illustration Bring Breathtaking Art to These Seafaring Stories 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

“Winter is coming,” goes the Stark family motto in HBO’s fantasy epic Games of Thrones. Shannon Purser: ‘People have actually had Barb’s face tattooed on their bodies’ 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

A woman from human resources has to remind him, “You need to make the host believe in the irrational fantasy that he is the funniest person in the world.” Does the Job of Talk-Show Sidekick Even Make Sense Anymore? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

In the late 1940s he headed for New York, where by 1952 he was appearing on Broadway as a bodyguard in the comic fantasy “Mrs. McThing,” starring Helen Hayes. Ernest Borgnine, Tough but Tender Actor, Is Dead at 95 2012-07-08T22:21:37Z

Another, about the Lewis Carroll fantasy shoot that is one of Ms. Coddington’s greatest triumphs, tells of Tom Ford’s arriving, impeccably dressed, to play the White Rabbit. Books Of the Times: Grace Coddington Gives Inside Look at Vogue in Memoir 2012-11-25T21:43:40Z

Anybody who denies that is living in a fantasy land and is endangering the lives of the American people. Sebastian Gorka says that Obama was our first celebrity president 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

‘In The Forest Of The Night’ is clearly bunting into the fantasy infield, and a specific area of fantasy at that. Doctor Who Stumbles As William Blake's 'Tyger, Tyger' Becomes A Failed Fairytale 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

Eliminating the fantasy of marriage, or curtailing it sharply. Marriage Seen Through a Contract Lens 2012-09-28T19:35:40Z

But a better use to which we can put the bunker fantasy today is to show how partial a story it really is. With threats of nuclear war and climate disaster growing, America’s "bunker fantasy" is inadequate 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

First are the occasional adult sleepovers, in which people pay hundreds of dollars to live out childhood fantasies of roaming empty museum halls and curling up in sleeping bags under the famous life-size blue whale. Spare Times for Jan. 8-14 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Like Ms. Sidibe’s fantasy gowns and boas in “Precious,” it telegraphs the nobility of a character with a difficult, if not an altogether benighted life. A Wizard Who Works With Color and Pattern 2009-12-17T17:19:28Z

The garb and dance and fantasy skin-change are as much a caricature of the “primitive” as her urban European surroundings are a caricature of the “modern.” Movie of the Week: “The Eclipse” 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

“Opera is the most beautiful and total of art forms, and it sparks every fiber of your being as well as provokes all of your thoughts and fantasies,” he said. Risking Boos, the Met Opera Puts Present-Day America Onstage 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

Is it pure fantasy, or is it something darker that’s wound into us that we don’t fully understand? Steven Soderbergh and Amy Seimetz Made the Pandemic Movies of the Moment 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

This is a perfect film for the age of Donald Trump, a revenge fantasy perpetrated against elites, who are caricatured as venal, corrupt and beyond redemption. Perspective | Netflix’s ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ is a revenge fantasy against elites — making it perfect for the age of Trump 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Since then, defenders of orca captivity have often pointed to Keiko as proof that freeing these creatures is little more than a childish fantasy that can cost the animals their lives. Free Lolita! The remarkable story of a remarkable whale held captive for four decades 2014-04-06T10:58:00Z

On the London set of the short film “Hideous,” which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, the 32-year-old musician was living his fanboy fantasies of becoming a creature from a horror movie. The Horror and Happiness of Oliver Sim 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

This season, Bachelorette Andi’s two remaining men each presented their own unique proclamation of traditional gender roles, and performative romance, before securing their respective keys to the fantasy suite. The sexual politics of the Bachelorette's 'fantasy suite' 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

I thought long and hard about a fantasy Prom before realising that what I would most want to hear is Claudio Abbado conduct Mahler. My perfect Proms 2010-07-08T21:45:00Z

“Home decisions are more permanent. Translating the fantasy into reality should be done thoughtfully.” Why Barbiecore decor is having a hot-pink moment 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

I think there was a strong interest for him, in the film, in the fact that people in life are faced with choosing between reality and fantasy. “Refreshingly Honest”: Cate Blanchett on Working with Woody Allen 2013-07-18T16:16:38Z

He invented the supernatural thriller in novels like "The Place of the Lion" and "The Greater Trumps," books that created a genre we now call urban fantasy. J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and 'The Fellowship' of fantasy writers 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Another — Hood by Air — has jumped ship to Paris, a surprising move given that in New York, H.B.A. qualifies for super-establishment-challenging-brand-of-the-moment status, but in Paris, land of fashion fantasy, its experimentations may seem less must-see. Everything You Need to Know About This Fashion Season 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

This girl power anthem, though, also reveals her capitalist fantasies. Of course even Taylor Swift’s cats are capitalists 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z

But “What the Day Owes” immediately presents itself as a work of fantasy, and is best relished as such. Review: A Work That Conjures Desert Sands and Whirlwinds 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

For all our fantasies about immortality and the millions we spend on anti-aging serums, Hollywood likes to keep reminding us of the pitfalls of never growing old. Blake Lively Stays Forever Young in the Trailer for Age of Adaline 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

It is harrowing to accept a narrative of black survival as radical fantasy, though as Smith demonstrates, threats to black bodies on this earth are plentiful and real. Political Poetry Is Hot Again. The Poet Laureate Explores Why, and How. 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

The collection, which features memorabilia of the fantasy novel by Lewis Carroll - also known as Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - was owned by late antiquarian book and prints dealer Thomas Schuster and his wife Greta. 'Alice in Wonderland' collection fetches 88,000 dollars at auction 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

“There were the two fantasies I encountered,” the author of the memoir turned Netflix TV series Orange is the New Black told an audience in New York on Thursday. Orange is the New Black's Piper Kerman: 'Schools in prisons are a positive investment' 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

The charm of this fantasy has always been dubious and will presumably fade as the natural world continues to disappear and more and more species become extinct. ‘Dolittle’ Review: Baa, Humbug 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

I can see how easily these fantasies will form. How do I tell our sons about their father’s criminal past? 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

The ending is also a test of the audience’s openness to the kind of fantasy mocked, at the outset, by everyone in Jeff’s life, including the filmmakers. Movie Review: ?Jeff, Who Lives at Home,? a Duplass Brothers Comedy 2012-03-15T22:12:53Z

The 10 fantasy figures known from the key are supplemented with four related works that aren’t included in the document. Review | A recently discovered document unlocks the mystery of Fragonard 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

This week feels more like a typical fantasy TV show, hopping back and forth from place to place. ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,’ Season 1, Episode 5: Misty Mountain Hop 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

Lego spokesman Troy Taylor said the company’ products promoted a range of play activities such as construction, fantasy and conflict. Lego 'arms race': study says company making more violent toys 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

“There’s an element of cinematic fantasy in the bath’s design, but I tried to evoke a certain mood without resorting to clichés or cartoonish gestures.” Art Advisor Will Kopelman Devises A Sophisticated Home Office 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Grant is also due to campaign on behalf of remain-minded Labour candidates, and said his “personal fantasy” for the election would be another hung parliament with MPs in charge. Hugh Grant: 'I want to do my bit to prevent a national catastrophe' 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Or my personal fantasy: Bring your iPod to the restaurant, all cued up to Icona Pop’s song of the summer. Social Q’s: Girls Not Allowed 2013-08-01T18:38:42Z

“And that he looked great in that military uniform. I was living the fantasy of ‘An Officer and a Gentleman.’ Ted Lieu is out-tweeting Trump, and it’s making him a political star 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

As people who have been around the music business, is it important for you to puncture the fantasy of the quick come-up? The Cast of ‘Atlanta’ on Trump, Race and Fame 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

In this fantasy land, there are no ropes, red tape, spin doctors or security minders to come between us and our idols. What makes Madame Tussauds' wax work? 2011-02-26T09:00:02Z

Monaghan, who played hobbit Merry in the blockbuster fantasy trilogy, revealed to the Huffington Post that he was surprised to see the Thin White Duke while auditioning for the role. David Bowie 'did audition' for Lord of the Rings 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

It’s not the “it” that you want, it’s the fantasy of “it”. Fame star Barry Miller remembers Alan Parker: 'He changed my career, almost instantaneously' 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

The stories my mother told me and my grandmother and my aunties, they always included some aspect of fantasy. Wayétu Moore on writing the immortal heroine of "She Would Be King": "She grew as I grew" 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

Related Topics: fantasy rpgs, kingdom hearts, populist, top 10, video games Get this game Prevent a dangerous cult from opening the gates to an inter-dimensional realm called Oblivion. Top 10 Fantasy RPG Video Games 2011-11-15T12:00:59Z

“That elephant wasn’t supposed to look real, but like a giant fantasy of a kite,” he told The New York Times in 1980. David Mitchell, Broadway Set Designer, Dies at 79 2011-10-05T01:56:33Z

It is a fantasy, but a fantasy we abandon at our peril. Perspective | Forget the tanks. Trump’s violation of the Lincoln Memorial is the real offense. 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

For the prince, it’s unclear what is reality and what is fantasy. Dance Review: Prince?s Fate, Entwined With Desire 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z

I exhaled, chilled and energized, feeling wholly like the heroine of my own post-apocalyptic fantasy. Modern Love: A Disaster Scenario, Rewritten 2012-12-06T19:38:13Z

The trouble, as Smith will testify, is that the reality of our skill and craft rarely matches our fantasy. High-definition TV is the nemesis of every actor of a certain age 2013-02-18T11:05:22Z

On a night designed for Christmas fantasy, it was a firm and certain gift. Mariah Carey Brings Christmas to the Beacon Theater 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

After all, if you still want pure fantasy, there’s always Wild Things on DVD. 'Oral sex – and no scissoring!' How the lesbian gaze changed cinema 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Of the various devices common to fantasy series, the one that most quickly binds a reader to a story is the sorting of characters into a handful of neatly defined groups. Finally, a New Harry Potter Story Worth Reading 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

The elements of fantasy exist here but are deftly muted, as Mr. Martin defies genre conventions. Books of The Times: In a Fantasyland of Liars, Keep Your Dragon Close 2011-07-14T17:28:37Z

The fantasy genre and including recent superhero comic book movies such as "Avengers: Infinity War" is also a vehicle through which the truth and reality of a given political moment shines through, sometimes very explicitly. "Game of Thrones" isn't "just fantasy": Westeros is a reflection of our terrible realities 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

In Edge of Tomorrow Blunt played an indomitable fantasy figure. A Star Crosses Hollywood Boundaries at the Border 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

They want us in a fantasy, so we aren't tapping into the true essence of who we are, as one nation. Congo Natty and the jungle revolution 2013-07-04T16:00:01Z

Rather than restraining fantasies, or intentionally focusing on them to get off, I try my best to be mesmerized by the touch — as though I’m only just discovering myself. Did porn warp me forever? 2013-01-13T02:00:00Z

But she clearly delighted in keeping certain things to herself — blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, irony and sincerity, with a sinister, self-preserving wink. Billie Eilish’s Uneasy View From the Top 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

“It’s just like the Emerald City of people’s fantasies.” Holiday Madness in Midtown Manhattan 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z

The effects of such fantasies have been real and deadly. An Immersive History of Mixed-Descent Native Families 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

But fake blood and disco-ball-enhanced musical fantasy interludes aside, “Horse Girls” doesn’t quite reach a satisfying level of satirical, nutty gore. ‘Horse Girls,’ a Black Comedy at the Cell 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Titles like Avengers, Game of Thrones and Star Wars are firmly in the realm of sci-fi and fantasy, which lend themselves to that level of detail. The new nerds: how Avengers and Game of Thrones made everyone geek out 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

Christopher Bailey at Burberry — a very different designer from Mr. Scott — chose fantasy over grim reality, too. London Men’s Wear: Burberry, McQueen and Others Puncture the Fashion Bubble 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

He believes he is in a dark sort of fantasy. In "Goodnight Mommy," Naomi Watts is drawn to her character's "terrifying and confusing" behavior 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

Of course, starring in “House of the Dragon” — the prequel series to HBO’s blockbuster “Game of Thrones,” based on the fantasy novel “Fire & Blood” by the author George R.R. Matt Smith on Playing the Rogue Prince of ‘House of the Dragon’ 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

And while “Something Sampled” is a bright fantasy, much of “Flexn” is closer to a nightmare, drawing on flex’s grotesque side. Street Dancers Tackle a Ballet Project and the Armory Stage 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

“Black Lightning” brings metahuman fantasy into a working-class neighborhood scraping and struggling for resources to offer opportunities to its citizens, a story not frequently seen in comic book films and movies. Smart Watch: This week’s TV heroines who nevertheless persist 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z

In that sense, “Processed Cheese” is a retail fantasy clotted with gangster thrills. Review | Finally, a novel that captures the inanity of the Trump era. It isn’t pretty. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

A collection of old show posters hangs on the wall bearing lineups that now read like fantasy bills. As uncertainty lingers for local music venues, a piece of Seattle’s identity hangs in the balance 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z

Sheen might be troubled, but he is living the extreme male debauchery fantasy. Charlie Sheen deserves our pity not our admiration 2011-03-04T12:29:01Z

“I always thought if I was fantasy Christian and I was going to have a tree, I would get total Liberace gay, tacky, pink fake tree,” she said with true enthusiasm. Encounters : In New York City Christmas Comedy Show, Jackie Hoffman Lampoons Holiday 2013-12-18T23:24:10Z

The Adham Hafez Company is based in Cairo, where, considering the recent history of Egypt, fantasies of the future must seem both tantalizing and treacherous. Choreographers Who Dare to Risk Boredom in the Name of Insight 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

But don’t let yourself feel too at home with that community-style underwater fantasy environment, charming though it may be. Review: A Shaggy Fish Story With a Bounty of Questing Heroines 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

"It's a parallel fantasy life, in a way," she says, over tea in a north London cafe. Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt: Everything but the grief 2010-05-26T20:45:00Z

But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in I Shall Wear Midnight, which are in fact fantasy. Terry Pratchett: 'I'm open to joy. But I'm also more cynical' 2010-09-01T19:30:00Z

That was fantasy and not intrinsic to what people wear. Fly on the wall at Prada and Schiaparelli's table 2012-05-08T18:39:13Z

Based on the complicated tale by ETA Hoffmann, its plot accommodates a multiplicity of stories and fantasies, which nestle inside each other like Chinese boxes but don't quite connect. The Nutcracker ? review 2010-12-12T21:29:00Z

Among Othersby Jo Walton Walton's Among Others – which took America's prestigious Hugo prize last month and also won the Nebula – was named winner of Britain's top fantasy award last night. Jo Walton wins British Fantasy award for Among Others 2012-10-01T11:26:03Z

Instead of satirizing contemporary culture, “Disenchantment,” launching Aug. 17 on Netflix, takes place in a fantasy world of elves, ogres and sorcery. From ‘The Simpsons’ to ‘Disenchantment’ 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

One of your new songs, Crapture, seems to be a fantasy about being left behind when all the religious nuts fly into the sky to be with Jesus. Jello Biafra: 'Obama owes Occupy big time' 2013-04-25T15:54:10Z

“I loved fantasy books: Harry Potter and Narnia and ‘His Dark Materials.’ Connor Jessup of ‘Locke & Key’ Gets His Nails Done 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

Martin epic fantasy in BBC's brand new trailer for "Doctor Who." 'Doctor Who' series 9 trailer has a 'Game of Thrones' twist 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Looking back over recent sci-fi/fantasy movies, there’s a curious pattern starting to emerge. When it comes to interracial romances, the movies need to catch up 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

At their best, milliners evoke a realm of fantasy; the prevailing mood of conservatism in fashion and retail left him making bland headgear for society weddings to support his atelier. A Hat Designer for Rock Stars Turns to Opera 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

Sighing over a fantasy drains energy from reality. The one that got away: Jeanette Winterson 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

With her frank and unpretentious point of view, Bushnell developed an appealing and assured mode of storytelling that marries aspirational fantasy with friendly confessional. ‘Is There Still Sex in the City?’ Review: Candace Bushnell Dishes Hot Details 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

Armani is one of Patel’s most significant co-stars in the new medieval fantasy “The Green Knight,” in which the 31-year-old actor plays Sir Gawain, a would-be warrior who embarks on something of a suicide mission. Dev Patel, Starry Knight 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

First it appears as a distant disc, pale and flat, ripe for fantasy and projection. Perspective | The most stirring photo from the Apollo mission wasn’t of the moon. It was of the Earth. 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

The exhibition, from the curator Barbara Drake Boehm, is a gateway to various fantasy worlds, some of which fall well beyond the scope of medieval Western Europe. Art Review: ‘Search for the Unicorn’ at the Cloisters 2013-05-23T22:00:41Z

The game is about as far as you can get from the gun battles and fantasy quests that have long been the stuff of the most popular releases. No Guns, No Dragons: Her Video Games Capture Private Moments 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z

But I think the thing that was different for me was that science fiction and fantasy were expansive. Leigh Bardugo on bringing her Grisha YA trilogy to a close 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

It means helping young men resist the popular fantasies of violence. My lesson in gun control 2012-12-18T01:00:00Z

In the enigmatic "Chloe," however, Egoyan keeps you wondering where fantasy starts and ends — or if there's a fantasy at all. 'Chloe': a darkly erotic tale about a test of fidelity 2010-03-25T21:37:00Z

Mostly, the real holdouts were in the fantasy and horror fields. Alessandra Stanley Sizes Up 2013 TV Fare 2013-12-13T19:27:53Z

A fantastical film that attacks some of our culture’s most cherished fantasies. ‘Annette’ Review: Love Hurts 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings epic fantasy series. PRISM Speculation and The Lord of the Rings: The ‘Palantir’ Connection 2013-06-07T19:28:07Z

The fantasy sequences provide the film with momentary zings of energy. ‘The Tiger Rising’ Review: A Cage of Clichés 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

But at least onscreen, the fantasy sequences fall flat, allowing viewers too unrestricted an escape. ‘My Happy Ending’ Review: When Life Goes Off Script 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

In the story, Goldie — the name comes from her original surname, Goldsmith — refers to herself as “a giant slug living in a fantasy of future happiness.” Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Pioneering Comics Memoirist, Dies at 74 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z

In the strip and in more than 40 “Peanuts” television specials, he appeared as both Charlie Brown’s sidekick and an auteur of vivid fantasy personas, including Joe Cool. Want This Snoopy T-Shirt? You’ll Have to Pay in Blood. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

“As a book dealer and publisher, Amazon wants no competitors, admits no responsibilities, and takes no risks,” the 85-year-old fantasy and science-fiction author writes on the Book View Café blog. More reasons to hate Amazon: Ursula Le Guin is right about their model of books as commodities “written fast, sold cheap, dumped fast” 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Who needs a diary when you have a living, breathing receptacle for every opinion, daydream, fantasy, guilty confession and scrap of gossip tumbling around in your head? In This Novel of Female Friendship, Birds of a Feather Drift Apart 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

“I admire Victoria’s Secret as a business, but I stopped relating to the fantasy and the push-ups and the armor, it was too much for me,” Ms. Grant said. A New Vision of Lingerie: Men Not Required 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Set 10 years after a peaceful socialist revolution, this comic fantasy follows a rebellion by the Women’s Army, a diverse alliance calling for a feminist, cultural and political revolution. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ and ‘Born in Flames’ 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

As an escapist experience, fantasy has fallen in to disregard with writers and readers who seek to understand the often difficult and painful truths of real life. Can fantasy ever tell the truth? 2011-03-17T09:37:12Z

The fantasy of this dormant threat points at the traumatic psychological schism opened up by the cold war. Back from the red – return of the Russian baddie 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

The central moment is the queen's jawdropping entry into Rome, for which Mankiewicz creates a sensational Busby Berkeley fantasy,, like the world's biggest Olympic opening ceremony. Cleopatra – review 2013-07-11T20:34:00Z

“He didn’t want to create a fantasy,” she said. A James Baldwin Book, Forgotten and Overlooked for Four Decades, Gets Another Life 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

But Harkaway is a far tougher storyteller than that, and the battle in which Ferris and Robin are engaged is ultimately no comic-book fantasy, just as a poisoned island is no paradise. ‘Tigerman,’ by Nick Harkaway

These are fantasy battles that measure character along with physical strength and survivalist aplomb—and which, unlike mere video-game challenges, turn illusion into reality: failure will mean actual death. The Apocalypse Will Be Like High School 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

How do you avoid intruding on that freedom of fantasy that you mentioned earlier? This isn’t “mommy porn” 2013-03-16T22:00:00Z

His film, a high-energy, song and dance-filled “musical fantasy,” out May 31, is intended to be an, “honest and truthful portrayal of a great man.” Paramount brings ‘Rocketman,’ new ‘Terminator’ to CinemaCon 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

The 1962 Madeline L’Engle fantasy, about two siblings and a friend traveling throughout time and space to find their missing astrophysicist father, was reportedly one of Lee’s favorite books growing up. Frozen Director to Adapt A Wrinkle in Time 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

Someone was talking to me about a film-school character trope, these women in their 20s, quirky, happy-go-lucky, don’t need anything, kind of girl — that romantic comedy fantasy. ArtsBeat: Tribeca: Maggie Gyllenhaal on Sex Scenes From a Woman's Point of View 2012-04-26T14:00:16Z

London, author of the underappreciated “Proxy,” gives us a brilliantly crafted high fantasy about a society in which survival depends on falconry; even bird haters will be spellbound. Young Adult Fantasy Novels That Sweep Readers Away 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

“In recent years, with the success of the Harry Potter books, there is a greater acceptance of fantasy, and a little more tolerance for the edgier works,” he added. Beyond ‘Wonka’: They Want Every Kid to Know Roald Dahl’s World 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Shot in the oddly diminutive rooms of a derelict house, the photographs create an intriguing tension between reality and fantasy. Art Trek: A Critic’s Guide to the Best of the Lower East Side 2014-04-03T22:41:10Z

But TV’s vast landscape offers a lot more than expensively produced, effects-laden fantasy. 41 TV Shows to Watch This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Au courant refrigerators resemble the imaginary dragons of childhood fantasy in that they are both invisible and enormous. In the Kitchens of the Rich, Things Are Not as They Seem 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

“Veronica Mars” was and is one of the greatest TV power fantasies that appeals to women of all ages. "Veronica Mars" contends with the mystery and tragedy of growing up 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

Though Frida feels “a sudden pleasure” when she shuts the door behind her, her fantasy life is short and bleak: She escapes as far as her office, where she sends emails. Mommy Is Going Away for a While 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

That fantasy plays into a very human desire to stand out and be better than the common man. "The Misfits:" British superheroes just want to be teens 2011-08-11T22:12:00Z

I am a big believer that fashion falls into two categories: fantasy and believable. Four Things We Learned From the Paris Menswear Shows (So Far) 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

There’s also Fallen, which will cleave closer to the dark fantasy romance blueprint of Meyers’s hit saga with its depiction of a school where many students have a connection to the paranormal. Not the future after all: the slow demise of young adult dystopian sci-fi films 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

Those new to Harris might first read the Sookie books to determine if Harris’ mix of romance, mystery and contemporary fantasy is for them. ‘Midnight Crossroad’: This Texas town has some secrets 2014-05-01T18:22:43Z

Joining "Mad Men," "Lost" and "The Good Wife" as best drama series nominees were "Breaking Bad," "Dexter" and first-timer "True Blood," which overcame TV academy voter reservations about fantasy genre shows. `The Pacific,' `Glee,' top Emmy Awards nominees 2010-07-08T13:11:00Z

The stage-death fantasy is an imaginative extension of the buzz you get from going in front of an audience with nothing but props and chops. Can a live "30 Rock" succeed? 2010-10-14T16:40:00Z

In an important sense, then, "Yesterday" is not a fantasy at all. What "Yesterday" — and everyone else — forgets about the Beatles 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

There are some strong similarities between science fiction and historical fiction, but you also write fantasy, poetry, etc. Ursula K. Le Guin: Amazon has too much control over what books get published 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

While Blue Jasmine was filmed in the US, Allen is due to return to France for the first time since his successful time-travel fantasy Midnight in Paris for the followup. Emma Stone set for lead role in next Woody Allen film 2013-04-25T12:44:22Z

Among other things, Rand’s existence shows that you should always believe the ancient prophesy that even the low-born can save the world – and that characters in TV fantasy series must always have two names. What's the next Game of Thrones? All the contenders for fantasy TV's crown 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

"To rummage around in the subject online is like stepping into a dizzying fantasy of bad satire," Shipler writes. David K. Shipler's 'Freedom of Speech' reflects our fractured times 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

But if there ever was a film fit for reflection about past, present, fantasy and reality, “Last Night in Soho” is it. Past and present meet ‘Last Night in Soho’ 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

There’s nothing wrong with your fantasies – they’re pretty pedestrian by today’s standards – but you need to be comfortable with your desires and with a willing playmate. I love my girlfriend, but I want to have a threesome | Dear Mariella 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

There was in this more than a trace of postcolonial melancholia – the feelings of despondency that come with the loss of fantasies of imperial omnipotence. The Orwell prize gets Hitched 2012-05-28T09:34:25Z

His fantasy of being a boy among boys is clear enough from the work, which dwells repeatedly on the tough little boy half-singing, half-shouting the lines. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z

This world that Tyler Mitchell conjures in his debut photography monograph, “I Can Make You Feel Good,” is a handsome fantasy of permanent sunshine and lithe bodies, suffused in intense, saturated color. Tyler Mitchell: ‘Black Beauty Is an Act of Justice’ 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

Even the Man in Black tells Teddy he’s made of “flesh and bone just like us” to spice up the fantasy park. The 11 Most Interesting 'Westworld' Fan Theories 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

My fantasy is that the actor I’m understudying books some big Marvel movie. On Broadway, Newly Vital Understudies Step Into the Spotlight 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

Many seem to be going through the motions — acting out fantasies that are not theirs. John Currin has a way with awkwardness 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

The fantasy writer quietly opened Beastly Books last month in Santa Fe next to the movie theater he revived in 2013, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported. ‘Game of Thrones’ author Martin opens bookstore in Santa Fe 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

These playwrights, critics and fantasy novelists are Orwell's heirs but they project themselves very differently. Radio previews: The Newsagent's Window and more 2013-02-02T06:00:20Z

Aidan continues to go out on auditions, but sees his acting dream coming to an end and indulges a childhood fantasy of being a superhero space traveler who saves the world. Zach Braff Directs and Stars in ‘Wish I Was Here’ 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

The bubbling hatred between Díaz and Jimena on screen is the stuff of historical fantasy, but it was real enough on set. El Cid: Spanish history enjoys a right royal revamp 2013-04-26T08:38:31Z

These inventive fantasies are sometimes performed with video, though these readings offered only the music. Music Review: Continuing a Continuing Story by Renewing His Early New Music 2011-07-01T22:24:00Z

Fantasy fiction is custom-fit for that stage of life, or at least a certain mode of fantasy is. Review: ‘Shadowhunters,’ a Teenage Fantasyland Roamed by Demon Killers 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

And the Sonatina No. 6 is a fantasy on themes from “Carmen,” filtered through Busoni’s mildly acidic harmonic sensibility and spun together by the light of his quirkily humorous imagination. Music Review: Kirill Gerstein at Peoples? Symphony Concert 2010-05-10T20:47:00Z

Mr. Michot’s primal yawp also resounds from the opening scenes of the swampland fantasy “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” which won the Sundance grand jury prize in January, and rolls into theaters this month. At Home With Louis Michot: At Home With Louis Michot of the Lost Bayou Ramblers 2012-07-04T11:25:23Z

Hopefully, this film will show that you can sometimes get caught up in these fantasies and you forget that that’s the real world. “American Animals” could change how we tell true crime stories 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z

But her poetry and letters conjure vivid emotional states, so “Dickinson” colors Emily’s life with this dynamism, colliding reality and fantasy. Catherine Was Great. But Was She a Girl Boss? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

Will winter recede to a soggy fantasy spring, leaving everyone’s big fur capes and complicated braid hairdos sopping and unwieldy? Ed Sheeran? Incest? Ice dragons? How Game of Thrones might end 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

It is our shared desire, perhaps, to be immersed in the alluring fantasy of being closer to a life-altering change than we actually are. ‘Change Your Life,’ the Poet Says, and a Rural Idyll Offers a Tantalizing Choice 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z

“I hope we can introduce many new fans to the show and then they can pour into the marquee series and fall in love with fantasy,” Brown said. ‘The Witcher: Blood Origin’ Is TV’s Latest Big Fantasy Prequel 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

When I was growing up, I loved sci-fi and fantasy: His Dark Materials, Redwall, Harry Potter, classics like Dune and 2001 and Foundation and The Illustrated Man ... among many, many others. Ava DuVernay’s Fiercely Feminine Vision for ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

World War II fantasy with lots of talk, most of it in French or German — snagged $38.1 million on its way to a $120.5 million gross in domestic theaters and nearly $200 million abroad. Box Office: Stallone Wins Another Expendable Weekend 2010-08-22T17:05:00Z

Verne's fantasy has darkly prophetic undertones: not least the creation of Captain Nemo as a form of motiveless, ocean-dwelling, international terrorist. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 2010-06-02T21:01:00Z

Our fantasies can be punctured by the reality of other people’s feelings. Perspective | Don’t blame MeToo for ruining the most iconic kiss in history. The photo was never romantic. 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

It pings around in time, and does not bother to mediate between fantasy and reality. Experiments Succeed — and Fail — Spectacularly in Robert Coover’s Lab 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

Cassavetes shot a lot of it in front of a live audience in Pasadena, Calif., and the result constantly threads the line between fantasy and reality, performance and life. It’s ‘Opening Night’ for Two Shows That Pay Homage to Cassavetes 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

Eli stands out in my mind because of the duration of the fantasy. I fall for strangers: I thought my fantasies made me writerly and special — it took decades to see how they were ruining my life 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

Logan uses the encounter in a dusty bookshop – "we are practically our own children's book department" – to wind back into their pasts and into the question of whether flight into fantasy is helpful or damaging. Peter and Alice; The Low Road – review 2013-03-31T00:05:46Z

It was a fantasy garment, but a livable fantasy. New 3.1 Phillip Lim Store is a Site for Fantasies 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Hader, who is also at work on Steven Spielberg's upcoming fantasy "BFG" and an IFC show called "Documentary Now," chatted about discovering new comedy muscles, stoking his Pixar fandom and juggling fatherhood and acting. Bill Hader scores in his career — and on LeBron James 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

Ike who is most concerned about the appropriateness of their relationship, but it’s as if his persistent fretting amidst a fantasy world where no one else cares is “tantamount to absolution,” The Hollywood Reporter writes. Woody Allen’s reported relationship with 16-year-old: What we know 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

A running fantasy of wronged divorced-dad nobility, the series here continues its ritualized plot points. ‘Taken 3,’ Starring Liam Neeson 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Instead of indulging in its fantasies, it just throws him in the brig. “It’s Always Sunny” gang goes to hell: The long-running “Seinfeld” heir skewers rape culture, homophobia and religious hypocrisy in two-part finale 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

His father played a plumber who arrives to satisfy the woman’s fantasy. Testing German Ideas of Beauty 2014-02-19T14:22:11Z

There is a lot of talk in fantasy and science fiction in general about strong female characters. Sofia Samatar on the many influences on her fantasy novel, 'The Winged Histories' 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Quickly integrated into a new group of friends, they set off on a journey of betrayal, love, hate, infidelity and extreme violence more devastating and fiery than any of their apocalyptic fantasies. "Bellflower": The "Mad Max" romance game changer? 2011-06-14T21:15:00Z

They are often accused of providing escapist fantasies of the past; this is unfortunately the case here as Scharer succumbs to the mythology of Paris in the early 1930s. A Novel About the Life and Times of the Photographer Lee Miller 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

The latest instalment in Jennifer Lawrence's fantasy franchise took £4.9m in its second weekend, having scored the biggest UK debut of the year a week ago. Paddington gets bear hug at cinemas 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

The Seafarer A man in a small coastal village near Dublin tries to stay sober during the holidays in Conor McPherson’s fantasy drama inspired by Celtic folklore. The week ahead in SoCal theater, Oct. 14-21: 'Winter Solstice,' 'Dear Evan Hansen' and more 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

“To discuss the potential of what a Trump administration might look like is one person’s fantasy and another person’s horror show,” David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, said in an interview. New Yorker Festival to Feature David Letterman, Louis C.K. 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

I think that’s something worth investigating even in a fantasy genre. World of Warcraft Director: Female Characters Don't Need 'Slutty Costumes' 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Neither is required with Salerno's hybrid platform, though "fantasy sports" is a loose term that does not have a uniform definition, he said. Nevada gambling regulators to weigh new fantasy sports model 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Apparently, the desire to play outside in your undergarments, to stroll about in broad daylight in robe and pajamas, oblivious to stares and catcalls, is a persistent fashion fantasy. T Magazine: Early Birds 2011-02-24T20:35:01Z

Fans of Game of Thrones will know that a wedding in the hit show’s fantasy world does not always ends well. Game of Thrones stars Kit Harington and Rose Leslie to marry 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

The telling phrase that describes this piece is not its nickname but Beethoven’s descriptive subtitle, “Sonata Quasi una Fantasia,” meaning rather like a fantasy. Music Review: A Beethoven Warm-Up and a Liszt Workout 2010-11-21T22:53:00Z

A self-described “nerd” who “loved books, computers and fantasy role-playing games” and had “no interest in sports,” he is perceptive about the pressure he felt to live up to his father’s macho, hyperarticulate swagger. ‘Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up With Hunter S. Thompson’ review 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

The fashion designer Thom Browne, no stranger to the outer reaches of fantasy, put the butlers in androgynous black-tie uniforms with shorts, suspender socks and wildly exaggerated cuffs. ‘Queen of the Night’ Opens at the New Diamond Horseshoe Club 2013-12-26T21:42:17Z

No human society has ever operated on that basis, and outside the erotic fantasies of Ayn Rand, it’s hard to imagine one that might. Hillary’s predicament and the history of capitalism: Former Monty Python member explains it all 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

In that sense, it’s a bit like Cassandra Khaw’s Rupert Wong urban fantasy novels — also highly recommended — but with an ancient world angle. Review | ‘The Princess Bride’ and other fantastical novels to help you escape reality 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

Posey, a cult favorite for her indie film roles, offers a chance here to imagine yourself seated next to her on a plane, able to ask anything — a fantasy for many a bearded hipster. New & Noteworthy 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

In Jurassic Park, Spielberg’s aim was to make the dinosaurs as “real” as possible, to ground the “as if” of fantasy in scientific truth. What Steven Spielberg's science fiction tells us about America 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

If you have your base in reality, then you can have fantasy and be silly. Critic?s Notebook: Eddie Brill and the Comics on David Letterman?s Show 2012-01-11T23:09:20Z

Garner is one of the very greatest fantasy writers in the English language, though I admit that the categorisations of his work as "Children's" or "Fantasy" are meaningless. Graham Joyce's top 10 fairy fictions 2012-06-27T12:57:57Z

Martin in his “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels that form the basis of the HBO hit medieval fantasy series about warring families. For the ultimate 'Game of Thrones' fan. How to speak Valyrian 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

If you fancy some fantasy this week, it might be worth checking out the complete collection of Oz: by L. Frank Baum. Reader reviews roundup 2013-06-03T11:00:00Z

I avoid science fiction — religious traditions already are packed with fantasy stories — and often skip fiction, unless it’s amazing, and then irresistible. Elaine Pagels: By the Book 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

“It’s an allegory for the modern black experience through the lens of an epic African fantasy,” she said in an interview. Nnedi Okorafor and the Fantasy Genre She Is Helping Redefine 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Wouldn’t shaving be low on her priorities? asked a population seemingly unfamiliar with the concept of “fantasy”. Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins: ‘People really thought that only men loved action movies’ 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

There is the folding of tiny empty vests, the fantasies of their talents. Having kids increases global warming. But don’t blame the parents… 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z

But essentially it is a knowing and erudite example of the genre that we have come to call "fantasy". American Gods by Neil Gaiman 2011-08-19T21:55:08Z

Rather, it hums in hushed and meditative tones through prisoners of war in historic and contemporary fantasy rooted in reality. A Muslim woman struggles with identity in the novel 'The Kindness of Enemies' by Leila Aboulela 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

It is a world that will soon be largely dismantled, with some works headed toward a museum of fantasy and surreal art. Glimpsing a Soon-to-Vanish Surrealist World in Chelsea 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

Her eye for endearing weirdness whips such diverse sources into a coming-of-age tale that ricochets between mother and daughter, comedy and tragedy, fantasy and reality. What to see in L.A. galleries: John Altoon, Maria Lassnig, a funky fairy tale and stenciled magic 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

Though Mr. Díaz never became a fantasy writer, he attributes his literary success, in part, to his “early years profoundly embedded and invested in fantastic narratives.” Dungeons & Dragons Has Influenced a Generation of Writers 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

If you have ever opened a fantasy novel and found a map, you most likely have J.R.R. Tolkien’s World: An Exhibition Transports Us to Middle-earth 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Shared consciousness: perhaps the ultimate fantasy of a man who tried to capture the perceptions and experiences of others. Review: ‘Insomniac City’ Recalls Life With Oliver Sacks 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

The bestselling author writes all of his fantasy novels on an ancient word processor that many of us may be too young to remember: WordStar 4.0, running on the operating system MS-DOS. Here's Why George R.R. Martin Types 'Game of Thrones' on an Ancient DOS Computer 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

If you savor ferocious romance and fantasy, these will keep you happy for many pages. Best romance novels of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

These unnerving episodes — existing somewhere between dream and memory, fantasy and hallucination — evoke moments from Zed’s childhood and also some of the traumas of South Asian history. ‘Mogul Mowgli’ Review: Rapping for Dear Life 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

The Perfect American is the 24th opera from Glass, who has described Disney as the man responsible for "perhaps the most pervasive fantasy world on our planet" and his story as "gripping". Philip Glass opera shows Walt Disney's fantasy world in a new light 2013-01-06T00:08:29Z

He is power fantasy for children: a high school-aged teenager is given superpowers through the bite of a radioactive spider. "Miles Morales: Spider-Man" author Saladin Ahmed: "Politics are central to the story for me" 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

When I founded my own company, Rococo, in 1983, I was thinking of Wonka, and of how to put fantasy and theatre into chocolate. A chocolatier's view on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2013-07-02T17:33:00Z

The early episodes build a world that’s a sort of greatest hits of fantasy imagery. Review: ‘His Dark Materials’ Paints a Vivid Children’s Crusade 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

“It was set in a labyrinth that was small and dark, like a prison, exactly the opposite of the fairy-tale fantasy most people expect,” Mr. Beck said. 2010-02-06T03:26:00Z

They seek the Holy Grail in the two-part historical fantasy "Labyrinth." TV This Week, May 18-24: "Labyrinth," "The Maya Rudolph Show" and more 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Or even worse, in his feminist-dystopian fantasy, it's something only men who identify as feminists do. Tucker Carlson accidentally praises MSNBC's Chris Hayes as a feminist's ideal man 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

Only in this version, the damage is not angel-inspired fantasy, and the bleak reality remains, making it difficult to look at any bit of carefully rendered "charm" quite the same way again. Provocative 'The Casual Vacancy' no ordinary jaunt to countryside 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

Underneath was lingerie, a naked bit of fantasy. Fashion Review: Balenciaga, Balmain, Rick Owens, Mugler, Rochas, Van Noten: Paris Fashion Review 2011-09-29T23:21:01Z

This was a backward-looking collective fantasy of an idealized antebellum world in which slavery was so benign it couldn’t possibly be counted a major factor in the Civil War. We Need to Move, Not Destroy, Confederate Monuments 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

Much of that framework comes from the way Martin constructed his novels, which include elements of his favorite medieval fantasy literature and historical fiction — with a particular focus on “realism.” Reveling in the darkness: “True Detective,” “Game of Thrones” and the missing critique in TV’s cult of gritty realism 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

Four songs tracked live to tape, with no computers deployed — this is the stuff of Mr. Grohl’s fantasies, and an opportunity for Mr. Brown to reframe his band before Nashville hopelessly freezes it. New Music: Albums From Zac Brown Band and George Colligan 2013-12-23T22:34:00Z

But also I think it magnifies the disjuncture between his fantasy of what life could be and the reality. A Minute With: Stephen Merchant on dreaming and despairing in L.A 2013-09-25T11:33:15Z

The scenes we saw at the beginning of the play were their therapeutic fantasies, spun out in role-play. Review: Race and Sex in Plantation America in ‘Slave Play’ 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

The quality of private fantasy here is as disconcerting as it is touching. San Francisco Ballet’s Limpid Sophistication Shines in ‘Unbound’ 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

Havana is, in a way, America at its best — it's the fantasy of Americans. "Havana is . . . the fantasy of Americans": Filmmaker on capturing the "utopia" of Cuba in new doc 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

“When you see a fantasy from within, you realize none of it is true.” | The PG Lives of X-Rated Stars 2013-05-16T21:05:59Z

The 13 students at this private school enjoy pop music, fantasy books and YouTube. April Class of KidsPost: Pinecrest School fifth- and sixth-graders 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

Martha’s marriage to Clark is sustained mainly by her delusion that this infrequent and cagey visitor she calls a husband is still a fantasy come true. Want a stronger, more intense marriage? Then you should watch ‘The Americans.’ 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Re: Friend: Kathy spent most of the trip blackout drunk and living out her Sin City fantasies, so like you suggested, there were other reasons I didn’t want to continue the friendship. Carolyn Hax: There’s no need to be Par-tay City’s hostess with the mostest 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Why does fantasy allow you to do as a writer that realism can’t? N. K. Jemisin on Diversity in Science Fiction and Inspiration From Dreams 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

Marchesa is the label behind most of those off-white tulle fantasy gowns. Oscars 2011: Fashion royalty 2011-02-28T17:10:00Z

But fantasies don’t, in fact, have to be erotic. I fall for strangers: I thought my fantasies made me writerly and special — it took decades to see how they were ruining my life 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

Atomic Blonde feels like a fantasy film designed for action-film fans, many of whom will be men. Violent femmes: Atomic Blonde and Hollywood’s new wave of killer women 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

Fennell's film is a wish fulfillment revenge fantasy, and viewers who go along for the ride will be entertained. Revenge never tasted so deliciously venomous in the slick and twisty "Promising Young Woman" 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

Willard’s gentle style made the fantasy interactions feel almost plausible; it was like celebrity hobnobbing at a never-ending White House Correspondents Dinner. Best in Show: Watch Fred Willard’s Most Memorable Roles 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

Despite the singer’s previous experience playing a goblin king in the Jim Henson fantasy Labyrinth, the part eventually went to the Australian actor Hugo Weaving. David Bowie 'did audition' for Lord of the Rings 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

Of the top 10 performing films from last year, only three drifted outside the fantasy, science-fiction or comic-book film oeuvres, and each of those was an animated movie. Week in geek's 2013 preview: superheroes and science fiction rule 2013-01-07T17:48:40Z

Stark history and buoyant fantasy often merge in The Wind Rises. The Wind Rises: An Animation Master’s Last Flight? 2014-02-20T15:00:59Z

Like “Dreams of Flying,” which merged themes of Wall Street corruption and environmental apocalypse, “Yellow Hour” pushes topical fears into creepy, Götterdämmerung fantasy. Theater Review: Adam Rapp’s ‘Through the Yellow Hour,’ at Rattlestick 2012-09-28T02:00:00Z

And the only holdover film that might dilute their success was some grim Survivor-style fantasy about an endangered teenage girl with a bow and arrow. The Hunger Games Kills Off Two New Combatants: Perseus and Snow White 2012-04-01T22:35:54Z

“Who but Cary Grant could be a fantasy self-image for a President and a gangster chief?” Archive Collection: Actors 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

The scene played out like a baby boomer fantasy come to life, as if Springsteen or Stevie Wonder had just pulled up a piano bench at a local club and started pounding out the hits. When Daniel Boulud calls, D.C. chefs come

Decades later Ms. Marcovicci, who turned 62 on Thursday, is still dispensing high romantic drama with the intensity of a precocious child forever in the thrall of Hollywood and Broadway fantasies. Music Review: Keeping Torch Songs Ablaze 2010-11-21T22:34:00Z

I mean, that was your only way into the industry if you were going to write a sort of big fantasy. What would today's fairy tale look like if you could "un-Disney-fy people's brains"? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

Every year for one weekend, San Diego is flooded with celebrities promoting their superhero films and fantasy shows at San Diego Comic-Con. See Black Panther, Game of Thrones Stars Let Loose at Comic-Con Party 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

The piles of stuff reflect a past that's lost and gone forever, but also hint at a hazy, imagined future that is constructed more from fantasy than from a practical sense of what's possible. How hoarding shows cured my hoarding 2010-04-10T23:01:00Z

But mainly it was a direct download from the subconscious of Mr. Lynch, who directed every episode: part horror story, part slapstick, all twisted fantasy. The Best TV Shows of 2017 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

The allure of the archaic, the fantasy of a golden age of holistic harmony in the distant past, was the flip side of the euphoria of modern progress. ‘The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy’ at the Met Is a Journey Back 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

In one beautifully uncanny scene, the duo stop by a virtual reality gaming studio and, equipped with headsets, plug into the fantasy, playing as flying sorcerers as they shoot the breeze. ‘Queens of the Qing Dynasty’ Review: Secret Soul Mates 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

When I say everything, I read everything: children’s literature, Y.A., science fiction, fantasy, romance — I read it all. Jesmyn Ward: By the Book 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

Let me just tell you that the Foo Fighters, right now, are living out our rock ‘n roll fantasy with you tonight.” Rock Royalty Joins Foo Fighters in 'Under Pressure' Cover 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

I choose to see it as an affirmation of what Riverdale has always been: The fantasy of an average American town where everyone feels safe, comfortable and wanted. Comics: 'Kevin Keller' gay-teen miniseries should be a point of pride 2011-06-22T18:20:55Z

I think that there’s this tendency to look at genre fiction, science fiction and fantasy, as escapist. Leigh Bardugo on bringing her Grisha YA trilogy to a close 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

From those primordial forms, children of any cultural background or education level could compose new images of any kind — Best Maugard encouraged fantasy — and on a personal scale. ‘Paint the Revolution’ Offers Mexican Muralist Muscle and Delicate Beauty 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

It was an aesthetic choice because the first film is about fantasy, about our exuberant indulgence in stories that do harm. New York Film Festival: A 'Genius' Grant Winner and His Unblinking Camera 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

But Bollywood movie offers and product endorsement deals began flooding in, and, as Ms. Chopra put it, “I went from being a geek to a geek’s fantasy.” Priyanka Chopra, a Bollywood Star From India, Becomes a Top Model for Guess 2014-02-07T20:54:38Z

Pop art began as an ironically utopian futuristic fantasy by British artists trapped in a monochrome reality. Daleks are a legacy of British pop art 2013-02-25T15:04:55Z

Murder mysteries, period dramas, fantasy epics, modern adult romance — all benefit from gentle hills dotted with ancient churches, rivers winding past storybook villages and conversations prefaced by "I'll put the kettle on." Provocative 'The Casual Vacancy' no ordinary jaunt to countryside 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

Incredibly, in 1978, Wilczek did identify a hypothetical particle — one that coincidentally solved a problem related to axial currents — and was able to fulfill that fantasy. Electrons, Photons, Gluons, Quarks: A Nobel-Winning Physicist Explains It All 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

“Part of the appeal for her is seeing herself represented in this space of fantasy.” Disney’s ‘Doc McStuffins’ Connects With Black Viewers 2012-07-30T14:53:42Z

And then he finished up with a Chinese dragon/unicorn that wobbled out behind its fairy godmother like a childhood fantasy come to life. The Top 10 Moments of Paris Fashion Week 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

“It could even be said,” Mr. Ackroyd writes, “that in fashioning Jeff he had created an image of himself — the man hiding behind the camera who creates a fantasy world out of observable reality.” Review: In ‘Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life,’ Fear Drives a Master of Suspense 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

In its ambition to re-create such a time, “Bridge of Spies” indulges the fantasy of Hollywood as the ultimate Wayback Machine. For Spielberg, ‘Bridge of Spies’ is culmination of a Cold War fascination 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

In this present moment there are so many fantasies that have been summoned by Trump, but he deals in obvious inflated enemies that are bogeymen. Novelist Jonathan Lethem: "There is no allegory crude enough" to capture Trump's America 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

“The hippocampus was totally sclerotic,” the neurosurgeon thinks with faux self-confidence, “and my business is to heal people, not preserve their fantasies.” As a house burns, its residents are sustained by memories in ‘Night of Fire’ 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Like the serially unlucky Wile E. Coyote, though, he is soon back on his feet and smiling into the next scene, the next fantasy. ‘Dick Johnson Is Dead’ Review: A Father’s Painful, Funny Goodbye 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Martin’s universe and fantasy in general is indicative of general decline in cultural intelligence. Hot take: “Game of Thrones'” lefty “wizard porn” is endangering your soul 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

Following a somewhat linear start, the movie becomes little more than a string of trippy, outrageous, often interminable dreams, fantasies, hallucinations and/or moments of meandering confusion. In the unappealing 'Don Peyote,' end times can't come too soon 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

The trick is that it’s just fantasy, a picture in your head of financial security or marital stability or optimal fertility. Dear Internet: Sorry about that motherhood post 2013-02-03T02:00:00Z

The circus, with its built-in otherworldliness, is an ideal setting for fantasy, horror and science-fiction novels. Review | Clowns are creepy. Let's talk about horror, science-fiction and fantasy books that make the most of circus settings. 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

This spring, and continuing until fall, it’s a fantasy of blossoms, bedecked in flowers real and fake. Thailand’s South Gets Its Due in Williamsburg, Brooklyn 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

Now in her twenties, Bloom is still part of that scene, which she said introduced her to an amazing world of fantasy. Transgender love story shines in Cannes 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

Though lacking the charm and artfulness of “The Arabian Nights,” these medieval fantasies should nonetheless appeal to anyone who loves “tales of the marvelous and news of the strange.” In these medieval Arab tales, a heavy dollop of spice 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

That wave seems to be over — telling an editor you write urban fantasy nowadays is like telling a music producer you play the lute — but we still get bits of noir. Review | Fantasy noir combines the best of two genres. These are the books that do it well. 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z

The virtual reality fantasy, which currently holds an A- CinemaScore and 76 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, released internationally with $128 million, bringing its worldwide total up to a solid $181.2 million. Box office: 'Ready Player One' powers to $53 million over holiday... 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z

I’m not much of a fantasy enthusiast, generally, and, like a traveller in a strange country, I’m always trying to figure out what the rules are in Westeros. “Game of Thrones”: Backbones All Around 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

They also happen to represent the adolescent fantasies of every geek in the audience. Review: `Avengers' hits big screen with a blast 2012-04-24T01:16:03Z

“But you put him in cold water and you gradually heat it up — the hot water is fantasy and magic, and the crab is the audience.” Television: A Heroic Fantasy for Skeptics 2011-04-10T01:30:02Z

In that review, I quoted a couple of scenes that, for me, captured the essence of Thrones' attitude toward fantasy, nobility and morality. Game of Thrones Watch: Talk to the Hand 2011-05-23T16:45:00Z

Early on, he became smitten with fantasy, science fiction and comic books. George R. R. Martin Wants More ‘Game of Thrones,’ Too 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Capable of rigid objectivity in the kind of landscape sketching dictated by military necessity, the artist could display in equal measure boundless fantasy when driven by fury. Review: Paul Sandby, Unlikely Founder of Dazzling School of European Art 2010-04-16T12:05:00Z

"Whet" seems both cautionary and seductive in offering a fantasy where your only companions might be multiple versions of yourself in different guises. Controversial 'Hide/Seek' appears at Tacoma Art Museum 2012-03-21T22:54:40Z

While he is largely stuck with repeating a single, unimaginative stunt — ironically, it’s bursting a chain that encircles his chest — simple-minded Gelsomina delights in fantasy and spontaneous performance. Film Forum Is Reopening With a Classic: Fellini’s ‘La Strada’ 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

As subplots go, this one obviously is meant to serve as a revenge fantasy tailored to fit #MeToo and the modern feminist movement. Unpacking the violent desserts of AMC's "Dietland" 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

On the single Jump, keyboard chords ground the song but an improvised, high energy electric guitar solo reminds the listener of Van Halen's virtuosity as he leads the band into a Bach-inspired, keyboard fantasy. With his signature guitar style, Eddie Van Halen changed rock music 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

What I found was the fantasy of the life she would have led, had she been able, compared with the mundane one she ended up with. Grayson Perry's tapestries: weaving class and taste 2013-06-08T08:00:41Z

These career women sometimes like to indulge in the Prince Charming fantasy—and sometimes they want to watch it torn down. UnREAL and the Evolution of the Female Anti-Hero 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

In 2018, when Marco and a few colleagues founded their own business, he immediately recognized an opportunity to bring the group together: He started a fantasy football league with them. The perks of being a sports fan: Cheering on a team has benefits beyond game day 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

"Swan" was honored for excellence in contemporary film, "Speech" won the period film prize and "Alice" was recognized as the best fantasy film. 'Black Swan,' 'King's Speech' win costume awards 2011-02-23T14:50:10Z

"All the social and hormonal turbulence that the later Potter volumes had to veil in the euphemisms of fantasy appear in plain sight here." Rowling's adult novel lacks magic, some critics say 2012-09-27T10:54:26Z

Hopefully, the end result is that the audience really feels like they’re entering Jonathan’s fantasy world, and not just mine. “Johnny Physical Lives”: A brother’s documentary love letter to a rock myth cut short 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

As for the rest of the league, the bye weeks are finally over, we got three great games on Thursday and it's now or never for many of us making a fantasy playoff push. Obama prods lawmakers on payroll tax cut 2011-11-22T18:59:00Z

Tolkien's fantasy novel of the same name and featuring many of the same characters seen in his Oscar-winning "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Few family films among Hollywood's holiday movies 2012-11-14T13:08:33Z

If “Monsoon Wedding” the film aimed to offer a more realistic version of a Bollywood fantasy, the stage musical returns the material to a heightened realm. ‘Monsoon Wedding’ Lifted Moods Onscreen. How About Onstage? 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Emmett decides to indulge Billy’s fantasy of finding their mother in San Francisco, retracing her trek west along the Lincoln Highway, the nation’s first transcontinental highway, which stretched from Times Square to California. Review | Amor Towles’s ‘The Lincoln Highway’ is a long and winding road through the hopes and failures of mid-century America 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

One source of the Deccan’s instability may have been, as the show’s subtitle of “opulence and fantasy” suggests, that the sultans had a greater interest in culture and leisure than governing. Review: ‘Sultans of Deccan India,’ Unearthly Treasures of a Golden Age, at the Met 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

That little detail might spoil the fantasy of a truly authentic Old West experience, but it’s also a clear line of demarcation between human and machine. Perspective | ‘Westworld’ and ‘Ready Player One’ show how our relationship to artificial intelligence has changed 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

You can use it to create a fantasy romance like “Outlander” or a historical adventure show like “Timeless.” Review: In ‘Travelers,’ Some Serious Time-Sharing 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

The sci-fi/fantasy and gaming convention draws people to Atlanta every Labor Day weekend. Dragon Con co-founder’s legal saga marked by strange twists 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Susanna Mälkki leads the LA Phil and guest vocalists in Mendelssohn’s musical take on Shakespeare’s fantasy tale, with actors performing scenes from the Bard’s play. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Oct. 29-Nov. 5: Moscow State Symphony Orchestra and more 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

They're about the fantasy of being someone else – you can be a man or a woman, anything. When two tribes meet: collaborations between artists and scientists 2011-08-21T20:30:01Z

It was really a fantasy of mine, living a man’s life in a woman’s body. Talk: How Diane von Furstenberg Is Like a Cowboy 2013-06-28T13:15:09Z

Q. A review on the pro-Palestinian Electronic Intifada Web site said the film was a “bourgeois melodrama,” which portrays “Palestine as Hollywood fantasy.” Julian Schnabel Discusses His New Film, a Palestinian Story 2011-03-22T17:11:02Z

Besides author panels on fantasy, thrillers, mystery, Northwest cooking, travel, nature, women's fiction, children's books and romance, a "Queens of Romance Tea" is promised, plus a Sept. Lit life: Authors set for Bookfest; hot nonfiction titles for summer 2012-08-03T21:19:07Z

Among the earliest examples on display in the exhibition is "Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion," dated 1812, based on James Ridley's popular Orientalist fantasy "Tales of the Genii." John Martin, "master of apocalypse," gets rare show 2011-09-19T15:59:40Z

Plot: In this YA fantasy classic, which won a Newbery Medal, two siblings and a friend search through the cosmos for their father, who disappeared while doing scientific research. Review | Read these 8 books before they hit movie theaters this year 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

The first time I saw my childhood fantasy alive and kicking was in Catania, a lively city on the east coast in the shadow of Mount Etna. Rachel Roddy’s Sicilian pasta with anchovy, lemon and breadcrumbs 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

The pop celebrated at Jingle Ball mixes real-life emotions and unreal, larger-than-life fantasies. Review: At Jingle Ball, Male Singers Were Tender, and Female Voices Feisty 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

So was Matisse, who had one eye on Renoir's Orientalist dress-up fantasies like The Concert, with its flattened space and overall patterning, when he produced his odalisques. La Vie en Rose 2010-02-18T17:35:00Z

Back to the Future: prophecy or fantasy? – you can listen to the whole episode here. Back to the Future day: live! Enjoy 21 October 2015 around the world 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

There is a larger Democratic fantasy being enacted here. The Hillary Clinton Selfie as Political Salve, or Weapon 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Martin, “A Game of Thrones” Epic fantasy — sprawling stories full of swords, castles, magic, kings and lots and lots of white people – is slowly finding its way into America’s cultural mainstream. “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z

This is all, of course, fantasy, but it illustrates the immediacy with which Mr. Karam’s play addresses the current cultural malaise. Onstage, the Pain Behind the Political Posturing 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

For much of the film, she is hardly real, a vision, a fantasy — existing only in Django’s imagination as he bathes in a creek or rides a horse. Sharon Tate Is a Woman in a Tarantino Movie. It’s Complicated. 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

But detractors of the segments argued its decoys were manipulative, baiting men into escalating their fantasies to reality. 'Catch a Predator' Host Opens Up on Return to Television 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Depending upon your appetite, and maybe your patience for fine dining, the omakase is a blur of a school of fish or a pescatarian fantasy. Review | The fishing is prime at Sushi Nakazawa in D.C. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

It’s almost a microcosm of the event horizon of American voter apathy—somewhere between the consumerist fantasy of commercials, the empty comedy of a not-too-provocative host, and the repeated talking points of a careful politician. Our new late-night wars: How Hillary, Bernie and the Donald are battling it out for bedtime TV dominance — and who’s winning so far 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

A particularly poignant part is an elaborate fantasy about a huge and lavish bunker in which he and his family would retreat for many years, to emerge only when the war was over. Right to write 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

One of the things that is most interesting about the fantasy genre in particular is that it offers ideological escape. "Game of Thrones" isn't "just fantasy": Westeros is a reflection of our terrible realities 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

Obviously it's a comedy and it's a little bit of a fantasy so we're not diving incredibly deep into that conversation, but definitely it's broached in Season 3. Rachel Brosnahan thought she was bad at comedy until "Maisel" came along 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

He then dipped into his hotel adventures over the years with a balance that probably leaned more toward mock heroics and hallucinogenic fantasy than actual experience. Charlie Sheen hits New York - but what IS the show? 2011-04-10T00:08:52Z

Shoppers peered at the display, excited but hesitant, as if they'd stumbled upon a trove of strange inventions from a Jules Verne fantasy. Click, clack, ding! Sigh ... Manual typewriters inspire digital generation 2011-03-31T02:05:22Z

The Gunslinger was, I knew, part of a longer-running story; it was also a fantasy novel, as The Eyes of the Dragon was. Rereading Stephen King week 13: The Gunslinger 2012-12-13T10:17:38Z

But today – thanks to the success subsequently achieved by its team, including and Julia Davis – the show looks like a fantasy lineup. Big Train – box set review 2013-04-25T12:47:36Z

This was clearly a well-thought-out fantasy, showing a lot of planning and dedication. I took Fox News’ sexual harassment class 2013-06-04T11:45:00Z

Seems right for a sword-and-sandal fantasy that brims accordingly with cheesecake and cheese. 2002: When the Rock Went Hollywood and Movie Stars Still Ruled 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

He's starring in the latest Hollywood fantasy tween franchise, Beautiful Creatures this month. Why we're watching actor Alden Ehrenreich 2013-02-03T08:00:02Z

“Everyone who watches the show, young and old, can use their own fantasy to imagine a painting that doesn’t exist,” he said. How Hard Is It to Paint Like Vermeer? TV Contestants Find Out. 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

But the fantasy market didn’t prove so lucrative. Have Young Adult Adaptations Jumped the Shark? 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

And who wants a reminder that that fantasy is not without risks or real-world consequences? Harrison Ford plane crash stirs subconscious fears 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

There are occasional flashes of memory and imagined events, plus one , whimsical yet fierce fantasy, centered on the peculiarity of trying to portray a character—a species—remote from one’s own. “Madeline’s Madeline,” Reviewed: Josephine Decker’s New Film Features One of the Great Teen Performances in Film History 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

He could build fantasy worlds that felt grander, sharper and more ostentatious than any of those presented by his peers, and his use of special effects always hit the mark. The next Paul Verhoeven? I'd buy that for a dollar 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

It’s been quite an exciting week for mass murder fantasies, hasn’t it? “Kill all the girls. I will. I’m serious”: Today’s depraved young male threatens to kill cheerleaders 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

He’s an actor trying to give a movie-star performance, which is what this fantasy needs: a star with enough power and buoyancy to make it float. ‘Hawaizaada’ Depicts Indian Aviation Pioneers 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

You accomplish this marvelous but sometimes disorienting feeling in the film, where we’re never quite sure where we are with relation to reality, fantasy and memory. Don Cheadle on playing the drug-addled Miles Davis in “Miles Ahead,” and the toxic costs of Hollywood racism 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

But despite its contemporary flourishes, “Stuck in Love” seems stuck in a fantasy of the literary life that feels more 1950s than 21st-century. Movie Review: ‘Stuck in Love’ Stars Greg Kinnear as a Divorced Novelist 2013-07-04T20:34:58Z

In both her prose and her visual art, Carrington dissolves the borders between human and inhuman, fantasy and reality, death and life. Leonora Carrington, the surrealist storytelling genius you've never heard of 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

Clearly, Hollywood special effects are still playing catch-up with the magic our very best fantasy writers can spin. Review | ‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf’ is the fantasy epic everyone will be talking about 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

I live in a world of fantasies, infatuations and love poems. Life Without Longing 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

George Sandra Larke-Walsh, of the University of North Texas, argues that “in the current socio-political environment, and associated concerns about the prevalence of toxic masculinity, such presentations no longer feel safely confined to fantasy.” Cillian Murphy: ‘I think James Bond should be a woman, which rules me out’ 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

For those who are not really familiar with this term, its author briefly describes it as 'fantasy that takes its inspiration from the aesthetics, culture, politics, and social structure of early 19th century Russia'. What makes a good fantasy novel? 2013-07-26T09:00:00Z

Freeway Dreams Commuters stuck in L.A. traffic sing of their hopes and dreams in Wayne Moore’s musical fantasy comedy. L.A. theater openings, May 14-21: 'The Old Man and the Old Moon' and more 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

It is thought that he will also play a drummer in the fantasy drama. Coldplay star in Game of Thrones 2012-11-06T12:20:32Z

The doll appears in animated World War II fantasy sequences set in a miniature Belgian village that Hogancamp built as a form of art therapy. So long, Michael Scott. Here comes Steve Carell, Serious Actor. 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

One should never expect a man to automatically know what those fantasies of yours are, or even to consider them important. I love my boyfriend but he only likes rough sex 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

Welcome to the Chicago Tribune's fantasy football live chat for Week 4. Reebok to refund $25M for toning shoe claims 2011-09-28T15:18:00Z

In the sea of offerings, nestled snugly between shows about fantasy kingdoms battling for dominance and gripping programs about wedding-dress shopping, are shows like Homeland and 24 that trade in terror. Master of None's nuanced portrayal of Muslim life is a refreshing change 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

And then I moved to L.A. and got on the writing staff of a fantasy TV drama. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A teen blogger’s parents are no fans of her social life 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

Or maybe he really is a construction worker, and it’s the Martian missions that are all a fantasy. Worst holidays in cinema – ranked! 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

Incidentally, as she performed these buoyantly imaginative pieces, the sparkles on Yang's black gown flashed, adding a visual analogue to the fantasy of Vine's preludes. A sparkling, jazzy concert from Joyce Yang at the Wallis 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

Dutton’s work, like James’s and like Keene’s, serves to emphasize the ambiguities of archival proof, restoring historical narratives to what they have perhaps always already been: provoking and serious fantasies, convincing reconstructions, true fictions. How Archival Fiction Upends Our View of History 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

As her fantasy obsession collides with reality, she rejects the expectations of those around her and chooses what, to her, seems like the higher path. The ‘Dutchman’ flies again at Seattle Opera, with a feminist twist 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

A Delusional Affair Albert James Kallis’ new comedy explores love, marriage, fantasy and reality; for mature audiences. L.A theater openings, Feb. 19-26: 'Fun Home' and more 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Mostly, though, these men and women talk, revealing themselves as they also tease the story’s themes, fortune and fantasy included. ‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’ Review: What We Talk About 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

In the Bush years, he was a fantasy of a proudly intellectual president. ‘The West Wing’ and David Byrne Stage America 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

It's this clash of Super-8 US fantasy with stark English reality that makes The English Riviera a triumph. Feels like Devon 2011-04-01T23:01:00Z

The Gunslinger is a quiet, meditative novel; as inauspicious a way to start a sprawling epic fantasy series as I've ever encountered. Rereading Stephen King week 13: The Gunslinger 2012-12-13T10:17:38Z

The Madison inventory seems geared to undress women in a particular “Mad Men” fantasy, classic stuff that appeals to the stag-film-and-martini-marinated male. Critical Shopper: Agent Provocateur, Selling Kink on Madison Avenue 2011-02-23T19:49:37Z

But Affleck never had a chance to sell us that side of him and has probably missed his opportunity to claim an era-appropriate version of such a fantasy. Has Ben Affleck's"Deep Water" left you asking why? Look back at "Gigli" 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z

When it comes to the story of the label itself, the company — depicted as robust, ubiquitous, feared — feels like fantasy, especially compared with the back story, which borrows tidbits from real-life hip-hop labels. ‘Empire’ Soundtrack: Hip-Hop That’s Ambiguously Modern 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

Kuang once again crafts a unique Bildungsroman that doesn't fulfill the usual expectations for what fantasy is or perhaps, what a Western fantasy is expected to be — and that is its most profound strength. Salon's favorite books of 2022 — fiction and nonfiction 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

The "dream factory" primarily reflects only the one-note violent dreams/fantasies of teenage white boys. Asian-American Actors Are Fighting for Visibility. They Will Not Be Ignored. 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

Science fiction has had no dearth of end-of-the-world fantasies, but in Hollywood most have been packaged as roller-coaster thrills for audiences who feel safe; heroes gallop in to save the day. 2011 Films: ?Melancholia,? ?Tree of Life,? ?Moneyball? 2011-12-17T02:03:03Z

“Well, this is what a child’s fantasy might be,” Mr. Browne said backstage. The Fashion Dialectic 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

Maybe because there’s no way to describe this droll fantasy that makes it sound anything other than preposterous. The Week Ahead: Dec. 18 ? 24 2011-12-16T18:54:22Z

Rachel Bodt, a colorist of the Red Door Spa & Salon in Manhattan, conjures this image to describe her take on fantasy hair color in already dreamy gray hair. We Made Gray Hair Even Prettier With Pastels 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

Game of Thrones won the period/fantasy series prize and American Horror Story: Freak Show won the mini-series award. Birdman wins costume design prize 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

A darker sort of fantasy is playing out at the Minetta Lane Theater, home to Company XIV’s burlesque twist on this E. T. A. Hoffmann tale. | Dance: The Land of Sweets Sheds Its Tutus 2013-12-20T21:05:12Z

And it is exactly this fantasy of a distant or absent history that “All the Real Indians” works to dismantle. Waking from the John Wayne dream: Columbus and Jackson are dead, but America’s war against Indigenous people lives on 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

A strain of wild fantasy comes out in his prints produced a few years later. Review: Paul Sandby, Unlikely Founder of Dazzling School of European Art 2010-04-16T12:05:00Z

The HBO fantasy epic captured 10 Creative Arts Emmy Awards over the weekend, the most of any series in the kick off to this year’s Primetime Emmys. ‘Game of Thrones’ Dominates at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

One day, too, all these people suddenly vanished, so that this strange year sometimes seems just a fantasy, a dream. ‘Suspended Sentences’: An eloquent taste of the 2014 Nobel Prize winner in literature

In the larger pieces, particularly the fantasy on Shakespeare’s “Tempest,” the orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Chorus were solid and supple. Music Review: Berlioz, Shostakovich and G?rard Depardieu 2011-04-18T21:35:20Z

“When people think of the middle of the country, maybe they think of ‘Yellowstone,’ which is a fun show but more fantasy than reality. In ‘American Rust,’ Buildings Crumble, Passions Burn 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

I have nightmares of physical violence against her and revenge fantasies of spilling her secrets. I Lost a Boyfriend. Then I Lost a Friend. Now I’m Angry. 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

She still makes "P-Valley" fantasy to be appreciated by everyone, one whose story is slick with sweat, dirt, and blood. All hail Uncle Clifford on "P-Valley," a vision of Black queerness not seen anywhere else on TV 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

The same way my greedy fantasy of stealing treasures for pennies will teach me — but probably not. Scavenger: A Lamp Too Good to Be True 2011-03-11T18:39:11Z

When I heavily criticised Dorries in the past, she wrote of me on her blog: "She appears to exist in a fantasy world of her own creation." By going on I'm A Celebrity, Nadine Dorries confirms how deluded she is 2012-11-14T20:00:01Z

It’s a fantasy détente with the human condition of vulnerability. After a Life Built on Lies, a Dying Man Comes Clean 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Since Nov. 21, when both films opened, the industry consensus has pegged the DreamWorks animated feature as a box-office disappointment, and the Ang Lee fantasy a budding hit. Bond Holds, Butler Bombs on a Sleepy Weekend 2012-12-09T22:26:19Z

And with one notable exception, they speak the language beautifully, finding nuances of humor, feeling and fantasy packed into the prose and poetry of the script. | 'The Tempest': Dread Rattling Thunder! Yes, It?s Shakespeare 2010-12-09T23:27:00Z

He slipped into Bonapartist fantasies, devoting one missive to “the decorations of certain apartments of the palaces, here, of the Louvre and the Tuileries,” and signing it “Napoléone.” A Day for Henry James 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

He lives in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, but also recently purchased a house adjoining his father’s horse farm, because he has a fantasy of eventually transforming the property. Jonathan Groff Is a Seymour at Heart 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

I think it’s an advantage to grow up someplace where you need a fantasy world, where there isn’t so much going on that you’re entertained all the time — where you have to entertain yourself. T Magazine: Weber on the Web 2011-10-11T15:55:48Z

Also, “the fantasy of arts graduates’ future earnings in the arts should be discredited,” it goes on to report. Round-Up: Hong Kong protest art, an Iraqi photo agency, lots of Gehry 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

At Holi, bonfires, upended gender roles and eruptions of pastel paints conjure a fantasy memory of the romance between the god Krishna and his beloved Radha. Vijay Iyer continues his pursuit in transforming jazz

“In a way, the father in the movie is a fantasy of myself.” 'Captain Fantastic' Asks What It Means to Be a Good Parent 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Burton's next film to hit theaters will be "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," based on the YA fantasy novel by Ransom Riggs. Tim Burton to direct live-action 'Dumbo' remake for Disney 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

Despite the film’s widespread acclaim, many viewers felt that Blue was ultimately a male fantasy. Léa Seydoux: ‘For Bond, you have to be up for it. I had to work, to get fit’ 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

The second installment in James’s fantasy epic trilogy, this book focuses on Sogolon the Moon Witch, one of the main characters in “Black Leopard, Red Wolf.” 12 New Books Coming in February 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

And we all, we're designed, we're conditioned to desire some element of fantasy or some elements of the fantastical in our lives, and even love represents that. Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z

Remember that “Game of Thrones,” like so many fantasy series, is constructed with a keen sense of metaphysical symmetry. Long live Ser Brienne of Tarth: An argument for a "Game of Thrones" knight's survival 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

I think there’s some — certainly not all — male writers who write the fantasy women they wish they could’ve met when they were in high school. Marc Cherry on ‘Why Women Kill,’ ‘Golden Girls’ and Felicity Huffman 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

Tarantino's $70 million film, a violent and darkly comic revenge fantasy, got eight nominations from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, including best director for Tarantino and best supporting actor for Christoph Waltz. 2010-02-03T15:04:00Z

That's why good fantasy is such a hard act to bring off. Urgle by Meaghan McIsaac – review 2013-06-01T09:31:01Z

It should be white, and I made it a little fantasy by giving it another colour. Agnès Varda's last interview: 'I fought for radical cinema all my life' 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, live-action updates of classic fantasy tales are in vogue in Hollywood. Sofia Coppola departs as director of 'The Little Mermaid' 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

There are no plans in the works for a spin-off to HBO’s wildly popular fantasy drama Game of Thrones, according to a company executive. There Won't Be Any Game of Thrones Spin-Offs... Yet 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

All the while, the NFL, aided by the Internet’s fascination with fantasy football, boomed. The NBA Lockout: All About Timing 2011-10-13T17:05:00Z

Fans of Magic: The Gathering are in for a treat: a movie version of the fantasy card game is in the works. Fantasy Card Game Magic: The Gathering Headed To The Big Screen 2014-01-14T14:31:12Z

It signifies the nostalgia for a creative, carefree past about which everyone in the entertainment business has a fantasy, whether they actually had a creative, carefree past. Perspective | Netflix’s ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ is a revenge fantasy against elites — making it perfect for the age of Trump 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

So she put them in her first novel, “The Trials of Morrigan Crow,” which is also the first book in her fantasy series Nevermoor. Nevermoor writer has knack for creating whimsical worlds 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

It’s a workplace comedy that happens to be set in a precinct, and–not unlike the fantasy NYC real estate on Friends–one that people are not likely to mistake for real-life Brooklyn. No, Brooklyn Nine-Nine Isn’t Conservative Propaganda 2013-11-20T12:22:19Z

Intrigued by Finch’s poise, dazzled by her confidence, he concocts wild fantasies about her extracurricular life: silk pajamas, Italian lakes, French vineyards, mysterious lovers. In Julian Barnes’s New Novel, a Teacher’s Pet Becomes Obsessed 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

Daily fantasy sports are quickly filling the void left after the U.S. Daily Fantasy Sports Join Hands With the NFL 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

The Nazis used a rhetoric of holistic fantasy — catering, as Ms. Kort observes, quoting the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, to “the masses’ ‘unsatisfied orgasmic longing’ ” — to galvanize the population around Hitler’s hysterical, millenarian leadership. Art Review: A Perverse Mind Populated by Devils, Snakes and Buxom Nudes 2011-03-31T22:27:26Z

Sometimes, the fantasy power of fashion doesn’t even require clothes. The Cinderella Myth We Can’t Quit 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Her story's fantastical tone aligns with her bright imagination, leavening its approach with the bubbly spirit of a dreamer suddenly able to make her superhero fantasies real. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe comedy is a woman's work 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

The Disney fantasy film tells the story of teenager Meg Murry who travels across dimensions to save her scientist father. Have Black Panther and A Wrinkle in Time got black feminism all wrong? 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

In an e-mail interview, Rowell discussed her writing, the pleasures of playing with pop culture and fantasy tropes, and whether she plans a sequel. Rainbow Rowell on ‘Stars Wars,’ the Bible and why she’s winking at you 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Just forgive yourself: there’s nothing terrible in these fantasies. Modern Love: An Ex Blogs: Is it O.K. to Watch? 2011-08-05T16:24:53Z

Trine 2's most memorable feature is its scenery, the beautifully animated fantasy landscapes remaining jawdropping throughout. Trine 2, The Director's Cut – review 2012-12-22T00:05:26Z

Playing Andrea, a writer and barely clean heroin addict, Kirke is a Marilyn Monroe fantasy in vintage frocks and strawberry curls. ‘Untogether’ Review: Adrift in Los Angeles, Looking for Love 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

The still camera finds the seam between that fantasy and the world as it is and then unravels it. When Filming in New York, the City Is Always the Star 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Owens’s Alberich was no sniveling dwarf, but a barrel-chested, intimidating foe, singing with stentorian vigor, looking dangerous in his dreadlocks and crazed in his fantasy of ruling the universe. Music Review: At Met, the New ?Ring? Is Mostly a Success 2010-09-28T06:30:00Z

Moreover, the studio’s descent into far-out fantasy has only just begun. How Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 heralds Marvel's weird new world 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

His story of underwater adventure is fascinating not only because it was so far ahead of its time, but also for all the technical information he details about how his fantasy sub Nautilus was built. Sharon Gosling's top 10 children's steampunk books 2013-02-28T11:19:24Z

And yet, the magnificent paradox of “A Fan’s Notes” is that, in asserting his fantasy, his fanhood, Exley, finally and for the only time, becomes the center of the attention he desires. Frank Gifford and 'A Fan's Notes' 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

Perhaps above all, the scene has a hint of fantasy and wish-fulfilment. Nora Ephron was serious about comedy 2012-06-27T12:12:07Z

The filmmakers are clearly trying to bring an uncommon maturity to the fantasy film, and in many respects they succeed. ‘Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle’ Review: A Boy and His Digitized Wolves 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

So any system that lets you wallow in the fantasy that one day you’ll get it all done isn’t just useless but dangerous, lulling you into frittering away your time. Why you only need five things on your to-do list 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

“We’re now seeing much more layered and complex characters – that’s what Phoebe is talking about – instead of seeing women as cyphers for warped male fantasies.” Phoebe Waller-Bridge 'empowered' to see violent women on TV 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

In “Once Upon a Time,” as in “Inglourious Basterds,” Tarantino extends this kind of fantasy into historical time, practicing a weird, ethically tricky form of movie magic. Will the Oscars Get as Nostalgic as Hollywood Did in 2019? 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

The fantasy that it would be possible to both suffer incredible stress and wield incredible power and still, at the end of it, be a regular guy. My “Supergirl” hypocrisy: Female superheroes don’t need to be “broken” to kick ass 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

But the scene captures the magic of the show and its candy-colored universe, in which telenovela fantasy is brought down to earth by good, old-fashioned real life. ‘Jane the Virgin’ is full of telenovela twists and turns. It is also profoundly real. 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

He helped edit and publish much of his father’s writings after the science fiction and fantasy master died in 1973. ‘Lord of the Rings’ protector Christopher Tolkien dies at 95 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

“Star Trek” was satisfying to me because it was living out a fantasy of my youth and being in a film I would have seen when I was 12. “There is power to the temporary relationships you have as an actor.”: John Cho stars in “Columbus” 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

The fantasy is that the new movie will somehow be good enough to override memories of the three previous instalments. 'The secrecy has been ludicrous': Star Wars actor Anthony Daniels on the new film and his life as C-3PO 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

We might think about what kind of book is it – fantasy? Guardian Nosy Crow book club: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness 2013-06-20T14:41:06Z

Activision may be on to something in the sense that a latent, unexplored soldier fantasy probably lurks in the psyche of recent generations of American men. Critic?s Notebook: Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty 2011-11-15T23:16:57Z

Despite the Anti-Catholic angle, however, under no circumstances should it be branded propagandistic, as it still remains an epic fantasy fiction novel. The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman - review 2013-03-02T09:00:00Z

Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” which itself spawned an entire genre of fantasy writing that borrowed its high ideals and decidedly Euro-centric settings and characters. Have faith in “Game of Thrones”: We need its urgently human, primal fantasy now more than ever 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

I think many writers and readers adhere to a hard line in literature between fantasy and realism, a border that’s never made much sense to me. Writing to genre stinks: Two debut novelists on the hard line between fantasy and realism — and why it doesn’t make sense 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

The theatrical film nominations announced Monday are divided between period, fantasy and contemporary categories. 'Grand Budapest Hotel,' 'Interstellar' earn Art Directors Guild nods 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

In performances, film, project-based installations, classes and conversations, the duo finds fantasy and meaning in their chosen symbol. Dance Listings for Jan. 30-Feb. 5 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

My daughter has no lack of loving, nurturing adults in her life, who enable her to go to museums and the theater and Cirque du Soleil and encourage to her write fantasy stories. Mommy has anger issues! My daughters are pre-adolescent, I’m pre-menopausal 2014-05-10T23:00:00Z

A drama set in a dynastic feudal fantasy kingdom is obviously going to be about families, those being the organizing political structure of the society. Game of Thrones Watch: Blood Is Thicker 2013-06-10T04:04:31Z

This film, however, has a fantasy dimension that the others did not. What "Yesterday" — and everyone else — forgets about the Beatles 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

Levin, who is so passive that all of his sex fantasies are about women putting the moves on him — "the aphrodisiac of someone else's courage" — starts taking action. Aleksandar Hemon's 'Zombie Wars' springs to humorous life unexpectedly 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

But once again, he does not care to fulfill others' fantasies. Robbie Robertson's no-fuss career frustrates fans 2011-04-07T20:49:54Z

Both works are fantasies informed by history, and each conveniently accessorizes today’s dinner table discussions. Netflix’s “Barry”: Barack Obama as a young modern invisible man 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

The British writer's novels have always appeared inured from the modern trend towards adaptation and expansion of popular fantasy universes. Will Peter Jackson's third Hobbit film bring us crashing to Middle Earth? 2012-07-26T14:49:12Z

He was also mourned by fans of TV fantasy Xena: Warrior Princess, in which he played Zeus, who shared their memories of meeting Keating at fan conventions. Veteran actor Charles Keating dies 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

In Juliette, we also see a society that idolises dreams and fantasies. France's 'lost generation' of jobless youth finds film portrait in Juliette 2013-07-20T23:06:06Z

“It’s a fantasy about community and making things O.K., no matter what shadows fall.” Pope.L’s Group Crawl: Protest, Pathos, Provocation 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

I don't remember making the connection when I read The Stand, because I think I was trying to forget the earlier fantasy novel I wanted to pretend my hero hadn't written. Rereading Stephen King, chapter 22: The Eyes of the Dragon 2013-06-20T15:00:35Z

The simple, moody pictures focused on the main character and captured some of the elements of fantasy running through the story. The Goblin and the Girl by Neil Irani - review 2012-07-14T11:00:00Z

Because, in the end, Zillow is about the fantasy of living other lives. If I lived in that house: my addiction to the fantasy of online real estate 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

There were songs that mull celebrity, but not too hard, like “Applause,” and songs that mull fantasy, but not too hard, like “Sexxx Dreams.” Music Review: On Stage, Lady Gaga’s Artistry Endures 2014-03-30T01:32:27Z

In previous decades, sexual fantasies about leading men, like David Cassidy or Kirk Cameron, were relegated to private diaries, racy fan mail or intimate whispers among friends. Inside the Wild and Addictive World of Celebrity Fan Fiction 2013-08-26T09:45:08Z

The theory certainly provides fertile ground for fantasy fiction writers. What sparked our fear of witches — and what kept it burning so long? 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Thirty-two million people play fantasy sports each year. The United States of Metrics 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

But unlike many of its predecessors, “Contagion,” which tracks the global spread of a lethal flulike virus, resists the sheen of science fiction or fantasy and instead stresses the chilling plausibility of its nightmare situation. Arts & Leisure: All-Star Cast for Steven Soderbergh?s ?Contagion? 2011-08-26T21:36:34Z

That film, too, reveled in a revenge fantasy set in history - Nazi Germany. Action figures for 'Django Unchained' draw protest 2013-01-08T22:01:04Z

The same for purebred sci-fi fantasy like Star Wars and Avatar. How Die Hard set the stage for 25 years of action films 2013-07-19T14:00:59Z

From his first job, editing a Tarzan fan magazine at the age of seventeen, to his seventieth novel, which will be released in January, he has essentially written the other style guide for modern fantasy. The Anti-Tolkien 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

I think it puts the audience in a fantasy world. Dean Richards: January Jones is in on the action 2011-02-18T16:35:00Z

Although HBO’s sprawling fantasy closed out its seventh and most recent season 13 months ago, Emmy voters still showered it with awards. 2018 Emmys: ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Win Top Awards 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

As “Street Gang” lays out, the show’s very setting — a city street, not a fantasy castle or picket-fenced house — said something about the range of children it sought to welcome. ‘Sesame Street’ Was Always Political 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z

Stewart’s history in the public eye is now an asset she deploys artfully, as when her Clouds character deflates her employer’s fantasies about young Hollywood. How Kristen Stewart Shook Off Twilight to Become One of the Best Actresses of Her Generation 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

It shouldn’t even have to mean “my erotic fantasy,” or “what turns me on.” Women, stop apologizing for loving “Magic Mike XXL”: Our visual pleasure matters as much as any man’s 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

I had this persistent fantasy that Michele Bachmann was going to crusade against the book, because she seemed like the most desperate and batshit-insane of the GOP presidential hopefuls, but it never happened. Adam Mansbach: My year on the bestseller list 2012-12-12T01:00:00Z

And it was the fantasy of Donald Trump winning the election. Damon Albarn of Gorillaz on How a Dark Fantasy Became Reality on ‘Humanz’ 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Leading the big fantasy production number “Babette,” in which Lily ponders her divergent choices in art and love, Ms. Chenoweth seems to become an entire epic cast of divided selves. Review: ‘On the Twentieth Century,’ With Kristin Chenoweth, Opens on Broadway 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

My instinct is that the pandemic experience is not going to impact science fiction very much because science fiction and fantasy are on a basic level about escapism. "I don't want to be L. Ron Hubbard": Andy Weir on writing escapism & new book "Project Hail Mary" 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

On HBO, there was “Lovecraft Country,” a fantasy series that premiered in August and roves the 1950s-era United States along with the Korean War, outer space and an assortment of moments in the distant past. 8 Ways a Modern Civil Rights Movement Moved the Culture 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

Or perhaps a graphic novel series or even a fantasy video game. Annie Baker's 'Antipodes' opens a door to the coveted writers room 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

Perhaps that is what paradise always was: the fantasy of a place beyond events, beyond trouble. Life in Miami on the Knife’s Edge of Climate Change 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

Nursery rhymes, pirates, cowboys, fairytales, dinosaurs, underwater scenes, ghosts and ghouls all connect with childhood fantasies. 10 of the best UK and European theme parks: readers’ tips 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

Madame Tussauds has all the appeal of a fantasy dinner party in which heroes and villains from across the ages are gathered together in one room. What makes Madame Tussauds' wax work? 2011-02-26T09:00:02Z

Dodson made it her life’s work to show women how to do that – to go beyond the fantasy and get to the nuts and bolts of how your sexual body actually works. Why Nancy Friday’s 1970s collection of women’s sexual fantasies still matters 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

In two minutes, my rebellious plan — a delicious fantasy that I could use to shock others — shattered. Trading my bicycle for a Harley: Learning to ride a motorcycle at 57 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

Toulouse-Lautrec's Montmartre was an intense place, but his art adds another dimension of fantasy and feeling. Toulouse-Lautrec and the real story of the Moulin Rouge 2011-08-17T11:28:54Z

Drug use, vandalism, even pregnancy often fails to destroy this fantasy. Sex? Not my kid! 2012-08-12T01:00:00Z

Drawing equivalence between fantasy species and real-life minorities turns imaginary differences into literal ones. Will Smith’s Bright: racial allegory or straight up racism? 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z

Still, children don’t and shouldn’t conform to parental fantasies. 'These men are bad role models': will my son get over his superhero obsession? 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

The play retains all the suspense and relief one expects from fantasy fiction. London theater forecast after Brexit and Trump: Overcast skies with a chance of apocalypse 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

Every moment spent with this one was a fantasy come true. A letter to… a universe that keeps sending me the wrong man 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z

While I was writing a book I had a 1-year old – the idea of writing in a soundless chamber is a fantasy world. John Darnielle on 'Wolf in White Van,' on National Book Award longlist 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

About 50 miles from Singapore, yet a world away, Nikoi — encircled by palm trees and soft white sand — is the kind of tropical fantasy that burned-out managers keep a photograph of for their screen savers. Next Stop: Nikoi Island Offers Splendid Isolation 2010-04-29T21:58:00Z

Earth’s foreign policy, once the Psychlos are gone, is like a neoconservative fantasy of what the Forces of Freedom and Light could do if we had a Death Star and were willing to use it. “Battlefield Earth”: Romney vs the Psychlos 2012-05-24T20:42:00Z

In this way, fantasy as a genre seems to have an almost unfair advantage at allegorically chronicling our age. Riff: The Bleak ?Game of Thrones? Needs More Light 2011-04-17T03:00:17Z

It’s a bit glossy — everyone in this fantasy is good-looking in that bland, Disney way, even the characters with pointy ears — and the special effects are sometimes rickety. Review: ‘The Shannara Chronicles,’ an Elfin Adventure, Debuts on MTV 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

Artfully splicing truth with fantasy, O’Connor has a glorious time turning a ramshackle and haunted London playhouse into a primary source for Stoker’s Gothic imaginings. How Did Bram Stoker Dream Up ‘Dracula’? A Novel Offers Hints 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

Canadian playwright David S. Craig approaches the task in "Danny, King of the Basement" with a balance of humor, pathos and boisterous fantasy. A homeless boy with a rich fantasy life is centerstage in SCT's 'Danny' 2012-10-26T15:46:03Z

Topping that list was “Game of Thrones,” with an estimated 8.1 million downloads; the HBO fantasy series, which completed its fourth season in June, draws about seven million viewers for debut broadcasts of new episodes. 'Game of Thrones' a Hit With Pirates, Too 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

Melnikov’s program was certainly worth sticking around for: Schubert’s “Wanderer” fantasy, followed by Brahms’s collection of seven fantasies published as Op. After cancellation, Melnikov gives unplanned solo recital at the Phillips 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

It's fulcrum is Marie Arnet's Lulu, the perfectly poised, ice-cool blank on which every man she encounters can create his own fantasy; her performance is both wonderfully controlled and superbly sung. Lulu – review 2013-02-10T17:30:27Z

The twist in that fantasy is that such visions are not pipe dreams restricted to the West. Daughter and Dad, Chasing Salmon in Upstate New York 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

Even 10 years ago, the fields of science fiction and fantasy were still overwhelmingly American and white. Review | The weird, the wacky, the underappreciated: A new look at science fiction and fantasy 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

The soliloquy of the alienated worker is followed by the film's one reach toward a dreamworld, what we could call the originary fantasy that begets the bifurcated world of Thomas Anderson and Neo: "The Matrix" is basically a sci-fi "Office Space" 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

This is not to say that the bunker fantasy story is useless as a tool for activism or change. With threats of nuclear war and climate disaster growing, America’s "bunker fantasy" is inadequate 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

And in the ultimate fantasy of an ex, he'd give up his freedom for her as well. "Mrs. Maisel" and the myth of the sacrificial ex-husband 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z

Am I living a fantasy, and not appreciating that I am successful in a relatively modest way? Is journalism killing my creativity? 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z

All tied back to Afrofuturism, an artistic movement that mixes realistic racial pessimism with audacious fantasy, and that holds an increasingly prominent place in culture today. An Afrofuturism Festival Brings an Energy Shift to Carnegie Hall 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

“It's fantasy but Whitehead also gives a kaleidoscope of black history. It's very informed.” A powerful symbol of resistance, the Underground Railroad inspires a wave of books, plays, TV and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Altogether this is a very good fantasy book, mixed with a pirate adventure! The High Skies of Adventures by Blue Jay the Pirate by Scott Nash - review 2013-05-17T11:00:00Z

Do you think they’re legitimate, or part of a larger cultural bias against science fiction and fantasy? “Game of Thrones” wouldn’t be the same without him: Meet the man who made the Dothraki speak 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z

Ellen is also the clearest demonstration yet that Bill and Hillary have very different fantasy lives, though both do reimagine themselves with dead spouses, which might be something to explore further in counseling. Review | Hillary Clinton’s thriller with Louise Penny is a thinly veiled jab at a Very Stable Genius 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

Jealousy and estrangement lead to separation; the husband succumbs to violent and self-destructive impulses and fantasies. Books of The Times: Matt Bell Describes a Relationship’s Trajectory in a Debut Novel 2013-07-25T17:38:28Z

For the first time, visual fantasy fully matched and even exceeded the verbal fantasy of the stories of the . The Arabian Nights: a thousand and one illustrations 2011-03-12T00:06:32Z

While this was a fantasy, I wanted it to be rooted in some semblance of reality. My virtual life as a jam maker in "Stardew Valley," where small-batch food takes down Big Business 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

“For me a lot of it came from certain films from that period and wondering what they could be if they just stepped outside the fantasy,” Strickland said. Romance and domesticity bound together in 'The Duke of Burgundy' 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

A fantasy world created by a mother in mourning, Xanderland may seem small, but its borders are as far-reaching as grief and as everlasting as the delight of neighborhood children. She built a miniature world to honor her late son. Now it brings joy to others. 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

The children love going to the movies, especially action and fantasy films, and are usually transported by security guards who are also on duty at the family compound 24 hours a day. Family Attorney: Jackson children just normal kids 2010-06-21T08:31:00Z

Some fans view “The Buried Giant” as a leap not just for Mr. Ishiguro, but also for fantasy literature as a whole. For Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘The Buried Giant’ Is a Departure 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Above: “To create a light feeling with an undertone of fantasy,” Britt used a patterned paper on the walls and ceiling of the master bedroom. Stylish Screens 2010-03-01T00:00:00Z

If some unfairly criticised the original series for a lack of historical realism then its new incarnation verges on fantasy, as Kathryn Hughes's Comment is free article explains. The new Upstairs, Downstairs is more period than drama 2010-12-27T12:00:00Z

It's little surprise that one of the summer's hit films will be Wonder Woman, a fantasy that brings those slogans to life. Wonder Woman: A Perfect Paradox for the Generation That Expects to Have It All 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Dorothy seeks a life over the rainbow, her own fantasy of avoidance, of running away from the grey life of agrarian survival in the Kansas dustbowl. The blizzard of Oz 2010-05-21T20:29:00Z

In the film’s last scenes, Ki-woo narrates his delusions and we enter into his fantasy of being reunited with his father. Why Parasite misses the mark as a commentary on South Korean society 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.” Hilary Mantel’s Triumphant New Novel Brings Thomas Cromwell Across the Finish Line 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

This is, of course, largely his fantasy, a message of division meant to rally his people against phantoms he imagines to be demeaning and destroying Russia’s cultural heritage. Review: The Philharmonic’s Conductor Returns to His Perch 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

Serling’s Twilight Zone flourished because it disguised its regular ventures into taboo territory behind a comforting veil of science fiction, horror and fantasy tropes, and because its writing was absolutely top notch. Do we really need a Twilight Zone revival in the era of Black Mirror? 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

But Martin's fantasy saga demands a literary classification almost all its own -- call it, for better or worse, realist fantasy. The essential guide to "Game of Thrones" 2011-04-09T21:01:00Z

One of Mr. Polly’s trainers is a former Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Columbia University, and Mr. Polly bonds with another over their shared love of Robert Jordan’s “Wheel of Time” fantasy series. Mixed Martial Arts Books by Matthew Polly and Jim Genia 2011-11-17T00:02:56Z

Sex includes shame and humiliation and fantasies and longing. Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding 2011-07-17T18:23:57Z

The fantasy would be less appealing if the reality of killing and dying in combat with other human beings were more imminent for more people. Critic?s Notebook: Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty 2011-11-15T23:16:57Z

Elizabeth is leaving Philip!--in part because the pace of the season has been relatively slow, leaving viewers with more room for fantasy. ‘The Americans,’ Season 5, Episode 8: The Humanization of Elizabeth 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

The three most critically acclaimed science fiction and fantasy movies of 2017 so far are Wonder Woman, Thor: Ragnarok and Logan, all of which performed well at cinemas. Has Blade Runner 2049's failure killed off the smart sci-fi blockbuster? 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

Joe figures as his parents argue in the next room — a way to escape real anxieties by creating a grander fantasy peril — and gives lift and life to the Kaiju-Jaeger mano-a-monstruo conflicts. Pacific Rim: Transformers Transcended 2013-07-10T01:50:23Z

The default plot setting for fantasy is The Quest, so Urgle sets off on one to rescue his Little Brother, accompanied by the usual mixed bunch of other characters. Urgle by Meaghan McIsaac – review 2013-06-01T09:31:01Z

It reminded me in a lot of ways of  “Heavenly Creatures,” this fantasy world that becomes a real crime. An inside look at HBO’s brutal true-crime doc “Mommy Dead and Dearest” 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

But the search for fantasy is not limited to Tolkien. The Witcher defies critics to fill Games of Thrones hole for TV viewers 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

It’s someone making Will Smith think he’s in a fantasy film. Here's every single thing that is wrong with Collateral Beauty 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

The collection was odd and otherworldly, with the kind of creative fantasy and head-scratching discoveries that Mr. Kane seems uniquely qualified to provide. In London, Fantasy Meets Obsession 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

These are fantasies that include sex toys like bullets and hand grenades, to be inserted into different orifices with loving care. Theater Review: ‘Tender Napalm’ by Philip Ridley at 59E59 Theaters 2012-08-30T02:00:15Z

When the developers of "Star Wars: Battlefront" discuss this November's game, they repeatedly use the words "fantasy fulfilling." 'Star Wars' history gets the fantasy treatment at E3 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

A lot of American fantasies are built around a life spent solving crime. “True Crime Addict” and the Problem of Internet Sleuths 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Some of the characters find a renewed sense of love after suffering loss or heartbreak, while others enjoy flights of fantasy. "Berlin, I Love You" won't bring you down 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

He also has fantasy visions, like when he talks to Jesus, a naked cologne model, or Jimmy Kimmel. The Real O’Neals: gay Catholic sitcom has more than a prayer 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

Wednesday about all things fantasy and more The woman who held up a downtown Chase bank branch Tuesday morning. Woman robs bank after threatening teller 2011-09-20T15:44:00Z

Going way beyond popular board games and exhaustively into role playing and fantasy, the store stocks many items for under $20. Weekend Miser: One-Acts From Young Playwrights 2014-02-06T22:39:07Z

And oh what fantasies do his sonic landscapes conjure. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

The most conspicuous item in Zuckerberg’s fantasy home is a slim television mounted to the wall. The Mark Zuckerberg Aesthetic 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

I can actually materialize and make manifest my fantasies and ideas and say what I want to say — and even know what that is. How Natasha Lyonne and Lizzi Bougatsos Became Best Friends 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

Then he slowly started telling her his sexual fantasies, breathing heavily and talking softly. Louis C.K. Is Accused by 5 Women of Sexual Misconduct 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

He copes by constructing an elaborate fantasy world populated by dolls in his backyard. What’s on TV Wednesday: A New Late-Night Show and ‘American Horror Story’ 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

The Tempest New staging of Shakespeare’s island-set fantasy tale incorporates Korean drumming and dance. The week ahead in L.A. theater, July 9-16: 'King of the Yees' and more 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

Prue and Curtis spend a lot more time outside the Impassable Wilderness — the fantasy world — in the second book than in the first. The Decemberists Lead Singer Spins a Sequel 2012-03-30T10:45:03Z

The contests allow people to deposit money into accounts, create fantasy rosters of sports teams by selecting real players and compete against other contestants based on the statistical performances of those players to win money. 11 states could regulate daily fantasy sports by year’s end 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

At first glance, Katy Perry’s latest music video, the Egypt-themed fantasy “Dark Horse,” seems to bear little resemblance to actual Egyptian history — but you might want to look twice. There’s a Very Good Reason Why Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse” Video Is Set in Ancient Egypt 2014-02-21T23:21:29Z

They had developed kindred styles on their solo albums, absorbing lapidary Laurel Canyon folk-pop, punky electric-guitar drive, glimmers of electronics and psychedelia, and lyrics that mix confession and fantasy, the diaristic and the surreal. The Indie-Rock Trio boygenius Returns, Confident and Connected 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

Two unintentionally comical sex scenes serve as runners-up to Steven Spielberg’s ludicrous “Munich” bedroom fantasy—one involves a sandstorm, the other features a rack-focus from the couple in heat to a dramatically significant prop. In “Allied,” Empty Nostalgia for American Heroes 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

We live in a time when maps of fantasy realms, à la Tolkien’s Middle-earth, are more beloved than maps of real places. Books of The Times: ‘On the Map’ by Simon Garfield 2012-12-18T23:14:13Z

The text of one such ad read: Though my friends and I were/are all queer people of the post-structuralist persuasion, we marveled at the suggestion that this was the fantasy of a “straight guy.” Straight white dude seeks same: Race, power and the secret world of straight guy-on-guy action 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

This program of multimedia works incorporating video projection, performance and photography includes Germond’s “Tripod,” which explores fantasy and memory and features tripods placed throughout the stage. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

In both dance and sexual exploitation, men experienced the great gulf between the fantasy and the means of realizing it. Review: ‘Degas’ Little Dancer,’ at National Gallery

Some of the paintings — "Red Rain," which conjures the weather systems of an unfamiliar planet, or "Sunrise in Hades," with its sickly yellow hues — approach the realm of fantasy. Sculptor Philip McCracken's cosmic turn 2011-12-15T21:01:06Z

But with Summit’s five-film Twilight Saga having expired last year, betting on another kid-friendly fantasy franchise seemed a gamble worth taking. Ender’s Game Win Muted by the Distant Hammers of Thor 2013-11-03T21:28:16Z

More preposterous is the dark fantasy Edgar concocts about Asuncion’s history. Theater Review: ?Asuncion? at the Cherry Lane Theater ? Review 2011-10-28T02:00:00Z

That old Tom Sawyer fantasy is the basis of “Struck by Lightning,” a film that Mr. Colfer wrote and stars in. The Many Hats of Chris Colfer 2012-12-21T21:10:46Z

The thought of being able to go to Philadelphia to be on `American Bandstand' was the ultimate fantasy for me and a lot of other teenagers.” Remembering Dick Clark: TV host dies at 82 2012-04-18T20:24:00Z

Following the trilogy structure of the Philip Pullman novels on which it is based, the fantasy series “His Dark Materials” is slated to end after its new, third season, which debuts on Monday. What’s on TV This Week: ‘His Dark Materials’ and the People’s Choice Awards 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

That earthshaking news will mean nothing to viewers who don’t play fantasy sports, though how many of those are left at this point in the life of “The League” is unclear. ‘The League,’ on FXX, Kicks Off Its Final Season 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

Equally, the lighting is for storytelling and fantasy, not just dance. Carol Ann Duffy's Rapunzel lets her hair down 2013-03-15T14:01:01Z

Their imaginary flights of fantasy, rendered in nifty animated sequences, can only occupy them for so long. In "Los Lobos," two boys who flee Mexico discover that the American Dream isn't Disneyland 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z