Nathan had told her, some months earlier, in a voice filled with hauteur, that he did not read any fiction published after 1930. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She didn’t start out with these wholesale fictions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Within this network, fictions such as Peugeot not only exist, but also accumulate immense power. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The delusion was deeper, in the core of my mind, which invented in the very moment of occurrence, then recorded the fiction. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Anger sends out a strange energy, like a force field in a science fiction movie. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I went to the library and used a part of my day reading science fiction, and in its marble washroom I changed my bandage. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if the science fiction I had read all my life were coming true. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Keeney was already at his desk, reading another paperback science fiction book. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The hover ladder lifted off the floor and gently glided up to the M section of the fiction wall. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Thereafter, Tasmania’s population of 4,000 hunter-gatherers remained out of contact with all other humans on Earth, living in an isolation otherwise known only from science fiction novels. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Unfortunately,” said Mrs. Gause, “all the fiction wall cameras were not functioning from the start of the Library Olympics until ten minutes ago.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Yates was supposed to be a businessman living in New York City but in reality was as much a fiction as Campbell. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Wait, oh my God, is it fan fiction about yourself? And you didn’t invite me? Who do they have you boning now? Did you read the one I sent you with Macron? I died.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He understood—indeed, it was a crucial aspect of the collaboration—that Jefferson’s eventual reentry into the political arena depended upon sustaining the fiction in his mentor’s own mind that it would never happen. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Matthias wasn’t sure what might be fact or fiction, but it hardly mattered. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Some of the planets sound ominous, like something you’d find in a science fiction movie set in some alien world—“alien world” as in world with aliens, not non-Earth world. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ferguson, the Court established the doctrine of “separate but equal”—a legal fiction that protected the Jim Crow system from judicial scrutiny for racial bias. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Someone has to puncture the prevailing fiction that we’re a “family” here, we “associates” and our “servant leaders,” held together solely by our commitment to the “guests.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The secret was probably the appearance of fiction. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both were about her mother’s cells, and neither was science fiction. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The library had two big rooms, one for fiction, which was stories people made up out of their imaginations, and the other for fact, which was infor-mation about the real world. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After all, fiction can be dangerously misleading or distracting. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the fact is that no animal other than Sapiens engages in trade, and all the Sapiens trade networks about which we have detailed evidence were based on fictions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad likes to give me old-time science fiction. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Or does that sound like science fiction to such big geniuses! Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So in order to have any human interest in their stories, science fiction writers had to suppose that we would one day discover how to travel faster than light. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a dizzying experience, as though time had sped forward in a science fiction novel, to suddenly hug one’s fully grown child. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every now and then a racy book about lowlife—Tobacco Road, for example—would catch the public fancy, but for a surprisingly long time middlebrow fiction in America was about upper-middle-class life. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Kilgore Trout became Billy’s favorite living author, and science fiction became the only sort of tales he could read. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

By including the actual names of English towns and villages, he crafted fiction that seemed disturbingly real. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s a novel. Novels are fiction. Some people got really crazy over that dumb book.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

His creator, Edgar Allan Poe, is credited with starting the detective fiction genre in 1841. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Though the Casimir force—a mysterious, phantom force exerted by nothing at all—seems like science fiction, it exists. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

How easy it is to effect change in fiction. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

For them epicycles were useful fictions which made computation of the position of the planets possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Kepler, on the other hand, lectured on astronomy in schools, published extensively and often at his own expense, and wrote science fiction, which was certainly not intended primarily for his scientific peers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I still stand by my opinion that a book of interviews... ordinarily wouldn’t work. It’s not fiction, but it’s not nonfiction either. Perhaps it’s anthropological but that’s a ghastly category to be in.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“The other was in juvenile fiction. Nancy Drew: The Mystery at Lilac Inn.'” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“This is fiction, Ophelia, not a true history. Often we love to read of deeds and desires we would not dare to perform ourselves. That is the pleasure of a tale like this.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Stories about her would be handed down from one generation to the next, embroidered, embellished, until it would be impossible to say which part was truth, which part was fiction. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s easy to spot because it also has a fake ficus tree, taking the fiction a step beyond absurd. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He read, "In what work of fiction would we meet the original Humpty Dumpty, and who wrote it?" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Life has got awfully dramatic all of a sudden, hasn’t it? Just like a fiction....By the way, did I tell you that some men came round to see me yesterday afternoon?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

Daisy didn’t have a computer, so she did everything on her phone, from texting to writing fan fiction. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

You might think that those who think that the idea of discovery is a fiction would welcome such cases, but no: as far as they are concerned, multiple discoveries are fictions, too. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“We are very ideological about fiction in this country. If a character is not familiar, then that character becomes unbelievable,” Shan said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If you’re a normal kid, reading this because you think it’s fiction, great. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Evenings were often given over to discussions and meetings with local poets, painters, musicians, and writers of fiction, at which they praised or condemned other artists, scorned the marketplace and courted it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The state was dreamlike, as if the hysteria had freed me from a fiction that, five minutes before, I had needed to believe. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, Mrs. Gause,” said Dr. Zinchenko, striding into the room from a section of the fiction bookshelves that swung open like a hidden passageway in a castle. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

"I love reading fiction to escape," I say. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“What we heard from our daughter made it sound like there was a science fiction movie unfolding at the school.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

By that point she had realized that her Uncle Nicolas’s training was not nearly as effective in a moment of action as it was in the fiction of imagined suffering. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before becoming a fiction writer, H. G. Wells had taught science and published two biology textbooks. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I read books about slavery, fiction and nonfiction. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the African-American literature class I’d taken my freshman year where we had read fiction to try to understand American history in the nineteenth century. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

This one was cut into the back of the curved fiction bookcases, which climbed past the second floor on their way up to the dome. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

After he passed through the tunnel behind the fiction shelves and hit the doors to the 300s room, he was in the lead. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

And while many mathematicians saw the complex numbers as a convenient fiction, others saw God. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Without an ability to compose fiction, Neanderthals were unable to cooperate effectively in large numbers, nor could they adapt their social behaviour to rapidly changing challenges. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imaginary time may sound like science fiction but it is in fact a well-defined mathematical concept. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of wormholes between different regions of space-time was not an invention of science fiction writers but came from a very respectable source. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he is a writer of fiction he lives in a world of fear. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In any case, the time is long past that he know his heritage and his place in the world. I’ve gone along with this fiction for far longer than I should have. But now...” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

With the publication of his novels The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau in the mid-1890s, he became known for his innovative scientific romances, today known as science fiction. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I checked and saw that @CARSAN2121 was from Madrid and loved the beach, crime fiction, and poetry. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, though it is a work of science fiction, would be turned down because the word war appeared in its title. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A list of all the titles currently missing from the library shelves. Dr. Zinchenko asked us to put one together after that last Flora and Ulysses book disappeared from the fiction wall.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was in the fiction section, removing a book from the D's. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

These opening lines of H. G. Wells’ 1897 science fiction classic The War of the Worlds maintain their haunting power to this day.* Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you have any pre-colonial fiction I could read?” he asked her. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

But the purpose of the fiction is to create a sense of reality which will convince the reader that the information in the dialogue is perfectly genuine. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“This is the stuff of a strange fiction.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Time travel was science fiction in nineteen seventy-six. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t fiction, Minny. It’s sociology. It has to sound exact.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Congress admonished the brain busters not to waste taxpayer money on “science fiction” and dreams of manned spaceflight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“That one’s gonna be over in the biography section, and those are in fiction.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

When the Great Six inspected my library record and found it top-heavy with adventure and science fiction, they prescribed appropriate doses of Steinbeck, Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Delilah rushes to the only bookstore in the city that miraculously carries Howie Maldonado’s science fiction novel, The Lost Twin of Bone Bay. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When the piece appeared in an anthology of short fiction, I sent a copy off to Norman Bowker with the thought that it might please him. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Davis and Daisy were chatting back and forth about the dehumanization of Clone troopers, and Mychal jumped in to explain that Daisy was actually kind of a famous writer of Star Wars fan fiction. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’m not concentrating on anything in particular, just reading a lot of fiction now—Dostoevski, Flaubert, Dickens, Hemingway, Faulkner—everything I can get my hands on—feeding a hunger that can’t be satisfied. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tissue culture was the stuff of racism, creepy science fiction, Nazis, and snake oil. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He was not so much living a lie as living a fiction that he had come to believe himself. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

That leaves Garrett completely speechless, and before any of us can keep his little fiction balloon from popping, the soldier leans in, looks down at Garrett, and says, “Mind telling me what that is?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The kinds of things that people create through this network of stories are known in academic circles as ‘fictions’, ‘social constructs’, or ‘imagined realities’. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I’d find him in home improvement, sometimes in philosophy, sometimes in fiction, his arms straining under the weight of all the books he was considering buying. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In the past decade, science fiction had become popular in radio, comics, and film. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

And the strangest thing is that these lies I told, these fictions, did wonders for my popularity. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

As sociologist Bruce Western has shown, the notion that the 1990s—the Clinton years—were good times for African Americans, and that “a rising tide lifts all boats,” is pure fiction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Rosewater said an interesting thing to Billy one time about a book that wasn’t science fiction. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will perpetuate the fiction for our friend Fyrian.‘The path to Truth is in the dreaming heart,’ the Poet tells us.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Science fiction was a new idea at the time of the Thirty Years’ War, and Kepler’s book was used as evidence that his mother was a witch. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The notion that most illegal drug use and sales happens in the ghetto is pure fiction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It’s a convenient fiction, and it usually doesn’t matter. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Sierra was curled up in one of the cozy chairs near the three-story-tall wall of fiction. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Because you read too much romantic fan fiction?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A closely related problem that is also of concern to writers of science fiction is rapid interstellar or intergalactic travel. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also began making some money from writing articles and fiction for men’s magazines. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

To the two Mercury partners, a Martian invasion was pure fiction. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Like those hidden, precocious adolescents who have no real-life sexual experiences, I read a great deal of romantic fiction. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were handed over to their mother fast asleep, floating on this fiction. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carl Sagan in Cosmos raised the possibility that if you traveled downward into an electron, you might find that it contained a universe of its own, recalling all those science fiction stories of the fifties. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The circus lions don’t care to know that their leader is a weakling human; the fiction guarantees their social well-being and staves off violent anarchy. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yet many of the ideas of science fiction, like submarines and travel to the moon, have become matters of science fact. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And having done so, might she obscure the fact by concocting a slight, barely clever fiction and satisfy her vanity by sending it off to a magazine? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Fuller thought it best to let people believe this fiction, but the truth was that he had no master plan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

American television viewers tuned in religiously to science fiction television programs like Space Patrol and Tales of Tomorrow. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But night doctors weren’t just fictions conjured as scare tactics. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It takes forward thinking to write science fiction. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peugeot belongs to a particular genre of legal fictions called ‘limited liability companies’. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fantasy and science fiction dazzled her, especially The Lord of the Rings. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Deborah realized these movies were fiction, but for her the line between sci-fi and reality had blurred years earlier, when her father got that first call saying Henrietta’s cells were still alive. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Young men and women on the make, and older ones trying anxiously to cling to their perch, throng an entire bookcase full of American fiction. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

A standard motif in science fiction and UFO literature assumes extraterrestrials roughly as capable as we. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon this racist fiction rests the entire structure of American democracy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Editor’s note: for Muggle edition, usual guff: ‘obvious fiction—all good fun—nothing to worry about—hope you enjoy it’ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

To relax, he read science fiction and studied Einstein’s theory of relativity. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Our English teacher, Mr. Brant, had us writing short fiction as well as reading Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He droned on and on about dendrites and voltage gradients, but in my dream I couldn’t stop wondering how much of what I remembered about Jesse was truth and how much was fiction. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I was permitted to reissue the book only on condition that a disclaimer was included, assuring Muggle readers that it was a work of fiction. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they went through this fiction every day. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The instant she did, each of the other teams sent someone scurrying over to float up the fiction wall. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Perry was not a gifted liar, or a prolific one; however, once he had told a fiction he usually stuck by it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In our fictions, a lucky shot saves your life. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

That from somewhere inside that brittle shell—in that girl made vacant by the fiction of invincibility—there was a spark left. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There were racks loaded with mysteries, Newbery winners, historical fiction, biographies, and short stories. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

The New York Times also disapproved of mixing news and fiction. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“The origin story I just shared with you is pure fiction, a hoax.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“Every fiction has its base in fact,” he tells her. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you change your mind and get a hankerin’ for a little make-believe, the computer catalog for the fiction section is right over there.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m right next to one of the biggest private libraries in the world,” said Billy, meaning Eliot Rosewater’s collection of science fiction. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the appearance of fiction, even people with the same genetic make-up who lived under similar ecological conditions were able to create very different imagined realities, which manifested themselves in different norms and values. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given to mystical preoccupations, this android proposed the group escape attempt, underwriting it ideologically with a pretentious fiction as to the sacredness of so-called android “life.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Swift had read Cyrano, and Gulliver is a cunning variation on the by then conventional themes of science fiction, one in which islands are substituted for planets. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her father sees what he wants to see, and she doesn’t want to dispel this fiction with fact. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you know, different people, mostly fiction . . .” “You got anything by Hemingway?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you have said, Andrew. Repeatedly. But we’ve already searched those other locations. Several times. It has to be here with the other fiction titles. You just need to fly up and find it.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

With each packet, I sent notes explaining what each thing meant, clearly labeling what was fiction and what wasn’t, and warning her about anything that might upset her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Before long, with the help of a sympathetic librarian, they had found and read just about everything the library had to offer on Egypt—both fact and fiction. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cosmic strings may sound like pure science fiction but there are reasons to believe they could have formed in the early universe as a result of symmetry-breaking of the kind discussed in Chapter 5. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He read contemporary American fiction, because he hoped to find a resonance, a shaping of his longings, a sense of the America that he had imagined himself a part of. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But Sputnik was anything but fiction, and it was happening today. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He had written a science fiction novel called The Lazarus Door, which was wildly popular. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this particular writer absolutely drained. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

His creator, Edgar Allan Poe, is credited with starting the detective fiction genre in 1841. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It came about because Kepler wrote one of the first works of science fiction, intended to explain and popularize science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they have a different sort of spaceship or ray gun, but in battle—and science fiction loves to portray battles between civilizations—they and we are rather evenly matched. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dialogues he wrote he describes himself as mixing with the elite of English society, but he later claimed this was fiction not fact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I thought that was just some science fiction myth.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

H. G. Wells in The Time Machine explored these possibilities as have countless other writers of science fiction. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Science fiction had led him to expect that. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

So there she was, in the library on her knees in the narrow fiction stacks, with three copies of the novel, two paperbacks and one hardcover, on the shelf in front of her. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Enrique’s journey is not fiction, and its conclusion is more complex and less dramatic. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But in the meantime two scientists had developed a theory about HeLa that sounded far more like science fiction than anything Rifkin had come up with: HeLa, they said, was no longer human. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Both sets of ideas passed into the public imagination through Sunday supplements and science fiction. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A true researcher is a champion of facts, not make-believe. There’s a reason they’re shelved on the fiction side of the library.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

And it bothered me that I was forced away at the conclusion, when the fiction closed tight, like a fortuneteller’s fist—the futures of all the major characters neady resolved. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The passage also reminds us of the overlap in techniques for writing fiction and nonfiction. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

This novel is a work of historical fiction. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

In my father’s science fiction book, the one that caused such a tremendous stir, all the aliens who’d come here through Lazarus Doors took the names of angels from the Bible and from the Koran. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I have no idea. I can’t read it. But a lot of her jobs are junky self-help books that she complains about. She’s more of a science fiction fan.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Down on the first floor, Charles and Andrew were working their way around the semicircle of three-story-tall floor-to-dome bookcases filled with fiction. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Amaze me!” cried Mr. Lemoncello as he dashed toward the towering fiction bookshelves and disappeared through another secret door that whooshed sideways in the shelves. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The First World War had ended before he completed his flight training, but he often wrote about combat pilots and aerial performers in his fiction. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The first astronauts, those chosen few, experienced what once was only found in science fiction books. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Bill Riddick could exist only in real life; he was too fantastical for fiction. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the science fiction movie, he had biceps as thick as fireplace logs and used them to swat off evil droids. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

What was important was that the attempt to write stories kept her straight on the dividing line between truth and fiction. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was also a major literary figure of the Restoration period, writing on many subjects, including works of fiction. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It made me love burrowing into psychology, into realistic and naturalistic fiction and art, into those whirlpools of politics that had the power to claim the whole of men’s souls. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This ability to speak about fictions is the most unique feature of Sapiens language. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The facts are true, even if the protagonists are fictions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A work of fiction, it purported to be the actual master plan by Jewish leaders to take over the world. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Its account of a voyage to the moon marks the beginning of science fiction in English. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Did they also put a copy on the fiction shelves?” asked Sierra. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some people—science fiction writers and artists, for instance—have speculated on what other beings might be like. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I looked at the fiction section, he was right beside me. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Poetry, fiction, history, biographies, the library had them all. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But fiction has enabled us not merely to imagine things, but to do so collectively. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Rotunda Reading Room, patrons were happily hover-browsing the fiction shelves. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Adams quickly reassured Jefferson that he now believed “that the Mecklenburg Resolutions are a fiction.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But my favorite message from God in Dad’s science fiction novel was this: Lie down and let me eat you. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Everything. From, like, hideous romance to pretentious fiction to poetry. Whatever.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“God. I remember the head of the Institute asking me once what character from fiction I most identified with, and I said Davy Balfour from Kidnapped.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of what makes Maxwell a fictional historian — as opposed to a writer of historical fiction — is a resistance to ambiguity for its own sake. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Still, I once heard a Hugo Award-winning author declare that the only American science fiction that mattered appeared after 1960. Review | Let us praise the giants of science fiction: Campbell, Asimov and, yes, L. Ron Hubbard 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

So after a few posts, I started to write and draw about the artists or the designers I was meeting, and it became more observation than fiction. | 'The Painted Word' 2012-11-07T20:00:17Z

“Welcome Home” reveals how much of her life is threaded through her fiction, and the restraint and power of the stories become more evident. Review | Two new books bring Lucia Berlin back to life 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

“From fresh cultural criticism, to poems of place and personhood and appetite, to fiction that brings surreal wit to compassionate portraits, their work is the spring thaw of the mind.” Novelist Megha Majumdar among winners of Whiting Award 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout are among the contenders announced Wednesday for Britain's prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction. J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Strout on Man Booker Prize list 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

Is he suffering from an Alzheimeresque affliction, Makes him wallow in malevolent malediction, Spewing folderol and extrajudicial fiction? Style Invitational Week 1291: Film flam — movie anagrams 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

He spent years guiding farm kids through “The Grapes of Wrath” while writing at night and editing a fiction quarterly, “Australian Short Stories,” with his wife Lyn Harwood. He Wants to Save the Present With the Indigenous Past 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

When they take a break from their hike, Hemingway pulls out a book—Tolstoy’s “Sevastopol”—and then muses about Tolstoy’s depiction of war and the importance of war as a subject of fiction overall. Hemingway as the Godfather of Long-form 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Basically if I have a great idea I want to approach as fiction, I do. Lit Fest: Sayles stays rooted in change 2011-06-01T21:26:00Z

Initially, the findings were intended as material for a fourth novel, but his publisher told him the story was too weird for fiction. High on Hitler and Meth: Book Says Nazis Were Fueled by Drugs 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

In 2001, he moved to Rio de Janeiro where, apart from writing fiction, he worked as a correspondent for Global Radio News, commentating on life in Brazil. Simon Lane obituary 2013-01-28T12:23:36Z

I want to talk very briefly about the fictions that spoke to me, kept me warm in the loneliness, slowly cajoled me through. Amid depression, bleak stories can be as consoling as self-help 2013-02-04T14:39:32Z

The combustible playwright and screenwriter turns once again to fiction in his fourth novel, set in 1920s Chicago among small-time crooks and aspiring mobsters. New & Noteworthy 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Her many honors included the Rea Award and PEN/Malamud prize for lifetime achievement in short fiction, five O’Henry prizes for short stories and membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Elizabeth Spencer, ‘Light In the Piazza’ author, dies at 98 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

Strong-willed women, many of them Jewish and red-haired as well, appear again and again in Ms. Plain’s fiction. Belva Plain, Novelist of Jewish-American Life, Dies at 95 2010-10-17T18:00:00Z

Martin, and the science fiction novel “Wool,” will follow. ArtsBeat: Amazon to Publish Comics 2013-07-12T15:47:10Z

Ms. Moran goes out of her way, at the start of “How to Build a Girl,” to make it clear that this is a work of fiction. ‘How to Build a Girl,’ by Caitlin Moran 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

In 1984 he relocated, incorporated as a nonprofit, became Coffee House Press, began to publish trade editions of poetry and added fiction to the list. ArtsBeat: Poetry Profiles: Coffee House Press 2014-01-15T22:14:55Z

To genre fans who prefer more challenging speculative fiction, Bradbury was known as the SF writer for people who don’t like SF. Ray Bradbury: 1950s comics’ illustrated man 2012-06-21T00:00:00Z

Most sci-fi writers would err on the side of fiction rather than science. Andy Weir’s New Space Odyssey 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

Yet that surely is one of the powers of fiction? Aminatta Forna: a life in writing 2013-05-03T17:00:02Z

Mr. Banks, a self-described “evangelical atheist” and liberal, said his science fiction often conveyed his political views. Iain Banks, Novelist of Crime and Science Fiction, Dies at 59 2013-06-12T23:53:39Z

Parini is a fine writer who refuses to be confined to any particular genre — poetry, fiction, criticism, biography — even mixing them, for example, with fictionalized accounts of Herman Melville and Leo Tolstoy. Jay Parini on the complexities and contradictions of Jesus 2014-01-15T22:18:32Z

By far the longest story in the book, “If It Bleeds” is a fully developed short novel with multiple ties to King’s recent fiction. Review | ‘If It Bleeds’ reaffirms Stephen King’s mastery of short fiction 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

If this were fiction, there are many ways the stories I have told could have ended. My son, the repeat offender 2013-01-24T18:16:00Z

This shows in the uneven stories, and they add proof to my theory that lesser works reveal much more of the writer’s mind and circumstances than finished and finely wrought fictions. ‘Let Me Tell You,’ by Shirley Jackson 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

So much of the best modern fiction tends towards ambiguity and open-endedness, while increasingly the commercial cinema has a fetish for closure and ends neatly tied. Good book, great film 2011-04-01T10:08:52Z

The Booker committee have made a "commercial decision," according to Dr David Brauner, an expert in contemporary American fiction at the University of Reading. Global expansion for Booker Prize 2013-09-18T14:02:17Z

Rather than science fiction, the comic is closer to amiable French sex farce, but fired by Barbarella’s erotic energy. A French Siren Returns 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Experimental fiction demands that the experiments justify their existence, and this novella only half does. Garth Risk Hallberg’s Mix-and-Match Story of Suburban Ennui 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

If you could live inside the world of any work of fiction, which would it be and why? Kim Gordon: By the Book 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Perhaps as, say, a tutor in the public schools, I could do more valuable work than I could ever hope to do as a writer of fiction. Philip Roth’s retirement lesson 2013-02-12T12:39:00Z

Mr. Jenkins, an evangelical Christian, had written for Reader’s Digest and Parade magazines and composed adult and children’s fiction. Tim LaHaye Dies at 90; Fundamentalist Leader’s Grisly Novels Sold Millions 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

Unless the film-makers fess up, it's hard to spot where fact ends and fiction begins, but the debate generates column inches, which is gold dust for a film without a big marketing budget. Anne Billson: Why we love questioning faux-or-not docs such as Catfish 2010-12-16T21:44:00Z

It’s to find a way into the world as it is, to open a road we can glimpse for a second or two before a new fiction has covered it again. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

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

The petition noted Mr. Gottlieb’s reputation for brilliance but nonetheless urged him to withdraw, saying that an insider like Charles McGrath, the magazine’s fiction editor and heir apparent, could best serve its traditions. Robert Gottlieb, Eminent Editor From le Carré to Clinton, Dies at 92 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

Charles Baxter | Sept. 10 Word Works, novelist discusses plot development in fiction. Literary events calendar 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Tayari Jones’ “An American Marriage,” now in its third week on our fiction list, is at No. 1. Books newsletter: Tayari Jones, Jesse Ball, Lucie Brock-Broido and more in books 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z

Then again, challenging boundaries is what brave fiction does, and Wilkinson proves confident enough to carry it off. In a Gutsy Thriller, a Black Spy’s Past Comes Back to Haunt Her 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

The novels that Cassava has distributed in the West span a range of genres, settings, subjects and styles, offering American readers a much broader view of contemporary Nigerian fiction. A Wave of New Fiction From Nigeria, as Young Writers Experiment With New Genres 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

One also briefly wonders what wisdom is to be gained from total immersion in what Borges called "the pulp fictions of the 13th century". One Thousand and One Nights ? review 2011-08-22T12:34:36Z

"His imagination has not only recast our idea of Jewish identity, it has also reanimated fiction, and not just American fiction, generally." Booker Prize win for Philip Roth 2011-05-18T08:00:01Z

There’s an elusiveness and obliqueness to Petrona’s narration, perhaps an acknowledgment of the difficulty of representing the voices of those who rarely get to speak for themselves in literary fiction. A Novel About Growing Up in the Middle of Death 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

This is a “Roots” that has studied the powerful effects of magical realism on fact-based fiction, especially in its yearning to represent a cultural authenticity. History’s engaging new ‘Roots’ is faithful to the original and woke to the present 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

“The idea was to use science fiction as a metaphor for the issues of the time – the civil rights movement, African-Americans’ struggle for equality, the peace movement during the Vietnam war, the cold war. Star Trek’s George Takei: ‘I’d take a female friend to premieres. Then go out to a gay bar’ 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

“And then one day the two just mixed, and I decided I wanted to do science fiction in South Africa.” Mandela in the Movies: 10 Films About Apartheid 2013-12-06T21:21:59Z

Lauren Beukes is a South African author of "cyberpunk" science fiction whose novel Zoo City brought her very widespread acclaim, and a major publishing deal for upcoming novel The Shining Girls. The best young sci-fi novelists 2013-04-15T11:51:22Z

Despite the heightened reality of his fiction – the occasional swerve into magic or mysticism – Pears describes himself as an "absolute realist". Tim Pears's 'small acts of resistance' 2010-03-18T14:00:00Z

At the time, the idea of global pandemonium seemed dubious, even in fiction. Analysis | The novel that inspired ‘Blade Runner’ didn’t predict our current reality, but these writers did 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Writing fiction is to no small degree a confidence game, and “Leading Men” casts a spell right from the start. ‘Leading Men,’ a Novel About Tennessee Williams and His Lover, Casts a Spell From the Start 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

You can guess the kind of trouble that a lifelong conflation of truth and fiction might lead to. Escape from Childhood 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Among American writers, only Edgar Allan Poe has influenced supernatural fiction more than H.P. Review | This is getting weird: Critics on horror, science fiction and fantasy 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

“The New Midwest,” his book on contemporary fiction set in the region, will be published in early 2017. Suburban alienation meets aliens in Margaret Wappler's 'Neon Green' 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

But that was fiction -- albeit rooted in the experiences of "L Word" creator Ilene Chaikin -- and the six Los Angeles women featured in the new show, also on Showtime, are real. Lesbians get real on TV's "Real L Word" 2010-06-18T18:34:00Z

As fiction, her book would allow the reader a vivid engagement with the past through the imaginations of four extraordinary women. Karen Abott's history of four Civil War women who spied or lied 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

An almost-happy ending, which cannot be revealed in print, is the stuff of fiction, he said. Boris in Union Jack underpants? Musical comedy finds the fun in Brexit 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

It’s a vision oddly terrifying and ethereal, and another demonstration of this author’s extraordinary range, flowing gracefully from historical fiction to contemporary realism to science fiction. Review | As catastrophic waters rise in Thailand, a writer examines the past and imagines the future 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Those books both established him as one of noir's major writers and changed crime fiction, making a lot of it seem like weak tea. James Ellroy talks up his new L.A. Quartet 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

He read voraciously and argued vehemently with other well-read kids his age, wrote hundreds of pages of fiction and traveled widely. A comprehensive study of a Nobel laureate 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

We need heroes in our fiction, at least. 'Go Set a Watchman' Review: Atticus Finch's Racism Makes Scout, and Us, Grow Up 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

"The Map of the Sky" isn't a thriller, science fiction or fantasy, and it's not horror or a romance. 'The Map of the Sky': conjuring world's end in the name of true love 2012-10-10T22:09:05Z

Working on two separate fiction projects recently, I've struggled with this. Getting a handle on naming characters 2011-02-18T12:16:24Z

Whatever you call it, that film launched the most profitable movie franchise in history and changed all kinds of things: Fashion, product design, merchandising, movies and perhaps even science fiction itself. How “Star Wars” changed the world: “It feels real in a way the stuff on ‘Star Trek’ probably doesn’t” 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

It's currently running a contest for fiction manuscripts with a $10,000 grand prize. The American Reader goes print, Full Fathom Five launches digital 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. ArtsBeat: Werewolves, Vampires and Shrinks, Oh My: Glen Duncan Talks About 'Talulla Rising' 2012-06-27T14:52:44Z

“On short fiction, you can keep approaching it. You can keep swinging the ax at the tree to see if you can contribute something to the dialogue.” Short Stories for Summer Reading 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

These pieces are illustrations of concepts first, and stories second; in order to foreground contemporary technologies, Chen leaves several of fiction’s tools — most notably voice and point of view — on the shelf. Memory, That Unreliable Narrator: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

Ripped from the headlines or a pool of similarly themed movies, the fiction film “Illegal” traces the ups and increasing downs of an immigrant’s struggles to stay in her adopted land. | 'Illegal': A Woman With a Son, but Not a Country 2011-03-24T21:23:03Z

The interview was to go over the verisimilitude of the show — the blending of fiction with the memories of a real- life war and its aftermath. Finding solace through helping a TV show understand war 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

It certainly wasn't what her family imagined; relatives regularly email her job openings at places like the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop and suggest she try submitting her fiction to literary journals instead of ghostwriting. For Maya Sloan, ghostwriting Jenners' YA book just part of fiction fun 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

Her most recent book is “A House of My Own: Stories From My Life,” and last year, her story “Puro Amor” was published in the Washington Post Magazine’s fiction issue. Sandra Cisneros, Lauren Groff among authors coming to Fall for the Book 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

Updike wrote, obsessively, about his hometown of Shillington, Pa. His adoring mother and father were characters in his fiction. ‘Updike’: Prolific writer lived a life full of contradictions 2014-04-09T19:38:35Z

Mr. Wolfe turned to fiction in 1987 with his debut novel, “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” a best seller about a New York roiled by racial conflict and the careening fortunes of Wall Street. Tom Wolfe’s Papers Pop Up at the New York Public Library 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

In the end, when bodies and blood cover every inch of ground, he shows that the way of the warrior isn’t a romantic and diverting fiction but an emblem of a harrowing, brutal reality. | '13 Assassins': Swords Drip Red With Revenge 2011-04-28T21:47:36Z

The slighting of women’s fiction is nothing new. Resurrected from the archives: timeless women’s fiction 2013-07-19T22:54:15Z

But despite spirited inquiries into these subjects, Rooney’s fiction to this point remains philosophically anchored in the realms of friendship and romance. Sally Rooney and Love in the Time of General Systems Collapse 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

But equally, it offers something that more stylish, highbrow fiction often doesn't or won't: a chance to lose yourself in a dense, richly-peopled world. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – full review 2012-09-28T10:30:01Z

"But to the fiction writer, the myth, the legend, the fables are all powerful tools to create a psychological portrait." Pulitzer prize goes to novel about North Korea 2013-04-16T11:36:36Z

Her editor at Riverhead, Calvert Morgan, described her as “one part fiction writer, one part provocateur and one part world class dreamer.” Lidia Yuknavitch Writes to Break With the ‘Tyranny’ of the Past 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

But one would also like to read the saga of memory, that is, the version of the epic of “El Norte” through literature and fiction. Anglos, Hispanics and the Formation of America 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Annual fiction and nonfiction awards will be announced later this year. APNewsBreak: Author O'Brien wins Ohio Peace Prize 2012-08-01T12:28:08Z

But all is not what it seems in this tale that is truly stranger than fiction. Carpetbagger: Eclectic as Ever, Sundance Unveils Competition Lineup 2011-11-30T21:00:03Z

Of course not all teenage readers are going to have to deal with the hardcore issues that arise in young adult fiction. If you like books like these: dark teen reads 2012-05-31T10:17:09Z

He was also something of an anachronism, dashing and worldly in a way few modern-day writers of fiction are. James Salter, novelist with exquisite prose style, dies at 90 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

Basing works of fiction on infamous criminal cases is undeniably a good career move; the book is guaranteed a sympathetic audience and huge sales. Real-life tragedies for real-life cash 2010-08-13T08:13:00Z

To him, fiction, essays and activism were all part of the same endeavor. George Lamming, Who Chronicled the End of Colonialism, Dies at 94 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

In this mind-bending, time-twisting science fiction novel with faint political undercurrents, people begin suffering from false memory syndrome, remembering lives they never led. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

There was, of course, a very good science fiction film that came out that year. My favorite best picture Oscar winner: Annie Hall 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

New to the fiction list this week are Daniel Silva’s “The Other Woman” and Debbie Macomber’s “Cottage by the Sea,” which was inspired by a 2014 landslide in the Pacific Northwest. ‘We Couldn’t Have Colluded to Order a Cheeseburger’ 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

And it's the 50th anniversary of the World's Fair here, which is about science leavened with more than a dash of science fiction. Science fiction, science are big in Northwest — especially right now 2012-07-02T03:48:04Z

"This will result in a unique and thrilling presidency we've never seen before, in history or in fiction." Captain America gets new job title: US president 2012-09-18T15:30:10Z

“I would be completely absorbed in a way that is hard to get when I’m writing fiction.” Mark Ronson’s Fourth Solo Album, ‘Uptown Special,’ Is a Star Collaboration 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

He is not the only benevolent, if faintly alarming elderly man in her fiction; fathers, by contrast, tend to be shadowy or absent. Susan Cooper: a life in writing 2012-12-21T22:54:02Z

I like to define historical fiction in generous terms. Once Upon a Time, Things Also Weren’t So Great 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

But I felt like there was something missing in the way a lot of these kids were being portrayed, both in fiction and in the press. John Lucas: Why teens riot 2012-08-14T14:05:23Z

That is the part where it makes it hard to imagine how a writer could take what is happening with Donald Trump and make it into fiction. "The Boys" comics artist Darick Robertson on Amazon's adaptation, politics and "The Punisher" 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

In many ways the extremes — past and present, fact and fiction — may be the most alluring aspect of the project. Art Show Celebrates 75 Years of the Golden Gate 2012-06-10T04:27:04Z

Nimoy's final great TV appearance came in the Fox science fiction series "Fringe," in which he played reclusive scientist William Bell. Leonard Nimoy: On TV he was much more than Mr. Spock 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Certainly, when your mode routinely employs science fiction concept albums and double-tracked guitars, belief may well be what you need in a post-Spinal Tap world. This week's new live music 2013-01-05T00:06:06Z

When the novelist was wrapped up in activism, the space and time and nuance for fiction could not emerge, she argued. Irvine Welsh tears into Booker prize 2012-08-19T19:06:49Z

Yet where Silverman came up short was in perpetuating the Men’s Rights movement’s fiction that there’s any gender equity as far as violence and victims. Feminism didn’t kill men’s rights advocate Earl Silverman 2013-04-29T14:55:00Z

The sexual situations border on being offensive, relying as they do on stereotypes straight out of pulp fiction. For ‘Transparent,’ Accusations Against Jeffrey Tambor Burst an Idealistic Bubble 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Maybe Hall’s novel—a fiction about real people—is just the latest piece of writing to drive home that point. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

Noted editors of numerous anthologies of speculative fiction, the VanderMeers have compiled one of the best volumes of feminist — or any other — science fiction in years. Close encounters with feminist science fiction in 'Sisters of the Revolution' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Included are surplus library items and material donated by the public, ranging from holiday books, CDs, DVDs and gift books, to a general section of fiction and nonfiction plus quality children's books. A good read or good gifts at library holiday sale 2011-11-16T23:08:09Z

She represents this bridge for me between fiction and nonfiction writing. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The Ways We Inherit Historical Traumas 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

When I find fiction too draining, I turn to books about books. Review | From the author of ‘Morning Has Broken,’ magical tales perfect for Valentine’s Day 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

Was it possible that Stephen King was as good as Diana Abu-Jaber, a writer hardly known beyond the ghetto that American literary fiction seems to have become? My Stephen King problem 2012-07-06T14:42:00Z

Peace in the north brought new kinds of fiction as younger writers in particular, she suggested, moved beyond plots that were always "steeped" in the Troubles. Radio review: Emerald Noir 2011-03-09T08:00:03Z

But locals say the show is more fiction than reality, especially in its obsession with class, pedigree and etiquette. The real Potomac is nothing like ‘Real Housewives’ — except for the money 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

I can write a Western, I can write an erotic novel, I could read all the science fiction, short stories, literary stories, and they're all new because nobody put black people in those stories. Walter Mosley on the fantasy of Whiteness and how Dubya was worse than Trump 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

Keith Oatley, a novelist and emeritus professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Toronto, has for many years run a research group interested in the psychology of fiction. Is Reading the New Therapy? 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

She says she bought it two years ago – before Fifty Shades of Grey made erotic fiction mainstream – but its 600 pages have taken Anne Milano Appel until now to translate. The Art of Joy: one woman's sexual adventures 2013-06-28T14:33:00Z

Literary fiction in the UK became very interested in critical theory and lost its relationship with narrative and, to an extent, with the reader. Val McDermid: a life in writing 2011-08-12T21:55:20Z

He’s no less indebted to literature: his fondness for Gothic fiction like Mary Shelley’s “Last Man” and Richard Jefferies’s “After London” comes across in the after-the-fall ambience of some of his films. Ben Rivers’s ‘Two Years at Sea’ and ‘Slow Action’ 2012-10-07T05:03:01Z

It's clearly a topic which has hit a nerve in America, where critic Lee Siegel recently pronounced fiction to be culturally irrelevant – although he wasn't the first. Who are the most overrated contemporary writers in the world? 2010-08-10T16:11:00Z

“In this case, reality is more exciting than fiction.” Is Trump Imitating Fiction? Or Is Fiction Imitating Trump? 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

Serial-killer fiction pleases the audience’s taste for sensation — young women brutalized by a clever psychopath — and its need to tie loose narrative strands into a carnographic denouement. The Raven: Edgar Allen Poe Solves a Serial-Killer Mystery 2012-04-27T10:30:18Z

“The author rewrites the official record by way of fiction,” Jane Hu writes, reviewing the book alongside three other story collections. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

We need fiction—not less, but more—at times of turbulence and unrest. The Silencing of Writers in Turkey 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

More recently, GNP has also been known for releasing television and motion picture soundtracks, with a particular emphasis on science fiction. Gene Norman, Music Producer With an Ear for Jazz, Dies at 93 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

“The shadow of Anglophone science fiction has been over us for a long while,” he said. Science Fiction From Latin America, With Zombie Dissidents and Aliens in the Amazon 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z

The songs, heavier on fiction than fact, only widened the remove. Laura Marling: 'Americans – they're just a lot more poetic' 2013-04-27T23:04:02Z

This rosy picture might seem surprising, given science fiction’s proclivity for doom and gloom. When Science Fiction Comes True 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

“Jackson’s fiction is a sort of serial investigation of the malevolent, imprisoning power of her own fears.” Sunday Reading: Shirley Jackson’s Spooky Stories 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

If that sounds like bizarre celebrity fan fiction, there may be some truth to it, according to The Guardian. Joseph Fiennes to Play Michael Jackson in 9/11 Road-Trip Film 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

One of the problems of Doctor Who-type fiction is that you can make it up as you go along. Terry Pratchett enters parallel worlds of science fiction 2010-06-16T13:51:00Z

Reality is the ingredient that turns a bad fiction into an enthralling one. Lie to Me: Fiction in the Post-Truth Era 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

The scary starchitect of popular imagination was just that, a fiction. Postscript: Zaha Hadid, 1950-2016 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

At least eight of Mr. Bell’s 14 novels were logged on the The New York Times best seller lists, including his young adult fiction featuring the time-traveling hero Nick McIver. Ted Bell, Creative Adman Turned Author of Thrillers, Dies at 76 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

The pervading, populist cloak of suspicion that envelops the world has fed into our science fiction cinema, too. Is the big-hearted Spielbergian sci-fi of Close Encounters dead? 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

The problem with such a counterargument would be that Wood is actually correct that fiction demands belief of us. We had to get beyond irony: How David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers and a new generation of believers changed fiction 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

As I’ve said, the best parts of David Foster Wallace’s fiction are nonfiction. Mary Karr on the “loser, outsider weirdos” of memoir and skipping the David Foster Wallace movie: “The whole St. David thing … it’s a little hard to take” 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

Weinman has written widely on crime fiction; in her own prose, cheesed-up cliffhangers abound: “The joke became truth before the summer of 1955 was over”; “the stuff of nightmares that would rip any mother apart.” The Salacious Non-Mystery of “The Real Lolita” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

Josh Lawson is plausible as Shawn, an aspiring fiction writer who sponges off Perry. | 'Romantically Challenged': Alyssa Milano as a Lovelorn Single Mom With Pals 2010-04-18T22:48:00Z

Somewhat surprisingly, London’s venerable British Library has emerged as a major player in the reissuing of early 20th-century popular fiction. Review | Muriel Jaeger, a trailblazing science fiction author, deserves a new look 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

Abbey Mei Otis is an exciting voice in contemporary science fiction. Review | Best science fiction and fantasy books out this month 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. McCarthy’s fiction took a dark view of the human condition and was often macabre. Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

So much for the conventional wisdom about fiction masquerading as autobiography. Bill Cheng’s Novel is ‘Southern Cross the Dog’ 2013-05-08T20:26:13Z

The Economist likened the book to Paradise Lost, while Sam Tanenhaus of the New York Times said it was a masterpiece of American fiction. Jonathan Franzen: 'I must be near the end of my career ? people are starting to approve' 2010-09-24T23:03:00Z

It turned out she was an agent and a top dealmaker in digital fiction. “People are at their most vulnerable when they’re naked together”: The rise of erotic romance 2014-01-04T00:00:00Z

By the end of my eight years there, however, I’d published two novels, had begun work on “Cloud Atlas” and had come to see my future in fiction. David Mitchell: By the Book 2012-10-20T09:00:06Z

Among the most eye- and mind-opening panels was the one on body horror, which, for you literary fiction folks, included a reminder that the subgenre encompasses classics like “Frankenstein” and “The Metamorphosis.” A Festival That Conjures the Strange Magic of H.P. Lovecraft 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z

The majority of the programming on its famed Shark Week is fiction. Discovery Channel will stop making garbage “docufiction” 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Do you find that, when writing fiction, you’re most inspired by the dialogue? Han Ong on Straying into Topicality 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

Nowadays I rarely read fiction but love reading about history, Anthony Beevor's books such as Berlin for example. Drawing lines: Q&A with Dinosaur Cove illustrator Mike Spoor 2013-02-15T12:12:10Z

I long for a new form, a cross between fiction and memoir, or a new way of reading, where we read fiction with the eyes of memoir and read memoir with the eyes of fiction. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Facts are stranger than fiction 2013-04-19T17:29:01Z

I love modern American fiction so I think I'd like a selection of American authors. Katy Brand's favourite TV 2012-12-15T00:05:19Z

By episode six, we venture even further into the realms of fiction. Apple TV+: should you shell out for the new streaming service? 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

And to introduce an old note of dissent, the real problem with Booker in an age of global fiction based on the Anglo-American tradition is its absurd omission of American writing. Is the Booker a barometer of the best literature? 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

I see that as a kind of psychological trick on oneself, because the whole point about fiction is that it's invention. On writing: authors reveal the secrets of their craft 2011-03-26T00:05:44Z

In fact, Allende has published 24 books, including memoirs, stories and fantasy fiction for young adults. Isabel Allende Sings the Praises of Process, Peace and Pups 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

But the adult arbiters of teen fiction – librarians, critics, Carnegie judges – still insist on optimistic closures, emotional healing, redemption and hope. Summertime of the Dead by Gregory Hughes – review 2012-09-28T21:55:03Z

The best fiction is, to some degree, ineffable — no matter how deeply she digs, the reader of a masterly work cannot precisely explain what she has experienced. The Trauma of the Civil War Lives On in Faulkner’s Fiction 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

It isn't expected of science , crime, mystery, historical fiction, or even most literary fiction. The chick-lit debate: light doesn't have to mean stupid 2010-08-05T08:39:00Z

It's the parts, but with this one in particular in "Lost Girls" because it's not fiction. "Your worst nightmare is to lose your child": Amy Ryan on her new Netflix film "Lost Girls" 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

Retaining new information or absorbing new stories may be a problem, but one reliable workaround is escaping into much-loved classic crime fiction. ‘Killing People in Fiction Was Fun’: Mysteries That Have Stood the Test of Time 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

I find questions about the origin of a work of fiction interestingly difficult to answer. This Week in Fiction: Ben Lerner on Art, Language, and Uber 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

It’s fiction about life that becomes fiction that might be life — and the viewer happily dives in. ‘In the House’: Truth and fiction mingle in François Ozon’s latest 2013-05-16T19:33:42Z

Born in India, he had spent much of his 20s working in advertising in London and writing fiction he came to regard as "unbearable amounts of garbage." Rushdie relives magic of 'Midnight's Children' 2013-04-21T13:24:11Z

As a science fiction writer, he obviously likes to work on a grand scale. ‘The Massacre of Mankind’: a sequel to H.G. Wells’s ‘The War of the Worlds’ 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and made the shortlist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Ashleigh Cummings, Willa Fitzgerald join the cast of 'The Goldfinch' adaptation 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

"The Snow Forest," a historical fiction book centering on a female heroine seemed to align with Gilbert's past novels only Gilbert wasn't just the author of historical fiction. Eat, pray, brand yourself accurately 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

Judging committees chose five books in each of four competitive categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature. Whitehead, Rep. John Lewis are National Book Award finalists 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Pro tip from a science fiction writer: You don’t want to live in a dystopia. Dystopias are fantastic in fiction. But do you really want to live in one? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Ms. Garner has written both fiction and nonfiction. Nine Authors, Playwrights Win $150,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes 1456-09-16T05:00:00Z

The winners in young people’s literature, translated literature, poetry, nonfiction and fiction will be announced Nov. 17 in an online ceremony. Finalists Announced for This Year’s National Book Awards 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Worrying about an innocent animal's fate can take you out of the world of the fiction and make you abruptly question motive. Sarii of “Prey” and the importance of letting the dog live 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

He writes cannily about his own progress as a writer and about how the early deaths of his parents cracked his life in two and led to his interest in science fiction. Books of The Times: William Gibson?s ?Distrust That Particular Flavor? - Review 2012-01-01T20:27:07Z

Such high-level fraudulence is probably more common in fiction than in real life. TV’s quiet 12-step revolution: Prestige comedies are changing the way we see addiction, sobriety and AA 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

Cheryl Morgan is a Hugo award-winning British science fiction critic and publisher who lives in Melbourne. Science fiction and fantasy: the wonderful wizards of Oz 2013-06-06T15:57:29Z

Science fiction is a ready-made sandbox for a filmmaker who never stopped wondering what it means to be human. Film: A Bold Vision, Still Ahead of Its Time 2010-04-04T03:02:00Z

Those who have been watching the series since the beginning know that declaration is a fiction, another layer of fabrication on a world that layers one contrivance atop another. In “Fargo,” the fight for truth and justice is a woman’s game 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

Some novelists might take umbrage at the idea that they aren’t as in love with language as poets are; in the best prose fiction, language is both functional and poetic, peg and panpipe. Kate Tempest’s Transformations 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

For what is reading fiction, really, but spying — gazing at a life that isn't ours; observing characters moving through their plots, rarely knowing that they're being watched? 'Sweet Tooth': Ian McEwan's novel of spying, writing and love 2012-11-14T20:37:12Z

Both novels — and they should be read in order — are spy fiction at its best. ‘The Unfortunate Englishman’: a stylish spy thriller set in postwar Berlin 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

When she had a short story in The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” fiction issue in 2010, she consented to answer questions for the magazine’s website. Review: In C.E. Morgan’s ‘The Sport of Kings,’ Racing Against the Tide 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

In addition, a group of smaller, Internet publishers such as Byliner is snapping up short fiction and gaining traction as distributors of stories. Digital age brings revival of the short story 2013-02-16T18:02:06Z

But mostly I include them because I need them, in fiction as in life, to be transported, to see what I would otherwise forget or ignore or be afraid of. Clare Sestanovich on Desire and the Dangers of Metaphor 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

McCoy spoke with Salon about Pep, the best time of day to film his canine star and the dogged line between fact and fiction. Watch the documentary “Bad Dog,” a true crime tale about Pep, the felonious pup 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

In 1987, she won the Victorian Premier's Award for fiction for her novel Second Sight. Mateship With Birds by Carrie Tiffany – review 2013-06-12T03:53:35Z

No verbal pyrotechnics here, nothing to challenge a conservative aesthetics biased against the house of fiction itself. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z

But this isn’t fiction, and it isn’t my story. My son, the repeat offender 2013-01-24T18:16:00Z

Now it seems, A Journey may be moving into erotic fiction. Tony Blair in running for bad sex award 2010-10-15T10:15:00Z

Willis's two-volume time travel sequence, Blackout and All Clear, was voted winner of science fiction's most prestigious prize by members of the World Science Fiction Society. Connie Willis wins 11th Hugo award 2011-08-23T11:12:58Z

Postwar American science fiction is overflowing with thinly disguised freak-outs about Communism and nuclear Armageddon. A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

That’s why I see reading fiction as an indispensable part of the job. Rachel Kushner meets Nicola Sturgeon: ‘I'm so glad I'm a novelist and not a politician’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

He’s called Labor Department estimates of the unemployment rate “totally fiction,” and pressured the head of the National Park Service to back up his inflated account of his inauguration crowd size. Experts agree: Trump has made Washington hostile to experts 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

The Fox News host calls the book, whose title is lifted from a theory about how to manipulate public opinion, a work of "faction": a hybrid of fact and fiction, entertainment and education. Glenn Beck's Thriller Mixes Romance, Tea-Party Politics 2010-06-16T08:30:00Z

What do you make of the explosion of X-rated online fan fiction? Before “Fifty Shades of Grey” 2012-07-14T23:00:00Z

What Row desires is fiction that acknowledges the ways in which Americans are entwined with one another physically, psychically and socially. Reading the Hidden Racial Life of American Fiction 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Years of psychoanalysis, and the controlled fiction that followed, deferred the threat of suicide. The Twenty-Five Most-Read New Yorker Archive Stories of 2018 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

This novel has the distinction of winning the Hugo Award for science fiction in 1963. The Essential Philip K. Dick 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

"It irritates the hell out of me when people won't touch my book because they see it's science fiction," he said. Clarke award: the rise of sci fi shows you can't judge a book by its genre 2013-05-02T10:19:04Z

Nothing — including a happy ending — is as it seems in this accelerating swirl of political and academic satire, science fiction and romantic melodrama. Review | Joyce Carol Oates has seen hell, and it’s 1950s Wisconsin 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

There's fan fiction based on books, movies, TV shows, video games, plays, musicals, rock bands and board games. The Boy Who Lived Forever 2011-07-07T09:15:00Z

Once you had amassed enough index cards to complete an outline, you’d stroll over to the fiction section. The Essential Judy Blume 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

It was an experimental blend of fiction and nonfiction in which one of the main characters, a man named Bill Demby, writes a book about a black actress named Doris who grows weary of him. William Demby, 90, Novelist and Reporter, Dies 2013-06-01T01:38:33Z

It’s also a tough message to translate to fiction, where angry heroines traditionally receive short shrift, especially when they refuse to accommodate societal expectations. Jen Lancaster’s ‘The Best of Enemies’ is a cheeky take on girl friends 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

At the same time, the autobiographical fiction writer “seems to be crying out for boundaries and impediments and restraints.” In Fiction, Martin Amis Summons His Literary Friends and Role Models 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z

His obvious flair as a fiction writer may explain my own tiny misgivings about “Savage Feast.” Review | A tale of a family bound by food — and hunger 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

Stephanie teaches fiction writing at Arcadia University and lives outside Philadelphia with her family. 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

Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards include 31 books across six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Bollingen Prize in American Poetry and Nominees for the National Book Critics Circle and Edgar Allan Poe Awards Are Announced 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

On a whim, they decide to play along with the fiction, and Shimell becomes the "copy" of her spouse. Cannes film festival: Kiarostami's scenes from a fake marriage 2010-05-18T21:00:00Z

“This is what reading is about, and what a good book is supposed to do,” the mystery writer Sue Grafton writes in a blurb for the novel, Mr. King’s fourth attempt at fiction. Breakthrough Award for New Novelist 2010-08-09T19:38:00Z

But the top tier of literary fiction — where the air is rich and the view is great and where a book enters the public imagination and the current conversation — tends to feel peculiarly, disproportionately male. Essay: ‘The Second Shelf’ 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

All these years later, the espionage genre remains one of the least diverse branches of suspense fiction. Review | The novel ‘American Spy’ breaks down barriers. It’s also a terrific read. 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

The science fiction community need not be so wedded to “original conceptions” of fictional characters, Roberts says, and instead embrace diversity not because of any larger social agenda, but simply because it exists. Sulu, “Star Trek” and queer sci-fi: LGBT diversity has been there all along—now it’s gone mainstream 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

Andrea Lee’s superb fiction often describes the collisions between people who hail from different cultures. Review | In ‘Red Island House,’ an American woman is enchanted, then repelled, by her time in Madagascar 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

Your talent – at the time of crisis – is to tell the stories as they are, to help them to achieve power as reality not as fiction. Ahdaf Soueif: In times of crisis, fiction has to take a back seat 2012-08-17T15:00:01Z

The film’s end credits attribute Slender Man’s creation to a single person, Eric Knudsen, whose internet appearances as “Victor Surge” inspired the crowdsourced fiction and graphics that made the character an internet meme. Review: In ‘Slender Man,’ Horror Emerges From the Internet 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

Three British authors joined two U.S. writers and one Canadian on the shortlist for the 50,000 pound award for fiction, with the winner to be announced on Oct. Scottish killings and Californian satire on shortlist for Man Booker Prize 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Weather permitting, the man behind one of the most recognizable space-faring characters in science fiction history will become the oldest person ever to float there. Bezos Reaches for a Star 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Zigman herself cops to writing “semi-autobiographical fiction” and thus, one might be forgiven for tracing the fuzzy arc of her life through her output. Don’t Mind Me While I Wear My Dog 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

“The secret baby is hard to do in queer fiction,” said Jeff Adams, a romance author and co-host of the Big Gay Fiction Podcast. ‘I Just Want Something That’s Gay and Happy’: L.G.B.T.Q. Romance Is Booming 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

Lane, who seemingly harbors a predilection for snuff films, volunteers to assist Travis with his fiction project — which turns into a snuff film. 'Cut!' can be cruel with its torture 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Even as these stories work to uncover motherhood’s complex emotional truths, they indulge their own little fiction: that a mother only becomes interesting when she stops being one. Mommy Is Going Away for a While 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Witches in teen fiction tend to be complex and mysterious characters with plenty of depth for readers to explore. Why are we in love with witches? 2012-07-05T14:18:20Z

Last season you guys doubled down on the science fiction with the time travel, and this year you introduced a much more religious overview. Television: The Men Who Made ABC?s ?Lost? Last 2010-05-14T01:15:00Z

When Jaimy Gordon won the National Book Award for fiction last month, she prompted a profligate outburst of metaphors about dark horses. Books of The Times: Some Time at the Races, With Luck and Change 2010-12-01T22:57:00Z

And these numbers didn’t just describe baseball; they gave the game its language, its “fiction and drama and poetry.” | 'Moneyball': Brad Pitt in ?Moneyball,? by Bennett Miller 2011-09-22T21:30:09Z

In those diaries, Mann frankly discussed his sexual interest in men, an interest that remained coded in his fiction. Colm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ Intimately Recaptures a Literary Giant 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

“My fiction is so much cheerier,” he said. The Family History Is Grim, but He?s Plotted a New Course 2011-01-14T22:35:51Z

The prize for 10 individual winners is a set of the 8 longlisted books nominated for the Guardian children's fiction prize 2013 plus a £20 National Book token gift card for themselves. Enter the Young critics competition 2013 2013-05-24T23:01:06Z

Online, it feels like science fiction fandom has erupted into civil war. The scifi fans are alright: I saw the future at the Hugo Awards — and it will never belong to the toxic right-wing trolls 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

If you write a murder set in Elizabethan England, it's historical crime fiction. Crime fiction: Evidence points to a clash of genres 2012-07-19T08:15:53Z

Instead, she describes her futuristic stories as works of “speculative fiction,” and argues that her plots depict plausible scenarios rather than fantasy tales. Margaret Atwood, Digital Deep-Diver, Writes ‘The Heart Goes Last’ 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

Akashic has published urban fiction before but tends to focus more on literary fiction and political nonfiction. Prodigy’s ‘H.N.I.C.,’ Street Lit From Infamous Books 2013-05-31T21:16:57Z

Her scariest, and hitherto scattered, short horror fiction is finally reassembled in Swan River Press’s “Eyes of Terror and Other Dark Adventures,” superbly edited by Janis Dawson. Review | Grab some candy corn and sit down with these Halloween-perfect story collections 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

It seems logical to conclude, in that case, that books – particularly fiction – will not just be read in such an environment; they will also seek to reflect it. Is this the end for books? 2011-08-14T20:30:01Z

That's the tunnel in the space-time continuum that connects two disparate points — and a plot device for countless works of science fiction from "Star Trek" to "Contact" to "Interstellar." Object Lesson: A space-time wormhole by Glenn Kaino at Honor Fraser 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

The truth is that much of children's fiction, even when dressed up as an adventure, is about navigating emotionally or physically difficult times. Book doctor: Are children's books darker than they used to be? 2013-06-24T16:30:35Z

Thus Begley joins a constellation of literary stars who risked their reputations producing genre fiction. Louis Begley’s ‘Kill and Be Killed’: A slick thriller from a literary lion 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

Like a science fiction story, the technology is advancing faster than we can figure out what to do with it or how to manage it. Oh, the humanity! Stop using AI to pitch stories 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z

Mr. Modiano writes clear, languid and urbane sentences in Mr. Polizzotti’s agile translation, yet his fiction has a distant quality, as if you were hearing about its incidents from one room over. ‘Suspended Sentences,’ Novellas by Patrick Modiano 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

This is just about rejecting dishonesty, and refusing to abet the telling of self-serving fictions at someone else’s expense. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Don’t tell, but don’t cover for brother who’s being vague about divorce 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

Dr. See was the author of 10 books, encompassing fiction and nonfiction, and was co-author of several more. Carolyn See, memoirist, novelist and book reviewer for The Post, dies at 82 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

The point of fiction -- or naturalistic fiction, anyway -- is not moral edification. The evolution of Atticus Finch 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

In general, works of science fiction are not as prevalent in Spanish as they are in English. Sci-Fi Writers Find Warmer Climate Amid Cuban Thaw 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

In 1980, Ms. James published “Innocent Blood,” which brought the author wider recognition as a writer of serious fiction. P.D. James, who brought a gritty realism to the British detective novel, dies at 94

Her first fiction book is due out next year. Report: Valerie Plame Wilson to pen suspense books 2011-03-19T08:31:04Z

There, as if closing a circle, she wrote fiction inspired by the European émigrés she met, people who understood what it meant to be homesick for a way of life that no longer existed. The Unsentimental, Darkly Elegant Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

It has since released eight fiction titles, including “Harlem Heat,” by 50 Cent and Mark Anthony, and “Death Before Dishonor,” by 50 Cent and Nikki Turner. Prodigy’s ‘H.N.I.C.,’ Street Lit From Infamous Books 2013-05-31T21:16:57Z

I see it, too; Moffat’s sensibilities can be a reflection of the worst sides of the British status quo, while deceptively cloaked in the intellectual optimism of fast-talking genre fiction. Steven Moffat on why he hasn’t cast a female Doctor yet: “I think it would have been a disaster” 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

"When it comes to general fiction libraries we need to see how many we need and where they best be located to maximise use whilst keeping down cost," he wrote. Libraries cater for the middle classes, not the deprived, says John Redwood 2011-04-11T11:40:56Z

Much has been written about the way his fiction expanded our imaginative worlds, to alien planets and future realms. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-06-08T17:15:49Z

The novel is part fact, part fiction, based on the real life of one woman, Anne-Marie Walters, with whose story Mawer and his family are familiar. 'Trapeze': Walking a high wire of danger in World War II France 2012-05-30T21:41:11Z

Why do we crave "closure" in our fictions – "the end"? John Sutherland's top 10 books about books 2010-12-30T10:36:30Z

In the years that led to the next war, great spy fiction like Eric Ambler’s “A Coffin for Dimitrios” and Graham Greene’s “The Ministry of Fear” dealt with shadowy business interests agitating for armed conflict. The Trump era is posing some major challenges for thriller novelists 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

This distaste for the clunky machinery of traditional narrative fiction has spread quickly. Kate Atkinson’s ‘A God in Ruins’ 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

Originally published in 1968, “Talk,” with its unadorned dialogue, was called fiction to protect the innocent. New Books From Louisa Hall, Christian Kracht, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Others 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

So much of the experiences of black folks across the Diaspora, especially in America, is almost like science fiction. Walter Mosley on the fantasy of Whiteness and how Dubya was worse than Trump 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

In recent years, she has been as busy writing fiction as making records. Rosanne Cash 2010-07-28T21:30:00Z

Kingsolver began writing fiction to deal with the insomnia that plagued her when she was in Tucson, working as a journalist, married to her first husband and expecting her first child, Camille. An Appalachian Elegy, Hillbillies Not Included 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

“I Stand Here Ironing,” perhaps Olsen’s best-known piece of fiction, brought these thoughts and feelings to the fore. What Kind of Worker Is a Writer? 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

This list is organized by fiction and nonfiction — within those categories by month of publication. 43 new books for fall 2013 2013-08-24T21:21:11Z

She has posted her writing on the free fiction site Wattpad, including some poetry and a zombie novel that she co-wrote. Margaret Atwood, Digital Deep-Diver, Writes ‘The Heart Goes Last’ 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

“My family was happy, but I saw how religion brought conflict to my country. I wondered: Is it real or a fiction?” Meet the Young Designers Making Catholic-Inspired Fashion 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

Books for the digital market are a natural for Picoult, whose novels, as with many popular fiction writers, often sell more in e-editions than in paper. Latest Jodi Picoult Release Is Short Story 2013-11-25T14:50:22Z

The fourth and final category, fiction, will be revealed Thursday. Nonfiction Long-List Announced for Book Awards 2013-09-18T13:55:03Z

But it's not clear why Abbott didn't just call this a work of historical fiction. Karen Abott's history of four Civil War women who spied or lied 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

In this week's podcast we look at how horror is stalking the world of fiction. Guardian Books podcast: Lauren Beukes and Joe Hill on horror writing 2013-06-07T15:39:11Z

Space ships, science fiction, movies, sports and guitars have been among the many, many formative passions that he has indulged to the max. Books of The Times: The Reclusive Other Half of Microsoft?s Odd Couple Breaks His Silence 2011-04-18T23:23:20Z

It’s a sad fact that in a lot of 19th-century English-language fiction people of mixed race are regularly presented as double-crossing villains or diabolical sirens. Capturing the essence of Pushkin, the revered poet killed in a duel at 37 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

She replied that reading autobiographically was “a vulgarity,” reminding me that the story is “a work of fiction concerning, among other things, the subject of the transformation of life materials into fiction.” Review | Reading Lorrie Moore — again or anew — you’ll feel like she really knows you 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

Boots Riley describes his directorial debut as “an absurdist dark comedy with magical realism and science fiction, inspired by the world of telemarketing.” "Sorry to Bother You" speaks the hidden truths of "white voice" out loud 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

Sometimes the autobiographical part — not the fiction part — seemed like the real shield. Elif Batuman’s Alter Ego Goes Back to College. Her Minor: Overthinking. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

Cavendish wrote numerous plays, poetry collections, memoirs, philosophical and scientific treatises, and one of the earliest works of utopian science fiction, a novel titled “The Blazing World.” How Archival Fiction Upends Our View of History 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Wallace felt that the “mimetic deployment of pop culture icons” by writers who lacked DeLillo’s observational powers “compromises fiction’s seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic ­Always where it ought to reside.” Everything About Everything: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ at 20 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Personal episodes mingle effectively with engaging disquisitions on, say, the dilution of antitrust law, the financialization of modern medicine and other arcane economic issues that rarely intrude so forcefully in the pages of literary fiction. Review | Ayad Akhtar’s play ‘Disgraced’ won a Pulitzer Prize. Now ‘Homeland Elegies’ shows what that success cost him. 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

“I do believe that to a certain degree we all live a certain fiction that we have accepted and articulated and formulated for ourselves,” Herzog said. Werner Herzog’s Fever Dreams 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

The borderline between "crime fiction" and "psychological thriller" proves a blurred demarcation here. Blue Monday by Nicci French ? review 2011-07-13T09:25:00Z

He won an Oscar for One Day in September and a Bafta for Touching the Void, before branching into fiction with The Last King of Scotland and State of Play. Can 'fake' documentaries still tell the truth? 2010-09-30T22:00:00Z

Bao Ninh’s “The Sorrow of War,” part of a recent deep dive into the Vietnam War in fiction and historical writing. The Classic Novel That Robert Macfarlane Just Couldn’t Finish 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

In life, I am myself and I cannot be other people, but in fiction I can be anybody. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

The disconnected chapters of fiction will later be bound into a novel. Public Fiction is collectively in Hammer Museum's 'Made in L.A.' 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

In the face of danger, science fiction heroines are often enabled by technology or weaponry to level the playing field. The regeneration of "Doctor Who": Jodie Whittaker's Time Lord proved the naysayers wrong 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

Dystopian tales will always be the meat and potatoes of the science fiction genre, regardless of what’s happening in the real world. The future, Trumpified: Syfy’s dystopian drama “Incorporated” feels too close to reality for comfort 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

That fiction is not a lighthearted one, to judge by such ingredients as disembodied plastic arms and coiled barbed wire. Review | In the galleries: A former pillar of the fashion world crafts compelling art 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Lots of people marking Herbert's death echoed Kunzru's feelings – Herbert was someone they read as a teen, who introduced them to horror fiction, whose books they devoured. James Herbert farewell, thanks for all the scares 2013-03-21T11:25:35Z

The fiction winner was Ben Fountain's satirical debut novel about the Iraq war, "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," a finalist last fall for the National Book Award. Caro wins National Book Critics Circle bio prize 2013-02-28T23:35:11Z

Today, no living fiction writer towers over American culture the way Papa once did. Perspective | On Hemingway and the ideal of masculinity 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Over time, she becomes a more interesting character, a full-fledged writer who seeks experiences in the world with which to animate her fiction. For These Characters, Foreign Cultures Are Just Another Consumer Good 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

Tyrant Books, an indie publisher of exacting left-of-center fiction, has recently stepped to the forefront of progressive literature. Review | ‘Welfare’ offers a sly critique of public assistance — and capitalism 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

Faber seems largely uninterested in the technical apparatus of science fiction. Book review: ‘The Book of Strange New Things,’ by Michel Faber

Wyndham is probably the most successful British science fiction writer after HG Wells, and his books have never been out of print. John Wyndham: The unread bestseller 2010-12-20T16:12:31Z

An amusing detail of “8 1/2” is that the film that the beleaguered Anselmi is trying to get off the ground is science fiction. Fellini’s “City of Women” 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z

"Apostle" was a fitting undertaking for a fallen altar boy, beleaguered Peace Corps volunteer, adventure journalist and writer whose short fiction delights in the mishaps of expat Americans navigating foreign lands. Tom Bissell's 'Apostle' takes a ride-along through unanswerable questions about Jesus' disciples 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

She plans “to read books cited in my grandmother’s 1919 diary to see what contemporary fiction was like 100 years ago.” Perspective | Conquer ‘Moby-Dick,’ finish ‘Infinite Jest’: Avid readers share their resolutions for 2021 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

For comparison, McNally Jackson, in SoHo, stocks about sixty thousand titles; my favorite indie bookstore—Literati, in Ann Arbor, where I went to grad school—stocks twenty-five thousand, with five thousand titles in fiction.   Amazon’s Brick-and-Mortar Bookstores Are Not Built for People Who Actually Read 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

And a telltale gray stripe would appear on my part, demarcating fact from fiction. How I Quit the Bottle (the Hair Dye Bottle) 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

Americans, including millions of former G.I.s, were suddenly more mobile, less provincial and less interested in escapist fiction than they were in understanding the world around them. Sterling Lord, Premier Literary Agent, Is Dead at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z

The investigative element of Borges's writing, which excites readers' natural curiosity even as it withholds detective fiction's customary satisfactions, instils a tension in his work that is rare in experimental literature. A brief survey of the short story part 27: Jorge Luis Borges 2010-07-22T10:59:00Z

"Gone Girl" entered The New York Times bestseller hardcover fiction list at No. 2 for the week of June 24 and earned a top-10 spot on Amazon's Top 100 list. Flynn's 'Gone Girl' poised to be summer thriller 2012-06-22T17:02:13Z

But Daisy Goodwin, the British television producer and writer of historical fiction, who created “Victoria,” said that there is at least one important difference. A Woman at the Helm, Bringing ‘Victoria’ to Life 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

"It was really just a gut feeling," said Goodman, who mainly works with young adult writers but also has edited commercial women's fiction. Young adult market opens up a new world for authors 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

"The Jump Artist" was published by Bellevue Literary Press, which released last year's Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, Paul Harding's "Tinkers." Austin Ratner wins prize for Jewish literature 2011-03-22T15:40:17Z

Starz’s current flagship show, “Outlander,” is a television adaptation of a historical fiction novel that does double time as a steamy bodice-ripping romance. Erotic and empowered: “Outlander” and “The Girlfriend Experience” are turning women on with their “prestige porn” 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

Separating fact from fiction turned out to be a tremendous task—it soon became apparent that Holmes’s real story was very different from the story that had been told throughout the twentieth century. The making of the White City Devil: How H.H. Holmes became a serial killer legend 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

Sometimes misrepresented in Hollywood and pulp fiction as a black magic cult, it suffers from stigma. Haiti voodoo leaders prepare temples for coronavirus sufferers 2020-05-24T04:00:00Z

“This idea of how pictures are produced and then the beautiful fiction of a final image seemed appropriate for the festival,” Mr. Crewdson said in an interview. The Art of a New York Film Festival Poster 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

His novels delivered tutorials in how to brood, in fiction, without toppling into pretension. John le Carré, a Master of Spy Novels Where the Real Action Was Internal 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

If you can rewrite historical fiction and art, it gives plausibility to rewriting history. The Problem With Broadway Revivals: They Revive Gender Stereotypes, Too 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

She and Bishop lived in Amherst, Massachusetts, and Los Angeles, both of which became settings for her fiction, before moving to Ithaca, New York in the early 1960s. Alison Lurie, prize winning novelist, dead at 94 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

Some versions of the process are already being deployed; this is, by and large, science fact rather than fiction. ‘Human Nature’ Review: We Can Now Alter Our DNA. But Should We? 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Mitchell, whose work has dipped into science fiction, commits to the genre with a huge dose of the supernatural in "The Bone Clocks." In 'Bone Clocks,' David Mitchell ties his universes together 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

They include an environmental lawyer with an expertise in toxic mold litigation, a molecular biologist specializing in epigenetics, graduate students in civil engineering and library sciences, writers of literary fiction. Books of The Times: ‘American Innovations’ by Rivka Galchen 2014-05-07T20:15:28Z

The list includes a western, science fiction, horror, a swashbuckler, a romance, an epic drama, a cartoon and other pleasures. The 10 greatest sequels of all time 2011-05-27T23:30:00Z

Being a science fiction writer, Lee said she was surprised when she had a chance to attend Hedgebrook. How 3 women-led arts organizations in the Seattle area make room for diverse voices 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

“The book business is such a strange one — and the very definition of literary versus commercial fiction has always seemed to me to be bizarre,” Mr. Evans told The Guardian in 2011. Nicholas Evans, Author of ‘The Horse Whisperer,’ Dies at 72 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

Cookbooks, kids’ books, fiction, travel, history, crafts, CDs at bargain prices, 10 a.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-04-23T19:51:29Z

My own view is, because of the archive material and the audio recordings, its more of a documentary than a fiction film. Guardian First Film award: The Arbor 2011-01-27T21:59:00Z

Judges chose an eclectic range of 31 books in six competitive categories, from fiction to criticism to autobiography, for which six finalists were picked. Rachel Kushner among finalists for book critics prizes 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

A year ago, she was happy enough with a life paying bills, trying to write short fiction, selling things on eBay. Breaking Bad Watch: Pool Party 2012-08-06T12:00:05Z

Multiple titles — Bob Woodward’s “Fear,” Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s “The President Is Missing” and Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” — have passed the million-copy mark, while there is also a surprisingly strong appetite for literary fiction. Bottleneck at Printers Has Derailed Some Holiday Book Sales 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

Post-scarcity is not a new idea in science fiction, but it may be one with growing relevance in our real world. The bright side of science fiction 2010-04-01T10:08:00Z

Besides capturing the dire state of affairs in Zimbabwe, he said, it also “captures a United States rarely spoken about in African fiction.” NoViolet Bulawayo Believes Freedom Begins With Imagination 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

The reason that the people who shaped me are fiction writers is because they wrote well.” Gay Talese Goes Through the Twitter Wringer 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

Do they think the practice of creative writing — poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction — is in jeopardy? Are we witnessing the death of the writer? Facing the AI crossroads in class and on the page 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z

An attempt to apply cinéma vérité techniques to a dramatic story, it demonstrates Rouch’s dictum, expressed in “The Human Pyramid,” that “fiction once filmed becomes a reality.” Jean Rouch: A Long-Overdue Homage to a Documentary Maker 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

Movies like “The Road to Guantánamo” and “In This World” blur the line between fiction and documentary, reconstructing true stories with nonprofessional actors in real locations. | 'The Killer Inside Me': Casey Affleck in Michael Winterbottom?s Adaptation 2010-06-17T22:56:00Z

This is historical crime fiction at its best. A Capital Crime By Laura Wilson 2010-10-01T23:15:00Z

An official disclaimer in the published edition of “Master Class” indicates that Mr. McNally’s play is a “work of fiction.” Tyne Daly as Maria Callas vs. Maria Callas as Herself 2011-07-26T17:01:13Z

But the best way for me to explore that is through fiction, and, while this book is more socially realistic than my previous books, it certainly departs from reality on occasion. This Week in Fiction: Jonathan Safran Foer on the Virtues of Parental Relativism 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

Although what happens in the play is fiction, the private shopping mall - with its doll store, clothing boutique and sweet shop - actually exists. What's in Barbra Streisand's basement? 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

It transformed our finances for 2012 and put us on the map as a fiction publisher. The publishing year 2012 2012-12-21T22:55:02Z

Given that my fiction addresses cultural taboos and the freedom of connecting with other outsiders, I recognized Karen’s and Georgia’s exhilaration at what they were embarking upon in those first episodes. How the "My Favorite Murder" podcast solved my writer's block 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z

In fact it's a peekaboo admission that fiction is fact adroitly displaced and rearranged, since Barnes here indirectly recreates his relationship with his wife. Levels of Life by Julian Barnes – review 2013-04-06T13:00:01Z

Following the success of the “Brokeback Mountain” film, Proulx said fans of her text sent her fan fiction that rewrote the ending of her short story, claiming the original was too sad. Onstage, ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Is Still a Tragedy 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

The central fiction is that the U.S. built its base on an “uninhabited” island. “24′s” phony history exposed: The dark history of a CIA “black site” 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

For that reason, perhaps, the 35 Over 35 list is eclectic, highlighting poetry, fiction, reportage and more. Celebrating late bloomers with 35 Over 35 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

In 2010, he was selected for The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 list of fiction writers. Man Booker Prize 2014: At a glance 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

As a fiction writer, the trick is how to be thinking about it in a way that makes it substantial. George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z

With The King's Speech on the best film shortlist are True Grit, The Social Network – based on the founder of Facebook – science fiction thriller Inception and Black Swan. The King's Speech on course to wear Bafta crown 2011-01-18T19:44:17Z

The novel is clearly experimental, Adler said, and crosses the border of fact and fiction in new and challenging ways, but she expressed reservations about the extent of the novel’s invented journalistic record. She Never Existed. Catherine Lacey Wrote Her Biography Anyway. 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

In July, representatives for Remini confirmed that she had left the church founded by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard in 1954. Actress Leah Remini says Scientology split was family decision 2013-09-09T22:26:19Z

Because I don’t see any parallels at all, I think everyone will watch it as fabulous fiction. Elizabeth Hurley: I'm 'A Big Fan' of the British Monarchy 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Teen fiction by a Seattle author about Soledad Reyes, a Miami teenager working and saving toward an eventual audition with a dance company. Local books: Jewish identity, new life in a yeshiva and deep-sea diving suspense 2011-01-25T00:22:02Z

They expose their own innards in ways that Lewis understands as representative of the inextricable fiction of white supremacy and the material realities of Black life. A Sculptor Takes His Craft to the Skies 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

Disney's Oscar-winning film "Frozen" won for favorite animated movie, while comedian Hart won for favorite funny star and the youth fiction series "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" won favorite book. One Direction, Ariana Grande win at Kids' Choice Awards 2014-03-30T02:24:38Z

In another of her essay collections, “Karaoke Culture,” she writes about fan fiction, outsider artists, and mediocre YouTube stars. Dubravka Ugresic Returns to America 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

But with literary fiction I fear that if there were no prizes to make books sit on the shelves, they might vanish too quickly for them to take hold even if they are wonderful. Kate Mosse: a life in writing 2012-10-12T21:55:18Z

She tried writing a story after her mother saw an ad for a short fiction competition on television. Claire Keegan Harnesses the Power in Brevity 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z

Later I watched a lot of movie and TV science fiction and fantasy. Michael Grant's top tips for writing YA 2013-04-03T10:44:43Z

Sylvia Day's "Entwined With You" was one of the few works of erotic fiction to place high on Amazon's list. Dan Brown's 'Inferno' tops Amazon's list for 2013 2013-12-16T14:24:09Z

Since the rise of “alternative facts,” what, exactly, does the label “fiction” even mean? Callan Wink on Fiction in the Age of “Alternative Facts” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

I think this is the experience of a lot of fiction writers. Catherine Lacey on Self-Inflicted Wounds 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

She began writing fiction only a short time before getting into the Iowa Writers’ Workshop three years ago. Buzz Over Ayana Mathis’s ‘Twelve Tribes of Hattie’ 2012-12-10T22:42:33Z

Some of the lines in the play were taken verbatim from their conversations, others are composites of multiple characters, blending together history, fact and fiction. In ‘Downtown Stories,’ Theater That Uses New York as Its Stage 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

With its new trade imprint, Ankerwycke, the bar association wants to broaden its appeal, focusing on legal fiction and more accessible nonfiction. David Lat’s ‘Supreme Ambitions’ Is a Thriller for Lawyers 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

When daily life requires turning a blind eye to the falsity of countless things we’re told, it weakens the power of language to sort truth from fiction. The truth about corporate lies 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Besides her fiction, Ms. McCullough wrote a memoir, “Life Without the Boring Bits.” Colleen McCullough, author of ‘The Thorn Birds,’ dies at 77 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Who among us hasn't engaged with a story that has no predictable ending, with a half-truth that, upon further examination, is more fiction than fact? Brit Bennett's "The Vanishing Half" and 4 more must-read novels out in June 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

Now the book, “The Inseparables,” is finally being published, after Beauvoir’s adopted daughter, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, decided to start releasing the works of fiction from the archive she inherited. Coming Soon: New Fiction From Simone de Beauvoir 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Given all the junk that dominates the fiction bestseller lists, it’s always a pleasure to discover really good novelists there. Louise Penny’s ‘The Long Way Home’ is an artful mystery featuring Armand Gamache

People enjoy immersing themselves in fiction and fantasy — it’s a phenomenon that’s all-encompassing. Porter Robinson Releases ‘Worlds,’ His First Album 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

But "every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged," he recalls. Author Ron Chernow explores the fascinating evolution of George Washington 2010-10-06T23:19:00Z

Yourcenar's marvellous account of the life and mind of the Emperor Hadrian is a flawless historical fiction. Teju Cole's top 10 novels of solitude 2011-08-24T11:45:07Z

Last month, “Improvement” also won the National Book Critics Circle fiction prize. Joan Silber’s ‘Improvement’ wins PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

The observation doubles as a riposte to readers who, since March 2020, have been noisily dreading the impending wave of pandemic fiction. Keep Calm and Go Quietly Mad 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

“What interests me about fiction,” he said, “is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets in some other sort of light.” Ben Lerner Imagines ‘Different Futures’ in His Novel ‘10:04’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Obviously, I have a strong interest in traditional realist character-driven fiction, like Cheever, and Fitzgerald. “The World Without You” 2012-06-29T20:06:00Z

So many myths have surfaced about Mollino since his sudden death in 1973 that it is difficult to distinguish fact from fiction. Design: The 'Diabolic' Carlo Mollino, Reanimated 2011-09-23T18:30:08Z

The radio show devoted a subsequent episode to a retraction, in which both Glass and Daisey acknowledged the mistakes they had made, while debating the blurring line between fiction and first-person journalism. Ira Glass: 'I feel like I’m actually sort of scared all the time' 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Over the course of the show, which flits around non-chronologically, Mrs. Bush mixes fact and fiction, bringing to mind the “truthiness” Stephen Colbert coined to describe the Bush administration’s shaky relationship with reality. Review: ‘Laura Bush Killed a Guy’ Plumbs a First Lady’s Mysteries 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

She credits the community for sustaining her during the book’s creation and friends for helping her get the manuscript in the hands of an agent when she hadn’t published a word of fiction. Encounters : From the Borough of Writerly Types, a Look Inward 2013-08-07T23:30:24Z

When someone objects to a news story, they growl, “It’s pure fiction!” — as though fiction were synonymous with deceit. Perspective | Mr. President, you don’t know a poorly written novel 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z

“As much of a piece of fiction as our show is, the more I read about it the more I felt a great responsibility to accurately represent that.” Mining Deaths Sharpen ?The Burnt Part Boys? 2010-05-22T06:47:00Z

This classic series is a little like “Canterbury Tales” for science fiction fans. Review | The weirdly specific mixtape Vol. 1: Space fantasy books to read 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

She has migrated — never easily, always with great effort and deliberation — between fiction and documentary, between the personal and the political. New York Film Festival Offers Quiet Treasures and a Little Jazz 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Were there models you drew on, works that are more experimental than much mainstream fiction? This Week in Fiction: Adam Ehrlich Sachs on Dysfunction Between Fathers and Sons 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

Now, in the same month that sees her launch the fiction prize into a new post-Orange era, she is about to publish Citadel, the concluding part of what she now calls her French trilogy. Kate Mosse: a life in writing 2012-10-12T21:55:18Z

They trusted him as an artist, they said, recognizing that the book, even as a work of fiction, would amplify their message. How Colum McCann Shaped Loss Into a Book 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

But this fusion of folk and science fiction is niftily sui generis. Review: ‘Rags Parkland’ Plays the Interplanetary Homesick Blues 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

In dark days, dystopian fiction must work overtime to keep up. A Dystopian Fable About the Unshakable Borders of Class 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

I read mostly fiction, most often in translation. How Susan Sontag Influenced Patti Smith’s Reading Life 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

For ages 4-8: a picture book by the popular author of inspirational fiction, about a young knight who, instead of impressing his king with physical strength, chooses to follow his faith. Northwest authors on rare plants, mysterious crimes and the Barefoot Bandit 2011-03-28T21:15:04Z

Asimov himself wrote and edited over 500 works and was famed for his science fiction novels. Never-before-published Isaac Asimov essay reveals the secret to true creativity 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

Willis, a writer of science fiction, has chosen 59 stories spanning 150 years and representing a range of styles and genres, from ghost stories to westerns, to show the spirit and evolution of the holiday. New & Noteworthy, From Christmas Stories to a Photographer Nanny 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

As Seattle settles into cloudy-all-day season, it's time to curl up with some rewarding crime fiction. Crime fiction: mysteries by Attica Locke, Dan Fesperman and Robert Olen Butler 2012-10-10T22:24:04Z

"The categories by which we value fiction are skewed male, and this creates a very destructive disconnect between the critical establishment and the predominantly female readership of novels," he says. Jonathan Franzen: 'I must be near the end of my career ? people are starting to approve' 2010-09-24T23:03:00Z

It was a period of full employment, rising wages, affordable consumer goods and artistic ferment, as new working-class voices made themselves heard in fiction, drama and film. David Kynaston’s ‘Modernity Britain: 1957-1962’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Until “The Silent Wife,” Ms. Harrison’s attempts at fiction had sputtered out. The Novel ‘Silent Wife’ Benefits From Success of ‘Gone Girl’ 2013-08-04T21:53:54Z

Di Rosa says that his style is influenced by pop culture: comic books, science fiction, and punk. The Campaign to Remove a Shocking Painting from the French National Assembly 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

A writer from her poverty-stricken childhood to her death in 2006 at the age of 58, she committed her life to turning speculative fiction into a home for Black expression. The Essential Octavia Butler 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z

These include official reports, personal reminiscences and all manner of conspiracy theories, not to mention a substantial amount of fiction. Review | John F. Kennedy’s assassination sets a thriller in motion in ‘November Road’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Shock factor is key to nabbing attention in crowded fan fiction communities, says Judith Donah, who studies online social interaction as a Berkman fellow at Harvard. Inside the Wild and Addictive World of Celebrity Fan Fiction 2013-08-26T09:45:08Z

As sometimes counterintuitively happens in autobiographical fiction, there’s a strange unconvincingness that hovers over stretches of this book. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman on the Road to Happiness 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

Not that nonsensical obfuscations aren’t always essential to Sparks’ fictions, but usually they run more along the lines of neglecting to tell someone you are dying. The Lucky One: Zac Efron Grows Up 2012-04-19T15:46:30Z

“Octavia’s Brood: Riding the Ox Home,” which premiered at Dance Place in June, is inspired by Harriet Tubman and a 2015 science fiction story collection on social justice movements, a tribute to writer Octavia Butler. Why artists become activists: It’s not only the election 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Do novelists worry that their participation in the time-consuming but highly lucrative world of television might cause them to squander their fiction careers, gradually transforming them from ink-stained wretches to Malibu caftan-wearers? When Novelists Turned to TV: Everyone Was Suddenly Using ‘Reveal’ as a Noun 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Child only turned to fiction aged 40, after he was lost his job at Granada Television following restructuring in 1995. Lee Child gets away with major crime writing award 2013-02-12T16:16:30Z

She has no expectation that every listener will find as much joy in fantasy fiction’s ever-expanding cultural footprint as she does. In the Land of Too Much Television, This Nerd Is Queen 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z

Reflecting on his own failings in their marriage, Grant does not do what most people—both in fiction and in life—would do. A Place Beyond Words: The Literature of Alzheimer’s 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

Adam Woog's column on crime and mystery fiction appears on the second Sunday of each month in The Seattle Times. 'The Sentry': Robert Crais' story of a strong man with a blind spot 2011-01-13T21:05:05Z

I write science fiction set in the near future, so I’m constantly testing my own powers of prophecy. When Science Fiction Comes True 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

As with some blogs or soap operas, the ongoing narration, however tedious it often is, can be weirdly addictive, and the suggestive play with fact and fiction can be intriguing. What’s More Appealing: Eight Seasons of ‘Suits’ or Six Volumes of Karl Ove Knausgaard? 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

She is working on a book about British middlebrow fiction of the 20th century. In Knausgaard’s ‘Spring,’ a Man Considers How Best to Help His Sick Wife 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

In 1956 he won a special Hugo award as the most promising young talent in science fiction. Robert Silverberg: The Philip Roth of the science fiction world 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

For the lawyer, fiction writing is clearly useless, and it certainly has no instrumental value for Jongsu’s father. Review: In ‘Burning,’ Love Ignites a Divided World 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

These late works exemplify a tendency spread throughout his fiction to mix the human and the animal into strange chimeras. Will Self: The musical world of Franz Kafka 2012-10-05T21:55:12Z

"The family tale that is told in PowerPoint is one that would have sound treacly and sentimental if I had written it in conventional fiction," explains Egan. Time lady 2011-04-01T08:13:48Z

Around this time, Kennedy fell for Charlie Dye, a white science fiction writer with a drinking problem. What's missing from this book? Pioneering black feminist Flo Kennedy's blazing personality 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z

The artist so honored is a woman, who has focused on, among many other things, the hard fact of racism and the fiction of race. Adrian Piper: The Thinking Canvas 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Reality and fiction merge here to create an alternative world. Haute Culture: General Idea - review 2011-03-01T14:00:59Z

Winners in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature are expected to be announced beginning at 9:15 p.m. ArtsBeat Blog: Celebratory Night for the Book World 2011-11-16T22:30:37Z

No fiction writer could compete straight on with the full spectrum of that psychedelic life. Review | T.C. Boyle is America’s bard of historical frauds. It’s about time he skewered Timothy Leary. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

In darker fiction, Charlotte is the love interest in Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, and Lolita’s mother in Nabokov’s Lolita, which your parents will explain to you later. What to Expect When Your Name is Charlotte 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. The Boy Who Lived Forever 2011-07-07T09:15:00Z

Perhaps more of a drawback, although one that often recedes as Krist’s narrative gains momentum, is what the title metaphor implies — an insubstantial and fleeting fiction. Los Angeles as the City of Dreams, and Nightmares 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

He has argued that “we live in a big science fiction novel we are all writing together” — but he’s not sure if it’s going to be a utopian or dystopian one. A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

I was searching for him in the archives, and even there he almost didn’t exist, as if he were a fiction. My grandfather, who finally came back from the second world war in 1981 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

Then, in 1986, the organization scaled back drastically, to just two awards, for fiction and nonfiction. The Globalization of the National Book Awards 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

To that end some of the most powerful science fiction stories take some aspect of the "real world" and tweak and adjust it so that it becomes different while also being all too familiar. "Captive State" director Rupert Wyatt on sci-fi, commercial failure and the age of Trum 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

A story of survival and hope, “Sanctuary” is a gripping work of fiction, with a message about xenophobia that’s rooted in a scarily real world. Young Adult Dystopian Fiction That Feels Pretty Real 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z

David Peace lives, like me, in Tokyo, but writes the boldest and most original British fiction of his generation. Richard Lloyd Parry: By the Book 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

Dudley Smith, one of the great villains of contemporary fiction, also is back, hatching byzantine schemes and imposing his implacable will on the chaos that surrounds him. ‘Perfidia,’ the new James Ellroy novel, starts the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor

There are lots of important women editors, as some have noted in trying to dismiss charges of sexism in the book world, yet I doubt there's a single one who reads only fiction by women. A touch of Franzenfreude 2010-09-19T20:00:00Z

That may come as a surprise to fans of Mr. DeLillo’s much-acclaimed book, which is about the American obsession with and denial of death and is often described as a cornerstone of postmodern fiction. Review: The Lists We Live by in Daniel Fish’s ‘White Noise’ 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

“It was like being in the center of a science fiction movie,” he said on his website. Pete Turner, Photographer, Dies at 83; Used Rich Color to Alter Reality 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

Writing fiction has long been a goal of his, but it always felt intimidating. ‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner’s Foray Into Fiction 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

Celebrity voices lead the casts of two new fiction serials. Halloween’s Not Canceled: Here’s How to Make It Spooky but Safe 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

In my favorite fiction, I get the feeling that the successful working-out of the book’s logic is somehow important for the continued sanity of its author. This Week in Fiction: Adam Ehrlich Sachs on Dysfunction Between Fathers and Sons 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

Categories for the judging committees, each consisting of five members, will be fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature. Judges announced for National Book Awards 2013-04-01T15:39:14Z

It’s one of those ideas that seems inevitable when you hear it: cookbooks based on classic works of science fiction and fantasy. Geek food for the geek soul: “As society gets increasingly secular, we need to fill the social void” 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

Hunter S. Thompson was one of the most famous writers of the 20th century, fusing fiction and non-fiction in an innovative style called Gonzo. 9 books Hunter S. Thompson never published 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z

Ms. Spencer said yes without pause, despite having initially mistaken the script as a work of too-good-to-be-true fiction. Uncovering a Tale of Rocket Science, Race and the ’60s 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

In a sense, “Cursed Child” is more like sanctioned fan fiction than a new work by a beloved writer. ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Goes From Stage to Page on Saturday at the Witching Hour 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Here’s why: It seems to me that no new work of art — theater, television, film, fiction — has produced in these past few years has really represented the pandemic, at least as I’ve experienced it. Review: In ‘Mr. Burns,’ Apocalypse Now, With ‘The Simpsons’ and Songs 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z

Science fiction does seem to be an increasingly ripe genre for women. Outer Space Is the Best Place to Be For Young Actresses 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Caribou Island is a close cousin of Vann's first work of fiction, the acclaimed 2009 story collection Legend of a Suicide. David Vann: 'I was filled with rage.' 2011-01-02T00:02:02Z

Atwood, author of more than 40 books of fiction, poetry and critical essays, said it was surprising to many that signs of totalitarianism were manifesting themselves in the United States of today. We are closer than ever to 1930s-style totalitarianism - Atwood 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z

In a year plagued by racial tensions, Colson Whitehead took the National Book Award for fiction for his novel "The Underground Railroad," a visceral and creative imagining of a female slave's escape from slavery. Colson Whitehead wins for fiction at the National Book Awards 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

It has been suggested this disparity might be because women publish fewer works of serious fiction and nonfiction than men. Has Virago changed the publishing world's attitudes towards women? 2013-03-14T08:00:02Z

Truth and fiction mingle like guests at a cocktail party where the booze flows so freely you forget who’s the historian and who’s just an entertaining fabulist. Raise a glass to 1920s Paris and the Americans who imbibed there 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

She was a similarly disruptive agent in British fiction. A Warm Biography of the Fantastical, Feminist Angela Carter 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

Second, these girls tend to be more fragile than the preceding generation of “grrls” in suspense fiction who were shaped by the fiercer ethos of third-wave feminism. What ‘Gone Girl’ and ‘The Girl on the Train’ have wrought 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

"People question how he plays with reality and fiction, and whether he's exploiting his subjects," he says. Ulrich Seidl: 'Those who say I despise people do not understand me' 2013-06-13T13:00:02Z

The 2014 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction has been awarded to E. L. Doctorow, the author of “Ragtime,” “The March,” “World’s Fair” and several other works of fiction. ArtsBeat: E. L. Doctorow Wins Library of Congress Award 2014-04-16T17:15:14Z

"Science fiction is something close to Paul's heart, so it's very obvious for us to do." Cinerama launches science-fiction film festival 2012-04-11T20:13:04Z

There are seven new essays — for a total of 18, by as many contributors — and woven through the book are photographs as well as poems and short fiction inspired by historical events. A Landmark Reckoning With America’s Racial Past and Present 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

At every opportunity we are reminded of Manning's skill in fusing history and personal experience into fiction, or how brilliantly she wrote from the male perspective. Olivia Manning: A Woman at War by Deirdre David - review 2013-02-16T08:01:01Z

She added, “The all-knowing genius designer is actually a fiction.” At Mugler, Genius and Its Limits 2011-03-23T22:23:43Z

And these qualities of variety and strength range so wide a spectrum in ‘Hard Times’ that it puts fiction — most fiction — to shame.” ArtsBeat: The Age of Oral Histories 2012-03-02T18:56:31Z

The author said he spent much of his youth reading sastra picisan—pulp fiction filled with sex and violence, and his work has plenty of both. Burning bright 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

In some ways, documentary drama, which balances fact and fiction, seems a risky genre for “This American Life.” A Mix of Fact and Imagination, ‘As Seen on Radio’ 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

I’m grateful that the book is being published without a label, simply as a “book of fiction.” Garth Greenwell on Transitional Spaces and the Burden of Action 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Unholy alliances between children and clowns, evil scientists performing diabolical experiments, zombies, monsters, skeletons, haunted houses, possession and gore: For fans of pulp horror fiction, the ’70s and ’80s were a golden era. Paperback horror fiction rises from the dead 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

It is a science fiction novel where the crew members of a spaceship — both human and artificial — are transformed after they encounter strange objects on a planet called New Discovery. French Authors Lead International Booker Prize Shortlist 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

Over all, there are fewer than two hundred titles on offer in the fiction section, and three thousand titles in the store as a whole. Amazon’s Brick-and-Mortar Bookstores Are Not Built for People Who Actually Read 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

The link between stage fiction and the world outside the theater is explicitly pointed to in the Donmar Warehouse Shakespeare trilogy. London theater forecast after Brexit and Trump: Overcast skies with a chance of apocalypse 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

Stone asks the young soldier if she ever considered a career as a fiction writer and then asks how many drinks she had the night of the "incident." Military sexual assault is focus of YouTube series 2012-08-12T23:46:04Z

But nothing in science fiction has contributed to the depth of the extraterrestrial encyclopedia like Star Trek. Why Aliens Are So Important to 'Star Trek' 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Melissa Roth, a Jewish writer recalled an incident that occurred in a fiction writing class in Los Angeles, when she used the word “gypped” and a white woman in class reprimanded her. The Big Business of Unconscious Bias 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Her prodigious output was, at best, uneven, but the ideological certainties that fuelled Chinese contempt for the impassioned realism of her fiction have crumbled away. Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck's Life in China by Hilary Spurling 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z

These laws have become so ubiquitous in science fiction over the years, you may have heard of them without realizing where they came from. "Foundation": An introduction to five major themes in the work of sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

If the history of the 21st-century pulp fiction revival is ever written, Empire State might well be seen as its starting point. New pulp fictioneers are ready to rock'n'roll 2012-05-29T13:14:20Z

Is dystopian fiction timely or just too much these days? Review | In Lauren Beukes’s ‘Afterland,’ a mother and son go on the run in a post-pandemic America 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Back then, Mori was saved from isolation by the library and a science fiction book group that opened the door to global SF fandom and thus the wider world. Jo Walton's Among Others: 'It's a mythologisation of part of my life' 2012-10-02T12:18:49Z

My gateway drug, in terms of finding better fiction to read, was Scott Spencer’s blessedly good 1979 novel “Endless Love.” Good Paperback Vibrations 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

Yet against these depressing tendencies can be set reasons to be cheerful about British small-screen fiction – including the joy of ad-free TV, the standard of acting, and hits such as last summer's Sherlock. State of the nation 2011-03-29T11:25:31Z

Like his prolific book reviewing, film writing is an enjoyable sideline from fiction. John Banville: a life in writing 2012-06-29T21:55:12Z

Then they also sought to separate fact from fiction and, more significantly, legend from reality in telling Presley's story through both meticulously researched recording session logs and in the essay that Guralnick wrote. Ernst Jorgensen remasters Elvis Presley's legacy 2010-12-24T06:00:00Z

The Independent called it "well-meant but clunky" and described its mix of fact and fiction as "self-defeating". Diana play 'clunky' and 'clueless' 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

What is the role and obligation of science fiction writers and other creators in times of political turmoil and despair? "Captive State" director Rupert Wyatt on sci-fi, commercial failure and the age of Trum 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

Ms. Ward said she wondered how writing about her community without the veil of fiction would affect her family, and the families of the young men. Past Lingers in Present, and the Sorrows Go On 2013-09-11T20:11:51Z

“The Complete Orsinia ” gathers all her essentially realistic fiction set in that imaginary Central European country. At 86, Ursula K. Le Guin is finally getting the recognition she deserves — almost 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

But truth can get in the way of good fiction. Television Review: Daniel Sunjata and Aaron Tveit in ‘Graceland’ on USA 2013-06-05T22:10:10Z

At first I started writing erotic fiction, but then I was like, “The things that I’m doing are actually more exciting than fiction.” “Porn stars are the gladiators of the entertainment industry” 2014-03-15T23:00:00Z

Owens, who is in her early 70s, had never published fiction before. Questions About An Unsolved Murder Linger Over ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

Salon talked with House about the new novel, climate change refugees, American now and the America of dystopian fiction. "You have to think about hope": Author Silas House on democracy's demise, climate refugees and dogs 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

It’s also the most granular critique of commercial publishing I’ve encountered in fiction, and seeing the cruel, indifferent vagaries of one’s industry so ably skewered is viciously satisfying. Her Novel Became a Best Seller. The Trouble: The Manuscript Was Stolen. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

Some sense of saying, “We all agree that fiction tells the real truths, right?” This Week in Fiction: Samantha Hunt on the Unspoken Terrors of Being a New Mother 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

In fiction, a medal was awarded to Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad,” and in nonfiction, Matthew Desmond's “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City” was honored. American Library Assn.'s 2017 award winners include 'March: Book Three' by Rep. John Lewis 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

Below we discuss alternate worlds, writing action sequences, world-building, and the political dimensions of our fiction. Building the alternate-universe New York: Novelists Seth Fried and K Chess in conversation 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

More of Howard’s fiction, coupled with equally polished work by his friend Mark Valentine, appears in Inner Europe, a companion to Secret Europe. Review | In praise of pretty books 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Vance, whose career spanned six decades and some 60 books, was often called a science fiction writer, a label he disdained. Jack Vance, Writer of the Fantastical, Dies at 96 2013-06-03T02:51:11Z

At Congdon’s request, and with Miller’s approval, the respected science fiction author Terry Bisson agreed to edit and complete the manuscript. A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

Right now there are many adapted, rebooted or entirely new futuristic science fiction stories that are quite dystopian. "Veep" creator on trading the Oval Office for lawless space in HBO's wacky comedy "Avenue 5" 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

Kim's approach always flits between reality and fiction and draws on different mediums and cultures. Artist of the week 203: Sung Hwan Kim 2012-08-16T09:38:07Z

In his new book, “The Blind Accordionist,” Rose assumes the duties of an editor, compiling what will doubtless be the standard collection of Guyavitch’s short fiction. Review | Oh, the places you’ll want to go! Two new books offer the most magical of escapes 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

Q: Do you read very much history or historical fiction in your spare time? Q&A with J.M. Sidorova, Seattle author of ‘The Age of Ice’ 2013-08-09T21:33:45Z

A work of serious fiction about slavery that is also a timely commentary on being black in America, the book also landed on President Obama's reading list. Oprah ramps up 2016 book club with second pick in two months: 'Love Warrior' by Glennon Doyle Melton 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

The Bookseller reported the news was "as big as it gets for new fiction". Mixed reactions to Harper Lee book 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Today’s audio drama, industry speak for fiction podcasts, is built on lessons from the golden age of radio’s best tricks. Fiction Podcasts to Get Lost In 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

Do you agree with him that fiction was his most important form? ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: D. T. Max on David Foster Wallace 2012-09-12T16:30:39Z

You've long moved back and forth between fiction films and documentaries. Filmmaker Werner Herzog on his new box set and more 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

In the celebrity fan fiction environment online, “they get to make stuff up, but they also get to live.” Inside the Wild and Addictive World of Celebrity Fan Fiction 2013-08-26T09:45:08Z

The final new film to make this week’s top 10 was science fiction effort The 5th Wave. The Revenant finally claws its way to No 1 at US box office after epic journey 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

If you feel that reading fiction has made you a more empathetic person, that’s to your credit. Perspective | Reading will supposedly make you a better person. That’s not the real reason to pick up a book. 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

It’s a comforting fiction, a callus on the soul that allows you to observe and report without being subsumed by it all. This question is CNN and Hugh Hewitt’s shame: “Could you order air strikes that would kill innocent children by not the scores, but the hundreds and the thousands?” 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Long before I met him I was a great admirer of his fiction, especially his third novel, “A Flag for Sunrise.” Review | An unvarnished look at the troubled life of novelist Robert Stone 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

This is a fascinating and dangerous question, and I don’t want to think about it too hard as I want to celebrate the mystery a work of fiction must be. Talking with Jill Bialosky about writing, editing and her new novel, 'The Prize' 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

The other science fiction novel I recommend is Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s “We Cast a Shadow,” in which a black lawyer wants his son to undergo an expensive procedure that will render him white. The best science fiction and fantasy of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Vidal, you recently wrote in The New York Review of Books, “When it comes to matters of prose and of fiction at this time and in this place, I am authority.” Interview: Gore Vidal 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Parks was also relaxed about the challenge of comparing bodies of work that are so various, saying that the judges only considered authors who have published at least three works of fiction in English. Man Booker International prize 2013 reveals shortlist 2013-01-24T15:01:54Z

Sex was important to Carter and she wrote about it beautifully, in her fiction and in the letters and journals of which Gordon makes use. A Warm Biography of the Fantastical, Feminist Angela Carter 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

He recognizes that the gap between its fiction and today’s nonfiction is pretty wide. ‘It’s the president we all want’: The melancholy world of liberals watching ‘The West Wing’ in 2018 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

“Growing up, there are so many blank spaces, wondering how something happened, or not understanding. Sometimes it takes a work of fiction to be able to open up that conversation,” Ms. Hugh, 44, said. One Garment’s Journey Through History 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

And, as happened in a different way with espionage novels, there's a frisson in the suggestion that these stories are being smuggled out: spy fiction often pseudonymous, political fiction intermittently anonymous. The story of O: A Presidential Novel 2011-01-21T12:15:40Z

Ten rules for writing fiction More top stories Guardian book club: Lorrie Moore's Collected Stories Welcome to the Church of Everywhere | Cole Moreton Counterpoise | Classical review All today's stories Last 24 hours 1. Guardian book club: Lorrie Moore's Collected Stories 2010-04-02T09:00:00Z

Although I write fiction, the more I researched the Bard's life, the more I became convinced that Anne W. could have existed and been "his London wife". In search of Shakespeare's ghosts 2011-07-14T07:42:46Z

It’s literary because Johnston’s prose is lyrical, even poetic, to a degree rarely found in fiction, literary or otherwise. Book review: ‘Descent’ by Tim Johnston 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

In the book I’m writing, I ask why imaginative fiction of the late-19th century is unable to envision models of masculinity that would be non-patriarchal. Boys and men in the age of Trump: How the president is affecting our understanding of masculinity 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z

Scott's involvement was revealed in March last year and followed his decision to return to science fiction film-making after three decades with Prometheus, a film "set in the same universe" as 1979 futuristic horror Alien. Ridley Scott wants Harrison Ford for Blade Runner sequel 2012-05-28T12:11:13Z

One reason so many Americans like Scandinavian crime fiction, I suspect, is that it evokes a world so reassuringly different from the urban, tasteful, design-loving socialist paradises we sometimes imagine and envy. Jo Nesbo’s New Book Stars an Antisocial Loner. It’s Not Harry Hole. 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z

His fiction is frequently set in Germany during the war and in its aftermath, an ashen land of the lost and the displaced. A Great Translator Takes on One Final and Nearly Impossible Project 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

But he added that these directors were translating the fear and paranoia that the drug war was generating into other genres, like horror movies and science fiction, using them as metaphors for the current situation. Gerardo Naranjo?s ?Miss Bala? Reflects Mexican Drug War 2012-01-15T04:27:18Z

We fiction writers are all struggling right now about how to write anything about and in this era. Author Don Winslow: Trump's administration feels like it's "manifested itself" as the coronavirus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

Eight of the writers’ pieces of fiction will run in the fiction issue next week; the remaining 12 will run in subsequent issues of the magazine over the course of the summer. The New Yorker Picks Young Writers Worth Watching 2010-06-02T21:52:00Z

The achievement of Robinson’s novels has been how elegantly she folds questions of faith, ethics and eschatology into fiction, and presents them to us as human dramas, in language bright and bare as bone. Marilynne Robinson’s Essays Reflect an Eccentric, Exasperating, Profound and Generous Mind 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

On the surface was superhero fiction – powers, cloaks, chins – but it was set in something more like the real world, noir-like and patently intended for grownups. Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood 2012-12-15T19:08:25Z

They met more than 20 years ago, when Cabot first started writing young-adult fiction. ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’: Beloved, Banned and Finally Adapted 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

Welty lived here from 1925 until her death in 2001, and it is where she wrote most of her fiction and essays. Six female writers’ homes you can tour, including the one where Alcott penned ‘Little Women’ 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

“When it comes to Bergman, the relationship between autobiography and fiction is extremely complicated,” said Jan Holmberg, the chief executive of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation. Shooting ‘Scenes From a Marriage’: ‘I Cried Every Day’ 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

The most dazzling essays and fiction by the most virtuosic prose stylist of our time. Review | Forget trendy bestsellers: This best books list takes you off the beaten track 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

Todbaum imagined it would be “the Game of Thrones of science fiction” and encouraged Sandy to endlessly revise their script. Review | Jonathan Lethem’s ‘The Arrest’ imagines a kinder, gentler apocalypse 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

Above all, though, “The Shepherd’s Crown” — like all of Pratchett’s fiction — stresses the importance of helping others. ‘The Shepherd’s Crown’ review: The final Discworld novel 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

Truth has always been stranger than fiction, and more poignant. | A Year of Favorites 2010-12-21T18:32:55Z

The £60,000 prize is awarded every two years to a living writer for overall contribution to fiction. John le Carr? turns down Booker honour 2011-03-30T06:43:38Z

It is hands down the best piece of fiction on the topic written in English. A guide to the literature of Japan’s “comfort women”: Comfort station survivors tell their stories 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

Here he's using some of fiction's least fashionable attributes, social realism, pointed action and thematic ambition, to brilliantly dissect America's love affair with violence. T.C. Boyle roams the American psyche in 'The Harder They Come' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

In our so-called curated, fake news era, it is perhaps inevitable that fact and fiction would begin to mingle in books, movies and television. 20 Years After Diana’s Death, a Happier Ending Imagined 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

That's the reality of being black and female in American, then and now, in true life and in fiction. On “GLOW,” Welfare Queen vs. Liberty Belle is a fight bigger than the ring 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

“Lots of the things I do require people to endorse a fiction,” he added. An Art of Loopholes 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

The captious, however, might complain that Levi’s autobiographical writings are somewhat repetitive, his essays a bit dry and his fantasy fiction rather labored. ‘The Complete Works of Primo Levi’: A literary treasury on humanity 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

As is widely known, science fiction novels only appear to be about the future or other worlds. Perspective | ‘Dune’ has long divided the science fiction world. The new film won’t change that. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

While selection is random, the genres range from crime to romance and children’s fiction, including works by Virginia Woolf, Lewis Carroll and Charles Dickens. UK's first short-story dispensers to be installed in London's... 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

The book cases are like small treasure chests with an eclectic mix of anything from fiction to obscure self-help, travel guides or crime novels. Public bookshelves spread across Germany 2011-10-14T11:36:09Z

In Hendricks’s mind — or, sequence of firing synapses — “this unique, human-defining sense of having a self turns out to be a fiction anyway.” ‘Where My Heart Used to Beat’: Sebastian Faulks’s latest foray into war 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

“The New Class War,” by Michael Lind, the author of numerous books of nonfiction, fiction and poetry, anchors itself firmly in the why-is-this-happening genre. Why Do Trump Supporters Support Trump? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Extrapolating this divide into more recent fiction is a lot of fun. What are the best books for Valentine's Day? 2013-02-13T10:43:37Z

A dreary pileup of hard-luck monologues and run-down locations, Mark Webber’s “Flesh and Blood” straddles the line between fact and fiction with exhausting earnestness and a fatal dearth of narrative. Review: Reality Bites in ‘Flesh and Blood’ 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

As speculative fiction, “They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears” is only intermittently compelling. What if You Could Go Back in Time to Stop Terrorists Before They Strike? 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

And the lyrics were crafted as carefully as the soundscapes, using space travel and science fiction as metaphors for drug dependency and feeling out-of-step with the world. At last, Failure a success | Concert preview 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Writing fiction “truly is just another part of how I think about the world and how I get to kind of muse about what I want to see happen,” she says. And in her spare time, Stacey Abrams wrote a thriller 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

This is “speculative” fiction in the financial sense, too, a new way to gamble on futures. When Science Fiction Comes True 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

To see years of Ms. Williams’ confounding fictions collected in so hefty a volume is like seeing snowflakes accrue into an avalanche. Diane Williams, a Master of the Very Short Story, Has a Very Big New Book 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Pohl was involved in publishing science fiction since he was a teenager, when he served as a literary agent for his science fiction-writing young friends. Frederik Pohl, Worldly-Wise Master of Science Fiction, Dies at 93 2013-09-03T16:42:10Z

It was this kind of resonant madness that Onetti tried to express all his life; in the process he ushered Spanish-language fiction into the modern era. South American Literature’s Master of Malaise 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

His award-winning fiction has been published in magazines and literary journals, and he was named by The Daily Beast as a "writer to watch". Charles Yu's top 10 time travel books 2010-10-20T09:29:00Z

“A really good middle-grade novel,” says the New Yorker essayist, whose debut collection is “Trick Mirror,” “will supersede a lot of contemporary fiction in terms of economy, lucidity and grace.” Jia Tolentino Wants You to Read Children’s Books 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

During Black History Month, many of us desperately need historical fiction, to tell us stories about a past that is every bit as heartening as it is troubling. I Dreaded Black History Month, Until a Novelist Opened My Eyes 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

As the plot careers forward, Adjei-Brenyah uses footnotes as tethers between fiction and reality, reminding us that his gladiatorial farce is just a little tragicomic leap from an extant American horror. In This Satire, Televised Blood Baths Offer Prisoners a Path to Freedom 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

She began writing fiction in earnest while married to Paul Carter, though she did not feel supported by him. A Warm Biography of the Fantastical, Feminist Angela Carter 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

It’s also worth mentioning the great work done by the imprint Haikasoru to bring Japanese science fiction to the English-speaking audience. Review | Let’s talk about fantasy and science fiction books that have fallen off the radar 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

We had all enrolled in this particular graduate program because we wanted to write fiction. Trigger Warnings and the Novelist's Mind 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Let's live with an immigrant, albeit through fiction, for a few hundred pages. Author Don Winslow: Trump's administration feels like it's "manifested itself" as the coronavirus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

In 2004, when Philip Roth published his speculative fiction novel The Plot Against America, the perfect title had already been taken. 'It can't happen here': the horrifying power of The Plot Against America 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

Trilling acknowledged Mailer’s point, that sex is surely necessary in fiction, but wrote: “Put it that I am in favor of a lot of explicitness for 10, maybe 12 years; then everybody shut up.” Chang-rae Lee’s Latest Is Fueled by Harrowing Travel, Witness Protection and Food, Food and More Food 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

“NOON would strive to publish fiction that from sentence to sentence displayed a writer’s no to business-as-usual prose.” Diane Williams, a Master of the Very Short Story, Has a Very Big New Book 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

But writing fiction is an art form, and it is really arrogant of these two to keep perpetrating clunky, artless novels. Surprise! Newt Gingrich’s thriller ‘Treason’ features a bumbling female president 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

The last time we talked, you said that 9/11 had changed the world—not only the real world but the world you would write about in fiction. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

A staple of best-seller lists, he has written children’s books and biographies as well as works of science fiction and fantasy. James Patterson Apologizes for Saying White Writers Face a ‘Form of Racism’ 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

But Seconds Out is no straightforward piece of historical fiction, as the author is at pains to insist. Why Martin Kohan won't tango 2010-09-17T15:20:00Z

The novel is in equal measure a gripping detective story and a disquieting work of speculative fiction. Review | Imagine a country that prioritizes truth-telling above all else. Is it an improvement? 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

But about 18 months ago, proving that life is often stranger than fiction, a conversation much like this really did take place. The artist who spied on MI6 2011-02-14T08:00:02Z

Abbott’s Los Angeles stop on her book tour almost certainly won’t be the last time she visits the city that she credits with her interest in mystery fiction. Megan Abbott writes bestsellers about bad people. Look out, she's coming to L.A. 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

So I didn’t want to be a cliché, the academic who writes the terrible fiction book. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Imagining the Unimaginable in a Nuclear-War Novel 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

That’s the paranoid premise of “A Lonely Man,” which, like the best noir fiction, manages to be both suspenseful and cosmically destabilizing. Review | ‘A Lonely Man’ is an elegant suspense novel in the tradition of the ‘The Third Man’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

There is certain risk in casting fiction in a single, narrative voice. 'The Lovers': a pilgrimage of grief and renewal 2010-07-09T21:23:00Z

This produces the factory fiction so typical of writing programmes. Jeanette Winterson: teaching creative writing 2012-05-18T21:50:01Z

I really believed I could write myself as a fiction. Notes on PEN's annotated first edition auction 2013-05-20T10:58:00Z

Sweet Tooth takes the familiar tropes of the Cold War thriller – secrecy, betrayal, deception – to examine fiction writing and the relationship between author and reader. Book Club with Ian McEwan 2013-05-21T14:46:41Z

The trilogy is propulsive pulp fiction with literary heft, a hybrid of “The Godfather” and “War and Peace.” When American Filmmakers Try to Cross the Border 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

The interest in fiction writing as anything other than a plot device recedes, and the show’s second half becomes a routine murder mystery, with ghosts. Television Review: ?Stephen King?s Bag of Bones,? on A&E - Review 2011-12-10T00:29:04Z

Starting with his “The Adversary” in 2000, about the murderer Jean-Claude Romand, Carrere abandoned a previous career in fiction and began to write stories narrating his own experience or the lives of others. French non-fiction author Carrere wins top Spanish award 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

And it is only when we write up our work that we revert to the inhuman, impersonal passive voice that creates the convenient fiction that the individual is not a part of the action. Scientists and their emotions: the highs ... and the lows 2013-02-10T00:04:02Z

You’re also watching a director guiding — creating — his star as life seeps into fiction. Review: The Gorgeous Heartbreak of ‘A Star Is Born’ 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

Throughout, his poetry and fiction have evinced a remarkably consistent set of obsessions. Ben Lerner Imagines ‘Different Futures’ in His Novel ‘10:04’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

There's something about Scotland that mixes well with crime and mystery fiction. New crime fiction: a trio of 'tartan noir' mysteries 2012-11-07T23:14:04Z

A: It's taken a long while to get to where I wanted to incorporate journalism in my fiction. Author Jim Lynch: 1962 'launched modern Seattle' 2012-04-09T04:10:05Z

Angier did a better job, too, of setting the fiction alongside the life without blurring the two. The Life of Jean Rhys, a Uniquely Brilliant and Thorny Writer 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

There’s a Dalek, one of a race of characters featured in science fiction television show “Doctor Who.” Marine veteran gets grins by sculpting foil 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

Zeniter, who is of Algerian descent, found that writing fiction helped her sidestep a polarized public debate. He Is Senegalese and French, With Nothing to Reconcile 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z

You're famed for blending fact and fiction: how difficult is that to pull off? Dave Eggers: 'We tend to look everywhere but the mirror' – interview 2013-01-26T21:00:01Z

And we haven’t even mentioned local imprints such as Umuzi in South Africa that publish great genre fiction not available elsewhere. Review | African speculative fiction is finally getting its due. Let’s talk about books to seek out. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

At the time, did you imagine you’d be turning the financial crisis into fiction? This Week in Fiction: Danielle McLaughlin 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

Rowling's first foray into adult fiction was bound to be compared to her wildly successful Harry Potter series, and, while "The Casual Vacancy" has earned mixed reviews, for some critics the magic has worn off. Rowling's adult novel lacks magic, some critics say 2012-09-27T10:54:26Z

He also wrote hundreds of articles, poetry, historical fiction and such nonfiction works as the memoir “Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood,” which came out earlier this year. Gary Paulsen, celebrated children’s author, dies at 82 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

Lacey once harbored the idea of being a journalist — she received an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction at Columbia — though over her career has found herself turning to fiction when she gets stuck. She Never Existed. Catherine Lacey Wrote Her Biography Anyway. 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

In the previous book, Paul declared: “Any random episode of ‘Friends’ is probably better, more uplifting for the human spirit, than 99 percent of the poetry or drama or fiction or history ever published.” Books of The Times: ‘Traveling Sprinkler’ Is Nicholson Baker’s New Novel 2013-09-09T21:31:25Z

It’s hard to define science fiction as a genre when the goal posts keep moving and yesterday’s far-fetched scenario becomes today’s headline. Five Science-Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

How is fiction doing in keeping up with the news? Times Critics Discuss Their Year in Books, From New Talents to Old Favorites 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

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

I avoid most fiction in which children are harmed or seriously threatened in any way. Chelsea Clinton: By the Book 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

There’s a lot of that kind of thing in “Hollywood” — a supercollider of fiction and fact, sure to shatter your curious Google searches into atomic shards. Review | In Ryan Murphy’s ‘Hollywood,’ the old studio system gets a rousingly revisionist wake-up call 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

There are powerful documentaries, as always, but also works of fiction or semi-fiction. This week's new film events 2013-03-09T06:00:09Z

The foundation also showed a preference for fiction that addressed the fault lines of modern American life. ArtsBeat: Díaz and Caro Among Finalists for National Book Award 2012-10-10T15:23:00Z

A rare author and screenwriter whose works appealed to highbrow readers and mainstream moviegoers, Ephron wrote fiction that was distinguished by characters who seemed simultaneously normal and extraordinary. 'Sleepless in Seattle' writer Nora Ephron dies at 71 2012-06-27T01:41:54Z

Her 1969 novel, “The Left Hand of Darkness” won the Hugo and Nebula awards, which are given to recognize the best works of science fiction and fantasy. U.S. author Ursula K. Le Guin dies at 88: family 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Well red … Share with us your favourite fiction about Mars. Mars in fiction: the best books 2012-08-10T14:30:02Z

Watt’s literary science fiction is engaging and stunningly bleak, but he asks all the right questions about our evolution. Best new science fiction and steampunk

McCarthy likes to feed his characters, and the food in his fiction resonates more than it does in most novelists’ work. Cormac McCarthy Loves a Good Diner 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

Now here is a lovely thing: Next, possibly the world’s least cutting-edge science fiction fashion store, is stocking an extremely credible version of the new Doctor’s striped T-shirt. The bolshie, brilliant history of the women of Doctor Who 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

Yet from such dark materials, Lock fashions surprisingly entertaining fiction. Review | Norman Lock’s ‘American Follies’ mines America’s flawed past for dazzling fiction 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

I think that’s why fiction, both the writing of it and the reading of it, is such a civilizing thing. This Week in Fiction: Victor Lodato 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

Then I bribed my youngest daughter and a friend of hers to put the fiction, at least, in reasonable order. Martin Amis Is Committed to the Pleasure Principle in Books 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

What was the reality that fiction was trying to gesture at? "We Keep the Dead Close" author Becky Cooper's on the ritualistic murder that shocked Harvard 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

I like books that make me do both, which is one reason I adore Victorian fiction. Sylvia Nasar: By the Book 2012-08-10T14:14:08Z

She was his ruling romantic fiction, the object of his bewildered infatuation. Pamela Lane obituary 2010-11-21T18:54:00Z

“November Road” is his first attempt at historical fiction, and it is impressive. Review | John F. Kennedy’s assassination sets a thriller in motion in ‘November Road’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Sarah Penner went with a grittier approach in her debut novel, “The Lost Apothecary,” which is No. 11 on the hardcover fiction list. Writing a Novel? Don’t Be Afraid to Get Muddy 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

“Music for Wartime” is Ms. Makkai’s first book of stories, but its publication doesn’t mark a new phase in her career; she’s been writing short fiction for more than a decade. Review: Rebecca Makkai’s ‘Music for Wartime,’ Stories With Echoes of Loss 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

I also came across works of fiction that didn't resemble conventional novels but reminded me of the unconventional, experimental ones I was reading at the time. The novel is centuries older than we've been told 2010-07-23T13:56:00Z

The underworld of her fiction offers few comforts and fewer opportunities, an imagined landscape — for some a reality — that might be easier to wall off and ignore. Fernanda Melchor Explores the Human Capacity for Violence, and Grace 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z

It isn't a good book if it doesn't convince, but that would be a test of good fiction and good non-fiction. Tiger, Tiger by Margaux Fragoso ? review 2011-04-10T05:30:01Z

Contrary to what the overwhelming success of a certain fantasy-based series might indicate, dense and complex genre fiction and TV don’t easily mix. "The Expanse" relaunches on Amazon as stunning and complex as before 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

Now that she’s finished the grim final chapter of Cromwell’s story, Mantel says she’s done with historical fiction and plans to focus on writing plays, an entirely new medium for her. For Hilary Mantel, There’s No Time Like the Past 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

What do you get out of documentary that you don’t get out of fiction film and vice versa? ArtsBeat: An Interview With Michael Apted 2010-12-10T17:27:00Z

It was, said the best-selling author, fiction; but unlike the usual literary caveat, physical similarities with those living was entirely deliberate and meant to be flattering. Scarlett Johansson wins defamation case against French novelist 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

“I don’t think there is a great fiction that is not an essential contradiction of the world as it is,” he said. Vargas Llosa Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2010-10-07T13:15:00Z

Then there's Star Trek, the 800 pound gorilla of utopian fiction, in which a futuristic Earth has solved the problem of want and even abolished money, so that people only work if they wish to. In the world of Star Trek, would people still cook even though they have access to a replicator? 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

So I couldn’t help but wonder, what happens when the reality becomes more interesting than the fiction? With Carrie and Samantha’s spat, we finally get to watch the real Sex and the City 3 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

He also resisted, and perhaps resented, the impulse of many white critics and readers to confuse Black fiction with sociology. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

This is because such fiction calls attention to form. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z

What makes a piece of prose fiction a romance novel? For Television and Romance Novels, Love at Last? 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z

A shortlist of six was named for what is the only annual UK prize specifically for fiction written by women. Orange prize shortlist revealed 2010-04-20T08:49:00Z

She adds: “Programming that engages people in such mixed emotional experiences allows viewers to navigate complicated, blended feelings vicariously through the characters from the safe distance of fiction.” Here’s why we’re bingeing ‘The Office’ during the pandemic 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

He has also written two highly regarded collections of short fiction. Jones, Le share PEN/Malamud Award for short story 2010-04-26T18:01:00Z

“Archangel” consists of five novellas, ranging in time from 1873 to 1939, that might all be described as historical science fiction — that is, historical fiction about science. Andrea Barrett’s “Archangel”: historical fiction about science 2013-08-14T22:56:49Z

Their huffing and snorting and opaque hugeness are especially useful in surrealist fiction, perfect for showing how systems barrel over humans. A Lost Story by Sylvia Plath Contains the Seeds of the Writer She Would Become 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

Nicol notes that the "rootless, transient" gumshoe became a quintessentially noir character, inspired by the 1920s pulp fiction of writers such as Dashiell Hammett and embodying the "desolate, uncertain world" of the 1940s and 50s. The Private Eye: Detectives in the Movies by Bran Nicol – review 2013-07-26T17:15:00Z

The result, strangely enough, is that the true misery of much of the African American experience is better communicated through fiction, by writers such as Toni Morrison, Edward Jones and Richard Wright. The African American Museum tells powerful stories — but not as powerfully as it could 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

The rule of this fiction, I discovered, was that at every point you thought you understood something, then kapow! – a hidden problem emerged to defeat you. Adam Thirlwell: a revolution of the book 2012-06-15T21:55:17Z

Karl Ove is 18 in this novel, and has moved to rural northern Norway to teach elementary school and commence his life as a fiction writer. Review: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book Four’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Allen banks heavily on A-list actors and classic works of fiction but is light on wit and invention. Television Review: ‘Clear History,’ Starring Larry David, on HBO 2013-08-09T21:51:47Z

And while there’s no requirement that a work must exhaust any subject it points to, wouldn’t 600 pages of fiction be just the vehicle to do so? On Loony Island, a Malignant Priest Strips Mental Patients of Free Will 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

In 2011, he presented the Leonard Hastings Schoff ­Memorial Lectures at Columbia, and these form the basis of this posthumous book, an analysis of plot in drama and fiction. ‘Meanwhile, back at the ranch’ and other storytelling tricks explained in ‘Plots’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

We like to imagine this is a modern issue, but our earliest stories arose millennia ago from a complex mingling of fact and fiction, tribal history and myth. Perspective | Alan Dershowitz claims a fictional lawyer defamed him. The implications for novelists are very real. 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

“There is only one place in the world, outside of fiction, where such a pretentious pot-au-feu of newsworthy people could simmer so richly and continuously in such a compact vessel,” wrote the journalist Sherwood Kohn. ‘The Watergate’ Review: An Edifice on the Potomac 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

“As a writer of genre fiction, spy fiction, you want to get as much right as you can. Then build your story on top of a firm foundation and platform.” Daniel Silva is the best-selling author of the Gabriel Allon series. Meet his secret adviser 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

If it wasn’t already abundantly clear, “High Life” is not your typical science fiction film. For Denis and Pattinson, a cosmic connection in ‘High Life’ 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

Now, after dedicating herself to protecting the nation from its enemies, Plame turns to fiction with suspense writer Sarah Lovett—delivering all the knowledge, experience, and authenticity only they can bring to the page. Exclusive: An Excerpt from Valerie Plame’s Upcoming Spy Thriller 2013-05-28T19:43:55Z

But in a densely plotted fiction series, 15 seconds can mean missing a central plot point. The Story So Far: Fiction Podcasts Take Their Next Steps 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Working at New Worlds was "the only game in town" if you wanted to write imaginative fiction, according to Harrison. M John Harrison: a life in writing 2012-07-20T21:55:12Z

Advances in technology, films that merged documentary and fiction, and others that took on divisive topics all turned heads at Park City. Sundance 2016: six things we learned from the film festival 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Sidorova’s novel, “The Age of Ice,” Velitzyn is the wild card in a story that would otherwise read as historical fiction. Q&A with J.M. Sidorova, Seattle author of ‘The Age of Ice’ 2013-08-09T21:33:45Z

But she loved being sent abroad to research features and interview people whose stories stay with her and still find their way into her fiction. Linda Grant 2011-01-17T08:00:01Z

They are unsettling, resistant to tidy denouement and faintly misanthropic, all qualities that I generally find appealing in short fiction. Short story collections dive in to this fall

Mr. Neumann’s newest dance-theater piece, “I Understand Everything Better,” is a sinuous blurring of fiction and truth that mines and merges topics — dying and caretaking, death and nature — to address unanswerable questions. Review: In ‘I Understand Everything Better,’ Ruthless Elemental Forces 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

He wrote his doctoral thesis on Marxism and international law, and began submitting short stories, unsuccessfully, to science fiction magazines, before an agent took him on. Squid?s Meaty Role in China Mi?ville?s ?Kraken? 2010-07-23T22:21:00Z

I had never heard fiction quantified in this technical way. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan - extract 2012-08-10T21:55:10Z

Always intent on living well, Vidal needed a good deal more money than his fiction attracted. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z

The awards, determined by a jury of critics and book review editors, honor excellence in six categories – autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction and poetry. National Book Critics Circle Announces Award Nominees 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

Unlike most fiction writers, Mr. Bradshaw never attempts to reconcile the contradictions of personality. Review: Thomas Bradshaw’s ‘Fulfillment,’ on One Man’s Ceiling, and His Frustrations 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

“You invent an alternative life,” Mr. Friel said in 1991, “a fiction of your life each time you write a play.” Brian Friel, playwright who wrote about his native Ireland, dies at 86 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

Fans of experimental fiction will likely devour the book and applaud Self for inventing a dark stream of consciousness all his own. Book review: ‘Shark,’ by Will Self: Postmodern novel in a psychiatric community

Just as his fiction is beginning to incorporate some of the mysticism of his poetry, so Burnside's poetry appears to be absorbing the firmness of his fiction. John Burnside: a life in writing 2011-08-26T21:54:01Z

Though it qualifies as fiction rather than history, its point – that marine training was no picnic – is doubtless valid. Full Metal Jacket: history unzipped 2010-06-24T08:46:00Z

It is why you feel the change so sharply when Nate is found and Will begins spinning the fiction designed to get him to come with them. 'Retrieval' a trek through dilemmas of slavery, manhood 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

When he came to write the book, he abandoned attempts at fiction for almost obsessive factual analysis. Javier Cercas: A life in books 2011-04-04T07:00:01Z

The old guard looks down on genre fiction with disinterest; the new arrivals—the genrefiers—are eager to change the neighborhood, seeing in genre a revitalizing force. A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Science fiction does not always take itself seriously, but Dark really does. One character, three actors: meet the stars of knotty Netflix smash Dark 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

It may surprise Mr. Green’s YouTube followers to learn that he has been quietly writing fiction on the side. YouTube Star Hank Green Will Publish His First Novel Next Year 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

But he said it was hard to improve on the one offered by the author and critic Damon Knight in 1952: “‘Science fiction is what we point at when we say, ‘This is science fiction.’ Tracking the Vocabulary of Sci-Fi, from Aerocar to Zero-Gravity 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

Children with special mind powers are usually bad news for science fiction programs, but when they are used to quickly dispense with unnecessary plot complications, it’s hard to complain. ArtsBeat: ‘Orphan Black’ Recap: Please, Let’s Not Imagine the Worst 2014-05-04T15:29:16Z

Green is possibly the most popular author of young adult fiction in America today. John Green's 'The Fault in Our Stars' banned in Riverside 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

Much as I value serious literary fiction, I find reading it to be exceptionally draining. Perspective | When I find fiction too draining, I turn to books about books. They can be as thrilling as a whodunit. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

One group of fans have role-played Voltron's main characters on Twitter - sort of like fan fiction, 140 characters at a time. New York Comic Con vendors evolve as events proliferate 2013-10-11T17:52:02Z

The majority of the plays that make up The Great Game are either factions or fictions. In the line of fire: theatre and Afghanistan 2010-07-21T22:00:00Z

But “Exley” isn’t about discovering truth; it’s about Miller’s creating the fictions he needs to believe in and then clinging to them despite all evidence to the contrary. Books of The Times: A 9-Year-Old Fan of ?A Fan?s Notes,? Finding Truth in His Own Fiction 2010-09-29T20:52:00Z

As “A Gray State” unfolds, the truth is, as one interviewee says, “stranger and sadder” than fiction. “A Grey State”: A right-wing conspiracy theorist films his own deadly descent into madness 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

“It is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities,” he wrote. War — What Is It Good For? Chemotherapy, Apparently 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

It’s as if they imagine collaborative fiction as a kind of three-legged race: goofy and fun at an office picnic, but ill suited to a serious runner. Why write a collaborative novel? Well … why write alone? 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

In other words, producing realistic fiction, which takes as its subject not just romance but also the details that compose the fabric of daily life, is paramount to her. Terry McMillan is as charming as the characters in her new book, 'I Almost Forgot About You' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

In this sense, Fontaine's novel is less a fiction than a scientific report on the extremes of our behaviour. La Vida Doble: A Novel by Arturo Fontaine – review 2013-07-27T07:30:00Z

The life and murder of the Elizabethan poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe have provided recurring inspiration to fiction writers. New in Paperback: ‘Of Women and Salt’ and ‘Drug Use for Grown-Ups’ 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

It’s a commonplace that speculative fiction speaks to the anxieties percolating in its age. ‘Coherence’: Dinner party gets caught in a sci-fi maze 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Until recently, science fiction took particular pride in its past. Review | Let us praise the giants of science fiction: Campbell, Asimov and, yes, L. Ron Hubbard 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

"Today crime fiction depicting Italy has the task of escaping the stereotypes of good food and beauty on the one hand but also the old-fashioned mafia cliches on the other hand," said De Cataldo. Italian authors' invasion is set to conquer the crime fiction lists 2011-01-09T00:06:39Z

It was somewhere between fan fiction and me trying to dedicate something with my father at a time I thought I was going to lose him. Ryan Coogler Narrates a Scene From ‘Creed’ 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Have you read Zadie Smith’s essay in defense of fiction yet, from the Oct. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

Because the movie, based on a book by Mara Leveritt, stays within the facts, its reticence reinforces the notion that truth is stranger than fiction. Movie Review: ‘Devil’s Knot,’ Fictional Revisiting of West Memphis Crime 2014-05-08T22:58:26Z

I'm not even sure that he sees genre fiction and literature as connected. James Kelman 2012-07-29T19:00:01Z

Mr. Johnson won the National Book Award for fiction for “Fortune Smiles,” a collection of short stories. The Times's Reviews of National Book Award Winners 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

She found a certain comfort in fiction, and in the control it gave her over a story’s outcome. The club Julia Pierson is joining: Life after a Washington scandal

Down to its title, “Cold Weather” acknowledges that the atmospherics of place are central to the appeal of mystery fiction. Film: An Indie Gumshoe in Oregon?s Gloom 2011-01-30T02:13:01Z

This is Moran's third book but it is her first work of fiction. Caitlin Moran on class and politics 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

Is it science fiction dressed up as philosophy? ‘The Anomaly,’ Part Airplane Thriller and Part Exploration of Reality, Fate and Free Will 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

In the interview, she talked about how she shifted course with the book, whether novelists should incorporate the coronavirus into their fiction and why it’s perhaps time for science fiction writers to be kinder. Naomi Alderman Was Writing a Pandemic Novel Before the Pandemic Hit 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

Jacobson, a writer of fiction known for his humor, high and low, happens also to be a veteran Shakespeare scholar and teacher. ‘Shylock Is My Name’ review: Shakespeare for the 21st century 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Science fiction has always been the world of “what if.” BBC America’s ‘Real History’ is Science Fiction 101 2014-04-16T20:07:37Z

His ostensible purpose was to gather material for a fiction based on the story of Israel Potter, a revolutionary soldier who became a "legend in his own time". The Passages of Herman Melville by Jay Parini ? review 2011-02-13T00:08:03Z

And the show does manage to convey Mr. Keret’s casually mordant worldview, his sense that fiction so often palls before the quiet and terrible absurdities of everyday life. Review: ‘Suddenly, a Knock at the Door,’ Based on Etgar Keret’s Stories 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

Not that it matters much; in fiction as much as taxidermy, it is the feeling of vigor and spirit that matters, that is proof of success. ‘Mostly Dead Things,’ a Story of Taxidermy, Love and Grief, With Echoes of Past Literary Heroines 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

The scholar and author, most recently, of “Why Religion?” tends to avoid reading science fiction: “Religious traditions already are packed with fantasy stories.” Elaine Pagels: By the Book 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Financially ruined by his mid-40s, he nonetheless provided his son with lavish raw material for fiction. Review | For famous writers, father didn’t always know best, but he provided plenty of inspiration 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

Tom Gamble said it had always been his dream to write Author Tom Gamble has become one of the few male authors to be shortlisted for a literary prize for romantic fiction. 'Rare' male up for romance award 2011-02-11T11:04:31Z

I knew that I wanted to write fiction, and I knew that I wanted to produce innovative scholarship, but I did not know how to do either of those things. Essay by Viet Thanh Nguyen: On uselessness 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

In a review, Publishers Weekly called it “a triumphant fiction debut” and a “pulse-pounding thriller featuring a sympathetic, broken lead character.” Krysten Ritter Spins Her Own Mystery in Her Debut Novel, ‘Bonfire’ 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z

Our writers who seek out the most interesting picks in horror, international, science fiction, action and children’s movies each month scoured the summer calendar to come up with the films that have their attention. The Most Anticipated Genre Movies of the Summer 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

Blockbuster titles such as the Fifty Shades series and JK Rowling's adult fiction debut The Casual Vacancy have dominated headlines this year. Fifty Shades vies for book prize 2012-11-14T11:13:44Z

We're often told that all fiction is based on one of only seven plots. Letters to Juliet is corny as Kansas. Great! 2010-06-14T09:45:00Z

“I really went into it and thought, ‘We’ll be the social network for young-adult fiction,’ ” said Mr. Lewis, a former managing editor of The New Yorker. A Web Site for Literary Teenagers 2010-12-05T22:30:00Z

I would recommend this book to lovers of historical fiction and Mary Hooper fans in general. Velvet by Mary Hooper - review 2012-07-14T08:00:00Z

She had several homes, including an apartment near Central Park that was noticeably similar to the abode of a regular character in her fiction, the former cleaning lady Alvirah who wins the lottery. Mary Higgins Clark, best-selling author of suspenseful tales, dies at 92 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

After locating one inconsistency, he notes that “fiction may have replaced reality.” The spy who came in from the cold 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

But perhaps the real killer is that while fiction is read and reread over generations – centuries even – non-fiction, even really fine non-fiction, with a very few exceptions, becomes all too soon outdated and overtaken. Juliet Gardiner on writing non-fiction 2010-03-20T00:08:00Z

Her early fiction included the stories “Lord Randall” and “The Living,” narrated in a colloquial style by black characters and published in the mid-1960s by Negro Digest. Paula Fox, writer whose works resurfaced after years of neglect, dies at 93 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

It was Ingalls’ third book of fiction and, like the two that preceded it, at first almost entirely ignored. A lost-and-found surrealist treasure: 'Mrs. Caliban' by Rachel Ingalls 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

At the back of the store, Matthew Nsubuga, 28, was staring intently at a shelf of science fiction books called S.F. As London Bookstores Reopen, Eager Readers Return 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

Ms. Jong’s warm, chatty persona and her tendency to blur the boundaries between her life and fiction often results in juicy reading. Erica Jong’s ‘Fear of Dying’ Defies the Sunset of Sex 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

Knowing it’s his last is difficult, however; the master of espionage fiction wrote at a high level through his 80s, and “Silverview” maintains that level. 10 books to read in October 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

But the author actually wrote poetry before he began his career as a novelist, and said that he found it "an enormous relief from the constant play-acting of fiction". New John Fowles poems published 2012-06-20T08:31:29Z

“And that same intent will be reflected in the eclectic fiction and nonfiction books Blue Rider Press will publish.” ArtsBeat: Penguin's New Imprint: Blue Rider Press 2011-05-17T04:01:35Z

"I very much liked 'Avatar'... 3D is fascinating to me, but I don't understand why it should be reserved to science fiction or horror movies," he added. Cannes honorary award goes to "Last Tango" director 2011-05-11T15:25:52Z

Composing and writing fiction are closely intertwined for him. The Many Sides to Dan Brown 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

If the last thing keeping you from writing Sherlock Holmes fan fiction were the licensing fees, wait no longer. Sherlock Holmes is really, really in the public domain — really 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

It's a science fiction war movie shot like a YouTube record of a natural disaster -- only much more so. Time to declare war on the shaky camera 2011-03-15T20:16:00Z

This series of three journeys examines the moment at which memory becomes fiction, and a travel writer becomes a character in a landscape. Booker prize shortlist: The expert view 2010-09-07T19:19:00Z

Teaching fiction argues strongly against the tendency to generalize. White pride in my classroom 2013-06-05T00:00:00Z

In a Super Bowl ad, it announced that it would debut a new film in the science fiction “Cloverfield” franchise directly after the Super Bowl. Review: ‘The Cloverfield Paradox,’ Netflix’s Surprise Release, Unleashes Chaos 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

In so doing, she has created a beautiful, funny fiction that is both utterly removed from and utterly true to real life. Theater Review: Sherie Rene Scott: Semi-Star From Kansas 2010-04-30T02:27:00Z

The prize is sponsored by Man Group PLC, which also funds the annual fiction prize. John le Carr? turns down Booker honour 2011-03-30T06:43:38Z

The Netflix series is not quite science fiction, though there are spaceships, and the cast and cinematic production signal a significant budget. With ‘Upload,’ Greg Daniels Takes a Leap Into the Great Unknown 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

Like Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead,” it is a philosophical proposition as much as a work of fiction — and often an act of devotion. Review | The relentlessly introspective vision of Gerald Murnane 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

He begins with an axiomatic assumption: that the self isn’t just “a parcel of vain strivings,” as Thoreau once wrote, but essentially a fiction. Review | At the Guggenheim, a memoir about America, colonialism and desire 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

Without a doubt, he’s already in the pantheon for science fiction/speculative fiction, but as weird as it might sound, I think he’s still underrated. Charles Yu Loves Reading With His Children. Don’t Tell Them. 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

The actors are even something of a distraction, although not the kind that might create a useful tension between the reality of paint and the fiction of stardom. In Judith Eisler's work, light trumps star power 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

In fiction, our recommendations include Yishai Sarid’s novel “The Memory Monster” and two very different novels about sisters: Edmund White’s “A Saint From Texas” and Daisy Johnson’s macabre Gothic throwback, “Sisters.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

The director of the gripping Belfast-set thriller , James Marsh, and its screenwriter, Tom Bradby, both have one foot in fact and the other in fiction. Shadow Dancer – review 2012-08-25T23:08:02Z

Belief thus comes to operate in tension here with fiction; the comforting narrative that Pi presents is undermined by Life of Pi’s very status as a novel. How “Life of Pi” anticipated 9/11 2013-04-28T19:00:00Z

It’s a mistake to attempt to overlay Wideman’s biography too neatly on top of his fiction. John Edgar Wideman’s Stories Vividly Evoke Life in Pittsburgh and Many Other Places 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

During the nine months he worked for Scott Meredith, Block managed to sell a story of his own to Manhunt magazine, which led him to concentrate his youthful energies on crime fiction. Review | Lawrence Block and P.G. Wodehouse: How two prolific writers found their voices 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

From "Anne of Green Gables" to "Jane Eyre," children can't get in trouble, an essential part of fiction, if parents are there, solving everything. The lure of “Stranger Things”? It’s not the '80s – it’s forgotten childhood freedom 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

It’s always fun to see a fellow journalist try his hand at fiction. 9 Thrillers (One True) That Times Editors Think You Should Read This Summer 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

He read science fiction, built model planes and enjoyed the cheap bowling and milkshakes on the bases. UFO truthers want to make Roswell an issue for 2016. Meet their lobbyist. 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

Well because there's a weird thing that happens with crime fiction ... Crime fiction: Evidence points to a clash of genres 2012-07-19T08:15:53Z

Amal El-Mohtar, the Book Review’s science fiction and fantasy columnist, won the Nebula, Locus and Hugo awards for her short story “Seasons of Glass and Iron.” Ghosts, Robots and Monsters: A Roundup of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

“I look very hard for black fiction because I want to participate in developing a canon of black work,” Ms. Morrison said in an interview quoted in The Dictionary of Literary Biography. Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Last year, Pulitzer judges declined to award a fiction prize, with finalists Karen Russell, David Foster Wallace and Denis Johnson all missing out on a place in literary history. Pulitzer prize goes to novel about North Korea 2013-04-16T11:36:36Z

A now classic novel that combines absurdist science fiction with the story of an American POW in Dresden, Germany, during the massive firebombing there. 25 essential books for Memorial Day 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

What if we assume benevolent intent on the part of the visiting aliens but also postulate that they do not grasp the concepts of fiction and performance and humor? Critic?s Notebook: Science Channel Ponders ?Alien Encounters? 2012-03-19T22:13:00Z

Science fiction is the home genre of dystopian literature, and any knowledgeable student of the form can lay out dystopias for you like a car salesman can talk up his floor models: Dystopias are fantastic in fiction. But do you really want to live in one? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Sometimes a conversation might make its way into White’s fiction or essays, Gullo said. Living With Edmund White 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

As it was, it was Micky's writing – journalism, polemics, criticism, poetry, fiction, autobiography, social history, manifestos and much, much more – that became his voice. Goodbye, Mick Farren, activist, rabble-rousing rocker and NME journalist 2013-07-29T16:32:50Z

You didn’t read the fiction of Jim Harrison, who died on Saturday at 78, for plot. An Appraisal: Taking Big Bites of Jim Harrison’s Voracious Life 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

In one bookshop, fellow judge Martha Lane Fox was told barefacedly by the sales guy that this was because men published 10 times as much fiction as women. Bidisha: I'm tired of being the token women 2010-04-22T21:00:00Z

David Mitchell writes smart fiction with a fantastic twist. John Wray is hard to pin down 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

These are shaped like short stories, but true and moving in ways that fiction cannot be. The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz – review 2013-01-27T07:01:24Z

Photograph: Kerry Brown/AP/20th Century Fox "Muddled" and "confused" are two words that seem to be ubiquitous in even the positive reviews for , 's first venture into science fiction in more than three decades. Can you solve the Prometheus puzzle? 2012-06-13T15:44:05Z

He gave me a blurb for my 1980 book States of Desire, though he told me he hadn't liked my earlier, arty fiction. Christopher Isherwood's Liberation 2012-06-01T21:55:14Z

In his review, Charles Finch called it a cross of literary fiction, thriller and mystery. 10 Books We Recommend This Week 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Equally, we should say that a piece of up-itself literary fiction about nothing is not better than, say, a James Lee Burke novel. A life in writing: Mark Billingham 2012-08-03T21:55:08Z

Several more novels followed, but “Dune” stands apart, an enduring classic of 20th century science fiction. Review | Beyond ‘Dune’: Let’s talk about science fiction and fantasy novels about ecology and climate change 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

When he first started with fiction, “I would write at the top of every chapter, ‘Be there, be there, be there in the scene.’ James Patterson mostly doesn’t write his books. And his new readers mostly don’t read. 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

In an autobiographical novel, which parts are fiction and which are fact? Poet offers literary feast in ‘A Moveable Famine’ 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

Such a position is quite at odds with what I consider to be political fiction. What's happened to political fiction? 2010-05-06T09:57:00Z

Famed for fiction, Harrison was also a poet of prodigious appetites. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

Ignore the emotional implications of her insistence you “agreed,” because that’s a rabbit hole and an utter fiction. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Mom gives you a calendar, but she wants to be your monthly planner 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

In this story, my aim was to write fiction, but have it be true in a more essential way. Callan Wink on Fiction in the Age of “Alternative Facts” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

Ronald Reagan enjoyed popular fiction by Louis L’Amour and Tom Clancy but was so taken with Edmund Morris’ biography of Theodore Roosevelt that he selected Morris to pen one of his own life and presidency. No more reader-in-chief: After Obama, Trump the nonreader amounts a real national loss 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

When I do read fiction, I tend to shy away from horror or light romance. Edelweiss, Edelweiss? Julie Andrews Loves Reading About 18th-Century Plant Hunters 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

In an endnote, he describes a core method as offering “vivid minimal information which invites or obliges the reader to build fiction.” Review | In ‘Endland,’ Tim Etchells finds squalid humor in post-Brexit Britain 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

With notable exceptions, the characters’ subjective experience is presented with little difference from their objective, ostensible reality – actually being able to determine fact from fiction would be counter to the purpose of the show. Hannibal showrunner: 'We are not making television. We are making a pretentious art film from the 80s' 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

This is a guy with genuinely radical ideas, writing in a genre, science fiction, that is, like most genres, populated by merely faux-radical ideas. Seven Books I?m Looking Forward to in 2012 2011-12-07T09:58:46Z

But it is science fiction that offers hope for a better world that does the most good, in the long run. Bill for compulsory science fiction in West Virginia schools 2013-04-19T15:16:24Z

Yet he never expects to leave, even as enthusiasm for his fictions grows in the wider world. Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood 2012-12-15T19:08:25Z

And like “cyberspace,” which was coined in 1982 by the novelist William Gibson, it went “from science fiction to science fact” with the flowering of the internet. The Word of the Year Goes Goblin Mode 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

Everdeen Mason is an audience editor and science fiction and fantasy columnist at The Washington Post. Review | The weirdly specific mixtape Vol. 1: Space fantasy books to read 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

This week, we're cheering ourselves up with a podcast devoted to comic fiction. Make 'em laugh 2010-05-14T09:17:00Z

Sometimes it’s just easier to cave in and call it speculative fiction. The final frontier: how female directors broke into sci-fi 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

It is blithely asserted, for instance, that their hunger for dystopian fiction is whetted by having to live in a bleak world under the pitiless authority of adults. Teen fiction and the shadow of cancer 2013-01-26T10:00:01Z

I’ve known Simeon Mills as a fiction writer for years, but only recently became aware of his work as a cartoonist. Talking with J. Robert Lennon about Okey-Panky 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

People are interested in a slightly more realistic portrayal of science fiction, of how it may relate to them. Total Recall Director Talks Remakes, Relevance and Real-Life Paranoia 2012-08-02T12:00:34Z

I’ve definitely noticed since the election that even though generally I have a lifelong preference for reading fiction, I have less interest in it now. Fran Lebowitz: By the Book 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

This is why fiction so often represents something better, more just, than an author’s theoretical beliefs. An Answer to the Novel’s Detractors 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

SUN Friends of the Library sale of hundreds of titles, fiction, nonfiction, cookbooks, children’s books, a dollar each, all proceeds benefit children’s programs at Lake Forest Park Library, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more for July 22-28 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Bicycles, newspaper boxes, mass homelessness, plodding iPhone gazers — all these things disturbed the fiction of a street neatly divided into walkers and cars. The death of the sidewalk 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

The actor, best known for playing ponderous hunks in such films as “Boyhood” and “Before Sunrise,” is also the author of two novels, but here forgoes fiction for a different vehicle. Ethan Hawke: Actor, novelist — spiritual guide? 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

Her adviser, convinced she was a natural storyteller on the strength of a one-page writing exercise, suggested she try her hand at fiction. All Souls Trilogy: Harry Potter for Grown-Ups? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

"I love to read both fiction and nonfiction and I feel strongly about the power of reading," Luck said. NFL book club: Michael Bennett gets the Seattle Seahawks to tackle books 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

Perhaps here is a defense for why Hjorth continues to call “Will and Testament,” which prompted a lawsuit from her own family and a response book from Hjorth’s sister, fiction. The Best Post Office Novel You Will Read Before the Election 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

She studied anthropology and did research in Greece, a country where she later settled and described insightfully and at times lyrically, both in fiction and memoir. Pride and promiscuity 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Ray was the last living member of a “BACH” quartet — writers who transformed science fiction from a pulp magazine ghetto into a genre for hardcover bestsellers. Ray Bradbury: The man who made sci-fi respectable 2012-06-06T20:30:00Z

The book settles for broadly drawn psychosexual farce instead of deeper examination of the arts of fiction and biography. Reviews: New Books From Thomas McGuane, Hanif Kureishi and More 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Naturally, there are qualities you shouldn’t seek in his fiction either. John Waters’s First Novel Is Manic, Hyperbolic and Deviant. Surprised? 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

Science fiction, fantasy and horror stories certainly do. The great sci-fi hunt: help us find the best independently published books 2013-02-22T12:02:18Z

The prestigious Man Booker Prize, based in England and now offered internationally, awards $65,000 to a single work of fiction. PEN America launches $75,000 book prize, one of the country's biggest 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

You only have to look at the novels on this year's first book longlist – as on the Booker – to see that literary fiction has a new spring in its step. First book award shows appetite for serious reading 2010-12-01T20:00:00Z

Also on the program, the linguist Ben Zimmer explains how computers reveal the jargon of fiction. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Helen Schulman's 'This Beautiful Life' 2011-07-29T20:30:58Z

And what is that self made of—various fictions? Alexandra Shiva's Poetic Truth 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

And as for the fiction of easily moving music from iTunes to Android — well let’s just say that’s in a Galaxy far, far away. OracleVoice: Why Business Customers Should Fear 'Consumerization' Of IT 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Set in 1517 at Hamlet's alma mater, Wittenberg University in Germany, the script takes a plethora of teasing, erudite liberties with fact and fiction. 'Wittenberg' is an intellectual workout with Hamlet, Faustus and Luther 2010-11-22T23:29:00Z

I've read that he once said the short story was the perfect vehicle for American fiction. Tobias Wolff: 'I still feel as though I'm faking it' 2011-08-25T09:32:10Z

Wang is now a prominent literary figure in China, and a prolific writer of fiction, both short stories and novels. Profile: Wang Anyi 2011-03-30T11:57:46Z

One of my life’s great pleasures is that my 19-year-old son is a voracious reader and constantly recommends books to me — often debut fiction. Dani Shapiro: By the Book 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Again and again, in his journalism, essays, poetry and fiction, he returned to a single overarching theme: the wonder of simply being alive. Review | The perfect book for this year’s coincidence, Easter on April Fools’ Day 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

Their messaging pulls in history and tropes, science and fiction, nostalgia and wild speculation. Bezos Reaches for a Star 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

The current release of the movie "Drive" may finally cast light on one of crime fiction's best-kept secrets: James Sallis, who wrote the novel it's based on. Crime fiction: a new Ian Rankin hero and nightmares from Joyce Carol Oates 2011-11-09T22:55:06Z

His books read like fiction disguised as documentary. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z

Scott is currently promoting his first science fiction film in more than three decades, Prometheus, which revisits the universe he created for 1979's Alien. Blade Runner sequel will reunite Ridley Scott with original screenplay writer 2012-05-18T11:06:23Z

Meloy’s best work is her short fiction, particularly the lithe, lean stories, as alive and elusive as fish in a stream, of the masterful “Half in Love.” Maile Meloy’s ‘Do Not Become Alarmed’: This summer’s big literary novel? 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

Gyasi’s new book, “Transcendent Kingdom,” now at No. 6 in its second week on the hardcover fiction list, was inspired by a visit to a Stanford University lab where an old friend worked. The Back Story Behind ‘Transcendent Kingdom’: Yaa Gyasi Is a Solid Friend 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

“Every relationship is based on a certain amount of fiction,” he said. ‘Ruby Sparks,’ With Zoe Kazan and Paul Dano 2012-07-20T20:46:54Z

Ballard does with his fiction: expands and contracts space and time in your mind. How to be a better burglar: Creeping around in buildings with Geoff Manaugh and Jeff VanderMeer 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

Science fiction is such a cool way to get at those feelings. Brit Marling on Writing, Anarchists, and the Need to Get Her Heart Broken 2013-06-01T12:00:23Z

Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom," the year's most highly praised and talked about literary novel, was not among the fiction finalists announced Wednesday for the National Book Awards. Franzen not among book award finalists 2010-10-13T15:47:00Z

In this case, the author's truth helps forge his fiction into a magnificent story addressing the Arab-Israeli conflict and the corrosive effects of war. 'To the End of the Land': A mother's grief and a country's corrosive burden 2010-10-06T23:08:00Z

“When she left publishing, she told me a secret, which was that she wanted to try to write fiction,” Pekkanen told The Washington Post. A Young Novelist Grapples With Matters of Life and Death 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

In Macdonald's view, all documentaries are essentially fictions because they are about organising the chaos of ordinary life; about selecting material and putting that in the service of telling a story. Can 'fake' documentaries still tell the truth? 2010-09-30T22:00:00Z

Her trajectory from childhood to college, to marriage and motherhood, and ultimately to a career as a successful fiction writer, is fairly conventional in summary. ‘Lucy Barton’ Review: Laura Linney Finds Her Perfect Match 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

If, though, the real Markovits is as tortured and uncertain about the practice and purpose of fiction as his doppelgänger in this novel, he really doesn't need to be. Childish Loves by Benjamin Markovits ? review 2011-08-26T09:40:01Z

It's hard to reconcile Superman's principles with the values of science fiction author Orson Scott Card. Orson Scott Card isn't the right man to write Superman 2013-02-14T14:15:00Z

“When reporters want to write fiction I usually run for the hills,” Mr. Weiland said in a telephone interview. A War Reporter Finds Refuge by Switching to Fiction 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

China Miéville's fiction is no less truthful, but far more extravagantly fantastic. Can fantasy ever tell the truth? 2011-03-17T09:37:12Z

There’s no way for Watts to make this person more than the most exasperating character I’ve experienced in a work of fiction in a long time. ‘The Desperate Hour’ Review: An Exercise in Panic 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

After serving in the Army, trying his hand as a fiction writer and working as a journalist in New York, Mr. Wright married Virginia Bloedel, the daughter of a wealthy Northwest timber-industry family, in 1953. Seattle arts patron Bagley Wright dies at 87 2011-07-20T06:31:04Z

Before he turned to fiction, he himself was the stuff of Oxford legend. Character Mortdecai has much in common with creator Kyril Bonfiglioli 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

Best for: Readers who want an early look at fiction and memoirs likely to land on the bestseller list. Review | Looking for the perfect book? Here are nine subscription boxes that can help. 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

His novels are in close contact with the alternative cultural universes of fantasy and the occult and science fiction, yet they don’t resemble genre fiction. ‘Devil House,’ a Confident, Creepy Novel About a Wicked Unsolved Crime 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

Does All Made Up refer to primping and preening, or making up after a disagreement, or is it hinting at a sustained fiction? All Made Up by Janice Galloway ? review 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z

For many people, telling this tale is as close as they will get to understanding how a comedian’s set, refined through repetition, can’t help but blur the line between truth and fiction. Can Daniel Kitson Redefine the Relationship Between Comic and Audience? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

He spoke recently to ArtsBeat about the festival, the interplay of fiction and non-fiction techniques in his films and, of course, reality television. ArtsBeat Blog: Darren Aronofsky Gets a Reality Check from the Margaret Mead Film Festival 2011-11-09T13:00:02Z

It is not surprising, according to Vásquez, because “places in conflict produce fiction: Fiction is where all the anxieties and discontent, the dissatisfactions and fears of a society, filter down.” ‘A Storm Waiting to Happen’: A Colombian Writer Watches His Home From Afar 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

Published in 2019, the book was a hit with readers and debuted at No. 3 on the best-seller list for hardcover fiction. Her Books Show the Lifestyles of the Fictional and Famous. She’s Poised for Some Fame of Her Own. 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

Years ago, a student in my course on monsters in fiction, one of my most popular classes, asked me why I teach on that topic. The all of “y’all”: On finally embracing my voice, country twang and everything 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

Like the Stein book, a mock memoir that mixes fiction and nonfiction and was written by Stein from Toklas’s point of view, “Nicolae Ceausescu” is something of a rarefied ventriloquist act. | 'The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu': ?Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu,? by Andrei Ujica - Review 2011-09-08T23:07:41Z

Miranda also reads a lot of mystery fiction and is the first reader of any new manuscript of mine. Ian Rankin: By the Book 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Halley VI is a line of four-legged mechanical beasts, seven blue and one red, like a desert caravan gone astray or a figment of science fiction. Halley VI research station, Antarctica – review 2013-02-10T08:00:03Z

David Brauner, lecturer in American fiction at Reading University Mr Brauner welcomes the new rules, but describes them as "a commercial decision", designed to foil the Folio. 'A surprise and a risk': Reaction to Booker Prize upheaval 2013-09-18T18:25:17Z

Upon further investigation, all the flash fiction and poetry appeared to have been AI-generated. Are we witnessing the death of the writer? Facing the AI crossroads in class and on the page 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z

I was in it for the adventure and for the chance to write about reality using the techniques of fiction. Richard Goldstein's 'Another Little Piece of My Heart' recalls '60s 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Drew said he "very much doubted" that any new fiction by Dickens would be discovered in the journals, but hoped that around a dozen more articles by the author would be uncovered. Charles Dickens identified as author of mystery article 2012-06-25T14:14:38Z

This is the flip side of “reality hunger,” since a lie, like a fake memoir, is a fiction that does not admit its fictionality. Lie to Me: Fiction in the Post-Truth Era 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

"The Twilight Saga" already mixes together high school melodrama, outsider fiction and teen romance into a mishmash of sci-fi and horror genres. "Twilight" finally hits its stride with third film 2010-06-28T05:27:00Z

It’s a book that has completely internalized the lessons of popular war fiction: Heroes are laconic and world-weary, women are redemptive, only nature is “real,” a biplane is always close by to escape on. Six New Thrillers for Fall 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

The network cycled through two writers before Martin asked for help from an old friend: The writer Ryan Condal, a creator of the USA science fiction show, “Colony.” Can ‘House of the Dragon’ Be HBO’s Next ‘Game of Thrones’? 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

Certainly if this were framed as fiction, it might be easier to buy Mr. Farrell as a Russian gangster, or forgive the crudely obvious commercial rationale of his casting. | 'The Way Back': Pushing the Limits of Endurance 2011-01-20T23:13:53Z

The resurrection of the nasty bits singer was out of "pulp fiction" but the moments of the song blasting was where this series needs to be. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1 Finale: As Confused as Ever 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

It’s been palpable in recent times how well cerebral science fiction works on the small screen, from shows such as Westworld and Black Mirror to straight-to-streaming films such as I Am Mother. Could coronavirus-enforced streaming mean better blockbusters? 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

Of course, many writers use real events from their lives to produce a novel but, as Richard Yates said of his writing, "the emotions of fiction are autobiographical but the facts never are." The Great American Novelist tournament: the final 32 2012-07-23T15:19:53Z

To judge from his own words, Mr. Just turned to fiction because, paradoxically, he was searching for some larger truth. Ward Just, 84, Dies; Ex-Journalist Found Larger Truths in Fiction 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

If selfhood is a fiction, it’s a powerful one, as much truthful consolation as outright lie. Shelley Jackson, Author and Advocate of the Monstrous 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

Adored this play and found it effortless, intricate, and incredibly daring in its mix of fact and fiction, grounded reality and flights of wholesale imagination. Review: Real Russians and Fake News in ‘Describe the Night’ 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

It was named to the National Book Awards fiction longlist on Friday. For His Next Act, Anthony Doerr Wrote a Book About Everything 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

I often think that the fiction I love to read is about time, the passage of time. When Covid struck the Wolitzers, Meg and Hilma bonded by creating a book. Let them tell you about it. 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

The two initial entries in Triangle Square’s new They Said No historical fiction series approach this problem in different ways and achieve different results. Profiles in Courage 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

This might be fiction – but Woods at this moment is wearing an SS uniform, and the attacks carried out by Nazi Germany on people with disabilities are brutally factual. Best theatre of 2012, No 7: Ganesh versus the Third Reich 2012-12-13T16:02:59Z

He’s turning himself into a living painting, but he also seems to be playing with the fictions and stigmas of race at a time — 1967-68 — when America was burning with racial violence. Bruce Nauman Reappears: Pay Attention 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

She also eschews the self-flagellating ethic of some courses by preaching tolerance for fancy prose style, and exhorts her readers to be ambitious and "ask important questions" with their fiction, an admirable stand. Monkeys With Typewriters by Scarlett Thomas – review 2012-10-13T23:05:32Z

This is the spirit of noir detective fiction, a genre only occasionally used by series TV these days despite how well it meshes with the themes of dark cable drama. Review: ‘Perry Mason’ Returns, Hard-Boiled and Warmed Over 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

I was finishing my graduate studies, struggling to write a dissertation on the transmission and embodiment of traumatic memories across generations in Holocaust memoirs and fiction. Long aftermath of a mass shooting: Remembering my father, killed in 1991 at the University of Iowa 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

The Dark Knight Rises star will take an unspecified part in the adaptation of the bestselling 2011 science fiction novel by Daniel H Wilson. Anne Hathaway takes on Robopocalypse 2012-11-13T11:29:30Z

George claims that vampire fiction also tackles fears of technology. University conference sinks its teeth into vampire fiction 2010-04-05T23:05:00Z

Another way of looking at it, of course, is that the naïve fiction that  offered may have been exactly the kind of comforting “ideology” that the world was in need of post-9/11. How “Life of Pi” anticipated 9/11 2013-04-28T19:00:00Z

The mystery of crime fiction's lost funny bone ... It's no crime to be funny 2010-06-03T11:31:00Z

TV fiction, once a machine designed to keep running until the network accountants said, “Stop,” was now making lots of different kinds of stories, best told at different lengths. Returning to the Scene 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

Not just an enlivened historical documentary or a corrective to Pierre Boulle’s “The Bridge over the River Kwai,” this is a classic work of war fiction from a world-class writer. Review: ‘The Narrow Road in the Deep North,’ by Richard Flanagan

My cabinets and drawers are littered with more pages of fiction than the archives of the Nixon Library. I’m a self-publishing failure 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It’s a work of interactive fiction—a nonlinear story in which we steer the plot via simple A/B choices that occur at key moments in the drama. “Black Mirror” ’s “Bandersnatch” and the Pitfalls of Interactive Fiction 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

Sharp may also have been concerned, by the late 50s, that some might see her as a relic of an earlier, more restricted era, both in social behavior and in fiction. In Praise of Margery Sharp 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Just, a Danish choreographer and director, takes inspiration from the fantastical fiction writer Jorge Luis Borges to explore that dichotomy in “Interpassivities.” 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

In a work of fiction, Angot charts the fractured relationship of her parents from its beginnings in the 1950s, revealing how ideas of class and nationalism in France impact love. Newly Published, From Sea Stories to Trauma’s Impact 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

The real danger lies less in rethinking the story than in violating the basic nature of the original series’s kind of science fiction. film: Apes From the Future, Holding a Mirror to Today 2011-07-27T12:00:09Z

It is definitely not science fiction, and not quite fantasy either. Ursula Le Guin Has Earned a Rare Honor. Just Don’t Call Her a Sci-Fi Writer. 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z

The subject of attention is everywhere in publishing, spanning genres from self-help to satire to fiction. Now Pay Attention, Dear Reader. No, Not to That Article, to This One. 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Dyer insouciantly mixes fiction and nonfiction, smuggling invented bits into the seams of his reported essays and stitching long threads of transparently autobiographical material into his novels. Review: ‘White Sands’ Asks Why We Visit the Places We Do 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

The 1980s brought genre fiction, mostly romance and horror series with endless volumes. Review | How ‘The Outsiders,’ ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘The Hunger Games’ transformed YA fiction 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

The book was also in the running for the Carnegie, while Sedgwick's latest novel, White Crow, is on the longlist for the Guardian children's fiction prize. Booktrust teenage prize shortlist spans time, space and genre 2010-09-07T10:34:00Z

I can't recall seeing this done in any other zombie fiction. The Walking Dead: season three, episode 14 2013-03-22T23:00:00Z

He desperately wanted to be a musician, but when he felt that was not going to happen, he turned his talents to fiction. Kazuo Ishiguro is a rarity and now a Nobel Laureate 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

From there, he wanted to “ground the fiction of the work to something local, to something real.” Tapestry in Seattle cathedral weaves history and mission 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z

“The fiction writer,” he says in a bit of advice that might describe his own oeuvre, “is trying to create a false memory with the force of history.” In Praise of Samuel R. Delany 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Such freedom allows Green and her collaborators to show their stunning command of the energy and spirit the story's blending of science fiction and horror requires. "Lovecraft Country" is an intoxicating, myth-shattering hero's journey through a map of Black fear 2020-08-16T04:00:00Z

Its finalists in six categories — fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, criticism and autobiography — are selected by an elected 24-member board, which also selects the winners. National Book Critics Circle announces finalists, but misses one of the biggest novels of 2016 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

At Frank and Matt’s, it’s Frank’s Power Rangers fan fiction, among other paper goods. Super-Sorter Marie Kondo Now Has a Reality Show 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

The fiction prize went to Lily King for her novel "Euphoria." Kirkus Prizes, worth $50,000, go to Roz Chast and Lily King 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

The humor and a few of her tips resonate with her offbeat fiction. Carolyn See, award-winning Southern California writer, dies at 82 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

The romantic tropes won't serve for a whole lifetime in mainstream fiction. Mum lit: a chore thing 2011-04-06T19:00:00Z

“Unable to free myself completely from reality, I am involuntarily producing fiction,” she notes. Tessa Hadley’s ‘Clever Girl,’ and More 2014-03-26T20:42:56Z

He made himself a fiction writer by force of mind, hard work and sheer will, plus study of the greats. Was Saul Bellow a Man or a Jerk? Both, a Monumental Biography Concludes 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

It feels indulgent almost to tackle work of fiction when the real life villains are so looming and threatening. 13 YA authors on writing in the age of Trump 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

Since the Presidential election last November, many people have drawn on dystopian fiction—“The Hunger Games,” in particular—to explain our predicament. An Early Dystopian Trilogy About Resistance—and What Comes After 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

Green can likely afford Swift’s music, but maybe he’s concerned about the next generation of novelists who are unable to experience the joys of crafting great fiction while “Wildest Dreams” plays softly in the background. 6 Things John Green and Taylor Swift Could Have Discussed On the Phone 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

He joined demonstrations in Tahrir Square as a leftwing student in the early 1970s and was imprisoned for writing political fiction under the rule of Anwar Sadat, Mubarak's predecessor. Ramy Essam ? the voice of the Egyptian uprising 2011-07-19T20:31:01Z

On Sunday Showtime begins “Penny Dreadful,” a series in which an explorer and a Western gunslinger encounter some of the best-known troublemakers of 19th-century fiction, including Victor Frankenstein and Dorian Gray. Television Review: ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ Is Remade Into a Mini-Series 2014-05-08T21:12:18Z

North Korea, the Stalinist “hermit kingdom” and one of the world’s most backward and isolated countries, is also a realm where fiction making — state-sponsored storytelling, that is — reigns supreme. Books of The Times: ?The Orphan Master?s Son? by Adam Johnson - Review 2012-01-12T14:45:16Z

Writers, said the science fiction author Isaac Asimov, fall into two groups: "Those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review." How not to handle bad reviews 2011-03-30T11:24:16Z

“The only real horror in most of these fictions is the horror of bad taste and bad art,” Wilson wrote. The Complicated Friendship of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert Barlow, One of His Biggest Fans 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Ives, a poet as well as a novelist, is at her best when dramatizing Harry’s development as a poet, not Clare’s as a fiction writer. Review | Poking fun at the male ego — and academia — in one cheeky little novel 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

You may be thinking of “The Hunger Games” or any of the countless other dystopian works of fiction that involve monitored competitions. Theater, Reality TV and What Is Stranger Than Fiction 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Conquest and Mr. Amis also shared a love of science fiction that they indulged by editing “Spectrum,” a series of five anthologies that presented quality science-fiction stories from the 1940s and ’50s. Robert Conquest, Historian Who Documented Soviet Horrors, Dies at 98 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

When you hear this at your next social event, you can weigh whether to push back against the fiction and inject conflict into an otherwise relaxing get-together, or simply change the topic. Woody Harrelson's anti-vax joke raises questions about what we excuse in likable people in our lives 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

Late last year, he published a science fiction/fantasy novel, "Tinderbox: Soldier of Indira." Lou Diamond Phillips: "My entire career has been fighting against those labels" 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

And I thought: ‘OK, well, that’s historical fiction, because I would know that story.’ Octavia Spencer: ‘You need to see people of colour in big movies’ 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

I grew up reading and watching science fiction with a fascination that bordered on passion. We are the empire: Military interventions, “Star Wars” and how we’re the real aliens 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

He's also a talking bear, pure fiction, and Zelenskyy isn't channeling him in the role he's playing right now. Politics & performance: Why Zelenskyy succeeds where others fail 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z

Most people think they like an empty beach; they admire the fiction of unspoiled stretches of wilderness. My Favorite Place: Little Compton, R.I. 2011-09-23T18:58:31Z

One of the decisions series fiction writers must make is whether to let their characters age or keep them anchored to a specific time period. Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch is still fighting the good fight in 'The Wrong Side of Goodbye' 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

Which author congratulated himself for using the word "flocculent", who wrote "A joke will separate the men from the boys every time", and who captioned a glamorous picture herself "fiction"? Guardian Books podcast: Rick Gekoski on First Editions, Second Thoughts 2013-05-20T12:03:28Z

Science fiction as a genre can also be very hopeful as well – while still issuing warnings about how it can all go wrong. Walter Koenig: "Star Trek" is a welcome respite from the infamy of the Trump administration 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

They live somewhere between the fiction of the life they wanted to believe in and the reduced reality of their present circumstances. Elusive leaps of grace and daring: Rachel Cusk's 'Kudos' 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

I read — strangely or not so strangely, very little fiction. No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

Sex, politics, vampires, science fiction, Herman Melville — nothing is alien to this restless and resourceful filmmaker. ‘Both Sides of the Blade’ Review: Who Do You Love? 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

"Religion, science fiction, technology – everybody's dancing," she chants in opener 22nd Century, introducing an album that dabbles in New York house, industrial techno and Euro electro. Hear tracks from Kelis's new album Flesh Tone 2010-05-11T11:09:00Z

“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

A: With fiction, of course, you must create your own world — at least somewhat. Lorrie Moore has some instructions on how to read her new book 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Sumell, an English teacher and fiction writer from Los Angeles, is not one to throw away money. Many Consumers Find It Hard to Step Away From Daily Deal Sites 2012-03-10T00:36:15Z

If it were fiction, there would be more tense encounters with English-speaking Iranian officials, and they would be more suspicious and knowledgeable. Argo – review 2012-11-08T15:30:01Z

I associate that with science fiction in a lot of ways. Navajo the chosen one for new 'Star Wars' dub 2013-04-27T15:28:08Z

Derevko is one of many seductive female Russian spies in fiction: Marvel’s Black Widow, originally a villain, is a watered-down version of this type. The top 17 most badass and bizarre Russian villains in pop culture 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

That they are merely egg containers would seem boringly reductive, in a biology-is-destiny way, except that it’s such an interesting answer to science fiction’s big question: Who creates life? The History Lurking Behind “Orphan Black” 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

As widespread as this experience seemed to be among women, I didn’t really see it well-represented in contemporary literature, though a version of it is certainly represented in 18th- and 19th-century fiction. ArtsBeat: Slippery Nate: Adelle Waldman Talks About ‘The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.’ 2013-07-17T17:05:29Z

Rather, Magrs treats the details as if writing a historical novel or science fiction: using them to build a picture of a world, and show what matters to the people in it. The Diary of a Dr Who Addict by Paul Magrs 2010-05-21T23:07:00Z

These Roman fighters are in fashion in fiction as well as film. Roman stories required 2012-10-02T15:16:13Z

I thought the themes of memory and identity, truth and lies, and the blurring of fact and fiction were fascinating. In “Tell Me Who I Am,” a man discovers his life was a lie told to him by his twin 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

But Oscar and Bafta nominees are chosen by the organisations’ members, a pool of voters mainly interested in fiction features. Want to win an Oscar? Stay on the straight and narrow 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

You could argue that — by the expectations set by political fiction and the excited walk-up to the testimony — Mr. Comey’s testimony lacked smoking guns. In Comey’s Testimony, a Reboot of Classic TV Hearings Past 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

The University of South Carolina has acquired two archives of material relating to Dashiell Hammett, bolstering a crime fiction collection that also includes James Ellroy’s manuscripts and Elmore Leonard’s Hawaiian shirts. Dashiell Hammett Papers Go to University of South Carolina 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

Our summer books preview highlights 136 books to enjoy over the next few months, and beyond — thrillers, memoirs, YA, history, fiction, science fiction, pop culture, kids titles, audio books and more. Summer reading guide: The 136 books you'll want to read 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

"There's definitely a blurred line between fiction and nonfiction." ABC's 'Nashville' stars sing, and it's not just for show 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

Say what you will about Britain just before and after the Great War, it was a golden age for “light” fiction. Review | My plan for fending off the holiday blues? Escaping into light fiction from another era. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

The nightmares remain in the realm of fiction. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

Robert Roper isn’t a specialist in the study of Vladimir Nabokov or his fiction. ‘Nabokov in America’ looks at how U.S. shaped novelist 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

While they were unabashed mass-market fiction, the Kent books touched a national nerve, coming amid the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. John Jakes, Whose Historical Novels Hit the Jackpot, Dies at 90 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z

Subsequent scenes puncture this false idyll, first playfully and then more soberly as the domestic fiction unravels. Review: ‘Perfect Arrangement,’ a Comic Tale of Closeted Lives 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

Take these five new Y.A. books, ranging from fantasy to realistic fiction to memoir. New Y.A. Books by Women of Color Rewrite Old Cultural Scripts 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

But with “Fresh Complaint,” his first collection of short fiction, Eugenides gamely adapts his characteristic style for the genre. The anxious, disappointing world of Jeffrey Eugenides 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

“We Cast a Shadow,” Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s debut novel, asks some of the most important questions fiction can ask, and it does so with energetic and acrobatic prose, hilarious wordplay and great heart. In This Ingenious Satire, a Father Goes to Extremes to Protect His Son From Racism 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

These days, novels are the default for most science fiction and fantasy writers. Review | Let’s talk about the best — and newest — science fiction and fantasy story collections 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

Not all science fiction has been as critical of the government. Sci-Fi Writers Find Warmer Climate Amid Cuban Thaw 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

His fiction was collected in “Hotel Death and Other Tales,” published in 1989. John Perreault, Critic, Artist and Poet, Dies at 78 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

In the beginning, when you first start out trying to write fiction, the whole endeavour's about fun. David Foster Wallace on 'The Nature of Fun' 2012-11-16T11:00:02Z

The ducks were part of the story from the start; dead, of course—birds, animals, and insects tend not to fare too well in my fiction. This Week in Fiction: Danielle McLaughlin 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

The four worked on the themes of poetry, political satire and cartoonists, the future of fiction, and the relations between parents and their children. Edinburgh book and film festivals to join forces 2010-06-17T16:59:00Z

Whether it's Tina's "erotic friend fiction" or family friend Chad's attraction to a mannequin, the Belchers take it all in stride. How "Bob's Burgers" and its loving queerness became a cult favorite among the LGBTQ community 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

“With ‘The Nightingale,’ she went from being considered ‘women’s fiction’ to being considered a literary novelist,” Enderlin said. Kristin Hannah Reinvented Herself. She Thinks America Can Do the Same. 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z

I wish I could report that by 1999 King’s fiction justified the claims that some of the literati were making for it. My Stephen King problem 2012-07-06T14:42:00Z

With her newest work, “The Clasp,” Crosley is venturing into new territory: fiction. Sloane Crosley on book trailers, book clubs and her new novel, ‘The Clasp’ 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Scientology, founded by the science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard in 1955, boasts Tom Cruise and other Hollywood adherents despite a reputation, long denied by the group, for manipulation and bullying. Subject of Scientology film: Louis Theroux used 'morally bankrupt tactics' 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

On the other hand, Ms. Atwood is comforted to see a growing number of people reading, and writing, dystopian fiction — a scenario that would be impossible under a real totalitarian government that banned free expression. How Feminist Dystopian Fiction Is Channeling Women’s Anger and Anxiety 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

Woods spoke to Reuters from her home in Virginia about the fact and fiction of friendship, food, and southern comfort. "Sweet Magnolias" cookbook takes favorites from fiction to fact 2012-10-02T08:14:40Z

Achebe’s novel, published in 1958, is widely regarded as the first major work of modern African fiction and inspired others to tell the continent’s story through the eyes of those who lived there. Agent: Author Chinua Achebe Dies at 82 2013-03-22T12:24:32Z

Cole goes as far as rejecting some of the violent episodes attributed to the Prophet Muhammad as later fictions by belligerent Muslim empires. Illuminating Islam’s Peaceful Origins 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

The novel churns with such ambitious social statements and insights that at times it feels like a kind of fiction/op-ed hybrid. ‘Ohio’ as the Locus of 21st-Century Rust Belt Despair 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

But it may also be that the diversity of the writers doing the work of writing great fiction reveals a need to reconsider what a great novelist is supposed to do, write and look like. Perspective | Where’s the great millennial novel? A Gen Xer wonders. 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ni soon found a vocation as a writer of serialized fiction when The Kung Sheung Daily News accepted a manuscript he wrote, “Buried Alive,” about land reform in mainland China. Ni Kuang, Prolific Hong Kong Novelist and Screenwriter, Dies at 87 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

I find it fascinating, because it raises complicated questions about the contract between the reader and the writer of a work of fiction. This Week in Fiction: Ben Lerner on Art, Language, and Uber 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

A thumbnail-sketch of the writer’s mother leads to a catalogue of the traits and foibles of various mothers in his fiction. Early days yet 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

On the face of this script, Anarchy in the UK could have been a rollicking, 50s-style romp, though huge questions remained about the group's ability to perform in a fiction. Malcolm McLaren's punk Bambi 2010-04-29T21:30:00Z

It was engaging with his work that helped her write, in the essay “Modern Fiction,” what is possibly one of the most lucid and passionate advocacies for fiction: The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

First, the world — always a scary, unstable place in suspense fiction — is made more so with female characters who wrestle with disorders that throw into question the reliability of their storytelling. What ‘Gone Girl’ and ‘The Girl on the Train’ have wrought 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

As in “Méliès,” the meandering, understated emergence of cinematic fact and fiction is captivating to watch. Art in Review: Teresa Hubbardand and Alexander Birchler 2011-01-13T22:00:03Z

Crime fiction is at it’s best when telling a compelling story while also analyzing the shadowy foundations of human nature. Eight thrillers and mysteries to read this summer 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

But he was also an unpublished dabbler in fiction, an amateur naturalist and a father who made up rabbit stories to entertain his two young daughters on long drives in the country. Richard Adams, Author of ‘Watership Down,’ Dies at 96 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Dawn — an unintelligent, inexorable young woman who calls herself “The Hammer of Jesus” — is a triumph of fiction writing. Joyce Carol Oates tackles abortion in her powerful novel, 'A Book of American Martyrs' 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

For decades, he has been probing the limits of existence, charting its mysteries and madness in fiction and nonfiction movies that together have created an extraordinary body of work. Review: ‘Into the Inferno,’ Staring Down the Terrors of Nature 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

He was a voracious reader with a penchant for science fiction, which rubbed off on me. Family life 2012-05-18T23:05:08Z

In many of these countries I’m not looked upon as a crime fiction writer, I’m looked upon as a writer. Henning Mankell, literary master of ‘Nordic noir,’ dies at 67 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

"Some of the best science fiction and fantasy that's being written is being written by people who aren't like me, the straight, white dude," he says. John Scalzi conquers the publishing universe 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Because I’ve worked in bookstores, I arrange them alphabetically by author in sections: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, anthologies, travel, and so on. For Lily King, a Great Book Always Starts With the Sentences 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. Iain Banks: the final interview 2013-06-15T07:07:55Z

In one version, it’s the stuff of domestic fiction. Books of The Times: Matt Bell Describes a Relationship’s Trajectory in a Debut Novel 2013-07-25T17:38:28Z

This week, their third thriller, “You Are Not Alone,” lands at No. 7 on the hardcover fiction list. An Author and an Editor Teamed Up to Write Books Together 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

I don’t believe, however, that every fiction we orchestrate is good. “Writing Is an Act of Pride”: A Conversation with Elena Ferrante 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Its rebranding intends to target a fresher, younger — but still male — audience, one that appreciates not just the suggestive photographs but also the magazine’s tradition of literary journalism and fiction. After 62 Years, Playboy Will Stop Publishing Naked Pictures 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

As I was to learn in the days ahead, everything about Long Island felt more like fiction than normal life. Kayak to Willapa Bay’s Long Island to camp among elk, oysters and ancient cedars 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Disappearing Dad: Timeshift Entertaining polemic by novelist Andrew Martin, tracking the changing role of fathers as reflected in fiction. Disappearing Dad: Timeshift 2010-06-29T07:00:00Z

Will a strong woman seem to be a fiction? My possible superhero 2011-03-28T20:30:01Z

As readers of Moore’s fiction know, she is a brilliant storyteller and sentence-maker. Review | ‘It would be all right’: Novelist Susanna Moore finds solace in a sometimes troubling life story 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

“Thank You, Mr. Nixon,” Gish Jen’s first collection of short fiction in more than 20 years, is a jewel box of creativity and a joy to uncover. In ‘Thank You, Mr. Nixon,’ Gish Jen examines family ties between China and the U.S. 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z

Holland is a debut novelist, but she's been publishing fiction for more than 20 years. Noy Holland's novel 'Bird' slips between past and present, lover and life 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z

Penguin is planning other Amplified works, fiction and nonfiction, but Barton declined to cite anything specific. Amplified edition of Ken Follett novel released 2010-07-20T13:34:00Z

Orwell, whose fiction dealt presciently with the ironies of false statements masquerading as truth and the power of mass media to circulate them, was also a journalist. It's practically Orwellian: The BBC is installing a George Orwell statue 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

The film takes itself much too seriously, yet its characters exist in a realm of fiction, never coming alive as actual human beings. 2010-02-03T00:40:00Z

"Rocky II," his directorial debut, will combine elements of fiction and real life. French filmmaker trying to locate Ed Ruscha's fake rock in the Mojave 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

The actor's latest motion-captured role, after Gollum in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong, is an intelligent chimpanzee in science fiction reboot Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Geek out!: Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and the lure of Comic-Con 2011 2011-07-25T20:30:00Z

This afternoon, however, the distinction between reality and fiction is becoming a little blurred. Southcliffe: the most harrowing drama on TV 2013-07-26T13:00:00Z

True, Underwood is a fiction, the key protagonist of the TV drama House of Cards, while Trump is in charge of the world’s most terrifying military arsenal. Who said it: Donald Trump or Frank Underwood? 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

There was one interesting aspect of the whole thing that showed a little science fiction potential: James Shapiro's hatred of his wife for not contributing to society. Outcasts: series one, episode seven 2011-03-06T23:27:01Z

I don't have to shoehorn it into a detective fiction format. Val McDermid: a life in writing 2011-08-12T21:55:20Z

In midcentury science fiction by men and women, female characters resembled their earthly counterparts: comely, compliant and domestic. Joanna Russ, Who Drew Women to Sci-Fi, Dies at 74 2011-05-08T07:23:01Z

Mr. Johnson, a contemporary and colleague of writers like Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Charles Beaumont, was recognizable on the science fiction and comic convention circuits by his unruly beard and eccentric clothing. George Clayton Johnson, Science Fiction Writer Known for ‘Logan’s Run,’ Dies at 86 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

And so working that very analytical side of the brain all the time sometimes meant you lost track of not just the poetry of fiction, but also the depth of fiction. Transcript: President Obama on What Books Mean to Him 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

Though fiction, “Uncommon Sense” was developed over several years of investigation with “autism families” in Northern Iowa and elsewhere. Review: ‘Uncommon Sense’ Looks at Life on the Autism Spectrum 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

Until recently, the plight of the nearly 750,000 Germans who fled East Prussia in the last days of World War II remained a taboo subject in fiction. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Whether you prefer a thriller, memoir, history or literary fiction, you’ll discover something fresh among this month’s new titles. 10 books to read in June 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

When I was switching to "Yellowface," I made it a priority to digest a lot of fast-paced, very quick, very contemporary literary fiction. "My editors were just egging me on": "Yellowface" author on depicting the cutthroat publishing world 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

He struggled to incorporate the episode into his fiction because, as he explained in “The Great Derangement,” it is difficult for a writer to use a case of “extreme improbability” without it seeming contrived. When Climate Change Is Stranger Than Fiction 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

What would be the purpose of such a work of fiction beyond rank sentimentality or tasteless exploitation? Perspective | How 9/11 altered the fiction landscape in 13 novels 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

Her fiction is filled with references to other texts. In ‘Carnality,’ a Wild Ride Fueled by Rash Decisions 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

He would have reached superhuman levels suitable only for science fiction. From John Adams to Mozart: Dudamel's powerful pairing at the Bowl 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

But I am of the mind that you have to use fiction in order to tell the truth. Katori Hall on creating "P-Valley," demystifying sex work and the art of filming a pole dance 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

"They're very tolerant towards crime fiction until they come to the final judging," he said, "when they start to ask 'Is this really a serious contender?'" Could Miles Franklin turn the Booker prize to crime? 2010-06-25T12:21:00Z

In his view, the world of fiction is composed of four braided genres: novel, romance, anatomy, and confession. A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Nesbitt’s interests are “forgeries, stolen artwork, plagiarism, memory, censorship, the writing and rewriting of histories, evaluating the gap between accuracy and fiction,” she writes. Review | In the galleries: Simple objects speak about living in an 18th-century hostelry 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

“The type of fiction film that I like is one which gets so close to reality that it blurs the distinction between documentary and fiction,” Banietemad said via email. UCLA's annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema underway 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

Too often, she thinks, pessimistic dystopian fiction ends up reinforcing the status quo, rather than remedying it. Alexandra Kleeman Finds Reality All Too Surreal 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

Farce, parody, satire, science fiction, Afro-Futurism all published by my native city’s national, local and underground Black press. Even Margo Jefferson Sometimes Gets Sucked Into a Bad Thriller 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

Here it becomes clear that Kalfar has much larger aims with “Spaceman of Bohemia” than to write a spry, madcap work of speculative fiction. Meet an Intergalactic Spider in ‘Spaceman of Bohemia’ 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

In a recent video call, Joy spoke from her office in Los Angeles about being a perpetual outsider, current events imitating science fiction, and her partnership with Nolan. Lisa Joy on ‘Reminiscence,’ ‘Westworld’ and the Lure of Techno-Noir 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

The novelist Isaac Asimov once defined science fiction as art contending with “something that is not yet so.” Cyborgs Onstage, Robots in the Wings 2010-12-30T23:58:33Z

Established in 1950, they are awarded each year in four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature. Dave Eggers, Valeria Luiselli and more will judge the 2018 National Book Awards 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

The negotiation between fiction and reality, she adds, is always tricky. Can 'fake' documentaries still tell the truth? 2010-09-30T22:00:00Z

In that vein, we have been treated to Tim Wirkus’s “The Infinite Future,” about a Brazilian science fiction writer whose lost magnum opus sets a group of seekers in motion. Review | Bibliophiles love the mystery of a missing manuscript. ‘The Lost Book of Adana Moreau’ is just what they’re looking for. 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z

“This is a science fiction idea, an alternate history, but other than that everything else in the show is played in a very real key,” said Moore. 'For All Mankind' imagines a (better) path not taken in space race 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

For reassurance that these scenarios were just fiction, all I had to do was look at my grandparents’ marriage – my grandmother as dark as me and my grandfather, who adored her, much lighter. Why black people discriminate among ourselves: the toxic legacy of colorism 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

But there are just a lot of talented people in YA fiction these days. R.L. Stine On The Return of "Fear Street" 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Lovecraft’s fiction reveals strange preoccupations — slime, crustaceans, the revelation of forbidden knowledge. Gods, Monsters and H.P. Lovecraft’s Uncanny Legacy 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

Born in Connecticut, Douglas was a pilot, wrote fiction and studied acting before turning to announcing and voice-over work for radio, television and films. Hal Douglas, voice of Hollywood movie trailers, dies at 89 2014-03-13T23:28:21Z

Until the 1910s, aspiring literati devoted themselves to writing poetry, in an elliptical classical Chinese infused with millennia of allusions; vernacular fiction was scorned as a disreputably popular form. Rereading: Lu Xun's The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

Devotees of romance fiction, predominantly female, are demanding that their favorite category be ethnically as diverse as the real world. Love Knows No Color: Interracial Romance Novels Find Growing Audience and Acceptance 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

Angelou is the author of 31 books of fiction, poetry, nonfiction and children's books, as well as a cookbook scheduled for release in December. NY Public Library getting Maya Angelou's papers 2010-10-26T23:26:00Z

Before then, speculative novels and stories were loosely referred to as fantasies, romances, future war fiction, adventures in the style of Jules Verne or, as H.G. Michael Dirda on the evolution of science fiction 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

“Dark” is a word often used to describe O’Connor’s fiction. Flannery O’Connor’s Manhattan Memorial 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z

A recurring complaint in Coetzee's more self-obsessed books has been that he is respected but not loved, famous but not popular, seen as "a pedant who dabbles in fiction". The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-02-27T10:00:01Z

Critics regard this tale as perhaps the high point of Hoban's long career, but his works remained popular as he produced a steady stream of novels, many with supernatural and science fiction elements. Prolific fantasy writer Russell Hoban dies 2011-12-15T18:02:10Z

Growing meat without animals isn't a new idea: It's been a longtime staple of science fiction and futurist predictions. Could we all be buying lab-grown meat soon? 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

In fiction, meanwhile, the platoon was beginning to emerge as the definitive unit of humanity in the face of battle. Vietnam road 2010-07-10T23:01:00Z

But the author of the "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera" often set his fictions in Columbia. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's ashes to leave Mexico for Colombia 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

It's as near as a film can get to the first-person voice of written fiction without resorting to voiceover narration. was another master of first person. Anne Billson 2010-04-08T21:30:00Z

He has a dry wit and can talk as easily about serious fiction as popular movies and television shows. The Inside Story on Outsiderness 2011-02-25T21:36:23Z

How would you translate this German term, a device that makes the audience insistently aware that what they’re watching is a fiction? Theatre quiz: how much do you know about Bertolt Brecht? 2013-02-13T14:48:33Z

A collection of essays by a gay Korean American fiction writer explores his experiences as a young man in San Francisco. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Let me close with a pair of wide-ranging essay collections, the first by Barry N. Malzberg, the notoriously mordant science fiction author and critic, the second by Douglas A. Anderson, a distinguished expert on J.R.R. Review | This is getting weird: Critics on horror, science fiction and fantasy 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

But then O, A Presidential Novel, is fiction, and the president it depicts – clearly Obama but referred to throughout its 353 pages only as O – is drawn with the benefit of artistic licence. O, A Presidential Novel sparks search for anonymous author 2011-01-19T21:25:12Z

In a 1993 book titled “First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors,” Stephen King revealed the first fiction he wrote at age 9, a short story called “Jhonathan and the Witches.” George R.R. Martin's first published work was a 'Fantastic Four' fan letter 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

It was also, of course, a gigantic fiction. Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer by Rachel Campbell-Johnston - review 2011-07-15T21:55:04Z

Q: The new movie is a shift for you, from the splatter horror of "Saw" and the supernatural thrills of "Insidious" to science fiction. Co-creator of ‘Saw’ and ‘Insidious’ looks forward — and backward — with sci-fi thriller ‘Upgrade.’ 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

Just as the Nazis in this corner of fiction skew far toward the outright villainy side of the “empathy for antagonists” spectrum, so too must their comeuppance be proportionately outsized. Why I love the shameless, gory, Nazi-killing catharsis of Amazon's Hunters 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

The real Parker admitted that this was "a complete work of fiction" and wistfully added: "I wish my life was that cool." The Social Network gives nerds a good name 2011-07-07T17:13:00Z

Serial fiction has been threatening a resurgence for as long as people have been publishing on the internet. A brave new world: science fiction predictions for 2013 2013-01-03T12:11:44Z

Like, if smart fan fiction were given a $500 million budget. "The Rings of Power" are here to fight climate change 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

For Morris, the truth would not suffice to explain Ronald Reagan, an offshoot of the adage "Truth is stranger than fiction." 'My Father at 100': Ron Reagan's memories of Ronald Reagan, president and Dad 2011-02-03T20:14:04Z

Vargas is the best contemporary writer of crime fiction in France, and bears comparison with the greats in any country. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z

Beginning as a poet who worked closely with the late Joseph Brodsky, she completed a master’s degree in art history at the prestigious Courtauld Institute in London before turning to literary fiction. Review | Reading Nicole Krauss’s ‘To Be a Man’ feels like talking all night with a brilliant friend 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

Although “The Whistler” reads as first-rate fiction, it takes on the feel of a documentary as Grisham’s complicated crime unfolds in great detail. John Grisham’s ‘The Whistler’: a corrupt judge and a lawyer bent on stopping her 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

There’s not a lot of human juice here, those micro-pleasures of perception that fill much of her earlier fiction; there’s merely a rolling scenario. In a New Dystopian Novel, the Country is AutoAmerica, but Baseball Is Still Its Pastime 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

The first in a trilogy of “Tartan noir” tales from Scotland kicks off this month’s selection of crime fiction. New crime fiction: Sterling Scottish noir; deadly politics in Houston 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

The Booker Prize became one of the world’s most prestigious awards for fiction by setting for itself one of literary criticism’s loftiest goals: to recognize the year’s best novel written in English. After Her Heart Stops Beating, a Woman Continues to Think 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

Taking baby steps from footnotes to fiction, I wrote a short and personal essay on Africans who shared my trouble with the question "where are you from?" Taiye Selasi: "I'm Afropolitan dammit!' 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z

Yes, all of the other ones were fiction, and I think I’ll go back to it next time and stay on that side of the fence. “Lying to make life bearable”: Cheryl Strayed interviews memoirist Rob Roberge 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

Would anyone now challenge the idea that a spy book can hold its own against more conventionally literary fiction? Reading group: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - does genre matter? 2012-10-04T09:01:34Z

I try not to read novels that are similar to whatever I’m working on, but I do reread novels I love, like Chinua Achebe’s “Arrow of God,” to remind myself of what fiction can do. What the Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reads While She Works 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

The family's wider library takes up three floors: fiction upstairs, history down, the expansive ground floor shelves given to poetry, travel, biography and a general, crammed-in miscellany. Martin Amis: a new chapter in America 2012-06-02T23:04:03Z

It switches nimbly between documentary, animation, music and short film to try to capture a reality for which fiction and nonfiction alone are insufficient. Review: ‘Random Acts of Flyness’ Is a Striking Dream Vision of Race 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

I don’t believe they are much greater than the general challenges facing publishers today -- particularly of fiction. Indie spotlight: Pushkin Press 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

In their blurring of familiar distinctions between documentary and imagination, between fiction and nonfiction, they become, in the highest sense, political films. Two Important Documentaries from Sundance 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

So we have hopefully charted our connected world of fictions and we've got it so thoroughly mapped that we do really have the entire universe of fiction to play with. Alan Moore: an extraordinary gentleman ? Q&A 2011-07-25T12:47:07Z

Jesmyn Ward’s “Sing, Unburied, Sing” won the National Book Award for fiction in 2017, the same year that another African-American writer, Tracy K. Smith, was named U.S. poet laureate. Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Signals Hip-Hop’s Growing Cultural Clout 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

Like much good popular fiction, therefore, Lupin offers a mixture of familiarity and novelty, nowhere more so than in its representation of Paris. Lupin: introducing anglophone audiences to a more socially conscious gentleman thief 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

These are no cheap, bikesploitation pulp fictions, as Parke uses the series to explore ideas of power, politics, knowledge and trust, as well as delivering some astonishing plot twists. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z

It will now be adapted for educational displays about connections between early aviation, space travel, science fiction and escapist theme parks. A Brooklyn Show Celebrates an Inventive Mind of the Midway 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

It rivals PBS’s “The Great American Read,” which this fall attracted more than 4 million votes to determine the all-time favorite work of fiction in the United States. Perspective | Goodreads Choice Awards: An annual reminder that critics and readers don’t often agree 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

I also like some young adult stuff, which is an embarrassing section to walk through in the bookstore, and I like historical fiction. Amy Schumer: By the Book 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

This being a teen fiction novel, I expected drama. The Princess Diaries: Seventh Heaven by Meg Cabot- review 2013-05-11T11:00:00Z

Every month the hosts, Anne Heppermann and Martin Johnson, celebrate innovative audio fiction from around the world. Fiction Rising: Podcasts Grow Dramatic 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Colombians have a term for a genre of fiction that is not picaresque, as in Don Quixote, but "sicaresque", after the ubiquitous literary figure of the sicario, or hired killer for drug cartels. The Sound of Things falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez – review 2012-11-16T08:00:07Z

The £10,000 prize will instead be refocused on an award for the best piece of unpublished short fiction. Commonwealth book prize to end 2013-08-20T09:02:24Z

"One of the things I would do is discount the top 10 bestselling fiction. If you increase your store traffic, ultimately those people are going to buy something other than the bestsellers." Author Patterson backs bookshops 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Do nations or governments have a right to accurate representation in fiction? Never mind Iran and Argo, the Brits should sue Hollywood 2013-03-13T16:11:22Z

Pohl was also an avid futurist, and in his work he dug into the reality of science fiction by exploring the social and psychological worlds of his characters. Science fiction writers meeting in Lawrence 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

In the best possible sense, its character development and narrative strength make it feel like a great fiction feature. In the firing line: A grunt's eye view of war 2011-04-04T20:31:01Z

Together, they publish a mix of polemics, memoir, reportage and even fiction. Milo Yiannopoulos' problematic book deal is publishing business as usual 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

Writing nonfiction is a little easier for me, but writing fiction feels much more natural. This Week in Fiction: Etgar Keret on the Purest Form of Racism 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

In fact, the writing feels gleaned from a mix of gay fan fiction and daytime soaps. ‘Lilies’ Review: A Queer Romantic Drama That Wilts Quickly 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

These outfits operate without the operatic flourishes associated with such organizations in popular fictions. ‘Piranhas’ Review: Junior Mafia 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

We bring you a host of such stories this week, both in fiction and in non. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

The nominees this year span a wide variety of genres and storytelling techniques, including a contemporary Western, a musical, a science fiction adventure, a classic war picture and searing domestic dramas. Perspective | Oscars 2017: Let ‘La La Land’ win best picture, just don’t let it run the table 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Like a lot of 19th-century readers, our 16th president was wary of popular fiction. The Mystery Buffs in the White House 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

I just don’t think I could bear the research necessary to write responsible historical fiction! Kristin Cashore: By the Book 2012-07-06T17:36:04Z

The films were front and center at the Comic-Con convention that wrapped up in San Diego on Sunday in the largest gathering of fans of science fiction, fantasy and video game genres. 'Hunger Games' ushers in era of dystopian young adult films 2013-07-22T01:05:40Z

But this sometimes uneasy conflation of modernity with bygone days is perhaps suited to a book that sits at the intersection of historical and detective fiction. A Thriller Set in Jacobean England Delves Into a Notorious Murder 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

So even if you don’t agree that reading fiction makes us treat others better, it is a way of treating ourselves better. Is Reading the New Therapy? 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

Because literary fiction has to be 600 pages of subtle eye movements and inner thoughts, right? “How accidentally a fate is made”: Ed Tarkington on love and its complications, the toll of mental and physical illness — and how dark episodes become the seeds of story 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

Yet he said fiction was "What I'm Supposed to Do." ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: D. T. Max on David Foster Wallace 2012-09-12T16:30:39Z

The following month-by-month list of titles being released now through November is categorized by fiction and nonfiction and alphabetized by author. Fall books: 37 new titles to add to your reading list 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

But I say that as someone who's nearly 47 and has read a lot more 19th-century fiction than I had 30 years ago. Have we forgotten how to read critically? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z

“A phrase that has also stayed with me,” she wrote, “is ‘the minutiae of life,’ those details that give reality to fiction.” Beverly Cleary Wrote About Real Life, and Her Readers Loved Her for It 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

Cline’s last novel, “The Girls,” was a psychological portrait of women in a Manson-like cult, and she brings the same perception and sensitivity to young women in extremis to this new work of fiction. 13 New Books Coming in May 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

Several of this month’s book selections will remind readers of what’s at stake during the upcoming election, from racial equality to governmental transparency — and that includes the fiction. The books to read in September 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

The novel, and the popular movie it became, embodied as well as any fiction of the era the disenchantment that millions felt after the horrors of Vietnam and Watergate. Book World: James Grady’s ‘Last Days of the Condor’ 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

Yet in Isherwood’s fiction, the area was a notorious place where the police regularly hunted for “wanted criminals or escaped reformatory boys.” Footsteps : Looking for Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin 2013-04-12T19:04:41Z

Moran insists, however, that it’s a work of fiction, autobiographically inspired as it may be. Review: In Her First Novel, Caitlin Moran Explains How To Build a Girl 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

His column on crime and mystery fiction appears on the second Sunday of the month in The Seattle Times. Mysterious frenemies: Houdini and Conan Doyle 2011-11-23T22:16:04Z

Such quirks and blemishes hardly matter, though, given that “The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds” invites its readers to explore an entire galaxy of unfamiliar and exciting fiction. How great science fiction works 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

However, royal historian Hugo Vickers has penned a book “The Crown: Truth & Fiction”, to expose the fiction, saying the show features ludicrous events, misrepresents characters and includes some “idiotic scenes”. 'The Crown' peddles subversive republican message, says royal historian 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

"In Cold Blood" was a signature work, often hailed as the beginning of a new form of storytelling: reportage written with the flair of fiction, later dubbed "creative nonfiction" or "new journalism." Judge frees original 'In Cold Blood' files for publication 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

Whether you’re trying to squeeze one last book into 2021 or making your reading plans for the new year, here are eight options: four fiction and four nonfiction. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

"Most audiences are savvy enough to know that in the moviemaking process, some facts get ironed out into half-truths, and fictions are added to spruce up the narrative arc," said Village Voice columnist Michael Musto. Fact or fiction? Facebook film the latest "truth" tale 2010-09-29T18:39:00Z

I had ended up writing nonfiction instead of fiction because of the realities of modern publishing. Karl Taro Greenfeld on His New Book, Urban Origin Myths and Whether Dads Can “Have It All” 2012-08-01T17:59:13Z

At this point, “The Kindness of Enemies” pierces the fabric of its fiction to explore a largely forgotten historical moment. ‘The Kindness of Enemies’ explores the deep roots of the war on terror 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

The author of 2014’s “Bad Feminist” released one of the year’s most anticipated collections of short fiction earlier this month. Skipping the inauguration on TV? Here are 10 other things to do 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Most, if not all, serious fiction rewards this, but some writers reward it more than others. Mavis Gallant’s Magic Tricks 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

They pause together and look up into the light, out into the cosmos, as people in science fiction films do. Review: An Afrofuturist Trip to the Lunarverse 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

Kaufman’s stories do tend to remind us that their characters are creatures inhabiting fictions. Charlie Kaufman on weirdness, failure and his new puppet noir 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

This film is neither a documentary nor fiction, but rather an experimental combination of the two. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets’ and ‘Unidentified’ 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z

Instead, in long, often angst-ridden evenings spent at his kitchen table with a pencil and sketch pad, trying to generate ideas, he composed fictions about everyday life. Rockwell Paintings at the Smithsonian American Art Museum 2010-07-01T16:28:00Z

Jennifer Gray A quick flick through polls of the top 100 books for children will tell you that animal characters remain some of the most popular and enduring in children's fiction. Top tips for writing animals with human characteristics: Jennifer Gray 2012-10-02T12:35:27Z

Rushdie’s appropriation of this frame of reference situates non-fictional events and characters comfortably within the frame of fiction. “Joseph Anton”: Memoir as noir 2012-11-05T21:58:00Z

At 70, Robinson — who is widely acclaimed as one of the most influential speculative fiction writers of his generation — stands as perhaps the last of the great utopians. A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

Ms. Jong has since published three memoirs, five more volumes of poetry and eight other novels, including historical fiction and a work about Sappho, but nothing has matched the popularity of “Fear of Flying.” Erica Jong’s ‘Fear of Dying’ Defies the Sunset of Sex 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

The magazine appeared bolder than it had been in years, and Jim seemed to have invigorated American fiction. Jim Harrison, Mozart of the Prairie 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

I have never met a pastor or a fiction writer who was any good who didn’t feel authoritative enough to interpret, to reconfigure in order to transform. Tiphanie Yanique on the Necessity of the Spirit 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

If Booker is, as it claims, our premier fiction prize, then her name should be on the winners' trophy. Is the 'Beryl Bainbridge Booker' a good thing? 2011-02-13T00:05:32Z

For every George Orwell, equally adept at nonfiction and the novel, there's William Gass, whose fiction falls as silent to me as his essays sing. Mohsin Hamid's new book takes a post-9/11 view 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

As it turns out, Abrams first wrote “While Justice Sleeps” a decade ago, before she became the Georgia House of Representatives minority leader, the sort of position that can hamper fiction writing. And in her spare time, Stacey Abrams wrote a thriller 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

Now 67, Morrow has been writing satiric science fiction and historical novels for almost 35 years. James Morrow’s satiric novel ‘Galápagos Regained’ takes on Darwin and God 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

He later went to Harvard Law School, and continued to write fiction, working on a draft of “Moth Smoke.” Global Migration Meets Magic in Mohsin Hamid’s Timely Novel 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

Iran too is a hall of mirrors where photographic fact and fiction are hard to tell apart. Iran's self-aggrandising 'fake' fighter plane and a history of doctored photos 2013-02-13T12:22:04Z

I spoke with her about one of Leonard Cohen’s greatest songs, the role of memory in fiction, and the epistolary structure of the book. Samantha Harvey: “We don’t always have to write about women in the context of their relationships with men” 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Although his fiction is the occasion of his fame, it is now no longer necessary to have read any of it to have an opinion about Franzen and whether he deserves that fame. David Foster Wallace and the Perils of “Litchat” 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

Peluchonneau is an invented character, a creature conjured from crime fiction and touched with philosophical melancholy as well as ruthlessness. Review: ‘Neruda’ Pursues the Poet as Fugitive 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Do you see yourself continuing to both write fiction and make films? ArtsBeat: Cannes Q. and A.: Julia Leigh on a Modern-Day 'Sleeping Beauty' 2011-05-15T20:39:05Z

Is your fiction rooted in previous experience or is your imagination just drawn to darker themes? ArtsBeat: Leaning Toward the Light: Molly Ringwald Talks About Her New Novel 2012-08-15T15:45:38Z

Garland, who's explored science fiction in much of his work, was a sounding board for the book's ideas and a very early reader of the novel. Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro on the film adaptation of 'Never Let Me Go' 2010-09-29T21:17:00Z

She can seem, in her fiction and the way she talks about it, like a writer who is all minimalist control. For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

Nearly a decade and a half later, Ms. Clare wrote her first piece of fan fiction. Cassandra Clare Created a Fantasy Realm and Aims to Maintain Her Rule 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

The works are often more intense than other fiction—in stories with so few sentences, each one has to count. Short Stories for Summer Reading 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

James M. Cain left Los Angeles in the late 1940s and his fiction was never the same. When noir blew up! 2012-12-12T18:03:00Z

Food Artistry, Served Family Style If “Step Up to the Plate” were fiction, its players would deserve an award for best ensemble performance. Movie Review: ‘Step Up to the Plate,’ a Documentary on Michel and Sebastien Bras 2012-09-14T00:16:10Z

He said that Mr. Herbert had been living on a modest Screen Actors Guild pension and fees from appearances at film festivals and conventions of science fiction fans. Charles Herbert, Child Star Known for Roles in ‘The Fly’ and ‘13 Ghosts,’ Dies at 66 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

It was a small example of one of Marra’s favorite preoccupations in fiction: the thin line between the tragic and the comic, how they dance with and undercut each other. Using Fiction to Summon the Glittering, Golden Age of Hollywood 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z

Like many a modern European writer, Johnson saw America in fiction before he saw it in fact. A New Translation of an Anti-Heroic German Doorstopper of 1968 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

In a case of life imitating fiction, the writer-director, Jason Lei Howden, got into a Twitter skirmish shortly before the movie’s release. ‘Guns Akimbo’ Review: Put Down the Controller 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

It seems that fiction exists, but with a twist. 'The Woman Who Died a Lot': the new adventures of Thursday Next 2012-10-11T20:04:04Z

"Brave New World," the classic science fiction novel by Aldous Huxley, is going into development at Syfy as a potential series. Syfy developing 'Brave New World' as series 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

As for fiction, I fell early under the sway of the historical novelist Mary Renault, whose books set in ancient Greece were a major factor in pushing me toward the study of the classics. Daniel Mendelsohn: By the Book 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

That will be one of the questions to contemplate at this fifth annual festival at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, which this year explores how new technology is turning science fiction into reality. Spare Times for Children Listings for July 15-21 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

In the car, he kept an English-Arabic dictionary, a thesaurus, a few reference books, some American fiction, and a favorite edition of the work of Kahlil Gibran. No Longer Driving a Cab, a Syrian Writer in America Focusses on His Fiction 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

When not working on his television show, Kurt writes stories for Andromeda, a science fiction magazine edited by the agoraphobic Saul Silver. Science fiction: ‘The Madonna and the Starship,’ by James Morrow

Religious issues and their exponents remain as vital a subject of fiction today as in the age of Goldsmith or Trollope. Michael Arditti: why I write fiction about faith 2013-07-26T10:47:00Z

The conventional history of modern art is a fiction. Surrealism? It was always old hat 2011-04-08T09:55:25Z

Mr. Arden was also the author of several books of fiction, including the novel “Silence Among the Weapons” and the short-story collection “Gallows and Other Tales of Suspicion and Obsession.” John Arden, British Playwright, Dies at 81 2012-04-03T18:15:07Z

Harding’s novel “Tinkers,” published by a small press, won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. 43 new books for fall 2013 2013-08-24T21:21:11Z

His rejection of the standard props of realist fiction will alienate some. Review | Tom McCarthy’s ‘The Making of Incarnation’ is a mind-bending international caper 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

"Iron Man" helped "turn the ship as far as people taking a chance into science fiction and fantasy," said Don Hall, who co-directed "Big Hero 6" with Chris Williams. Disney's 'Big Hero 6' shapes superheroes from robotics and anime 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

While some Bangladeshis in London complained that the book unfairly painted them as ignorant and narrow-minded, reviewers praised Ms. Ali as an exciting new voice in immigrant fiction. ArtsBeat: A Different, Happy Ending for Diana? Monica Ali Novel Imagines a Future 2011-01-07T17:04:27Z

As technology advances apace, crime fiction keeping abreast of current developments begins to resemble – as does real life when we stop to consider it – science fiction more and more. Crime fiction: Evidence points to a clash of genres 2012-07-19T08:15:53Z

Banville tells readers, only partly in jest, to expect an "absolute masterpiece of crime fiction." Writer Banville enjoys new lease on life as Black 2011-07-12T21:04:27Z

From a contemporary romance with a pastiche of historical fiction, we move to a historical novel that’s a pastiche of … ’80s teen movies? Four Winter Romance Novels Find Love in Hopeless Places 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

Even optimistic proponents of the science behind his fiction predict a birthday that middle-aged hominids like me probably won’t be around to celebrate. When Woolly Mammoths Roamed the Earth 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

Nine dancers, three musicians, two martial-arts experts and a calligraphist, all from Europe and Asia, unite on stage to conjure up a fascinating world that verges between science fiction and present-day life. In Transit Blog: In Paris, Honoring the 'God of Manga' in Dance 2012-05-11T12:00:19Z

Robinson’s ability to marshal dense scientific and technical detail, economic and political theory and wonkish policy proposals into his fiction has made him a prominent public thinker outside of the sci-fi sphere. A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

“This is a beautifully written work of fiction and we don’t think there is any basis to the legal claims,” she said in a statement. ArtsBeat: Maid Sues Author of ?The Help? 2011-02-17T19:22:53Z

Because when you’re learning to read fiction, when you have a good teacher as I often did in school, what you’re learning, in part, is empathy. Terry Gross of ‘Fresh Air’ talks about the art of getting personal 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

The start of the show resembled a big-budget science fiction flick. At McQueen, some see clues to Middleton mystery 2011-03-09T02:46:04Z

I’ll go through long periods where I’m only reading literary fiction, then long periods where I’m only reading spy books and thrillers, then I might get into biographies or books about politics or something. Why Michael Ian Black Doesn’t Like Mystery Novels 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

Like the best science fiction “Never Let Me Go” shines its strongest light on the present. The Oscars: Movies Worth Another Look 2011-01-01T01:32:00Z

Mr. Banks published 28 books in just under 30 years, writing literary fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks. Iain Banks, Novelist of Crime and Science Fiction, Dies at 59 2013-06-12T23:53:39Z

The anthology of short fiction by Palestinian writers was published in July by the British nonprofit Comma Press. Writing as bombs fall, in both Gaza and Tel Aviv 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

Episode 6, “Explosivos” This was the first time I was eager for an annotated version of the series that would flag the fiction that is mixed in with the fact. Netflix's 'Narcos': Watched It All? Talk About It With the Critic Neil Genzlinger 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

Every paragraph, every sentence, seems custom-built to illustrate the conviction of his old creative writing teacher, Grace Paley, that "fiction must always be true". David Vann: 'I was filled with rage.' 2011-01-02T00:02:02Z

“You couldn’t sell it as a piece of fiction,” Broadbent said earlier, in the gallery’s restaurant. In ‘The Duke,’ Jim Broadbent Puts an Eccentric at the Center 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

This year’s fiction short list was greeted with more enthusiasm. National Book Award Goes to Phil Klay for His Short Story Collection 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

The Baldwin passage is from a memoir that recounts being an African American in a small Swiss village; the Stein excerpt is a racist stereotype from one of her works of fiction. Review | In the galleries: Glenn Ligon exhibition draws on Baldwin, Stein and Warhol 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

Even in so-called realistic fiction, we expect authors to “make up” their stories, to forge, as one of the president’s advisers once so elegantly put it, “alternative facts.” Perspective | Mr. President, you don’t know a poorly written novel 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z

James lay in bed while she transcribed his words with a typewriter—which was the way he had composed all his late fiction. The Late Late Phase 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Advertisement Advertisement The critic Sam Anderson, writing in New York magazine, called it “flat out, one of the best stretches of fiction I’ve ever read.” ‘2666,’ a Most Difficult Novel, Takes the Stage 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

I’m beginning to wonder if something like that is happening in contemporary fiction. Literary Revolution in the Supermarket Aisle: Genre Fiction Is Disruptive Technology 2012-05-23T10:45:11Z

My daughter is a journalist for the globe and mail and writes long form non fiction and she will love reading it. Antonio Banderas Doesn’t Think You’ll Remember Him. Not Yet. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

But he holds special regard for science fiction, including the original “Blade Runner” in 1982, one of his first movie credits. Designing Costumes for 'Star Wars’ Jedis, Princesses and Naked Creatures 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

These are interesting times for Arabic fiction, which are reflected in today's exceptional announcement. International Arabic fiction prize awarded to Alem and Achaari 2011-03-14T18:44:54Z

Mr. Rebordinos, who was prevented last year from screening “A Serbian Film” at the festival by a last-minute court order, added, “this film shows a representation, it belongs in the universe of fiction.” So Scandalous a Prosecutor Took Notice 2011-05-13T23:03:02Z

Mr. Meyerowitz, 74, who has been around photography long enough to understand its inherent fictions as well as anyone, naturally takes such observations as compliments. Joel Meyerowitz in New Book and at Howard Greenberg Gallery 2012-11-18T03:49:04Z

Times bestseller in fiction is the novel “The Wanted” by Robert Crais, now in its second week on the list. Books: Susan Straight and David L. Ulin take on innovative memoirs and more in books 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z

Matthew Thomas’s realist epic, “We Are Not Ourselves,” exceeds the usual boundaries of fiction on the subject. A Place Beyond Words: The Literature of Alzheimer’s 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

The distance of an ocean, combined with the safety of fiction, might qualify the series as a sort of escape from all the other worries weighing on a viewer’s mind. Review | With ‘Roadkill,’ PBS invites you to watch a narcissist politician who gets away with everything. How does that grab you? 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

Do you think that your work in those fields brings something to your fiction writing? Weike Wang on the Privilege of Not Having to Think About Race 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

"Imagine `Pirates of the Caribbean' or `Raiders of the Lost Ark,' and picture them as science fiction novels," he said. Science fiction satirist Harry Harrison has died 2012-08-15T21:24:11Z

“What we concluded in the end is that this is a fantastically vital and vigorous aspect of the way fiction is being written at the moment. People are really pushing at the boundaries.” Inventive books make final 6 for International Booker Prize 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

"There is no one better to bring Philip Marlowe back to life for the vast readership that loves noir crime fiction." John Banville to revive Philip Marlowe in new novel 2012-08-09T09:05:12Z

“I can’t think of another festival that shows fiction and documentaries that puts as much honor, respect and spotlight on the documentary.” At Sundance, powerhouse documentaries will be everywhere 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

The only fiction that has been in the can’t-put-it-down category for me in the last few years was Donna Tartt’s “The Goldfinch.” Dear Reader, Meet Your Match: An Advice Column for Book Lovers 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

Do you find that writing fiction is challenging? Richard A. Clarke on drones: “I’m not even sure 20 years from now we’ll have fighter pilots” 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

Hannah Arendt said a totalitarian state uses the secret police as the “executors and guardians of its domestic experiment in constantly transforming reality into fiction.” Letters to the Editor 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Or, he added in the wry, lightly despairing voice of his fiction, “a place to show off your poodles.” Ben Lerner Imagines ‘Different Futures’ in His Novel ‘10:04’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

About six years ago, she pivoted to fiction in a somewhat clandestine way. Paula Hawkins’s Journey to ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

The following is an edited version of a longer phone conversation: Q: Your fiction has the same tattered, lived-in feel of your movies. Lit Fest: Sayles stays rooted in change 2011-06-01T21:26:00Z

Take our quiz and find out• Gillian says that fiction helps us 'understand people who are different from us'. Gillian Cross: 'I'm looking at reality, as hard as I can' 2013-05-20T16:22:55Z

I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them. Legendary Creature Creator Rick Baker Talks Aliens and Men in Black 3 2012-05-24T10:45:45Z

But social media sites, forums for fan fiction and the ability to exchange tweets with comic book authors has created a groundswell of enthusiasm for female superheroes. Meet Marvel's New All-Female Superhero Team 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

In all these ways science fiction ought to illuminate the questions we discuss here. What can science fiction teach us about God? 2011-07-11T11:30:00Z

She began contemplating writing “Loving,” she said, a few years ago, although she originally envisioned it as fiction. “Loving” author on how slow racial equality progress can be: “We still have that kind of politics” 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

Science fiction icon Ray Bradbury, who died Tuesday at age 91, picked out his epitaph long before he passed away. Is there any reason to read? 2012-06-08T00:00:00Z

Fincham insists the gap will be filled by new fiction, rather than reality TV. The Bill killed off due to ratings slump 2010-03-26T19:23:00Z

The series inspired an influx in dystopian fiction. Review | How ‘The Outsiders,’ ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘The Hunger Games’ transformed YA fiction 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

Everything in the show is a fiction, even if it’s drawn from life. As ‘A Strange Loop’ Ends, Its Creator Looks Back on a ‘Supernova’ 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

At the time Mr. Jackson was just finishing his first feature film, a comedy-horror-science fiction mash-up called “Bad Taste,” about aliens who need human flesh to serve at an intergalactic fast-food chain. Middle-Earth Wizard’s Not-So-Silent Partner 2012-11-30T13:00:00Z

Between them, the 10 nominees represent just three countries – Ireland, Australia and the US – and there's no fiction in translation. Impac prize shortlist fails fiction in translation 2011-04-12T16:11:04Z

Shown at the 1964 World's Fair in New York, the film caught the attention of director Stanley Kubrick and science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke, there researching a possible collaboration called Journey To The Stars. The genius of Douglas Trumbull 2011-07-08T23:11:06Z

And of course it’s true in fiction, where stories let us explore ideas of justice or love or family or art, pretty much anything at all, through the interior lives of the characters. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

At first, the gift books were largely nonfiction — many of them special editions and keepsakes — but as the years passed, The Times began to include more fiction. The Paper Published a Holiday Books Guide in 1851 — and Every Year Since 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

I was made to read Dickens and George Eliot at school, which was such tough going for me that I believed reading fiction to be a form of torture. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z

From the 1990s however, he developed a style he describes as "documentary fiction". African art around the globe 2012-11-30T12:10:54Z

Already in those days, in other words, the idea of Yosemite as an unpopulated wilderness was a fiction. Review | I used to think Ansel Adams’s photographs were boring. This exhibition changed that. 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

But 50 years ago, James Bond creator Ian Fleming wrote a bedtime story for his young son, Caspar, about a magical flying car and created one of the best-loved stories in children's fiction. How Chitty Chitty Bang Bang took off 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

I like to have fiction in the living room, reference books in the writing room. Fran Lebowitz: By the Book 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

We all love conspiracy movies, but this was no Hollywood fiction. Flickonomics: eight movies that teach us how money works 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

She now recognizes this was an elaborate defense mechanism, a “costly fiction” that elided her confusion by pretending she was in control. Katie Roiphe Feels Ambivalent About Feeling Ambivalent 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

The National Book Foundation, which presents the awards, announced five works in each of five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation and young people’s literature. Novelist Lydia Millet among National Book Award finalists 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Sony Pictures Entertainment/AP The critically acclaimed science fiction thriller Looper looks set to be the first blockbuster to boast a bigger opening weekend figure in China than for its US debut. Looper opens with bigger box office in China than US 2012-10-01T10:37:11Z

"Her books are the most borrowed in prison libraries, and the most stolen, because she writes her crime fiction from the point of view of the criminals and their families." Memoir reveals prisoners' book preferences 2010-10-27T13:57:00Z

There’s a long literary strain of science fiction and fantasy that draws on African and African-American folklore, from masters like Ben Okri and Octavia Butler, and a deep tradition of magical realism in African-American literature. Nnedi Okorafor and the Fantasy Genre She Is Helping Redefine 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

The filmmaker and author of “Live Cinema and Its Techniques” splits his reading among fiction, history, science, religion and philosophy, “rarely popular best sellers.” Francis Ford Coppola: By the Book 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

This is character-driven literary science fiction at its finest and it examines how humans will deal with the challenges of long missions of space exploration. Love astronaut-themed science fiction? Seattle Times staffers name their favorite books, movies and TV shows of that genre. 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

The space adventure, which stars some of the lesser-known characters from the comic book universe, knocked science fiction thriller Lucy off the top spot. Guardians swoops to top box office 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

The book won the Baileys Women’s Prize for fiction in the U.K. Naomi Alderman on her electrifying work of feminist sc-fi, 'The Power' 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

“Buckley is an old hand at this, the author of more than a dozen political satires,” Ben Greenman writes, reviewing the book alongside two other works of politically minded fiction. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

“Men,” she said, “seem to find excitement in a sequence of violent action. Whereas women like to read about gentlemen, which they don’t find in paperback fiction, and possibly not in real life either.” Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Suspense Novelist, Dies at 98 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

On the phone from a Brooklyn hotel, the ever-outspoken Atwood spoke with Salon about dystopias, robot sex and beer — in fiction and reality. Margaret Atwood on our real-life dystopia: “What really worries me is creeping dictatorship” 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z

For a book that has inspired so much science fiction over the past 50 years, from “Star Wars” to “Alien,” filmed adaptations have proved difficult. Denis Villeneuve’s dreams of ‘Dune’ reach the big screen 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

The novel’s bang-up opening scene has a clever twist on a current trend in pop fiction. Review | White supremacists are the eerily relevant villains in Karin Slaughter’s new novel 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

It was a period of creative turmoil in science fiction, when a group of writers known as the New Wave sought to elevate genre writing by emphasizing literary style and character development. Frederik Pohl, Worldly-Wise Master of Science Fiction, Dies at 93 2013-09-03T16:42:10Z

But probably the only work of fiction to consider it in depth was "Roustabout," a 2006 play from Chicago's Neo-Futurists theater. A circus tragedy lost to history 2011-05-02T21:49:00Z

To rival fiction, lives need to be transformed into fiction. Aaron Sorkin Hates Screens 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Tidbits of autofiction, and dashes of speculative fiction are mixed together and seasoned with current events. Review | Zadie Smith’s debut short-story collection is a dazzling experiment in form and genre 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Smith, whose first name was Francis, is now not known for his fiction but as being the engineer who built the foundation for the Statue of Liberty. The name of this library book returned 100 years late couldn't get any better 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

There is also a strand known as urban fiction, lighter on the violence and dysfunction. Prodigy’s ‘H.N.I.C.,’ Street Lit From Infamous Books 2013-05-31T21:16:57Z

Today, movies grounded in science fiction are among the biggest draws at box offices. 'Avatar' director Cameron traces roots of sci-fi movie explosion 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

Earlier that summer, Time magazine profiled Strode’s workshop—a novelty at the time, in that it had no lectures or textbooks, instead allowing a select group of students to focus on their fiction. When Harper Lee Doodled in Shakespeare Class 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us enjoying writing it and reading it. Junot Díaz wins world's richest short story prize 2013-03-22T21:30:12Z

But while the underlying story may be stranger than fiction, the film itself, directed and co-written by theater veteran Rupert Goold, has met with generally unenthusiastic notices. 'True Story': James Franco-Jonah Hill drama doesn't convince critics 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Trade secret here: Science fiction is commonly considered the literature of the future, but more often than not it’s about today. During Trump's present, it's gotten hard to write the future, says John Scalzi 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

And when you can’t believe what’s happening in reality, there is no better time to suspend your disbelief and read and trust in a work of fiction — in what it can do. ‘Friday Black’ Paints a Dark Portrait of Race in America 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

It is cherry-picked and jury-rigged, co-opted and corrupted, and yet it remains inextricable from American identity — which is precisely why it repeatedly finds its way into our fiction. Imprinted by Belief 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z

The shortest answer is: Baumbach doesn’t make documentaries but dramatic features, and fiction has been his redemption. Noah Baumbach’s New Movie “While We’re Young” 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

In a sense, the most amazing thing about Mr. Mandela is that he is not a fiction. Paul Simon on Mandela’s Role in ‘Graceland’ 2013-12-13T22:42:19Z

Morgan is the author of “The Sport of Kings,” which was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. How Patriarchy Imprinted Itself on the Family Who Created Jell-O 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

The more effectively historical fiction does its job, the more it blurs the lines between the known and the imagined. 'Wolf Hall' Recap: Cromwell the Serpent Makes an Appearance 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z

I read somewhere that you often revise your fiction. Sam Lipsyte interviews himself 2013-04-06T21:00:00Z

Elizabeth Kostova, whose first novel, “The Historian,” made a best-selling contribution to the world’s vast stock of vampire fiction, brings us back to Eastern Europe in “The Shadow Land.” Elizabeth Kostova takes us on another European adventure in ‘The Shadow Land’ 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

The character who cracks this novel fully open — she’s one of the glorious characters in recent American fiction — is Marion, Russ’s wife. Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads,’ a Mellow, ’70s-Era Heartbreaker That Starts a Trilogy 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

No two romance readers have exactly the same taste, and all are accommodated in the vast churn of this genre that accounts for more than a third of the fiction market in the United States. Love Notes 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Careful not to confuse young visitors about reality and fiction, galleries are clearly delineated as containing actual artifacts and scientific data. Museums Special Section: Entering World of Literature’s Great Sleuth 2014-03-19T20:37:03Z

But comic fiction remains a cabin on a treacherous mountain trail that somebody breaks into every few years and then abandons. Perspective | We need comic novels more than ever. So where are they? 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Freed, a member of the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee, formed to commemorate Oppenheimer, said that he viewed the work as historical fiction, but found it rewarding. Bringing ‘Doctor Atomic’ to the Birthplace of the Bomb 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

So the memoir writing starts in the fiction program. In ‘Afropessimism,’ a Black Intellectual Mixes Memoir and Theory 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z

The stories vary from formal experiments to deeply felt character meditations, from a three-page piece of flash fiction to a well-developed novella, and from heartbreak to horror to humor. A Poltergeist Who Adores Apricots and Cat-Loving A.I. 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

The first few chapters are the epitome of failing to abide by the rule "show, don't tell", a maxim that applies just as much to science as it does to fiction. 2121: A Tale from the Next Century by Susan Greenfield – review 2013-07-21T10:00:00Z

In the heyday of mass-market “slick” magazines, a serious fiction writer actually had the option of selling out, but you had to have a knack for it. A Late — and Maybe Last — Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘Lost’ Stories 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Vasarhelyi: We were interested in how to tell a true story in narrative fiction, and how it translates from our previous work. "Nyad" star Annette Bening brought "sharp edges" to courageous swimmer and refused body touch-ups 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z

"In fiction we've got novels like The Art of Fielding, a popular and critical hit earlier this year, alongside lesser known titles such as The China Factory," said Allardice. Guardian first book award: the longlist 2012 2012-08-30T17:16:21Z

Some are quite cheeky and seem to be inspired by obsessive fan fiction, a clever tweaking of the show’s devotees. Martin Freeman in ‘Sherlock’ — and FX’s upcoming ‘Fargo’ 2014-01-17T19:09:21Z

Jonathan Coe The subtitle of your event at Hay this year is "fiction and comedy". Who do you think you are? 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

I generally avoid science fiction and historical fiction. Ian Frazier Wishes Somebody Would Write About the World’s Largest Beaver Dam 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Blending science fiction, comedy and fantasy, Machado explores violent acts committed against women. 9 short-story collections we can’t wait to read this fall 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

He added: “The passion my generation felt about poetry and fiction has gone into food, I think, into making pickles or chocolate or beer.” A Critic’s Tour of Literary Manhattan 2012-12-14T17:13:34Z

He blurs the lines between fiction and nonfiction by sometimes using a contrived storyteller’s voice in an essay, or by throwing criticism into something that sounds more like a piece of fiction. Have personal essays gotten too personal? 2013-03-17T17:00:00Z

To leave your reader satisfied you need to pay your dues to fiction's form as well as its content. The Widow's Tale by Mick Jackson 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z

The city that never sleeps has been replaced by the desert that never speaks, and his celebrated parody of hard-boiled detective fiction is now distilled to a clear amber spirit. Review | Jonathan Lethem is back on the detective beat looking for America’s troubled soul 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

If you omit "New York", that sentence might also serve to describe McCann's approach to fiction. Colum McCann: a life in writing 2013-05-25T07:30:01Z

Posted to Harvard Study Suggests Working From Home Could Hurt Your Career “Suzanne, The numbers for paranormal are incomplete, since that sub-genre is usually included in science fiction, thrillers, young adult and romances....” Got 200K? Buy Steinbeck's Library 2010-06-21T17:54:21Z

He recalled his childhood discovery of fantasy and science fiction, adventures that primed his future. Ray Bradbury and the fever of inspiration 2012-06-06T20:50:17Z

One of the blurbs I wrote for it says, 'We present these incidents that you're about to witness as a work of fiction in order to avoid worldwide apprehension and panic.' Stan Lee reveals details of new comic "Seekers" 2011-07-22T23:00:05Z

Though “Saint Omer” is her first foray into fiction, she sees it as a “continuation and extension” of the rest of her oeuvre. For the Documentarian Alice Diop, Only Fiction Could Do Justice to a Tragedy 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

It is fascinating to see an astute Victorian mind exploring these issues in the form of fiction. David Lodge: rereading Anthony Trollope 2012-12-14T22:55:04Z

But whether it's truth or fiction, I left with frustratingly little idea. Rhod Gilbert – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-24T17:00:01Z

This biography uncovers Jackson’s secret and haunting life and repositions her as a major artist whose fiction so uncannily channeled women’s nightmares and contradictions. Notable nonfiction books in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

“People see a program like that and they forget that it is fiction,” he told ITV. Netflix refuses to add disclaimer to ‘The Crown,’ despite pressure from the British government 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

“This is a shortlist emblematic of the many adventures of fiction — its making and reading,” Lisa Appignanesi, chairwoman of the 2018 Man Booker International Prize judging panel, said in a statement. Six Books Shortlisted for Man Booker International Prize 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

TasveerTV, which will have fully launched by the end of April, includes fiction features, documentaries and short films, with a focus on representation and social justice. Arts groups got creative about fundraising during COVID, and here’s why that’s likely to stay 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

At age 16 his first piece of short fiction was published in his high school literary magazine. Places Where Hemingway Lived or Traveled 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

It “confirmed our belief that Black Rock City just isn’t an appropriate place to shoot fiction films”. Why does cinema struggle to recreate the music festival? 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

Even so, there is probably no worse place or time to read speculative fiction about 9/11 than North End Way during the week before 9/11. The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

A Marvel editor told me that they would smuggle a bit of the real world into that type of escapist fiction. Comics author Brian K. Vaughan on his global hit "Saga" and making art in troubled times 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

In the past, religion was represented in British fiction through clergymen themselves. Michael Arditti: why I write fiction about faith 2013-07-26T10:47:00Z

Maybe it’s just that we’re self-loathing capitalists, and anything associated with commerce, as genre fiction is, is automatically tainted and disqualified from having any aesthetic value. Literary Revolution in the Supermarket Aisle: Genre Fiction Is Disruptive Technology 2012-05-23T10:45:11Z

It was important that the camera espouses different points of view rather than in fiction when it is an omniscient camera with a God’s eye view that sees everything in an objective way. "Anatomy of a Fall" inverses the formulaic whodunit and shows the "limitations of a courtroom" 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z

Most of his science fiction features the bombastic Professor George Edward Challenger, who discovered dinosaurs and cavemen in “The Lost World” and awaited cosmic disaster in “The Poison Belt.” Do we need another book about Sherlock Holmes? 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

And like the best speculative fiction, it poses complex questions about how one might live in frightening circumstances. 'Hunger Games' pits book gore against movie gore 2012-03-22T06:06:26Z

"He thought we were turning science fiction into something namby-pamby, losing its roots," Moorcock says. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z

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

If you're anywhere near work colleagues, elderly relatives, small children or nonagenarian science fiction writers, I feel I must warn you in advance that you view it at your own peril. The Ray Bradbury video tribute I never expected to see 2010-08-23T15:34:00Z

The book is organized to show how golf writing — and fiction writing in general — has evolved from the wordiness of the early 20th century — interesting, but probably only compelling to an English major. Golf stories: an oasis and metaphor for the multiple rounds of life 2011-06-15T19:39:04Z

I think most fiction can be assessed as a ratio of invention to reality. Callan Wink on Fiction in the Age of “Alternative Facts” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

These were useful tools to persuade followers and themselves, but, of course, they were elaborate fictions. India in Pieces 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

In these devastatingly quiet fictions, Gellhorn lays bare the psychology of abject poverty. The Trouble I've Seen by Martha Gelhorn – review 2012-11-06T12:00:00Z

I like to be reading a work of fiction and nonfiction at the same time. Review | A former congressman asked his old colleagues for book suggestions. Here’s their list. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

To have him gone is the closing the door, for the culture of science fiction and the literature of science fiction.” Ray Bradbury: The man who made sci-fi respectable 2012-06-06T20:30:00Z

So when she turned, with trepidation, to fiction, she wrote what she knew. Revisiting Judith Krantz’s “Scruples,” a Novel with a Passion for Clothes 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

That would have been absurd, because, as anyone who thinks about it for half a second knows, fiction has to be in part about unhappiness. Orange Prize: Women authors can lighten up?and still be taken seriously 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z

"If you examine any documentary, you see how shaped it is, and how similar the narrative structure is to that of a fiction film," she says. Can 'fake' documentaries still tell the truth? 2010-09-30T22:00:00Z

Like the best fiction, it feels truer and more mesmerizing than some true stories. A Musician’s Daughter Faces His Music — and His Choices 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

His writing, which includes memoir, history, biography and reportage as well as more than a dozen works of fiction, is like a vast prairie, its fertile valleys and desert patches shadowed by three mighty peaks. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

But, though theology may be a minority interest, the politics and psychology of the Vatican have long proved a fascination, and TV fiction has often genuflected towards Rome. House of cardinals: why is TV so obsessed with Catholicism? 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Ingress points to a less prosaic vision for such a world, one where ordinary-seeming places and objects are dense with fiction. Ingress, a Mobile Game From Google 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

But on the same shelves there are other books – the pulp fiction thrillers of Edgar Wallace; the schlocky master criminal Fantômas novels; a David Lodge; an unread Ulysses. New Europe: Juan Mir?, a titan of art whose presence is still felt 2011-03-30T06:00:03Z

There, in Wohl’s fact-based fiction, young Aryans are taught Master Race ideology along with the value of unpaid, often unsafe labor. Review: At ‘Camp Siegfried,’ a Nazi Summer of Love on Long Island 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

Fan fiction exists to create what the original work is failing to offer. Amazon to sell fan fiction 2013-05-23T08:44:57Z

It's mind-bending science fiction that isn't afraid to challenge its audience. Review: Brilliant 'BioShock Infinite' takes flight 2013-03-26T12:26:15Z

She holds six of the top 10 spots on The New York Times’s paperback fiction best-seller list, a stunning number of simultaneous best sellers from a single author. How Colleen Hoover Rose to Rule the Best-Seller List 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

Jews in fiction were more likely, it seems, to come up in works by non-Jews, either as Fagin or Leopold Bloom. Is Howard Jacobson the only person writing British Jewish novels? 2010-10-15T11:03:00Z

Science fiction and obsessive love converge in these pages with the heat of crossed laser rays. Best graphic novels of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Among his most famous works were the 1982 Indian epic "Gandhi," which went on to win eight Oscars including best director and best film, and science fiction adventure "Jurassic Park." British actor and film director Richard Attenborough dies: BBC 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

But even while the number of podcast dramas has mushroomed, branching into experimental fiction, soap operas and musicals, its practitioners admit that audio fiction presents unique challenges. In the golden age of television, can narrative podcasts compete? 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

We talked a bit about the pandemic, and I'm with you: at the start, I definitely found comfort in my fiction writing, but I also found community in it. "I want to believe": Alice Hoffman is always seeking magic, practical and otherwise 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z

I was amazed by the potential of the "you", of how much space it could open up in fiction. Mohsin Hamid on his enduring love of the second-person narrative 2013-03-22T07:00:02Z

Science fiction writer Andy Weir, author of “The Martian” and “Project Hail Mary,” is dubious about the scale of the undertaking. Imagining a five-star hotel among the stars 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

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

Joyce, and particularly “Ulysses,” continue to influence the distinctive hodgepodge that is American popular fiction and culture in massive, invisible ways. James Joyce’s lyrical, sensual literary legacy: Why so many novels steal from “Ulysses” 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

And then at some point the yard wasn't that fun for me, so about four years ago I made this decision: nothing but fiction. George Saunders: 'It was good to have a painful immersion in capitalism' 2013-05-26T08:00:06Z

In 1965 he was teaching at Iowa, still largely unsuccessful at 43, looked down upon by his colleagues as science fiction writer who never graduated college. I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem 2012-01-11T17:47:41Z

I have always been driven to write fiction for young adults, because that's a time in life when you might be at your most emotionally vulnerable and need to find yourself in books. 13 YA authors on writing in the age of Trump 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

It was, he said, conscripting the language of fiction, "a story about war, based on personal experience". Vietnam road 2010-07-10T23:01:00Z

Unlike the fiction it was sensible, sceptical, rather schoolmasterish in tone, as if he'd supposed he was writing for ideological fools. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan - extract 2012-08-10T21:55:10Z

But she was accepted by Columbia University’s program and received master’s degrees in poetry and fiction. Katherine Heiny’s Road to ‘Single, Carefree, Mellow’ 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

New regulations require that students study at least one play by Shakespeare, at least one 19th-century novel, a selection of poetry since 1789 and “fiction or drama from the British Isles from 1914 onwards.” Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

“All air and space milestones begin with inspiration, and science fiction so often provides that spark.” Coming Soon to a Hallowed Hall of Spaceflight: An X-Wing Fighter 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

But honestly, I don’t see much evidence that Mr. Trump has the level of introspection to be changed by a work of fiction. Trump Isn’t Watching Too Much TV. He’s Watching the Wrong Kind. 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

Somewhere between social and socialist realism – and remember Charles Dickens was also a campaigner who used fiction to promote reform – her book is a 500-page indictment of a culture that is divided, unequal and cruel. EL James, JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel … the women who dominated publishing in 2012 2012-11-30T22:55:17Z

“The terror at the heart of her mature fiction,” he writes, perceptively, is “the horror of being rendered voiceless, anonymous, a prey to the power of strangers.” Books of The Times: Martin Stannard Traces a Writing Life in ?Muriel Spark? 2010-04-13T22:35:00Z

Having exorcised them in fiction, he's finally free to strike out on his own; but like the memory of his children on the trampoline, they'll always be there in the background, rising and falling. A life in writing: Gerard Woodward 2012-11-23T22:55:10Z

A piece of fiction you very much hope isn’t true, this spy novel centers on a Pakistani terrorist seeking revenge against the United States. Newly Released Books 2011-06-15T22:35:38Z

A 564-page slice of literary fiction by one of Britain's finest novelists, heralded by the critics as "masterly" and controversially not shortlisted for last year's Booker, yours for the price of an onion. Ebook bargains: is there a heavier price to pay? 2012-07-21T23:05:08Z

Although “Stolen” is fiction, some Sámi have found it a welcome depiction of their reality — including the reindeer killings that many Sámi organizations are fighting to have classified as hate crimes. Her Culture Was Suppressed for Centuries. Now It Powers Her Best Seller. 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

Leave it to a fiction writer to remind us that the world is, more often than not, stubbornly subjective. What Do Mark Twain, Carpentry and Commodes Have in Common? 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

The book was published in July with an initial printing of 2 million and, with enormous advance sales, immediately leapt to the top of the fiction best-seller lists, despite tepid reviews. Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Dies at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

The prize, now in its third year, is intended to promote both fiction and non-fiction books at the intersection of medicine and literature. Roth's polio novel competes for medical lit prize 2011-11-09T11:23:36Z

Bowie, who died in January, wrote "Lazarus" with Irish playwright Enda Walsh, based on the science fiction novel, "The Man Who Fell to Earth." Michael C. Hall heads London run of Bowie musical 'Lazarus' 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

For viewers like me, who prefer their fiction with less spray tans and Prada, these housewives can offer some laughs, but not enough. ‘This American Wife’ Review: Wives Out, Knives Out 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z

In this formulation, “genre” is a pejorative adjective for any kind of mediocre writing rather than a designation for nonliterary styles, and can easily refer to mediocre fiction that happens to carry “literary” markers. Emily St. John Mandel Is Back, With a Ponzi Scheme Instead of a Pandemic 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z

Three local writers — two with new books, one with a new honor — spearhead this month's selection of crime fiction. On the crime beat: New mysteries by Martin Limón, Mike Lawson and Tana French 2012-07-03T20:25:04Z

The nation is facing nothing less than a fiction crisis. Video Games: Video Game Retail Sales Decline Despite New Hits 2012-10-03T12:34:03Z

He became an editorial assistant at The Times Literary Supplement in 1972, and two years later became its fiction and poetry editor. Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

"I was more interested in science feasible than science fiction." '2010' the movie vs. 2010 the year 2010-12-20T16:40:00Z

Their lives are immutably organized according to the fiction of race. A Century Later, a Novel by an Enigma of the Harlem Renaissance Is Still Relevant 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

You have been drawn to painful material in your fiction. Leïla Slimani on Living with Unbearable Secrets 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

True or not, the movie is — as are all movies, fiction and otherwise — a document of a type. 2010-02-13T00:15:00Z

In its effort to legitimize fan fiction, the company is establishing a model under which it acts as publisher and pays fan-writers between 20 and 35 percent of sales, depending on length. Unhappy with how your fave series is faring? Amazon gives you a say 2013-05-24T18:45:00Z

"Utopia," meanwhile, is a fiction that imagines a dark, dystopic fantasy of our reality, which is already a dark dystopia, and attempts to resurrect the sort of cryptographic mystery that defined "Lost" in our memory. "Utopia" shows the disheartening problems of pandemic TV 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z

Ms. Okpokwasili cites as other influences “dystopian folklore, speculative fiction, Igbo cosmology and the futures and commodities markets.” Dance This Season: Tap, Ballet and the Inexplicable 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Until this year, the prestigious annual fiction prize has been awarded to authors from British Commonwealth nations. Two Americans make the Man Booker Prize shortlist 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

An elderly person looking back on life is a reliable frame in fiction, and Sam Cunningham, the narrator of Robert Olen Butler’s “Late City,” has an awful lot of life for material. A 115-Year-Old War Veteran Looks Back at It All, With God as a Guide 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

What follows, our reviewer writes, is “a nation exposed over and over to itself, as in an enormous mirror, part trite situation comedy, part science fiction, part cop show.” Pandemics in the Pages of ‘The Stand,’ ‘Severance’ and More 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

At the end of the day, it is one of the few forms of fiction I can think of where every 'I' is dotted, every 'T' is crossed. "Magpie Murders" is a metafiction marvel: Anthony Horowitz on adapting his mystery within a mystery 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

“The purpose was to bring it into that science fiction setting,” Rodgers said. ESPN uses technology to bring Davis, Rozelle back to life 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

A sample of her fiction reveals her to be utterly devoid of basic writing skills. Review: ‘Cas & Dylan,’ a Road Movie Starring Richard Dreyfuss 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Reading fiction was okay, for preschoolers, but once a child was proficient at reading alone, reading fiction was considered a waste of time, something for layabouts, not the hard-working folks we were. Coming out as an artist: I tried to be normal, but my creative side couldn’t stay hidden 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

Kubrick's movies are some of the reasons I hungered to become involved in the world of creating fiction. My hero: Stanley Kubrick by Tom Rob Smith 2011-07-15T21:55:12Z

As in the best suspense fiction, the tension in Liese's story is internal, lying not in events but in her interpretation of them. The Engagement by Chloe Hooper – review 2013-01-25T20:00:02Z

“Fifty Shades” may have begun as “Twilight” fan fiction, but Ms. Taylor-Johnson wittily notes its kinship with “The Devil Wears Prada.” Review: In ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Movie, Sex Is a Knotty Business 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

Nors’s fiction begins at the moment of unmooring — in all its pain and possibility, as these women imagine themselves into being. A Darkly Comic Novel Stares Down a Life of Solitude 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

It is also a comment on the financial instruments that caused the global crisis, some of which strike her as fictions with no more substance than the incantations of levitators. Taking on the B?rse, Abbie Hoffman-Style 2010-09-16T17:00:00Z

Hanks was at a sold-out event at the book festival in Austin, Texas, discussing his first collection of short fiction, “Uncommon Type.” Sleepless in Austin: Tom Hanks helped a man propose to his girlfriend at the Texas Book Festival 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

Loosed on the resonating field of fiction, however, it ripens into something richer: a mystery. Ben Lerner’s ‘The Topeka School’ Revisits the Debates of the ’90s 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

“The more I consider weird fiction,” notes Lovecraft, “the more I am convinced that a solidly realistic framework is needed in order to build up a preparation for the unreal element.” Boo! The best ghost stories you probably haven’t heard yet. 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

But invariably these biopics end up as heavily fictionalised tales of imagination triumphing over personal adversity, dutifully ticking off the events that inspired the fiction. Goodbye Christopher Robin and the problem with author biopics 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

And the importance of truth-telling — is it a fiction we tell ourselves? Now You See It: A Magician’s Memoir Promises Truth and Other Lies 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

We are all, always, mapping the fictions our own brains contrive. The art of the developmentally disabled on its own terms, minus the lens of sympathy 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Bedford’s works of fiction and nonfiction are dense, exotic and rich even as they draw primarily on her own life. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

How do poetry, drama, history, and fiction overlap? The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z

It's a documentary, ostensibly, but it's also a genre-defying film about memory and fiction and their strange, liquid relationship with the truth. Trailer Trash 2013-06-08T23:05:28Z

A curious failing of Mitchell’s fiction is that all his characters talk, you suspect, like him. David Mitchell Brings His Novelistic High Jinks to the Swinging ’60s 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

While Mr. Clark writes fantasy books for young readers by profession, he and Mr. Lewis both share a passion for adult fantasy fiction. When Lewis Met Clark 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

Dissimilar to most of her fiction but equally dazzling are “Home” and “The View from Castle Rock.” Munro’s ‘Family Furnishings’ contemplates the quotidian, however menacing 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

On Thursday's turf, two regions called BookWorld and RealWorld, time and history are surprisingly elastic, as is the porous border between fiction and "real life." 'The Woman Who Died a Lot': the new adventures of Thursday Next 2012-10-11T20:04:04Z

BRITT: My book is an attempt to replicate on the page what it’s like to talk to me in real life when I’m conflating weird opinions about science fiction with random personal anecdotes. “An emotional Benjamin Buttoning”: The inside secrets of 6 new books that will top your fall reading list 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

In the late 1990s, she started producing meticulously crafted sculptures of cyborgs — perfectly proportioned female bodies morphed into characters from manga and science fiction, with strange-looking limbs and armor. An Artist in Pursuit of Balance 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

Fans of all kinds of science fiction will find something to enjoy in this noteworthy collection. Think science fiction is dominated by men? Think again. 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

How do you get from Father Ted and Have I Got News for You to a Guardian children's fiction prize-longlisted book? Lissa Evans's small change from TV to books 2011-07-08T15:50:08Z

If you want to get at the spirit of something, sometimes it’s important to use the techniques of a fiction writer. A Reality Check for Steinbeck and Charley 2011-04-03T22:00:12Z

As his oeuvre kept proliferating, it sometimes felt as if the Murakami machine were eating up what limited oxygen there was for Japanese fiction in translation. A Japanese Literary Star Joins Her Peers on Western Bookshelves 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

He also found time to keep up his reading of detective fiction, which he also enjoyed reviewing. John Gross obituary 2011-01-11T18:09:15Z

Nancy Hightower reviews science fiction and fantasy every month and is author of “The Acolyte.” ‘The Loney’ and other best horror, sci-fi and fantasy this month 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

As someone who harbors a fondness for science fiction and thirsts for more complex treatment of religion in contemporary novels, I relished every chance to cloister myself away with “The Book of Strange New Things.” Book review: ‘The Book of Strange New Things,’ by Michel Faber

"In a world where a deeper cross-cultural understanding is a rarity and literature in translation is still not generating the interest it deserves, the Independent foreign fiction prize swims against the tide," said Shafak. Independent foreign fiction prize 2013 shortlist announced 2013-04-11T11:24:22Z

The fiction, meanwhile, provides portals to worlds more coherent than our current one. 10 books to read in May 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

Generally speaking, the hallmark of successful fiction is the author's ability to persuade readers of the reality of the people in it. A life in writing: Gerard Woodward 2012-11-23T22:55:10Z

The formula we hit upon is "a work of poetry, prose, fiction or non-fiction which best explores the queer experience", and is published in the UK in English. The Polari prize takes a vada at gay writing today 2011-07-05T15:06:24Z

Over time Salinger's exemplary refusal of his own fame may turn out to be as important as his fiction. 2010-01-28T21:05:00Z

She told me that she wanted to write fiction rather than critical essays. The Book That Turned Annie Leibovitz Into a Photographer 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

One publisher, Jennifer Bergstrom, at Gallery Books, was so determined to get it that she offered a two-book deal and made it the lead fall title for a new literary fiction imprint, Scout Press. Bill Clegg’s Debut Novel Is ‘Did You Ever Have a Family’ 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Hers is an unusually positive – if very matronly – depiction of the adoptive mother in fiction. Eleanor Birne's top 10 books on motherhood 2011-03-30T15:44:16Z

Language is an inherently spooky thing, and reading fiction can often feel like being possessed. Shelley Jackson, Author and Advocate of the Monstrous 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

Nine writers are honored each year — three in fiction, three in nonfiction and three in drama. For some winners, getting the $150,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes was literally unbelievable 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

This is something King would revisit in later short fictions, where he abandoned fantastical horror for cruel, bitter realities; but as a rare note here, it's exemplary. Rereading Stephen King 2012-07-17T11:00:32Z

Wheeler said he believes the popular science fiction movie will resonate with the Navajo people with its universal theme of good versus evil. Native American tribe plans to dub 'Star Wars' in Navajo 2013-05-02T01:14:08Z

While Waterstones' fiction buyer Chris White said: "I'm tempted to say that sequels are always tricky but honestly I couldn't be more excited." Mixed reactions to Harper Lee book 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

What is most real about this improbable character, in other words, is that he knows he is a fiction. The Autobiography of Fidel?Castro by Norberto Fuentes 2010-04-30T23:14:00Z

Physical power in female science fiction characters is often attributed to supernatural or technological endowments. The new “Doctor Who” review: Jodie Whittaker takes control of the TARDIS 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

Q. A few years ago, you were working on a science fiction series for Showtime. Salman Rushdie on His New Novel, With a Character Who Floats Just Above Ground 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

I’m especially heartened by the ambitious sweep of this week’s best fiction. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

You're supposed to have these stories that exist and can live up to fiction. "That is the David Carr way": Erin Lee Carr on writing fearlessly on grief, addiction and her father 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

Now ten years old, the award differs from the annual Man Booker prize for fiction in that it is presented every two years, and for a body of work rather than a single book. Transcendental meditation 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Howard also wrote TV scripts for the likes of Upstairs, Downstairs and penned short fiction such as Mr Wrong. Novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard dies 2014-01-02T18:47:15Z

Bates, a novelist himself, observed that as temperatures rose, young ladies begin to think on “new gowns and pleasing fictions, both airy and froth-like.” The Invention of the “Beach Read” 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

Even though her book was fiction, she felt she hadn’t fully told the truth. ‘Luckiest Girl Alive’ Author Jessica Knoll Makes a Revelation 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

The only way for fan fiction writers to publish work that keeps the inspiration in plain view is to gain appropriate permissions. From ‘Fifty Shades’ to ‘After’: Why publishers want fan fiction to go mainstream

Lifting the core themes and look of the Fargoverse is one thing, but the show needlessly crosses the fan fiction line on occasion. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 7: This Family Deserves the Ground 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

The very idea of Lichtenstein, who died in 1997, as a studious genre painter may seem like a market-generated fiction; certainly the show is less inviting than the gallery’s “Roy Lichtenstein: Girls” in 2008. Art Review: At Gagosian, Lichtenstein After the Funny Papers 2010-06-10T21:57:00Z

He started to put the word “race” in scare quotes, calling it a “dangerous fiction.” How a Group of Heretical Thinkers Chipped Away at the Idea of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

“I wrote to make money, not for any other purpose,” Mr. Vance said of himself in an interview last year with Locus online, the Web site of a science fiction and fantasy magazine. Jack Vance, Writer of the Fantastical, Dies at 96 2013-06-03T02:51:11Z

Joan Didion once wrote that because of its “irreducible ambiguities” fiction is “in many ways hostile to ideology.” Girl, Interrupted 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

Humor is almost always an accident or a desire to be kind and jolly and one can discover it all around — in the world of one’s fiction and outside of it as well. Lorrie Moore has some instructions on how to read her new book 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z