It was risky, but we hoped that national press coverage of our side of the story would change the narrative. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A Child of Our Time intersperses quasi-operatic narrative passages with arrangements of African-American spirituals, as Bach had done with Lutheran hymn-chorales in his oratorios on the passion and crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She slammed into a Norman narrative tapestry, bringing it tumbling down on top of her. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Hand-clapping songs, circle games and dances in which narrative movements are used were performed and elaborated on generation after generation by children and youngsters. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Although it remains surprisingly little known outside specialist circles, this master narrative illuminates the origins of every nation in the Americas today. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The world is coming at me in high-contrast snapshots, deprived of narrative continuity. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would write it after the war, a narrative of Biafra’s difficult victory, an indictment of the world. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This is the case even when the television flashes to a commercial, Dr. Anderson explains, suggesting that the attention systems lock on even when the narrative isn’t engaging the top-down systems. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Human beings, it is often said, are hardwired for narrative, and theater taps into Mariela’s brain circuitry in a way nothing else ever has. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

At no time as the narrative unfolded did anyone stumble or freeze or look lost. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The story of how Shawn fell would come to me in bits and pieces, thin lines of narrative from Luke and Benjamin, who were there. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But from a narrative point of view, in 105 pages nothing happens. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Today they speak back, as individuals and as sovereign nations, against ongoing trauma and the consequences of conquest and terminal narratives. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

A client's life often depends on his lawyer's ability to create a mitigation narrative that contextualizes his poor decisions or violent behavior. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But the narrative form, psychologists now believe, is absolutely central to them. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I allowed Desdemona to slip out of my narrative because, to be honest, in the dramatic years of my transformation, she slipped out of my attention most of the time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I was watching you write—from way up there,” Nicholson said, narratively, pointing. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

For him, drama rather than historical narrative was the way of constructing the appearance of reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The show has to start out easy — to give the viewers confidence — and then get progressively harder and harder, challenging the preschoolers more and more, drawing them into the narrative. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he made it his home away from home and began painstakingly to learn the town from the ground up, while searching for a family whose experience would carry a narrative. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the master narrative led to such surprising conclusions about Native American societies before the arrival of Europeans that it stirred up an intellectual firestorm. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The popular narrative that emphasizes the deaths of slavery and Jim Crow and celebrates the nation’s “triumph over race” with the election of Barack Obama is dangerously misguided. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If in this wandering narrative I seem to have cut the cords of family joys and sorrows, of Junior’s current delinquency and junior Junior’s new tooth, of business triumph and agony, it is not so. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was forbidden to read any of the Latin volumes of history and song to which I had turned; forbidden to read narratives in English; forbidden often even the practice of my violin. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I guarantee those two are back because so many parents bought that ‘drug dealer’ narrative about Bri,” Malik says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then he reread the narrative of what I’d done, turning to me every few sentences to ask “Is that correct?” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Within a few months of assuming power, however, he and his image makers had fashioned a new dictatorial narrative. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It made me proud to know that I was actively changing the narrative for other Muslim women, and it motivated me to continue reaching for the highest levels of sport, like qualifying for the Olympics. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Revenge,” said Dr. Trefusis, smiling widely and stretching his hands around his knees, as he could not be more delighted by this welcome turn in the narrative. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

All we heard was the front door opening upstairs, then Mom and Dad’s voices and Erma beginning the long narrative of her grievances against us. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Poems of the period were either descriptions of objects, plants, weather conditions, geographical features or emotional states, or they followed a narrative. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

My narrative, while willfully episodic in character—no comprehensive coverage of all events is claimed—follows a chronological line, with one significant exception. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was aiming for maximum emotional effect, maximum narrative clarity, maximum impact, even shock, and wasn’t going to obey anyone’s rules about what he could or could not do. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

These racialized narratives tend to confirm and reinforce the prevailing public consensus that we need not care about “those people”; they deserve what they get. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell her that I was getting better, because that was supposed to be the narrative of illness: It was a hurdle you jumped over, or a battle you won. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Over the following centuries, their descendants would develop those terminal narratives—stories about the end of Indigenous peoples—to explain and justify their actions. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The entire narrative of this country argues against the truth of who you are. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Thus urged, I began the narrative of my experience for the last year. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He says that by dinner-time they will be able to show a whole connected narrative. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Writing 3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But Hoagland would have wanted me to continue pushing him, to extend the evening’s narrative to its logical and fitting end. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was utterly hopeless as a grand designer of narratives, and he knew it. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

They are the narrative of our lives, our work, our relationships. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

His name was Osama bin Laden and he had a different narrative. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

There were about a million words worth of secret government and military documents, and another 1.5 million of narrative history written by the researchers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They make narrative dumplings and stuff their daughter’s mouths so they say nothing more. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

This seemed logical enough, and yet there was never a more crucial moment for something or someone to change the narrative for Muslims in America. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We needed to animate the trends and test them against real experience, to supply characters and narrative. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But despite how infrequently they’re prosecuted, high-profile hate crimes offer a powerful narrative, one that has been important in fighting prejudice. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

His enjoyment resumed when the narrative entered his prison days. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is hard to look at this evidence of the importance of narrative and not marvel at the success of Sesame Street. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The use of music to build characters through sound expression; create tension in the narrative; highlight important moments in the plot, and so forth, are examples of the high compatibility between words and music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

An extended possibility is to create a story, miming movements that reflect a steady beat while telling a simple narrative. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In my hand I held the tract containing the sudden death of the Liar, to which narrative my attention had been pointed as to an appropriate warning. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The problem, it is claimed, with grand narratives is that they privilege one perspective over another; the alternative is a relativism which holds that all perspectives are equally valid. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I still have a copy of my psychological narrative somewhere. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Even Mercy was surprised, and frequently a little disturbed at the drama that Kit seemed to discover in these long- familiar narratives. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The corruption narrative that he seemed intent to expose was harder to assess. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They tried the sentence again, reading together out loud: “‘For the most wild yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.’” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I must now bring this narrative to a close, since it is Friday night—Toby’s night to stay up late and read—and I can hear the crinkling of cellophane. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

James leaned forward and read out loud: “‘For the most wild yet most homely narrative—He looked at Emily, his mouth hanging open. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Why would a master of narrative stop his narrative dead before it has much chance to begin generating? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Failing at sustained narrative, I compromised by playing with single sentences and phrases. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other times he told a hundred years in one long narrative, blunt and without detail. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Put the other way round, our attention would have been held even more effectively had there been an underlying pull of simple narrative. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Once the wellspring of hope, Levittown is now ground zero in America’s new narratives: income inequality, the fraying of the working class, suburban poverty. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Annabelle sees the narrative: the hurry, hurry, hurry, the quick grab of whatever is nearest. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The files on the murders of the Osage contained history in its rawest form: bits of data vacuumed up without any chronology or narrative, like a novel whose pages were out of order. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

These same internal stirrings also predisposed him to regard all perfectly symmetrical narratives or stories preaching an obvious moral message and populated by larger-than-life heroes as utter fabrications. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Desperately trying to marshal my own thoughts in narrative order. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Whenever there is any vividness in my narrative it may be ascribed securely to Ovid. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other part is looking at those marks and applying the judgment needed to ensure that the narrative that flies by your mind’s eye will be recognizable to an independent reader. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She was making up stories, narratives, that explained and organized the things that happened to her. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The interminable pages about light and stone and water, a narrative split between three different points of view, the hovering stillness of nothing much seeming to happen—none of this could conceal her cowardice. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At this moment in the overall narrative of the accident, Terryl gives voice to a new kind of emotion: Indignation. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At the end of my narrative I said there were issues that I wanted us to examine. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This explanation has tremendous appeal—before you know the facts—for it is consistent with, and reinforces, dominant racial narratives about crime and criminality dating back to slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A pair of actors trapped in a recondite play with no hint of plot or narrative. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I missed my studies with Dr. Trefusis inveterately; for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family; and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Already, the narratives are being written: Scrappy beauty queens survive in hostile jungle. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I will know nothing of the crafts of argument or narrative or drama. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we study the narrative of plants such as wheat and maize, maybe the purely evolutionary perspective makes sense. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Bible stories seemed slow and meaningless when compared to the bloody thunder of pulp narrative. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went into this investigation imagining history to be a unified narrative, free of debate, which, once uncovered, would simply verify everything I had always suspected. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Through the narrative, he’d made a kind of literary peace with his phantom father. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She charts sequences and events with colored pencils, shuffling her diagrams until they start to make sense, a possible narrative. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled the letter from his briefcase, ignoring the grease stain on the paper, and picked up his narrative where he’d left off. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

This lack of artifice owes as much to the rousing arrangement of songs, which blend seamlessly together, as it does to Echevarri’s poignant narrative. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Now, through additional reports, a narrative began to take shape. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"By what logic do you accept the shooter's narrative without investigation, especially when there are so many contradictory reports? Why can they take Jack Franklin's word, but not the word of anyone else present?" How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In preparation for longer, narrative stories in which sound effects and music are incorporated, there are many children’s rhymes that tell stories and incorporate fun sounds. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

His method with me was in fact anti-associative, and he asked me to look at my life not just from a singular mode but through the crucible of a larger narrative. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tried the sentence again, reading together out loud: “‘For the most wild yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.’” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They’ll use tape recorders and conduct what he calls “oral histories,” asking the person questions, transcribing the answers, and putting it together in chronological order as a narrative. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I started this narrative, I knew that sooner or later I would have to have a go at Texas, and I dreaded it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the novel developed over the next year, and as my own ideas clarified, it became apparent that the chapter had no proper home in the larger narrative. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later on in the Harlem narrative, he grew somber again. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu thought he made out something familiar on an unrolled portion of paper, the word narrative, but it could not be. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then they encountered European society and for the first time their history acquired a narrative flow. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Such a reaction at a Wagner performance would have been considered blasphemous - to dare to interrupt the master’s unstoppable narrative flow. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Both books are about a Russian peasant, around the turn of the century,” he said, in what was, for his implacably matter-of-fact voice, a rather narrative tone. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

A later development was the idea of terminal narratives, which were theories put forth to explain colonization of the Americas. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I listened to Mr. Rochester’s narrative, but made no disclosure in return. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

They bring us stories like Patrick the magician, engaging the top- down systems that want to find answers, complete tasks, follow narratives. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He started to take it in, listening to the narrative and analyzing it from several sides. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

My journey as a Muslim woman on Team USA flipped the Muslim narrative onto its head and became a source of pride for Muslims of all backgrounds. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I simply wrote textbook examples of our workaday narrative, veritable style sheets that Hoagland even used to remind the other analysts of how it ought to be done. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old ideas had too much authority, particularly because they were grounded in the Biblical narrative, simply to disappear without trace. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

All I can guess is that for Morgenstern, the real narrative was not Buttercup and the remarkable things she endures, but, rather, the history of the monarchy and other such stuff. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Spanish and French narratives cannot be taken at face value, and in any case say nothing substantial about disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes these stories were what linguists call temporal narratives. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They both fidgeted nervously during the course of their deceitful narrative, trying desperately not to contradict one another, while at the same time avoiding the cold impassive eye of the Warlord. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The lyrics for each section were preceded by a paragraph of prose that augmented the narrative laid out in the lyrics. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

You know that shirt you have that says, “I am my ancestor’s wildest dream”? That’s what I’m trying to do here; I’m changing the narrative. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He, in turn, responded by blaming their teenaged son, and after a spirited back-and-forth, two more actors rushed onstage, playing two different characters in the same narrative. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

And repetition in larger narrative structures—as witness the shape of everything from fairytales and myths to The Gruffalo—is what makes them seem coherent, memorable, self-achieved, and, in effect, meaningful. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

My narrative finished, and their questions exhausted, I then produced Miss Havisham’s authority to receive the nine hundred pounds for Herbert. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I would tick off each staging of the narrative, every known turn and counter-turn. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the Cognitive Revolution onwards, historical narratives replace biological theories as our primary means of explaining the development of Homo sapiens. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

From its focus on his pretrial placement on death row to the extra security surrounding his court appearances, the narrative in the press was clear: This man was extremely dangerous. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In particular, they can raise a child’s awareness of different moods and aesthetics, allowing them new modes through which to experiment with self-expression and also new material with which to enhance stories and narratives. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Neither of these terminal narratives explains why conflict between the colonizers and the Indigenous peoples continued for three hundred years before the United States was formed. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Grandfather’s tone dropped into its narrative groove again. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the goals get reinforced, or so it seems, by the buzz of an incoming call or text, alerting us to a new development in the narrative of our lives. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In my head I can see a vision of the future, like a story I am telling myself, a clear, shining narrative to contrast with the chaos around me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Such narratives do not play down the epistemological problem of moving from the specific to the universal; they accentuate it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

James leaned forward and read out loud: “‘For the most wild yet most homely narrative—He looked at Emily, his mouth hanging open. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

While each episode is a self-contained narrative designed to illuminate one propitious moment with as much storytelling skill as I can muster, taken together they feature several common themes. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

When she faltered, Daft Donald would take up the narrative on his computer. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked the idea of being in charge of one thing rather than two, of not having my brain scrambled by the competing narratives of home and work. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Black churches, in this cultural narrative, are places where the “good” black people in the community can be found. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Under the influence of this appreciation of his narrative powers, Mr. Struthers expanded genially and became ever more communicative, if possible. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I wanted my life to make sense, and nothing in that narrative made sense to me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The strength of this manuscript is in the narrative. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cause my name’s Jim Don,” he replied, then continued his narrative. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tim always said the framing of her father’s narrative was just as important as the message. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Even though The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring ballets all have narrative threads, Stravinsky played against this tendency in his scores for them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Tragic narratives of mothers killing their children were national sensations. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The narrative: two fresh-faced young men who love two beautiful young women and definitely not ever each other. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Fine, absolutely, and see, I’d just use the good parts. I’d kind of bridge where there were skips in the narrative and leave the good parts alone. What do you think?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I lay them one by one in front of me, a row stretching across the table, this gluey narrative of a family and life and death. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The White House Trio got ahead of the narrative before anyone could do the same. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It took a long time because the judge went into minute detail in his narrative. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

You have not yet grappled with your own myths and narratives and discovered the plunder everywhere around us. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

As Grove worked on the book, White asked him, in a letter, if the narrative could be told in the third person. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Origin narratives, or “stories about how this all began,” help a group of people feel that they belong to a community with a common past and shared ideas about what is important. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Narrative Movements: It is easy to add narrative movements to most children’s rhymes as these poems often tell some type of story. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

This narrative opened with a storm, the hurricane Donna, far and away the greatest sendoff an expedition ever had and I thought at the time a little overboard. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Nye, in pursuit of the narrative, raced his pen, and Church, lazily slamming a shut hand against an open palm, said nothing—until suddenly he said. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put away my journal and lie in bed, reciting this narrative as if it is a poem I’ve decided to learn by heart. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And after years of bumbling, potentially crooked investigations into the Osage murders, White needed to weed out half facts and build an indubitable narrative based on what he called an “unbroken chain of evidence.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“We could integrate this into our narrative,” Catherine says, choosing her words with extreme precision. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Only the way the doctor and nurse reacted made it clear that my body had lived up to the narrative require-ments. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A. A combination of contradictory words B. The outcome of a sequence of events C. An implied reference to a literary or historical event D. A symbolic story or narrative.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

People appeared and disappeared, narratives stopped and started. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Only later, as Sumerians progressed beyond logograms to phonetic writing, did they begin to write prose narratives, such as propaganda and myths. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He prompted nothing; he betrayed by no comment that I should consider the courses described in these narratives. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Yet I didn't know how to stem the hurt and change the narrative. A Zoom of one's own: Leaving my job helped my mental health — and my mission 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z

Edited into thematic groups, the whole program has an elemental narrative arc. Bleak Reality in Nan Goldin’s ‘The Ballad of Sexual Dependency’ 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

This began with the Gordon’s original libretto, which was long on narrative and just plain long. 'Young Caesar' finally conquers: Troubled 1971 opera is reborn at Disney Hall 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

In the narrative competition, special jury recognition for visual excellence went to “Creative Control” directed by Benjamin Dickinson. SXSW: 'Krisha' and 'Peace Officer' win top jury prizes 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

After years of experimentally using her body as a camera, Seers has made work of rare narrative charm. This week's new exhibitions 2011-02-12T00:05:41Z

In the meantime, July’s series is a group of first narrative features by Italian directors, titled “Opera Prima Italiana.” Filmatique: Where to Stream Foreign Movies You Can’t Find Elsewhere 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

And his animated narrative sets contemporary immigrant experience in a lurid and revealing light. ‘Little Failure’: misery, then mastery for Gary Shteyngart 2014-01-09T21:07:21Z

The film's narrative drawbacks point to the fact that Clooney is less assured as a director here. With "Midnight Sky," George Clooney directs a visually arresting post-apocalyptic yawnfest 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

Harvey’s wonderfully digressive narrative is interspersed with news clippings, playbills, land surveys and daguerreotypes, as if to periodically certify that all of this madness is really true. Meet the Man Who Spun the Media, Scammed Followers and Named Himself King 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

"Always in life, the narrative lags behind the reality." Behind the Pulitzers: How did they do that? 2012-04-17T02:16:06Z

Andrew Ruhemann, his co-director, pushed for more narrative drive, greater drama, but Tan wanted flat affect, a sense of nothing much happening, and he mostly got his way. Shaun Tan?s Wild Imagination 2011-04-23T04:30:02Z

Alas, the film stalls once the kiss-or-kill narrative begins in earnest. With "Me You Madness," Steve Mnuchin's wife creates a bold, bipartisan comedy to annoy us all 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

Many essayists make big claims, describing narrative achievements for which you might not have known you were searching. Review | ‘B-Side Books’ adds to your must-read stack with the best books you’ve never heard of 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

The work is showing its years: the narrative devices are a tad creaky and some of Jürgen Rose's sets and costumes look faded. This week's new dance 2013-01-19T06:00:18Z

Eschewing any grand themes or narrative arcs, Firing Cheeseballs At A Dog is an hour of deliberately unconnected autobiographical stories. This week's new comedy 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z

“The Call of Cthulhu,” a narrative pieced together from notes of a dead man that involves an ancient alien monster, is considered by many to be one of Lovecraft’s greatest works. The Week Ahead: July 10 ? 16 2011-07-07T20:15:40Z

As media narratives go, this chain of events has been heralded as a triumph, some kind of civil rights coup in shoulder pads. College football’s plantation problem: The violent game — and billion-dollar industry — where black kids take all the risk for none of the profit 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

“Narrative is our ultimate top-down strategy in watching a movie,” he wrote back, “specifically, I think, classical narrative principles.” What You See Is What You Get 2011-07-09T04:13:03Z

It’s a hilarious and moving narrative that’s the perfect antidote to spending time with your own neurotic family. A reading list for your Memorial Day weekend 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

It roams around without enough connective narrative; it resists proposing a clear thesis. James L. Kugel's 'In the Valley of the Shadow' eyes death, faith 2011-03-03T00:39:04Z

VR storytelling is still a novelty, but at least in this case, the technique enhances the narrative rather than distracting from it. Emily Mortimer on her daring new virtual-reality short: “This immersive experience is extremely visceral” 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

Told through a stream-of-consciousness narrative, it is the story of Mrs Dalloway's preparations for a party that evening, and takes place over a single day in June. Jennie Rooney's top 10 women travellers in fiction 2010-06-23T12:23:00Z

That narrative might have a different coda now. Sleater-Kinney Asked St. Vincent for a Creative Spark. The Trio Blew Up. 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

The narratives are mostly little private moments, and the melodies are mostly slow-rolling—arranged acoustically, with quiet, empty spaces everywhere. Tanya Tucker’s New Album Might Be the Best of Her Long, Underrated Career 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

In the second season premiere, the narrative ground on “The Leftovers” continued to shift, this time with even greater force. 'The Leftovers' Season 2 Premiere Recap: Do You Believe in Miracle? 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

It’s probably best not to dwell too long on a narrative that depends on a presumably well-sighted father, Sir Harcourt, at one point not being able to recognize his own son. Review: A Comic Return for Russell Beale 2010-03-23T17:15:00Z

The ashen gray zone also informs the book's narrative, a daring and sometimes jarring hybrid of history and fiction. 'The Druggist of Auschwitz': at the core of a man without conscience 2011-04-22T21:20:31Z

Margolis contextualizes and also keeps painting our narrative picture: the ground shakes harder and harder, you dive under a table, people fall to the ground; outside, car alarms go off. “The Big One” Podcast: Anticipating a Devastating L.A. Earthquake 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

The conservative commentator then explained that she lost respect for the movement when they started “pushing” a “false narrative” and when “protesting turned into rioting and looting.” WATCH: Trevor Noah blasts The Blaze host Tomi Lahren over Black Lives Matter comments 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Andra Day, who plays Holiday, is a canny and charismatic performer, and the film’s hectic narrative is punctuated with nightclub and concert-hall scenes that capture some of the singer’s magnetism. ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ Review: Singing for Her Life 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Winning comes through mastering the storytelling, building on a grand oral tradition, Crump says, “We are changing the narrative.” Ben Crump has become the go-to attorney for racial justice: ‘I feel like I’m running out of time’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

“We’re dedicated to showing the common narrative the universal culture of mankind. It’s the perfect symbolic riposte to what is happening in that region.” Billionaire’s Spending Spree Creates ‘Lending Library for Old Masters’ 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

In this concise overview, Russell complicates the "narrative of decline" of traditional news journalism, and celebrates the neo-situationist "détournements" of what she terms "fake news" producers such as the Daily Show and the Yes Men. Et cetera: non-fiction roundup ? reviews 2011-07-22T21:55:03Z

Was this book an attempt to reclaim justice or argue against that narrative? Writing About a Past Injustice Helped Her See What Has and Hasn’t Changed 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

If the alt-right is galvanized by one overarching narrative, it is that demographic change will reduce whites to a hated minority and eventually lead to white extinction. Alt-right women and the "white baby challenge" 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z

Dominic Champagne tweaked his script to give it a more coherent narrative arc. In Las Vegas, All You Need Is ‘Love’ and Eight Million Beatles Fans 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

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

These past switcheroos have generally involved finale twists or narrative do-overs. ‘Legion’ and the Rise of Surreality TV 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

The ultimate response to being spoken about and “Orientalized,” Said seemed to be saying, was to reclaim the narrative in a language of one’s own. Review | ‘Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said’ explores the full spectrum of sources that shaped the scholar’s ideas 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

At times, Jones is able to extract a richly detailed narrative and angst-ridden performances out of this classic fight to tame an uncultivated bit of dirt. Harsh land and raw, maddening emotion test 'The Homesman' 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

If you’re asking for “Glee” to be a series with a compelling, internally consistent narrative, I understand why this episode – and the season to date – might disappoint you. ArtsBeat: The Anticipation Is Over: 'Glee' Does 'Rocky Horror' 2010-10-27T14:07:00Z

Throughout her narrative physicians are both villains and heroes. Books of The Times: Melanie Thernstrom?s ?Pain Chronicles?: The Cures and the Myths 2010-08-19T22:42:00Z

Salon's previous coverage discusses how the show's self-victimizing narrative misrepresents that "most movements for survivor justice and accountability are fighting for systemic changes and protections for victims." We need to talk about Jennifer Aniston's misguided take on cancel culture 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z

On the other hand, in stories like “12 Monkeys,” “The Terminator,” and “Timecop,” the central conflict is so large—apocalypse, dystopias, national or global disasters—that the narrative can easily sweep past issues of race. “See You Yesterday” and the Perils—and Promise—of Time-Travelling While Black 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z

The film comes as rival factions are presenting to the rest of the world vastly different narratives of what happened on Feb. 7, when Mr. Nasheed stepped down, and what should happen next. ?The Island President? and Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives 2012-03-28T12:00:00Z

In many ways, Moon resembles Nolan's Memento, with its tight, linear narrative and general sense of disorientation. Will Source Code reveal Duncan Jones as a genius or a master of MacGuffin? 2011-02-24T16:52:00Z

That’s a whole other conversation, but the beauty of the narrative is that the character is defined by her dedication, her courage, her fearlessness. Zero Dark Thirty‘s Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal on Strong Women and Strong Helicopters 2012-12-14T13:00:17Z

This journey happens to have a pleasing narrative structure that works well onstage.  East West Players finds the laughter behind the tears in 'Criers for Hire' 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

Notionally, Quibi endeavored to industrialize a new frontier of television: short-form narratives – that is, episodes of 15 minutes or less – at its shortest and most expansive. The fall of Quibi: how did a starry $1.75bn Netflix rival crash so fast? 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

These had a lot more power in “Room,” which, while not overtly narrative, traced a thematic arc, from people treating each other very badly to achieving something like unity through shared resistance. (La)Horde: Dancing Out Primal Impulses and Resistance 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z

Pedicini structures the movie as an oblique narrative rather than an exposé. ‘Faith’ Review: Training to Fight Demons at a Monastery 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

It was another instance of the brand’s imaginative, narrative approach to fashion. Meet the Young Designers Making Catholic-Inspired Fashion 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

He wants to use the tools of narrative movies to turn a stand-up persona into something more three-dimensional. This May Be the Most Polarizing Comedy Special of the Year 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

This is not to say that Kershaw highlights only the role of political leaders — for good and for ill — in his narrative. Europe’s Glorious Years of Peace and Prosperity 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z

With “The Walking Dead,” AMC took comic-book material and elevated it, stretched its narrative and thematic limits, for better and for worse. Review: ‘Into the Badlands,’ Drama With Martial Arts on AMC 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

But all Beyoncé really wants to do is sing, to control the narrative, to remain at arm’s length. Critic?s Notebook: A Farewell (for Now) to Old Selves 2011-06-27T23:01:17Z

“Gett” is a trial narrative complete with witness testimonies and periodic admonitions from the judge, but with little of the courtroom dramatics that characterize mainstream legal stories. Review: In ‘Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem,’ a Woman Fights for Her Freedom 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

"Whether in 'My Fair Lady,' 'Pretty Woman,' or more recent versions of this story, social hierarchies are cemented, rather than challenged, because these narratives tend to affirm the value of the socially dominant position." "He's All That" and why the Pygmalion story is so important to – yet undermines – teen stories 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z

DeSilva proposes that our bipedalism is at the root of our uniqueness as a species, and the book is carefully structured, neatly braiding his own research with the wider narrative and history of human evolution. What Made Our Species Unique: Walking 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

This dichotomy, the way media can both completely make and destroy an individual or a legal team's carefully constructed narrative, is explored in the new Netflix docuseries "Trial by Media." "Trial by Media" summarizes but doesn't challenge how coverage fuels drama in landmark cases 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

A dispassionate chronological narrative, it is an excellent introduction to a bitterly contested topic. Divide and rue 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

The narrative rancor of Baldwin’s novel is tempered, its sexual politics smoothed. Can we Trust the Beauty of Barry Jenkins’s “If Beale Street Could Talk”? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Michael Lewis specializes in narratives about quirky individuals who zig when everyone else zags. Michael Lewis Explores Why People Tend to Go With Their Guts 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Roberts’s expansive narrative includes all the necessary details about the man he calls an indispensable figure. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

The narratives are dark and dispiriting; they offer no relief and no way out. Memories on High and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

In recent years that comfortable narrative has been disrupted. The other modernism 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Letters, postcards and telegrams, included with addresses and personalized stationery, are scattered throughout the novel to emphasize the partial and timebound quality of Vanessa’s narrative, the limitations on what she can see and understand. ‘Vanessa and Her Sister,’ by Priya Parmar 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

“In one sitting, she achieves what she does season upon season on TV — creating a multiyear narrative for her characters,” Perry said in a statement. Elisabeth Moss is honest about the ‘really unusual’ job of playing a feminist icon 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

A whole narrative was stretched out over 23 root chambers and 44 years. The Dentist Who Treated My Divorce 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

Here’s a welcome chance to read stories that have appeared in publications from The New Yorker to Prairie Schooner, and his perverse short narratives do not disappoint. Books to Breeze Through This Summer 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Wholly marginalized in that story line, he argues, are the Palestinians, their own competing narrative diminished to the point of erasure. Is There Any Way to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

That body count may, however, be the side effect of cutting narrative flab and setting up an endgame. In ‘Game of Thrones,’ the Pleasures of a Quickened Pace 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Scorsese did the best he could – and that is very good indeed – overseeing a compilation of found objects in something that resembled a narrative structure. Protest music?s odd conservative turn 2012-05-21T15:38:00Z

Instead, he internalized cable news narratives zeroing in on personal responsibility, blaming homeowners for supposedly taking out loans they couldn’t afford. 'A failure of our system': inside a damning take on the Great Recession 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

Within this seamless narrative are included the convulsions of the civil war and the development of foreign policy; immigration and the growth of the constitution; and trade unionism and religion. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z

One is that as dramatists compressing a complex history into a cinematic narrative, they must be granted a degree of artistic licence. Kathryn Bigelow on Zero Dark Thirty: 'It's illogical to ignore torture' 2013-01-16T12:19:34Z

But one of the challenges of choosing to write a fictionalised journal is that the plot becomes necessarily shapeless and loose-ended: there is no overarching narrative thrust. Any Human Heart: William Boyd on telling the story of the 20th century 2010-11-21T08:00:00Z

It’s possible that a tabloid would ask similar questions of a single male politician — here in the US, 46 year-old Cory Booker has certainly fielded his share — but then the narrative moves on. British politician shuts down sexist questions about her weight with the best answer ever 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Anderson’s onscreen aesthetic is all about creating narratives and moods — of yearning, of melancholy, of passion. Wes Anderson, Curator? The Filmmaker Gives It a Try 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

What’s impressive about the show is its disciplined balance between its playfully outlandish moments and its narrative clarity. Perspective | ‘Twin Peaks’ made us weird. Was that a good thing or a bad thing? 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Anderson, whose own father once helped create foreign paramilitary squads as an adviser to the Agency for International Development, casts his characters’ narrative as a tragedy, both personal and national. When America’s Cold War Strategy Turned Corrupt 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

AM The series returns, along with its successful formula: take a small island with a set of colourful characters and customs, film for a year, and pull together the best narrative threads. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 12-16 November 2012-11-12T08:09:51Z

To hazard a guess, based on the other tweaks government officials tried to force on Schwarz and Clusiau: they wanted to shift the narrative. 'It can be hard to keep hope': behind a shocking immigration docuseries 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

But in the film’s telling, they nevertheless forged a kind of brotherhood, competing for stories as they began to question the United States government’s official narrative. ‘Dateline-Saigon’ Review: Challenging the Official Story 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

On season eight, Ms. Del Toro and her self-involved outbursts became a narrative of the show’s early episodes, and a huge liability. ArtsBeat: 'American Idol': Hollywood Week 2011-02-11T22:00:52Z

I always throw the audience into something confusing, and then the narrative starts to pull itself together. Words Make a Room: The Plays of Enda Walsh 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

This unfolds in a series of vignettes without all that much in the way of an important narrative arc, and I admit Mila Kunis's role is a pretty thankless one. Ted – review 2012-08-02T14:30:02Z

Adapted from a popular children's animated series, "The Last Airbender" is a generic mishmash of themes, images and ideas drawn from a long list of quest narratives and science-fiction classics. "The Last Airbender": Shyamalan's fantasy schlockfest 2010-07-01T00:31:00Z

That quality was made explicit in the course of the work’s rough narrative, dense and layered. With “Labyrinth,” Mark Dendy Confronts His Demons 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Ekphrasis suspends narrative action to focus on an aesthetic object, so it's not really the stuff of page-turners. Strands – A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland – review 2012-07-27T21:45:12Z

But my assignment with her left me with lasting lessons about how to interview, how to tell stories, how to let the people you meet guide you — rather than imposing narrative from above. How I learned the art of the interview from Jean Stein in the wake of the L.A. riots 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Nick’s narrative begins the book, and it illustrates how many different ways there are to dissemble. Books of The Times: ‘Gone Girl,’ by Gillian Flynn 2012-05-29T20:37:17Z

There are moments where our attention wavers, as during the distracting arrival and departure of two other characters, and point-of-view shifts in the narrative that don’t quite work. Review: ‘Lightless,’ About the Bratty Machine on a Spaceflight 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

And the emotional and narrative center of the story, its juice, wasn’t Jones’s anger or her power — it was her fear, the terror she felt at Kilgrave’s hold over her. Review: ‘Jessica Jones’ Returns, Well Timed for the Time’s Up Moment 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Or was it a news story, about the proliferation of soap opera narratives and the Indian media’s taste for them? A Double Tragedy in India and the Search for Elusive Answers 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Reviews were mixed, with critics more enthused by the movie's visual splendor than its narrative essence. "Alice in Wonderland" opens strongly at box office 2010-03-06T19:09:00Z

What better way to understand one’s enemy than to understand the narratives we hold dear? Osama bin Laden's bookshelf revealed: What you can learn from his reading list 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

“For me the audience is a very deliberate part of the T.M.P. narrative; you’re not just an onlooker,” she wrote in an e-mail. Boise and Trey McIntyre Project in a Deep Passion 2010-08-13T19:05:00Z

Berg hopes to shoot her second narrative feature next year. Amy Berg's newest dark movie isn't a documentary -- finally 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z

I've just described some or all of "Independence Day," both versions of "V," Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds," and untold numbers of other alien invasion narratives. Close encounters of a tired kind 2011-06-19T21:20:00Z

And while the narrative arc of the musical can be quite grim, Mr. Mayer chose not to be too cruel to his characters. How Green Day?s ?American Idiot? Made Broadway 2010-04-01T22:09:00Z

For the creators of “Rogue One,” a film designed as a narrative lead-in to the original “Star Wars,” it was a chance to play with characters, vehicles and locations sacred to this series. How ‘Rogue One’ Brought Back Familiar Faces 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Over the course of “A Song Everlasting,” I kept expecting Tian’s life to finally fall apart, laying bare the impossibility of telling Chinese narratives of progress in an era of historical amnesia. Ha Jin Considers the Cost of Freedom in ‘A Song Everlasting’ 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

Milton does a wonderful job distilling his research into compact, engaging narratives. Historian compiles fascinating tidbits on Hitler, Agatha Christie and others 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

And in her timely, meticulously researched and well-written book, Kolbert combines scientific analysis and personal narratives to explain it to us. ‘The Sixth Extinction,’ by Elizabeth Kolbert 2014-02-10T18:47:42Z

For uncomfortable conversations, melancholy and a constant tightening of the narrative toward very personal consequences, go with “Next of Kin.” The Mideasterner, TV’s Most Flexible Genre 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

When you get the opportunity to see a bunch of operas in quick succession, the canon starts forming narratives for you. A Trio of Dangerous Women in a Met Opera Week to Remember 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

And the narrative gaps, is that something that the reader was bridging? Dan Clowes’s “Wilson” 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Rude Britannia takes a broadly narrative and historical approach to graphic satire, while allowing for sub-sections to treat of the political, the bawdy and the absurd. Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

These are narratives more commonly ascribed to the rural poor than middle-class college-bound suburbanites, and apparently they make the story more believable to some. “What it’s like to date your dad”: Why class markers matter in stories about taboo sexuality 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

But the narrative soon breaks free of this leash and we are led on a journey where the path seems not just winding but at times aimless. Review | What got lost in one writer’s garden 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

The narrative that he’s told publicly about this actually doesn’t track if you parse the timelines. Richard Ledgett, NSA deputy chief, thinks he knows Snowden’s true motivations 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

The cancellation, of course, is a narrative convenience. In Julian Barnes’s New Novel, a Teacher’s Pet Becomes Obsessed 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

“This is almost like a bullet train. He’s distilled the narrative down to its essence.” ‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner’s Foray Into Fiction 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

The early English realists presented their books not as fictional prose narratives but as journals, collections of letters and other found documents. A Paralyzed Army Vet Walks Again. Is He Healed — or Is It a Hoax? 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

And it’s a narrative and ambitious song, with intense lyrics going on during almost 11 minutes, quite rare for a rock song. ArtsBeat: Under the Radar Festival: 5 Questions About 'The Past Is a Grotesque Animal' 2012-01-13T21:51:36Z

It’s an amusing ending, but it’s also indicative of Mr. Magloire’s limited sense of drama when he attempts a narrative. Dance Review: Miro Magloire’s New Chamber Ballet at City Center 2013-09-08T21:50:52Z

As an anti-colonialist narrative staffed by a largely black cast and high-profile black talent in the crew, Coogler’s film directly appealed to audiences usually given the short shrift at the movies. After Black Panther: can Hollywood maintain black visibility on screen? 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

If this all goes, there will be consequences for the shape, size and format of prose narrative. Is this the end for books? 2011-08-14T20:30:01Z

It's what it comes back to in Mies Julie: how far are the new generation going to be able to reinvent their narratives? Mies Julie in London: 'Apartheid was an insane experiment' 2013-03-06T20:00:02Z

A narrative of imprisonment or war becomes, in the hands of “Outlander,” a narrative of the safety of the character’s body. The “Outlander” torture chamber: A shockingly brutal rape transforms a hero into a victim, but at what cost? 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

L'Engle's novel, one of Lee's favourite childhood books, features a storyline with echoes of the animated musical's hugely popular female-focused narrative. Frozen director Jennifer Lee to adapt A Wrinkle in Time 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

An ordinary filmmaker constructing a documentary on the Open that year would likely structure its narrative around the implacable, cool Swedish player’s road to glory there. ‘The French’ Review: A Candid Look at the French Open 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

The meme moves inside the mainstream narrative, traditional media, the campaigns themselves. What makes a meme 2012-10-28T15:00:00Z

The soda-and-smoking-ban narrative, however, isn’t entirely disparate from the economic one. New York only wants investment bankers 2012-07-28T16:00:00Z

“For us, the killer idea was taking the world’s best narrative nonfiction journalism and empowering the journalists to transfer those stories to audio,” Grigoriadis said. Surrounded by Big Tech, Small Podcast Shops Swim With Sharks 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

If the novel’s first hundred pages are disorienting and occasionally plodding, the last hundred have a rare narrative sweep and force. ‘Christodora’: A powerful novel about the AIDS crisis and its legacy 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

He’s particularly acerbic when portraying Western journalists dropping by to package this unruly situation into neat narratives for the folks back home. Review | A.D. Miller’s ‘Independence Square’ imagines how one diplomat tried to secretly manage Ukraine’s revolution 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

Cold war politics are a Machiavellian minefield, but Whittell manages to untangle and elucidate it without losing any of the drama of the narrative. Audiobook roundup - reviews 2012-02-10T22:55:03Z

In “Serenade,” she currently dances the role of the ballet’s heroine, the one around whom its rushing series of pure-dance incidents acquires the strongest sense of narrative. New York City Ballet Performs George Balanchine Classics 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

The ability to shape dance is not the only skill required of the narrative ballet-maker. Hansel and Gretel – review 2013-05-11T23:06:01Z

“Yet the more I consider how Cooper depicts the ebbs and flows of their relationship, the more I find this latest version intriguing in the way it complicates an already complicated narrative.” What to Read About ‘Green Book’ and the Other Best Picture Nominees 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

This argument, of course, not only ran against the stated narratives of “The Force Awakens,” but the fact that the three actors who had played those clones in previous films were in fact Polynesian. “Star Wars'” John Boyega rips “Game of Thrones'” lack of black actors 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board criticized Biden for perpetuating an “unlikely story from a biased source that neatly fits the progressive narrative but can’t be confirmed.” Perspective | The 10-year-old pregnant girl exists. Why did people think she didn’t? 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

Are we, the presumably omniscient viewer, actually a character within the narrative, somehow having been co-opted into a conspiratorial role as an active, complicit, responsible agent? ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3, Episode 5: Taking the Long Way Around 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

This sense of narrative slippage entwines with a palpable sexual tension. Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words; Dance GB: The Olympic Project – review 2012-07-14T23:05:34Z

“The whole narrative of Studio and the demise of Studio are intertwined with Cohn because he was the lawyer and he was sort of losing power at that time,” he continued. Matt Tyrnauer: Chronicler of Trump’s Mentor Roy Cohn 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

But with her network of grassroots advocates, abortion providers and entertainers, she hopes to change the narrative around abortion, eliminate the shame and give newly fired-up supporters the tools to get involved. Using Comedy to Push for Abortion Rights 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

So, whatever narrative you have created for your ancestor will probably be completely different by the time you finish my book, "The Family Tree Toolkit." Tracing my African American genealogy 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

If you missed this show, which includes portraits of aristocrats and mythological narratives, at the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, this may be your last chance. Mark These Dates: A Wave of Art Is Coming Your Way 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

Somehow, despite the territory, Gillies manages to steer the book away from misery lit and beneath the profoundly bleak narrative runs a stream of grim humour. The raw horror of Alzheimer's 2010-06-01T20:00:00Z

The ornate style of Christian’s narrative suits both this rich historical period and the courtly language of Prague, this “city of masks and make-believe.” Unmasking Magic and Murder in the Best New Crime 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

In Salinger and Roth, the analyst is a remote, hidden being, not a you for the narrative I. Salinger's psychiatrist never speaks, and Roth's is never answered. Siri Hustvedt on the psychoanalyst in fiction 2012-06-08T21:55:19Z

Over the course of the narrative, its characters encounter quite a range of historical figures: Klimt, Einstein, Himmler, the Black Panthers and Joan Didion, to name only a few. “It’s a literary novel that ate a pulp paperback”: Novelist John Wray on “The Lost Time Accidents” as science fiction, romance and seedy Third Reich thriller 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

The narrative that evolves in news coverage presents Joy as a heroic martyr, with Caitlin as the shamed coward. Theater Review: Steven Soderbergh Directs ‘The Library,’ at the Public 2014-04-16T02:00:01Z

At first, Van Hove's treatment flits between the narratives of the central couples in each film. Antonioni Project: the great big movie mash-up 2011-01-09T22:00:00Z

The most significant change from the Boston production is the frame narrative in which Humbert is confessing his crimes, now not to the audience but to a therapist, Dr. Ray. An Infamous ‘Lolita’ Musical Gets a Belated New York Debut 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

But “The A Word,” which is scheduled to air in the United States this summer on SundanceTV, places autism at the center of the narrative. ‘The A Word’ Places Autism Front and Center 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

The first is a chilling, third-person narrative of how Holmes came up with a fantastic idea that made her, for a while, the most successful woman entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. How One Company Scammed Silicon Valley. And How It Got Caught. 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

Instead, its narrative of a young girl with a talent for transporting herself into paintings is told through a series of puzzles and gentle interactions that unfold over the floors of a mystical tower. This week's new games 2011-01-08T00:06:17Z

What’s often missing from the Black hair narrative is the experience of Black nonbinary people. For Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Hair Is Rooted in Pride 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z

This, too, is a subversion of the study-abroad narrative: Instead of being transformed by the external world, Roxana dives inward, spending her days discovering the possibilities of her own pleasure. He Wrote a Novel From Jail. She Wrote One About a Different Kind of Imprisonment. 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

“This is David Brent, who’s a character. It’s a part of the narrative.” Ricky Gervais Goes Back to ‘The Office’ 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Perhaps predictably, the initial prime suspect in this narrative isn’t a movie star or a real estate tycoon. ‘Murder in the First,’ a New Drama on TNT 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

The film explores the boundaries between consciousness and reality within a science fiction narrative. ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'Solaris' 2011-02-01T18:30:29Z

The objects will allow for “so many ways and narratives” of explaining what life in the house was like for the original owners and their two enslaved persons, she added. More of Collector’s Dutch and British Objects to Go to Museums 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

In the central narrative, in the far future, Zach'ry muses on how "souls cross ages like clouds cross skies", and how an understanding of this would be like an "atlas o' clouds". Guardian book club: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

Here she goes to great lengths to inject surprise into the narrative, strategically withholding information, including the double and triple meanings of her title. | 'The Oath': Laura Poitras?s Documentary on Two Al Qaeda Cases 2010-05-07T00:09:00Z

As the transnational surrogacy business spread, with new practices opening in major cities across the country, Patel’s narrative of good and fair exchange spread too. Paying for baby: the trouble with renting a womb | Abby Rabinowitz 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

At times the book’s lack of narrative propulsion palls a little. Starry, starry night 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Some artists hold on to very specific narratives, but my work is quite open. Doug Aitken Has an Eye for Dystopia 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

“Gypsy” is like “The Affair,” but without the dueling unreliable narratives. Review: ‘Gypsy’ and the Problem of Well-Made Bad TV 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Suicide mocks the proscriptions of narrative, resists the search for the beating butterfly's wings, the instant that begets a world-changing reaction. Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

It was the sound of a delightfully chaotic narrative of political excitement slowly deflating, and a nation of political junkies getting to go to bed on time after all. Election Watch: Hell Fails to Break Loose in Michigan 2012-02-29T12:40:37Z

The narrative unfolds in more than a dozen towns and cities around the world, with characters that include “dwellers” who inhabit the toys and the “keepers” who own them. Samanta Schweblin Talks About Her Creepy New Novel 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

The resulting narrative is rich and absorbing — as evocative and engrossing as a novel. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

And maybe that's no bad thing Why do we feel the need to construct a narrative accompany our lives? ‘Girls’ Finale: Is It Just Us, or Did the Show Get Better? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

A few months ago, I was swept off my feet by “Aria Code,” from WQXR, a wondrous narrative podcast about opera with an amusingly ridiculous name. Three Podcasts to Listen To in May 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

In judging an artwork, Boulez is adamantly indifferent to its back story, its sociopolitical implications or its creator’s personal narrative. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

An artistic embodiment of vanitas, a reminder of death’s inevitability, they unspool films whose formal structures and abstract narratives are based on auction house categories for classifying and selling art. Paul Sietsema's first L.A. show of new Conceptual art was worth the 14-year wait 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

“I don’t really think that’s how the information from dramatic narratives penetrate,” Mr. Norris said. A Political Satire on Stage, and Not About Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

Jonathan Keeble’s narrative ability, reserved and cultivated in general narrative, opens doors to the past. Review | Don’t let a bad reader ruin your audiobook experience. Here are recordings to savor — and to avoid. 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

“We see narrative and stories being told in every work in his collection,” Ms. Fiuczynski said. 'Simpsons' Memorabilia to Be Auctioned From Sam Simon Collection 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

It is worth mentioning that in the structure of the novel, Spiotta is playing with time and narrative, jumping freely between story lines, to create a unique vibe that buzzes in your subconscious. In 'Innocents and Others' Dana Spiotta explores the creative tensions between two female filmmakers 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

How did Lee take the frame of this fiction and collapse it to create "To Kill a Mockingbird," finding a narrative fluency only hinted at within this draft? Review: Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' reveals a darker side of Maycomb 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

The scenes had no narrative continuity, adding up as multiple facets of a relationship. Dancers Strip to Essentials in ‘Basketball’ and ‘TranSenses’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

Some of the compositions pack more narrative than others, but even at their most abstract, the paintings convey a strong sense of nature’s ability to overwhelm and obliterate. Review | In the galleries: Images focus on the future of the planet 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

He has also spawned an industry of copycat books in which authors and illustrators try to create similarly infectious blends of pen-and-ink illustrations and fast-paced, highly relatable narrative. ArtsBeat Blog: Jeff Kinney's Favorite Books From Childhood 2011-11-15T14:36:14Z

He's currently preparing a debut Edinburgh show, which places his hip-hop showstoppers in the context of a narrative based on his own life; right now you've got some opportunities to check out the work-in-progress. This week's new comedy 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

Like the protagonist of Samuel Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape,” Bluebeard is trapped by his memories, stopping the tape to stop time, replaying passages, lines or words or pausing the narrative for long moments. When Pina Bausch Made Tanz Into Tanztheater 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

Seated at a table, sipping coffee and smoking cigarettes, the men chat idly and to no evident narrative end. Review: ‘The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq’ Blurs Fiction and Reality 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

"But he was a fascinating person and he was absolutely qualified to be in the program. He added to the diversity narrative in the arts." Why a white woman's discrimination lawsuit against the Getty is no joke and could set a precedent 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Amanda Eyre Ward’s “The Jetsetters” is one of those books, delivering a narrative of family dysfunction in which each member is a mess and everyone gets a say. A Widow Takes Her Grown Kids on a Cruise. What Could Go Wrong? 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

This makes sense, because Mr. Wink’s narratives tend to evoke last stands of many varieties. Review: In ‘Dog Run Moon,’ Men So Lonesome, They Could Cry 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

Gradually, Harry assumes the role of a surrogate father to Betty's son and daughter, and it is his friendship with the boy, Michael, that provides the novel's turning-point. Counterpointing that narrative is another about birds. Mateship With Birds by Carrie Tiffany – review 2013-06-12T03:53:35Z

Segal had been writing the screenplay for Paramount producer Robert Evans and wanted to turn his work into a prose narrative. Longtime publishing editor Genevieve Young dead at 89 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

The narrative of Palatucci’s selflessness became the subject of articles, books and a television movie. An Italian Saint in the Making or a Collaborator With Nazis 2013-06-19T23:11:51Z

“There are so many different narratives,” she said. Off the Beat and Into a Museum: Art Helps Police Officers Learn to Look 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

When those songs are stripped from their jimmied narratives and returned to their native format as recordings, they devolve into something peculiar: greatest hits tribute albums. How Do You Measure a Season on Broadway? In Cast Albums. 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

The exhibits integrate Holocaust narratives and other accounts of injustice with present-day stories of prejudice. At the Museum of Tolerance, Holding a Mirror to Visitors’ Biases 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

At times, the narrative stretches a bit thin, repeating certain motifs as the characters roam the halls, entering one mysterious room after another. Review | In Elisabeth Thomas’s ‘Catherine House,’ an exclusive university harbors sinister secrets 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

Here are five claims from "Planet of the Humans" that challenge widely-accepted narratives about green energy. Why "Planet of the Humans," Michael Moore’s new film about green energy, is so controversial 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

But his approach to the subject is neither narrative nor symbolic. On Governors Island, a Machine That Jolts History 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

I had tried to re-direct the cop to listen to a different narrative about our students. The startling power of my "sweet" white lady voice. 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z

But tonight, as we all expected, action in the real world brutally invades the narrative one. Mad Men: season three, episode 12 2010-04-07T21:45:00Z

On "Strange Little Girls," Amos offers complex personalities and complicated plot details — broadening musical history narratives that are often male-driven and frustratingly narrow. Tori Amos' "Strange Little Girls" is a quietly triumphant covers collection that endures 20 years on 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

Captivity narratives were America’s first popular literary genre, based on the capture of colonists by warring Native tribes, which claimed more than 1,000 victims in 17th and 18th century Puritan New England. They’re just trying to scare you: The GOP’s long history of bizarre, make-believe enemies 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

The whole narrative of postwar U.S. history is demographically skewed. The Misconception about Baby Boomers and the Sixties 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

Most writers plod through the “striking events” of the narrative and fill in the gaps with dialogue, description and commentary. Movie Review: ?The Raven,? With John Cusack, Directed by James McTeigue 2012-04-26T23:19:38Z

The lengthy narrative thus is more of a challenge. Mark Bowden's searing 'Hue 1968' look finds miscalculations in the bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

That the series doesn’t deliver a straightforward redemption narrative is one of its triumphs. Patrick Melrose - Cumberbatch finds privilege corrupts 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z

That was the narrative she clung to, when he refused to say “fidelity” in their wedding vows. 2010-02-06T05:10:00Z

Titled “Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver,” it depicts a scene that appears in only one of the four gospels, and then as a mere footnote to the Passion narrative. ‘Rembrandt’s First Masterpiece,’ a Portrait of a Biblical Betrayal 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Moreover, the Syrian refugee narrative is heavy-handed as it becomes another of Winterbottom's polemical issues. "Greed," a satire about the filthy rich, is as subtle as Steve Coogan's blindingly white teeth 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

As we watch the welcome chair pass from family to family, it becomes the backbone of the narrative, accompanied by vignettes exploring different communities and the fabric of America. Picturing the Power of Community 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Following the 2009 film, which received mixed reviews, HBO is looking to give "The Time Traveler's Wife" more narrative breathing room in the form of an episodic series. 8 fascinating facts about "The Time Traveler's Wife" 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

Set during a distant Dark Age long after our current civilization has given itself to the fire, the entire narrative is rendered in a hyper-phonetic, punning version of devolved English. Classic dystopian novels forecast a bleak future — soon 2014-03-28T20:10:55Z

Set in a small southern town, the heist is certainly at the center of the narrative. 7 thrilling books by Black authors you need to read now 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z

Yet they all tell deeply personal, difficult stories from new perspectives that challenge both their audiences and mainstream narratives, which is where much of their power lies. Going Hyperlocal, Filmmakers Explore the Pain of Racism 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

It was a bold narrative move that both shocked and compelled readers and viewers, raising as it did fascinating questions of the usefulness of vengeance and the imperative to rebuild. From Don't Look Now to The Child in Time: why do we crave stories of lost children? 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

And so a narrative is formed and that person is demonized. Lohan director explains why we hate Lindsay 2010-07-08T15:30:00Z

I have always believed that being in a long-term relationship, including friendship, is about creating a shared narrative. The Benefits of Bickering in Marriage 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

This isn’t just a pragmatic concession to the natural decline of a copper plate — it also produces entirely new narratives, new moods and new ideas, all as exciting and compelling as the original one. Review | The Rijksmuseum displayed ‘all the Rembrandts,’ and crowds went crazy 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

"Charmed" is coming back as well, with the "Jane the Virgin" team promising strongly feminist narratives. At New York Comic Con, horror TV shows strength and stamina 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z

Daniel is, in short, thoroughly feminized — more thoroughly feminized than any main character, male or female, gets to be in most contemporary spy narratives. Without 'Twilight's' supernatural chill, can Stephenie Meyer still thrill readers? 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

These are pressed into the narrative again and again, the repetition hypnotic and staccato, like a spell. Corrag by Susan Fletcher | Book review 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

While vivid, the narrative is slow going at first. ‘The Swan Gondola’: mysteries of Omaha in a cinematic novel 2014-03-10T06:58:08Z

A narrative shape and an emotional payoff arrive in the very last scenes, just as the spell is broken. Movie Review: In ‘Viola,’ Shakespeare Is Lens to Look at Young Argentines 2013-07-11T21:39:22Z

“That’s its own form of dangerous extremism. Its premises are wrong, and its results are dangerous. By feeding that narrative, American Sniper is part of the problem.” 'American Sniper' Isn't Pro-War Propaganda 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

One of the strangest and most moving images in the Met’s early European holdings, it’s unlocatable in every way, outside any this-leads-to-this art historical narrative. Seeing the Met’s Greatest Hits as Artists Painted Them 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

Other films named in the world narrative features section include Indian drama The Kite and French comedy Romantics Anonymous. Michael Sheen headed for Tribeca 2011-03-08T10:31:11Z

The framework remains true to true crime, though, with the narrative hopping from one failed appeal to the next. Review: ‘Leavenworth’ Puts the Army on Trial 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

It emphasizes Presley as a performer and cultural agitator more so than as a person, while combining or rewriting historical moments to serve the larger narrative. ‘Elvis’ vs. Elvis 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

It focuses attention as much on how we experience projected moving imagery and puzzle together narrative in our own minds as it does on its ostensible subject matter. Art Review: Youth, With Hopes and Bliss Intact 2011-05-27T23:41:29Z

Throughout, the ghost of a long-dissolved nuclear family – mum Shelley, dad Mort and children Ali, Josh and Sarah – haunts the narrative. Battle of the Bastards to San Junipero: what was the best TV episode of 2016? 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

In the three recent moving-image installations here he creates narratives that operate in cinematic and real space in different, often affecting ways. In the Art of Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Vietnam’s Nightmares Live On 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z

The diverging narrative reduces the fun “Cowboy Bebop” tone to window dressing. ‘New Gods: Yang Jian’ Review: ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Without the Bop 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

The images vaguely suggest an urban narrative, but, as in Chris Marker’s films, the drama lies in the long, ruminative wait. Art in Review: HILARY LLOYD 2011-08-04T22:00:07Z

“The Parisian” is worthy, sincere, generous — and grievously dull, a tale whose flares of energy are buried beneath a gnarled, inexpert narrative. Review | ‘The Parisian’ takes us back to the Ottoman Empire on the cusp of upheaval 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

The Republican convention will need to create a narrative that posits Atlantic City and the cover of Playboy as a plausible road to the White House. Battle of the Network Stars: Trump vs. Clinton 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

The narrative is also interrupted by disturbingly frank mini-profiles of the kids murdered in the initial mass shooting. Review | 3 novels that aim for the heart of America’s love affair with guns 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

Komunyakaa, a Pulitzer Prize winner, brings ancient characters to life, places tyrants in unexpected narratives and shows a range of battles, from the football field to those inside the minds of troubled people. Poets reflect on Ferguson, Obama, war and matters of the heart 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

“It’s a combination of the sentimental — of the personal stories — and the collective narrative of this heroic group of men.” ?Making American Taste? at the New-York Historical Society 2011-10-16T20:57:17Z

In this fast-paced, frightening narrative, Malorie discovers information about fellow survivors, and hits the road with her children, searching for something of “the old world” to hold onto. Where Evil Lurks 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

If I had been involved from the beginning, then I could incorporate a dance that has something to do with narrative drive. Flying Kites across the world 2010-05-20T21:00:00Z

That the feeble machinations of this breathless action thriller are based in a semblance of spy-trade truth does help its hurtling narrative seem slightly less preposterous. 'Salt': Angelina Jolie is breathless in action-packed spy thriller 2010-07-22T17:22:00Z

Much as he did in “Martin Eden,” his bold adaptation of the Jack London novel, the Italian director Pietro Marcello has again charted an atypical narrative course. ‘Scarlet’ Review: A Father and Daughter Endure 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

In the end, more than 2,300 narratives were gathered, and scholars who’ve examined them have detected what seems to be a bias among the collectors in favor of ghost stories. The Haunted Past 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

Turning time and memory into an elliptical portrait of what it means when borders become barriers, “I Carry You With Me,” the first narrative feature from the documentary filmmaker Heidi Ewing, trades distance for empathy. ‘I Carry You with Me’ Review: When You Can’t Go Home Again 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

Such is the film's narrative logic, and perhaps it is best to just let the film wash across the screen, not unlike a hypnotic series of slow-motion scenes of water near the film's end. "EO" is the gorgeously hypnotic drama about a donkey whose journey will break your heart 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

With a lovingly painted, white porcelain tea service on a round black marble table in the foreground, it could be a scene from one of the Marquis de Sade’s milder narratives. Art in Review: JOHN CURRIN: ?New Paintings? 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z

Again, though, the lycanthropy angle has yet to be properly incorporated into the narrative, and that might mean introducing a new thread just as we’re looking to see the others tied up. What to Look for in the 'Penny Dreadful' Finale on Sunday 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

“The fact that the internal organs were eaten really feeds this narrative that soul food is really about the parts that white people did want to cast off,” he said. One Huge Hog, One Long Day and a Nourishing Southern Tradition 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

Setting the series in the recent past is Sorkin's way of framing actual news events to underpin his narrative while allowing a scripted drama to keep pace. A big story developing on HBO's 'The Newsroom' 2012-06-20T09:16:04Z

But “Mrs. Fletcher” soon loses that vibrancy when the narrative splits to follow the competing sexual adventures of Eve at home and her son at school. The most pleasant novel about pornography you’ll ever read 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

Oscar Ruiz Navia’s “Crab Trap” is an atmospheric story of a drifter in a coastal Colombian village, invested less in narrative progression than in exploring a physical and psychological landscape. Film: Miguel Gomes and Others Mix Drama and Reality 2010-08-20T18:46:00Z

But for the most part, the role of revenge as a narrative theme and Pip's collusion in his own oppression goes strangely unexplored. Great Expectations - review 2011-03-13T14:58:32Z

By erasing them onscreen, we are perpetuating this harm and furthering the narrative that only white is right. ‘In the Heights’ and Colorism: What Is Lost When Afro-Latinos Are Erased 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

Each picture is emotionally resonant, not necessarily a literal reflection of the subject but an expression of what inspired it — the geometric lines, shapes and shadows giving the image a new narrative. Icelandic magic: One U.S. couple's excursions, on view at Photo L.A. 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

His exploration of this brave new world in which linear narratives are replaced with more playful, participatory stories is compelling, no less so for being told via an old-fashioned medium: a book. The Art of Immersion by Frank Rose – review 2012-07-10T14:50:01Z

Much of the evidence supporting Mr Bower’s narrative of a gifted but shallow politician who over-promised and under-delivered appears, at first sight, compelling. The shredding of Tony Blair 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Throw in a Greek chorus of talking wooden dolls, and you get one of the most fascinating historical narratives I’ve ever read. ‘The Exchange of Princesses’ review: One of European history’s weirdest schemes 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

Like the Johnson set, the mystery of the sessions adds a hint of narrative, which drives interest. Back to the basement with Bob Dylan 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

A radial narrative, Alison suggests, “could spring from a central hole—an incident, pain, absence, horror—around which it keeps circling or from which it keeps veering.” The Deeply Wacky Pleasures of Jane Alison’s “Meander, Spiral, Explode” 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

The sudden absence of the crowd is scrambling entrenched media narratives. The Shows Must Go On. But They Aren’t the Same Without You. 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

By the ’90s it had become ritual among horror audiences to catalog and call out clichés — a way to interact with a film, but also to release tension and shake a narrative’s frightful grips. Rrrring! Hello, Sidney? It?s Happening Again! 2011-04-10T01:13:02Z

Presented here as emerging from the mélodie tradition rather than, as usual, opera, Poulenc’s work, with a text by Jean Cocteau, felt more poetic and even surreal than a naturalistic narrative. Review: Anna Caterina Antonacci Charms With French Art Songs 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Unlike many true crime series that are told in past tense, a narrative structure that sometimes lends itself to a sense of premature resolve, this series is told in future tense. In Netflix’s compelling ”Don't F**k with Cats,” cat lovers unite to capture an online murderer 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

Now, Yu said, Lee was “saying things that were just not true. She was trying to create a different narrative and attacked my character.” Who’s the angriest Asian? It’s ‘man’ vs. ‘little girl’ in trademark feud. 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

The narrative weaves between past and present in interesting ways. How did you conceive of the structure?  Finding out you have a hole in your heart: Joshua Mohr on his memoir 'Sirens' 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

The narrative's refrain reminds us of all the ways that living is a game of chance, and like pachinko itself, every outcome is entirely unpredictable. The must-see "Pachinko" is a pure and flawless beauty about the unpredictability of living 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

Of course that narrative was disrupted last week. Didion on 9/11: How many times can America lose its innocence? 2013-09-16T00:00:00Z

But this meant that the museum’s narrative would have been one in which people were leading themselves to their death, with perpetrators invisible. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Conversation 2012-06-05T16:40:23Z

And I mean all kinds of narratives: classical epics and homey fairy tales, barroom ballads and chronicles of hopeless love, multigenerational family sagas and ghost stories with a body count. Review: A Thrilling ‘Ferryman’ Serves Up a Glorious Harvest Feast 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

The technological marvel around which the "Devs" narrative spins represents an extreme broadening of that concept that is, to some, magnificent and to others magnificently terrifying. "Devs" is Alex Garland's aesthetically mesmerizing and engrossing modern horror story 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

If we scrape the surface of any large national narrative, we soon find evidence of both wounds and healing, connections that exploit and connections that nurture. Review | Mark Bradford turned a bloody Civil War battle into art that will haunt and entrance you 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Written in a graceful, lucid prose style, with a strong narrative line, his books appealed to the general reader as well as historians. Peter Gay, Historian Who Explored Social History of Ideas, Dies at 91 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Did you think the narrative ended with the awakening kiss? Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty,’ Reawakened by American Ballet Theater 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

That still doesn’t excuse the lack of narrative clarity and skips and jumps over important pieces of the plot puzzle. “The Witcher” is baffling to the uninitiated, but diehards swear by its throwback fantasy charms 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

Because popularity, when that pops in and you have all kinds of mythologies pumping in, and the narrative could skid away from the people who created it. As hip-hop turns 50, Chuck D praises its power as "a worldwide cultural experience and religion" 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

True to form, the story features a surreal narrative and enigmatic characters, including Aomame, a 30-year-old woman whose name means "Green Bean". Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 due out in English in October 2011-01-31T13:30:54Z

But, in their surprising and suggestive connection, they reveal the great, overriding drama of the modern cinema—the preëminence of the art of the director, the foregrounding of the visual voice over the narrative content. Saul Bellow, Film Critic 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

In his introductory essay for the project, Caramanica writes that hip-hop “is far too vast to be contained under one tent, or limited to one narrative. The genre is gargantuan, nonlinear and unruly.” 50 Rappers, 50 Stories: Hear the Remix 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z

Inspired by James Baldwin’s essays, the novelist and poet threads his experiences of growing up in Trinidad and living in Korea with 18th-century slave narratives to explore institutional whiteness and “blame culture.” New & Noteworthy, From Christmas Stories to a Photographer Nanny 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

In the new iteration, the speaker tangles parallel narratives of life and death in intentionally disorienting fashion. Jake Gyllenhaal hopes hearing ‘Sea Wall/A Life’ is like ‘a phone call with a friend’ 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

The Democratic campaign I spent the last few days on the ground in Iowa observing is strikingly different than the curated images of the campaigns and narrative that the media continues to advance. Even when Hillary wins, she loses: In Iowa, I saw plenty of excitement for Clinton, too — but Sanders’ surge is still the big news 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

“He wanted to get on the right side of the narrative.” Why Hank Azaria Won’t Play Apu on ‘The Simpsons’ Anymore 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

As a result, the interior monologues are restricted to reasonable assumptions picking up on hints in the published non-fiction campaign narratives. The story of O: A Presidential Novel 2011-01-21T12:15:40Z

“Something More Than Night” is a wholly independent narrative, but it, too, contains echoes and reflections of the author’s earlier fiction. Review | In ‘Something More Than Night,’ Raymond Chandler and Boris Karloff are a winning crime-fighting duo 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

Increasingly, we seek narratives that guide us through our fear, language that diagnoses and renders transparent, a timeline of redemption and resolution that’s legible and coherent. As a Daughter Is Born, a Young Mother Dies 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

But even this benevolent omission partly explains the narrative’s shortcomings — the story doesn't work as a parable of anything because the films to which is pays tribute aren't parables. "Stranger Things" wants to be everybody's memory and nobody's parable 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

But the museum seems so reluctant to provide master narratives that, at times, it fails to offer any narrative at all. Shtetl of honour 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Time and again, we must clarify our individual and collective beliefs about how the last chapter changes the rest of the narrative. ‘The Good Death,’ ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and More 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

It's also a sign of narrative desperation that Guy's flat is invaded by another unexpected visitor in the shape of an ebullient Nigerian claiming to be his adoptive son. The Victorian in the Wall – review 2013-05-17T17:25:57Z

This study, however, closely looks at unlawful and unethical actions committed by law enforcement agents themselves that get a pass because within the narrative, they are done in the service of "good." Are crime shows slowing justice reform? Here's the insidious storytelling bias miseducating viewers 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

Still, she always retells even familiar stories in clever ways, and her narrative momentum never flags. Review | Sherlock Holmes may not have been a real crime-fighter, but his creator was 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

This year there were, as ever, some very worthy middle-size movies, some of which took chances with narrative form and cinematic technique. The Year the Studios Get It Right 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

Greenman frequently explores narrative form: One of his eight works of fiction, 2008’s “Correspondences,” packed short stories into a stationery set. Ben Greenman's essay 'Questions/Answers' seeks questions in songs that aren't always answered 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

He has also made significant plot changes, some because of the time shift, others in the interest of tightening the narrative and the relationships between the characters. Brighton Rock ? review 2011-02-06T00:05:44Z

But the mid-length narrative suits his talents particularly well, permitting a degree of expansiveness while maintaining a controlled, disciplined approach to the material at hand. Review | ‘If It Bleeds’ reaffirms Stephen King’s mastery of short fiction 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

Unbelievably, Thorpe actually worried while writing the book that it might bore readers, because “not a lot happens that’s a traditional war narrative.’ Women’s war stories: Sex, stress-relief and mothering from afar

What I think is missing from this narrative about Literary Citizenship, however, is an origin story. Why do writers need to do these things? More work, no pay: Why I detest “Literary Citizenship” 2014-04-23T17:04:00Z

Many histories written by professors sag under the weight of sociological details, but this narrative is gripping. 'Preachin' the Blues': the life and times of enigmatic bluesman Son House 2011-06-30T19:35:04Z

"It allows us to tell the engaging narrative in a very clear and compelling way." Cleveland museum marks another project milestone 2010-06-25T19:07:00Z

While people have conversations, characters have dialogues – and, ideally, every piece of dialogue in a story is a means to a narrative end. The unreal art of realistic dialogue 2010-03-18T10:54:00Z

The narrative explores the relationship between song and spirituality on the Columbia Plateau, east of the Cascades, and is enhanced by numerous photographs and translations of old Indian hymns. Local Books: 'Reamde' in paperback, Indian studies, finance 2012-05-21T19:03:03Z

While many TV episodes these days play with four-dimensional narratives and unreliable perceptions, “The Queen” stayed heartbreakingly grounded in character by anchoring itself in Ruth’s point-of-view. The Most Memorable TV Episodes of 2018 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

But she was careful to distinguish his approach from what she called “the Oprah Winfrey narrative” so common in recent American memoirs. A Debate Over Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle’ 2012-06-18T21:31:09Z

It’s clear she and Louis know that her charm lies in comedy, tossing aside the heavier emotional narrative they had going on earlier. "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Evan goes butch 2010-05-04T12:05:00Z

For better or worse, American audiences have been conditioned to expect certain kinds of narratives with certain rhythms, and this movie openly defies that. The "Drive" backlash: Too violent, too arty or both? 2011-09-23T14:01:00Z

When asked if she may have taken liberties with her research for narrative effect, Ms. Wolf’s blue eyes hardened. Naomi Wolf on Her New Book, “Vagina” 2012-09-19T22:10:40Z

Broadly speaking, the story of how this book — itself an invention of the author — narrowly escapes destruction is the thread that links the different narratives. From Anthony Doerr, an Ode to Storytelling That Shows How It’s Done 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Many if not most of the narrative mechanisms of this first novel don't actually work, but it's hard to quarrel with the judges who awarded it the Man Asian literary prize. Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco 2010-06-26T23:06:00Z

Lepore ends her own book in a reverie, not a revelation, vexing our stubborn narrative expectation. What is biography? Who can be trusted? asks Jill Lepore in 'Joe Gould's Teeth' 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

His dubious achievement is to reduce a real person – his wife Aura Estrada – to a narrative device, while he hides behind the unreliable narrator, "Francisco Goldman", unfalsifiable and beyond critical reach. Too much grief 2011-08-19T21:55:11Z

Some readers might make a similar statement regarding the sanctity of Dickens, particularly when taking in the extremity of the alterations Knight makes to Pip's narrative arc. Olivia Colman on her "Great Expectations" for Miss Havisham: “There's such darkness inside her" 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

One of the most unsettling things about “Monologue” is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past. The Age of Monologues 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

That pulls you out of the narrative, instead of sucking you in. 2009-12-17T01:16:00Z

The rather sketchy narrative presupposes a certain level of Shackleton knowledge, so a little boning up beforehand is recommended. | '69?S.': ?69?S.? at BAM Harvey Theater - Review 2011-11-03T22:47:19Z

Linked narratives and various Venices reflect one another in this clever first novel. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Gradually our faith in this seemingly most reliable of narrators is undermined by deftly disclosed pieces of information positing a narrative at odds with Juliana’s. | 'The Other Place': Confronting an Illness and a Life in Shambles 2011-03-29T08:30:23Z

Lee creates heroes in this narrative, of course, but they're not the one we're set up to predict at the film's outset. With "Da 5 Bloods" Spike Lee triumphantly reflects with Black experience of the Vietnam War 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

But I was supposed to be getting a narrative that was new and unique and, above all, exclusive to me. ‘Sleep No More,’ Enhanced by MIT Media Lab 2012-05-22T22:30:52Z

It combines three interlocking narratives, centered around the Iridium flares, phenomena caused by sunlight reflecting off satellites, often visible in the night sky. Benjamin Hale treats troubled characters with care in 'The Fat Artist and Other Stories' 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

The decision to expand its narrative beyond Atwood’s text is vital. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Episode 7: Crossing the Border 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

Yet, alongside these sacrifices, the comical side of the family narrative has been present. The Story of the Subtle Asian Traits Facebook Group 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z

King’s affection for her is evident on every page and adds a measure of emotional weight to the narrative. Review | ‘If It Bleeds’ reaffirms Stephen King’s mastery of short fiction 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

Lang borrows Bach's format of entwining a tragic narrative with a reflective commentary; though the vocal writing owes more to medieval plainchant and the pulse of minimalism than Lutheran chorales. David Lang 2010-05-04T20:45:00Z

By the end of Zuckoff’s narrative, it’s clear that the Americans, however painful and anguishing the ordeal, were hardly victims. Extreme Travel of ?45 2011-06-03T16:51:51Z

The genre emphasises personality, narrative, songcraft and singing ability for good reason: to best convey this marriage of the physical and the emotional. Real R&B fans aren't waiting for the Weeknd 2011-03-29T08:50:31Z

All of this work — animation, acting, computer programming, player evaluation and more — is done in the service of narrative. Critic’s Notebook: Even NCAA College Football 14 Is Changing 2013-07-08T21:42:59Z

Similar disappointment awaits sticklers for continuity and narrative consistency. Book World: Denis Johnson’s ‘The Laughing Monsters’ offers more than formulaic thrill

“I saw weird humor, narrative that I couldn’t describe in one sentence,” he said. Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen and Oliver Butler of Debate Society 2012-09-30T04:20:07Z

Instead, like a sitcom that starts each episode with its narrative slate wiped clean, the next story in the book finds Toad waiting anxiously for Frog to arrive at his house for Christmas Eve dinner. “Frog and Toad”: An Amphibious Celebration of Same-Sex Love 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

“There needs to be a narrative that is shared by both men and women,” he said. Pharrell Williams, Making Noise for ‘Hidden Figures’ Everywhere 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

Two Families Become One in World War II With its exhilarating World War II narrative and performances that touch notes intimate and grand, “Simon and the Oaks” has an exquisite, and epic, ache. Movie Review: ‘Simon and the Oaks,’ From Sweden 2012-10-12T17:00:07Z

Set largely in and around a house nestled in the woods, Sciamma’s Lilliputian tour de force is a wittily modern fairy tale and model of elegant narrative economy. Best Movies of 2022 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z

At his core, he remains a storyteller who refuses to let his lyrical style overwhelm the narrative substance of his plots. Any Human Heart: William Boyd on telling the story of the 20th century 2010-11-21T08:00:00Z

But there will also be lots that is familiar in the show, including the basic narrative, the major characters and even some of the jokes. Replicate or Reinvent? Disney’s ‘Frozen’ Moves to the Stage 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

And “Stray Dogs,” with its glacial pace and disconnected narrative, often feels more like an art installation than like a movie. ‘Stray Dogs,’ by Tsai Ming-liang, a Tale of Alienation 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

And it’s initially thrilling to see a talented novelist promise to nakedly confront them, a high-wire act not unlike the ones depicted in the narrative. On Loony Island, a Malignant Priest Strips Mental Patients of Free Will 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

Classical and Techno merit little narrative exposition, however. ‘Trolls World Tour,’ a Kids’ Music Movie, Has Big Problems With Pop 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

They connected language to thought and thought to soul in sweeping narratives that spoke to patriotism, heroism and dangers beyond mortal control. 'Theater of War' evokes eternal truths of battlefield in reading by David Strathairn, Alfred Molina and Heather Goldenhersh 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

Not so incidentally, if ever a nonfiction author has used the techniques of fiction any better to recount a real-life narrative, it is difficult to imagine who that author would be. 'The Tiger': John Vaillant's mesmerizing tale of a man-eating tiger, vengeance and survival 2010-08-25T23:16:00Z

“This, I understood finally, was history: not the ordered narrative of books but an affliction that spread from parent to child, sister to brother, husband to wife.” Writing a Family Memoir When Your Grandfather Was Stalin’s Bodyguard 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

The sales staff listened as the narrative of the country’s sleep needs unfurled, right on the sales floor: kicking husbands, tossing wives, dogs who weren’t supposed to sleep on the bed but did. It’s Memorial Day weekend. One of the mattressiest times of the year. 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

JR Sky's breakneck history of these Isles continues to rattle along, heavy on visuals and dramatisations, light on narrative. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 8-12 October 2012-10-08T08:00:00Z

In his influential screenwriting guide “Story,” Robert McKee argues that comedy, unlike drama, “allows the writer to halt narrative drive” with scenes that serve no purpose other than getting laughs. Why New TV Comedies Are Choosing Plot Over Jokes 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

From the prologue, the narrative flashes back to a depiction of Charlotte's Irish father, Patrick Brontë. Unrequited love fuels the 'Fiery Heart' biography of Charlotte Brontë 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

Williams, who toggled between confidence and insecurity, colleagues say, always wanted to put himself at the center of the narrative. ‘Brian being Brian’: A unique storytelling ability connected Brian Williams with viewers, but it also led to his downfall 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

I think people are pretty familiar with the narrative of how materialism became this key way of living. Buy less, do more: 5 reasons why experiences make us happier than things 2014-03-08T21:00:00Z

Lepionka is such an assured writer, with complete narrative authority from the first line. Sophie Hannah: By the Book 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

The narrative conceit of this novel is deceptively simple: Chronology is inverted. A Brief Guide to Martin Amis’s Books 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

Half of that is the narrative I’m creating, the quotes and sacred text. Rev. Roxy Is Serious About Marriages and Helping Make Them Work 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

But it’s also where the dance shows us something more than a narrative idea. Review: Ballet Is Spectacle in ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

But she’s on thinner ice trying to gather up the scattered parts of “I’ll Get You Back Again” in a way that gives the story some powerful narrative drive. Review | Sex, drugs and rock-and-roll: Sounds good? Turns out the formula’s not foolproof. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

In a narrative move that further obscures the interesting if clouded truth, Mr. Caranfil also frames his version with a needless contrivance. Review: ‘Closer to the Moon’ Recounts a Bizarre Bit of Romanian History 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

I didn’t want to get back together, but, seeking to be the historic preservationist of my own life, I wanted to restore the dignity of the narrative. Modern Love: A Once-Upon-a-Time Romance 2011-03-03T20:37:34Z

That’s because a gaffe is most damaging when it feeds into an existing narrative about the candidate. Three? Uh? Uh? Maybe Two Things About Rick Perry?s Debate Gaffe 2011-11-10T14:18:56Z

Drake has long included moments like this on his albums, but they rarely shaped the narrative. Drake Hits the Nightclub 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

Faced with doubting, undermining and hounding, Marie recants her story, but the narrative only gets more complicated from there. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix, Amazon and More in September 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

These narratives, in which prehistoric habits of survival become today’s intellectual liabilities, are supposed to undermine religion by scientifically demonstrating the irrationality at its core. The Twain Shall Meet 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

We are entering 2019 with this narrative that we are now seeing Trump unleashed. How Predictable Is Donald Trump? 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

Yet while there have been measurable and even outstanding successes, these have been purged from the narrative. Jeffrey Deitch Faces Critics at MOCA 2012-10-19T23:10:54Z

This is incredibly frustrating—particularly in a cultural moment in which writers are giving voice to nontraditional narratives, and people are noticing and making it part of the conversation. You’re still nothing until you’re a mom: Why does pop culture hate the child-free? 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

“This is a fairly complex narrative. We’re asking questions: What is the role of government, what is the nature of leadership?” Ken Burns turns his lens on Roosevelt dynasty 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

What’s fascinating about James adaptations is how starkly they draw the aesthetic battle lines between the narrative arts of literature and film. Translating Henry James for the Screen 2013-04-28T03:43:13Z

And if you look more closely, the changes in the narrative aren’t necessarily as female friendly as they might seem. ‘Halt and Catch Fire,’ on AMC, Switches Gears in Its New Season 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

In Sarah Weinman’s recent anthology, “Unspeakable Acts,” crime narratives share space with essays that raise objections to the genre itself, especially in its sensationalized “damsel in distress” iteration. 2 Murders 3 Decades Ago: A Podcaster and a TV Producer Dig In 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

But just as often the music interrupts the narrative flow, with Mr. Slotnick and Ms. Walker awkwardly trying to appear lost in deep thoughts until they get to talk again. Review: ‘Tchaikovsky: None but the Lonely Heart’ Has Music and Passion. But Not Romance. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

But quarrels, rivalries and alliances could be complex, interweaving ethnic strands and often belying any simple narrative of racial oppression. Frontier justice was brutal in Los Angeles, and 'Eternity Street' gets to the heart of the matter 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

By enlisting natural forces as allies, the artist enters what her statement calls “the current environmental narrative.” Review | In the galleries: A focus on sensitive portraits with biographical elements 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

In creating a narrative to wrap around them, Ms. Cody could therefore have gone almost anywhere. Review: ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Breaks the Jukebox Musical Mold 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

Over the last year, some of his fans have tried to scrub him out too, erasing him from their narratives about what made “Buffy” great. ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby.’ (Among Others.) 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

He goes on to say, “I don’t like the narrative that organic is pesticide-free. It’s not. They do use things that are toxic to the environment.” Perspective | The truth about organic produce and pesticides 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

If you do put them together, they don’t form a unified narrative. Hugo Crosthwaite on Tijuana, Mexico's missing, the power of comic books 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Violence is swift and searing, and the cinematographer Kabelo Thathe’s gorgeous aerial shots and electric street scenes belie the fact that this is his first narrative feature. Review: In ‘Vaya,’ Three Travelers Find Danger in Johannesburg 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

But you are so bought into the narrative. Sally Phillips: Do we really want a world without Down’s syndrome? 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

Lloyd, 28, works with a small, revolving group of collaborators to make dances that are mostly narrative. For a Young Choreographer, Bed-Stuy Is Home and a Stage 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z

Never a champion of his vaudeville tendencies, she now wanted him to show off his narrative talents. The night Mark Twain brought Huck Finn alive 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

“The whole narrative question of the show is ‘Where is the love?’ and Fagin is one answer,” deBessonet said. ‘Oliver!’ Returns, With Darker Twists Intact 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

That narrative is central to the language of pop music today. Is pop music sexualising our children? 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

Achieving that kind of narrative authenticity required a precise attention to detail, Nicholls said. A Refugee’s Harrowing Story, Finally Told Through Animation 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

The turn of events is both proportionate to the intensity of its cultural critique and appropriate to a narrative propelled by dream sequences, waking nightmares, and lavish hallucinations. “Dietland,” Reviewed: A Bleak and Giddy Subversion of Beauty Myths 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

There is never a doubt that the many emotional arcs and narrative curves that Hiccup and Toothless must weather are all part of the master plan. 'How to Train Your Dragon 2' packs emotional firepower in a rip-roaring ride 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Of course, this framing ignores the actual history of apple pie and its origins overseas, and represents a falsely constructed narrative of our culture and history. Why apple pie isn’t so American after all 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Redford, according to most accounts, influenced the crucial decision to focus the narrative on the reporters themselves. William Goldman Turned Reporters into Heroes in “All the President’s Men” 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

But it is Hogg’s filmmaking — her narrative and stylistic choices, the precision of her framing, the stillness of her images and how she withholds information — that distinguishes “Souvenir” and her other movies. ‘The Souvenir Part II’ Review: Life, as She Imagines It 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

How does a society decide what stories it tells, what narratives it values and preserves? 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

At Columbia, we did an independent study — just the two of us taught by the brilliant Christine Schutt — that broke open our basic understanding of narrative. Two guys, two books: Five days in search of America — and readers 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

There’s not even a similarity in narrative strategies. ‘The Lost Child’: an homage (of sorts) to ‘Wuthering Heights’ 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Popular cultural narratives frequently invoke the contributions of white men while erasing those of women and people of color. The iconic American inventor is still a white male — that’s an obstacle to race and gender inclusion 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

Packer subscribes to the American journalistic doctrine that the reporter must never appear in the narrative, and his absence is sometimes distracting. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer – review 2013-06-21T07:01:01Z

But the action is often confused and occasionally perverse, its rewrites weakening the narrative.In rep until 2 July. Don Giovanni – review 2012-06-05T17:01:01Z

This Seattle writer's debut novel is described as an "unorthodox narrative" tracing the last thoughts of a dying Irish-American poet. Local books: History of a famous neighborhood, a bicycle odyssey 2010-05-17T20:31:00Z

Readers will find plenty of poetic resonance in “Temple Grove,” although sometimes it comes at the expense of narrative flow. ‘Temple Grove’: war over Olympic Peninsula’s old trees 2013-05-22T23:10:19Z

I’m also seeing narratives where characters aren’t necessarily singing the songs but the music forms the backdrop of the story. 'Evan Hansen,' 'Great Comet,' 'Come From Away': Tony contenders gather to hash it out 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

If the traditional headlines, narratives, and sound bites that have been used to understand the conflict in Afghanistan miss the point, then the film suggests that maybe they are what is truly retrograde. Matthew Heineman’s documentary "Retrograde": A chilling, intimate view of the Afghanistan War's end 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

The novel's experiments with form and narrative mirror the complexities of modern life in a divided city. NW by Zadie Smith 2013-06-11T10:55:05Z

She became this vessel to look at the polemics, tensions and narratives around Latino life and its worth. ‘Anything for Selena’ Examines a Singer’s Legacy and Latino Identity 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

“Control over your own narrative is really important,” and that’s harder to do when stakeholders outside the community are involved, Mx. A New Cookbook by Indigenous People, for Indigenous People 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

However, that narrative, with its repetitive “Kung Fu” western formula, can start to feel dull after a few episodes, but the revamped final season in 2017 was an improvement. Where Does ‘Unicorn: Warriors Eternal’ Rank in the Tartakovsky Canon? 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

Kunicki’s search for his missing family is the first prolonged narrative, though it is interrupted midway and only briefly revisited 300 pages later. Review | ‘Flights’ is a beautifully fragmented look at man’s longing for permanence 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

Although most are straight prose there are moments of narrative playfulness. Roxane Gay's new book 'Difficult Women' proves her power 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

The production benefits hugely from Jesús Díaz Cortés’s gorgeous, often gold-steeped lighting, which heightens the narrative’s fable-like aspects and underscores the motif of dreams. Review | In GALA’s ‘Life Is a Dream,’ freewheeling ideas but stiff storytelling 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z

“When I read the pilot, I didn’t know anything about WeWork and so I googled Rebekah and the media narrative is one that villainized her,” Hathaway says. Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway recreate WeWork rise and fall 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

And where World War II served as a defining event in the American narrative, for Boyle the war was something that he learned about in school . . . and that was pretty much it. "When do we stop being safe here?": How the U.S. resembles this HBO show's scary alternate history 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

Instead, its death-or-a-dream narrative device distracts us from the unclear source of the singer’s confusion and shifts our focus to the comforting image of an early morning family idyll. “And everybody cried”: The callous murder of the Harvey family and the song it inspired 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z

The narrative travels alongside Pozzi at moments, and then forgets him entirely to take up the history of the duel and the dandy, Oscar Wilde’s trial and the mysterious fate of Bernhardt’s amputated right leg. Julian Barnes, Playing Against Character, Writes About a Character of Action and Appetite 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

“We have to unpick these narratives,” she said, untangling an invisible knot with her hands. Tracing the roots of misogyny to ancient Greece and Rome with Mary Beard 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

This book’s interwoven narratives allow her to strike chords that might otherwise have gone unstruck. Books of The Times: ?Wanted Women: Faith, Lies & the War on Terror? - Review 2012-01-15T23:49:30Z

There is also a storyline involving Leroy, who gets involved not just in the Smush subplot but also in the stable narrative. Idris Elba drama "Concrete Cowboy" brings audience along for a crowd-pleasing ride 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

At this point “A Line Made by Walking” becomes a wallow, a trunk of oozing funk, a narrative in which very little happens. An Artist Fears She’s a Fraud in ‘A Line Made by Walking’ 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

Not so with Art Zoyd, the French instrumental group and multimedia collective founded in 1969 that takes seriously its classical structures, its rock impact, its theatrical/narrative opportunities and its jazz wildness. The Year in Boxed Sets, From David Bowie to Weird Al 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

It's not nostalgia though, it's about using what Leeds designer and writer Matt Edgar calls "narrative capital"; stories that power the future. All hail HannaH – a new festival celebrating 'great stuff' in the north 2013-04-23T14:13:59Z

Much of the advice is repetitive and takes the reader out of the narrative. ‘Swingland’ Offers Peek Into Kinky Sex Underworld 2013-10-17T14:36:25Z

It is encouraging that something as frankly bizarre as “Cats”—which eschews all but the barest narrative, and glories in silly rhymes and an art-for-art’s-sake absurdity—appeals to so many. Memories of “Cats” 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Much of the narrative is told from Imelda's point of view, though it is only partially sympathetic. Review: David Byrne revisits disco in new work 2013-04-24T02:11:13Z

Despite the compelling sweep of time and history, it is the characters and their tumultuous lives that propel the narrative. Home but Not Home: Four Generations of an Ethnic Korean Family in Japan 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

She felt that to punish the white-passing character, as so many narratives in this tradition do, would be to implicitly reinforce the social hierarchies they transgress. 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

In the episodes that followed, Rowan became more and more ingrained in the narrative. “Scandal’s” daddy issues: How Olivia and Rowan’s twisted power dynamics became the best part of the show 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

It has its moments of interest, but the narrative, direction and fight choreography all look a bit samey. Reign of Assassins – review 2013-02-14T22:50:01Z

In its place, they revealed a narrative that's chilling in its survey of how we can lose what makes of human in the pursuit of a win. HBO's Swedish import "Beartown" is a chilling interrogation of the power we give young, athletic men 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

She praises his use of nonmusical sounds as narrative devices, and contends that Jackson, often painted as resisting the cutting edge, was in fact borrowing some of hip-hop’s angst and reformatting it on his terms. Examining Michael Jackson Impersonators and ‘Dangerous’ 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

While the existence of the Christian God is never spelled out in bold type, many of the narrative elements here depend on his off-panel existence. Does God exist in the Marvel Universe? 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

There is a lot of real weight for this narrative to bear, and a lot of names to remember. ‘Vanessa and Her Sister,’ by Priya Parmar 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

There are problems here, namely: Is this veering into a colonial narrative? The best scenes in "The Book of Boba Fett" are silent 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

So why is it the country and many of its leaders can't escape this "bad apple," narrative? HBO's "The Slow Hustle" director: "We're all carrying some level of mass grief as Black people" 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

Then, running parallel to that, is the video's main narrative thread, which involves a couple slowly falling in love via intimate dinner dates, some under-the-cover action and a nice break somewhere sunny. New music: Shields – Mezzanine 2012-10-10T06:00:00Z

“It was always a trauma narrative, a screaming mother, a crying mother — it was never reflective of what my life was,” she said. In ‘With Love,’ Gloria Calderón Kellett Comes Home for the Holidays 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

Typically, though, their scripts were compilations of quotations and anecdotes, many of which might be culled from a Wikipedia entry, bent into flimsy narrative arcs. Critic’s Notebook: Creating Barbra Streisand in ‘Buyer & Cellar’ 2013-07-29T22:28:23Z

In this documentary novel, newspaper headlines, photographs and song lyrics thread through the fictional narratives of Sunny, a 12-year-old white girl, and Ray, a black teenager whose family is hosting a white volunteer. Finalists for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature

Arthur Koo-ekka Pambegan Jr’s Flying Fox Story Place, for example, is a collection of carved milkwood sculptures in polymer paint and traditional ochre pigments; arresting in its size, beauty and narrative. Review: My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia 2013-06-06T03:00:00Z

Here, but for a few quoted conversations, she writes her narratives in the third person, in her own dramatic, often overreaching, staccato prose. What Do the Sex Lives of ‘Three Women’ Tell Us About Female Desire? 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

He finds that Howard’s new work, which is cast in a single movement, “is quite impressive in how the narrative and the proportion of it feel so right and fit together.” Hollywood composer James Newton Howard unveils world premiere at Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Summer Festival 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

He finds values in returning to narratives that break open public discussion and believes music is an ideal way of bringing together divergent voices. The choir sings, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney takes up the tune 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Every so often in “The Dark Tower,” you catch a glimpse of what might have been: the might-have-been narrative ambition, the might-have-been pop mythology, the might-have-been genre assemblage. Review: The Good, the Bad and the Stupid in ‘The Dark Tower’ 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

What I wanted to do was combine a narrative with lessons,” he said. Library of Congress Anoints Graphic Novelist as Ambassador for Young People’s Literature 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

But instead of having the last word, a key part of Ms. Constand’s narrative — if not her book — was rewritten Wednesday when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court freed Mr. Cosby on procedural grounds. Her Book Described Bringing Bill Cosby to Justice. Then He Was Freed. 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

An early concern arose from a narrative puzzle presented in the first episode of the series: How would Peggy gain permission to stay with Marian in her aunt’s home? ‘The Gilded Age’ Explores a Rarely Seen Chapter of Black History 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

An intricate, layered narrative told with literary precision and propulsive sound effects, “Shenanigan” feels less like his stand-up or solo shows than something entirely new. Can Daniel Kitson Redefine the Relationship Between Comic and Audience? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

With the spendthrift imagination of youth, he created miniature narratives for each étude that traversed multiple states of mind. Music Review: Daniil Trifonov Returns to Carnegie Hall 2014-02-07T22:28:20Z

Parks refused to subscribe to old, prejudicial narratives about crime. Review | With his camera, Gordon Parks humanized the Black people others saw as simply criminals 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

For Millepied, a tightly condensed narrative is the motor for an expressive, emotive physicality. Love and Death in Paris, With an Assist From Star-Crossed Verona 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

He’s whisked the characters of “House of the Dragon” through a sweeping pseudo-historical narrative, in which entire decades speed by from one episode to the next. Ryan Condal Was Surprised People Liked ‘House of the Dragon’ So Quickly 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

But taken as a whole, Scott wrote, the movie presents a “distended, awkward narrative whose strongest themes are lost in the murky pomp of period detail.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Stand Up to Cancer’ and ‘Nora From Queens’ 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

I like doing things I’ve never done before — both in story and in narrative style and structure. Authors Steve Cavanagh and Adrian McKinty: How growing up in Northern Ireland's Troubles shaped them 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

Its centerpiece, Frederick Ashton’s narrative “A Month in the Country,” a mainstay of Royal Ballet repertory since the dance’s creation in 1976, is receiving its Ballet Theater premiere. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater Presents ‘A Month in the Country’ 2013-05-22T21:48:48Z

Whiteface is in slave narratives, comedy and has been updated by Hollywood in the films "Sorry to Bother You" and "BlacKKKlansman." “Sorry to Bother You” exposes the danger of bourgeois integration 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

And I think it's important and it's valuable, but there's still a little part of me that feels caught up in this endless, confounding cycle of competing narratives. In ‘Allen v. Farrow,’ looking for the last word on a notoriously unresolved story 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

Whether that was a narratively expedient choice or not, her relief in that scene was as palpable as her anger was in the dozens that preceded it. Critic’s Notebook: ‘True Tori’ and ‘Mary Mary’ Deal With Affairs 2014-04-30T21:50:36Z

And, curiously, the real-life raid on Bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound, which happened that night, doesn’t even seem to be part of the narrative conversation. Books of The Times: ‘Eleven Days,’ by Lea Carpenter, Is a Mother-Son Story 2013-06-12T21:25:32Z

Davis is rightfully a rising talent, and one of her greatest gifts is her ability to build narrative momentum. The top 10 graphic novels of 2014

Jacobs and Casey decided to turn that narrative on its head. 'Grease' gets its grit back 2011-04-23T15:21:37Z

The book, which came out last week, relies on individual women’s narratives to illustrate the pervasiveness of gendered bullying online — and how Tanenbaum thinks it can be stopped. “Boys will be boys and girls will be sluts”: Leora Tanenbaum on defeating slut-shaming in the age of the Internet 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

While the pandemic doesn't play a major role in this overarching narrative, it is referenced a few times, the first instance coming in the season premiere. Between the measles and COVID, "You" makes a bizarre creative decision that doesn't make sense 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z

Greene's narrative, adapted in collaboration with David Henry Hwang, is neat, with the scientific points well made, while the film images nicely mix fantasy with something more realistic. Icarus at the Edge of Time 2010-07-06T21:45:00Z

These are distinctive narratives in tone and approach, ushering readers through time and space in situations where the authors are often defined by their status as immigrants and Latinos. In Memoirs, Two Reporters Plumb Their Latina Identity and Heritage 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

It was there that he found likeminded peers who were interested in rebelling against the Eurocentric language of cinema and “empowering their own narrative accents.” With DuVernay’s nudge, Haile Gerima comes to Netflix 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

The lineup, though diverse, didn’t quite feel curated or that it carried a narrative. Made in America won't be returning to Los Angeles 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

That plan was scrapped during deliberations when museum developers felt the pressure to produce a definitive narrative. 9/11 Museum’s 20th-Anniversary Exhibitions Become Victims of Cuts 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z

The mythology’s narrative arc stretches to infancy, dark days filled with ceaseless crying after relentless nursing, to the point when my incredulous mother had to bring me to a doctor. The creamy gorgonzola pasta my mom’s been making since the ’50s 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

The piece carried little old-fashioned narrative sense of a composer wanting to comfort listeners or reward them with a payoff. Music Review: Anthony Braxton at the Kennedy Center 2012-12-17T05:23:04Z

“I’ve got this bee in my bonnet about the current narrative for cycling – the male narrative,” she says. Faster, higher, longer: how female ultra-athletes started to beat men 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

And in her lush, narrative paintings — for which she has gathered, at midcareer, an impressive array of fellowships, residencies, solo shows and awards — she has never stopped exploring those themes. At Home With Beverly McIver: At Home With the Artist Beverly McIver 2012-02-08T23:47:19Z

Who was this woman whose narrative was being used to ensnare my supposedly altruistic follicles? Selling my eggs to make rent 2013-02-03T18:00:00Z

However, the most recent iterations of this long-held racism and vitriol have been intensified by the false narratives surrounding the origins and spread of the coronavirus. Meghan McCain apologizes after she gets called out for anti-Asian statements by John Oliver 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

The script was even written in first person to convey that every character is just a piece in Oppenheimer's narrative. That "Oppenheimer" sex scene speaks to a larger problem with Christopher Nolan's storytelling 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z

Guelzo’s narrative is enlivened by frequent use of accounts by battle participants, observers and Gettysburg civilians, and his descriptions sometimes rise almost to lyricism. ‘Gettysburg’: sins of omission and commission in a brutal war 2013-06-26T22:17:39Z

“I always write from a character’s point of view,” he said, adding that he couldn’t even begin writing a scene until he had decided which character would be assigned the narrative voice. Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies at 87 2013-08-20T14:28:20Z

The candidates’ clothing choices spoke to who they are in this moment — not in their hearts and souls, but in their image-making, in their political narrative. Perspective | Kamala Harris embraced black. That was both unremarkable and theatrically powerful. 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

The new book could also be shorter; I know from experience how often I have fallen in love with my research and bogged down a narrative. ‘To the Bright Edge of the World’: A terrific tale of Alaskan adventure 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Savides often said that as he got older he grew less interested in effects that drew attention to the photography in a film and away from the narrative. Harris Savides, Visual Poet, Dies at 55 2012-10-12T05:05:58Z

Though quietly impressive, it's inevitably a lesser thing, lacking 's narrative force and allegorical power. The Interrupters ? review 2011-08-13T23:05:32Z

If transgender fiction leans to heightened narratives, it doesn’t exclude kitchen-sink realism. The Coming of Age of Transgender Literature 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

He is often a poet of borders – between lyric and narrative, comedy and tragedy, fantastic and realistic. Poem of the week: A Fire Shared by Peter Didsbury 2010-06-28T11:43:00Z

The second section is a complex narrative created from the titles, catalogue entries or exhibit descriptions of Western art objects that include a black female figure. The National Book Award finalists in poetry 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Now it is being hounded by a narrative from some who say they fear the Capstone, the Mecca, is losing ground, its legacy being chipped away bit by bit. Is this Howard University’s tipping point? 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

There is a guerrilla quality even to the Safdies’ narrative features, which are shot largely without permits. Josh and Benny Safdie?s Film ?Daddy Longlegs? 2010-05-14T04:00:00Z

In both novels, the bleakness of the material is leavened by Pitcher's uncanny skill with the narrative voice. Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher – review 2013-01-04T22:55:12Z

Constantly straddling the line between the old and the new, in form and in narrative, Musker and Clements steered the literary classic into the new millennium and beyond the stars. ‘Treasure Planet’ at 20: Disney’s Failed Space Odyssey Deserved to Soar 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z

She’s speaking for a small audience in the studio, and for an audience of listeners, and you hear her studiously building dramatic narrative. Hip-Hop Rivalries Aren’t New. But the Battlefields Have Changed. 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

It’s common knowledge that reality shows are heavily produced and edited to create narratives and drama, but many fans believed that the artfully banal “Terrace House” was realer than most. The Fall of ‘Terrace House’ 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

Do I have to sacrifice my own weather narrative in service of a quieter, gentler marriage? The Benefits of Bickering in Marriage 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

Another part of the film's narrative involves the aurochs, an extinct ancestor of domestic cattle. The Carpetbagger: Below the Line: The Beasts of 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' 2012-11-28T18:58:21Z

The exposition of aphasia marches on, with Tribe slowly building imagery to accompany the speakers’ narratives. Pulling back for the big picture of media overload 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

The albums aren’t a narrative, but Mr. Earle plays a recurring character: a guy who’s no prize himself but who’s wounded anew with each separation. New Releases From Justin Townes Earle, Liam Hayes and Justin Kauflin 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

And the ballets that have pared away pure dance to maintain a constant narrative thrust have seldom achieved lasting popularity or classic status. Arts & Leisure Preview: Story Ballets, Still Romantically Inclined 2010-08-04T22:16:00Z

This was done not just in her performances, but in the video clips of interviews, or narrative voice-over. Sinéad O'Connor "refused to play the game": "Nothing Compares" filmmaker on the bold non-conformist 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z

The "stories," far from being linear, follow a dream logic, with the costumes, makeup, movement, musical interludes and video effects sometimes taking priority over any overt narrative momentum. Seattle's Degenerate Art Ensemble gets the museum treatment at the Frye 2011-04-13T23:45:05Z

The first is “oral history”: Sometimes this means a seamless narrative pieced together from the words of many speakers, but not here. Review: ‘Powerhouse’ Recalls a Heyday of Matched Jaguars and Packaged Films 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

In each chapter, Dickey spins riveting tales and then carefully unwinds these narratives, exposing the materials and motivations of their construction. Haunted Houses Are About More Than Just Ghosts 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Now Sanchez is back with the haunted-house/haunted-woman tale "Lovely Molly," which blends "Blair Witch"-style found footage with a more conventional narrative. 'Lovely Molly' takes up where 'Blair Witch Project' left off 2012-07-19T20:05:17Z

The title, like that of Robert Bresson’s prison film A Man Escaped, gives away the entire narrative. 12 Years a Slave: An Unflinching Take on the Great American Shame 2013-10-18T17:07:02Z

It’s not as if these writers pretend to create an exhaustive, totalizing narrative. In ‘Liner Notes for the Revolution,’ a History of American Music With Black Women at Its Center 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

“Under the Bridge” is a gorgeously complicated narrative of a love triangle between an older man, his young wife and the man’s son that adds nuance to the other romantic narratives presented here. Review | For many writers, Zora Neale Hurston’s work has been a guiding light. Now there’s even more to read. 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

The narrative structure, interweaving multiple episodes over the course of a single, significant night, recalls that movie, and even more Richard Linklater’s “Dazed and Confused.” | 'The Myth of the American Sleepover': The Night Belongs to Teenage Yearning 2011-07-21T22:06:02Z

Yet Bacevich’s narrative is also congruent with older critics of America’s way of life and its way in the world. How Victory in the Cold War Led to Tragedy in the Years After 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Via flashbacks, the narrative bounces about significant points of the 1940s, including the Nazi occupation of Norway. ‘Out Stealing Horses’ Review: Old Man, Take a Look at Your Life 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Others see the unusual agreement as a sign of how women are finding new ways to wrest back control of their own narratives, especially after fractious divorces. If It’s Fiction, Can It Be an Invasion of Privacy? 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z

The narrative follows Enchanted “Chanty” Jones, a 17-year-old aspiring musician whose dreams come true when she captures the interest of the musical superstar Korey Fields. 6 Unforgettable Y.A. Thrillers to Add to Your Reading List 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

Instead, he crafts a melancholy, dread-filled narrative that plays by its own rules. Stream These 10 Titles Before They Leave Netflix This Month 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

Onstage, they embody a relationship, a shared narrative that by extension extends to the fans. 'Broad City' takes the Troubadour 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

To this catalogue of national dysfunction, “Janesville” adds our addiction to narratives of hope and redemption. “Janesville” and the Dangers of American Optimism 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

The new Netflix documentary “Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story” is the long-form version of that narrative, and a moving reflection of what criminal justice reform means in personal terms. ‘Murder to Mercy’ Review: Rethinking a Life Sentence 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

Again, maybe this is meant as satire and maybe not, but either way it has a subtly destabilizing effect on the narrative. "Iron Man 2": Parody or party? 2010-05-07T11:10:00Z

But Ms. Swift’s narrative changed with the release, last November, of “Reputation,” her sixth album, and first to implicitly acknowledge her seat on the pop superstar throne. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

This new volume reveals Hayes’s roots in a childhood of collaborative play and creative production centered around a private narrative world he developed with his brother Geoffrey Hayes, now a cartoonist and children’s book author. Comics masters 2012-06-12T00:00:00Z

In his memoir, he turns himself into a kind of literary character, referring to himself in the third person, and uses narrative to get his own back. Rushdie relives magic of 'Midnight's Children' 2013-04-21T13:24:11Z

Yes, and I think that had a lot to do with our failure to create cultural narratives, narratives about this history that are compelling and disruptive of the status quo. Lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson on building racial justice: “This work is just beginning” 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

Oppenheimer’s propulsive narrative traces the aftermath as residents bury and mourn, organize rallies, and field the onslaught of national media and “trauma tourists.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

A narrative textile hanging by Diedrick Brackens, at 29 the show’s youngest artist, looks like a tropical fantasy but refers to a real-life story of three black men who died in police custody. 3 Knockout Art Shows to See in Los Angeles Right Now 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Haze flipped the narrative, detailing exactly how boys and men are shaped by, and end up perpetuating, anti-female attitudes. Rapper Angel Haze on religion, rape and survival 2013-01-31T19:10:01Z

But Walker, 33, brings a raw and casual brutality to the narrative of battle. Review | Nico Walker is a convicted bank robber. ‘Cherry’ proves he’s also a must-read author. 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

This is a smooth way to center the show's Asian characters, when in TV's past those narratives and perspectives would have been relegated to a side mission to be visited by white heroes. "Warrior" brings Bruce Lee's TV pitch to life, vividly and violently 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

It’s also the first time that McCarthy has built a narrative around a female protagonist. Sixteen Years After ‘The Road,’ Cormac McCarthy Is Publishing Two New Novels 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

Sometimes, though, the text veers too far into academia for the layperson, sounding more like a digest of studies than a narrative. "Sex on Six Legs:" Life and love among the insects 2011-08-10T22:23:04Z

The narrative hiccups here, internalizes the shock and moves on, unable to fully register the emotional impact. The Replacements' story is told bottle by bottle, song by song, in the new book 'Trouble Boys' 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Morris opens his gripping narrative with Jemima Wilkinson, a Revolutionary-era mystic from Rhode Island, well-known to historians but often left out of conventional accounts of that era. A Tour Through the ‘American Messiahs’ of Our Past 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

Johnson: He seems to be facing an existential crisis – searching for a Black historical narrative that predates the transatlantic slave trade. "Blacks and Jews" authors on Chappelle, Kanye caught in the "face of Black antisemitism" loop 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

McKay will cheerfully sacrifice narrative and character consistency for a joke. Film review: The Other Guys 2010-09-16T21:43:00Z

But I needed a narrative, something to justify our presence. Dancing in the Cern library – let's get physical 2012-07-16T18:31:00Z

Sophocles’ narrative is not the easiest to follow, and “Antigona” takes pains to provide context amid the dance and song, almost all of it performed in Spanish with clear, well designed English supertitles. Review: ‘Antigona,’ From Noche Flamenca, Pairs Rhythmic Dance With Greek Drama 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

An unsuspecting innocent, an ambitious country doctor, a nation briefly infatuated with a despicable ideology — these would all seem to be the elements of a captivating narrative. Review: Adam Cohen’s ‘Imbeciles’, on the Supreme Court and Justice Not for All 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

What helps drive the narrative over such annoying scenes is the subtext dealing with Cheryl’s radical loneliness and groping efforts to communicate. Miranda July’s ‘The First Bad Man’ 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

I decide that the absence of female characters is acceptable or not too bad and maybe narratively justifiable. What It’s Like to Be a Female Movie Critic in the #MeToo Era 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

Originally set in a time when Hollywood fashion was moving from fictional narratives to reality television, the show made the blurring of the categories into a running gag. Watch the Evolution of Cringe Comedy in 9 Clips 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

“I Know” suggests a sneering put-down of a rival band’s pretensions, while “San Andreas Fault Line Blues” belongs to the ageless category of Los Angeles disillusionment narratives. Shovels & Rope, Visiting New York With a Scrappy New Album 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

And according to a recent study, continuing to romanticize these narratives may be incredibly dangerous. The guys who won’t hear “no”: Movies, masculinity and the toxic myth of the romantic stalker 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

But the differing narrative venues, modes and atmospheres in each sequence exhibited VanderMeer’s insistence on clothing his perennial themes and obsessions in diverting new garments. Review | Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Hummingbird Salamander’ is a gripping eco-thriller full of cinematic set pieces 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

Fountain has written a braided narrative about the dialectic between scientific theory and observation that situates the Alaskan earthquake amid a decades-long quest to understand how the landscape around us evolved. How a 9.2 earthquake in Alaska in 1964 changed our understanding is explained in 'The Great Quake' 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

But I suspect that my lack of interest in her psychic disturbance has much more to do with narrative execution, which is to say, the OCD conceit. Girls season two review: surprises and disappointments 2013-03-18T15:24:16Z

They can take leaps of logic, bounding alongside the narrative. Rereading Stephen King: week two – Salem's Lot 2012-06-11T10:58:12Z

But the simplicity of the narrative, and its driving momentum, adds powerfully to the impact. Deadlines can give life to creative writing 2011-02-28T10:43:22Z

Featured narrative art categories are illustration, children's art, photography, pin-up art, comic art and, a section on the "history of narrative art" suggests, fine art by painters including Bellows, Benton, Renoir and Remington. Lucas Museum hints at details on website 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Kon effortlessly shifts the narrative from reality to memory to film. For the Most Complex Heroines in Animation, Look to Japan 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

Now that she has succeeded in complicating the superheroine narrative, Ms. Rosenberg said she would be game to take on another genre film franchise like “Twilight.” The Creator of ‘Jessica Jones’ Serves Up a Dark Mirror for Our Moment 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

The film opens with alarming footage of one such incident, using the life-threatening scenario for narrative tension. ‘The Deepest Breath’ Review: A Perilous Drop Into the Ocean 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z

The most extreme contrast to Finkel's narrative self-effacement is the style of Dexter Filkins, whose The Forever War operates at a comparable level of literary excellence. The human heart of the matter 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

But only Laveau-Harvie’s book truly stays with the reader, for the quality of her original and powerful narrative voice. In Two Memoirs, the Scars of Childhood Trauma Run Deep 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

Stewart also acknowledged artistic license he took with Bahari's story, injecting doubt in his main character that was not really there for the sake of narrative structure. Telluride: Jon Stewart's 'Rosewater' leavens a somber story with humor 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z

An indelible imprint, the narrative power of the past. Eight Ways of Looking at Haruki Murakami 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

The narrative follows the Bellas as they try to redeem their rep by winning the world competition. 'Pitch Perfect 2' brings more lowbrow fun 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Zambia’s history as a colony and independent state is critical to the narrative. Review | ‘The Old Drift’ is a brilliant literary response to generations of bad politics 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

The glimpses into the Amish community are a welcome change from the typical speculative fiction narrative. The Amish survive the apocalypse in 'When the English Fall' 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

This episode, like those in the farm section of the film, stalls a narrative that already lacks momentum. Charlie Kaufman's exasperating "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" could've been a masterpiece 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Even as her narrative blurs and dims, Okpokwasili leaves us deep in the yearning, broken hearts of the Bronx girls, feeling their own inner changes reflected in the waves of Orchard Beach. | A Bronx Schoolyard Rivalry, Told Through Dance 2014-01-15T23:24:40Z

It’s participation in the global conversation and reframing of a cultural narrative. ‘Made in Afghanistan’ Once Symbolized Hope. Now It’s Fear. 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

There’s no straightforward narrative arc in “La Ciénaga”; instead, the oppressive heat is the plot, and Martel studies the instincts that it unleashes in her petty, middle-class characters. Four Movies About Summer to Stream Now 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

The giant diptych places the artist’s alter ego, a cross-dressing figure called Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, at the center of unsettling riffs on European colonization narratives. Perspective | America needs an epic narrative right now. Painters are working on it. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

But because she navigated so much of the world as a “White” woman, do you think Marie’s perspective was also needed to create this narrative? J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian had two identities. It took two authors to tell her story. 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

The leaks were pooled into detailed narratives, featuring multiple sources. The Trump White House provided reporters with a gusher of leaks. With Biden, everything’s changed. 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

There are also handwritten personal narratives by two of his sons, including one called “Some Incidents of the Home Life of Frederick Douglass.” Frederick Douglass, Seen Up Close 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

Undoubtedly, the narrative impulse kicks in hardest when our view onto the truth is most prejudiced — in the aftermath, say, of a calamity, a childbirth or a collapsed marriage. Review | With ‘Kudos,’ Rachel Cusk completes a literary masterpiece 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

Along with multiple narrative threads that involve the concrete dramas of war, poverty, birth and death, the story dips into magical realism. Lovely ‘Midnight’s Children’ crams in birth of a nation — and 2 boys 2013-05-09T20:50:32Z

The poem extends the narrative of slavery and race to the years both before and after the war, capturing an emotional complexity undisclosed by mere historical analysis. No closure after Appomattox 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

But Morland keeps her rhetorical register so high that her narrative just about holds together as she rackets round the world in search of bravehearts. The Society of Timid Souls by Polly Morland – review 2013-07-12T09:00:01Z

The subject of why women don’t have quest narratives would require a work the length of the unabridged Pentagon Papers. Where are the women Kerouacs? 2013-03-13T22:28:00Z

“In terms of narrative, my boy, there’s nothing but the Bible for sheer storytelling,” he said. Herman Wouk on His New Book, ‘The Lawgiver’ 2012-11-12T20:06:04Z

Sometimes, adaptations purposefully distort familiar situations from a textual source for the purpose of their new narratives. Supply and Demand Harmed Hannibal Lecter and 'Go Set A Watchman' 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Lent has always been as deft with plot as any thriller author, and here he weaves a half-dozen narrative strands into a richly textured tapestry. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

The data fascinated social scientists, but Williams believed it was more than interesting: it could have a practical application in helping counter these narratives. ‘A threat to health is being weaponised’: inside the fight against online hate crime 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z

In Memento he built a narrative machine that ran backward to the scene of a crime. Inception: Whose Mind Is It, Anyway? 2010-07-14T22:00:00Z

Sonata form involves implicit narrative and forward motion; theme and variations is abstract, about itself, running through a string of permutations and returning to its origin. A celebration of ‘theme and variations’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

That structure also effectively slows the narrative down and contributes to its dream-like tone. ‘Another Brooklyn’ reminds us of a Brooklyn far from the tony borough of today 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

The narrative slows luxuriantly in stanza five, and pauses on the easy confidence of "the air of other summers". Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z

Told through a series of monologues in a narrative that is handed from one character to another in a sprint to the ghastly finish, Sub Rosa tells of the abusive music hall owner Mr Hunter. David Leddy's Sub Rosa 2010-08-10T20:31:00Z

Unlike earlier Frayn gems in which plot twists and their philosophical reverberations sneak up on you unnoticed, "Skios" couldn't be more ornately overt in its narrative machinations. "Skios": Michael Frayn's novel of mistaken identity on a Greek island 2012-06-27T20:30:09Z

He has always excelled at writing about real people tested by unreal situations, whether it’s told in the unbroken narrative of Dolores Claiborne or via the mental lockboxes of Doctor Sleep. Review | What Stephen King gets right — and wrong — in ‘The Outsider’ 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

The narrative reads like the best political thriller. Review: `Hour of Peril' is compelling true story 2013-01-29T00:16:04Z

An alto saxophonist and composer originally from Chicago, Ms. Roberts has found oblique but potent uses for narrative throughout her “Coin Coin” series, in performance and on two albums, released in 2011 and 2013. Releases From Bob Dylan and Diana Krall 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Endless discussions of dinner menus and Liberty patterns and the complexities of social etiquette might provide a convincing exposition of the dullness of being an Edwardian aristocrat but they do little to enliven the narrative. Habits of the House by Fay Weldon – review 2012-08-03T21:55:02Z

Perhaps it’s not a surprise that the spread of narrative violation in the start-up world is taking place as the narrative around start-ups turns sour. What Makes a ‘Narrative Violation’? 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

But anyone looking for the lowdown on haute cuisine will be sorely disappointed: devoid of emotion, context or narrative, the baffling avant-garde techniques and extreme politesse of the lab become oppressively dull. | 'El Bulli': Pushing Cuisine?s Envelope, on a Molecular Level 2011-07-26T16:43:02Z

Art history, like fiction, is very much a constructed narrative. Art Review: ?Pop Objects? and ?1960s Monochrome? at Guggenheim - Review 2012-01-12T21:55:15Z

Sure, there were cheaters, she acknowledges, but BP’s success in changing the narrative to focus on that one small aspect ended up obscuring the real problems going on in the Gulf. The truth behind the spin: What BP doesn’t want you to know about the Gulf oil spill 2014-05-04T15:00:00Z

But the narrative drive that you love about the theater is still in existence, and there are writers who still dedicate themselves to perpetuating it. ArtsBeat: Ben Brantley Answers Readers' Questions 2012-12-05T20:15:08Z

Willetts described the book Into the Silence as a gripping narrative and very powerful story, while Prideaux's biography was "a real eye opener", and The Spanish Holocaust "a strong history". Six books to 'change our view of the world' on shortlist for non-fiction prize 2012-10-04T23:01:03Z

In order to afford the locations and period detail both Nair and Vikram Seth wanted, the production was trimmed from eight episodes to six and condensed the book’s serpentine narrative. ‘A Suitable Boy’ Finally Finds Its Perfect Match: Mira Nair 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

It was once believed that Solange and Beyoncé represented yin and yang, but the shared political streak on “A Seat at the Table” and “Lemonade” has muddied their tidily opposing narratives. Solange Knowles’s Album of Black Life in America 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

The relatively straightforward interior layout — a 35,000-square-foot, column-free gallery space on top of a floor of art storage, a ground-floor lobby and three levels of underground parking — allows for an elaborate architectural narrative. Architecture Review: Not All Sweetness in a Honeycomb Museum 2011-01-11T23:24:08Z

Do you have narratives in your heads for your music? Godspeed You! Black Emperor – the full transcript 2012-10-11T09:18:54Z

That's all fine, but that narrative trajectory risks skewing the story. Meryl Streep playing Margaret Thatcher ? what's not to like? 2011-02-08T20:30:31Z

The secret, dear reader, lies in narrative drive. Learning to Love Airport Lit 2012-02-17T20:39:16Z

But the silence also, Manohla Dargis said in her review for The Times, prevents it from developing into a gripping narrative. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Deepwater Horizon’ and ‘Europa Report’ 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

And yet, the core ideals instilled from the beginning remain: for all the narrative complexities and emotional developments of Potter's decade-long journey, it's still basically the after-school special it always was. The great Harry Potter viewing marathon 2011-07-08T23:11:05Z

A Brahms symphony movement can have an urgent narrative progression, but a Bruckner movement often seems a series of thoughts. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Memorial Day Concert 2013-05-28T20:23:42Z

“The punk revolution was such a change in fashion and music and makeup and hair. It does really kind of follow the narrative of Cruella as well.” In a punk ‘Cruella,’ dogs play second fiddle to the designs 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

A running joke early on in the narrative is that Ezra, like Mr. Roth, is a constant runner-up for the Nobel. Lisa Halliday’s Debut Novel Is Drawing Comparisons to Philip Roth. Though Not for the Reasons You Might Think. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Foer’s first novel in 11 years is a divorce novel and a state-of-the-Jewish-soul novel and running below the narrative, like a headline news ticker, is a plausible dystopian nightmare. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

If The Souvenir has a powerful narrative – and it does – it is because life supplied it. Joanna Hogg and Honor Swinton Byrne: ‘We should tell whatever stories we like’ 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

The filter, as Didion painstakingly argued, created a fictional narrative so vast that few could escape it. Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

Harris also leaves out historical realities that might disrupt his narrative. Can One City Be a Microcosm of Everything That’s Wrong? 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

It’s a story that never gets old — there’s usually plenty of lust, ambition and greed to keep the narrative engine humming — and variations pop up in the literature of nearly every nation and era. ‘Lost Illusions’ Review: The Sweet Smell of Success 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

Artful, emotionally charged narratives, like our own ordinary and precious memories, will always hold a distinctive kind of truth, whether or not they are literally accurate representations of what happened. What I'm thinking about … fiction's science lessons 2012-08-22T09:42:33Z

Then, just as abruptly, it’s back to the jaunty narrative. Theater Review: ‘Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth’ at Longacre Theater 2012-08-03T02:00:00Z

Her life at that time had lost its narrative line. Review | A new collection of Joan Didion’s work reminds us that she is her most memorable character 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

The reactions to the show in Lebanon and Israel reflect the tremendous divergence of narratives between the two peoples - each seeing the other as aggressor, each seeing itself as a victim. TV show 'Homeland' irks Lebanese, Israelis 2012-10-18T21:45:12Z

Davis accomplished one of the most moving, effective fusions of paint handling, narrative and symbolism in recent American art. 20 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Yet despite the perplexed anguish Mr. Buggy brings to the telling, it is here that you start to feel detached from the narrative. Review: ‘On Blueberry Hill’ Looks Back in Radiant Regret 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

They all, mind you, start out from a similar 19th-century narrative premise. Critic’s Notebook: Inspired by Tchaikovsky in New York and London 2013-12-18T22:50:55Z

“Because often where they come from, indigenous art is part of the narrative of a nation’s art, in a way that it’s not in the United States. We’re really behind the curve.” Native American Treasures Head to the Met, This Time as American Art 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

There's another factor in the celebrity antidepressant narrative – doctors. Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z

With touches like this Finkel demonstrates how the chaos of events can be given narrative shape by scrupulous observation and phrasing. The human heart of the matter 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

He is referred to only as “he,” a self-conscious flourish in a narrative preoccupied with the disconnect between public and private lives. Imagining the Unhappy Life of Stan Laurel 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Almost everyone in this novel is telling stories, lying, finding narratives of why they did what they did, and why there are who they are. Y by Marjorie Celona – review 2013-02-15T19:19:01Z

The message Blomkamp seems to have taken from the praise for District 9 is: more politics, less narrative wallop. Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium: Drab, Dreary and Dysto-pointing 2013-08-08T16:08:09Z

And I like the idea that they’re departing from some of GRRM’s choices in narrative and description, because diversity aside, it’s an important way of establishing the show’s voice as its own. Game of Thrones Season 2 Tidbits: Building Up Qarth, and Fleshing It Out 2012-01-24T16:18:11Z

The protagonist dies about two-thirds of the way through the book, but the narrative keeps going, tracing the splintering of Keynes’s intellectual legacy and the neoliberal backlash. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

A familiar arc for wartime narratives, isn’t it? London Theater Journal: Two Wars, With Song and Sentiment 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

Which isn’t to say that Mr. Mishra embraces the narrative of the young provincial who moves to the center of the literary world by sheer force of talent, at least not geographically. Pankaj Mishra’s New Book, ‘Ruins of Empire’ 2012-08-27T22:17:42Z

By creating a parallel narrative with a mother and her daughter in Japan, Ms. Silvia explores the atomic weapons program through a personal lens. The Bay Citizen: Showcases for Locally Made Documentaries 2010-10-08T05:05:00Z

This second season continues the producers’ tactic of building the series’ mythology on the original film’s narrative highlights and updating those scenes with modern twists. "Cobra Kai" returns: Will the "no mercy" way of fighting win? 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

There's a strong, pacey narrative with plenty of gruesome discoveries – never have carrots and lumps of coal been put to such sinister use – and a well-deployed cast of suspects. Crime novels roundup | Book reviews 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z

Brühl sees the film’s narratives as also resonating with the political divisions highlighted by the war in Ukraine. In a German ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ History Has a Starring Role 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

I say my name and note the look in his eye; it’s an unmistakable glimmer of recognition but of what narrative exactly I do not know. I fooled around with the rabbi 2013-02-10T02:00:00Z

But this exhibition, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, features more than 80 works by a diverse range of female photographers, using vastly different strategies, including documentary, portraiture and narrative. Artist Robert Irwin’s roots run deep in Southern California 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

By stripping dance of narrative, of emotion and even of the dancer’s gaze — there is no looking at the audience — the steps could shine. Yvonne Rainer, a Giant of Choreography, Makes Her Last Dance 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

Khrushchev gets a big role in Kershaw’s narrative, too, for reducing repression in the Communist world. Europe’s Glorious Years of Peace and Prosperity 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z

They’ve been excluded from the narrative, over and over again, to serve the idea of the auteur. Twilight of the Imperial Chef 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

The narratives of Velvet and Ginger, at their best, interlock like the teeth of a zipper. Review: In ‘The Mare,’ Mary Gaitskill Writes About a Girl Caught in a Domestic Swirl 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

I guess it's dangerous to compliment the show for playing on its past narrative folly, but it's a neat trick, one that made Bobby's death even more painful than it already was. 'Sons of Anarchy' recap: 'What A Piece Of Work Is Man' - good soldier 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

I gave the show a slightly inflated A-minus for its effort, hoping that further episodes would deliver on the narrative momentum of the premise. In TV’s Silver Age, a logjam of shows that are ‘pretty good,’ but not great 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

“In my experience, Black narratives and Black spaces are not automatically curated for cultural tourism or for cultural exploration,” she says. A new guide leads travelers through U.S. civil rights history 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

The Fox call enraged the Trump campaign and altered the narrative of election night media coverage. Top Fox News managers depart amid Murdoch’s concerns over controversial Arizona election night projection 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

Paulson noted that the news media also “seem to get bored with their own narrative” about Trump’s failings, and they welcome a chance to switch it up. Perspective | The media loved Trump’s show of military might. Are we really doing this again? 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

As in Alain Resnais' "Last Year at Marienbad," another movie in which the past collides with the present, repetition is both a theme and a narrative device in "The Day He Arrives." 'The Day He Arrives': In Seoul, with nowhere to go 2012-06-07T20:45:08Z

He clearly knows “Romeo” by heart, opening it with taut, crisp control and a strong sense of narrative. NSO’s future music director stops in for a big evening 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

If the final act reads as a bit slack compared with the rest of the novel, it is a testament to how energetic the narrative movement is nearly everywhere else. A Heroine Who Lives at Once in Elizabethan England and 21st-Century New York 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Using this revelation as a bombshell reveal, instead of as a starting point to characterize Fortier and his actions, is a narrative miscalculation. HBO's unflinching "Baby God" corrects pop culture's tendency to treat fertility fraud lightly 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

But its narrative continuity is so sketchy and the screenplay so haphazard that the movie doesn’t add up to more than trash, seasoned with pretentious religiosity. Movie Review: In ‘Redemption,’ Jason Statham Teams With a Nun 2013-06-28T00:22:12Z

In that small moment, the author plants the seed of the book's narrative arc. 'Making Babies': into the unknown country of motherhood 2012-05-09T21:13:05Z

While the first-person viewpoint had suited the frothy, waspish "The Muses Are Heard", Capote was aware that it would capsize a longer, more complex narrative. Truman Capote's In Cold Blood - rereading 2011-08-05T09:00:06Z

Christgau soon abandoned narrative journalism, but that tightness of structure remained a notable strength of his writing. The Rock Critic Robert Christgau’s Big-Hearted Theory of Pop 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

The writing itself can suffer from the narrative albatross of attribution — that lifetime habit of inserting “police said” after each and every fact. ‘The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff’: to protect or punish 2013-05-30T19:47:16Z

The narrative structure, switching back and forth between Patrick’s utopia and Lucy and Ted’s middle-class dream, creates a sense of symmetry, or even equivalence, between the two places. Movie Review: Elizabeth Olsen in ?Martha Marcy May Marlene? - Review 2011-10-20T22:19:32Z

The reader could be excused for applying that assessment — the daring and courage aside — to other campaigns described in his fascinating, at times thrilling, narrative. 'The Man Who Ate His Boots': The Northwest Passage ? it had to be there 2010-03-19T22:30:00Z

The then-dominant school of anthropology propped up a narrative tracing “the stages of human culture,” from “savagery” through to “barbarism” and finally to “civilization.” How a Group of Heretical Thinkers Chipped Away at the Idea of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

What’s more, The Wire rewrote the rules of television drama with regard to tone, subject matter and narrative scope. The Wire, 10 years on: ‘We tore the cover off a city and showed the American dream was dead’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

It is not unheard of for ambitious homeowners to imbue a mere building with narrative dazzle. A Narnia-Inspired Design, on Long Island 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

But Vision was seemingly killed in “Avengers: Infinity War,” and the following year, “Endgame” concluded the narrative arcs of major heroes like Iron Man and Captain America. Marvel’s Latest Frontier? In ‘WandaVision,’ It’s the Suburbs 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

Citkowitz’s narrative flows seamlessly from past to present, folding time into pleats, shaking them gracefully loose. In This Novel, a Mother Risks Everything for a Second Chance 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

I think one of the ways that we do that is to get them to invest in a narrative when they put themselves in another person’s shoes. Sarah Stillman will use her MacArthur to support her long-form journalism 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

James Erskine, the director of the recent documentary “Billie,” also wanted to move beyond the standard narratives of Holiday as victim. Billie Holiday’s Story Depends on Who’s Telling It 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

Admiral Witte de With was an officer with the Dutch East India Company, which was a key player in the slave trade, and his narrative tells part of that story. A Dutch Golden Age? That’s Only Half the Story 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

Chefs compete in ridiculous face-offs, and each episode stands alone; there’s no unifying narrative. What You Should Watch This Thanksgiving Weekend 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

But most damaging of all, Fluharty says, is a persistent narrative that urban and rural communities are vastly different worlds with no shared priorities. Can rural America be saved? A new national ‘challenge’ tries to see. 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

That said, there are rewards, especially when the narrative leaves the battlefield. Television Review: Maps, Letters and Battles in ‘Civil War: The Untold Story’ 2014-04-04T19:34:16Z

And their stories — each one of them — their narrative is important, too. Why Star Montana wants you to really see Boyle Heights through her stark and stirring portraits 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

There are studies and other works to consider here; they all confirm Ms. Forrer’s substantial gifts for both imagery and narratives. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

“God’s Waiting Room” is a murky, ruminative drama with a fractured narrative of incomplete scenes that requires the audience to fill in the blanks. | Theater in the Dark, With Lights: Lots of Modern Angst, and Free Beer 2011-02-11T22:30:51Z

Ashton is quick to see the modern parallels at work in her narrative yet subtle enough not to over-play them. Victorian Bloomsbury by Rosemary Ashton – review 2012-12-14T22:47:01Z

K’s search is what offers a very minimal narrative structure to the preview. What Do Harrison Ford and a Homicidal Clown Have in Common? 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

As Mr. Helfrich observed in a director’s note, “Messiah” is “not a linear, narrative drama.” Music Review: ?Messiah? by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra - Review 2011-12-05T23:25:14Z

Such moments aside, the often impenetrable language and ideas in the sonnets made me look for some kind of organizing narrative. The Hidden Life of a Forgotten Sixteenth-Century Female Poet 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

I internalized that ancient narrative arc, and while understanding it was a construct, I found myself beginning to believe in it, and in the end I found myself trusting it. Diamondbacks 1, Story 0 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z

They were the latest chapters in the narratives of two uniquely brilliant athletes, moments that will forever define their careers – and stand out as brilliant examples of truly stunning achievement. Oscar Pistorius and McKayla Maroney: Beautiful losers 2012-08-06T17:15:00Z

It was important to him that there was a creative indigenous voice shaping the narrative from the beginning. "The Native characters aren't afterthoughts": "Barkskins" writer on reclaiming Native narratives 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z

They are some great travel narratives in your book as well and also some great scenes of dining alone. “No One Tells You This”: That single women aren’t a problem for marriage and kids to fix 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

The fact that these narratives are the two standards for car marketing is what makes the new Toyota Venza ads so appealing. Toyota Venza's anti-hipster commercials 2011-07-11T19:52:00Z

The problem represented by these sex-crazed women is neatly surmounted by a parade of narrative interventions: a helicopter accident, an incident involving Ana’s predatory boss, a nonstop display of Christian’s riches. The Sad, Shiny Surfaces of the “Fifty Shades” Movies 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

Ravel’s fairy tales became a collector’s cabinet of beautiful noises; in Stravinsky’s more extroverted fantasy the ensemble still exalted sonic splendor over narrative tension. Review | Melbourne Orchestra brings sense of several places to Kennedy Center 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Even taking into account some narrative wrinkles, Schaeffer is giving this musical the handsome platform it deserves. Signature Theatre’s ‘Elmer Gantry’ steps up to the melodic pulpit

The narratives are drawn from news photos, which record a history that is complex, even contradictory. TriBeCa Gallery Guide: New York’s Most Vibrant Art Scene 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

It is a jolt when, in the novel's final paragraphs, the perceptions of characters give way to history, as the narrative voice turns from the mass grave to the business of memorialisation in the future. The Siege by Helen Dunmore 2011-02-12T00:05:20Z

And instead of grappling with the unfairness of that history and reckoning with it, we created a narrative of racial difference to justify it. The author of ‘Just Mercy’ says we’ve made talking about race political — and that has to change 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

America, in its sick passion for narrative and resolution, converts each mass shooting into a story, featuring a list of stars and supporting characters. School Shootings and the Heroes Who Shouldn’t Be 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

She was using it not to draw attention to herself, but to build a narrative she sustained through the whole piece, of the violin and piano playfully splashing around in a pool together. Review: The Radiant Modesty of Janine Jansen at Carnegie Hall 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

We do, but that isn't enough of a reason to spend 10 episodes engaging in the narrative equivalent of slowly, deeply inhaling only to have the show hold its breath. "House of the Dragon" ending flames out after a season of inhaling 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

What he observed — the predominant whiteness of sitcoms and talk shows, the exoticized depiction of people of color — left a permanent impression, one that still inspires him to imagine his own alternative cultural narratives. Derrick Adams Can Make Art Out of Anything (Even Rubber Gloves) 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

It’s rarely a sound technique for memoir, though, especially when it’s used to compensate for other deficiencies, either in narrative or in the material itself. “I’m an unreliable narrator”: Why Lena Dunham’s Barry mistake is bad news for all memoirists 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

Vallotton does much of his best painting in the late 1890s and early 1900s, when he added some of his own narrative tension to the textured paint handling and soft colors of the Nabis. When He Was Good, He Was Breathtaking 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

And a movie producer named Caldecot Chubb goes even deeper, noting that “most of life is about creating resonant narratives. . . . Few things drive me more crazy than the current locution of ‘content.’ What book changed your life? 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

The style and approach to each short is pretty standard; most of the stories follow the setup, suspense, and payoff narrative strategy. "Berlin, I Love You" won't bring you down 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Do you feel like you lost control of your own narrative? Miley Cyrus Promises a ‘Raw’ MTV Video Music Awards 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Houston’s such a confluence of people, places, and ideas, in a relatively closed space, that it has all of the elements for narrative just by way of the geography. Bryan Washington on Writing Stories That Don’t Make You Feel Worse 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

Second, be aware that Bostrom’s narrative style verges on the melodramatic: Each chapter is a short vignette, often ending with a cliffhanger. If you love Sherlock Holmes, you’ll love this book 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

But those same markers of authority, and complicated mix of museum and monument, narrative and celebration, in the galleries may also antagonize those who don’t want to, or can’t handle the truth. Can a thorough, thoughtful museum speak to a new racist age? 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

In his case, however, the use of English serves his larger narrative and political points, whereas with other directors who don’t normally work in English, it has felt like a financing compromise. At Cannes Film Festival, Good Sometimes Isn’t Enough 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

He's creating a self-centered narrative in his head where a woman is doing something to him, and that includes withholding things he feels entitled to. What "Vanderpump Rules" cad Tom Sandoval and incels have in common 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

The film's international dimensions and raw narrative intrigued Vice Media, known for swaggering documentaries like "The Cannibal Generals of Liberia." 'Fishing Without Nets' takes an authentic look at Somali pirates' life 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

These interludes feel like impression-driven “Saturday Night Live” sketches dropped in to liven up an often dry and unsurprising narrative. What more is there to know about Stevie Nicks? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

The one narrative journey that historically allowed the disabled to play a central role depicted them as working toward the symbolic reclamation of their dignity and humanity. On screen and on stage, disability continues to be depicted in outdated, cliched ways 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z

The war she survived fit no traditional narrative. From the Rwandan Genocide to Chicago: A Young Author Survived to Tell Her Story 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

You intercut scenes from Zoe's documentary, and feature "fairy tale" segments that disrupt the main narrative but also comment on it. "What's Love Got to Do With It?" director on dating today, from apps to setups: "Love is a mystery" 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

Garbus would have to juggle three, adding the surrounding narrative that covers McNamara’s premature death and the resolution of her life’s work. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: the story of the search for the Golden State Killer 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

“Kintu” pointedly omits the colonial period, and with it the narrative of Europe in Africa that has dominated so much of the continent’s literature. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

He says he’s considering another narrative film, and that he wants to get the gears turning for production during the summer. Welcome to Somaliwood, Ohio: where Somali movie magic comes to America 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

He has labeled his Johnson series, begun soon after the president's death and still going, as a narrative of darkness and light, of the basest cruelty and the noblest achievement. Petraeus affair and the role of biographers 2012-11-14T18:16:03Z

At worst, it’s a frustrating cliché, hostile to narrative and eyeballs, that substitutes fog for feeling. Was ‘Game of Thrones’ Too Dark on Sunday? Yes and No 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

By contrast, Mr. Corigliano’s engrossing “Fantasia on an Ostinato” is a study in obsession and how it precludes any attempt at progression and narrative. Review: Pianist Ursula Oppens Seamlessly Connects the Classics With New Music 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

Aspirational luxuries are one thing, but there seems to be a mismatch between the narrative about caviar actually being an accessible snack and many Americans' bank accounts. The "Real Housewives" diet: Why we are seeing caviar everywhere when Americans can't afford eggs 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z

It usefully complicates a lot of narratives the Irish have about themselves. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The Nonfiction Version of Thomas Cromwell’s Life 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

In moments like this and the cruel reversal that follows, you glimpse the narrative allure of a robotic Richard whose uncontrollable hybrid body motivates his vicious decisions. Review | My kingdom for a robot: Synetic Theater creates a dystopian, cyberpunk ‘Richard III’ 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

These series— delivered in short spurts allowing writers to take massive narrative swings—just feel more interesting than their longer-running counterparts. The Biggest Surprises from the Emmy Nominations 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

“There are multiple true narratives running at all times,” says Fox. ‘Suffering is nothing to be afraid of’: Jennifer Fox on turning her childhood abuse into devastating drama 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

In British theatre, though, links between narrative and calendar are less exact. Theatre's tinsel pound makes children of us all again 2010-12-03T21:00:00Z

Not only is this sense of absolute reality tricky to write or notate, but the twists and turns often play unhelpfully against the narrative needed to ignite a conventional play. Should radio drama be more realistic? 2011-07-28T10:51:37Z

Joel’s tender betrayal of Ellie is unbearable partly because of the narrative structure “The Last of Us” borrowed from the video game. ‘The Last of Us’ Finale: First-Person Shooter 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

Three lives, three acts and three genres combine in this narrative. Revisiting a Utopian City With Fondness and Fury 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

The narrative then shifts in time as Kurdi begins to put her broken family’s story back together. Review | After a photo of her nephew’s drowned body went viral, a Syrian woman tells the family’s story 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

The narrative flashes back to 2003 and a different Catherine is revealed – outgoing, vivacious, clubbing with her girlfriends in Lancaster every weekend. First novels: Catherine Taylor's roundup - reviews 2011-02-26T00:07:44Z

That’s largely due to the efforts of historians of the Dunning School, who spent decades creating a narrative of Reconstruction as a tyrannical, corrupt and failed social experiment. The First Presidential Impeachment 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

He says he's given interviews like this one, about our fascination with these narratives, multiple times per year since "Claims to Fame" was published in 1994. 'How did we let this happen?' The Amy Winehouse question and social science's take on modern fame 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

But its bumpy streams pour into what is a mighty narrative river. Books of The Times: The Man Who Refused to Forget 2010-09-02T21:30:00Z

Cork's music, however, has "given me more power to shape the words emotionally and narratively", to bring out the inferred, and amplify a point through repetition. London Road: Murder, they sang 2011-04-10T20:46:00Z

Shows loved to weave a “dangers of drugs” narrative into special episodes. Lights, camera, depression: Why does mental illness on TV rarely look like real life? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

No amount of narrative construction can ever truly stop it, slow it, or speed it up. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z

Symbolist artists, rather than adopt naturalism and narrative, embraced the subjective representation of an idea. Steve Martin-curated Lawren Harris exhibition shines light on landscapes physical and metaphorical 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

The unlikely friendship that developed between Holliday and Earp, not yet in their 30s when they first met, is a key strain in a narrative that courses through a large set of delightfully rendered characters. 'Doc' is a fresh look at a unique Western figure 2011-05-03T11:31:13Z

Eye-popping description, however, is far from the only form of liveliness in these narratives. Review | ‘I Hold A Wolf by the Ears’ offers the greatest distillation of Laura van den Berg’s talents to date 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

This show, a reboot of an earlier TV series, opts for the unofficial, speculative narrative. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Original Cast Album: Company’ and ‘Songland’ 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

The next step is to “change the narrative,” Williams says, from stories that lead with “former star” to stories that allow a candidate to tackle the issues. Perspective | Famous and female: Why actresses can’t break into the real-life role of politician 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

“These aren’t issue based films or narratively structured films,” said Turner Ross. ArtsBeat: Finding Subjective Truths at SXSW 2012-03-14T19:30:48Z

Except that this wild child raised by apes turned wild man forever caught between civilization and nature is a great mythic character — a rich, dense tangle of narrative, philosophical and political meanings. Review: A ‘Tarzan’ With a Few Twists in the Hollywood Vine 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

I admire her ability to keep crafting and recrafting her narrative. Jennifer Lopez's reinvention of the breakup 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z

And while most of its characters end up losing under the cutthroat conditions, the series particularly fails in the narratives given to its few featured women. “Squid Game” missed an opportunity to show capitalism & patriarchy are one 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z

Many of those silenced narratives are now lost to history, but Solnit wades into the waters to celebrate the stories that are beginning to emerge; Bill Cosby  recurs, as does the #yesallwomen phenomenon. Rebecca Solnit tries to answer 'The Mother of All Questions' 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

As he traces the history of iron and steel manufacturing through the centuries, Stoddard keeps his narrative lively with myriad details. ‘Steel’ review: Honoring the industry that once symbolized our strength 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

Kudos to the show’s team for figuring out how to extend such comfort while expanding the season’s narrative story arcs. “South Park” nails the post-election mood: “This isn’t how it was supposed to happen!” 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

What “Strange Planet” hasn’t figured out, however, is how to formally bridge the gap between the concise format of the comics and the more expansive narrative format of a television series. ‘Strange Planet’ Review: An Alien’s Guide to Being Human 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z

Two or three fewer episodes would have given it more pace and punch without detracting from the narrative or its appeal for tolerance. The Terrible Thing that Happened to Barnaby Brocket by John Boyne - review 2012-08-03T21:55:06Z

In 1976, the critic Edward Mendelson described the “encyclopedic narrative,” his term for a fiction, like “Don Quixote,” that attempts “to render the full range of knowledge and beliefs of a national culture.” Can One Sentence Capture All of Life? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

Unchanged, apart from small modifications since it was first mounted by Ralph Appelbaum Associates, it avoids homily in favor of vivid, careful narrative. Exhibition Review: ‘Some Were Neighbors,’ at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 2013-04-25T22:05:38Z

It was first published twelve years ago, and the narrative ranges back to the fifties, but the themes endure: a cryptographer, a secret department, a disappearance. What We're Reading: Summer Edition 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

She points particularly to ones with characters seizing control of their own narrative, whether that’s “Straight Outta Compton” or “Hidden Figures.” A powerful symbol of resistance, the Underground Railroad inspires a wave of books, plays, TV and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

The state’s evidence doesn’t focus on a central incriminating piece of evidence—multiple details are meant to add up to a convincing narrative. Why “In the Dark” May Be the Best Podcast of the Year 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Camille’s father is missing from the narrative, a strategically unexplained absence. Amy Adams Unravels in “Sharp Objects” 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

These days, social media have allowed us to enter the global narrative and witness our dangers in real time. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' an apocalyptic tale as old as man's existence 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

The seduction of the serial killer narrative is difficult to shake, for reader and author alike. ‘Notes on an Execution’ Isn’t Your Typical Serial Killer Novel 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

And just as Shange coined the term “choreopoem” for her hybrid form, Scott began to describe “Thoughts,” his senior project, as “slam narrative.” ‘Thoughts of a Colored Man,’ From University to Broadway 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

That a Gaullist president should devote his first day in office to the memory of a Communist is a measure of how far the narrative of the Resistance continues to shape France’s sense of itself. Freedom force 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

There are also thematic outliers, like “Reincarnation,” an original by his master, Bunshi, and “Rotten Tofu Chiritotechin” — both of which branch away from personal anecdotes, and Mr. Sunshine performs them with more narrative distance. Review: ‘Katsura Sunshine’s Rakugo’ Offers Stand-Up Comedy Without the Standing 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

At the 2010 Video Music Awards last month Mr. West was able to steal the narrative back from Ms. Swift. Arts & Leisure Preview: Taylor Swift Is Angry, Darn It 2010-10-20T22:06:00Z

The effect in DeLillo’s novel was to electrify the narrative with a sense of convergence; here, the Lincoln sections merely and unnecessarily remind us that the man exists. ‘Booth’ Pushes an Assassin Off Center Stage 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

For an industry that often renders arrival in the United States as evidence of ultimate career triumph, this narrative pivot is as curative as it is urgent. Reggaeton’s History Is Complex. A New Podcast Helps Us Listen That Way. 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

Müller’s style — naive, narrative scenes with multiple figures and vivid colors — resonated deeply. Review | Bob Thompson died young, but his colorful jazz- and Old Master-inspired paintings speak to the ages 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

During the writing process, how much do you ponder the potential pitfalls of narrative as a form? Philip Gourevitch: Memory is a disease 2012-09-26T20:31:00Z

When Trump insults women, though, the narrative gets a particular spin: “Is Trump driving women away from the GOP for good?” Perspective | Women are expected to swing this election — because, of course, we expect them to do everything 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

But the director, Tomer Heymann, finds idiosyncratic insights within typical narrative beats about fame and power — two mercurial things that, for the film and Agassi himself, don’t exist in a vacuum. ‘Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life’ Review: A Gay Porn Star Is Born 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

"If there's any kind of narrative that goes with yoga, it's having an open mind," said Dorothy, president of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. How Edye Broad's 'natural eye' drew her billionaire husband into the art world 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

Such a blunt narrative would never pass muster in a Disney boardroom. How will "Evil Dead" and "Spidey" director Sam Raimi fare in the MCU? It'll swallow his soul 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

These confrontations aren’t lingered upon, nor do they noticeably impact the season’s narrative. Amazon's "One Mississippi" exudes calm confidence in its second season 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

When is an alternative narrative a thing to be cheered, paraded on palanquins and embroidered into the fabric of civilization? Review | Picking apart the Internet: An exhibition that addresses the elephant in the room 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

When he was promoted from Northeast Philly to Newark International Airport, the news confirmed a narrative of progress that we had already begun taking for granted. The Cost of Defying the President 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

There is no monolithic experience of womanhood, and Sasaki emphasized that her museum would not attempt to create a singular narrative. Donors Pledge $55 Million for Smithsonian’s New Museum of American Women 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

The narrative evolves as a collage of memory — not chronological but associative. In her new memoir, Elizabeth Alexander deals with loss of her spouse 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

I'd take to task for its lack of tension, but I don't believe Hanks or Vardalos ever had narrative tension on their radar. Larry Crowne: Tom Hanks's Unemployment for Beginners 2011-06-30T23:10:00Z

In two new films, the now-familiar narrative of the Holocaust is reframed by telling the story from the perspective of gentiles. ‘Ida’ and ‘The German Doctor’ Reframe a Familiar Narrative 2014-04-25T18:55:18Z

The story of Mr. van Braak’s art project is emblematic of the larger narrative of Sonsbeek, which will run this year until Sept. 18. Dutch City Makes the Most of Its Park, and Its History 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Ike, with just a few musical and narrative gestures, is better articulated, and Watts is terrific delivering his gleaming menace. Review: The ‘Tina’ Musical Is One Inch Deep, Mountain High 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

And it’s that narrative, after all—the one Dylan has written for himself—that’s perhaps literature in the truest sense. A Transcendent Patti Smith Accepts Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

This series was more about spotting 80's references, much like finding easter eggs or Pokeman Go, than storylines, plot narratives, and characters. Did You Watch ‘Stranger Things’? Let’s Talk About It 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

This musical, a production of Page 73, Playwrights Horizons and Woolly Mammoth Theater Company, forgoes the commercial niceties and digestible narratives of many Broadway shows, delivering a story that’s searing and softhearted, uproarious and disquieting. ‘A Strange Loop’ Review: A Dazzling Ride on a Mental Merry-Go-Round 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

Costumes are created for movies to provide a narrative and visual context. Adding Technology to Museum Costume Displays 2012-03-15T00:21:11Z

According to the collection of slave narratives at the National Humanities Center, lucky enslaved Africans engaged in ". . . after-work gatherings, Saturday rest and games, and Sunday church-going with their slaveholders." DJ D-Nice's virtual dance parties follow the tradition of innovation in times of adversity 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

The job of designers is to handpick those elements and create a design vocabulary that communicates narrative or a particular emotion. 5 Broadway Veterans on Race and Representation in Theater Design 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

But if these are "souls" destined to be reborn, the principle at stake is what we might call narrative reincarnation: the re-enactment of common conflicts. Guardian book club: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

It depends on what we think carries the narrative. Can Critics Learn to Love the Jukebox Musical? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

Cervantes, Mr. Villanueva said, “wrote theater and poetry, but recognized he wasn’t especially inspired in those fields, while Shakespeare didn’t write narrative.” In Spain, Catching Up With Cervantes 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

The deep affection and respect for his father suffuses the narrative, but along the way, Bush dissects what he sees as mistakes and the lessons he drew for his own presidency. George W. Bush’s ‘41: A Portrait of My Father’ 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

But at times the dancing is independent of the narrative, with moves that are by turns sensual and aggressive. Bill T. Jones Will Be Onstage in His New Work, ?Story/Time? 2012-01-18T20:12:35Z

There is also a shared narrative voice of fear, rumour, opinion. The Siege by Helen Dunmore 2011-02-12T00:05:20Z

"When Marnie Was There," the delicate, evocative new Japanese animated film from Studio Ghibli, does not fall neatly into any conventional narrative category. 'When Marnie Was There' deftly creates a magical friendship 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

In a sense, Ms. Qualley is also wearing the story; the narrative is draped on her shoulders, like clothes on a fashion model. The Cinderella Myth We Can’t Quit 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

In the social narrative, there is virtually no corresponding absolute time limit to a man’s fertility, no ticking clock. Women over 50 are invisible 2013-04-05T13:00:00Z

“I’m not attempting to tell a narrative,” Bunch said. ‘Humble objects’ of a sunken slave ship tell a powerful and emotional story 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

He has become butterfly-brained – not, in his case, a term of derision, but exactly catching the way his darting and discursive narrative reflects the lives of his familiars and his sense of empathy with them. The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of our Emperors and?Admirals by Patrick Barkham ? review 2010-10-15T23:15:00Z

Duvivier orchestrates an accomplished synthesis of Germanic lighting and Soviet montage, while providing an American-style narrative drive that builds to an extraordinary ending in which the disillusioned and dying Golder returns to his native Russia. Julien Duvivier, a Gallic Auteur at Home, and Jacques Feyder, One Abroad 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

As though in flat rejection of the victim narrative, Flattery’s women can be spectacularly mean. The Macabre, the Sinister, the Absurd: Story Time Just Got Weirder 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

The intense narrative suspense, Gothic-horror and Romantic passion of “Sonnambula” are related to currents that run deep in many of Balanchine’s other ballets. Dance Review: From the Classical World of Apollos and Fauns to a Romantic Passion 2011-05-19T21:29:13Z

This reduces a complex plot, full of ideas about politics and society, to a romantic tragedy with a rather unclear narrative. Review: ‘The Red and the Black’ Is Sumptuous, but Safe 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

“Unexpected and unpredictable narratives compelled us to choose this vigorous shortlist,” she added. Women Dominate Shortlist for Booker International Prize 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

What this new study shows is that the old rules—like, don’t publicize suicide narratives—existed for a reason. Netflix and Suicide: The Disturbing Example of “13 Reasons Why” 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

She’s formulated a literary mode somewhere between prose and poetry that enhances the rhythms of speech and narrative. Review | Bernardine Evaristo’s ‘Girl, Woman, Other’ received half a Booker Prize, but it deserves all the glory 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

It’s still the ancient Cinderella narrative baked into virtually all of women’s popular culture. The Cinderella Myth We Can’t Quit 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Throughout its run, “Three Centuries of American Prints” has attracted better than usual crowds, perhaps because the show, which closes on Sunday, has an appeal that goes beyond a standard art-history narrative. A free-wheeling medium for a free-wheeling country 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

Location is needed to tether a narrative whose formal restiveness would otherwise produce incoherence. John Mullan on NW – Guardian book club 2013-07-27T07:00:03Z

Wherever the narrative finds itself, Hadley's eye for detail is penetrating. Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley – review 2013-05-12T09:00:01Z

They certainly provide meaty roles and characters for audiences to root for, but what is the appeal of these narratives of ambition and self-doubt? "Dumplin'" star Danielle Mcdonald on new opera comedy & pursuing her dreams: "I never had a Plan B" 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

"They are doing their best to balance the bass overload of dubstep and the melodic narrative of traditional songs" – The New Yorker. New band of the day ? No 929: Nero 2010-12-13T17:07:00Z

There's too little tension in the narrative, and far too little at stake. Midnight's Pumpkin – review 2012-12-13T18:16:04Z

The painting is singular in Johns’s oeuvre, in part because its title hints at a narrative, one about a sybarite who likes to drink and party. Seeing Double With Jasper Johns 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

There are chapters on the discovery and popularization of drugs for anxiety, for menopause, for pain management — each following a similar narrative arc. How Big Pharma Grew Addicted to Big Profits 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

“But I don’t think that we have a narrative in the American Jewish community, especially the organized Jewish community, to talk about the internal threats to Israel’s democratic character.” Author rattles Jewish leaders 2012-06-21T21:17:00Z

The entries I’ve sampled in the narrative feature competition don’t lack for audacity. Critic?s Notebook: Tribeca Turns 10: Films on Rebels, Rock and Real Life 2011-04-14T12:00:00Z

It is a way of seizing the narrative and painting oneself as on the moral high ground. In defence of gossip: no better way to navigate life's flawed relationships 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

The “Today” show co-host and weatherman writes a narrative history of the 1889 Johnstown flood, the deadliest in American history, immersing himself, for a change, in the weather of the past. New & Noteworthy 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

About 25 to 30 minutes of it was shot to create the various narratives and versions. Emily Mortimer on her daring new virtual-reality short: “This immersive experience is extremely visceral” 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

In most cases, though, these characters are so blended into the lives and plots of the white Americans surrounding them that we somehow divorce them from any negative narratives surrounding immigrants and immigration. With "Bob Hearts Abishola" and "Sunnyside," sitcoms are showcasing the immigrant's story 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

Mostly I’m just trying to figure out which real-life rapper is going to make this fictional narrative real. Rap Disrupted Music First. Now It’s TV and Film. 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

One character after another takes control of the narrative; one after another breaks into chorus and solo song. Privates on Parade; In the Republic of Happiness; The Arabian Nights – review 2012-12-16T00:06:01Z

Stunningly produced, the Ology books provide an exciting, narrative exploration of real – and not so real – subjects. Win a complete set of 10 Ology books 2010-12-15T18:09:18Z

“A gift from New York of material with such a special meaning here resonates with the museum’s narrative about local and global connections,” the director said. NY Antiquities Collection Donated to Israel Museum 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Yet her tailoring of narrative voices to personalities sometimes gums up the works: Louisa’s prairie flatness rings true to an enervating fault. First Novels Tackle Sexism and Prejudice, Past and Present 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Strikingly, Mr. Kahane employs the strings as a partner in his narrative drive, often letting Brooklyn Rider punctuate or answer an emotional theme. Review: In Gabriel Kahane’s ‘The Fiction Issue,’ Timelessness and Sept. 11 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

In Ravel’s “La Valse,” Zhou clarified the textures to an extent I’ve rarely heard, the acrobatics never throwing him off his musical narrative. Pianist Yun-Chin Zhou opens Young Concert Artists of Washington series

“The tourism industry is decimating African-American communities and flattening nuance and narrative.” Charleston Tourism Is Built on Southern Charm. Locals Say It’s Time to Change. 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z

In a space behind the first room are six smaller screens with the actual refugees sharing the same narratives without the Hollywood charisma. New Triennial Offers Artists the Canvas of Cleveland 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

Rather, it was to set up a powerful contrast between our desire to be fully and luxuriantly immersed in familiar narratives — the cyclorama experience — and the more anarchic and unsettling freedom of abstraction. Review | Mark Bradford turned a bloody Civil War battle into art that will haunt and entrance you 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

It’s an attempt to have the cachet of reinventing the traditional structure of narrative prose fiction without actually having to do the hard work implied by modernist insight. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z

But it should have been more than that; it should have been a glorious release of pent-up narrative energy, a stunner. Kurt and Blaine finally kiss on "Glee" -- but so what? 2011-03-16T13:17:00Z

Each narrative strand follows a parent struggling with the role. The dystopian future is already underway in Maja Lunde's novel 'The History of Bees' 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

The film academy announced its 2014 honorees Friday in alternative, animation, documentary, narrative and foreign films. 15 aspiring filmmakers win Student Academy Awards 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

The persistence of Franck’s interest in Michel — which begins to resemble love — at times feels arbitrary and baffling, the result of a narrative experiment rather than the exploration of a plausible motive. Movie Review: Death and Desire in ‘Stranger by the Lake’ 2014-01-23T23:17:56Z

As symbolism supplants narrative, the movie develops a dreamy, allegorical quality that dulls the action and dilutes the emotions. ‘Savage State’ Review: Escape to New York 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

In a photographic narrative by Rachelle Mozman, one Latin American actor — the artist’s mother — plays the roles of aristocratic twin sisters, one light-skinned, one dark, as well as a family maid. Art Review: Artists Whose Vitality Flows From the Streets 2011-06-16T21:52:56Z

Abbott's innovation is to link the four stories in a continuous narrative, toggling among the women to move chronologically through the war. Karen Abott's history of four Civil War women who spied or lied 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

The pleasure of its narrative style—which does not focus on the hardship of orphanhood or of farm life in the eighteen-hundreds—creates friendly terrain in which to plant seeds of emotional complexity. How Not to Adapt “Anne of Green Gables” 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Minh Bui Jones, Mekong Review’s founding editor and publisher, said he saw the magazine as a vehicle for cross-border connections in a region that lacks a sense of a shared historical narrative. Eluding Censors, a Magazine Covers Southeast Asia’s Literary Scene 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

And arguably, in this election, this narrative is more important to Romney than any of his opponents. Romney Didn?t Win Iowa After All. Is It Too Late To Change the Story? 2012-01-19T14:27:52Z

There are occasional moments of implausibility in Campanella's film, but they're more than outweighed by the emotional force of the narrative and its incidental felicities. The Secret in Their Eyes 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

The music perfectly reflects the film’s power: Public Enemy young, smart, confrontational; Bill Lee’s orchestral score classic, beautiful, narrative, Hollywood. 'Do the Right Thing' at Twenty-five 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

Rather, it has something to do with how the emotional and psychological underpinnings of the narrative don’t resonate as strongly as its ideas about history and governance. Review: ‘Wolf Hall,’ the Mini-Series, Unspools Its Power Plays on PBS 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

They compress them into a visual shorthand the way oral tradition compresses generations-long narratives. Art Review: ?Heroic Africans? at Metropolitan Museum of Art - Review 2011-09-22T22:00:39Z

In Nanterre the narrative portion was in English, with French supertitles. Toni Morrison?s ?Desdemona? and Peter Sellars?s ?Othello? 2011-10-25T21:57:27Z

Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips said it "sets a stern suspense narrative against a blessedly unconventional cinematic backdrop." Indie film pared to the bone in "Winter's Bone" 2010-06-18T16:03:00Z

Could you talk about the challenges — or perhaps the appeal — of structuring a narrative around what some people would call a passive protagonist? ArtsBeat: Cannes Q. and A.: Julia Leigh on a Modern-Day 'Sleeping Beauty' 2011-05-15T20:39:05Z

All of these threads are masterfully woven into a narrative built around images from "Birds of America." Vietnam-era 'Okay for Now' draws story of teen bully 2011-04-08T00:29:04Z

The movie’s main narrative arc is his transformation from the supreme marksman warrior to the healer of wounded comrades; his very presence at veterans’ hospitals provides the balm of a sympathetic hero in the flesh. Review: In American Sniper, Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper Are Right on Target 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

Taken now, these narratives have aged into cuteness. Two Novels for and About Lost Millennial Women 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

I admire Faulkner very much, and there are obvious similarities between the narrative – although I have my jar of ashes, Faulkner has his rotting corpse, and the setting is clearly very different. Booker club: Last Orders by Graham Swift 2012-07-24T11:28:36Z

Ortega merges his movie with the theatre that frames its narrative, and Cox comes to perform onstage; at the end, the mansion-castle and the theatre, now falling apart, are revealed to be one. A “Rocky Horror” for the “High School Musical” Generation 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

The staging, by Olivier Letellier, was too literal to let the work bloom as pure stylization, but too abstract to give it real narrative momentum. Can Opera Become an Agent of Change? 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

They don't need narrative, but are perfectly capable of concentrating on something strange and fascinating, such as an opera. Opera for babies 2012-11-15T21:00:02Z

Ultimately, Behind the Red Door is a portrait drawn in broad strokes, not a work of narrative nonfiction. China’s schizophrenic sexual revolution 2012-12-23T14:00:00Z

Often allowing first-person consciousness to erupt out of a controlled, omniscient third-person narrative voice, Morrison replicated the curious process through which reader and writer are inevitably and inextricably locked together in the production of meaning. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

As part of its coverage of what it calls Big Hollywood, the glamour of celebrities becomes grist for the site’s overarching narrative about the corrosive influence of the cultural elite. How Conservative Sites Turn Celebrity Despair on Its Head 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

“That speaks well for their ability to put together the larger narrative in the text.” The Most Sought After Manuscript in Publishing? The Jan. 6 Report. 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

I like open-ended narrative forms, like television series and comic books, and from “The Thin Man” to James Bond to Harry Potter, there have been movies that adapted that form. Recycled Films and Bitsy Screens 2011-05-22T00:43:01Z

He is obsessed with the occult and the satanic and where life ends, and death begins, grief and loss, ideas that course through our narrative. "This film is Poe's origin story": "The Pale Blue Eye" director on his gothic whodunit at West Point 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

The most interesting part of Marcus’s narrative is her discussion of why, in the end, the evidence mattered so little. Dissecting Brett Kavanaugh’s ‘Supreme Ambition’ 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Both image and text look askance at the narrative of a typical mermaid; rather than slinky, aquatic male fantasies, these beings are textured with the grit of real life: Mattea Harvey's 'Tabloids' mashes word pictures with imaginative art 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

The "High Republic" narrative will begin with what is dubbed "the Great Disaster" and will focus on the question of what scares the Jedi, among other themes. New Star Wars series announced 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

A good number of blaxploitation movies took narrative outlines and antihero trappings from classic crime films and changed the ethnicity. Blaxploitation Movies Are Ready to Stream, Nostalgia Included 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Royston never does manage to get his swede right – but his narrative becomes all the more engrossing for his pantomime inability to see what's going on around him. One Dead Hen by Charlie Williams - review 2011-08-03T12:30:02Z

Gradually, connections emerge between the overt narrative of the show's first half and the meditation-in-movement in its second. Review: 'Dark Matters' at On the Boards is spellbinding dance 2011-02-18T17:57:04Z

That makes him sound pessimistic, though; sitting in the bar of Soho theatre in London, the 25-year-old talks enthusiastically of wanting to create new narratives for black people. Arinze Kene: 'At home, I'm Nigerian. I go out and I'm a British kid' 2013-02-25T18:59:01Z

But there is something celebratory about the tone, and the celebratory is always suspect in a museum; it’s too easy to convert history into cheap narrative uplift. ‘Nation to Nation’: Full of the intriguing, often maddening details of history

Season 5 begins with a slight bit of narrative complication: a short flash-forward in which an undercover Bosch infiltrates the desert camp of a crew of opioid dealers. Review: ‘Bosch’ Is Back, Still on the Straight and Narrow 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

You hold them accountable for what they did without trying to erase them from the narrative completely. Talib Kweli on hip-hop, Rudy "Ghouliani" and how Kanye West can make amends for supporting Trump 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the book’s extensive series of trials and anecdotes neither offers a narrative drive to propel the reader forward nor adds up to a broader conclusion. Courtly love 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

“My paintings are stories,” she told The Independent of London in 1991, “but they are not narratives, in that they have no past and future.” Paula Rego, Artist Known for Unsettling Images, Dies at 87 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

The longer four-minute clip from the narrative documentary depicts Warhol eating the rest of his burger before crumpling the wrapper back in the Burger King bag. Burger King's Super Bowl ad featuring Andy Warhol was taken from a 1982 film 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

People are responding by falling back into simple narratives and identity politics as a defence against this complexity. ‘We will get regular body upgrades’: what will humans look like in 100 years? 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

Is it really justified to paint the narrative of her life as a cautionary tale for women who seek power akin to a man's? The legacy of Anna Nicole Smith and why we need to retire the term "gold digger" 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z

"Pierre writes to his strengths," Roger Hutchinson noted in the Scotsman, "namely, a vital narrative voice, inventive, freewheeling and scabrously funny." Critical eye: reviews roundup 2010-08-27T23:06:00Z

For the new book, there are elements of the Western and immigration narratives, but it’s a little more straightforward than not. Why Colson Whitehead made the Underground Railroad real: “It’s fanciful and childish, but it also had many possibilities” 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z

But then Hall — as proven in last year’s creep-out, “The Night House” — has a knack for pumping gravitas into somewhat batty narratives. ‘Resurrection’ Review: Mother of Fears 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

On a night devoted to the world’s causes, this was a moment that far too easily reshaped the narrative: two people doing an act of charity, for the planet but also each other. Global Citizen Festival Brings Stars to Central Park 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

In a way it defeats the purpose of recentering the narrative. Hitting the Right Notes When Setting History to Song 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

Stories are the guideposts that keep Westworld contained, limiting hosts to operate within the confines of interlocking narratives. ‘Westworld’ Series Premiere: Life Finds a Way 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

One presents the main narrative in gracious, unhurried prose delivered in level tones suited to a nature documentary voice-over; the other intersperses excerpts from L’Engle’s vivid journals with greater gusto. For ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Fans, an Audiobook That Celebrates Madeleine L’Engle 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

At times, there are leaps in the narrative that strain the effort to stitch the drawings into a cohesive story. A Playful, Posthumous Picture Book From Maurice Sendak 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

He did so because, when he was writing, vernacular narrative prose was not a serious art form. A brief survey of the short story part 31: Boccaccio 2011-02-09T12:31:30Z

The solution, in this case, is a four-pronged narrative, each strand involving a lost soul who washes up at a detention center in a desolate stretch of South Australia. Review: In ‘Stateless’ on Netflix, Cate Blanchett (and Immigration) 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

There are things you look for in a script, a narrative, and characters and great dialogue. "I want to be like Betty White": Jacki Weaver on success after 60 and why ageism is "unimaginative" 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

On the show, we watched Tom lay the groundwork to leave Arianna and spin a narrative in which he was the victim. What "Vanderpump Rules" cad Tom Sandoval and incels have in common 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

Tharp on the relation of dance to music and narrative. Step-by-step guide to dance: Twyla Tharp 2011-02-01T10:43:36Z

Later in the narrative we learn that this is a consequence of Billy’s subsequent abduction by Tralfamadorians, aliens who happen to be unbound by the normal limitations of time and space. The Moral Clarity of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ at 50 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

It begins to spin its wheels as Ms. Said tries to resolve a narrative full of unresolved feelings. Theater Review | 'Palestine': So Many Identities, So Little Time 2010-02-19T06:18:00Z

There’s the suggestion of a classic espionage thriller in this angle of the plot, but Mr. Ondaatje is after something else — a narrative reflection, perhaps, on the alternate exhilarations and terrors of life in wartime. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

Alas, the only sections with any vigor or narrative substance are those concerning Hendricks’s war and his one true, though broken, romance. ‘Where My Heart Used to Beat’: Sebastian Faulks’s latest foray into war 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

It becomes increasingly difficult to hear narratives, to conjure images, to give the music a mood or a character, let alone a philosophy of life. Eilliott Carter: music of storms and stillness 2013-06-07T08:00:27Z

But in a way, the show’s fractured narrative reflects the many ways the world sees its protagonist. The Fashion Closet, Seen From Inside and Out 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

This is all to say that the idea of a "new beginning" commenced by a new year in America reflects a smorgasbord of ancient Roman traditions and theological narratives throughout history; it's a social construct. What 2020 taught me about New Year's resolutions 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z

The language used, the focus on sex, only continues the narrative that a man in the church has been raised to believe is the expected, natural order of his existence without acknowledging its roots. How Evangelicalism's racist roots and purity culture teachings catalyzed the Atlanta killings 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z

What would Tom Sawyer do? plays like a mantra through Huck’s narrative. Mark Twain invented Mitt 2012-07-06T14:20:00Z

A number of experts have gone through those books: one said he found 150 narrative devices that had never been done in comic books before. Jonathan Ross meets Jim Steranko, his comic-book hero 2010-07-20T23:10:00Z

Admittedly there's nothing here to rival the visual style and narrative cohesion of David Slade's Eclipse, which remains the most satisfying episode of the saga. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-03-09T18:00:01Z

It has a purpose within the narrative, but it is also a weird delight. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 7 Recap: Punch-Drunk 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

Chang’s story also suffers because it doesn’t fit into any of the season’s overarching narratives. Soso and Chang, prison bunkmates by default: Why won’t “Orange Is the New Black” expand its Asian cast? 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

A common narrative tactic is to feature a host as a character in the drama, inviting listeners to follow them as they try to unravel mysteries. The New York Times could not verify ISIS claims in its ‘Caliphate’ podcast. Now it’s returning a prestigious award. 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

Reevaluating the past, and bringing old stories into the open, can be a significant step in changing the narrative. Assaults in dressing rooms. Groping during lessons. Classical musicians reveal a profession rife with harassment. 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

For his new narrative, “Journey Into Night,” Ford sets Dolores up to die in Teddy’s arms, beachside, for the viewing pleasure of a group of VIPs. 10 Questions Westworld still needs to answer 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

The director, Anja Marquardt, may not convince you narratively, but scene to scene, she and her star, Brooke Bloom, keep you watching and wondering. Critic’s Notebook: New Directors/New Films Highlights Include ‘Fish & Cat’ 2014-03-24T22:13:52Z

Lagercrantz chooses to embrace that tradition, and thus the narrative feels calm, patient and familiar. ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ by David Lagercrantz 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

They unfold unpredictably, and then build; the narrative here really moves. ‘Drunk History’ and ‘Nathan for You’ Begin Season 2 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

It’s built to have a sort of superficial narrative layer and then this subterranean thematic space that you can put anything you’re interested in, and that’s what makes it fun. How Steven Soderbergh and Ed Solomon Straightened Out ‘Full Circle’ 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo goes even further, in providing a redemptive narrative by showing an active and intelligent female taking revenge on the men who kill or inflict violence on women. Why is there so much movie violence against women? 2010-06-03T21:45:00Z

Still, his repeated suggestions that something untoward did happen or might have happened helped keep the stolen-election narrative alive. Dan Bongino isn’t just taking over where Rush Limbaugh left off — he’s building a conservative media universe 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

The films initially were feature length and while they lacked traditional narratives, many of them had various forms of narrative structure. Why the re-release of iconic porn film "Deep Throat" fizzled 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

"The original was very atmospheric, so we'll provide a little more of the narrative that audiences expect," producer Mark Gordon said. Smiley starts a row over reluctance to commission original scripts 2011-07-09T23:07:03Z

That El-P and Killer Mike are now willing to cede that narrative to cats does not exactly undermine their mission. Cats Meet Hip-Hop 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

The single-minded artist fending off compromise in order to realize a vision is a powerfully romantic narrative, but great art is just as often about effective collaboration. How ‘Horace and Pete’ Made the Network Suits Look Good 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

I mean, he’s giving us the Mafioso story, the narrative crafted about the gangster — but it was the remorse, the regret, the grief, the horror, the suffering. Jay-Z is ‘Robert Frost with a Brooklyn accent,’ a Georgetown professor writes in his new book 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

The narrative museum is coupled with the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, the nation's first to honor and document black people who were victims of racial terror lynchings. Lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson on building racial justice: “This work is just beginning” 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

Admittedly, in this position it helps to make my narrative novel-shaped. David Lodge on HG Wells 2011-03-11T10:00:01Z

It will be in defiance of the proscriptive narrative that we constantly see on TV and in print media. Russell Brand on His New Show, Television Sidekicks and All That Salty Language 2012-06-28T12:00:11Z

It would be impossible, however, to impose a single narrative on Tillman’s sprawling output. Wolfgang Tillmans: Older, Wiser, Cooler 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z

But by the time I caught the play, the company was in full command of a nearly three-hour narrative that falters only when it is too literal-minded. Onstage in Edinburgh, the Mood Is Grim 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

"Amateurs" jumps back and forth in time, with the main narrative focusing on Archer's upcoming wedding to a "likably preposterous woman" named Gemma in Winnipeg, Canada. Growing up is hard to do in 'Amateurs' 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

“The Morning Show” narrative draws its catalyzing heat from the thorny #MeToo themes of office politics and gender disparity, making it very relevant to the current climate. CNN’s Brian Stelter reflects on “The View” venom and leaving Trump out of “The Morning Show” 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z

Through such deeply felt and finely wrought eddies of narrative drift, “To Float in the Space Between” confronts the reader with many such moments of angular reflection and renewed recognition. In a (Prose) Tribute to Fathers and Father Figures, a Fast-Paced Poet Slows Down 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

To be specific, he said by phone from Maryland, it is about “a vast power imbalance, perpetuated by the narrative of ‘inclusivity,’” or “being allowed to appear in territory owned by white people.” The Real Lessons of Telfar, Kanye and the Gap 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure how much of it was really real, and of course, as kids, we make our own narratives to protect ourselves. A DNA Test Led Yashua Klos to New Connections and New Art 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

Early scenes, some nominally observational, others more overtly dramatic, unfold with no obvious narrative connection. Movie Review: ‘Barbara,’ Directed by Christian Petzold 2012-12-20T21:52:52Z

Three other shows, “Saga,” “Bombay Rickey” and “La Reina,” promise a potent mix of global narrative and musical traditions. Classical Music & Opera Listings for Jan. 8-14 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

But that is only half of "Gone Girl's" narrative. 'Gone Girl' finds David Fincher at delightfully twisted best 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

“Bikram” is the show’s first venture into a serialized in-depth narrative, and, like yoga, it provides perspective on personal transformation and the connection between mind and body. “Bikram” and the Fraught, Telling Tale of a Yoga Phenomenon 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

“Margonelli turns cutting-edge science into rich narrative by plunging deep into the termite’s world,” our reviewer, Lucy Cooke, writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

The narrative follows the lives of three affluent but struggling late-20-somethings leading up to and after 9/11, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Lake Bell to direct film adaption of ‘The Emperor's Children’ 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

This is at the expense of narrative and choreographic detail, providing little sense of the original's dramatic tension, but it is an impressive achievement for a first attempt. Lord of the Flies - review 2011-03-06T17:04:52Z

Kit's claustrophobic narrative is constrained in time and space: a long weekend at Willoughtree House, a final reunion of university flatmates to bid farewell to Guy. The Quarry by Iain Banks – review 2013-06-16T07:00:00Z

In similar fashion to Fauda, creators said they aimed to present a nuanced narrative to a deep-seated conflict that would resonate with all sides. New Israeli espionage TV series tackles shadow war with Iran 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

I’ll leave the analysis of Mad Men’s narrative for the column and for future posts. Dead Tree Alert: Mad Men?Now in Color! 2012-05-10T12:43:42Z

On Bravo’s many iterations of The Real Housewives, fights spiral into narrative arcs and groups of friends disassemble and reconstitute from episode to episode. Where Donald Trump Learned to Captivate Audiences 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

Which brings us to Pinkie, one of the most unlikely, but unforgettable, gangsters in English literature, whose descent into corruption draws the reader into the narrative. Brighton Rock's themes are too big for the screen 2011-02-07T12:04:15Z

With a narrative style that feels like a cascade, Majumdar reveals that Jivan has been beaten into signing a confession and then arraigned for firebombing the train. Review | Megha Majumdar’s ‘A Burning’ is blazing up the bestseller list and emerging as the must-read novel of the summer 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

Chapters about Abraham Lincoln are spliced into the Booth family narrative. ‘Booth’ Pushes an Assassin Off Center Stage 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

I want the audience to completely surrender to the story, and the moments that interplay between performers as the narrative is unfolding. "This film is Poe's origin story": "The Pale Blue Eye" director on his gothic whodunit at West Point 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

I'm fond of this simplistic style of narrative linking because I like to think the cast have been standing there, Police Squad-style, for the entire week, just waiting to start the acting again. Hunted: series one, episode two 2012-10-11T21:05:01Z

Instead of hedging his bet with a dynamic narrative, the director promised no pyrotechnic plot twists. Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke on 'Boyhood' 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

A voracious reader, Rees revisited William Faulkner’s novel “As I Lay Dying” specifically for its interlocking narratives and voices. Dee Rees wanted to make ‘an old-fashioned movie’ and ended up with an Oscar contender 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Similar words and images recur at various points in a narrative that occasionally jumps forward in time but that mostly recounts the chronology of Sassoon’s postwar life. ‘Benediction’ Review: A Poet’s Life, in Love and War 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

But, more importantly for the present moment, and more disturbingly, the narrative of loss and promised restoration in conservatism hums with the possibility of violence. The Book That Predicted Trump 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

“The great myth of the Tour is that the riders are all engaged in the main narrative, the battle for yellow.” It’s the taking part that counts 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

It is a self-contained, satisfyingly tied-up narrative stretching to the length of two or three feature films. Shameless: when TV shows overstay their welcome 2012-10-10T11:33:37Z

Beyond process, “Transparent” also advances a type of storytelling that doesn’t quite follow narrative convention. This is what the female gaze looks like: “Transparent” returns for a thrilling second season 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

Much the same could be said for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, which I felt lacked emotional energy and narrative drive. Week in geek's best films of 2010 2010-12-31T14:26:37Z

This is not a narrative that warms in the hands. The Mueller Report: A Thorny, Patriotic Addition to a Curious American Bookshelf 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

But such details, even when they slow the narrative’s march by a step or two, are crucial to include. Rep. John Lewis’s new ‘March: Book Three’ rises to the historic occasion 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Either way, you know her and her quintessential Hollywood narrative. Sabattical Done, Demi Moore Returns 2010-04-16T23:12:00Z

Both Eggers’s appropriation of narrative and choice of belle ideal feel — it hurts to say it — very 2010. Review | Dave Eggers tells the story of the most dangerous cup of coffee in the world 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

Riffs and hooks, verbal flourishes and narrative payoffs – these provide pop's most immediate and repeatable pleasures. Tom Ewing 2010-12-09T22:30:00Z

For all its arresting images and symbols, “The Young Pope” is still a serial driven by story, and the narrative and character motivations are slapdash and underdeveloped. Review: ‘The Young Pope’ Is Beautiful and Ridiculous 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

The historian gripped us simply with the power of his narrative and I remember actually looking forward to each nightly date with my box set. Simon Schama: TV dumber-down or simply the greatest? 2012-06-28T13:55:10Z

Instead, too often, she is a narratively convenient blank. ‘Palm Trees and Power Lines’ Review: A Teen’s Cautionary Tale 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

In a Sept. 10 Facebook post — Ana’s birthday — James teased two pages of  the narrative. E.L. James' new book: 'Fifty Shades Darker' from Christian Grey's point of view 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Turan hits the nail on the head when he describes the narrative as having been "fatally cobbled together, veering haphazardly from undertone moments to overdone melodramatic contrivance." Readers respond after 'Boyhood' fails to impress critic Kenneth Turan 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

As the romantic lead in new romcom I Give It A Year with Stephen Merchant The temptation is to give him a happy dieter's narrative – fat, unconfident loser morphs into buff, confident winner. Rafe Spall: from fat to fit 2013-01-19T09:00:00Z

There is an interesting, if perhaps overdeveloped, side narrative in “H Is for Hawk.” Review: Helen Macdonald’s ‘H Is for Hawk,’ a Memoir on Grief and Falconry 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

What came out of his mouth was unmistakable, vintage Leonard - a crisply written narrative with lines of deadpan dialogue uttered by morally ambiguous characters. Author Elmore Leonard wins prestigious book award 2012-09-19T13:26:31Z

“Raised with unprecedented access to information,” Chinen writes of today’s improvisers, “they scour jazz history not for a linear narrative but a network of possibilities.” Review | How the Internet transformed contemporary jazz 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

Somewhat predictably, the narrative hangs on father issues, but Mr. Dengler is a genial raconteur, and we rarely encounter his kind of experience at the theater. FringeNYC, a Grab Bag That Calls for Intuition, Not to Mention Dumb Luck 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

This allows a sense of one single, unseparated narrative, one emotional journey. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: A Playwright on the Art of Video Games 2012-12-26T13:00:50Z

The job required her to break down complex scientific and clinical reports into narratives for a general reader. The Roots of Black Pain in America 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

In a mark of extraordinary dedication to the concept of villainy over petty narrative details, MGM wavered between making the invaders Chinese or North Korean until the last minute. Red Dawn: Chris Hemsworth Helms Lackluster Remake 2012-11-21T15:35:01Z

The Moomins were a visually and narratively original concept, a gentle family of hippopotamus-shaped trolls who lived with their friends in a valley, where all pursued adventure and mischief. ‘Tove’ Review: The Life of a Sharp Illustrator in Soft Focus 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

Brown excels at weaving those stories with the larger narrative, all culminating in the 1936 Olympic Games. ‘The Boys in the Boat’: UW team vanquishes Hitler’s crew 2013-05-29T22:21:04Z

But to petition for a pardon pushes his redemption narrative beyond sense. Mark Wahlberg Should Not Be Pardoned 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

I have spent so many years thinking about teen narratives and thinking about the role of the teen narratives in our culture and all of these things. 'Girls on Fire' author Robin Wasserman sees parallels between '90s and today in politics and women's empowerment 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

The things he finds may become artworks, or parts of them, or may stand on their own, adjacent to his art, as clues to or parts of a larger narrative. Review: Robert Gober Conjures America 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z

The winning project was Overheard, an audio narrative for museum visitors created by the design studio Luxloop. Technology Invites a Deep Dive Into Art 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

However narratively motivated, this upstaging of Barbie effectively suggests that only the Kens of the world need their consciousness raised. ‘Barbie’ Review: Out of the Box and On the Road 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z

Can you see the seeds of your recent filmmaking in “Rebels,” and what made you turn away from conventional narrative storytelling? Tsai Ming-liang on youthful 'Rebels of the Neon God,' finally in theaters 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

A redemptive tale that bridges cultural divides in the wake of the 2016 election, the film follows several narrative arcs to establish that misunderstandings existed on both sides. What happened when a gay choir toured America's Bible belt 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Mimicking a Fox anchor, Mr. Stewart said, “We’re gonna cut away because” — humorous pause — “this is against the narrative that we present.” Jon Stewart of ?The Daily Show? Takes On Fox News 2010-04-23T22:21:00Z

The result is filled with the kind of unexpected events only reality provides, a film whose narrative gets increasingly complex as the situation on the ground changes. 'Cartel Land' goes deep inside vigilantes' fight on both sides of Mexico-U.S. drug war 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

As with all the other interrupters I meet, her life is inscribed with the same narrative arc of dissolution and redemption. Meet Chicago's Interrupters? 2011-08-06T22:48:57Z

Cosmos Kiindarius, a Navy combat veteran who recently released his first feature film, a thriller called “Stand,” is on hand to help with everything from storyboarding to audio issues to narrative arcs. Veterans Make Movies wants us to see an invisible population, the less than 1% of Americans who serve 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

“These texts, wrought with histories and narratives of exclusion and oppression, can be difficult to read and discuss as a survivor, a person of color, or a student from a low-income background.” Columbia Undergrads Say Greek Mythology Needs a 'Trigger Warning' 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

His narrative is immersive; his characters are vividly rendered, whether familiar figures like Andrew Jackson or mostly forgotten magnates like J.W. When Freedom Meant the Freedom to Oppress Others 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

But it’s Rome and Woody Allen and Alec Baldwin; I may have been mystified grappling with why nothing coalesced from the various narratives, but I didn’t suffer much trying. To Rome with Love: Woody's Roman Holiday 2012-06-21T10:45:09Z

As I began exploring murder ballads and murder songs, I was struck by the alluringly dark, narrative qualities of these tunes. ArtsBeat: A 'Murder Ballad' Playlist 2012-11-21T16:07:30Z

Does he rearrange things, the better to improve his narrative? Guy Delisle: 'The challenge is not to explain too much' 2012-05-31T10:00:01Z

A brief description says it’s about child slaves huddling and telling stories in the aftermath of an earthquake in a way that “weaves Haitian lore into a contemporary narrative of survival and betrayal.” New plays by Ayad Akhtar, Quiara Alegria Hudes and Joe DiPietro highlight La Jolla Playhouse season 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

But he hoped that audiences would be able to track the narrative on “an emotional level.” A Visit to the Strange, Secretive World of David Bowie’s ‘Lazarus’ 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

At the time, I didn’t realize that these intensely personal stories were part of a much larger historical narrative, one that was shared by millions of other black people who went on the same journey. “A Thousand Midnights”: Chicago and the Legacy of the Great Migration 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

The resulting portrait of greed and influence peddling at the highest levels of government lends an extra layer of outrage to an already white-hot narrative. Review | Don Winslow’s ‘The Border’ offers a harrowing look at the war on drugs 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

He delivered his narratives, in English and Ojibwe, as a palliative and a preservative. Jim Northrup, Vietnam Veteran Who Wrote About Life on the Reservation, Dies at 73 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Placing the action in the outer reaches of civilization lends more of a spaghetti-Western-meets-ronin-samurai vibe to the narrative, and this feels like a more intriguing and sustainable fuel for the longterm. The Force is strong with “The Mandalorian” debut, but not the glitchy Disney+ launch 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

But it is the siblings — their anguish and their anger, as well as the compassion they extend to one another — that drive the narrative. ‘Our Father’ Review: A Doctor’s God Complex Revealed 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

Springing from that idea, the driving philosophy of the series is to filter Kraus’ narrative through the female gaze. But . . . is it TV? “I Love Dick” aspires to make high art for the small screen 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

These ancient narratives, even in their differences, are part of a genre whose insight and power are no doubt beyond the full understanding of our modern minds. The Truth and Fiction of Adam and Eve 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Perhaps it's the obliquity of the narrative; more likely it's something in the characters you don't want to know, something about their lives or their thoughts that reminds you too intimately of your own. David Constantine comes in from the periphery to win Frank O'Connor award 2013-07-01T14:17:16Z

Though chock-full of plot, it is decidedly short on dialogue, there is little narrative transition and, with a few very notable exceptions, no character development. Lifetime's 'The Red Tent' kept standing by leading ladies 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z

But, once I got there, the narrative was still incomplete. Weike Wang on Culture Clashes and Claiming Your Identity 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Storytelling also returns there each summer, as the city’s Parks and Recreation Department, the Central Park Conservancy and the Hans Christian Andersen Storytelling Center bring narrative performers to Andersen’s statue every Saturday through Sept. 26. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 21-27 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Instead of pounding her viewers with choleric imagery, she demands their collaboration in filling in narrative holes, completing the story. REVIEW: Night Moves: Political Thriller at a Slow Boil 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

The problem is Wonderland itself, where, for the best part of two hours, we are offered posturing, face-pulling and witless running around as a substitute for action and narrative. Giselle; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – review 2013-03-31T00:05:25Z

Darden, on the other hand, represents all the ugliness we want to ignore in favor of the triumphalist narrative that comforts so many in the black community. The People v OJ Simpson episode 10 – The Verdict 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

First, when telling a story, it is important to commit to making the characters, plot developments and other narrative accoutrements actually work on their own merits. What can we learn from the "Dark Phoenix" flop? 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z

But she said the paper was part of a welcome reconsideration of what she called “the Hero Hamilton” narrative. Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

Ingeniously structured, the narrative has chapters devoted to central players whose stories tell the broader story of the Windsors through their many rises and falls. 9 Books to Read About Queen Elizabeth II 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

In truth, we’re inspired by the same narrative of hope that politicians draw upon when they talk about job training, and which Forward Janesville uses to attract new businesses to town. “Janesville” and the Dangers of American Optimism 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

Her narrative mode is one of querying the past, not so much to expose fresh facts as to ensure that what should already be known is also deeply felt. Review: Three Generations Awaiting Justice in ‘Cullud Wattah’ 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

In the narrative competition, "The Girl," written and directed by David Riker, stars Abbie Cornish as a single mother who loses her job. Franco, Cornish among those with films at Tribeca 2012-03-06T16:44:08Z

Still, as much as it is about fighting statistics and changing the narrative, it is also about pizza. She proved them wrong: A deaf couple is opening a pizzeria in D.C. with all deaf employees 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

Frankly, from these objects you could weave almost any narrative you like. What are the best Designs of the Year? 2012-02-08T14:35:00Z

“A story that overrode the narrative of success I’d long been told, even as it promised to be just as planet-sized.” Staring Into the Eye of a Whale and Seeing the Whole World 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

And as its narrative seems to deliberately devolve into a dissociative dream, even the funny material hits with a choke in the throat. ‘In Fabric’ Review: The Dress Is Possessed. But It Was on Sale. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

We didn’t have a narrative reason to make it half-animated, and so we decided not to pretend that we did. ‘The Blacklist’ Draws Up a Novel End to Its Season 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

That narrative also really holds men back as well because, as you point out, there are other priorities for men, too. Forget the fights over housework: How couples who both work make it work 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

But she did not disclose Samaria Rice’s objections, and so the narrative of a White museum director censoring a Black artist prevailed. Coronavirus shutdowns and charges of white supremacy: American art museums are in crisis 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z

And despite the conventional narrative that millennials are a lazy, entitled bunch, 37 percent of 18 – 29 -year-olds polled say that mobile tech greatly increases their work hours. Even more proof that the “lazy millennial” stereotype is dead wrong 2014-04-30T16:25:00Z

But a new lawsuit announced Monday by the American Civil Liberties union hopes to change the narrative, and expose the grim hypocrisy of letting religion guide women’s medical treatment. Catholic hospitals’ grim hypocrisy: Letting women suffer in the name of “life” 2013-12-03T20:28:00Z

So it’s those two things together — being carried into places we can’t go ourselves and being carried by the narrative technique. Cynthia Ozick, with her new collection 'Critics, Monsters, Fanatics,' on her writing life 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

"It's always through the west that Americans have defined their identity," says Chavkin, whose piece interweaves the story of a laid-off casino-worker with a fantastical overarching narrative about Dutch immigrants. TEAM's Mission Drift: The money markets are in meltdown. Send for Elvis 2011-08-07T21:31:01Z

“The speculative reminds me that there are other narratives,” he says. L.A. artist Rodney McMillian peels back the facade on the ultimate symbol of power: the White House 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

Given the sheer number of crises and conflicts that erupted on Trump’s watch, herding them all into a narrative isn’t easy. A Sober Look at the ‘Cartoonishly Chaotic’ Trump White House 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

This comes after it refused to classify The Bunny Game, because its entire narrative concerned a woman being abused by a truck driver. Sex, violence and swearing on film: 100 years of the BBFC 2012-07-26T18:59:03Z

They are only part of Peet's sweeping narrative of a half-century of social change, in which the superpowers are revealed as just as inept and vulnerable as the rest of us. Fiction for teenagers ? reviews 2011-07-21T10:40:28Z

“The hard thing was translating the narrative structure of the book, which switches back and forward in time,” Delaney said. In ‘The Girl Before,’ Minimalism Offers a Dangerous Sanctuary 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

“Unbroken” is a tour-de-force, setting standard for narrative nonfiction that this book never meets. 'The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica' doesn't quite deliver on the glitter of its premise 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

But neither the inelegant dialogue nor the narrative progression allows us insight into how Franklin's mind works or uses artistic license to illustrate where her singular inspiration came from. "Aretha" crowns the Queen of Soul in glory, thanks to star Cynthia Erivo's own genius 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z

As befits the form of so many narratives of ascent, Obama has found himself and he has found a wife, a family, a community, a city, a faith and a cause. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

That tension underscores one still-developing difference between how historical narratives can be told by institutions with the benefit of temporal distance and a wide lens and how they are written online, in real time. How Do You Capture Four Decades of Hip-Hop? Very Broadly. 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

Cultures generate unique storytelling strategies that are often overlooked or afforded less critical significance than white, Western master narratives. From Sharecropping to the Voting Booth in 3 Generations 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z

This is because Ms. Ulinich uses Lena’s myriad, typically dispiriting sexual adventures as a narrative and psychological motor in this portrait of a Russian-born writer and divorced mother of two living in Brooklyn. ‘Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel,’ Anya Ulinich’s Graphic Novel 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

A few years ago, I attempted a novel that strung together many stories through a passive narrator who “absorbed” others’ narratives. Ayşegül Savaş on Imitation and Identity 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z

This book disrupts the narrative that they want us to subscribe to. "Black AF History" author on whitewashing the past: "They have tried every way possible to erase us" 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z

There is an urgency to fashion new national narratives. A New History of Native Americans Responds to ‘Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee’ 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z

Unfortunately, Beam struggles to integrate these details into an engaging narrative about their friendship and its demise. Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson: The end of a beautiful friendship 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

The movement involved “a narrative that had been lost getting public exposure and being recognized by so many people,” she said. At Frieze, Shining a Spotlight on Women Artists 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

But the narrative about the theaters’ present-day fight for survival is undeniably compelling. ‘Only in Theaters’ Review: A Family Business in Changing Times 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

The resulting narrative predictably recycles three mangy tales from the Shostakovich wars. Was Shostakovich a Martyr? Or Is That Just Fiction? 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

But somehow, they both follow the same path and are both attempting to find new possibilities to empower the viewer and explore a new narrative. Doug Aitken Has an Eye for Dystopia 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

With a warm heart and a nonjudgmental mind, “Saint Frances” weaves abortion, same-sex parenting and postpartum depression into a narrative bursting with positivity and acceptance. ‘Saint Frances’ Review: What (Some) Women Want 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

It’s crazy the way you can just surf this narrative and take it wherever you want to go. Peter Dinklage on ‘Cyrano’ and Life After ‘Game of Thrones’ 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

Each piece is displayed in historical context, illustrating its place in a continuous narrative that tells us something about how people once lived and worked, and the beliefs they held. Cultured Traveler: In Hong Kong, Rare Chinese Art at Auction 2012-03-23T19:01:32Z

The narrative of history, which should be fluid and open to reinterpretation, gets stuck. Chinese paintings at LACMA captivate with their delicacy 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

By Mr. McIntyre’s standards, this narrative is bordering on the twee. In Philadelphia, Ballet Neighbors Divided by Style 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

This is another of Ms. Bloom’s narrative hiccups, and if it seems to interrupt the book, it actually simplifies it. ‘Lucky Us’ by Amy Bloom, a Tale of the 1940s 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

That they eschew a narrative for grown-ups is just another sign that Nintendo designers reject plot as something that matters much in this realm. Video Game Review: New Super Mario Bros. 2 for the Nintendo 3DS 2012-08-17T11:55:55Z

We have an awful lot of very interesting material that I took out purely for reasons of length or narrative continuity. Cannes: How the bankers fleeced the world 2010-05-19T15:20:00Z

The album’s lyrics conform to rock rather than to theatrical music, favoring poetic abstractions over clear narrative. Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra Finds Herself in a Concept Album 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

This narrative would have made for a lovely little book in its own right. What Trained Bears Can Teach Us About Formerly Authoritarian Countries 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

“He did this while also resisting some of the very anodyne narratives that emerged as Glasgow ‘regenerated’ under neoliberalism.” How Alasdair Gray Reimagined Glasgow 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

“He thought it would be very disturbing” to have the narrative constantly interrupted by bleeps. Television: From PBS, a Sampler Festival 2011-10-09T03:30:15Z

Here the narrative thread starts with this plaintive thought: "I am beginning to think Maybe I never knew him, really." 'A Widow's Story': Joyce Carol Oates' memoir of life after her husband's sudden death 2011-04-14T21:50:05Z

The narrative of young women being overlooked in favour of young men is one she is familiar with. 'I was fired for having a miscarriage': the truth about pregnancy and work 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

At the same time, however dark the content of his work, he is a vivid shaper of narratives, as two ambitious pieces at Marian Goodman attest. Amar Kanwar at Marian Goodman, Lyle Ashton Harris at CRG 2010-04-01T22:40:00Z

But beyond all the precocity, beyond his narrative, beyond the satisfying uncanniness of getting VIP treatment at places he once paid to enter, there’s a movie. 'I had to make this happen': how a 19-year-old director wowed Hollywood 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

Latinos, in the meantime, accounted for even less: only 3% of these key positions, which have the power to shape the narrative of art both within and outside of the gallery. Teaching an old Met contemporary tricks: Museum director Thomas Campbell on launching Met Breuer 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

“The Great Train Robbery” is often used as an example of screen narrative and editing techniques that would become increasingly sophisticated. Perspective | The ‘Rust’ scene that Alec Baldwin was rehearsing strikes a familiar and played-out chord 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

Growing up, the narrative, especially in the black community, was that guns are a bad thing. President of a National African American Gun Association chapter shoots from the hip 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

Sometimes, before I was out as Sugar, people superimposed their own narrative on what Sugar did for me. Cheryl Strayed: “Tackle love” 2012-07-08T01:00:00Z

"These first three reels offer a priceless opportunity to study his visual and narrative ideas when they were first taking shape," he said. Lost Alfred Hitchcock work discovered in New Zealand 2011-08-03T11:58:25Z

Each of Kane’s compositions is illustrated on a torn-out page of The New Yorker, which acts as a narrative backdrop to her entire collection. Seattle’s SOIL Gallery, run by local artists, speaks to the issues of our time 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

The Asturias judges said in a statement that "the narrative work of Philip Roth forms part of the great American novel, in the tradition of Dos Passos, Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Bellow and Malamud". Philip Roth scoops Asturias award and pays tribute to Carlos Fuentes 2012-06-07T11:53:11Z

The book’s dust-jacket image also yields a clue to a key ingredient of the novel’s narrative. Karen Joy Fowler’s novel of a very complicated family 2013-05-29T22:24:45Z

Even in her own story, Elizabeth is a supporting player, denying Morgan narrative satisfaction. Netflix’s 'The Crown' Makes the Most of an Unknowable Queen 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

The chill between them flash-froze the narrative at a crisis point. Issa Rae’s Breakthrough in “Insecure” Season 3, Episode 4 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

She also researches details about conversion, finding stories by young women who have joined ISIS, to make her fictional narrative believable. In the tension-filled "Profile," a journalist goes catfishing online to get recruited by ISIS 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

As a writer and reader, the historical-contemporary dual narrative is often my organic way of processing the past. Novelists Sara Gruen and Sarah McCoy in conversation: “I study history through a kind of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ looking-glass” 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

Now that he has, it is oddly reliant on old newspaper stories to provide the narrative of his public life. In ‘Mayor for Life,’ D.C.’s Marion Barry takes pride in himself but little blame for problems

Gopnik excels at disentangling the strands of the narrative and correcting common lore. Andy Warhol, Superstar 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z

Instead, seasons 2 and 3 of “House of Cards” have had minimal to no narrative stakes, because the house of Underwood always wins. The KKK, a brokered convention and cybersecurity — sound familiar?: 5 ways the new “House of Cards” hits close to home 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

She adds: “The movie sounds and narratively unwinds like the previous installments, but without the same easy snap or visual allure.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Ocean’s 8’ and ‘Final Score’ 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z

But while she accounts for the soul of this narrative, Sallis’s uncanny insights into the secondary characters contribute to his collective portrait of her world. Big Sins and Small Atonements: Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

But in the big picture, the Kingdom could lead to a pretty radical shift within the “Walking Dead” narrative. ‘The Walking Dead’: 7 Questions for the Season 7 Premiere 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

“I thought it was not just a compelling narrative but also the opportunity to capture someone brilliant in the prime of their career,” Ms. Tana said in an interview. Sergei Polunin, Ballet’s Bad Boy, Has a Change of Heart 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

And the door paintings freed me from narrative, which is just not my thing. Gary Hume: 'I couldn't hold down a job. That's why I became an artist' 2013-05-18T21:00:01Z

But as a multitasking listener, I found the straightforward, chronological narrative easy and pleasurable to follow. A Novel About the Death Camps, Brought to Vivid Life in Audio 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Smith’s own father wasn’t around when he grew up, and though he isn’t yet a father himself, “I wanted to help change the narrative,” he said. A dad posted joyful photos of black fathers to shatter stereotypes. Then it became a movement. 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

She said that “Tassie,” with its fragmented, sprawling narrative, represents the road not taken for Irish theater. World War I Returns to Center Stage 2011-07-22T03:01:02Z

What better location these days for such a stage narrative than Washington. Review | ‘Oslo’ is an incisive, and dispiriting, look at a stunning pact between Israel and the PLO 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

Over the years, June and Jennifer's story has been used to sustain ongoing narratives about the dangers of twins that are often seen in films and on television. What’s So Frightening About Identical Twins? 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

It's a form of taking back a narrative in a tragic situation, whether it's mass tragedy, whether it's politics, history. "The Big Door Prize's" Chris O'Dowd: "Being Irish has been nothing but an absolute gift" 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

There's a lack of narrative context to this constant barrage of death, idiocy and rectum-related facts! Horrible Histories is back and it's as brilliant as ever 2013-05-25T05:00:00Z

In fact, Morris grew stronger as the night wore on, singing his Act 3 narrative with a sweetness of tone rare among Wagnerian heroes. Dalayman's rapturous Immolation caps `Ring' 2013-05-03T15:38:08Z

So food is political, and I'm reclaiming that narrative, especially in the blogging space. "My existence is my resistance": "Chicano Eats" author Esteban Castillo on the politics of food 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z

"I wanted to capture children at the point when they are beginning to read patterns in the world and are making their own narrative," he says. Edinburgh festival fringe puts young people on centre stage 2012-08-17T14:15:02Z

Is your music suited to TV shows because you understand the narrative and dramatic structure of screenplays? Talking Shop 2010-03-29T07:36:00Z

It is difficult to explain what 1985 was like for me, when today’s prevailing narrative about the Reagan years and the 1980s is fond nostalgia. It’s 1985 all over again: To me, the Reagan years were a time of death — and Trump’s era feels eerily similar 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

Whatever the untold narrative, the prints are captivating. Review | In the galleries: Kathryn Polk’s images withhold as much as they reveal 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

I liked how Dash complicated the big Americana narrative of the show, and placed Lowe within the African Diaspora and part of those vibrant expressive Black cultures that predate the United States. The Multi-Layered Movie of American Fashion 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

They are all trying to pick up the pieces of a broken narrative. The Stories We Tell, and Don’t Tell, About Asian-American Lives 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z

“It really provides a great assist to Scotty’s narrative about Hepburn and Tracy, because people are in willful suspension of belief about this supposed golden couple.” Hollywood's secret history: Scotty Bowers on sex and stars in the Golden Era 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

It sounded like the perfect narrative vehicle for a family saga. Damon Galgut Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’ 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

In Follett’s hands, that story takes on a narrative life that is difficult, if not impossible, to resist. Review | Ken Follett returns once again to Kingsbridge in ‘A Column of Fire’ 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

Price, though, is a steady, methodical storyteller associated with slow-burn narratives such “The Wire,” “The Night Of,” and “The Deuce.” The slow dread of "The Outsider," HBO's series that defies Stephen King expectations 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

Once the gears start moving, Ms. Knight switches her pace to a gallop and keeps the sinister promises her narrative made at the start. Cool Beach Books for Hot Summer Days 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Everything after this is revelation — artistic, philosophical and narrative. The rules of TV are coming "Undone" 2019-09-14T04:00:00Z

If an overarching narrative exists, it’s willfully postmodern. Tony nominations 2015: Patterns in a chaotic Broadway season 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

There's also a sense in which the narrative of Globish makes some important cross-cultural connections. Globish: the worldwide dialect of the third millennium | Robert McCrum 2010-03-29T12:51:00Z

Though Smith did apologize to the academy and his fellow nominees, Smith’s speech also — purposefully or not — folded the slap into a larger narrative of appropriate masculine behavior. Perspective | The misguided chivalry of Will Smith 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

It creates a solid heroic narrative around an awful lot of aesthetic and spiritual information. Books of The Times: ‘Where the Heart Beats,’ John Cage Biography, by Kay Larson 2012-07-22T21:59:58Z

Dylan’s voice toggles between agitated rasp and measured narrative, the images meld the horrific into the mundane and back again. Album review: Bob Dylan, 'Tempest' 2012-09-07T16:48:00Z

Most podcasts are focused on a voice or voices sharing a narrative; they are often listened to alone or consumed individually, via headphones, while in a public space. 'Eat, Pray, Love' author Elizabeth Gilbert joins pantheon of literary podcasters 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Besides being a biographical and narrative history, “Everything Explainable That Can Be Explained” is something of a dossier as well. Review: ‘Everything Explained That Is Explainable’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

That for me would be a concrete example of how the deeper narrative of Drown offers a complicated counterpoint to Yunior’s often-toxic racial utterances, the kind of call-response I’m trying to achieve in the work. The search for decolonial love 2012-07-02T20:54:00Z

He then created a picture book based on the painting, took photographs of another boat off the coast of Ostend, Belgium, and made a short film outlining the “narrative” of the book. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Once Removed: Sculpture’s Changing Frame of Reference’ at Yale University Art Gallery 2013-01-12T03:07:27Z

In the common narrative of the Lewinsky story that's taken hold over two decades, isn’t she the one who tempted the president? The jagged hindsight of “The Clinton Affair”: 20 years later, it looks like a different story 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

A travel narrative, in words and pictures, of the author's adventures sailing up the Southeast Alaskan coast. Local books: slugs, snails and Scandinavian names 2010-12-06T20:49:00Z

For all of its conceptual and narrative flair, the album stands apart for the remarkable quality of its songwriting, which owes a debt to the visceral sweet pop-soul of such Motown greats as Smokey Robinson. Plan B 2010-10-11T20:31:00Z

In April, as Tania prepared to leave for the airport to greet Syngin, producers drove that narrative, soliciting answers from Tania like, “I could never be with someone who doesn’t like my best friends.” ‘90 Day Fiancé’: An Anti-Fantasy for Troubled Times 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

The reader need not agree with Mr. Hughes’s acerbic assessments or even be interested in Rome as a destination on the map to relish this volume, so captivating is his narrative. Books of The Times: ?Rome,? a Personal History by Robert Hughes - Review 2011-11-21T23:26:49Z

In the back of the structure is an entry that welcomes visitors inside, with a bench and videos of landscapes and weather, a contrast to the gut-punching narrative. Words and Actions: Queens Museum Shows About Seeking Racial Justice 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

Audiences flocked to war films that reaffirmed the narrative of national greatness: The Cruel Sea, The Dam Busters and The Bridge on the River Kwai. From Godzilla to Some Like it Hot – why the 1950s is my favourite film decade 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

But the Ross brothers’ unique approach blends elements of non-fiction and narrative, a distinction that they don’t find all that useful to begin with. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets: the story of the drunkest film of the year 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

The corkscrew narrative creeps along with sharp, acidic turns, splashes of foreshadowing and a sense of dread. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Mr. Robot’ and ‘Riverdale’ 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

It’s not a narrative; it’s a history and an analysis sprinkled with anecdotes. Hemingway as the Godfather of Long-form 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

If you’re drawn to the charisma of the leads, understandable, but be forewarned that much ink has been spilled on the problems with the film’s narrative. Holiday Movies to See (or Skip) 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

In describing his idea of a perfect narrative form, Aristotle would have loved to have had examples of modern courtroom dramas at his disposal. Louise Doughty: rereading the best courtroom dramas 2013-06-21T18:00:01Z

Whether she was attacking the privatization of India’s forests and rivers, or facing arrests and charges of sedition, Roy brought readers to politics with the same heightened attention to language and narrative. Arundhati Roy — beloved for her fiction, derided for her politics — won’t be silenced 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

But the time-reversed narrative is not well matched to how readers usually understand stories, nor to the logical evolution of ideas. Revisiting the Unusual Celebrity of Stephen Hawking 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

The reader is similarly implicated in this continual manipulation of narrative tension and the suspension of disbelief. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson – review 2013-03-06T08:01:01Z

Fidler, a well-known Australian radio broadcaster, uses the conceit of exploring Istanbul with his young son as a narrative prop. A City Where East Meets West and the Past Is Always Present 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Instead, it keeps its lens trained on the attendant horrors, which mount up as the narrative jumps forward in time. City of God: No 6 2010-10-19T10:49:00Z

But it’s entertaining, and the narrative pull toward the answers that may lie near Stockholm is strong. Streaming This Week, a Short History of Scandinavian TV 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

Do you think that — we're living in these toxic political times — that the artist should respond by making movies to deconstruct the narrative that we see in the media over and over again? A heart to heart with Cuba Gooding Jr.: The film he really wants to make and why it’s not about... 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

But sometimes this works against the flow of the narrative. Beneath Her Decorous Demeanor, ‘Lady Bird Johnson’ Was a Political Force 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

Keystones in the arch under which we pass into a landscape of adolescent narcissism—that is what I think of fixed narratives. Where are the women Kerouacs? 2013-03-13T22:28:00Z

To supplement its spare narrative, it relies on eloquent visuals and original news footage. Your next box set: The Jewel in the Crown 2010-09-17T05:45:00Z

The book is more a study in character – of the swift reactions of a volatile, opportunistic and irresponsible egotist to changing circumstances – than a staid political narrative. Disraeli: Or the Two Lives by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young – review 2013-07-17T17:05:21Z

Because the autobiography is so scant on details, I knew immediately that having a conventional narrative was not going to work. Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels Win the Pulitzer Prize for Music 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

But these familiar landmarks are not the focus of Egan’s narrative. In ‘Manhattan Beach,’ Jennifer Egan Sets a Crime Story on the Waterfront 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

As technology and creativity collide in new ways, will VR be a narrative experience or something more experiential? Hollywood looks to bring virtual-reality cinema to life 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

In most movies the characters are locked into the machinery of narrative like theme park customers strapped into a roller coaster. | 'The Descendants': ?Descendants,? With George Clooney - Review 2011-11-15T21:00:13Z

Ms. de Mille’s work on the original production, in 1945, is considered an important development in the history of musical theater, advancing the use of narrative dance fully integrated into a show’s storytelling. ‘Carousel’ Revival to Credit Agnes de Mille’s Original Choreography 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

This is why the most forceful narratives and dramas seem less made up than distilled. Arts & Leisure Preview: Violence That Art Didn?t See Coming 2010-02-24T19:11:00Z

Wickenden’s book about the alliance that formed between Harriet Tubman, Frances Seward and Martha Coffin Wright, she added, is a “masterpiece” of structure, demonstrating “prodigious narrative control.” New in Paperback: ‘How Beautiful We Were’ and ‘No One Is Talking About This’ 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

When do you imagine the reader will grasp that analogy—in this moment or earlier in Amber’s narrative? Ben Lerner on Adolescence and His Forthcoming Novel 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

No longer must PR pros rely solely on the benevolence of journalists to advance their clients’ news and narratives. New Media & The PR Pro: A Look Ahead 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Admirers of that movie will find echoes of its themes and traces of its look here, but they will miss its intellectual vigor and narrative momentum. Christoph Waltz Drowns in Technocracy in ‘The Zero Theorem’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

The pre-title sequence sets up the genre blending of the film itself, as well as the scaled-down universe of its narrative world. How "Toy Story" changed everything – in its first eight minutes 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

Using all the tools at her disposal — narrative compression, sinewy camerawork, sharp editing, an ethereal score, stricken faces — Winocour powerfully conveys the unspeakable. ‘Revoir Paris’ Review: Recovering Fragments of Memory 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

Rather, the open-ended narrative sends a clear message that, as Smith said, “Native culture is still alive and strong in Virginia.” Immerse Yourself in Indigenous Culture 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

Othello is both the lead role and the best-friend part, central to the narrative and peripheral to the plot against him. For David Oyelowo, the Time Has Come to Play Othello 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

“The Nest” is an arch and inviting novel, and the stakes in its narrative of impending financial peril are mostly social. Novels of White Status Anxiety 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

“I don’t believe in the government conspiracy, but what you have to accept is that that narrative exists in the community and has to be addressed,” he said. Michelle Alexander?s ?New Jim Crow? Raises Drug Law Debates 2012-03-06T23:26:55Z

I did enjoy this book, however, I felt that the narrative was unbearably descriptive at times and it distracted away from the action itself. MILA 2.0 by Debra Driza 2013-07-09T08:00:00Z

In classic documentary style, writings from the time are read to accompany the narrative, most of them from the journal of William Bradford, who became the colony’s governor. Review: In ‘The Pilgrims,’ Ric Burns Looks at Mythmaking 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

How important is the act of finding a narrative frame when you’re thinking about these kinds of questions? Yiyun Li on the Distance Necessary for Stories 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

They inhabit not only a despairing narrative but a fragile world. Kate Bush's Explores Nature on 50 Words For Snow 2011-11-22T16:55:18Z

During the show itself, Turner’s songs work to heighten emotion or drive narrative. The Show Must Go On, and On, and On 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

Nabers expanded the narrative partly by tapping into her own family history. Dominique Fishback Knows You Think She’s Sweet. ‘Swarm’ May Confuse That 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

Even though you created the scenarios and the narratives for the photographs, some of the guys do seem pretty wild. 'The mystery is enough': Susan Lipper on the Grapevine series 2010-10-13T11:07:00Z

It features all the cinematic bravado and enormous narrative ambition that have made the Mexican director … well, whatever it is that he is. “The Revenant”: Leo’s amazing — but is this revenge western more than a live-action Roadrunner cartoon? 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

There is a dark, almost Victorian, subtext to the narrative of moral disapproval that condemned Miller for having about 1% of the fun that young male actors are allowed to enjoy with impunity. Sienna Miller: 'I feel relatively immune to bitchy criticism now' 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Godard, whose narrative experiments dovetailed with his radical politics, proved harder to exorcise. Film: Shifting Amid, and Asserting, His Own Cinema 2010-12-10T21:22:00Z

But to dismiss “Community” as no more than the sum of its movie parodies, “Dr. Who” shout-outs and elaborate narrative games would be unfair and wouldn’t explain the passion of its advocates. Critic?s Notebook: ?Community? Resumes Its Study of Friendship 2012-03-14T22:39:24Z

“The singer might change the harmonic impulsion or narrative function.” Monteverdi Set Human Emotion to Music 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

In De Palma’s films, his own pleasure in conceiving and realizing his plans, his shots, his images, and his narrative schemes—his pleasure in offering praise to the cinematic godhead—is untroubled. The Brian De Palma Conundrum 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

The angry king of the title now enters Kazemi’s story, bringing with him a different order of narrative: news from afar and news of today, history and politics. A Scheherazade for Our Times 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Since arriving, we had witnessed three groups battle for control over the mainstream narrative and ground strategy of the occupation. Road trip to Powder Keg City: The collapse of Seattle's autonomous zone 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z

It’s fun to peek into others’ lives, and the moments we witness are vivid and full of narrative suggestion. Mac Barnett Reviews Picture Books About Time and Space 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

All told, the show expands the art historical narrative while also distinctly representing the impassioned vision of one person. The Met Museum Sees More Clay in Its Future 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z

But this new movie lacks the deep characterization, narrative complexity and critical distance of Jeffrey Blitz’s feature. ‘Spelling the Dream’ Review: Words of Inspiration 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

The beginning of the work, in particular, is awash in chorales, fugues, agitated crowd scenes and narratives obviously modeled on Bach. Music Review: Tritle Leads Oratorio Society in ?Paulus? 2010-05-11T22:12:00Z

These bits of narrative are just loose frameworks on which to drape an incessant burlesque of down-at-the-heels Southern living. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Price of Gold’ Revisits the Harding-Kerrigan Story 2014-01-15T22:56:24Z

But at least it affects the characters and the overarching narrative and thus has a purpose. Between the measles and COVID, "You" makes a bizarre creative decision that doesn't make sense 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z

The travails of Shep’s best friend and colleague, Jackson, are no doubt meant to serve as a sort of narrative counterpoint, but there is something self-consciously contrived about his dilemmas. Books of The Times: America?s Health Care Crisis Visits Families, and Stays 2010-03-01T22:49:00Z

The effect is a novel propelled not by a linear narrative but by something closer to the imagistic logic of poems. The Wild, Remarkable Sex Scenes of Lidia Yuknavitch 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

Keefe’s narrative account of the Troubles is an architectural feat, expertly constructed out of complex and contentious material, arranged and balanced just so. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Huston follows this peculiar narrative contour with absolute fidelity. Good book, great film 2011-04-01T10:08:52Z

Ms. Cyrus has also tried to seize control of her own celebrity narrative, delivering an unvarnished but well-curated version of herself straight to her fans. ‘Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz’: An Exclusive First Look 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

Just at the point when the movie seems to be settling into familiar indie-film narrative drift, the older girls begin having inexplicable seizures, fits. Review: In ‘The Fits,’ a Graceful Tale of a Girl Who Follows Her Own Beat 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

“Lifeboat” has no explanatory voice-overs; Fitzgerald and his team are not an obvious part of the narrative. The Screening Room: “Lifeboat” 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

It is clear that Mangan holds her extended family in great affection, but there are some strange gaps in the narrative. Me and Mine: A Warm-hearted Memoir of a London Irish Family by Anna May Mangan ? review 2011-08-05T21:55:02Z

The film, directed by Mat Whitecross and written by Paul Viragh, hits the usual narrative marks: childhood trauma, artistic struggle and triumph, family upheaval and substance abuse. | 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll': Andy Serkis Stars in Ian Dury?s Punk-Rock Story 2010-05-04T22:55:00Z

That bombshell helped restart the temporarily stalled Watergate narrative, eventually leading to Nixon’s resignation. The ever-iconoclastic, never-to-be-ignored, muckraking Seymour Hersh 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

All the gags and star names in the world won't work if you don't have a tight narrative and a genuine sense that the story is embedded in the community. Lyn Gardner on panto season 2012-12-09T19:15:01Z

The one shortcoming of "A Burglar's Guide to the City" is its fragmented structure, full of tangents and digressions which add up to hundreds of vignettes but no sustained narrative. Geoff Manaugh's 'A Burglar's Guide to the City' is a unique take on urban planning 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

Like Sterne’s marbled page, Rosenberg’s offers a key to his narrative. Mack the Knife, Now a Transgender Hero of London’s Riotous Underground 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

Ricocheting from coast to coast with brief layovers in between, the cycle formed a fragmentary narrative that alluded to loss among details of everyday coping. Music Review: Gabriel Kahane at Zankel Hall 2012-10-28T21:31:37Z

But so much of Assassin’s Creed, given its violence and fictional narrative, is problematic in a school setting. Assassin’s Creed Has a New Mission: Working in the Classroom 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

But what the movies lack in narrative cogency they make up for in a sense of immersion—of giving viewers the feeling of dropping directly into the private worlds of strangers. The Moving Revelations of Gay Home Movies 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

So your glass objects guide viewers through the narrative of Raven releasing light into the world, with lots of other moments along the way. Seattle artist Preston Singletary gets solo show at Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Boasting a fiddly, double-fronted facade that becomes more transparent as the day goes on, the annex is, argues Juul-Sørensen, too focused on detail for detail's sake – like a Hollywood film prioritising special effects over narrative. How the Dogme manifesto reinvented Denmark 2012-11-25T19:00:01Z

The literary self-consciousness that hobbled some of his earlier work has largely fallen away here, giving way to pared down narratives, which, at their best, resonate with the power of understatement. Review: Graham Swift’s ‘England and Other Stories,’ a Darkness Across Time and Fates 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Some of that background filters into “Call Jane,” but the movie’s embrace of the traditional heroic narrative is exasperating and does a disservice to the history it relates. ‘Call Jane’ Review: Abortion History That’s Being Repeated Now 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

In program notes Mr. Magloire hinted at tension, writing, “The ballet is not as harmonious as the title suggests,” but his narrative ideas remained an enigma. Dance Review: 104 Degrees of Spirited Dancing 2010-11-21T23:04:00Z

Reygadas presents all of this as desultory slices of heightened reality, dismissing narrative flow. ‘Post Tenebras Lux’: Drama’s challenges outweigh rewards 2013-07-25T22:31:10Z

If you superimposed a diagram that mapped out all the narrative beats, characters and jokes in “The Hangover Part II” over one for “The Hangover,” the two would align almost perfectly. | 'The Hangover Part II': 3 Men and a Monkey-Baby 2011-05-25T19:51:34Z

What holds it together as a narrative is its half-buried refrain – "Olena missed her mother the most" – which suggests that this little amorous drama is not even the point of the story. Guardian book club: Lorrie Moore's Collected Stories 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

After months of concentrating on full-length narrative ballets, New York City Ballet is closing its winter season with three programs of the pure-dance works that are central to its legend. Dance: An Illuminating Swan, Then a Pure-Dance End 2010-02-17T23:34:00Z

A mere gimmick in lesser hands, Jackson’s twice-told tales — like his sleuthing subjects — “each absorb and expand the narrative.” Review | Murder and music coincide in ‘Destroy All Monsters’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Given that “The Nine Unknown” initially appeared as a serial in Adventure magazine, its breathless narrative pace and the prevalence of cliffhangers should come as no surprise. Review | For fans of Indiana Jones and Dan Brown, an adventure story for the ages 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

It offers no narrative payoff for your time investment, other than the standing offer to keep going, full gore ahead. Perspective | On ‘Walking Dead,’ Rick’s departure is just one more opportunity to hit the reset button 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

It's in that journey that narrative shape is forged. John Yorke on why the best screenwriting works 2013-03-15T16:00:03Z

"It posed a narrative and technical challenge," said the actor. No Rehearsal Necessary For Ryan Reynolds In "Buried" 2010-09-16T17:00:00Z

At the same time, energetic young adults act out the book’s narrative, which concerns the confidence that all ducklings — and humans — need before they can leave the nest. Spare Times for Children for Feb. 20-26 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

The Big Short has the momentum that Steve Jobs lacks, and is likely to be awarded for distilling a challenging book into an engaging narrative. Golden Globe awards 2016: who will win, and who should win 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

The challenge for Westworld is to ensure that its complex mythology doesn’t end up strangling its narrative. Sophomore slump: can Westworld avoid a poor second season? 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

Not all communities are willing to listen to these messy narratives of displacement. A Beautiful, Urgent Novel of the Palestinian Struggle 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

“But they said, ‘You know about storytelling, music and narrative, so yes, you do.’ With MacArthur ‘genius’ grant, this 70-year-old choreographer has big plans for the future 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

I added more hugs to the narrative, because that was all I had to offer. Motherlode: Raising the 9/11 Generation 2011-05-02T16:02:12Z

It may be worth wondering whether the narrative's inability to believably breach Halston's notorious psychological opacity is intentional choice on the part of Murphy and his script collaborators. Ewan McGregor dazzles in "Halston," which neglects to understand the legend behind the fashions 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

The general narrative interpreted by people was that 80 percent of people will live, and 20 percent of people are vulnerable — elderly and people with preexisting conditions. CNN’s Sanjay Gupta on covering the coronavirus: ‘I think there is intrinsic value to hope’ 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

Virtuoso emotional display seems more crucial than character or narrative tension. Review: Lafayette’s Double Bill of Baroque Opera and Dance Drama 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z

Public institutions weren’t receptive to his expansive and racially integrated narrative of American history in the 1950s. Lightning Strikes Twice: Another Lost Jacob Lawrence Surfaces 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z

The second half, which relies more on the “beat the clock” narrative, is less successful. "1917" is a luminous, ferociously intense "single-take" wartime experience 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

The narrative, which is enjoyable even when it tootles along with mechanical efficiency, follows a three-act structure and detonates the party scene at the end of Act II. Books of The Times: Blending Tea and Hearts 2010-02-22T07:01:00Z

Perry’s existing problem narrative, why sugarcoat it, is that he is too dumb to be President. Three? Uh? Uh? Maybe Two Things About Rick Perry?s Debate Gaffe 2011-11-10T14:18:56Z

So relentless is Gary’s insistence on narrative omniscience that she refuses to quote almost anyone. A Sleepy Biography for the Author of ‘Goodnight Moon’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

Their narratives — the thief’s is the most interesting — ultimately entwine, somehow connected by a black iron meat cleaver.  | 'The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman': ?The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman? 2011-03-18T06:03:01Z

Interspersed through Rusickova’s narrative are snippets of music, some of which she plays herself, on an old CD player held together with tape. A survivor’s life in music 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

For Zachary Mason, a computer scientist as well as the author of three works of fiction, ancient myth is an opportunity to explore the emptiness of life and the infinite variety of narrative. Classical Myths Filtered Through a Modern Prism 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

In this case the narrative that abstract painting was the early-20th-century invention of a few white male Europeans. A Long Overdue Light on Black Models of Early Modernism 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

He pared back passages about the young William, at the risk of betraying the plural "sons" of the title, but mostly with a gain in focus and narrative pace. Sons and Lovers: a century on 2013-05-25T07:00:22Z

The narrative, here and in all such competitions, is the dream, which you are never to stop dreaming; it is an American right and responsibility, practically. Curtain up on ABC's 'Rising Star' 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

That’s why the sense of cinematic emptiness and narrative reduction that “Brooklyn” conveys, the nearly ridiculously blanked-out botch of a movie that results, is all the more disappointing. The Sanitized Past of “Brooklyn” 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

Targeting a young audience with hip, snappy dialogue and contemporary sensibilities, Schraft’s narrative efficiency drops us in medias res into Michael and Eden’s quandary. 'A Dog's House' reveals a tell-tail heart 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

It is more cohesive; the narrative about obstruction flows, and is blunt in its impact. The Mueller Report: A Thorny, Patriotic Addition to a Curious American Bookshelf 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

But my style is controversial — narrative nonfiction, the way I write it, some people like it and some people don’t. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z

Now comes James M. Scott's marvelous new book, "Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor," deeply reported and with a strong narrative style. 'Target Tokyo' brings a well-known WWII story back to life 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Concern for the girl’s safety merges with an anxiety as to whether the two narratives will ever converge. Plot? Put That Aside in the Films of Marcel Hanoun 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

This very much benefited from being more focused and less digressive than the TV plays, and its refusal to find neat narrative solutions pointed the way ahead for Loach’s film work. Ken Loach – all his films ranked! 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Somewhere, an idealistic winemaker will pop up with wines that prove the narrative wrong. Grenache Three Ways, and Over Many Decades 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

As we emerge from the plague year, full of stress and plagued by social isolation, the nation's increasingly pessimistic narrative reaching a fever pitch, it only stands to reason that we begin to look inward. The changing face of “America’s dog” — and what it says about us 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

He thinks gay leaders have clung to the narrative of a hate crime for so long that they don’t dare let go. A Crime Against Gay Israelis Is a Symbol, but of What? 2013-07-26T17:36:52Z

As with any story that relies on scrambled chronology, it’s worth wondering how “Beautiful Ruins” would work as a straightforward narrative. Books of The Times: ‘Beautiful Ruins’ by Jess Walter 2012-06-07T19:21:16Z

They edited narratives over e-mail, identified strong endings and pushed for more detail. Comedy: Storytelling Classes in New York 2012-03-25T02:49:02Z

These included character, dramatic action, stagecraft, narrative or structure. Drama in the wings: why theatre in prisons matters 2010-06-25T12:49:00Z

Part of an international return to sensuous figurative painting in the late 1970s and ’80s, the canvases were born of a specific Chicano history merged with personal narrative. Two explorations of the power and prominence of Latino art: 'Anna Maria Maiolino' and 'Carlos Almaraz' 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Wunmi Mosaku is excellent as the indentured servant seeking escape from her predicament, but the film is hobbled somewhat by confusing flashbacks and a narrative that burns slightly too slowly. I Am Slave 2010-08-30T05:45:00Z

The narrative uncertainties come together so delicately and beautifully, I wouldn’t want to risk spoiling the journey for adult readers any more than for children. Are You a Dog Person or a Cat Person? Or Hamster, or Turtle, or ... 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

Noah's conundrum is doubled by a third-act revelation that changes the face of the narrative, or at least our perception of it. Review: 'Rudderless' a sluggishly paced melodrama 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

This beautifully rendered piece, with music by Arvo Part and others, wasn’t perfect as a narrative, but it delivered a strong cinematic effect with its two-level set and a grand, sweeping sense of action. Review | Sleek modernism in the San Francisco Ballet’s new works 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

"The narratives of the men in my family are separate from the narratives in the essays," Jackson writes in the author's note. "Survival Math" author Mitchell Jackson reckons with his "All-American" life 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

As the days go on, the public narrative around his divorce is only getting messier. Jeff Bezos' divorce drama and those awful sexts: Why we can't look away 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

From the moment “Doctor Who” star Jodie Whittaker accepted the Time Lord mantle, a pair of narratives were ready to sprout. The regeneration of "Doctor Who": Jodie Whittaker's Time Lord proved the naysayers wrong 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

Still, as Brimhall writes in her analysis of the poems, she was unable to turn the poetry fragments into a revelatory narrative, leaving Earhart’s desire for opacity intact, at least for now. Amelia Earhart’s long-hidden poems reveal an enigma’s inner thoughts 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

Perhaps fittingly, given its title, the second half of the novel — the trip back from the House of the Dead — has more narrative momentum and suspense than the first half. Into the Woods 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

They are excluded as much as ever, if not more, from the overwhelmingly European narrative that dominates the permanent collection galleries. Art Review: ‘American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe’ Opens at MoMA 2013-08-22T22:04:13Z

The Wild Bunch stands out as the first western to go full-bore with its reappraisal of frontier narratives, and remains the most ferociously modern example by virtue of its coal-black heart. The Wild Bunch at 50: the enduring nihilism of Sam Peckinpah's western 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

Unlike traditional British improv, which often employs a restrictive narrative arc, anything can happen – and, thanks to Shore, it often does. David Shore: making it up as he goes along 2011-07-14T16:31:54Z

The narrative of the story is divided up among the three sisters—the point of view keeps shifting. Tessa Hadley on the Bonds of Childhood 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

Bowman’s narrative, with its graphic details about the clinking of Cosby’s belt buckle and a lawyer who accused her of making up the story, had more than 2 million page views. Bill Cosby was accused of rape eight years ago. Why is the story is going viral now?

I would love to say this method is incredibly easy, but that would omit the part of the narrative where I had to lug a borrowed air fryer 20 blocks. The absolute best way to brown mushrooms, according to so many tests 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Almodóvar seeds the narrative with assorted teasing clues, quickly draping a dark shadow across half a face, for instance, a bifurcation that suggests both a divided self and a yin-yang symbol. | 'The Skin I Live In': ?The Skin I Live In,? Directed by Pedro Almod?var ? Review 2011-10-13T17:05:56Z

Both the specific story told in "Middle Men" and the larger narrative of media and technological shift it documents are based on the same premise, one amply supported by both literary and scientific evidence. "Middle Men": Heroes of the Internet-porn revolution 2010-08-05T15:01:00Z

This narrative is entwined with the more upbeat tale of Mr. Simpson’s earlier life. Review: ‘O.J.: Made in America,’ an Unflinching Take on His Rise and Fall 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

These days, anything from a leaf to a puppy will do the job, as couples seek out ways to create their own love narrative from the very beginning. Who Needs a Ring to Propose When There Are Puppies and Paintings? 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

You start to long for a narrative, something less aphoristic and brief. Music Review: Astringent Modernist Meets Instrument of Old 2011-03-08T21:21:07Z

My co-author, Danica Novgorodoff, created them once all the text and recipes were complete to deepen the narratives about the culture and history of rice. JJ Johnson is a rice aficionado. In his new cookbook, he demystifies the oftentimes tricky grain 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z

This is why propaganda — which provides a simple, convenient and seemingly coherent narrative architecture for processing events — thrives in a polarized environment in which truth is regarded as relativistic and facts are treated as fungible. ‘How Propaganda Works’ Is a Timely Reminder for a Post-Truth Age 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

You can feel the gears of the Infowars brain turning, crafting a narrative that completely edits out the part about danger: Trans person comes to America, despite having people who love her back home. What Is the Status of Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Wall’? 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

In a critique of Season 2, The Los Angeles Times wrote that “the optics of representation can only do so much when narratives are one-dimensional, fractured or guided by outdated tropes.” Watching ‘Queer as Folk’ but Craving ‘Heartstopper’ 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

At museum shows now, the colorful borders attract visitors, and then the texts reveal tragic underlying narratives, sometimes of premature death. Antiques: A Collector of Railroad Photos Uses Them to Track the Past 2013-06-27T22:02:44Z

Instead, his contribution is to combine the two accounts into a single chronological narrative. Two Candidates, Two Investigations, One Deeply Flawed Agency 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

Ford’s mostly middle-aged-male protagonists experience “jarring dislocations,” imposed by divorce or death, and grapple with relinquishing “the sense of an overarching narrative in their lives.” New in Paperback: ‘Thinking Inside the Box’ and ‘The Mountains Sing’ 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

Hunt fashions intricate narrative structures for her stories; they sometimes end up feeling overstuffed, like an epic novel crammed into a dollhouse-sized book. Samantha Hunt’s imagination runs wild in 'The Dark Dark' 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Banks, whose great works resonate with such heart and soul, brings his full narrative powers to bear on illuminating this still largely unexplored new terrain. Books of The Times: Russell Banks?s Novel ?Lost Memory of Skin? - Review 2011-09-25T22:26:09Z

When you take action film genre tropes and graft a political narrative onto them, people often imbibe the ideology along with the spectacle. The MAGA fever dream of "Rambo: Last Blood" 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

Had Cooper approached this question with the same interrogative spirit with which she approached her own narrative assumptions, the book would have felt more complete. Review | Long unsolved, a Harvard murder case gets a fresh look in ‘We Keep the Dead Close’ 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z

Hayden’s narrative is filled with accolades for media institutions and figures distrusted by large numbers of Americans. Former C.I.A. Head Michael Hayden Warns of an ‘Assault on Intelligence’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Though Christle is content to let “not story, but relationship emerge” from her fragments, Nelson asks whether omitting sections of a narrative serves to “make a fetish of the unsaid.” “The Crying Book” Reveals How Tears Can Help Us, and How They Can’t 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

The central axis of an individual's gay narrative, one that used to concentrate on the coming-out story either as a teenager or later, has been shifted back into childhood. Pride and prejudice for gay men 2011-02-20T00:05:13Z

In those narratives, there's often a really appealing push-pull between admiring the artfulness of the fraudster and rooting for the investigators on their trail. From extreme catfishing to wine fraud, here are 6 documentaries about con artists 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z

But Filoni said that streaming television has taught viewers to expect that all the branches of a narrative should be available to them the moment they sit down to watch any part of it. Boba Fett, Intergalactic Man of Mystery 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

It summed up aspects of Pop, Minimalism, and Conceptual and process art, while also opening art anew to images, narrative, repeating patterns, appropriation and stark juxtapositions that continue to inform painting. Jennifer Bartlett, Conceptual Painter on a Vast Scale, Dies at 81 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

It isn't a film of any great depth, and the narrative deceptions inevitably involve a degree of contrivance. Side Effects – review 2013-03-10T00:06:26Z

Which is nice, because most of us are too old to be amused by empty jokes and simple narrative arcs where the guy gets the girl and everything turns out just fine in the end. TV's best new taboo-busting comedy 2010-06-26T23:01:00Z

“It was easier,” she writes, “to fabricate a romantic narrative than admit I was ambitious — that I wanted my life to pick up momentum, go faster.” A Tech Insider Stylishly Chronicles Her Industry’s ‘Uncanny Valley’ 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

Despite Ulrich’s emphasis on women’s voices and ideas, “A House Full of Females” centers its narrative in part on a man named Wilford Woodruff. How the Women of the Mormon Church Came to Embrace Polygamy 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

But “Quirky,” so obsessed with the process of taking an idea to market, overlooks the process of building a successful television narrative. Television Review: ?Quirky? on the Sundance Channel - Review 2011-08-29T22:46:13Z

It was a move that was breathtakingly well-executed, that made sense narratively—for reasons I’ll get into in a bit—and was as tragically wasteful as a young man’s death in a war. Boardwalk Empire Watch: Do It Yourself 2011-12-12T13:20:05Z

Is it harder for narrative comedies like yours to stand out in this world where fewer people are watching TV live and more people are surfing YouTube? Another Period Shows How Historical Millionaires Were Just Like Reality Stars 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

In explaining how he, and millions of his peers, were able to get away with it, he weaves a narrative around three people. From rock to crock 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Did any portrayal of politics enter into forming the narrative? "Four Seasons Total Documentary" captures the Trump campaign's emperor-has-no-clothes moment 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z

And Bollywood offered predominantly male-focused narratives with women often playing purely decorative roles. With ‘Four More Shots Please!,’ India Gets Its Own ‘Sex and the City’ 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

No wonder the writer David A Cook said of the film that it "suggests not only the fraudulence of romantic love, but of the whole Hollywood narrative tradition that underwrites it." Vertigo 2010-10-17T10:53:00Z

This must-see museum explores the social, political, artistic and historical narratives of the state from its Alaska Native roots to the impact of climate change. Before the summer rush, a spring road trip through Alaska is just as beautiful 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

The usual narrative is, it was a great comedy that never got a fair chance on Fox. ArtsBeat: The Final Countdown: Jason Bateman on the Return of ‘Arrested Development’ 2013-05-20T18:00:08Z

As the narrative challenged and re-challenged, the sun-baked pages became a diary of occasions on which I had flicked back, attempting to impose a structure on the shifting sands of the story. Summer readings: The Magus by John Fowles 2011-07-31T09:00:00Z

David Antin, a poet and performance artist who was best known for his extemporaneous spoken narratives known as “talk poems,” died Oct. David Antin, poet and critic known for his ‘talk poems,’ dies at 84 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

Without all those purloined pots and marbles, the British Museum could only offer a Little Englander narrative along the lines of 1066 and All That. Lost, Stolen or Shredded: Stories of Missing Works of Art and Literature by Rick Gekoski – review 2013-06-29T08:00:54Z

It would be hard to argue that the false narrative put forth by the Ferguson police department did not play a role in the city’s decision to not press charges against Darren Wilson. Who polices the police? 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

While Mr. Preljocaj has been known to retell classic stories, as with his 2008 version of “Snow White,” here he plays with the absence of narrative. Dance Listings for April 22-28 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Like a father surveying his family from the head of a dining table, he reads aloud, savouring the narrative. Sarah Polley: 'Stories are our way of coping, of creating shape out of mess' 2013-06-22T23:05:32Z

Nonetheless, her narrative is one of deep heartache, both in the predeparture attempt to quiet her own objections to the faith, and in the self-willed abandonment of certainty that departure requires. Losing Her Religion 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

“We must work,” he declared, “to overturn the false narratives of tyrants, populists and fools by telling better stories than they do — stories within which people might actually want to live” We, the Writers? A Global Literary Congress Meets in New York. 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z

I'm just not buying the narrative, that is, the flip of Rick's crew from tough-minded to hopelessly docile. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 4: Negan Takes Over 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

Fine, fine, but what narrative function do you have in mind, Tom? ‘Downton Abbey’ Season 6, Episode 3 Recap: So Nice to See Him Again? 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

All three open with songs contemplating death, and her other solo songs explore desire, myth, memory and transfiguration: as narrative, as images, as parable. Aoife O’Donovan’s Songs Poured Out When Touring Shut Down 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

Trump himself seems to think so — and to find it vexing to no longer be able to control the narrative. Perspective | The media has turned a corner and is normalizing Trump less. It’s about time. 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Malick began embracing narrative fragmentation years ago and it has increasingly characterized his films. Review: ‘Song to Song,’ Terrence Malick’s Latest Beautiful Puzzle 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Asked in an interview why "The Assassin" ended up so narratively elusive, Hou replied: Cannes Film Festival: Why Hou Hsiao-Hsien made 'The Assassin' so elliptical 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

But when the narrative moves to Cate’s high school days in the 1990s and then to her current, eremitic life, Kibler takes her foot off the gas and coasts. Down but Not Out: Fiction Filled With Second Chances 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

“He was way beyond most students with narrative,” he said. Jeff Nichols Spins Another Southern Tale With ‘Mud’ 2013-04-19T18:47:43Z

A few books this year exchange the traditional reference model for narrative. What to give a wine lover for the holidays: Books over bottles 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Here and there, the narrative gallops at an accelerated pace, almost tilting toward the melodramatic, but, for the most part, Walker bypasses this pitfall. An Ominous Sleeping Sickness Paralyzes a Small California Town in ‘The Dreamers’ 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

More than other ensembles, musical duos suggest narratives: rival siblings, say, or a blissful romance. Music Review: A Viola and a Piano in Search of Common Ground 2011-05-01T21:13:51Z

The persuasiveness of Kafka's narratives is almost entirely an effect of his style, which native German-speakers will assure us is well-nigh unique in German literature for its simplicity, control and directness. Rereading: John Banville on Kafka's other trial 2011-01-14T14:18:55Z

“The fact that critics often say Pac is contradictory — great material for a dramatist,” Mr. Kreidler said of the process that saw him dissecting lyrics to forge a narrative. ‘Holler if Ya Hear Me’ Uses Songs by Tupac Shakur 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

He said drug trafficking was a “narrative algorithm” independent of language or place. ‘Gomorrah’ Is Back, as Bloody (and Gripping) as Ever 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z

Relatability aside, the reliable romantic fulfilment and neat narrative closure of Austen’s works is also why I keep seeking them out right now. Sense and social distancing: 'Lockdown has given me a newfound affinity with Jane Austen's heroines' | Josephine Tovey 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

What we’re witnessing is a pruning of that endlessly branching narrative tree. What Ever Happened to Hysterical Realism? 2012-07-11T14:00:31Z

It’s a homemaking show that starts off like “Martha Stewart,” where you would address the camera, but then it goes into a narrative story. Amy Sedaris Is Excited for the Emmys. She Just Has to Find a Rabbit Sitter. 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

After Barack Obama became president, the Roberts narrative became even more compelling than during the George W. Bush presidency. 'The Oath': Jeffrey Toobin on clashing agendas on Supreme Court 2012-10-04T19:59:04Z

The darkening of the narrative then does an abrupt about-face in time for a pat feel-good finish that is the play’s only misstep. A Studio Ghibli Classic Comes to the London Stage 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Without a Melvillean or Kerouacian framework, or at least some kind of narrative to spell out a potential beyond death, none of my resourcefulness or curiosity was recognizable, and therefore I was unrecognizable. Where are the women Kerouacs? 2013-03-13T22:28:00Z

Large quantities of Coppola, the Coen brothers, Brian De Palma – even Scott Fitzgerald – have been added to what, underneath all the handsome labelling and lavish packaging, remains a rather conventional narrative blend. Rewind TV: Boardwalk Empire; The Big C; Louis Theroux ? Ultra Zionists; Welcome to Romford 2011-02-06T00:05:43Z

There was something uncomfortable in the hymning of a lost South while not hearing the other side of the narrative. A Dramatic Play About Finance? Yes, if It’s Lehman Brothers 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

There is still no national exhibition on British history to match Berlin's German Historical Museum, but at least its capital now boasts a comparable mix of fabulous artefacts and first-class narrative. In praise of? the Museum of London 2010-06-08T23:06:00Z

Revolving around five middle-aged friends living in Paris, it offers not a narrative so much as a collection of vignettes, or reflections: the novel as a set of asides. Milan Kundera's 'Festival of Insignificance' on being and smallness 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

In the beginning, he says, when the park’s creators wrote its first interactive narratives, “We made 100 hopeful story lines. Of course, almost no one took us up on them.” Review: ‘Westworld’ Is a Provocative but Flawed Sci-Fi Shoot-’Em-Up 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

As well as these thematic connections, there are other tricksy narrative links. Guardian book club: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 2010-06-11T13:22:00Z

Its dreamy, nonlinear narrative of urban isolation seemed to herald the arrival of an important new voice. 'Doug Aitken: Electric Earth': Why MOCA's big new show has too few sparks 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

He adds that it’s easier for her, which is part of his running narrative: telling himself that at least his wife is worse. ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: the Oliver North Story 2014-04-24T03:16:08Z

All those shelves of books had built my mind, teaching me how to shape a narrative about my people, from what they had lost and found. A Lifetime of Reading Taught Min Jin Lee How to Write About Her Immigrant World 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

Anderson’s films often call attention to their own storytelling by nesting the narrative within another narrative: Perhaps it’s all taking place in a book, or the vignettes are stories in a magazine. Wes Anderson’s ‘Asteroid City’: How Wessy Is It? 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

The songs are more straightforward and sometimes lighthearted, and certainly more narrative, than on a Circuit des Yeux record. Review: ‘Jackie Lynn,’ Further Proof That Haley Fohr Is Hard to Contain 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

Later he contends that Gibbon’s highly polished prose in “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” leads to flatness and monotony: “The ages change, but the varnish of the narrative is the same.” Review | In these fractious times, a yearning for Walter Bagehot’s ‘age of discussion’ 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

Several were made up of alternating narratives set in the present day and then in some distant historical period. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z

The band's last ever gig provides an unusual, bittersweet narrative to this concert movie. The best DVD and Blu-ray of 2012 2012-12-29T00:06:07Z

“Against all odds, a few brave entrepreneurs violating the narrative today will come to define profound new truths tomorrow,” Mr. Lewis and his partner wrote in a manifesto letter for their firm, Bedrock Capital. What Makes a ‘Narrative Violation’? 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

Frank Harvey, in “Air War — Vietnam,” recounts with the power of anecdotal narrative the casual destruction of peasant hamlets in the Mekong Delta by the United States Air Force. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

These fudging techniques seem a deliberate attempt to both atomise and unify, perhaps in an effort to consider a shared legacy of colonialism and the inaccuracy or incompleteness of historical narratives. Gone to the Forest by Katie Kitamura – review 2013-02-06T08:00:01Z

I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to do what I’d been advising others upon for the better part of a decade: turn a prose narrative into a visual one. How to avoid writing an awful screenplay 2013-04-22T22:05:00Z

Show after show seems to be driven by similar recurring narrative. Dead women, killer ratings: “Game of Thrones,” “True Detective” and TV’s epidemic of violence against women 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

Whereas most films start with a concept or a dramatic arc, Boal and Bigelow built "Zero Dark Thirty" one source at a time, piecing together a narrative out of recent history shrouded in secrecy. Hunting bin Laden and history in 'Zero Dark 30' 2012-12-11T16:04:13Z

This allows him to play many rounds of a guess-who game that is his favorite narrative tactic. Books of The Times: He?s Handsome. (You Noticed?) but Not Just. 2011-04-20T18:01:03Z

Auster varies his narrative style, moving from third person to first person, and employing a powerful "you" voice when presenting the addled midlife of Miles' father, who also lives in New York. 'Sunset Park': Paul Auster's novel of one young man in recession-era America 2010-11-18T00:02:00Z

At the start of the third season the cliffhanger ending concluded in a predictable and – narratively speaking – tidy manner: Elliot is alive, and so is Mr Robot. Mr Robot or Mr Woebot? Why the hacker drama might need a restart 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

The challenge for a novel set in a place where nothing ever changes is how to find room for a narrative to move ahead. New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

“Idol” needs the feel-good narratives on these early shows, but by the time true talent begins to emerge, those stories begin to write themselves. ArtsBeat: American Idol: Notes on Pity 2011-01-27T06:39:07Z

Gossipy tidbits, nostalgic lists of pub crawls and eateries in the colorful midtown Manhattan of the "Mad Men" era are sprinkled in out-of-time sequence, and impede the flow of Groth's personal narrative. 'The Receptionist:' an extra-literary education at The New Yorker 2012-07-03T21:01:06Z

There is little point in trying to reconstruct a coherent narrative from a work in which fantasy and history are so entwined. The cult persona of Courtney Love in 'Kansas City Choir Boy,' more concert than musical 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Lacking a coherent narrative, it is more a collection of articles, lurching from one topic to another. On the cocaine trail 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

To succeed in the hunt, he must learn “to see, much less decipher, the opaque and irrational narrative that lies beneath what appears to be the likely story.” Marisa Silver's 'Little Nothing' is fierce, mysterious fairy tale 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

But the principle at work has always been the same: Let the characters own their stories by putting the power of narrative as directly as possible into the hands of the singers portraying them. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Color Purple’ and ‘Prudencia Hart’ Sing Anew in London 2013-07-16T21:56:11Z

A melodrama with comic punctuation, “Nora’s Will” is about secrets and lies and a narrative imperative that every unhappy life must end not only with death but with closure too. | 'Nora?s Will': After a Death, Friendships and Secrets 2010-10-14T23:58:00Z

Last year, it was Richard E Grant, whose 30-year career – and longstanding friendship with numerous A-listers – was successfully redacted for a new narrative: he was a wide-eyed starlet gasping at the sight of Lady Gaga. How Brad Pitt's zen reinvention has paved the way for Oscar glory 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

At Barnard, Shange was split: she was a privileged black girl who discovered her stories in the street, far from the narrative her class and race had prescribed for her. Two Sister-Poets Gone Too Soon: Ntozake Shange and My Sister 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

As a syrupy beat moves the narrative, the voice of his toddler daughter arrives, attempting to wake him. Essential Tracks: Vertical Scratchers, Schoolboy Q, St. Vincent, more 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

Then again, it’s also possible that the narrative disjointedness is intentional, a dramatization of her theory that, as she states in the opening section, “time is a lie.” She Lost Her Father, Her Health and All She Held Dear. At Least She Found Perspective. 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Their first-hand accounts have a measure of "they were there" plausibility, which has the bonus effect of lending an air of veracity to whatever narrative embellishments the writers shove into the sauce. As "Godfather" origin stories go, "The Offer" is so bad it's criminal 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Stevens’s narrative starts with Trump Tower, the gleaming metonym Mr. Trump hung his name on in brass letters. Review: ‘The Confidence Man’ Finds Trump’s Business Image Was Made for TV 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

My intention was not, as he writes, to turn Palestinians into “Zionists, to embrace the narrative of Jewish suffering and redemption.” Letters to the Editor 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

For Delilah and Oliver to be together, it seems, they need to change the story he’s in so that they can follow their own narrative. Review: In ‘Between the Lines,’ Romance Is Thwarted by Reality 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z

His expansive, metastasizing narratives and baroquely detailed descriptions represented efforts to pin down this increasingly incomprehensible reality with exactitude and nuance. Book Review: ‘Both Flesh and Not’ by David Foster Wallace 2012-11-15T16:55:36Z

That’s the larger lesson of a nonfiction narrative like this one: It continues, beyond a book’s pages. The Lesson Here Is Listen to the Victim 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

In “Armies,” Mailer thrust himself into the narrative as actor as well as observer. A Great Writer at the 1968 Democratic Disaster 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

His own Y2K story provides the podcast’s chief narrative mystery. “Surviving Y2K,” a Podcast That Mines the Lessons of New Year’s Eve 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z

In TV, narrative has always been an outgrowth of the delivery mechanism. Streaming TV Isn’t Just a New Way to Watch. It's a New Genre. 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

For the newcomers it was narratively a bit of a puzzle, what Pete and I were to this guy on the screen. The Who hope to launch "Quadrophenia" tour in 2011 2010-07-06T23:36:00Z

The film is full of them: in fact, you could theorise it is the film’s love of moments that is its major flaw, prioritising smart/clever/funny over narrative heft. Mutant bears, flying heads and chainsaw duels: the best movie moments of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

On the linguistic level, a modern phrase sometimes breaks the narrative spell, as when Douglas says, “I believe that ship has sailed,” while nobody has ever referred to Dante’s “Divine Comedy” as “Dante Alighieri’s Trilogy.” Review | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar returns to his other passion: Sherlock Holmes 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

But once the narrative took over it became a really moving and compelling film, until the fairytale ending. iLL Manors – reviews 2012-05-26T23:03:05Z

But there’s no denying that murder and random death have become rocket fuel for heightening the narrative suspense of our best TV shows. 'Mad Men' achieved high drama without all the dead bodies 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

The high wire Pheby balances on provides the novel’s keenest tension, but its potential is sometimes lost among underserved narrative threads and plot points that don’t pay off. Review | Sadeqa Johnson’s ‘Yellow Wife’ chronicles one tenacious enslaved woman’s survival in the antebellum South 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

For video game developers, finding the right voice for a character is crucial to the narrative. Familiar Faces Lend Star Power to Video Game Voices 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

The remarkable parallel narrative to the story of Falcone and Borsellino is of course the end of the Cold War and the virtual collapse of the Italian political system. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z

“For African-American children, especially, we are changing the narrative of working outside — of planting, harvesting, and working.” Fresno’s Freedom School is changing the narrative on farming for black youth 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

“What are the compelling narratives, what are the new stories that need to be told, how do we build on the work that’s happened at the museum?” Met Appoints New Leader of Modern and Contemporary Art 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

“Harbart” may be his best-known accomplishment, but he wrote much more, including journalism, poetry and magical realist narratives adapted to theater and pop songs. Review | Decades after the raucous ‘Harbart’ became a cult classic in India, a translation finally arrives 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

The present-day narrative of “We Begin at the End” centers on another death in Cape Haven — only this time, the culprit isn’t clear. A Novel of the West Spans Decades and Genres 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

The book is a pictorial narrative of Kander's journey, divided into four chapters entitled "The Mouth", "The Upstream", "The Flooding" and "The Upper Reaches". Nadav Kander's Yangtze photographs show a people sold down the river 2010-10-20T08:31:00Z

But in the book’s second half, the narrative begins to skip around unpredictably, to Lee’s life as well as the lives of the two children. Review: In Nell Zink’s ‘Mislaid,’ a Lesbian on the Run Masquerades as Black 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

NF has always rapped as if full of anxiety, and on a core level, that hasn’t changed on “Motto,” a clever narrative about unshackling oneself from the stressors of pop music success. Miley Cyrus and Brandi Carlile’s Raw Duet, and 9 More New Songs 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

Mr Younge’s determination to give a chapter to every victim, in chronological order, inevitably strains the narrative a bit. Barrel of deaths 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

The Sandringham incident forms a vital part of the narrative of the exhibition, which begins with a mural of a giant hen harrier clutching a Range Rover in its talons. Venice Biennale: Prince Harry banner removed from Deller's British pavilion 2013-05-30T20:55:17Z

Graham’s narrative begins at the end, with his opponents clearly disturbed by a shift in their discussion from which there is no turning back. Review: In ‘Best of Enemies,’ a TV Duel Becomes a Theater Gem 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

Shaped sensitively by Mr. Gilbert, it took on a powerful narrative quality, like Schoenberg’s “Verklärte Nacht” updated, darker and more ambiguous. Review: The New York Philharmonic Highlights Nordic Works 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

Haley, after all, has now been handed a ready-made campaign ad, one that positions her as a scrappy fighter and supports a narrative that the mainstream media has a problem with conservative women. Perspective | Don Lemon returned with an apology in a can 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

We can’t help it; we worry away at imperfect character arcs or narrative misfires until the very fabric of the show comes apart in our hands. Big Little Lies: has season two really been a screaming great flop? 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

But such potted histories are eddies in the narrative stream that carries Eric Prokopi from taciturn Florida high school swim star to eventual bone smuggler and felon. The Bizarre Tale of the ‘Dinosaur Artist’ Who Trafficked in Stolen Fossils 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

The festival’s bad mood extends to the narrative film competition. At the Tribeca Film Festival, Movies for Every Taste 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

There’s an intentional disconnect to it all, and it’s too early to tell whether the narrative style will offer any payoff. ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’: Carny cornballs

The narrative connective tissue is not strong, but there are enough striking moments to be well worth the $20 ticket price. ‘Sleeping Car Porters’ Review: Billy the Kid Meets the Zodiac Killer 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

There is nothing else but the names on the screen, and the narrative. Review | ‘Draw the Circle’ puts a surprising frame on a transgender story 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Still, the blunt narrative edges of the play are softened by the mostly good acting, under the direction of Eric Ting. Review: ‘The World of Extreme Happiness,’ About China and Gender 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

The work is at once performance and its document; at once mediocre and profound; at once narrative and containing no actual story. Ragnar Kjartansson’s exuberant work at Hirshhorn is a party celebrating mediocrity 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

In breaking from what she describes as the existing “master narrative” of white, male writers, Morrison saw enslavement from a black mother’s perspective while also crafting a singular ghost story. Analysis | Toni Morrison has kept the public at arm’s length. Now she’s letting people in on her terms. 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

But when the lights were off and I lay very quietly in my bed, I knew: there was something fundamentally wrong about losing the narrative of my own life. My drinking years: ‘Everyone has blackouts, don’t they?’ 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

It is a narrative that is compelling, unconventional and powerfully told. Michael J. Fox Reviews a Thoughtful Memoir on the Challenges of Living With Disability 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z

This show had everything: social history, a compelling narrative extracted from photocopies of old documents, genuine emotion, weird coincidences, and the charming Una Stubbs. Who Do You Think You Are?; The Cafe – TV review 2013-07-25T06:00:05Z

Abecassis presents a vivid narrative about that terrifying night, at a club in Philadelphia, and in subsequent episodes traces Weems’s struggle to return to the stage, which she reported for a year. Three Podcasts to Listen to in February 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

She has studied traditions of narrative performance in East Timor, Indonesia, Korea and Taiwan and created an original, flowing piece of work, rendered in new jazz-related musical idioms, but rooted in old symbols and rituals. Jazz Listings for Sept. 18-24 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Waves is unusual in its depiction of black lives, rejecting the typical urban-and-struggling narrative and focusing instead on the middle classes, with many of the tropes of a white American psychodrama. How Waves unpicks the pressures of ‘black excellence’ 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

The point is that their narrative is as important as ours.” That Voice Inside Your Head? It May Be His 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

Unlike the majority of Kapadia’s previous work, which also includes Senna, the film will be a narrative feature. Martin Scorsese and Asif Kapadia to make Rolls Royce origins drama 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

Naturally, he formulated the thought more elegantly: “To unfold and fulfill an entertaining narrative about something for which you might have to stretch your mind just a little bit.” With his first new play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

Unthinkable events — be they catastrophic assaults by nature or acts of barbarism — are easier to tolerate if there is a countervailing narrative, a glimmer of hope. Movie Review: Three Programs in ?Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012? 2012-02-09T23:35:18Z

But be warned: Washington Post TV critic Hank Stuever says that while the series is visually intriguing, it suffers from a sluggish narrative. TV highlights: Netflix’s ‘One Day at a Time’ reboot 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

While tangents may make for thorough research, they don’t do much for a narrative arc. ‘The Empire of Necessity’: No free people on this slave ship 2014-01-22T22:32:11Z

It’s time it was given narratives  that showed pride in the larger world that bustles outside the ballet studio. Critic’s Notebook: Ballet Clings to Racial, Ethnic and National Stereotypes 2012-09-05T15:11:19Z

While the narrative doesn’t directly connect to the first track, the desperate hope for a savior from a dark situation carries through. David Lynch's Crazy Clown Time Is Just as Creepy As You Thought It Would Be 2011-11-08T10:00:41Z

Although that mash-up is at times incongruent, laboring to connect two tales that share thematic ground but lack narrative cohesion, the impressionistic perspective on Poe’s fear of mental decay unsettles all the same. Review | Synetic Theater’s ‘The Madness of Poe’ delivers a haunting mash-up from the father of American horror 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

So does abruptly abandoning your main narrative line nearly two hours in, sans explanation, to revisit a character from another movie you made that few people saw. Genèse Review: Crossing Borders Between Films 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

“The War for Gloria” is almost an unintentional satire of Great Men narratives, in which determined men move from strength to strength and climb a ladder to attainment. Review | Atticus Lish’s new novel is about manhood, but don’t expect to find any social commentary 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

They clashed myriad stories and voices, and shunned conventional narrative. Emily Woof 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z

This stimulating history challenges the narrative of early America as a nation confidently marching to its manifest destiny. New in Paperback: Susan Orlean and Brandon Taylor 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

In short, most of the characters ended the season only further entrenched in their identities and roles in the show's unfolding narrative. A moody 'Mad Men' finale with Don Draper unhappy 2012-06-11T07:01:06Z

While that book is her most emotionally revealing, it, like all of her work, shows a unique ability to control the narrative, to keep some aspects of her life veiled, private. The best part of the new Joan Didion bio 'The Last Love Song'? Joan Didion 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

This Pulitzer Prize winner brings ancient characters to life, places tyrants in unexpected narratives and shows a range of battles, including on the football field and in the minds of troubled people. Best poetry collections of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

And it would take the form of “an epic narrative about the beauty and struggle of everyday life,” in Ms. Strauss’s words. Art Review: ?Zoe Strauss: Ten Years? at Philadelphia Museum of Art - Review 2012-01-12T23:57:45Z

For all the contrasts between frenzied outbursts and lyrical episodes, a compelling narrative line ran through each piece. Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough Explore the French Side of Chopin 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

But before our eyes, we see her transformed into that other great narrative device: the underdog who overcomes all odds. Susan Boyle: What happened to the dream? 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

The looping narrative amounts to a cathartic experiment in taking control of one’s own story. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Sanders, who took on agricultural monopolies while campaigning for president in 2016 and 2020, questioned Cal-Maine's narrative in a tweet arguing that "we must break up Big Ag and enact a windfall profits tax." "We must break up Big Ag," Sanders says after largest US egg producer posts 718% profit increase 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

These narratives speak less to the specific challenges of having a sociopath for a child or a spouse than to the pathology of the unstated assumptions that we all pass along and receive. Marriage Is an Abduction 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

She reads all the entries written in England, Australia and Ireland, infusing the narrative with regional accents Sedaris presumably could never do. Nonfiction Audiobooks to Download This Winter 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

But the narrative embedded in his work was always about his own becoming. An L.A. Artist Who Anticipated Our Trumpian Moment 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

This is the 10th time that Mr. Jackman has played Logan, and while the character’s claws are intact, the movie is a major narrative and stylistic shift in its franchise universe. Review: In ‘Logan,’ a Comic-Book Stalwart Turns Noirish Western 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

Of course there are fashions; at the moment we have a wave of new narrative ballets, and perhaps a wave of abstract ballets will follow. ‘Giselle’: Remaking (and Updating) a Classic and Finding a Hit 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

The rappers still write dense, unpredictable verses with tricky rhythms, a rush of images and telegraphic narratives. Wu-Tang Clan and AC/DC Release Albums 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

Unlike the moralising narratives of the artist’s Pre-Raphaelite peers, these were about “line, form and colour first”, Whistler insisted. A river runs through it 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z

It doesn't help that the sequel's story isn't a story at all, but the kind of single-minded narrative thread best suited to pushing a player along through a video game's multiple levels. 'Kung Fu Panda 2': Hyperflexed 3-D takes kick out of sequel 2011-05-24T20:04:05Z

Does Saul really mean to conclude his narrative now? Richard Pryor, Flame-Thrower 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

Instead, we got the narrative that we did. Romney Didn?t Win Iowa After All. Is It Too Late To Change the Story? 2012-01-19T14:27:52Z

Like Bradford’s layered canvases, their art evokes a kind of shame, or trauma — a breakdown of the public narrative as articulated by official architecture or sanctioned monuments. Perspective | Mark Bradford’s art sees all the broken places that led to this moment of protest 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z

One assumes that this was deliberate, but some of the more farfetched features of the tale could be toned down without the loss of narrative magic. 'Bright Star' wears its old-fashioned heart on its gingham sleeve 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

Oates, who seemed to turn out fiction with the ease of conversation, was at first stumped over how - or whether - to make a narrative out of her own grief. Joyce Carol Oates writes memoir of grief 2011-02-11T13:01:04Z

Aside from just thinking about access, you're also thinking about narrative, right? D. Watkins speaks for himself: "I think we can have tough conversations, make each other upset" 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

I watched every film Hollywood made about itself while making “Narrowsburg,” and it was interesting to see how that narrative has been crafted over the years. Welcome to "Narrowsburg," a tiny town conned out of its Hollywood dreams 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

This sense of a community in transition becomes a significant component of the narrative. Attica Locke channels bitter political memories into 'Pleasantville' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

The latest edition of the annual independent film showcase, which runs until 1 February, will feature 118 feature-length documentary and narrative films in its programme. Sundance opens with Nina Simone film 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Her narratives, while not often lauded for their subtlety, were highly readable. Mary Higgins Clark, best-selling author of suspenseful tales, dies at 92 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

More recycling: “Sacrifice” was the regime’s byword as it called on Cubans to patiently endure hardship during the Special Period, just as the term stands for the Church’s redemption narrative. Why Did Some Cubans Inject Themselves With H.I.V.? 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

“The North won the Civil War, but the South won the narrative war,” Gates said, “and what we are trying to do is change that narrative.” No relaxation for PBS with Democratic House takeover 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z

The festival announced half of its feature lineup on Wednesday, also unveiling a new international narrative competition catergory to help further affirm its commitment to showcasing world cinema. Gael García Bernal, Demetri Martin at Tribeca Film Festival 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Chivers succeeds in bringing his own disparate strands together into a mostly coherent narrative, but the history is necessarily a subjective one. Books of The Times: The Flesh and Blood Behind the AK-47 2010-12-02T22:57:00Z

In terms of narrative tropes, it occupies the place that freak memory loss did in the 90s, kicking off all the action and driving it forward; never mind how unlikely that scenario was. From Elle to Game of Thrones, why is culture obsessed with rape? 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

This odyssey into adulthood and early middle age lacks the organic fixity of his childhood narrative. ‘The Education of Kevin Powell’: An activist and ex-MTV star looks back 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

“You have to be an artist and an activist who fits into a social justice or environmental narrative,” Mr. Woodham said, characterizing the kind of art that today’s younger collectors want to buy. A ‘Great Wealth Transfer’ Is Coming. What Will It Mean for Art? 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

All complex narratives “rest upon an invisible foundation of the untold.” ‘Truth thrives in the margins’ and other insights from a master essayist 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

But the fact of slavery nags repeatedly at any simple heroic narrative. Debating ‘Hamilton’ as It Shifts From Stage to Screen 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

These constant switcheroos kept this main strand of the narrative flowing. The Walking Dead: season eight, episode four recap – Some Guy 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z

Rare is the politician who cannot, with the help of speechwriters, summon the narrative drama needed to get something done or play to an audience. Column: Real or fake? It's hard to tell anymore 2013-02-11T11:01:06Z

Speechless, ABC's remarkable sitcom about the pains and joys of a family touched by disability, proves that narrative twists like these aren't necessary. A Family Story With a Son on the Spectrum 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

But it is no savior narrative: Phil’s own past has enough pain in it that it feels like any rescuing is entirely mutual. Sauce Makers and Scoundrels: Four Hot Romance Novels 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

Cheriyal scrolls painted on traditional khadi cloth formed colorful backdrops for storytellers whose narrative occupation gradually vanished as movie theaters and televisions crept in. Endangered Crafts and the Destinations Keeping Them Alive 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Mr. Stone’s film, for its part, is not even really about business, even though several fortunes are contested and lost in the course of its hectic narrative. Film: Drive and Determination of Zuckerberg and Gekko 2010-10-02T00:56:00Z

Within the narrative of the film — which spans from the Antebellum to Reconstruction periods on a Georgia plantation — slave owners and slavery supporters are the heroes and slaves appear as happy, loving servants. "Gone With the Wind" dropped from Memphis theater over racial concerns 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

Hall is a longtime chronicler of the city—his comic narrative “Kaleidoscope City” was published last year—and he recently sat down with us to discuss his work, technique, and interest in New York. Marcellus Hall’s “Lower East Side” 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

All do, however, fit snugly inside this narrative’s urgent argument — about love missed or withheld, and what that leads to — culminating toward the novel’s end in a stunning confession by Lucy. Review | Elizabeth Strout’s ‘Oh William!’ is yet another dazzler 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Viewers who watched “Roots” four decades ago have since lived with racial narratives of moving forward and stepping back. Review: ‘Roots’ for a Black Lives Matter Era 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

Men are virtually absent from the narrative, as they are in convent life, making marginal appearances when they’re temporarily required, not really missed in most instances. In Alice McDermott’s Novel, A Cloistered Life Blows Open 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

She sought to control the narrative, requesting that I didn’t tell anyone until she felt the time was right. My mum loves me, but doesn’t really know me | Dear Mariella 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z

But the narrative leavens their actions and predicaments with humanity — which is also the basis of comedy. 'Orange Is the New Black' Emmy nods a win for women 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

But Shakespeare and Lin also refused to be completely pinned down, leaving their narratives open to interpretation and constantly renewed debate. The birth of 'Hamilton,' told by the man who was in the room where it happened 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

There are a lot of characters in campaigns that you can build narratives around besides the candidates. “Trump has ‘f**k-you’ money”: Mark McKinnon on the appeal of outsider candidates, Clinton’s primary strategy and potential Iowa surprises 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

It is also a vision of a radical new kind of writing, one suited to a woman’s body and language and experience outside of the primarily masculine narrative tropes of the past. In Praise of Elizabeth Hardwick 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

This third narrative is a thriller, featuring an investigative reporter, which has been sent to the publisher, Timothy Cavendish, the narrator of the fourth narrative. Guardian book club: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

Biannual garden tours have been a White House tradition since Pat Nixon first welcomed visitors to the property in 1972, exposing a rich narrative of design. The White House Gardens Open to the Public 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

That magic remained throughout the set: A simple jazz club stage became a territory of belief, narrative and wonder. January in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

"The Kills" is divided into four book-length sections with overlapping narratives. Richard House's 'The Kills' challenges what a thriller can be 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

In the 1980s, she began making narrative shorts and eventually received a scholarship to attend a prestigious documentary workshop led by Jean Rouch, known as the father of cinéma-vérité. A New Subject for a Veteran Documentary Maker: Herself 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

After months of requests from The Times, she agreed to be interviewed because she wants to add her voice to the narrative, and start to rebuild her reputation. April Bloomfield Breaks Her Silence About Harassment at Her Restaurants 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Instead, the 24 artists focus on narrative, excavating layers of Lorton history. In the galleries: Brick by brick, a dark history emerges 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

A tete-a-tete in the lighting booth raises existential questions: “How far do we push that moment of narrative into a story, with the light?” ‘Ballet 422’: A young choreographer’s nervous rise at New York City Ballet 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

An Afrofuturist narrative is embedded as well in a recent flurry of museum shows. Afrofuturism: The Next Generation 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

Another cliche narrative that persists is the mystical Asian mentor who trains a white protagonist in martial arts. Marvel’s ‘Shang-Chi’ jabs, flips Asian American film cliches 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

It was his misfortune, says Catherine Fletcher in her gripping narrative, to be assassinated “first with a sword, then with a pen” by historians. A dark duke 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Her melodies often have the lilt of Celtic ballads and waltzes along with their potential for incantation, carrying a narrative in a repeated phrase. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-02-22T13:57:00Z

So Brown may see himself adding a third celebrity narrative to his public story, as possessor of hyper-masculine sexual prowess. Chris Brown Was Raped. Does It Matter If He Doesn’t Think So? 2013-10-09T21:57:04Z

Smith shifts narrative gears throughout each section of NW, and each character is differently equipped to both describe and be described by the chronology of their lives. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z

The pointed narrative preaches to the converted, writes critic F. Kathleen Foley, but a committed cast and able direction make for “subtle and gripping entertainment.” Essential Arts & Culture: The loss of an L.A. patron, the future of freeways, art in the time of unrest 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z

The book offers not so much a single, continuous narrative as it does two narratives placed opposite each other, bouncing meanings back and forth. What Trained Bears Can Teach Us About Formerly Authoritarian Countries 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

But if you look closely at that season's narrative refrain, it did not substantively evolve or build from that starting point. "The New Pope" is still sexy and it knows it 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

A crucial modification of the nightclub-like set, though, does damage to the narrative. Review | ‘Hadestown’ ushers Broadway back to the Kennedy Center in style 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

But she’s also clearly working within the idiom of the classic art film, including through her deployment of narrative and character ambiguity. Review: In Angelina Jolie Pitt’s ‘By the Sea,’ an Unhappy Ménage and Tear-Streaked Mascara 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Still, the stories sometimes employed New Journalism techniques that took readers into hard-to-read minds and motivations, crossing from simple reportage to gripping narrative. As 'True Story' weaves a web of ambiguity, whom can we believe? 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

The dramatic personal narrative along with a professional perspective would seem the recipe for a perfect book: seamlessly opening up larger issues that threaten us all. What if the Thief Who Steals Your Identity Is Your Mom? 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

In these cases, ownership of the narrative is implicit—and somewhat debatable. Rooney Mara can’t win for “Carol”: Even in the best supporting actress Oscar race, men’s stories matter more 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

There’s a real pleasure in this hopscotching narrative: With each new point of view, a clearer sense of the hidden story emerges as the reader slowly pieces together some shocking revelations. ‘Ohio’ as the Locus of 21st-Century Rust Belt Despair 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

The fast-paced narrative begins with the voyage and follows the Clotilda’s survivors beyond the Civil War. A Shipwreck Leads to a Reckoning 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

She also has an unwavering habit of seeing, in every struggle, a parallel to her own celebrity narrative and her interactions with a sometimes hostile public. Barbra Streisand, a Voice to Be Reckoned With 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z

Distinct cinematic visions and bold narrative experiments help distinguish the second week of New Directors/New Films, trumping the more familiar festival-ready drifting stories and generic youthful ennui. New Directors/New Films Festival Highlights Bold Narrative Experiments 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

Children reading enhanced ebooks also "recalled significantly fewer narrative details than children who read the print version of the same story", said the researchers, speculating that the extra features may be distracting. Enhanced ebooks are bad for children finds American study 2012-06-07T15:20:30Z

The details of the narratives don’t add up; they defy logic. Art In Review: ‘PRIMARY SOURCES’: ‘Artists in Residence 2011-12’ 2012-07-19T21:32:31Z

“I have a sensitivity to narrative, to performance and to a feeling of truthfulness,” he said. | Below the Line: The Oscar-Nominated Editor of 'Moneyball' Deconstructs a Scene 2012-02-08T18:00:35Z