“Perhaps a narrator, then? The narrators have a really important role. They keep the audience informed.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Tolstoy, of course, as an omniscient narrator, also provides a running commentary, establishing what it was that the combatants were all, willy-nilly, conspiring to bring about. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The narrator adds, in his sonorous tone, “No child remains lost in Levittown for very long.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The voice simply floated overhead like a movie narrator’s, as if a single mind controlled all the creatures. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I tried to pay attention, but the monotonous voice of the narrator kept lulling me to sleep. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The narrator, he found upon reading the first sentence, bore his own name— Ishmael. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But the narrator did have a thick British accent. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

A narrator told the story but the actors were silent. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The first narrator began to speak, and the play had begun. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Most of the narrators had joined the circle around George, as had a few of the barnyard animals, who were supposed to be clucking and mooing onstage. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Maddy, Emma, and several other kids would play the barnyard animals, and most of the rest of the kids who had tried out would be narrators. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The narrator, a famed marine biologist named Pierre Aronnax, works at the same museum as her father! All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“There was once, there was a man,” said Pomp, delighted narrator of horrors, “there was a man so afraid for dying, he make a deal with Death himself. A true story.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Scientists have playfully named this specimen Dumbo,” the TV narrator says. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I read William Saroyan’s The Human Comedy, I was immediately pleased by the narrator’s warmth and the charm of his story. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, assign a narrator, speaking or acting parts, and along with your instruments and sound effects, you have a complete performance that incorporates music composition and creativity along with language arts and theater. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And what if one of them, the story’s narrator, was left behind to face the invaders? Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The film’s narrator reminded every boy—from Ellis Carter to the Jameses, the Anthonys, and every other pants wearer—that they too could grow up to be guardians of our community. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her competition was already back in their seats, writing definitions for words like gesture and narrator. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Dimple thought, in a documentary narrators deep, polished voice. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“And it came to pass that all the people had to go pay taxes,” Helen Spencer, as the first narrator, was saying in a loud and proper voice. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He speaks for almost two minutes as the story’s narrator. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Creating a sound carpet entails taking a story and adding sound effects, leitmotifs, instruments, vocal sounds, body percussion, and actors and/or a narrator, in order to bring literature to life. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

We read the first page, and Leticia slammed the book down and said, “Oh my God, the narrator is Death! The narrator is Death! This is so COOL!” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Are you familiar with the phrase unreliable narrator? Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The first narrator described the Arables’ farm and told the audience about the baby pig who was moments from execution. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Wayne played the narrator, who at different points in the musical just sort of appears onstage and interjects commentary. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

When the narrator abruptly cut to footage of whale sharks in Saudi Arabia, far away from Mom’s ocean, Dad said, “Play it again.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The moment we entered, a spotlight took turns highlighting each piece of equipment on the racks of the curved walls, while a narrator’s voice gave a detailed description. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

To me, the narrator’s voice was nothing more than background noise. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

As a young sea demon matures, the narrator said, changes happen in the monster’s body. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In a grandiloquent, newsreel-style voice, the show’s narrator, Westbrook Van Voorhis, began his report: “Today, at the eastern extremity of the state of Pennsylvania, a remarkable construction project is transforming the face of the countryside.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I have always identified most strongly with Nick Carraway, the keen observer and narrator, a man both detached from and immersed in the events of the book. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the narrator states that Gilgamesh was two-thirds god and one-third man. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then the narrator added, “Call this number. Counselors are waiting to take your call.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

David repeats, a perfect imitation of the narrator’s voice. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the narrators, all this scrupulous attention to detail seems like an attempt at moral irreproachability, an effort to defend their authority to tell the tale of the Lisbon girls. “The Virgin Suicides” Still Holds the Mysteries of Adolescence 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

It’s maintained by the circumstances of the narrator’s new relationship, with a man who’s separated from his wife but still married. ‘Intimacies,’ a Coolly Written Novel About the Arts of Translation and Power 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

Somewhere in there the narrator knows how craven he is. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New CDs 2010-06-27T21:17:00Z

“Yeah, I can’t pretend what I want,” they sing jauntily on “Big Bad Want,” an imagistic daydream in which the mute eyes of a horse reflect back the narrator’s own anxiety. Palberta Blend Big-Tent Pop and Art-Rock on ‘Palberta5000’ 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

He gives him one, and the narrator tries to refuse it, pointing out that he doesn’t have a license. ‘Endgame’ — a Turkish seaside noir by Ahmet Altan 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

But the narrator is all too aware that knowledge of ourselves, and of other people, even those we love, often remains opaque, despite all efforts at elucidation. “Sight” and The Pleasures of Overthinking Motherhood 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

The narrator assists in the planning, while sending reports to Man. ‘The Sympathizer,’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

It, too, gives us a narrator who didn’t know who he was until he began to wander. Books of The Times: ‘Every Day Is for the Thief’ by Teju Cole 2014-03-25T20:21:54Z

As thoughts of sex steam up the narrator’s inner mirror, the pelvic thrust becomes a staple of the choreography. Theater Review: ‘Life and Times: Episodes 1-4,’ at the Public Theater 2013-01-23T03:00:48Z

For now, though, he is our narrator, addressing us from outside the scene. Review: In ‘The Gentleman Caller,’ a Talky Tennessee Williams 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

Ms. Cooper’s fiction was sometimes criticized for having one-dimensional characters, intrusive narrators and half-sketched scenes. J. California Cooper, author of tales of African American life, dies at 82

Odom has had a terrific season as narrator characters, channeling writers’ voices in works such as this one, “An Octoroon” and “Our Town.” Review | Sex, politics and art painted in broad strokes in ‘Botticelli in the Fire’ 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

As the narrator says, “I went from being raised by a pack of coyotes to a fellowship at Princeton.” Review | Claire Vaye Watkins’s new novel approaches motherhood — with a torch 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Ronan Farrow, on the other hand, is, as a narrator, much better — but for one startling weakness. Perspective | Diane Keaton and Ronan Farrow show the challenges of narrating your own audiobook 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

Stigter, whose perspective is voiced by the narrator, Helena Bonham Carter, is also concerned with just how much the images leave unseen. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

This is a very fine novel wonderfully served in its audio format by narrators whose voices convey the mystery of time and place, the transitory nature of individual life, and the urgency of desire. Review | A black man shot by a white police officer tells his shocking story in ‘No Justice’ 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

And it’s also about imaginative voice casting, beginning with the endearing rasp of Tom Waits as the narrator, who eventually shows up onscreen running a newsstand. ‘Ultra City Smiths’ Review: New York Neo-Noir, With Plastic Dolls 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

Christian Gonon, the narrator, also excelled in a range of roles from a herald to a donkey. Review: In ‘Joan of Arc at the Stake,’ Beasts With Burden of Judging 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Huang wrote and said unkind things about the show, however, and left his role as its off-camera narrator after one season. Review: ‘Huang’s World’ Mixes Food, Travel and Attitude 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Our narrator awakes, still dressed after passing out the night before, with a strange blonde in his bed. Warning: chefs behaving properly 2013-07-18T06:00:11Z

Both are gifted bilingual narrators and deliver the many Spanish phrases with musical grace. Review | A thriller set in Trump’s America is among the best audiobooks of the month 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

“Sometimes I wonder if the things we so chiefly use as markers for identity aren’t in fact the least fundamental,” the narrator remarks. Review | Eugene Lim’s ‘Search History’ is a pulpish adventure interwoven with meditative moments 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

“All for Nothing” begins with the narrator “standing in the quicksand with a smiling face.” Matt Berninger, king of melancholy music, is doing just fine 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Bookending the story, remarks by Karski — and a framing device featuring a narrator — further direct our attention to the story’s meaning and the notion of responsibility. Review | Soul-searching and suspense carry a riveting ‘Lesson of Jan Karski’ at Shakespeare Theatre 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

Still lost several years later, the narrator suffers an overwhelming fear that she might be a “failure” as a mother. “Sight” and The Pleasures of Overthinking Motherhood 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

In “A Cup of Rage,” the unnamed narrator is a reclusive farmer living in the Brazilian backlands. Why Brazil’s Greatest Writer Stopped Writing 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

His deranged stunts aren’t funny; they’re offensive invasions as annoying as the film’s frequent freeze frames to allow an unseen narrator to lecture us on the finer points of Charlie’s condition. ‘Lovesick,’ a Comedy, Stars Matt LeBlanc 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

The narrator searches for the language to understand her son’s actions without condemnation or cliché; she wants only to keep their conversation going, she wants only to stay with him a moment more. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

His short stories in this collection pinwheel, with a rotating cast of narrators and shifting points of view. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

“The Committed” begins in 1981, two years after we last saw our narrator preparing to flee Vietnam by boat. His Debut Novel Won the Pulitzer. Now It Has an Action-Packed Sequel. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

They haven’t spoken in years, but one day the older musician, Paul, contacts the narrator to tell him that he’s “living on Uneasy Street.” Review: David Gates Delivers More Havoc in ‘A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me’ 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

"Instead of working together to lift America up, Republicans were waging a campaign to tear the president down," the narrator continues. Obama campaign video teases new slogan: 'Forward' 2012-04-30T11:50:00Z

The narrator, an unflappable salesman, calmly tosses fleece jackets into the frenzied crowd as trampled, mangled bodies accumulate. ‘Friday Black’ Uses Fantasy and Blistering Satire to Skewer Racism and Consumer Culture 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

The poor boy, our narrator, is endlessly rollin’ and ridin’, straddling that Greyhound, smoking into New Orleans, swinging low chariot, coming down easy. On the Path of Chuck Berry’s ‘Promised Land,’ Five Decades On 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

"Perhaps I am no more than 47 or 48," the narrator explains. David Markson, postmodern master, dead at age 82 2010-06-07T16:34:00Z

The narrator, Robin Miles, paces the slow-building suspense perfectly, leaving the listener as disoriented and distraught as Penny, grappling with the loss of her independence — and her self — at the end of her life. The Best Audiobooks of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

So what I did was, I invented a new character, a first person narrator, and it was a narrator who’s never been in a Christie novel. Sophie Hannah Talks About Rebooting Agatha Christie's Poirot 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

The actors speak mostly English, but there is also a German-speaking narrator to ensure that non-English-speaking members of the audience can keep up with the plot. 2010-01-21T17:20:00Z

The narrator adopts a dog that’s left behind after a kidnapping; she spends days gathering small treasures to throw a birthday party for the old man. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

“I sort of immediately hated her,” Alice tells us in narrator mode, which she and Diana slip in and out of as they recall the time when they were new to each other. ‘Summer, 1976’ Review: The Path to Freedom Starts With a Friendship 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

As the off-screen narrator, she tells her unborn baby the story of how she became a child soldier. Review: 'War Witch' is a genre benchmark 2013-03-06T23:24:08Z

It reads like 19th-century realism, except for the brutal, morally complex clarity with which the narrator examines her surroundings and herself. Readers Share Their Favorite Books of 2022 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z

“How can we know what will come of the strangers we bring close?” the narrator of “The Pike” asks, contemplating the disastrous affair between Ted Hughes and Assia Wevill. Short Stories That Travel the World From a Deliciously Off-Kilter Perspective 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

“Something is going to happen,” as the narrator says. Review: ‘Quicksand,’ Robert Ashley’s Enigmatic Spy-Thriller Opera 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

In the film’s opening sequence, the narrator, Alec Baldwin, says: “This is the story of what happens next.” 'It was just left to the people': behind a chilling documentary on the Flint water crisis 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

“Some came to remember the past, or to refuse the future,” remarks Gault’s 28-year-old narrator, Lydia, sizing up the tourists who flock to the Cape Cod island she has called home since birth. Debut Novels About Families Fractured by Abuse, Displacement or Death 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

“When I was a child, I loved old men,” Jonas’s unnamed narrator states in her book’s very first line, and immediately the antennae — already on alert from the novel’s title — are at attention. Sex, Lies and Infidelity on a Small College Campus 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

The narrator is addressing her younger brother, Danny, on his wedding day. A Novel Explores What Happens When Adoption Means Maladaptation 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

She was not the narrator of the story. A supermodel recalls the glorious decade when no one cared if you gained a few pounds 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

The main distinction is that this show focuses on people wrongly condemned to death and the narrator is the actress and activist Susan Sarandon, who won an Oscar for the capital-punishment movie “Dead Man Walking.” The TV Watch: CNN’s New Series ‘Chicagoland’ and ‘Death Row Stories’ 2014-03-05T22:15:57Z

And if Mr. Stone were Mr. Turow, Terry’s soul-searching and reliability as a narrator would raise deeper issues. Review: ‘The Verdict’ Speaks in a Grisham-esque Tongue With a British Accent 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Yet, when it comes to herself, the narrator is coy, refusing to provide information that could sharpen her pixelated self-portrait. A Black Woman in Finance Regains Her Agency 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

In the Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s new novel, “The Sound of Things Falling,” his narrator, a young lawyer named Antonio, has ample time to meditate on each of these unhappy noises. Books of The Times: ‘The Sound of Things Falling,’ by Juan Gabriel Vásquez 2013-07-30T17:03:23Z

The narrator, a novelist, shelters her editor — who remembers everything — in a room reminiscent of the Dutch annex where Anne hid with her family. Yoko Ogawa Conjures Spirits in Hiding: ‘I Just Peeked Into Their World and Took Notes’ 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

“I think this case, among other things, is a wilderness of unreliable narrators,” Morris told me. ‘A Wilderness of Error’ Points the Lens Back at Errol Morris 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

With her yearning and aspiration, Xiomara is a distinctly Latina narrator who nonetheless speaks in the universal voice of a tender young spirit’s unfolding. Elizabeth Acevedo’s New Novel Is Literary Soul Food 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

He was a host or narrator for myriad documentaries on the History Channel. Edward Herrmann, Actor With a Noble Air, Dies at 71 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

As to the expense of such a system, the narrator calculates that the savings that would accrue to the community by the elimination of its non-productive members would more than compensate. David Lodge: rereading Anthony Trollope 2012-12-14T22:55:04Z

Asked whether there were any elements which should never be combined, Keith Thompson, who wrote the Leviathan trilogy, quipped: "The only really bad idea would be a drivers' manual with an unreliable narrator." From Tron to Angelina Jolie (via peanut butter) 2010-07-23T11:02:00Z

As Bach did in his Passions, Tippett used arias, recitatives and choruses to carry the story, with a male soloist as narrator. Music Review: Collegiate Chorale Sings Tippett and Bruckner at Carnegie 2012-02-05T22:40:45Z

The protagonist and, as it were, first-porcine narrator of this quirky little book is a pig called Toby. 'PYG': the memoirs of a very smart swine 2012-08-03T19:47:04Z

Still, the novel ends on a small optimistic note as the narrator begins again, perhaps deluded but invigorated, in Liverpool. Three Novels Take Readers Deep Inside the Writer’s Life 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

Shuggie, the novel’s protagonist, has a similar biography to the narrator of this story. Douglas Stuart on Growing Up Queer Before the Internet 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

The narrators include Driss himself, who looks back on his life in the period leading up to his death. Review | Laila Lalami explores life on the margins in ‘The Other Americans’ 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

An unnamed, 30-ish British narrator tracks down her estranged husband, Christopher, in Greece after her mother-in-law intervenes; Christopher is traced to the southern Peloponnese, where he’s supposedly studying mourning rites — and where marital deception proliferates. Paperback Row 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

He is the perfect narrator, a quiet 15-year-old who lives by his bold instincts and for whom observing, evaluating and learning has become an occupation. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z

Instead of using voice-over, “The Measure of All Things” employs Mr. Green as an in-person narrator, punctuating the story with information or his own informal commentary. The Carpetbagger: Sundance: The One Filmmaker Who Doesn’t Want a Distribution Deal 2014-01-23T14:00:19Z

“Rage against the dying light,” she urged in “Big Bright World”; in “Blood for Poppies” the narrator was a soldier in Afghanistan. Music Review: Shirley Manson Leads Garbage at Webster Hall 2012-05-23T21:58:49Z

The occasional narrator of “God’s Pocket” is a Philadelphia newspaper columnist and Jimmy Breslin type who is the beloved voice of the city’s blue collar class. Movie Review: ‘God’s Pocket’ Is John Slattery’s Directorial Debut 2014-05-08T23:52:09Z

But this is not the writer or the narrator. Salon’s guide to writing a memoir 2013-01-20T23:00:00Z

As one reads on in “Motherhood,” it becomes increasingly conspicuous that in the world of this novel, there is only one example of a writer — the narrator herself. Mother of All Decisions: Sheila Heti’s New Novel Weighs Whether to Have a Child 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

I tried on my red jacket as the narrator of “Moonrise Kingdom” and possibly a funny hat. In the Company of Wes Anderson 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

I know what the song is called, but the identity of its “narrator,” if we pretend it merits a close reading, is ambiguous: Maybe it’s Satan, maybe it’s the Other Guy. Sympathy for the devil: To overcome Donald Trump, we first have to accept that we created him 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

Like the narrator of Mr. Bellow’s novel “The Actual,” Mr. Amis was “a first-class noticer.” Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

The narrator and her husband were both single parents when they met while working on a project cataloging the sounds of New York. Valeria Luiselli’s Latest Novel Is a Mold-Breaking New Classic 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

But Lucy is a fairly unreliable narrator, at best, that’s for sure. Andrew McCarthy stretches his wings: “I do have a strong yearning to escape” 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

But what you find is that this world is full of unreliable narrators, wishful thinkers, self‑deceivers. Secrets of the TV writers’ room: inside Narcos, Transparent and Silicon Valley 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z

Before long, the narrator is having trouble getting work done because he’s at Lake Como staying next door to the Clooneys. With Wit and Anger, Ayad Akhtar Addresses What It Means to Be American 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

This powerful debut begins in winter, as a narrator named Autumn sees her sister Summer’s footprints in the snow, leading to the roof’s edge of their Harlem apartment building. Review | The 10 books to read in July 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

And at first Bill, the narrator, just seems lonely. 17 Refreshing Books to Read This Summer 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

“In all honesty, I don’t find the zombies any worse than/most everybody else was,” his beleaguered narrator writes. Zombie Poetry Takes On a Life of Its Own 2012-01-13T14:47:39Z

The novel’s narrator, a lonely, eccentric middle-aged woman named Cheryl, unexpectedly falls into a relationship with a callous younger woman, a blond bombshell named Clee, and finds her compulsively ordered life upended. Miranda July Blurs Fiction and Reality to Promote a Novel 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Naipaul is a difficult, imperfect narrator who does not care to be liked, but he is an honest one and doesn't dissemble. The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief by VS Naipaul 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z

There’s no predicting where the narrator may veer next, no warning of when Burns might pivot from the consolation of humor to a tender observation on despair. A Gun Shop and a Family Prone to Breakdowns: What Could Go Wrong? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

"Going Home" starts the album with a hymn-like melody and a droll twist; it's sung by an unnamed narrator — a manager? Leonard Cohen's new album, 'Old Ideas' wrestles with death 2012-01-30T22:33:07Z

He appeared as the on-air narrator of a documentary video, “Route 66: Return to the Road With Martin Milner,” getting behind the wheel of a vintage Corvette and driving cross-country again. Martin Milner Dies at 83; Actor Made His Name on ‘Route 66’ 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

“He’s a genuine guy,” said Anthony Bourdain, an executive producer of the show and its narrator. Television: ‘The Mind of a Chef,’ With David Chang on PBS 2012-11-04T16:54:16Z

The newly married narrator accompanies her husband to his castle. Ten of the best 2011-03-26T00:05:30Z

Ellis' game of making Bateman an untrustworthy narrator is awkwardly handled here. 'American Psycho' boldly blends the scary with the sardonic 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

I don’t think of the narrator as innocent as much as I think of him as isolated. Douglas Stuart on Growing Up Queer Before the Internet 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

The narrator is a single mother, recently separated from her husband. The Overlooked Autofiction of Yuko Tsushima 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

But the backbone of “Hart Island” is the narrator, an actress played by Weller who arrives at an audition for a voice-over job she knows nothing about. ‘Hart Island’ Gives Voice to Stories That Might Otherwise Be Lost 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

“Border Districts” lives resolutely in the narrator’s own head. Review | The relentlessly introspective vision of Gerald Murnane 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

The narrator of Rachel Cusk’s first novel since the Outline trilogy concluded with “Kudos” in 2018 is familiar: a sharply observant writer in middle age. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

“History, or, to be more precise, the history we Germans have repeatedly mucked up, is a clogged toilet,” the narrator of “Crabwalk” says. Günter Grass, German author and Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

And to other rhythms too — not immediately discernible at first — belonging to a piece of music that is, according to our narrator, as dangerous as it is exquisite. Theater Review: ?The Kreutzer Sonata,? Based on Tolstoy, at La MaMa 2012-03-12T02:00:00Z

The narrator describes a woman’s profile with such wonder it might be a skyline. A Century Later, a Novel by an Enigma of the Harlem Renaissance Is Still Relevant 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

“We are not statistics,” Black and Palestinian narrators proclaim in unison, as they draw attention to the racist violence to which both of their communities are subjected. “Your walls will never cage our freedom”: Black-Palestinian solidarity video goes viral 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

With dry wit and a jumble of genres, the narrator recalls his years in Germany and revisits the Bosnian village where his ancestors are buried, a world transformed by war. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

The narrator in this story is a writer, so is the narrator in “Where Reasons End.” Yiyun Li on the Distance Necessary for Stories 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

The narrator begins in a state of incarceration or severe deprivation. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

Fans of The Wasp Factory will also notice echoes of that novel: both feature a strange teenage narrator kept in an isolated house by a deceitful father figure. The Quarry by Iain Banks – review 2013-06-14T06:28:54Z

“Do you want to know how people go to the bathroom on the boat?” her narrator asks. Again and Again, Literature Provides an Outlet for the Upended Lives of Refugees 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

But presented without the usual narrator, the story is fuzzy and flat in spots, and the choreography, heavy on balleticized folk dance, never rises above serviceable. Review: A Scrappy Ballet Company, Undone by High Expectations 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Likewise, the narrator in the Kinks’ “On the Outside” encourages the lead character to accept their identity, which Davies now describes as transgender. Ray Davies on 50 Years of ‘Lola’ 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

And Ms. Winfrey has been one of its constant narrators: almost one year ago she traveled to North Carolina to interview both Mr. and Mrs. Edwards, then obviously estranged but not yet officially separated. TV Watch: One Woman?s ?Truth?: Rielle Hunter Talks to Oprah 2010-04-29T22:45:00Z

Podcasts, documentary series and reality shows abound in which well-meaning narrators comb over old details in unsolved cases, and it hardly matters if the evidence is neither fresh nor conclusive. Review | ‘Law & Order’ applies its style to true crime, but ‘Menendez Murders’ lacks allure 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

The narrator regards herself as a “pile of flesh,” revisiting the scene of her murder over and over again to splice it with scenes from her preceding life. Hope Gained and Lost, in New Fiction From Around the World 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

At the same time, the narrator discovers that a solid wall in her flat is permeable, and that at certain times she can walk through it into a range of other rooms and lives. Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes 2012-07-05T08:22:05Z

It sounds grim, but is deeply uplifting, and much of this is down to the voice of Standish Treadwell, the book's young narrator. Maggot Moon wins children's Costa award – win a copy 2013-01-02T19:26:35Z

There are parts of the book that evoke a certain visceral discomfort, especially in the narrator's more apparently delusional moments, but it carefully written and evocative with an airtight plot. 7 must-read novels to transport you in February 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Nelson tells his story through the eyes of an elderly black woman narrator, who sometimes addresses the reader as "honey" or "chile." The latest kids' books to win the Coretta Scott King Awards 2012-02-25T07:42:04Z

Read in the proper order, from the first to the last chapter, everything we do and everything we witness, however unlikely or disconnected, fits into a story in which we are both narrators and protagonists. The Infatuations by Javier Marías – review 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z

The call surprises the narrator for several reasons. Love is a wound, or something like that, in Haruki Murakami's new collection, 'Men Without Women' 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

The jury highlighted her "philosophical approach, originality, creativity as well as her ability to communicate with young readers", and described her as "a powerful narrator who blends real life with legend through her pictures". David Almond wins Hans Christian Andersen medal 2010-03-23T16:00:00Z

Voiceovers are tricky, and the best ones are subtle enough, but add something to the beauty of the film instead of just allowing the viewer inside the narrator’s heads. TIME?s Second Annual Oscar Endurance Test?Two Days, Nine Nominees, One Movie Theater: Part II 2012-02-26T18:44:03Z

It takes the form of a question-and-answer session between narrator and reader. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Even the narrator’s mom says she has had it with novels about sad protagonists. Book review: ‘All My Puny Sorrows,’ by Miriam Toews

Set in another solar system, “Project Hail Mary” opens as the narrator, Ryland Grace, wakes up in what looks like a hospital room, with the remains of his two crewmates. Andy Weir’s New Space Odyssey 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

The literal clears of the throat come from the narrator, Ron Howard, whose gentle coughs make a promising opening for the first episode, winking, in that distinctively Arrested Development way, at the audience. Arrested Development recap: season four, episodes 1-5 2013-05-26T15:37:26Z

“There’s a fair amount of questioning of the reliability of the narrator,” Mr. Mills said. When Life Throws Those Curveballs 2011-05-27T17:34:12Z

But it would be interesting to think he may be an unreliable narrator. David Fincher cast the wrong "Killer" in the Netflix thriller that lacks the auteur's usual edge 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z

The husband-and-wife relationship is no longer a focus, though it factors in; rather than eavesdropping on fates or furies, we hear the narrator of Genesis—sort of. Lauren Groff’s Stunning New Collection, “Florida,” Unfolds “in an Eden of Dangerous Things” 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

Just as the narrator intends, the book works like a kaleidoscope: “Shake the tube and see what comes out.” ‘A Writer Writes’: Penelope Lively’s Fiction Defies the Test of Time 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

While he disagrees with his uncle, sitting in the man’s Raj-era bungalow with William Morris wallpaper, the narrator finds it easiest to listen without giving an opinion. ‘Homeland Elegies’ Sings for a Fading Dream of National Belonging 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Hazel, the narrator, is permanently connected to an oxygen tank because her lungs are packing up. Teen fiction and the shadow of cancer 2013-01-26T10:00:01Z

Presumably, the owl is disturbed by human presences rather than unquiet spirits – unless, of course, as is sometimes suggested, the narrator himself is a ghost. Poem of the week: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 2011-01-17T10:17:14Z

Lepucki complicates Lady’s anxiety deliciously by introducing a second, alternating narrator with her own very different mother issues. The trouble with the bad mother memoir 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

As a teen girl — many of Peck's compelling narrators were young women — your story could matter? "Yellowjackets" unapologetically follows YA logic, from the Big Dance to bitter betrayals 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

Her youngest child, Abdul, is the narrator – a bright nine-year-old boy in whom she has instilled good manners, strong moral values and a keen awareness of his cultural heritage. The Kid by Sapphire ? review 2011-08-19T11:15:01Z

That ironic self-deprecation is pretty much the only thing Greenstone still manufactures, and it’s a particular specialty of this book’s narrator, Virgil Wander, who owns the local movie theater. Review | Leif Enger’s fans have waited 10 years for ‘Virgil Wander.’ Was it worth it? 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

Nunez’s narrator folds incident, anecdote, history, rumor — even fairy tales — into a plaintive litany. Review | Sigrid Nunez’s ‘What Are You Going Through’ is an ambitious novel about the meaning of life and death 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

When we first meet the half-mad narrator, Edward Buckmaster, he has taken up residence in a dilapidated, abandoned house on a wild moor in the west of England. ‘Beast’ cements Paul Kingsnorth’s reputation as a furiously gifted writer 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

The narrator has started to think about other men, both in Sofia, where he lives, and in Sozopol. Garth Greenwell on Transitional Spaces and the Burden of Action 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

In case we didn’t absorb those lessons, we’re reminded of them by our singing - and bumping, and grinding - musical narrator, Terry Crews. Review: Barrymore can’t save Sandler’s ‘Blended’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

The narrator, Da’Naisha Love, is familiar with the place, having once interned there. Review | Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s ‘My Monticello’ explores America’s racist past — and present — with grace 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

“I have few happy memories of my mother,” the narrator tells us early on in “The Juniper Tree,” this reimagining of a famously savage Grimm fairy tale. Evil Stepmother, Reimagined 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Cowardly, avaricious, annoying, territorial, deceitful, opportunistic: There aren’t enough shady adjectives in the dictionary to describe the narrator of Andrew Lipstein’s “Last Resort.” In ‘Last Resort,’ a Writer Turns a Friend’s Story Into a Smash Success 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

Speaking at the , Sapphire said that when Push – the novel that became the film Precious – was published, readers found it difficult to grasp that she, the author, was separate from its impoverished, abused, illiterate narrator. Novelist Sapphire complains of 'very real' racism in the arts 2011-08-23T14:37:08Z

I don’t know how you could have any faith in me as the narrator of that book, if I didn’t present myself honestly. “I’m the parent who wants their kids to have sex”: Mary Louise Parker talks poetry, nudity, one-night stands and her brilliant new book 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

During a sonogram the obstetrician points out the sex cells of the narrator’s future grandchildren. New Fiction From Olen Steinhauer, J. G. Ballard and Others 2012-03-28T22:20:12Z

The narrator’s alienation is emphasized even by the novel’s attention to foreign phrases, the little gaps that open up between imperfect translations. ‘What Belongs to You’ review: An eloquent tale of desire and remorse 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

You never quite know exactly where the focus is, and there is something off-kilter about the thriller-like structure: for quite a long time I thought the cold-hearted Polo might be an unreliable narrator. Hot Mess 2010-08-13T13:11:00Z

Wolf, who serves as the narrator, is a simple but expressive puppet made of wood, cardboard and papier-mâché in this probing and playful exploration of family by Hansol Jung. ‘Wolf Play’ Review: What Keeps a Family From Falling to Pieces? 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

The movie opens with the image of a closed red curtain, as, the narrator recounts, used to be de rigueur for movie palace screenings. The Summer of Josh Brolin Continues, on Netflix 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

The setting is Boston and the narrator is Chip’s son, Frank. ‘All the Dead Yale Men’: a family’s legacy of troubles 2013-07-05T16:43:42Z

The narrator tells us early on, “I’m saturated by a vague sense of dread.” Review | Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel ‘Whereabouts’ is a delicate exploration of despair 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

The narrator explaining this is a journalist working for the aptly titled Yesterday’s News. Review: ‘The Symmetry Teacher’ by Andrei Bitov

Logan Cunningham, narrator of the popular downloadable game Bastion, served as host of the awards presentation for about 250 fans at the Cantor Film Center at New York University. ArtsBeat: Skyrim Wins Video Game Critics Award 2012-02-03T19:32:45Z

His book is one in which the boundaries between narrator and subject matter are as treacherous as those between assertion and reality. Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra by Peter Stothard – review 2013-07-05T11:00:01Z

But Marcella herself is not a reliable narrator; she has dissociative episodes, and gaps in her memory, and we see her bloodied and crying in a bathtub, without quite knowing how she got there. What You Should Watch This Fourth of July Weekend 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

She remembers one title in particular, but declines to name it, with a young narrator whose English was poor. It’s Banned Books Week again. Can we stop yelling at each other about it? 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

“I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces,” the narrator confesses. Review: ‘The Sympathizer,’ a Novel About a Soldier, Spy and Film Consultant 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

That’s how the god narrator came about, and in the terms of political jargon it’s not fit for purpose. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z

Elsewhere, a narrator falls into a hole alongside a flesh-eating jinn who used to teach poetry in Baghdad. The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim – review 2013-03-20T09:01:01Z

Posing as a potential buyer, the narrator visits the advertised house for sale. Review | ‘The Scapegoat’ is a bizarre, arresting mystery you won’t be able to put down 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

It's like we can dig in and not worry about having a perfectly protected stance, because at the end of the day, Joe is an unreliable narrator and a despicable human being. "You" star Penn Badgley thinks his killer Joe has "too many sides .. and he needs to die" 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z

The official corruption in Nigeria astounds our unnamed narrator. Books of The Times: ‘Every Day Is for the Thief’ by Teju Cole 2014-03-25T20:21:54Z

Sheila, the narrator, has a specific life and a specific experience, but her emotional and mental work offer concrete solutions to problems that you, yourself, may be working on. If Lena Dunham wrote a memoir 2012-07-22T16:00:00Z

It has an old-fashioned omniscient narrator, and old-fashioned characters too: none of the bankers, footballers or immigrant cleaners who peopled a recent spate of state-of-the-nation novels set in London. EL James, JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel … the women who dominated publishing in 2012 2012-11-30T22:55:17Z

In meddling in her affairs, the narrator must break one of his own rules, namely not making contact with or intervening in the lives of his subjects. A Psychological Thriller Asks, Are We All a Little Stalker-ish? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

Ozick’s sizable vocabulary does double duty by portraying her narrator as pretentious: “pharaonic remnants,” “mullioned windows,” a jaw’s “prognathic ridge.” An Old Man’s Youthful Fascinations Animate Cynthia Ozick’s New Novel 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

This narrator is engaged in this life and he’s struggling to make sense of it. Why artist Tim Youd is spending his nights on Hollywood Boulevard retyping John Rechy's hustling novel 'City of Night' 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

That all sounds so awful, and it is — but in the narrator’s knowing, alternately wry and waggish commentary, there is more than denial, repression and toughing-it-out, though plenty of that, too. Review | Anna Burns’s ‘Little Constructions’ is just as twisting and tragicomic as her Booker Prize winner ‘Milkman’ 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

There is no omnipotent narrator in her work, simply a fluent interlacing of viewpoints. Elizabeth Jane Howard: 'I'm 90. Writing is what gets me up in the morning' 2013-04-06T23:05:23Z

One longs for some scrap of remembered dialogue, some interaction, as we anxiously wait to get to know these parents, this quiet sister, this courageous narrator. Review: ‘The Liars’ Club,’ by Mary Karr 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

From its moaning vocal introduction, echoed within a few bars by Johnson’s slide guitar, the narrator details how he betrayed his best friend, and then was himself betrayed, all for the love of a woman. Greg Kot: Music behind myths of Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson 2011-05-03T18:47:25Z

Robin Miles, one of America’s most skilled audiobook narrators, moves adroitly from voice to voice, mood to mood, Ghanaian to American, as she delivers this suspenseful, atmospheric novel of desperation, corruption and murder. Review | For your playlist: The best new audiobooks of the month 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

“We’re connecting a new generation to our loving history, by illustrating the fully unabridged, authentic text in the sequential storytelling style of comics — a Jewish innovation, you know,” the narrator says. Seven Comic Books for This Season (and the Next) 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

A narrator who notices everything … a woman jogs on Hampstead Heath. Thrillers – review roundup 2013-05-24T10:01:00Z

It tells the apparently autobiographical story of two New York bohemians who’d once been inseparable, before the narrator got famous and her hard-living pal Johnny ended up on the street. St. Vincent Flirts With Autobiography and the Sounds of the ’70s 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the whole interest of his story is in the limits placed upon its narrator. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z

When Stephen McCauley’s debut, “The Object of My Affection,” begins, George, the resolutely irresolute narrator, is drifting. Dear Match Book: Funny Pages 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

So that’s kind of what we were trying to say in that first episode: That we are all unreliable narrators when it comes to telling the story of our own lives. Why Showtime's The Affair Will Be as Intense as Game of Thrones 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

We’ve got a fairy-tale-style omniscient narrator who notes the exact years, months and days since certain events; oddball aunts who raised a bookish niece; and police investigations that are more whimsical than gory. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

As the clock ticks down, these realities bleed deeper into the story, no matter how much the narrator tries to ignore them. The Dystopia Has Just Arrived 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

Will the narrator’s aging father survive a malpractice lawsuit? With Wit and Anger, Ayad Akhtar Addresses What It Means to Be American 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

Mezzocchi, in flannel shirt, wool beanie and quarantine beard, makes an appealing narrator. The Play Is Coming From Inside the House 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

And yet, through a careful marrying of desperation, love and awareness of the world as the narrator sees it, Ruffin makes us understand how it is that this man might have become broken this way. In This Ingenious Satire, a Father Goes to Extremes to Protect His Son From Racism 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Dad further unburdens himself of the story of his own father, the narrator’s grandfather. Daniel Galera’s ‘Blood-Drenched Beard’ 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

The baby is not a metaphor, the narrator warns us, yet her wild, untrammeled, inscrutable being is everywhere counterpoised by the internet’s similarly enigmatic existence. Patricia Lockwood’s First Novel Reaches for the Sublime, Online and Off 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

People are allowed to be the narrators of their own stories. Perspective | How gross is Joe Biden’s touching? There’s no point system for determining harassment. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

His songs brim with dysfunctional, even despicable, narrators, and even as his show plays with arena clichés, it also undermines them. The Weeknd concert at Chicago Theatre 2013-10-14T04:28:00Z

An old family friend of the narrator’s, and his teenage crush, she suggests Artemis, as drawn by Camille Paglia: “She has nerve, fire, arrogance, force. . . . She is pristine. She never learns.” In “Afternoon of a Faun,” James Lasdun Mixes Autofiction and Psychological Thriller 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

As narrator of this volume, Turner has learned a thing or six about perspective and forgiveness, acceptance and humility. Review | ‘Three Girls from Bronzeville’ is a story about growing up on Chicago’s South Side — and so much more 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

The ways in which these people — who also include our narrator in an assortment of roles — intersect are meant to evoke a cosmic pattern, a sense of the invisible connective tissue that underlies the mundane. ‘Fly by Night,’ a Metaphysical Musical 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Yet both Darren and Libby do plenty of killing — something the narrator never refers to as murder, even when it’s premeditated. The wild boy wants his fangs in Stephen Graham Jones' "Mongrels" 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Instead, the unnamed narrator emerges to find himself alive and alone in the world, after an apocalyptic ambiguity he refers to as “the Event.” It’s the End of Humanity. Maybe It’s for the Best. 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

As they attempt to reconstruct their journey through Dublin, they forget the details and are fed cues by the others, each an unreliable narrator of their own life, but very certain about everyone else's. As You Are Now So Once Were We ? review 2011-02-02T18:35:11Z

Mary and the narrator both struggle with the things they’ve done — and they both visit Eden’s bedside in a kind of eternal vigil. Review | The ‘most wounded man in the history of war’ comes home in ‘Waiting for Eden’ 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

Referring to herself in the third person, the narrator chooses, as she says, to “indulge the luxury of a more distant perspective.” A Capital City, Still Haunted by Its Past 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

“Why was Sandy so powerful, why so much devastation, and will it happen again?” the episode’s narrator intones early on. Television Review: ‘Megastorm’ on the Discovery Channel 2012-11-17T01:17:18Z

“My dear Callum,” the book begins, introducing us to Meissner, the narrator, and to his British grandson, whose commentary is interspersed seamlessly throughout. A Former Soldier Tells His Grandson: ‘I Wasn’t a Nazi.’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

Yet as the narrator lists some unusual flaws — “stress lines and cigarettes/politics and deficits” — the beat constantly resists the rest of the song. The Playlist: Janelle Monáe Feels the Funk, and 13 More New Songs 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

"Los Angeles is hard to get right," the film's narrator admits. 'L.A. Plays Itself,' but do films get it right? 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

Bernard, as narrator, was the voice of the Wombles, but so was I since it was me singing the theme song. How we made The Wombles 2013-04-22T16:16:00Z

As soon as you think you know where the story is going, the lines between reality and imagination blur, thanks to an unnamed narrator who is unreliable and not entirely likable. Review | In ‘Hell of a Book,’ an author and his imaginary friend go on a book tour 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

Why did you want your narrator to be so explicit about this? This Week in Fiction: Samantha Hunt on the Unspoken Terrors of Being a New Mother 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

And since I had Won as the narrator, I wanted to see what he would think about Robert Sung. Shooting hoops and K-dramas: The American dream of not being relegated to a subplot 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

The narrator, Toby Hennessy, is the golden boy for whom everything goes right. An Overlooked Novel from 1935 by the Godmother of Feminist Detective Fiction 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

Dreyer himself is a charming, chatty narrator with a soft spot for both digressive footnotes and name-dropping. The Hedonic Appeal of “Dreyer’s English” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

That it is a novel that surely knows more than its narrator, and perhaps more than its author, for it does its thinking at the levels of form and style. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Climbers by M John Harrison 2013-05-10T07:00:01Z

The narrator of “The Starlight on Idaho,” Cass, wonders if he’s even alive at all. Denis Johnson' posthumous collection 'The Largesse of the Sea Maiden' is a poetic argument against toxic masculinity 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Its appeal lies precisely in this tonal flatness — the anthropological distance the narrator maintains from her subjects. To Sayaka Murata, Nonconformity Is a Slippery Slope 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

It’s sort of halfway between my normal speaking voice and taking on a whole character, because in a book, when it’s third person, as the reader, you become the narrator. And so it goes: James Franco narrates ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

Now traveling under the nom de guerre Vo Danh, our narrator is once again in the wind, driven by his only commandment: “We will live!” His Debut Novel Won the Pulitzer. Now It Has an Action-Packed Sequel. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

“New York 1, Tel Aviv 0,” the narrator thinks as she compares the nicotine haze of Israeli interiors with the smoke-free bars of New York. 'New York 1, Tel Aviv 0,' Stories by Shelly Oria 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

Yet unlike a lot of sci-fi, the piece is all about feelings, and specifically the hurt feelings of its unnamed female narrator. Review | The appeal of ‘And I Do Not Forgive You’ is hard to articulate but impossible to resist 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

The narrator occasionally corrects herself for clarity, which implies that she realizes that we can hear her. Can One Sentence Capture All of Life? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

“You could almost take each other’s arm,” says the narrator. Film: Alain Resnais Explores Desire in ?Wild Grass? 2010-06-19T06:53:00Z

The narrator occupies a nicer, low-rise building one street over with her white father and black Jamaican mother, an ambitious autodidact possessing a “terrific instinct for middle-class mores.” Zadie Smith’s New Novel Takes on Dance, Fame and Friendship 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Wells as a narrator is drawn to certain logical shapes, to nested thoughts, eddies of thought. He Can’t Save His Daughter. Can He Save Himself? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

He — and it is almost always a he — is the critical equivalent of an unreliable narrator, unable to write about technology without also writing about himself. A Trust Buster for the New ‘Knowledge Monopoly’ 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

"How will the space shuttle be remembered?" asked the narrator. Last night's TV 2011-04-11T08:33:13Z

The narrator makes vague reference to “all the other sorrows that had vexed her over the last two years,” without explaining what they are, because, after all, no one has bothered to ask. The Scars of Ukraine’s War, Illuminated in Fiction 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

Could this narrator be a hugely unpopular president speaking to his loyal base? The Playlist: Janelle Monáe Feels the Funk, and 13 More New Songs 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

When a woman says she expects oppositionists to be young men with wild hair, the narrator replies, "What do you want, the regime's gotten old and so have we." Tadeusz Konwicki lays bare Poland's 'ruined-modern' past 2011-04-06T11:54:51Z

But why set Baldwin’s words for an orchestra-backed narrator, rather than for a singer or chorus, as Thompson’s extensive experience as a choral conductor and composer might suggest? Meet the young composer whose piece for Seattle Symphony is among the first inspired by 2020’s impactful events 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Though the multiple narrators would seem to be a way to show multiplicity — all Black women, not just Rankine — the play’s structure doesn’t work hard enough to earn it. Review: A Poet’s Urgent Questions Fuel ‘November’ 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

The ensemble of characters is small, a trio for the most part that includes Eden; his wife, Mary; and the narrator, Eden’s best friend and fellow Marine. Review | The ‘most wounded man in the history of war’ comes home in ‘Waiting for Eden’ 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

“On Saturday,” the unnamed narrator muses, “I will be a woman in a dress stepping over a threshold into married life. A bride. I will finally leave my family behind.” Life Advice From a Dead Grandmother Who’s Returned as a Bird 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

As a booming narrator takes you through each cave, turquoise and purple lights dance on the icy formations, creating a surreal, Disneyesque experience. Bypass Ibiza’s crowds and parties for Majorca’s beauty and tranquility 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

He seems a bit of an unreliable narrator — unreliable because of sheer stubborn cheerfulness. Review | Bill Cunningham left behind a memoir. It is, to use one of his favorite words, marvelous. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Vidal’s narrator is the fictional Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, a widower and “very old,” he tells us, at the age of 62. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

You feel more and more unsafe on the part of the teenage narrator: there is a dance between what he knows and does not know that keeps you reading. Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan on their new creations - an acclaimed film and a baby daughter 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

Then, a faceless male narrator ask some of these kids what they most want for Christmas—and then what their parents would want. Stop sharing this “Other Christmas Gift” video: There’s nothing “uplifting” about telling low-income kids to give up their Christmas presents 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Lucy, the 38-year-old narrator, has taken shelter in her sister’s glass house on Venice Beach after a disastrous breakup in Phoenix. The Merman of Her Dreams 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

One narrator comments, “Everyone has been infecting everyone else since the Garden of Eden.” Review: ‘The American People, Volume 1’ by Larry Kramer Retells History With Passion 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere, Clark turns Guthrie-esque narrator for El Coyote, a tragic tale of people smuggling, and Heroes, a compassionate look at traumatised soldiers. Guy Clark: My Favorite Picture of You – review 2013-07-27T23:05:10Z

Before long it’s clear that not only is Sal a quick-witted character and narrator, he also has skills that go way beyond magic tricks. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘Sal & Gabi Break the Universe’ 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

Its narrator is too often forced to put on his “white-folks smile.” 2 TV Shows, 4 Books and 7 Viral Videos for Your Long Weekend 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

As he relates this saga, the narrator seems to become less and less interested in Gladys’s plight. Joseph O’Neill on Emotional Relationships Between Men 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

The two are remarkably different stories, but they both faced the same major challenge: how to tell a story when viewers can’t trust the narrator. How ‘The Girl on the Train’ tries to go deeper than your average mystery thriller 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

As the narrator says in the great old Dassin movie: "There are eight million stories in the naked city." NY arts world commemorates Sept. 11 in music, film 2011-09-09T20:52:12Z

As the narrator mourns the lawless revellers and surveys total devastation and "the Temple flames" which "herald no dawn", this heartfelt work takes on new urgency. Robert Saxton: The Wandering Jew ? review 2011-08-13T23:05:52Z

“The narrator of ‘Three Rooms’ is caught between awareness of her privilege and a growing disbelief at how little it now buys,” Katie Kitamura writes in her review. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

The narrator offers the ultimate sacrifice and goes away, thinking that this might save Louise’s life. Considering Love, Loss and Jeanette Winterson 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

The book opens with the narrator, Ketzel, recently widowed and in her early 50s, visiting her parents at their now-shuttered hotel in the Catskills, where she learns that her only remaining brother has gone missing. In This Novel, a Grieving Widow Becomes the Detective Hero 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

There is a beautiful moment when the narrator wants Jenny to hear the song of a blackbird. Perspective | The end of summer is always sad. This year, my grief led me back to a favorite short story and book of photographs. 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

That’s not a bad description of this stylish narrator, too, who keeps the story sliding along so quickly that you’ll barely notice his sleight of hand. Review | In ‘Here We Are,’ Booker Prize winner Graham Swift casts a spell 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

But the meat of the novel isn’t the narrator’s story so much as the stories that strangers feel compelled to tell her. Rachel Cusk is returning fiction to its roots in storytelling 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

Her real name is Sara Couden, and she was taking the role of the narrator, Testo, using her pointer to move the figures from one stylized tableau to another as she explained what was happening. Review | Two opera companies animate a 17th-century work to confront #MeToo head-on 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

The heat in “The Committed,” of which there is a good deal, derives from the friction created by the narrator’s contradictory thoughts about France, his country’s colonizer. Viet Thanh Nguyen Packs Plenty of Action and Outrage Into ‘The Committed’ 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

My own divergence from general opinion is an aversion to the much-lauded, award-winning, too-swoopy voice of Davina Porter and that of the equally celebrated Scott Brick, the cilantro of narrators — you like it or don’t. Review | Don’t let a bad reader ruin your audiobook experience. Here are recordings to savor — and to avoid. 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

Valente’s narrator wants to be sure we have fun, even when great disappointments or injuries loom. A Wildly Inventive Fantasy Series That Began on the Web and Became a Best-Seller 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

They disgust the narrator, but she also spends a lot of time thinking about the right way to talk about them. This Week in Fiction: Mariana Enriquez on the Fascination of Ghost Stories 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

It also mercifully interrupts a tone that leans dangerously toward cracker-barrel omniscience, evoking Garrison Keillor spinning folksy tales of Lake Wobegon crossed with the avuncular narrator of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.” | 'It?s Always Right Now, Until It?s Later': ?It?s Always Right Now, Until It?s Later? - Review 2012-01-09T03:01:00Z

He disguised the truth in a murkily doomed romance between the narrator and Sally. 50 years of 'Cabaret': How the 1966 musical keeps sharpening its edges for modern times 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Our narrator, Lem Billings, is in the East Village when he spots a familiar figure sauntering down Avenue A in a linen skirt, a black blouse and Nina Ricci sunglasses. He Knew What Jackie Gave Up for the Kennedys. This Is His Story. 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

An unnamed narrator gives an introduction to the room itself through a piece of fiction by Matthew Brannon. Public Fiction is collectively in Hammer Museum's 'Made in L.A.' 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

“It puts you in the emotional state of the narrator and mixes the physical world with the virtual world.” Cold war experiments and storybook monsters - back to Venice's VR island 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

Much of this information comes from the narrator, Jojo, originally played by the white actor Sam Harris. Comedy Undercut ‘The Life.’ Billy Porter Looks for Its Humanity. 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

He's constantly mocked by a bird that serves as the film's narrator. 1980's 'The King and the Mockingbird' finally alights in U.S. 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

She described its narrator as the alter ego of Wilhelmina Slater, the coldly ambitious fashion magazine editor she played on “Ugly Betty.” Review: Vanessa Williams, Strong and Steady, Without Taking Chances 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

But I first saw the town just as Salter’s narrator did: “ … in the distance, against the streaked sky, a town appears. A single, great spire, stark as a monument: Autun.” James Salter’s ‘Blue, Indolent’ Corner of Burgundy 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Its narrator wants redress for the wrongs of history, but he also wants to live in the imperative tense. Viet Thanh Nguyen Packs Plenty of Action and Outrage Into ‘The Committed’ 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

Having read Robert Burns's poem, Halloween, the narrator describes being at a gathering where sweethearts "burnt nuts and watched their fate with anxious hearts". Halloween foods from history reveal the holiday’s surprising romantic side — and you can try them yo 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z

Early in the book, Rorschach, our narrator and one of the last remaining vigilantes, begins to suspect a plot to take him and his masked-superhero friends down. “Watchmen,” “The Boys,” and the False Hope That Superheroes Can Save Us 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

On the first page, the narrator rhapsodizes about young girls showing their navels. ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

As the story opens, its narrator has been marooned on a desert island when one day a jinni — “the largest and blackest beast that I had ever seen” — wades ashore with a glass chest. In these medieval Arab tales, a heavy dollop of spice 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

Submarine was a very funny read, the humour deriving from its narrator's viewpoint on an adult world. Wild Abandon by Joe Dunthorne ? review 2011-07-29T21:58:00Z

Told in patient, psychologically complex prose, “Sight” combines the narrator’s thoughts about her own mother, who died several years earlier, and her remembrances of her grandmother, a psychoanalyst, with her relevant digressions about scientific history. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Sight’ Balances Grief, Freud and Parenthood 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z

Our narrator is plainly Theseus – but who or what is the Minotaur? Crime fiction roundup - review 2012-12-21T08:00:01Z

The adult Vanessa is a classic unreliable narrator, and as she is reporting the sexual entanglement the reader becomes queasily aware of this. Girl, Interrupted 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

Schroder – liar and kidnapper – isn't the most obviously sympathetic of narrators, but beware: this moving, funny, disturbing novel will have you in floods of tears, onlookers bedamned. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z

“Day after day, the same work, the same meetings, just as dry, just as boring, just as worrying as ever,” the narrator says. Chinese millennials to enter worst job market in nation’s history 2013-05-28T20:11:00Z

Published in 1983, “Ararat” was curiously wrought: It used multiple narrators and intertwined story lines to address questions of life and death, reality and art. D.M. Thomas, 88, Dies; His ‘White Hotel’ Was a Surprise Best Seller 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

A partisan narrator but probably not an unreliable one, Melinda is somehow able to present flashbacks to moments that she didn’t see. Review: In ‘Acrimony,’ Taraji P. Henson Endures Marriage and Script Woes 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

To return to “Strangler Bob,” the story mentioned at the top of this review: Its narrator recalls his time in the county lockup in 1967, back when dogs and children ran free in the streets. Catching Up With Denis Johnson’s Star-Crossed Drifters 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

Chikwava invents a whole new argot for the narrator of this novel. EC Osondu's top 10 immigrants' tales 2011-01-26T15:26:49Z

I first ran across her work in an eerie short story published in The New Yorker in 2005, titled “Pregnancy Diary,” whose disturbed narrator keeps a diary of her sister’s pregnancy. A Man in a Cafe Asked Julie Otsuka What She Was Reading. They Dated for Two Years. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

The narrator is a dead man with his mother, sisters and brothers weeping over him. Leon Bridges Brings Southern Soul Into the 21st Century 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

The narrator travels by slowly, by pony and trap, by rowing boat, by bike and by foot, sheltering in ordinary suburban houses, eating tins of peaches, drinking beer from bottles. Summer voyages: The War of the Worlds by HG Wells 2013-07-26T10:50:02Z

From the beginning he talked about porch culture and the culture of storytelling that he grew up with, and I wanted to place him as our narrator, on his porch telling his story. These Aren’t Fashion Documentaries (Even if They’re About Fashion Stars) 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Peripatetic and reflective, bookish and quietly beguiling, the narrator of “Land of Love and Ruins” has clear antecedents in the W.G. Love, Icelandically: On Oddny Eir's novel 'Land of Love and Ruins' 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

The narrator’s “wistful, elegiac recollections extend to the film’s visual texture, its brownish hues and grainy, wintry sunlight,” Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in March 2009. DVDs: Visconti?s ?Leopard? ? After the Prince, the Deluge 2010-06-26T02:45:00Z

By the end of the novel, he has examined every corner of the narrator’s conflicted psyche and surveyed an ever-shifting social question without once resorting to cliché. In “Afternoon of a Faun,” James Lasdun Mixes Autofiction and Psychological Thriller 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

Why shouldn't Proust make his narrator, Marcel, straight? Reading group: how LGBT is Proust? 2013-02-20T12:01:01Z

They are competing perspectives of various unreliable narrator, each approaching a shared history with their own agenda. Changing "Interview with the Vampire" made it more alluring while staying true to its spirit 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

Its narrator, grown older, recalls old buildings, power outages, Laurel and Hardy movies, Christmas presents wrapped in silver paper. ‘Suspended Sentences,’ Novellas by Patrick Modiano 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Lurking in quite a few of these stories is a first-person narrator, either centered in the telling or peeking in from the periphery, not even a character. Zadie Smith Experiments With Short Fiction 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the oddest example of this is that the narrator pronounces her struggle over when she nears 40. Mother of All Decisions: Sheila Heti’s New Novel Weighs Whether to Have a Child 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

Or so the narrator judges him to be; he knows nothing about music. ‘One Discordant Violin’ Review: In Search of Soul-Stirring Art 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

His narrator's girlfriend has a circulation problem, which means she wears gloves; he fantasises wildly about their eventual removal, the unbearable imperative of "I want to hold your hand". Pulse by Julian Barnes ? review 2011-01-02T00:03:03Z

The character best developed in this haze of grief is the one who dies before we ever meet him — and to whom the narrator directs a kind of epistolary monologue. For the Love of a Dog 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

Bruchac’s narrator recalls his Slovak grandparents arriving in America: “Only part of my blood loves that memory. / Another voice speaks / of native lands / within this nation. / Lands invaded / when the earth became owned.” A New Collection Upends Conventional Wisdom About Migration 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

In Pushkin's novel, the story is told in the past tense, through a third-person narrator. Eugene Onegin: unchain my heart 2013-01-02T19:30:04Z

It’s those mental perambulations that are the key to the dream the narrator weaves, transporting us, if not to Wuthering Heights or Wonderland, down a different rabbit hole: the foramen of consciousness. Jung Young Moon weaves a metafictional dream in 'Vaseline Buddha' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

That becomes his stock, passive response as he slowly ceases all activity much to the chagrin of the flabbergasted narrator. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

With our narrator Elliot incapacitated – in one way or another – for nearly all of season two, Mr Robot has had to rely on other characters to actually drive the plot forwards. Log off, Elliot: Mr Robot's female characters are the show's driving force 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

The Dutch institution’s site uses audiovisual elements — poignant classical music, a comforting narrator, a scroll-like layout — to create a mood, like stepping into an immersive space. Perspective | This Smithsonian exhibit says something powerful about Native Americans, even through your screen 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

Our narrator catches Tiernan touching up Gouger’s work to make it more interesting and salable. Stephen King Reviews Tana French’s ‘Extraordinary’ New Novel 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

The voice of this mock murder ballad’s haughty, homicidal narrator at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency on Tuesday belonged to Kate Baldwin in the opening night performance of her show, “She Loves Him.” Music Review: Showering the Songwriter With Love and His Words 2011-03-09T22:38:43Z

A little more distance, a little more irony in the narrator’s voice might have kept a few of these lines from grating with naivete. ‘The Spark and the Drive,’ by Wayne Harrison

Another narrator—a nameless urban historian—tells the story of New York from a bohemian point of view. Kim Stanley Robinson’s Latest Novel Imagines Life in an Underwater New York 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

“Growing Up Fisher,” which begins on Sunday, is told as a memoir: The narrator looks back at the period when he was 11, and his blind father moved out, seeking a divorce. Television Review: NBC Rolls Out ‘About a Boy’ and ‘Growing Up Fisher’ 2014-02-21T23:28:58Z

And where “The Color of Water” deals with isolation in many of the ways that “Kill ’Em and Leave” does, it is essentially a bildungsroman, a tale of the derivation of its narrator. James McBride’s ‘Kill ’Em and Leave’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

The pregnancy sparks something of a mixed emotional reaction in the narrator. This Week in Fiction: Rivka Galchen Discusses Her Story “How Can I Help?” 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

The thriller's narrator is Devin Jones, looking back on his 20s and the time he spent working at the North Carolina funfair Joyland – "We sell fun," says its owner – while recovering from a broken heart. Joyland by Stephen King – review 2013-06-22T15:00:00Z

That's what the narrator of the song — a Phantom of the Opera-type character, on the run from the law, in the popular music video — won't do to the person he loves. Meat Loaf taught me it's OK to have big dreams 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z

She knows how to pronounce these words, the narrator says, but their distortions are “her means of staking out a personality.” Speaking in Tongues: Novels in Translation From Around the World 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

“I was not a boat person unless the English Pilgrims who fled religious persecution to come to America on the Mayflower were also boat people,” the narrator thinks. He Writes Unreliable Narrators Because He Is One, Too 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z

In “Canvas” the narrator, a graduate student, is renting an apartment from an older woman, an artist named Agnes. Ayşegül Savaş on Imitation and Identity 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z

“We tell stories to live,” says Tracker, the indefatigable narrator, who tells a lot of stories but doesn’t let many people live. Review | ‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf’ is the fantasy epic everyone will be talking about 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

The narrator is on the run for some unstated reason, dogs and devils at her heels, and she has faked her own death, maybe. Tanya Tucker’s New Album Might Be the Best of Her Long, Underrated Career 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

It feels less like a novel than a collection of essays linked together by the author’s preoccupation with her hair — or, rather, the hair of her narrator, Mila. For Black and Mixed-Race Women, Hair and Identity Are Tangled Together 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

The narrator, like Lasdun, is a writer and professor from a bourgeois-bohemian English family who is now living in upstate New York. In “Afternoon of a Faun,” James Lasdun Mixes Autofiction and Psychological Thriller 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

But just why are these narrators appealing to their audiences? You talkin' to me?: how TV narration got personal 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

Salter’s nameless narrator spends the autumn photographing the town for some vague future project that grows increasingly obsessive and immense. James Salter’s ‘Blue, Indolent’ Corner of Burgundy 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

As a child, the narrator was taught by religious brothers in “the capital city.” Review | The relentlessly introspective vision of Gerald Murnane 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

“It was June 13,” the narrators remind themselves, like an incantation, “eighty-three degrees out, under sunny skies.” “The Virgin Suicides” Still Holds the Mysteries of Adolescence 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

The dog isn't aware of its own mortality the way the human narrator is. "You have to think about hope": Author Silas House on democracy's demise, climate refugees and dogs 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

The narrator of her "Dolls' Eyes" owns hundreds of dolls, some of whom, she says with no further explanation, are "alive". Best European Fiction 2013, edited by Aleksandar Hemon – review 2013-02-01T09:01:01Z

Even so, the narrator can't help but feel for his friend's mother, whom he imagines "sitting on the edge of her bed. Praying the rosary." George Pelecanos' 'Martini Shot' short stories colorful but confined 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

At the end of the novel, the ghost who is given pride of place in the narrator’s heart, his mother, is reborn, slightly, beautifully. His Debut Novel Won the Pulitzer. Now It Has an Action-Packed Sequel. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

But there’s the rub: “Pessimism is too easy, even delicious,” the fetal narrator says. Ian McEwan’s ‘Nutshell’: A tale of betrayal and murder as told by a fetus 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

This is a work of observation by a narrator who is paying attention. An unusual first novel by a veteran of the U.S. Marines 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

The narrator, an old man who returns to Medellín near the end of his life, meets beautiful Alexis, a 16-year-old hitman from one of the city’s poorer neighborhoods. How novelist Fernando Vallejo's work reveals Colombia's deep divisions 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Our narrator, Jazz Bashara, is one of these lunar locals, who emigrated to the moon from Saudi Arabia at age 6. Andy Weir's 'The Martian' was a huge hit. And now he's hoping he's not a one-hit wonder. 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

One, Doodle, born sickly and disabled, is forcibly taught to walk, swim and climb by his brother, the narrator. ‘The Scarlet Ibis’ Blends Opera With Puppetry 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

On the night of winter solstice, having disguised himself as one of the shunned and listless creatures, the narrator uncovers the hideous truth about Mirocaw, his former teacher and himself. Michael Dirda’s picks for Halloween chillers: Get ready to be grossed out 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

The stoic dispassion of the speaker belies the horror of what he is foretelling, and the narrator wonders if he will offer “a crumb, if only a crumb it be, of hope.” Sigrid Nunez’s New Book Asks a Timely Question, Right in the Title 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

The prophet and narrator Natan is the one who allows the reader entry into David’s mind and heart. Geraldine Brooks reimagines King David’s life in ‘The Secret Chord’ 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

In the narrator’s case, there’s truth to the warning. Like Riding a Tilt-a-Whirl Manned by a Sadist 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z

Others are readily comprehensible, such as "Gt Neck" – Great Neck being the real-life version of West Egg, the location of 's Long Island mansion and the narrator Nick Carraway's rented cottage. Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell – review 2013-06-29T08:00:35Z

It’s telling that the narrator leaves her job as a blogger to work on a novel, and that “Fake Accounts” doesn’t much bother with an ersatz representation of online activity. ‘Fake Accounts’ Examines the Alluring Trap of Our Online Personas 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

In France, the narrator finds himself contending with attitudes far murkier than anything he experienced in the proudly fantastical United States. Review | In ‘The Committed,’ Viet Thanh Nguyen continues his Pulitzer Prize-winning story 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

The narrator is at a transitional time, between high school and university. Haruki Murakami on Asking the Right Questions 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, an unseen narrator extols the animal’s core virtue: “Honey badger don’t give a . . .” — well, a darn. How Steve Bannon and Donald Trump Rode the Honey Badger Into the White House 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

“I was supposed to pretend to be some kind of great healer,” the narrator says, but his medical expertise rarely involves more than scraping up bits of his friends and zipping them in bags. Review | Nico Walker is a convicted bank robber. ‘Cherry’ proves he’s also a must-read author. 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

The narrator asks, neglecting the fact that this doctor didn’t actually invent the guillotine, “Was it where he’d perfected his device for severing heads?” ‘Suspended Sentences,’ Novellas by Patrick Modiano 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

The narrator is often referred to, by his guardians, as “blissful idiot.” ‘Suspended Sentences,’ Novellas by Patrick Modiano 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

“They were still counting,” the narrator notes, “though it was getting less clear to what end.” ‘Panic in a Suitcase,’ by Yelena Akhtiorskaya

And it is by this Ocean that the narrator sits down and recalls the magical and traumatic events that befell his seven-year-old self. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman – review 2013-06-23T07:00:01Z

Nguyen combined the two notions, the squid and the liver, and allowed his fictional narrator the pleasure of having his spontaneous way with his own family’s dinner-to-be. Authors of Fiction Confront a Problem: How to Write About Sex 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

Before its makeover, NatGeo was a musty network that aired documentaries with "voice of God" narrators and few reasons for people to watch regularly, Lyle said. A reboot for the National Geographic Channel 2013-04-11T14:04:09Z

If you’re prone to sympathetic vomiting, you’ll want a smock, too, because most of what the inebriated narrator does in this novel is vomit. Review | James Frey’s ‘Katerina’ is a million little pieces of narcissism and may be the worst novel of the year 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

The narrator of this tightly conceived and distinctively written debut novel is perceptive, precise and unsparing with her words. A Black Woman in Finance Regains Her Agency 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

We alternate between three narrators and pivot on a single ambush near Baghdad early in the war. Brian Van Reet’s ‘Spoils’ moves fiction about the Iraq War into new territory 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

An unreliable narrator is an invitation to a shell game. Her Novel Became a Best Seller. The Trouble: The Manuscript Was Stolen. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

Yet she’s also a genuinely complex narrator, a powerful mind with blind spots to match. Ben Lerner’s ‘The Topeka School’ Revisits the Debates of the ’90s 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

For example, The Fug Girls' "The Royal We" sequel "The Heir Affair," narrator Christine Lakin plays both men and women, and performs American, English, and an assortment of other U.K. accents. Ronan Farrow's voices (and other audiobook delights) helped me get through this year 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

In the story to follow, the narrator’s mortally ill friend, anticipating the horrors of cancer treatment, confesses she means to end matters early, with pills. Review | Sigrid Nunez’s ‘What Are You Going Through’ is an ambitious novel about the meaning of life and death 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

The ultimate punchline of Flaubert's cosmic joke is that the narrator himself is a master of subtle confusion. We’re living in the bizarre world that Flaubert envisioned 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

What will happen to the narrator should his father be abruptly dispatched to heaven, and his mother found out and sent to jail? Review: ‘Nutshell,’ a Tale Told by a Baby-to-Be (or Not-to-Be) 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

What is a “narrator,” and how does he connect with the author of a work? The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z

Over tooth-loosening bass and an oppressive steel drum, our narrator relates the lurid tale of her erratic husband, whom she discovers has been barking in their basement. 12 Forgotten Classics by Women-Led New Wave Bands 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

But often there is a narrator, a stand-in for the author, who explains how their grotesque behavior is a logical response to a society that discourages expressions of individuality, self-reflection and personal ambition. Books of The Times: Cruel Stories of Youth: Numb, Violent and Aimless in Japan 2011-02-07T17:18:05Z

Roth hit upon Zuckerman early on as a way to tell his stories, and even after Zuckerman stopped being a main character he proved to be an excellent narrator. Andrew Sean Greer on Writing and Winning 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

The narrator, coolly evasive in the way of Rachel Cusk’s heroine in the Outline trilogy, relishes how travel and growing older allow her to become invisible. Fables Leap Back and Forth Through Time in ‘Flights’ 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

Next up was an ambitious rock opera, “The Black Parade,” with Mr. Way casting himself as the Patient, a dying, defiant, messianic narrator. Gerard Way Talks About His Comeback Album, ‘Hesitant Alien.’ 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

The compelling narrator is one of those captive children, Lex, who, at 15, escaped and freed her siblings and over the ensuing years found poise and sanity in widely varying degrees. Review | Five new thrillers offer guilt-free distraction 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z

Mr. Beatty grew up in Southern California, but aside from that his upbringing was starkly different from that of his narrator. Paul Beatty, Author of ‘The Sellout,’ on Finding Humor in Issues of Race 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

The narrators are an assortment of American and Vietnamese men who witnessed the events firsthand, and whose accounts are deftly woven into a concise and gripping film. ‘Last Days in Vietnam’ Looks at Fall of Saigon 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

In certain lights, the narrator seems individuated by sadness and how she flees from it. Can One Sentence Capture All of Life? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

The book’s two narrators don’t shy from brutal truths: One calls her own baby “a pink, hairless, rat-faced little gremlin with enormous ears that made her look like a lost little space alien.” And Now, a Case for the Ordinary 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

Lu Rile, a photographer and the feisty narrator of this debut novel, looks back to the most important moment in her career. Three Sparkling Debuts, Joined by New York City 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

The narrator of the book, the same in each story, was educated as an engineer but now works as a night guard, spending long winter hours listening to the forbidden BBC. In a New Story Collection, an Insider’s View of the Soviet Union 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

As for “Charm for a Friend With a Lump,” it features a narrator who is trying to comfort a friend dying of cancer. Books of The Times: Helen Simpson?s ?In-Flight Entertainment? 2012-03-22T21:51:09Z

No doubt that it would have been a totally different story if the narrator would have replied to Gregor, the crofter’s son, first, and they could have stumbled onward together. Douglas Stuart on Growing Up Queer Before the Internet 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

The ambitious narrator of Chariandy’s second novel, the son of Trinidadian immigrants living in a downtrodden housing complex outside Toronto, becomes caught in an endless cycle of grief after the murder of his brother. New in Paperback: ‘Say Nothing’ and ‘The Club’ 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

“When It’s You,” with its wry Everywoman of a narrator, is more drawn to the commonplace. Review: In ‘When It’s You,’ Isolation Has Consequences 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

“We’re here to witness the story of a country’s disintegration,” the narrator said, as the sunlight slowly faded and as the occasional bat fluttered across the stage. A Theater in a California Canyon Becomes an Oasis Once Again 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

When it comes to her career, Britney is a famously unreliable narrator. Britney’s path to “Glory”: The pop survivor’s least-personal album is also her best in more than a decade 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z

These narrators appear to be doubles of their authors but are not specifically identified as such, and the anonymity keeps the books in a state of quantum superposition between memoir and fiction. The Rise of the Nameless Narrator 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

She is, like one of Rachel Cusk’s detached narrators, attuned to the stories of others, people she meets at her gym, at her apartment building and elsewhere. Sigrid Nunez Follows ‘The Friend’ With a Sorrowful, Funny Novel About Death 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

Why would you feel that your book is ugly, when you’re so patently disgusted with the narrator’s materialist obsessions? This Brand Could Be Your Life: David Shapiro’s “Supremacist” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

That disarming candor extends throughout the novel, which is delivered in the cool, confidential tone of a narrator who anticipates every charge against her. Review | Two authors expose the deceptive, self-aggrandizing absurdity of online life 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Nguyen is now planning the third and final book in the series, which will follow his narrator as he returns to the United States to “tie up loose ends.” He Writes Unreliable Narrators Because He Is One, Too 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z

Ras wrestles with the spear as the narrator flees the uncanny scene. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

Even “Losing My Mind,” the killer ballad from “Follies,” whose narrator is questioning her mental stability, remained lofty and safely tranquilized. Music Review: Br?nnhilde Meets Broadway at Benefit for Collegiate Chorale 2011-05-20T21:17:07Z

But what grabs you from the start is the voice of its narrator, Rosemary Cooke. Karen Joy Fowler’s novel of a very complicated family 2013-05-29T22:24:45Z

I’m not the narrator, although some of me is in there. Jason Isbell’s got hope for the high road: “If you yell at people they’re going to stop listening” 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

This is not exactly a coincidence, the narrator admits: “It is possible that the building’s name evoked the closeness of my ties to my husband and that I impulsively yielded to that sensation.” A 1970s Japanese Novel Leading the Way to Ferrante 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

The narrator of “Outlawed” is Ada, the plucky daughter of a divorced mother who works as a local midwife. Review | In Anna North’s riveting ‘Outlawed,’ there’s nothing more dangerous than a childless woman 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

He is always taking his own psychic temperature, not unlike the hyper-aware narrator of Knut Hamsun’s “Hunger,” a book that clearly means a lot to Mr. Petterson. Books of The Times: ?I Curse the River of Time,? Per Petterson?s Lost Soul 2010-08-11T17:11:00Z

And its puzzlelike construction and untrustworthy narrator act as distancing mechanisms: instead of becoming fully immersed in the characters’ stories, the reader spends a lot of time assembling clues and looking for distortions. Books of The Times: In ‘& Sons,’ David Gilbert Looks at Uneasy Family Dynamics 2013-07-28T18:50:19Z

Both narrators periodically lapse into the language of academia, bluntly signaling how we should interpret the narrative rather than letting us figure it out for ourselves. In a Thriller About Girlfriends, Which Femme Is Fatale? 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

She is the 8-year-old narrator of Nancy Tucker’s gripping, unsettling debut novel. A Young Murderer Grows Up, and Has a Child of Her Own 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

Some of them are accompanied by the voice of a female narrator who calmly witnesses what we are watching. ‘About Endlessness’ Review: Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

As the narrator once tells the boy: “Look hard and tell me everything. We are all counting on you.” Valeria Luiselli’s Latest Novel Is a Mold-Breaking New Classic 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

When I see high schoolers running through my town I still think of the narrator’s “tired track team legs.” She Grew Up in a House Without Books. A Teacher Helped Her Realize She Could Write One Herself. 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

“Something happens then,” the narrator, gone maddeningly vague, informs us. A Series of Unfortunate Events 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

One evening she treats the narrator to a long story about her friendship with another woman. In ‘White on White,’ the Traditional Landlord-Tenant Pact Is Ruptured 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

In one scene, the harpooner dangles over the water, attached by a cord to Ishmael, so that "should poor Queequeg sink to rise no more," our narrator would go tumbling into the sea as well. The lessons "Moby Dick" has for a warming world of rising waters 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

Lattimore would be pleased to know this novel doesn’t really offer closure, in part because he is, by the end, an entirely reliable narrator. ‘Next Life Might Be Kinder’: Howard Norman’s riveting exploration of grief, loss and truth

The narrator has lost his wallet, an occurrence that he blames on his new winter coat, a spectacularly luxurious, many-pocketed Swedish number. Joseph O’Neill on Emotional Relationships Between Men 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

Mangan draws her narrators with broad strokes, using classic Hollywood color coding. In a Thriller About Girlfriends, Which Femme Is Fatale? 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

Years pass, and although the narrator slowly insinuates himself into the heart of HQ, his reprisal project is back-burnered as he takes on a series of anti-terrorism assignments in Europe and the Middle East. ‘The Mulberry Bush’ is enriched by Charles McCarry’s real-life spycraft 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

The story of their relationship is told, and retold, from each character’s point of view, with the audience unsure about the reliability of either narrator. After ‘The Affair,’ Ruth Wilson Hits Broadway in ‘Constellations’ 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the work is seductive — that is, until the last seconds of the film when the pictures disappear and the narrator commands you to leave the room. Laure Prouvost, an Artist of Theories and Influences 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to imagine that the next words out of the narrator’s mouth will be something like, “And then we had a spot of tea.” | 'Absolution': One Man?s Wrathful Vengeance 2010-09-16T04:30:00Z

With bitter irony, Collins unfolds the narrator’s “uncolored” essence, which makes her an even more enticing choice for the “Negro with aristocratic tendencies” who flatters her with his affection—until she rebels. “Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?”: Kathleen Collins’s Revelatory Short Stories 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

What happens to it is predictable; what happens to the narrator and Bon is anything but. ‘The Sympathizer,’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Felix writes about himself in the third person, too, noting in his final pages that “as always, the omniscient narrator had a very wobbly grasp of what was happening” —a contradiction and a challenge, both. Forget-me-not 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

As the narrator says, awkwardly, about one of his minor supernatural experiences: “That might have just been a piece of a fragmentary dream.” In Haruki Murakami’s New Novel, a Painter’s Inspiration Is Supernatural 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

The narrator occasionally makes references to being a passenger on a cruise ship who has decided to come onshore and see the island for himself. Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on Acting and Amateurism 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

It’s key that Karen is not the main narrator of her tale the way Mary is of hers. Two of-the-Moment Monologues and a Multitude of Karens 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

Are you taking on characters in the piece or are you acting as narrator? John Leguizamo begins teaching his 'Latin History for Dummies' 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

A towheaded orphan, the narrator is raised by a domineering woman whose husband loses La China in a card game to the drunken gaucho Martín Fierro. In Shaping Her Own Story, She Upends a National Epic 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

In the narrator tries to reactualize a faded memory, ambiguously built from a lifetime of sensual, cinematic, and otherwise imagined experiences. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z

There, Ms. Gosfield’s thrilling chamber orchestra writing was, by necessity, often cut off by the need to reintroduce Ms. Weaver’s narrator and her latest bit of news about the alien-induced pandemonium. Review: A ‘Fake News’ Opera on the Streets of Los Angeles 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

“Now you know how we felt after watching ‘Pearl Harbor,’ Josh,” the narrator of a video segment intoned as the van idled outside. TMZ’s Vans Give Tourists a Tawdry View of Hollywood 2012-08-29T18:45:19Z

It’s a poignantly straightforward lament for the support of a partner; the narrator repeats the title as a mantra against existentially frightening moments. The National Breathes Confidence on Trouble Will Find Me 2013-05-23T11:00:22Z

But where Ripley is impelled by strong appetites, our narrator seems without any motivation whatsoever. Review: Vendela Vida’s ‘The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty’ Offers Freedom to Escape 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

And yet the last sentence returns to the interior thoughts of the narrator, asking, “Hadn’t I been glad enough?” This Week in Fiction: Elizabeth McKenzie 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

Hannah might also be an unreliable narrator — the best type for a show like this one. Love will tear us apart: Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why” is brilliant but not for the emotionally tender 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

Giannarelli is also one of the most prolific narrators, working an average of 30 hours a week in the studio. If that audiobook narrator sounds familiar, check your theater program 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

In the second half of the show, the narrator, the inebriated actress Lyric Lewis, recounts the life of Arsinoe IV, Cleopatra’s younger sister, who briefly tasted power before her tragic end. What’s on TV Tuesday: A Woodstock Doc and ‘Plus One’ 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

The nickname contains a great deal of information about the narrator’s mother, or his childish perception of her, her fragility and what would “later strike me as her resemblance to paper,” he writes. Ismail Kadare Attributes His Writer’s Gift to His Mother 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

It grows to consume and paralyze the narrator, who staggers through daily chores, barely able to keep herself from dissolution. A 1970s Japanese Novel Leading the Way to Ferrante 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

When you first wrote a full version of the story, the narrator’s sexual life happened offstage. Bryan Washington on Writing Stories That Don’t Make You Feel Worse 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

And, like a certain type of person—usually female—Greengrass’s narrator knows that, in times of emotional crisis, only one thing will help. “Sight” and The Pleasures of Overthinking Motherhood 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Doughty examines, in the sober light of hindsight, the chain of individual choices that led to the irreversible act that shatters lives and lands her narrator in the dock. Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty – review 2013-06-16T08:00:01Z

Her first night, the narrator has to share a stinking small mattress with the little sister she’s never known. Review | A teenager meets the family she didn’t know existed in ‘A Girl Returned’ 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

Plus, it’s always a kick to place your trust in a narrator who never seems to want it. For Cass McCombs, the truth is blowing in the apocalyptic breeze 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

But perhaps that is the point: by the end of the show, you're at sea – as bemused and befuddled as the disoriented narrator himself. Hari Kunzru's Memory Palace 2013-06-18T09:36:00Z

Whether the subject was music, comic books, graffiti, absent parents or experimental sex, the fine differences in their forms — and our narrator’s painful consciousness of them — made the book an especially authentic-tasting brew. ‘Fortress of Solitude,’ Now With Musical Numbers, at the Public Theater 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

This hasn’t, of course, kept fiction writers from regularly using autistic and developmentally disabled narrators and protagonists in their work. In ‘Shtum,’ parents wreck their home to find a better one for their autistic son 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

It is also the narrator’s coming-of-age story, starting at 9 — a dark fable that traces the metamorphosis of a bright schoolboy into an appalling monster. Review: In ‘More,’ Dispatches From Hell by a Human Trafficker 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

The narrator is a young woman whose irreverent and funny voice you will not easily forget. Read Your Way Through Berlin 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

“That’s great!” she kept shouting at James Lawrence, an actor playing Nick Carraway, the show’s narrator, as he struggled with the steps. It’s a Party at Gatsby’s Mansion. No Dancing, Please. 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

Its first sentences, in which the copywriter narrator introduces himself, bombard us with cliches of revelation and metamorphosis. Black Vodka by Deborah Levy – review 2013-02-18T19:00:02Z

That intangible trustworthiness sometimes comes in the form of celebrity narrators on Calm. Once Upon a Time … Bedtime Stories Were Just for Kids 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z

Keiller's third Robinson film, Robinson in Ruins, with Vanessa Redgrave as the narrator, premiered at the Venice film festival last year. Tate Britain commissions artwork by Patrick Keiller 2011-07-28T18:02:08Z

An audiobook narrator has a challenging task in portraying Helen in all of her complexity as she spirals further down into the muck. ‘Killing People in Fiction Was Fun’: Mysteries That Have Stood the Test of Time 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

The narrator believes he lives in a magical, enchanted place. Writing to genre stinks: Two debut novelists on the hard line between fantasy and realism — and why it doesn’t make sense 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

As Christopher follows clues and makes lists, his literal-minded observations can strike readers as funny, but they also allow even young listeners to understand certain truths before the narrator does. Dear Match Book: What Audiobooks Will Liven Up My Summer Road Trips? 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

“This is hard country to stay alive in,” the irascible narrator growls. Album review: Bob Dylan, 'Tempest' 2012-09-07T16:48:00Z

“I am a narrator. You can call me Louis or Sylvia or Bill.” Review: To the Moon! A Vivid Bill T. Jones Dance Leaves Earth’s Orbit 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

“Troublemaker” is written in the plain, clear language of its 12-year-old narrator. John Cho’s Debut Middle Grade Novel Makes ‘Good Trouble’ 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

The narrator, who shares Lo’s name, feels cut off from China by a “glass wall of incomprehension.” Stuck With a Sick Parent in Hospital Hell 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

Like its narrator, Deb, a young woman from Southern California whose chirpy good cheer masks a hidden toughness, the book is sneaky in its depths. Lydia Millet finds mermaids in her new novel 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

The narrator is a young woman juggling three dysfunctional relationships: one with her husband, one with her lover, one with heroin. Times Critics Discuss 2021 in Books, From Breakout Stars to Cover Blobs 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

It was something of a coup to have engaged the services of Margaret Thatcher, making her debut on CD, in the role of the narrator. Wyn Morris 2010-04-19T18:14:00Z

Mr. Durst, Mr. Jarecki notes, is that rare “unreliable narrator,” and there are several instances where people have disputed the testimony he provided. Film: That?s Me on Screen, but I Still Didn?t Do It 2010-11-24T19:49:00Z

And I hope — pray — that his wife is not, and has never been, as ill as the narrator’s is here. Richard Russo’s Latest Cast Includes Average Men and One Big Star 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

When the narrator and R. get back to Sofia, there’s an acknowledgment of how hard it is to return to one’s ordinary life—and to the complications of their relationship. Garth Greenwell on Vacations 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Jordan Peele, the comedian and filmmaker behind horror hits “Get Out” and “Us,” steps into the narrator role once filled by Rod Serling, the show’s creator. 'Twilight Zone' jumps to new dimension with host Jordan Peele 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

In Teddy Wayne’s recent novel “Apartment,” the closet is an apartment, a rent-stabilized two-bedroom that his narrator inherits from a great-aunt. Gay Literature Is Out of the Closet. So Why Is Deception a Big Theme? 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z

The story is told by an unreliable narrator, Oliver Tate. Author, author: Joe Dunthorne 2011-03-05T00:07:19Z

The narrator was supposed to be an old man but sounded more like what a young woman thought an old man might sound like. How Bibliophiles Flirt 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

Nicholls’s dark comedy sets a crumbling family on a European tour, dangling the possibility that the trip might solve the problems of its middle-aged narrator, his artist wife and their challenging teenage son. The top 50 fiction books for 2014

So says the narrator of Adam Thirlwell’s entertaining and exhausting new novel, “Lurid & Cute.” ‘Lurid & Cute,’ a Novel by Adam Thirlwell 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

Ms. Faludi has spent a lifetime interrogating conventions of gender, which makes her the ideal narrator for such a story, told with equal parts skepticism and sympathy. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Above all, “she is also 100 percent puppet,” as the narrator, a mischievous masked fox in shorts and red tails, informs us. ‘The Immortal Jellyfish Girl’ Review: A 26th-Century Love Story 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

The father is eventually killed by the police after a routine traffic stop, and the narrator grows up to be an urban farmer and mad social scientist. Paul Beatty, Author of ‘The Sellout,’ on Finding Humor in Issues of Race 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Working through a C.I.A. spook named Claude, the narrator dispenses liberal bribes to engineer an air evacuation to the United States for the general, the general’s wife and their huge extended family. ‘The Sympathizer,’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

There is also a daft and surreal scene near the end in which the narrator aims 41 consecutive World War II-era mortar shells at his father’s enemy. Books of The Times: ‘Pow!’ by Mo Yan 2013-01-01T15:23:25Z

Harwicz’s narrator is, if not mad, at least maddening: irritable, irrational, impatient. Motherhood Meets Lust and Violence in Ariana Harwicz’s “Die, My Love” 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

After all, Banville, 66, is roughly as old as his narrator. John Banville: a life in writing 2012-06-29T21:55:12Z

His narrator, however, rarely allows Billy or anyone else to be revealed through thought, emotion, words or action. Billy the Kid died young, but the myth can’t be killed 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

Will the inadequate narrator now step in to care for the young, hungry present? The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai ? review 2011-08-25T23:05:01Z

The narrator is assigned to the trial of a former West African president, an unrepentant devotee of what is euphemistically called ethnic cleansing. ‘Intimacies,’ a Coolly Written Novel About the Arts of Translation and Power 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

The song’s surprisingly violent absurdism might appeal to the witless narrator of “Famous People,” Kuritzkes’s début novel, which will be published in July. What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

Phillips, played by Hunter Foster with good ol' boy charm, is also the show's nominal narrator. Quartet of music legends rocks 'n' rolls on B'way 2010-04-12T00:14:00Z

Here for instance is the narrator remembering the early days of her relationship: “I bought a warmer coat with many ingenious pockets. You put your hands in all of them.” Revisiting Marriage and ‘Dept. of Speculation’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

Yunior is the novel’s narrator, so we tend to see Oscar through his eyes. ‘Oscar Wao’ Review: The Tragedy, and Comedy, of Manhood 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

Detective Cassie Maddox is thus Ryan's partner from In the Woods and the narrator of The Likeness, where she is on the case of a murder victim who is her doppelganger. 'I'm haunted by Ireland's ghost estates' 2012-07-27T09:28:48Z

But all that agony — and there’s a lot of it — is subsumed within the narrator’s introspection. Review | In ‘The Committed,’ Viet Thanh Nguyen continues his Pulitzer Prize-winning story 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

The book proceeds at a leisurely pace, and Mr. Mawer’s decision to appoint an awed admirer of Marian as narrator doesn’t always work. In Simon Mawer’s ‘Tightrope,’ a Female Spy Masters the Tools of Her Trade 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

The narrator repeatedly gestures at the limitations of her irony, without necessarily being able to see beyond it. ‘Fake Accounts’ Examines the Alluring Trap of Our Online Personas 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

The lead narrator of Nobody’s Smiling is still Common, despite so many voices in the periphery, but its unsung champion is No I.D. REVIEW: Common Speaks to Chicago on New Album Nobody's Smiling 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

The narrator goes to visit his mother in hospital, then returns home, where he starts flicking through the family photo album. Circus Bulgaria by Deyan Enev ? review 2010-10-15T23:15:00Z

Still the first person, for all its ambiguous charm, is better at obscuring things about its narrator — notably gender and madness — than revealing them. “Joseph Anton”: Memoir as noir 2012-11-05T21:58:00Z

For the narrator of , a publisher, the mystery he is called on to solve becomes an obsession, an opportunity to star in a real-life spy thriller. The Spies by Luís Fernando Veríssimo – review 2012-11-11T00:05:43Z

At the hospital, the narrator is struck by the magic of the institution itself. This Week in Fiction: Rivka Galchen Discusses Her Story “How Can I Help?” 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Each is recounted by a different girl in the club, in her voice and each in her way an unreliable narrator. The Baby-Sitters Club Taught Me Everything I Needed to Know About Literary Fiction 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

By this point Rose's unreliability as a narrator is clear; as is the fact that Bad Things are going to happen. The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell – review 2013-06-07T09:01:01Z

Embedded deep in my brain on replay lives a Life Alert commercial, in which an incongruously cheery narrator shouts, "Help! I've fallen and can't get up." Being a caregiver for the elderly prematurely aged me 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z

In the delicate ecosystem of the homeless, the narrator, Kazu, explains how convenience stores leave expired food near dumpsters so that “if we went before the trash was collected, we could claim anything we wanted.” Her Antenna Is Tuned to the Quietest Voices 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

The Solicitor, as the narrator refers to him, is in charge of the evening. Douglas Stuart on Growing Up Queer Before the Internet 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

Once, the narrator declares, “We were trying to change the world.” Album review: Neil Young, 'Psychedelic Pill' 2012-10-29T04:36:00Z

We accumulate, but we also desire to master, as the narrator does, the art of losing, to learn to drift in the knowledge that, in Bowles’s words, “Eventually everything would happen.” Review: Vendela Vida’s ‘The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty’ Offers Freedom to Escape 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

If Hall did use my text in some way, perhaps she only turned me from a superpowered narrator back into a character, like a blue fairy downgrading the real, live boy. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

An ex-girlfriend of the narrator’s has shown up at his house. Callan Wink on Fiction in the Age of “Alternative Facts” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

This is the narrator at 16: “Around the same time, my father and I started getting used to each other and I joined a summer theater company, where I learned stage fighting.” The Mysterious ‘Parking Lot Attendant’ at the Center of a Web of Intrigue 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

The boyish Mr. McNall is charming as the suitor, and even better as an intermittent narrator of sorts. Theater Review: ‘This Side of Neverland,’ at Pearl Theater 2013-05-13T21:47:10Z

Drew championed an observational style that avoided direct editing of subjects and the use of narrators. Documentary pioneer Robert Drew dies 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Ellis has just released his sixth novel, Imperial Bedrooms, which revisits the cast of his 1985 debut novel, Less Than Zero, and its narrator, Clay. Psycho, genius ... fraud? 2010-07-26T07:00:00Z

Dissatisfied with his life — battling antagonistic feelings toward his younger girlfriend, feeling professionally stalled and relying on a cocktail of medications — the narrator, Florent-Claude, returns to Normandy, a place where he remembers experiencing true happiness. 13 Books to Watch For in November 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Users who don the glove will be guided by a narrator on missions that allow them to jump, duck, dive and run around. Disney gets physical with digital toy Playmation 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

Tell me about weaving together the story of this case with that of the narrator's family, which is so lovely and also so sad? How an adopted girl's tragic death became fiction: David Guterson on "bearing witness" 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Diorama groupings, a mismatch between mythic subject matter and amateur performances, even a skittish narrator giving a halting reading of stilted text — it was all there. Dance Review: Hula by Na Kinimakalehua at Montclair State - Review 2011-10-25T22:02:14Z

The narrator wants people to be good, and for everything to “be all right in the end,” and “to live a simple life with many good moments and a lot of fun.” The Coming-of-Age Tale That Inspired Mayor Pete to Learn Norwegian 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

The idea, as the narrator, Rajika Puri, explained, was to show the range within the form, the different schools and approaches. Review: The Spinning Mathematicians of Kathak Dance 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

“The offerings are both substantial, healthy snacks and stuff that is horrible for you but so very, very much appreciated,” our omniscient narrator shares. Nice Guy Meets Iron Man in the First Novel by Tom Hanks 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z

“All this was preventable,” claims the narrator, though it’s not clear how that might be true. ‘Greedy Lying Bastards’: Attacking climate-change deniers 2013-03-08T03:51:47Z

And as the “Deadliest Catch” narrator relentlessly reminded the audience, the stakes, quite literally, could be life and death. How Thom Beers Built a Reality-TV Empire 2012-12-16T23:37:47Z

Their laughter is necessary equipment for living while Black in America, something the narrator will have to write his memoir to learn — something that Ellison himself had to learn. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

There are digressions into the plot of a mystery novel the narrator is reading that, like the vacuum cleaner in “Yellow Submarine,” self-suck and disappear. Sigrid Nunez Follows ‘The Friend’ With a Sorrowful, Funny Novel About Death 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

Natsuki, the narrator, has a plush hedgehog toy who comes from a planet with a long, silly name and assures her she has magical powers. To Sayaka Murata, Nonconformity Is a Slippery Slope 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

The narrator’s trying to bring her hair “under control with the brush.” Spoiler alert! Fifty percent of “Fifty Shades of Grey” 2012-07-09T14:02:00Z

“Without her gaze,” says the narrator, “we felt at risk.” Review: In Paolo Giordano’s ‘Like Family,’ the Nanny Departs and Cracks Emerge 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

From there, the unnamed narrator continues to report back to his masters while living a double life in California. Pulitzers: Broadway’s ‘Hamilton,’ novel ‘The Sympathizer’ among arts winners 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

An on-camera narrator, citing verses from the Koran, confidently explains the destructive iconoclasm against pre-Muslim works of art as a necessary fulfillment of Muhammad's dictum against the worship of false idols. The Mosul Museum video from Islamic State could be a staged drama 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

So I knew the narrator wasn’t going to be the center of the action of the story; I knew that the primary action would be displaced onto another character. Garth Greenwell on Transitional Spaces and the Burden of Action 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Sheila, Father Arthur's younger sister, is the story's omniscient narrator, reporting to the reader the reactions of those affected. 'Faith': A molestation charge tears a family apart 2011-05-11T21:01:05Z

"Minions" begins not in the 1960s but, as narrator Geoffrey Rush tells us, at the very dawn of time. 'Minions' has irresistible, wonky golden touch 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

The waiter tells him he ought to have a cold beer, and the narrator obligingly agrees. ‘Endgame’ — a Turkish seaside noir by Ahmet Altan 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

Her narrators tend to be quiet-ish, with best friends who are faster or bolder, smarter or prettier and, sometimes, less moral. Perspective | As a kid, I loved Judy Blume’s books. As an adult, I wonder: How do they read today? 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z

The narrator, Ava, is a biracial single mother trained as a paralegal but currently between jobs. Review | ‘The Revisioners’ reminds us of slavery’s long reach, through the generations 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

"I think the child narrator is appealing to a lot of people," she said. Grace McCleen's Christian sect novel wins Desmond Elliott prize 2012-06-29T15:42:19Z

The narrator tries to put on a confident front but she’s fraying at the edges. Direct from Edinburgh: Theaters Are Closed, but a ‘Zoo’ Is Open 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

Sharon, for all the comparative innocence she displays at the opening of the book, proves a somewhat unreliable narrator, capable of fibbing to herself, and therefore to us. Review | Can a friendship between two cartoonists survive their own success? 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

The critical role of the Evangelist, or narrator, was sung expertly and movingly by veteran tenor Robert Petillo. Review | Conductor Matthew Dirst leads Washington Bach Consort in St. John Passion 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

My narrator, a creative writing tutor, tries to help students write their debuts while struggling with his own second novel. Nicholas Royle's top 10 first novels 2013-02-27T09:00:06Z

“My energy derives from movement — from the shuddering of buses, the rumble of planes, trains’ and ferries’ rocking,” the nameless narrator tells us. Fables Leap Back and Forth Through Time in ‘Flights’ 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

Huysmans’s narrator, Durtal, a bored author interested in learning more about satanic sects said to be proliferating within the Catholic Church, infiltrates a Black Mass presided over by one Paris’s most respected priests. Sex at the Satan Club 2014-03-08T00:00:00Z

“He was a man who could withstand any physical pain,” the narrator writes, “face any danger, take rational decisions in situations where lesser men would crumble.” Review | Mark Haddon’s ‘The Porpoise’ sounds like homework. It’s actually fantastic. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

Intermingled with a pleasant narrator issuing commands, all to be followed with the help of some ridiculously simple cue cards, you hear snippets of monologues and a conversation. Review | Relief from Zoom sometimes comes in a box. A play in a box. 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

His novel is full of character and incident, but told by an omniscient narrator according to rules almost as strict as the classical unities . Book reviews roundup 2011-07-15T21:55:13Z

The narrator's son says, "Human beings can be stupider than animals, which are never afflicted with megalomania." 'Nanjing Requiem': missionary at a massacre 2011-12-14T22:51:04Z

But as the people gather together, giftless, they join hands and sing while the narrator tells viewers, “Christmas came anyway.” What makes Christmas movies so popular 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z

As handsome as any movie star, thoughtful and temperamental, he is both narrator and hero, and serves as a guide to the curious, vanished world of high-level Communist athletics. ‘Red Army,’ the Rise and Fall of a Soviet Hockey Dynasty 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

"I love creeks and the music they make," the narrator begins, and then lists, exultantly, all the other waterways he knows, and the enlarging effects they have on his heart. What drives writers to drink? 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z

It has to be said that, despite the dangers that lie ahead of the narrator, there is hope in his pursuit of education. Douglas Stuart on Growing Up Queer Before the Internet 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

“No one in the outside world even knew what was going on in this little town,” the narrator says. ‘Endgame’ — a Turkish seaside noir by Ahmet Altan 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

How he builds his image, works with actors, and uses a narrator. "What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?" director counters a curse using cinema as "modern magic" 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

On the penultimate song, "In Our Prime," the narrator hits rock bottom. Black Keys rise above panic, divorce, popularity 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

The narrator dozes in the front seat of the car and wakes to find a blackbird hopping toward her. Motherhood Meets Lust and Violence in Ariana Harwicz’s “Die, My Love” 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Q: Books are a salvation for the narrator. Book Talk: Oregon writer finds beauty, redemption on death row 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

The narrator and his neighbor remove the stones and open up a pit, which becomes a familiar Murakamiesque location, a liminal space between worlds. In Haruki Murakami’s New Novel, a Painter’s Inspiration Is Supernatural 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

The narrator, Jack Dana, languishes in Venice, recovering from physical and psychic wounds, and completing his new novel. Louis Begley’s ‘Kill and Be Killed’: A slick thriller from a literary lion 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

Can the narrator prevent this murder — or later exact some sort of revenge? Review: ‘Nutshell,’ a Tale Told by a Baby-to-Be (or Not-to-Be) 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the freest of all is the walled-in narrator, whose disturbed fantasy life leads to a poetic sort of justice. Book Talk: Oregon writer finds beauty, redemption on death row 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

It belongs with multiple narrators, fragmented or reversed chronology, inadequate or inarticulate narrators, and all the other tricks of the trade. A history of the present 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

“The Underground Railroad” is also about the myriad ways in which black history has too often been stolen by white narrators. In Colson Whitehead’s Latest, the Underground Railroad Is More Than a Metaphor 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

And then I start digging back into history as a narrator, and re-creating the battles of the Aztecs, the battles of the Incas. John Leguizamo begins teaching his 'Latin History for Dummies' 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

When a man kisses the narrator and tells her, “You’re like a teenager,” we understand that she’s in the process of undergoing her change. Rachel Cusk is returning fiction to its roots in storytelling 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

Despite his diminutive size in that nightmare, the narrator’s late father looms large in this impressionistic story. ‘It’s him, it’s sort of him’: Sam Shepard’s ‘The One Inside’ toys with fact and fiction 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

While the narrator, Richard Gayford, is very clear that the children are a simple threat and must be destroyed, the novel isn't so sure. John Wyndham: The unread bestseller 2010-12-20T16:12:31Z

It was my first exposure to an unreliable narrator, and it scared me to death. The Uneasy Verse of Stevie Smith 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

“Pain is not the only touchstone for growth,” the narrator tells herself at the end of the novel, certain that she has been reborn. Ottessa Moshfegh’s Painful, Funny Novel of a Young Woman’s Chemical Hibernation 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

Our narrator realizes he’s a ghost — so insubstantial that blades of grass stab his feet. Visions of Heaven (and how to get there) in C.S. Lewis’s ‘Great Divorce’ 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

Scale back, perhaps, and concentrate on the format that originally made it so successful – five relatively normal people cooking for strangers while an off-screen narrator screams sarcastic abuse at them? Where does Come Dine With Me go after its Coronation Street special? 2010-12-07T12:16:00Z

And I just thought, How fantastic that she looks like this and that she is your eyes and ears, the most unreliable witness, the most unreliable narrator in the world. Emily Blunt Rides the Unnerving Rails of Addiction in ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Can the point be that the impersonal narrator too is deaf? Peter Carey? Doesn't know his leeches. Tom McCarthy? Bad on moths 2010-10-17T20:44:00Z

The 96-year-old Brooks is a writer and producer of the new series and assumes the narrator role performed by Orson Welles in the film. Review: ‘History of the World’ Repeats, as Farce 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

Prince Charles lauded the “Our Planet” series and its narrator David Attenborough at the world premiere Thursday night. Charles, William, Harry: 3 princes help launch ‘Our Planet’ 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Cave himself isn’t an especially reliable narrator, but he’s a thoroughly diverting one, whether he’s talking to his on-screen shrink or driving around Brighton, England, where much of the movie unfolds. Critic’s Notebook: New Directors/New Films Highlights Include ‘Fish & Cat’ 2014-03-24T22:13:52Z

Oral history provides this long, elastic arena where the interviewer can ask questions that the narrators are rarely asked by anyone, including people that are close to them. Dave Eggers on working for justice through oral history: “There wasn’t much that allowed those people to seem fully human” 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

While each narrator pushes onward, the odds against him are rising. New Music From Tom Petty, Shawn Mendes and Hermán Olivera 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

Jack Handey will begin a sentence in a blandly benign narrator tone, then take a sudden wrong turn, landing who knows where: “One bad thing about ice skating is you’re always knocking over little kids.” 12 Surprising Reasons to Be Grateful for the Arts in 2017 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

As the film explains — through the voices of victims, their mothers, their advocates and narrator Jessica Chastain — neither side is letting up. A movie about online sex-trafficking might actually get laws changed 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Stuart’s genius at evoking place, predicament and intense emotional states, is wonderfully served by narrator Angus King, a Scotsman himself whose moderate but intelligible Glaswegian accent brings further authenticity. Best audiobooks of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

Like Shepard’s real dad, he flew combat missions over Germany in World War II, and now memories of living with him wind in and out of more recent events in the narrator’s lonely life. ‘It’s him, it’s sort of him’: Sam Shepard’s ‘The One Inside’ toys with fact and fiction 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

In her version of the story, the narrator is Briseis, princess of the city Lyrnessus, who is given to Achilles as a trophy after he kills her brothers and husband. In ‘The Silence of the Girls,’ Pat Barker Tells ‘The Iliad’ From a Woman’s Perspective 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

In the shadows of the holloway, the narrator digs a cave out of the sandstone. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male 2013-03-15T12:03:22Z

“This story is not biography, remember,” the narrator tells us toward the end, but concedes, “although things creep into it which have nothing to do with those dreams he had when he was young.” Tracing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Minnesota Roots 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

The narrator, played by Edward Norton, describes Tyler as a "guerrilla terrorist of the food service industry" after Tyler "seasons" plates of food at a fancy hotel with his various bodily fluids. The anti-work movement in "Clerks," "Modern Times" & other films 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z

“More than their beauty, wealth and talent,” the narrator observes, “we envied their moral freedom, their ability to trade up and up again, while avoiding the consequences of doing so.” Richard Russo’s Latest Cast Includes Average Men and One Big Star 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

Smith's The Beholder is told by a depressed narrator who develops inexplicable symptoms. Short story award draws up starry shortlist 2013-02-25T12:00:30Z

Fazili is the film’s primary cameraman and narrator, but each family member takes a turn. “Midnight Traveler” Expands the Narrative of the Refugee Documentary 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Early in “Checkout 19,” Claire-Louise Bennett’s enthralling second novel, the narrator describes a story she once wrote about a foolish and spoiled lad named Tarquin Superbus. Autofiction for People Who Think They’re Sick of It 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

“Germany became an anti-Semitic dictatorship in which opponents feared for their lives and Jews were systematically persecuted,” the narrator explains in the video. Anne Frank Who? Museums Combat Ignorance About the Holocaust 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

These narrators, however, are as unreliable as Robert Wringhim, the fanatical sinner of Hogg's novel. Paul Bright's Confessions of a Justified Sinner – review 2013-06-20T16:56:11Z

The space created by the lack of cultural markers or even physical details is filled with the details of the narrator’s imagination. If Lena Dunham wrote a memoir 2012-07-22T16:00:00Z

This exuberant comic novel — involving explosions, secret agents, religious fanatics and a hapless narrator dragged around Europe by his long-lost aunt — is also a sly theological exploration of fate and predestination. New & Noteworthy, From Black Utopias to a ‘Little Women’ Tribute 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

So I began, like the narrator does, on a luminous September day at the Gare de Lyon in Paris, still the main send-off point for train travelers due southeast. James Salter’s ‘Blue, Indolent’ Corner of Burgundy 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Many of the podcast’s tropes — the mystery framing, the crowdsourcing of clues from the audience and a format that focuses on the narrator as much as his subject — are borrowed directly from “Serial.” ‘Missing Richard Simmons,’ the Morally Suspect Podcast 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

To the narrator, divorce is, at first, the kind of cataclysmic rupture that confirms profound personal failing. A 1970s Japanese Novel Leading the Way to Ferrante 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

We know we are in big trouble when Sarah, the narrator, thinks: “Bad things are about to happen.” A Dark Cavalcade of New Horror Fiction 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

The narrator is a high school stud named Cole who has a racy reputation. Review | Sex and the teenage boy 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

It’s 1996, and Wayne’s achingly lonely narrator is enrolled in Columbia’s M.F.A. program, where he finds solace in an unexpectedly intense friendship with a fellow student, Billy. 14 New Books to Watch For in February 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

The narrator notes, “There was something a little different about this lake and mountain.” Review | Banned in China, Sheng Keyi’s ‘Death Fugue’ is a pungent political satire 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

He pushed his narrators beyond scoundrels, impatient teenagers and feckless lovers into a new specialty: spectacularly ordinary, middle-aged, middle-class men, savoring their problems and only partly interested in keeping up appearances. Music Review: Once Cruel to Be Kind, Now Soft to Be True 2010-10-22T23:39:00Z

When readers meet Noel, the narrator of this luminous new novel, he’s an older man reflecting on his adolescence in Faha, a small Irish village, in the 1950s. 9 Books to Watch For in December 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Politeness turns quickly into something else, a confrontation that reveals the regrets and hopes of both the narrator and the intruder. Review | Lily King’s ‘Five Tuesdays in Winter’ is as beautiful and tender as ‘Writers & Lovers’ 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Chief of which is our nameless narrator: a shifty American, whose terrible decisions keep the story moving at a clip. Review: Vendela Vida’s ‘The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty’ Offers Freedom to Escape 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

But I wanted “Cockroach” to be simple: a string quartet that behaves like one instrument, with a narrator. Cosmic Stories: Du Yun Revisits Her Earliest Music Theater 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

To be sure, the situation has improved since the rough-hewed days of the 1990s, and certain authors are now truly accomplished narrators, their delivery enhancing the words on the page. Review | Don’t let a bad reader ruin your audiobook experience. Here are recordings to savor — and to avoid. 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

But the young narrator’s innocence — and at times his lack of awareness of the true danger of his journey — also allows for moments of humor, camaraderie, even delight. Javier Zamora Carried a Heavy Load. He Laid it to Rest on the Page. 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

The jovial narrator boasts: “Pocahontas and her friends embark on a fun-filled adventure in the New World of England, where they’ll meet new friends and fight for the future of her people.” Neverending stories: Franchise thirst explains how sequels like “The Purge: Election Year” get made—but not why they’re in theaters 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

For all the holes that Levy pokes in Saul’s story, she is not suggesting anything so simple as an unreliable narrator. Review | In ‘The Man Who Saw Everything,’ Deborah Levy questions our notions of reality 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

With Ras calling for his death, the narrator finds his hands on the spear. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

The way the narrator navigates gender expectations within Middle Eastern culture is equally enthralling. Review | In Zaina Arafat’s ‘You Exist Too Much,’ a child of the Palestinian diaspora tries to heal the psychic wounds passed down by her mother 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z

“It’s true what they say — it’s not we who control money, it’s the money that controls us,” the nameless narrator realizes, a little late in the day. A Great Indian Novel Reaches American Shores 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

The unnamed narrator falls in love with Mitko, a troubled local hustler, who is sometimes tender and sometimes menacing. My Favorite Books of 2016 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Mr. McKenzie’s narrator is in competition, in a way, with such bravura visual displays. Review: The Lists We Live by in Daniel Fish’s ‘White Noise’ 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

Ideologues are unreliable narrators, but at least there is passion in their prose. David Brock’s ‘Killing the Messenger’ 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

Breaking the fourth wall is the power of the narrator. "The Persian Version" director on creating a film that is "playful in terms of sexuality" 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z

With the filmmakers out of the picture, and no narrator, the viewer is thrown into the deep end, unable to reach the shallow side of things. Obsessed with “Making a Murderer”: Why Netflix’s engrossing documentary on crime and corruption became a break-out hit 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

Because stories unfold quickly through a range of narrators, it’s not always clear who’s speaking. Review | In Maisy Card’s ‘These Ghosts Are Family,’ resentments are passed down from one generation to the next 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

A male chorus enters at the end, as the narrator describes Jewish prisoners singing a Hebrew prayer as they are marched to the gas chambers. Review: An ‘Ode to Joy’ Troubled by Holocaust Memories 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

As a survivor of abuse, bullying and mental illness, she says, she found in the frail and dreamy JT a viable alter ego, the first-person narrator of fantasies that leaked into the real world. Review: ‘Author: The JT Leroy Story’ Renders a Literary Charlatan 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

I paid searingly close attention to the contents of the Go Bag, the emergency disaster pack, of Butler’s 18-year-old narrator, Lauren. Picture Books About Kindness, Compassion and Peace in a Turbulent World 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

“She’s a funny, smart, compassionate narrator, and I … admired her insistence on taking women’s concerns seriously.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

But the oddest name to the narrator is his own. Spies by Michael Frayn 2012-06-01T21:51:01Z

They want for their grandchildren what the narrator of the Israeli writer David Grossman’s exquisite novel “See Under: Love” wanted, “to live in this world from birth to death and know nothing of war.” Colum McCann’s New Novel Makes a Good-Intentioned Collage Out of Real Tragedy 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

Pity the poor audiobook narrator who has to keep that up for hours. Review | What does passion sound like? How five audiobook actors talk sexy. 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

This narrator speaks with a natural sense of shared identity. Two Novels Confront Violence Against Women 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

In Fung’s quietly moving “Ghost Forest,” the author takes a choral approach to her unnamed narrator’s family history, after her largely absent father’s protracted illness and death. Debut Novels by Pik-Shuen Fung, Rahul Raina and Alex McElroy 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z

Now, as Jacob, the narrator of "Water for Elephants," Pattinson cuts yet another bleak figure. Edward Cullen is killing Robert Pattinson 2011-04-21T19:22:00Z

The pining narrator of “Teardrops on My Guitar” feels miles away from the wizened woman singing “Midnight Rain,” who has realized that love and marriage won’t solve all her problems. Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ (Lindsay’s Version) 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

Her narrator is a girl of grade-school age whom we meet sitting on a dune at the beach. If Graphic Novels Are Hip for Adults, Why Not Picture Books? 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

Some narrators have gained a following among users. If that audiobook narrator sounds familiar, check your theater program 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Ondaatje takes pains in an author's note to state that, despite sharing the name and birthplace of his narrator, the book is a work of fiction. 'The Cat's Table': a voyage of a lifetime 2011-10-20T20:02:04Z

But, since Blythe is the walking contradiction of her name — a jittery, insecure woman who second-guesses herself constantly — questions arise about her reliability as a narrator. Review | Why is ‘The Push’ so popular? Perhaps because it plays into a mother’s worst fears. 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

We enter the action just before the final battle, and the narrator immediately announces the outcome. ‘Under Siege’ Review: A Heady Mix of Dance and Martial Arts 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

The narrator, Briseis, was enslaved to Achilles in the first book after he killed her husband and brothers before the siege of Troy. Review | Pat Barker’s ‘The Women of Troy’ continues her brilliant reassessment of the Trojan War 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

The mirror, for the song's narrator, allows some harsh self-examination: "I wish I could change and make new rules, conduct myself better." Readers recommend: songs about mirrors – results 2012-08-16T09:11:32Z

Our young narrator isn’t so cynical that he isn’t proud of landing a job there. ‘The Last Magazine,’ Michael Hastings’s Posthumous Novel 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

“The mobs shattered every abolitionist assumption: that righteousness would triumph over evil; that their fellow Americans would listen to reason; that their Northern neighbors would support the abolitionist cause,” the program’s narrator, Oliver Platt, relates. Television Review: ‘The Abolitionists,’ on PBS, About Advocates Before Lincoln 2013-01-07T23:37:57Z

“She was a child seldom smiled at,” the narrator reflects. What Kind of Worker Is a Writer? 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

I would recommend it as I really like diary books, books where the narrator talks about themselves. Group Review Selection 2012-12-31T12:00:00Z

The 1947 narrator is Evie, an American whose marriage is on the rocks after her husband returned a changed man from the war. Review: Under the spell of 'The Sandalwood Tree' 2011-04-26T14:35:08Z

Chandler, our narrator and reluctant hero, is a man with a history of hard drinking and a penchant for womanizing. Review | In ‘Something More Than Night,’ Raymond Chandler and Boris Karloff are a winning crime-fighting duo 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

Otsuka's narrators are the Japanese picture brides of the early 20th century who headed to the West Coast to join husbands they'd never met, men who weren't always what they represented themselves to be. Julie Otsuka's novel of Japanese picture brides 2011-09-15T19:18:04Z

Like so many of Barnes's narrators, Tony Webster is resigned to his ordinariness; even satisfied with it, in a bloody-minded way. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes ? review 2011-07-26T16:15:00Z

But he made me aware that the narrator, whether third person or first, is not a neutral figure but an active, even directive, force. Roald Dahl’s Twisted, Overlooked Stories for Adults 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

The vitality of our narrator deserves much of the credit for that. ‘Loving Day,’ by Mat Johnson 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

Specifically, "Fight Club 2," the comic book sequel of the novel that introduced readers to the nameless narrator and the charismatic Tyler Durden, and was adapted into the cult favorite film directed by David Fincher. Exclusive 'Fight Club 2' pages: Tyler Durden's been around for longer than we thought 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Flynn's coup de grace is to provide us with not one but two unreliable narrators. Gone Girl: what makes Gillian Flynn's psychological thriller so popular? 2013-03-19T11:00:45Z

I didn’t want to write a 19th-century novel with an omniscient narrator and a lot of explicit moralizing. ArtsBeat: Slippery Nate: Adelle Waldman Talks About ‘The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.’ 2013-07-17T17:05:29Z

Unknown to Maddox - but known to readers thanks to a Dickensian narrator who sees all - Tulkinghorn has other plans that could threaten the young detective if he uncovers the whole truth. 'Solitary House' a mystery with a dose of Dickens 2012-04-30T18:38:09Z

The film’s preciousness is balanced, to some degree, by the philosophical resignation of its unseen narrator. Review: ‘Amélie’ Is Easy to Listen To, but Never Really Sings 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Walker’s omniscient narrator follows several sets of people weathering the crisis in Santa Lora, including Mei, who is the heart of the book. Review | Dreams are dangerous — and contagious — in Karen Thompson Walker’s apocalyptic thriller 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

Christopher Boone, the book’s math-minded narrator is determined to use his powers of deduction to solve the mystery of his neighbor’s dead dog and to learn more about his mother. Dear Match Book: What Audiobooks Will Liven Up My Summer Road Trips? 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

“You are standing before the masterpieces of classic violin-making,” the narrator said. There’s More to Cremona Than Violins 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

There are many passages like this in the book that cast doubt on the narrator’s account, and I had wondered before coming whether the real Autun would even resemble the one in the book. James Salter’s ‘Blue, Indolent’ Corner of Burgundy 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

In "The Story," Bloom describes a widow, coming to terms with new neighbors she calls the Golddust Twins — until, halfway through, she changes direction, bringing her narrator out from behind the fictive veil. In Amy Bloom's 'Lucky Us,' sisters remain plucky in face of tragedy 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

This narrator shares a telling quote by Didion: “We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.” Refugees, Ghosts and a Story About Stories 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z

The narrator, her family and others fear making any sort of cultural or political misstep. ‘Milkman’ Slogs Through Political and Cultural Tensions in Northern Ireland 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

In the song, the narrator watches her house burn down, goes to the circus, falls in love, and contemplates death, and concludes that none of them are as exciting as they’re cracked up to be. “Mad Men” Premiere: Another Day at the Office 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

The narrator's sister and father were critically wounded by weapons banned under the Geneva Conventions. I Am a Chechen! by German Sadulaev, translated by Anna?Gunin ? review 2011-01-15T00:07:01Z

The place many of them are hoping to flee to is the United States — the destination of the novel’s young narrator, Darling, who will begin a new life there with her aunt. Books of The Times: ‘We Need New Names,’ by NoViolet Bulawayo 2013-05-15T21:11:04Z

Mr. Dylan’s narrator, by contrast, is dismissing someone with a shrug. The Playlist: Jay Z Sips Lemonade and Adele Divides and Conquers 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

The unnamed narrator describes how, in the next state over, black people must wear tracking devices. In This Ingenious Satire, a Father Goes to Extremes to Protect His Son From Racism 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

For my son and his friends, it didn’t matter that the narrator of “El Deafo” is a girl, or that there is no galactic warfare to be found, no plotline about defeating others. Beyond Battles, Boogers and Pranks 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Billy, the teenage narrator, is taking care of his 6-year-old brother, Oscar, after a would-be thief killed their mother in a parking lot. ‘Me Before You,’ by Jojo Moyes, and More 2012-12-26T20:50:12Z

"I wish I were Žižek," the narrator says at one point. Best European Fiction 2013, edited by Aleksandar Hemon – review 2013-02-01T09:01:01Z

She sees the world for what it is, unflinchingly, a certain determination powering her voice and allowing her narrator to move on past the pain. Poised for Grammy coronation 2012-02-03T16:49:20Z

Our narrator must make a terrible choice between allowing warships to pass through or let them to be wrecked in the darkness. Best science fiction and fantasy for February 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

It takes many more pages to uncover what exactly the narrator means by this confession; in the meantime, those lines kept me rigid with dread. Ghosts, Literal and Figurative, Haunt Magda Szabo’s Novel 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

But a younger generation may just recognize his voice as the perpetually unseen narrator of CBS' hit sitcom "How I Met Your Mother." From 'Full House' to 'Fuller House': What has the cast been up to? 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

A narrator sets the scene for this improbable tale in the amused, worldly timbre of a young Ricardo Montalbán, and the series is shot in a bright candy-colored palette that suggests a modern fairy tale. ‘Jane the Virgin’ on CW and ‘Cristela’ on ABC 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

“The Door” is about a writer, who is the narrator, who lives in a village in Hungary, with her husband, who is also a writer. The Hungarian Despair of Magda Szabó’s “The Door” 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Each story is told by a young narrator, and Franco locates the adolescent voice by stripping back his prose and keeping lyrical flights to a minimum. Palo Alto by James Franco ? review 2011-01-02T00:05:12Z

But this early clunkiness abated as soon as Ms. Gosfield’s music was allowed to merge with the dramatic passages for Ms. Weaver’s narrator and the various “outdoor” characters. Review: A ‘Fake News’ Opera on the Streets of Los Angeles 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

But now, he tells the narrator, the time has come: His enemy is about to marry a young and beautiful girl. Capturing the essence of Pushkin, the revered poet killed in a duel at 37 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

White, 71, was here for her second costume fitting as the next narrator of “Hadestown,” a role she will perform eight times per week beginning on Tuesday. Lillias White Finds Her Goddess for ‘Hadestown’ 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Fiona Skinner, the narrator, is a famous poet, aged 102, and is in the midst of her first public appearance in 25 years. Review | ‘The Last Romantics’ is a sweeping family saga with a poetic streak 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

The plot seemed wafer-thin, and I never felt like the narrator could fully make me believe in the fantasy about a fox’s spirit possessing Reynard. 'Bottle Grove,' by Daniel Handler book review - The Washington Post 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

In another chapter, we hear the yoga instructor’s perspective, and he’s just as excited and vulnerable as the female narrator. The Audio App That’s Transforming Erotica 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z

“I should have just, like, eaten a cheeseburger or goofed around on the internet,” the narrator laments. ‘100 Boyfriends’ Tells Lewd and Lonely Stories of Desire and Heartbreak 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

The narrator is a writer struggling to turn the life of his aunt, a midwife-turned-abortionist, into a nine-act play, which forms the book’s epilogue. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Greenwell’s narrator is a poet of self-abasement, keenly attuned to the notion of size, of taking up too much space, and its centrality to queer experience. Gay Literature Is Out of the Closet. So Why Is Deception a Big Theme? 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z

The committee stopped short of banning the novel, however, because it was at least partly redeemed by the voice of its censorious narrator, who condemned the action as it unfolded. Tereska Torrès, 92, Writer of Lesbian Fiction, Dies 2012-09-25T14:41:36Z

The third time – getting closer to the age of the horribly honest narrator Bob Slocum – it was terrifying. Famous for the wrong book 2011-07-19T10:16:27Z

The Child's Child opens as Grace – another calm, collected narrator – researches a PhD on unmarried mothers in fiction. Ruth Rendell: a life in writing 2013-03-01T10:00:01Z

Robinson moves between first and third-person narration, with several sections given over to an omniscient urban historian narrator known as "the city" or "that city smartass." Writers imagined drowned worlds for centuries — what they tell us about the future 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

But by now he has transformed the role — that of a slightly aggrandized narrator — into a star vehicle. Music Review: Bach?s ?St. John,? With Bernard Labadie at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-26T22:35:40Z

Closeness with his narrator is also a liability. ‘I can write the words. He supplies the melody’: The harmonious bond between authors and audiobook narrators 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

From there, the novel breaks into three story lines, told by three narrators, in alternating timelines. Review | In ‘The Huntress,’ a dangerous Nazi goes on the run 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

Ms. Didion’s reporting reflected Norman Mailer’s prescription for “enormously personalized journalism in which the character of the narrator was one of the elements in the way the reader would finally assess the experience.” Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

But without a narrator, the film drags at times. 'Better Than Something: Jay Reatard': garage rocker's turbulent life 2012-03-01T20:53:03Z

Bon is pro-American, a veteran of the C.I.A.-sponsored Phoenix program of assassination; he leaves Saigon with the narrator on that plane. Review: ‘The Sympathizer,’ a Novel About a Soldier, Spy and Film Consultant 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

For instance, “I used to be a narrator for bad mimes” is a one-liner that is silly. On Comedy: Steven Wright’s Offbeat Humor Has Nurtured Other Comics 2014-04-30T21:48:27Z

Delivered in the voices of three well-chosen narrators, each story is read by one person alone. Best audiobooks of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

“He applied the paint thickly, and then repeatedly scratched it off the canvas as his work proceeded,” Sebald’s narrator observes. The Gloopy Glory of Frank Auerbach’s Portraits 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

Songs like heart-wrenching “Broken Arm in Oregon” have a way of planting you across the breakfast table while the narrator fights “the urge to ramble, with every three-egg breakfast scramble.” Brandi Carlile is Americana’s latest transcendent star. And she hasn’t forgotten her roots 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

RZA serves as something of an omniscient narrator, even for the parts where he’s at odds with other members. Review: A Wu-Tang Clan Documentary Captures the Group’s Wild Self-Invention 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

The series is most jolly when a bravura actor improvises to make dramatic sense of a wet-brained narrator’s stumble. Drunk History season two: it isn’t quite as funny when it isn’t quite as trashed 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

The audio version of this book is a particularly strong marriage of narrator and material. A Novel About the Death Camps, Brought to Vivid Life in Audio 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

As the narrator remarks, “Of all the punctuation marks, he told me, ellipses were his favorite.” ‘Suspended Sentences’: An eloquent taste of the 2014 Nobel Prize winner in literature

Dead, flowers … Bellow's narrator is asked to deliver some lilies for a young girl's wake. Darkness in literature: Saul Bellow's Something to Remember Me By 2012-12-21T12:13:51Z

The narrator signals early on that the plot is heading toward tragedy, and further summary would no more spoil “Lost Illusions” than a citation of the law of gravity would spoil a roller-coaster ride. ‘Lost Illusions’ Review: The Sweet Smell of Success 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

Momose, though, is nihilistic, telling the narrator, “The weak can’t handle reality. They can’t deal with the pain or sadness, let alone the obvious fact that nothing in life actually has any meaning.” Review | Mieko Kawakami’s ‘Heaven’ follows a bullied boy searching for meaning 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

The narrator and her husband also want a monastic existence, “to be guardians of each other’s solitude, like the Rilkes. Yet they, too, were always so worried about money. It didn’t work out for them.” Locked in a Creative Struggle, With Rilke as Her Guide 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

If listening is an art, then the narrator of Rachel Cusk’s new novel, “Transit,” is a virtuoso.  In 'Transit,' Rachel Cusk continues to slyly blur the lines that surround fiction 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Nguyen’s narrator is a sophisticated tour guide into what he calls “the heart of whiteness.” Viet Thanh Nguyen Packs Plenty of Action and Outrage Into ‘The Committed’ 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

“She wants to write, really write someday,” the narrator observes. In Kate Zambreno’s ‘Green Girl,’ a young American wanders through London

Part of the appeal of monster tales is that they underline what it means to be human, and “Mongrels” is most poignant when the narrator’s werewolf concerns align with recognizable anxieties. The wild boy wants his fangs in Stephen Graham Jones' "Mongrels" 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Nor is the narrator, unlike, say, the protagonist of Heti’s “Motherhood,” overly concerned about the loss of personal freedom or whatever deleterious effects on her work or career having a baby might bring. “Sight” and The Pleasures of Overthinking Motherhood 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Allow me, as I am a borderline reliable narrator, to turn you on to this theatrical coolness, and please forgive the occasional insertion of distracting, rambling and thoroughly pointless personal observations. ArtsBeat Blog: Stew in Africa: Colors and Collaboration That Won't Fade 2011-08-11T13:32:15Z

Moving chapter by chapter through different narrators, the story revolves around a successful cosmetics designer who calls herself Bride. Toni Morrison’s familiar, flawed ‘God Help the Child’ 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

It is the subterranean glitter of mysticism in the narrator’s descriptions of her surroundings that lends them their occasional menace. Yrsa Daley-Ward Breaks Out of the “Instapoetry” Pack with Her Memoir “The Terrible” 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

Unlike Erdrich's other novels, which feature an assortment of narrators or points of view, is limited by what Joe himself can understand. The Round House by Louise Erdrich – review 2013-05-18T06:59:01Z

And we, who see everything through her eyes, grow simultaneously more aware of her profound unreliability as a narrator and less certain of what, precisely, it is that we're seeing. John Burnside: a life in writing 2011-08-26T21:54:01Z

“Like its narrator, this is a remorseless little machine,” Dwight Garner writes of the book. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

The character winds up seeming less the opera’s heroine than its narrator, telling us about her adventures in California. Review: John Adams Mines Gold Rush History for His New Opera 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Of course, the Lois Club is a club for women named Lois, including the narrator, who works for General Dexterity, a tech company that develops robotic arms. Jeff Vandermeer on the delicious satire of 'Sourdough' by Robin Sloan 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

The first-person narrator heads to Main Street: “Instantly, I recognize the vagrant youngmen dotting those places: the motorcyclists without bikes, the cowboys without horses, awol servicemen or on leave. …” From ‘City of Night’ to ‘After the Blue Hour,’ John Rechy’s lyrical voice speaks many truths 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

In the short story, the narrator is 25, relating a recent episode set in 1988. ‘One Discordant Violin’ Review: In Search of Soul-Stirring Art 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

Even the narrator’s name has been radically attenuated, reduced to the single letter X, which, as a symbol of evaporated identity, is about as subtle as getting whacked in the face with a cricket bat. In Joseph O’Neill’s ‘The Dog,’ a depressed lawyer in Dubai won’t stop talking

All of the narrators work in the dovecote. 'The Dovekeepers': Alice Hoffman's novel of the siege of Masada 2011-10-05T23:00:08Z

The mise-en-scene was explicitly modern: Roman centurions as immigration officers; Herod sleepless and fearful in a velvet bathrobe; a narrator in blazer and tennis shoes. Review | This production of ‘L’Enfance du Christ’ gets tangled up in current events 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

This novel contains some pungent lines in which the narrator, fully grown and a successful writer, seems to push back against those who would admire or blurb his work. ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ Captures a Young Immigrant’s Troubles and Ecstasies 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z

At one stage, the narrator observes, “From one small body I made three new humans. I grew these complex beauties. I made their lungs and their noses.” This Week in Fiction: Samantha Hunt on the Unspoken Terrors of Being a New Mother 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

The narrator lets the spear fly and he watches it rip through Ras’s cheeks, locking his jaws. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

“A narrator takes you out of that emotionality,” Kennedy said. Rory Kennedy releases documentary ‘Last Days in Vietnam’

The narrator’s father is shot dead by Los Angeles police officers for, basically, driving while black. Review: ‘The Sellout,’ Paul Beatty’s Biting Satire on Race in America 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

It is told by an unnamed narrator who recounts struggling with the decision of whether to have children with her partner, Johannes. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Sight’ Balances Grief, Freud and Parenthood 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z

The narrator is profoundly lonely, so he’s searching for kindred souls, for a wee bit of love. Douglas Stuart on Growing Up Queer Before the Internet 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

What little bravado exists on “Take Care” is often supplied by the women he not only covets but admires, some who are no longer in the narrator’s life, except as memories. Album review: Drake, 'Take Care' 2011-11-13T19:26:00Z

The novella’s young narrator is Maloney, a foster child living in an abusive home in North Carolina. New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

The places that Antoinette, Rhys’ doomed narrator in “Wide Sargasso Sea,” longs for have flaming sunsets and rivers so clear that you can see the pebbles at the bottom. Edwidge Danticat: Dawn After the Tempests 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

Yet the music defies that description, rising above all maladies to embrace perseverance, to proclaim the narrator’s resilience. Lollapalooza Day 1: Black Sabbath, Black Keys and Passion Pit's black thoughts 2012-08-04T06:11:00Z

Love has to pull his narrators out of deeper holes this time, reflected in minor chords and mournful realizations. New Music from Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame 2011-08-08T22:27:29Z

Like its narrator, this is a remorseless little machine. A Sleeping Beauty Hopes Hibernation Is the Answer to All Life’s Problems 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

They are a secret narrator in our minds, skilfully and invisibly steering our emotions. Clip joint: shocking sounds 2010-07-07T15:41:00Z

As the narrator explains, "Only the historian was allowed to remember," because if the regular folk "know the truth of everything, they will not be able to carry on." Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough — look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fiction 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

Buddy, 24, both sings and raps — he’s strongest when he inflects his singing with some of the shape of his rapping — and on most of this album, he is a contemplative, empathetic narrator. YG and Buddy, Los Angeles Hip-Hop Two Ways 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

"The truth is," the narrator of "Miss Mary's Room" insists, "I got no deep remorse for what got did to Pat. Pat was in the game and he knew what time it was." George Pelecanos' 'Martini Shot' short stories colorful but confined 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

This makes her a wonderful and confounding narrator for a mysterious series of village deaths that make up the plot of “Drive Your Plow.” What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

He knew that he didn’t want an onstage narrator, because that would be a “pace-killer.” Bringing “Wolf Hall” to the Stage 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

The narrator eats it herself, feeling “as if I were robbing a grave.” A Romantic Comedy So Dark It Makes You Cry 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

It all began with a simple line of dialogue, “I see,” spoken into a tape recorder by Louis, the narrator of “Interview With the Vampire.” Lestat returns: In her new novel, Anne Rice revives a much-loved vampire

Bauer is a generous narrator with a nice ear for detail, and his colleagues come across as sympathetic characters, with a few notable exceptions. The Dickensian Conditions of Life in a For-Profit Lockup 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

“Wonder Wheel” returns Mr. Allen to Coney Island, the childhood home of his alter ego Alvy Singer, the narrator of “Annie Hall” who claims to have grown up under the amusement park’s roller coaster. Review: ‘Wonder Wheel,’ Woody Allen’s Coney Island Memory Palace 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Based partly on real events, the book describes the back stories of the men charged with a plot to kill the narrator, like Tejpal a senior journalist. The Story of My Assassins by Tarun J Tejpal – review 2012-11-23T11:00:01Z

“My wife says it clearly enough,” the narrator says, “one must refuse to do, must reside in the poetics of inaction. And then millions will rain down upon you.” The Pill That Makes Life Shine Brighter, Fallout Be Damned 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

The erudite narrator of this novel, a National Book Award finalist, unfolds her personal story within the 20th-century history of her beloved Beirut. The top 50 fiction books for 2014

In the Swedish-Ugandan author’s melancholic fourth novel, the narrator, who claims to come from the future, has been held at a high-security psychiatric clinic since her participation in a horrific terrorist attack. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

“Sometimes,” the narrator concludes, “the best people are the worst for us to love.” The Mysterious ‘Parking Lot Attendant’ at the Center of a Web of Intrigue 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Eason gets a bit trapped with her narrator—who is a likeable presence but must hang in some very personal shadows here, looking a little awkward and, well, in the way. A cold winter in Lookingglass 'Ethan Frome' but not much blood running through the snow 2011-03-06T20:55:54Z

In this Roundabout solo show, Mr. Dale, 78, recounts his career from music hall comic to Broadway belter to “Harry Potter” audiobook narrator and beyond. Theater Listings for May 30-June 5 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

As he wrote after the episode: “I am the least reliable narrator when it comes to the story of my brain exploding.” 7 New Memoirs to Read This Season 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Frightened, the narrator gradually discerns a young woman “with strikingly large, light gray eyes” standing in the darkness. Book review: Metaphysical novella ‘The Creator’ by Mynona blurs the boundary between dream and reality 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

When the Holocaust shows up in his stories, it is often as a foil, a background to the lives of individuals like the narrator in “Yad Vashem,” who is touring Israel’s Holocaust museum. If Kafka Were Israeli and Wrote About Talking Goldfish 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

In one unnerving section, the narrator recounts the incremental steps that led to this all-encompassing control — first, he let Aunt Nettie keep his calendar, then respond to emails on his behalf. The Future Is Here, and Uncomfortably Close to Home 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

The film is witty, creative, funny, and the character interaction with the narrator and the book text will remind audiences that this is a storybook which has come to life. Pooh returns 2011-04-18T07:22:39Z

Mead balances herself as narrator on a tightrope of thought running from her mind to her mother’s elusive consciousness. New poetry from Jane Mead and Daniel Borzutzky examine death — in both human and national forms 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

Hero Complex talked to Morris about the project, the production it involved and finding his unique voice as narrator. Phil Morris narrates Ken Burns-style 'Game of Thrones' Castle Black battle retelling 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Looking back on her childhood as a precocious tomboy, the narrator, Jean Louise Finch, better known as Scout, evoked the sultry summers and simple pleasures of an ordinary small town in Alabama. Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Dies at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

So muses narrator Thomas Cromwell in Hilary Mantel’s thrilling new historical novel Bring Up the Bodies, the sequel to her Booker Prize-winning hit, Wolf Hall. Hilary Mantel Continues Her Bloody Brilliant Tudor Saga With Bring Up the Bodies 2012-05-09T10:45:37Z

Although the narrator is no longer a professional spy, his life is no less clandestine than ever. Review | In ‘The Committed,’ Viet Thanh Nguyen continues his Pulitzer Prize-winning story 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

And at the end, when the narrator tries to come to terms with it all — both what’s real and imagined — he realizes that being Black in America and existing is a journey of love. Review | In ‘Hell of a Book,’ an author and his imaginary friend go on a book tour 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

And many of the script’s stage directions are read out loud by two actors, Joyce Sanhá and Christian Löber, whose limber performances — as narrators, nurses and other characters — add to the production’s anxious, off-kilter energy. Review: In ‘Amour,’ Putting a Palme d’Or Winner Onstage 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

The troubled narrator of David Ackles's American gothic Road to Cairo is on his way home, before turning round, deciding instead to spare his loved ones the ordeal of seeing him again. Readers recommend: songs about a change of mind ? results 2011-08-04T14:27:52Z

Although the narrator describes her life from the age of 3 to the age of 80, all five of the actors who tell her story are 9 or 10. Review: A Woman Grows Up in ‘Employee of the Year’ 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

It was impossible to pin Philip down, yet outside perspectives and insights kept slipping through as the other characters were brought to life in our narrator’s vivid recap. Billy Crudup in 'Harry Clarke': A deviously brilliant performance is reborn as an audiobook 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

Panic overwhelmed me; what if, in my determination to find non-racially specific parts, I'd overlooked gender issues and would now discover that only boys were allowed to be narrators? Why school plays make a difference 2012-07-10T10:44:56Z

Kepnes’s absorbing narrator, Joe Goldberg, the multiple murderer who demonstrates “the shattered barrier between id and superego,” is back for a third book. New in Paperback: ‘To Make Men Free’ and ‘You Love Me’ 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

As the narrator recalls growing up with this abusive, alcoholic man, and “all the years I’d spent wishing him dead,” he discovers that his long-suffering mother may not be the saint he took her for. Reviews: New Books From Sarah Hall, Mia Alvar, Katherine Taylor and Others 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Sir David Attenborough is back as the narrator and Hans Zimmer as the composer. These Are the 20 New TV Shows You Should Watch in 2017 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

The case is a story with too many unreliable narrators among its witnesses and handlers, and Morris admits that he’s no more reliable than anyone else. ‘A Wilderness of Error’ Review: Errol Morris in the Fog of Murder 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

Given Wheeler’s mutating role throughout this ugly saga, he cannot be considered a reliable narrator. Perspective | You don’t have to believe everything in that Seth Rich lawsuit. What’s been confirmed is bad enough. 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

“One day he gets drunk and manages to lose her entire flock of 63 rare Italian blue sheep,” Robinson tells us, in narrator mode. When Monsters Make the Best Husbands 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

If only all social misfits were as stealthily charming as Eric Muller, the nerdy narrator of Gabriel Roth’s sparkling debut novel. Books of The Times: ‘The Unknowns’ Is Gabriel Roth’s Debut Novel 2013-07-10T20:23:36Z

The exposition above is delivered not by an omniscient narrator but as gossip. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 5: Our Mutual Friend 2012-02-01T19:54:28Z

We were silent during the first war, the narrator says; then we were silent, waiting for the next war, for the recovery, for Communism, for the fall of Communism. A Salzburg Festival Rich With Dreams and Power 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

Much that is terrible, sad, and indeed strange in this novel, but the relationship between father and daughter as observed, a little enviously, by the narrator is many things glorious and understatedly tender. Dear Match Book: Daddy’s Little Girl 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

The narrator retains Reva’s loyalty because she’s thin and pretty and “cultured,” which the narrator concludes to mean that she majored in art history and has money she didn’t earn. Ottessa Moshfegh’s Painful, Funny Novel of a Young Woman’s Chemical Hibernation 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

In its preface, a facetious narrator tells of Nietzsche’s traumatized reaction to a carriage driver’s assault on a horse. Critic?s Notebook: New York Film Festival, With Bela Tarr and Nuri Bilge Ceylan 2011-10-04T22:23:21Z

With all of the repetitions and the confining nature of her narrator’s mind, Lozano plants one firm foot in the aggressively avant-garde camp of a writer like David Markson. In This Novel, the Stream of Consciousness Is More Like a Whirlpool 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

The testing and evaluation of this drug get handed to our unnamed narrator, a medical researcher. The Pill That Makes Life Shine Brighter, Fallout Be Damned 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

“The history of science fiction is the history of the imagination,” intones Mark Gatiss, narrator of the four-part series “The Real History of Science Fiction” on BBC America starting Saturday, April 19. BBC America’s ‘Real History’ is Science Fiction 101 2014-04-16T20:07:37Z

But much of the play’s primary dialogue is between the narrator’s critical oration and the indignant responses Rankine received to her essay, which ensemble members recite directly to the audience. ‘Help’ Review: Blindfolds (and Kid Gloves) Off. Let’s Analyze Whiteness. 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Guiding us through all of this is Palma’s narrator, one eyebrow expertly arched. ‘The Map of Chaos,’ by Felix J. Palma 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

The plot does execute a few improbable maneuvers, but that is more than compensated by the perfect unity between story and narrator. Review | In these new audiobooks, great tales are matched with great narrators 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

The narrator, Samuel, is something of an outsider, unaccustomed to the ways of the bread line. This Week in Fiction: J. Robert Lennon 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Throughout their brief relationship, the narrator minutely observes both Mitko and his country, as well as his own past. Come as you are 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

“They know that the object of correct etiquette is not to make life formal and dull, but to make it fully enjoyable,” the narrator declared. Table manners aren't dying. They are changing, though 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z

In Mr. Mayer’s version of “Stop This Train,” whose narrator worries about the future and fantasizes about returning to childhood, the song has the easygoing flow of a folk-pop ballad crooned in a dreamy voice. 2010-01-08T03:47:00Z

The narrator is mostly a listener, an asker of questions, an intellectual filter. ‘Outline,’ Rachel Cusk’s New Novel 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

Her daughter, Norah, our narrator, takes us through her mother’s career, which began with a troupe of traveling players who brought theater to parish halls in rural Ireland. An Actress Descends Into Madness, and Her Daughter Picks Up the Pieces 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

The narrator’s father, a farmer, especially loves a now-unnecessary mule named Orphan Lad, with his “sharp shoulders and soft ears, the mealy tuck of his lower lip.” Schemes of Mules and Men Propel ‘The Midnight Cool’ 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

At times, I was tempted to hear a note of parody in the narrator’s relentless melancholy. Review | Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel ‘Whereabouts’ is a delicate exploration of despair 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

My favorite part of the episode is the early section where the narrator veers away from details of the crime and starts talking about the differences between East, West, North and South Knoxville. "Sins and Secrets": The perfect antidote to the sleazy crime show 2011-02-17T15:18:00Z

Yet the work is still riveting, even given our repugnance, because the reader knows that, in the end, the narrator will break the frame of the page and come to lethal life. He shot George Wallace to be famous. Now he lives in silence. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

“He’s unpretentious and easy to work with. There’s a light, playful ease and a real warmth there,” says Anderson’s longtime friend, Joanna Newsom — the Arcadian harpist who plays Sortilège, clairvoyant narrator of “Inherent Vice.” ‘Inherent Vice’ is complex and subversive. Paul Thomas Anderson is pretty normal. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

What a relief to be in the company, for once, of a thoroughly reliable narrator. ‘Lucy Barton’ Review: Laura Linney Finds Her Perfect Match 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

It is unclear, however, how deliberate this metaphor is and whether we are meant to embrace it or conclude that the narrator is projecting his psychology outward. Two Début Novels Explore How to Be Good 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

The dramatic effect of both is, however, swamped by relentless theorizing, chiefly on the part of the book’s cheerless narrator, Robert Hendricks. ‘Where My Heart Used to Beat’: Sebastian Faulks’s latest foray into war 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Over lunch, the unnamed narrator — a semi-retired crime-writing Casanova — asks the mayor of the coastal town he’s visiting why there have been so many killings. ‘Endgame’ — a Turkish seaside noir by Ahmet Altan 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

The Tanizaki story is related entirely in the third person, with the narrator continually turning over the events in his mind and questioning the murky details of a story that obsesses him. Theater Review: ‘Shun-kin,’ Japanese Intrigue, at Lincoln Center Festival 2013-07-10T21:58:34Z

One frosty morning, already unsettled, Ogawa’s narrator steps outside to find the river carpeted in petals. ‘Read Receipts’ On: Two Dystopian Novels Predict the Surveillance State 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

This paradoxical setup leads to a personal borderline, a reminiscence of the narrator’s “Last Night” — the eve of her departure from an institution for troubled women. 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

The unnamed narrator is a biracial, American-educated communist informant in the employ of a South Vietnamese general in the waning days of war. Viet Thanh Nguyen: Spy, Sympathizer, Son 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z

I can think of few novels that leave a reader feeling so hopeful about human suffering, in which the innocence and religious optimism of the narrator allow you to forget how clearly doomed everyone is. Thomas Berger’s Egoless Fictions 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

In keeping with the imperatives of his mission, our 30-something narrator never divulges his name. ‘The Mulberry Bush’ is enriched by Charles McCarry’s real-life spycraft 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

The movie’s nonlinear narrative and unreliable narrators would also inspire many films, like “The Usual Suspects” and “Hero.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Suits’ and the 2018 ESPYS 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

The narrator of this propulsive novel is a light-skinned Black researcher of race and colorism in Brazil. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

The man chooses to tell the story in third person, a choice that builds in some minimum distance between the man, as author or narrator, and the story he’s telling. This Week in Fiction: Charles Yu on Therapy and Storytelling 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

The narrator, who, like the island, is unnamed, is a novelist. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Despite the romantic pleas of its lonely narrator, Ms. Love said it was “a joyful song.” Darlene Love’s Last ‘Letterman’ Christmas 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

“Borne’s” narrator, Rachel, discovers the strange creature while scavenging within the city: Jeff Vandermeer's new dystopian novel "Borne" is lyrical and harrowing; Elizabeth Hand reviews 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

“She had never met a man more confident yet so lacking in confidence,” the narrator says. Review | In the era of countless Trump exposés, do we really need a new ‘Primary Colors’? 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

The N.B.A. star Stephen Curry is an executive producer and the actress La La Anthony the narrator of this four-part docu-series exploring the influence of Black celebrities and entertainers on pop culture. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Below the Belt’ and a Juneteenth Celebration 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

These reflections on the hard parts of the story make Della a believable narrator, one who has to ease her way into sharing details about the awful truth of what she and her sister survived. An Unflinching Child’s-Eye View of Sexual Abuse 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

The narrator ends up giving a lift to one of his co-workers, Duncan. Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on Acting and Amateurism 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

Various participants in that famous broadcast, including Richard Burton, the original narrator, were to read the play under the direction of its producer, Reggie Smith. The Richard Burton Diaries edited by Chris Williams – review 2012-11-29T08:00:03Z

If I’m to understand correctly, the kinds of books that you’ve written are also the kind of books that Faye, your narrator, writes. “I Don’t Think Character Exists Anymore”: A Conversation with Rachel Cusk 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

The book’s narrator is a school kid named Wade Watts, whose parents at least had the foresight to give him the alliterative name of a superhero. Books of The Times: A Future Wrapped in 1980s Culture 2011-08-14T23:02:57Z

We are just getting to the point of the story – Sunday lunch, a hot gammon, the narrator invited to join Lil and her husband Albert – when the landlord finally succeeds in clearing them out. Pubs in books 2010-07-08T13:37:00Z

Soon Mr. Thirlwell switches to a more comic register, as the narrator describes being just over 30, still living at home with his parents and his wife, Candy. ‘Lurid & Cute,’ a Novel by Adam Thirlwell 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

"Rabih's dealing a lot with propaganda and perception in the Middle East, but you also get a sense of him as a character, and a somewhat unreliable narrator," comments Czaplinski. On the Boards offers 'radical' lineup this year 2011-10-01T19:45:32Z

That's when we realize the narrator is the guy with the answers — a Catholic Latino security guard, Ramirez, who flirts with being a stereotype. 'Devil': Confining chills to a stalled elevator 2010-09-20T21:30:00Z

And it’s the thing Lanchester’s narrator spends an awful lot of time repeating. Review | ‘The Wall’ imagines the wall of Donald Trump’s dreams 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

The narrator, Meursault, an alienated French Algerian, drifts through his mother’s death, a sexual liaison he falls into shortly after the funeral and his inexplicable murder of an anonymous Arab on an empty beach. An Algerian novelist takes on Camus in ‘The Meursault Investigation’ 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

But the book’s narrator is so hangdog, passive and frustrated that even those baguettes overshadow him. Books of The Times: A Very Big Man and the Brother Who Resents Him 2011-07-31T21:15:13Z

Aside from the maid, they’re among the only people Cain names, and the only ones our narrator genuinely cares about. A Novel That Will Get People Talking 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

“And that was your perspective on your country as well: that it was not forever,” Eva, the narrator of “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” writes to her husband, Franklin. Lionel Shriver Imagines America’s Collapse 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Klam’s narrator is a 42-year-old graphic novelist named Rich Fischer, who first signed on with this summer program years ago when he was the hot new thing. Sex and the middle-aged man 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

The narrator, drawn to Kendrick, becomes consumed with the question of his innocence or guilt. He’s a Lifer at Angola. He’s Black. Was He Falsely Convicted? 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

But Yocum constructs a madcap yarn around this epicenter of economic depression, shifting narrators across a handful of quirky, hard-bitten residents. Is there a cure for Rust Belt rhetoric? This witty little novel might be a start. 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

The book’s narrator set the pattern for all of Houellebecq’s antiheroes: depressed, misanthropic men who, precisely because they cannot achieve romantic or sexual satisfaction, believe that sex is the most important thing in life. A French Novelist Imagined Sexual Dystopia. Now It’s Arrived. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

We meet the narrator, who like most of these characters is never named, as he enjoys a drink with a favorite student. Review | In ‘Cleanness,’ Garth Greenwell explores the mysteries of love and pleasure 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

To take a novel in which the narrator speaks directly to the reader and give it the bounce of drama. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; Playing the Games: Taking Part/After the Party – review 2012-08-04T23:06:09Z

“What happens,” the narrator asks, “to people who live inside their phones?” Review | Don DeLillo’s ‘The Silence’ is an absurdist look at our technology dependence 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

Most of the film is spent in the company of the animals, and there is almost no dialogue other than a narrator to help some younger viewers along in following the story. Scarecrow suggests | Like 'The Way Back'? Try other tales of wilderness survival 2011-01-20T22:20:04Z

I edited the local music magazine The Rocket, which profiled and championed Seattle bands, so admittedly I am a biased narrator. That magic moment 30 years ago when Nirvana and ‘Nevermind’ forever changed Seattle 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Here is the narrator, using the second person in the first sentence, addressing us as co-conspirators from the depths of an epic hangover. Review: ‘Animals’ Asks When, and If, the Party Has to End 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

Arty and the narrator try to do this, but it doesn’t work out very well. Joseph O’Neill on Emotional Relationships Between Men 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

They get a drink, and Arty tells the narrator about Gladys, his two daughters’ former nanny. Joseph O’Neill on Emotional Relationships Between Men 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

If that relationship works, the narrator enhances the reader’s experience — but never dominates it. Review | What does passion sound like? How five audiobook actors talk sexy. 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

“Not only that, but someone was trying to tell me something about these circumstances, or so I thought,” by dropping into the narrator’s mailbox a circled real estate listing for the narrator’s father’s house. Review | ‘The Scapegoat’ is a bizarre, arresting mystery you won’t be able to put down 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

For one thing, it insists on emphasizing the act of storytelling, whether Mays is reciting the text as a lively but neutral narrator or portraying, seemingly simultaneously, all the characters in a scene. Review: A Ham’s ‘Christmas Carol,’ Without the Honey Glaze 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

The “Dead Confederates” narrator knows he’s doing something wrong. Books of The Times: Rural Pride and Poverty and a Hen?s Empty Nest 2010-03-08T08:48:00Z

Perhaps it is unsurprising, then, that he was drawn to flesh out a sculptor of his own, the Sicilian narrator of Secrecy, his ninth novel. Secrecy by Rupert Thomson – review 2013-03-23T15:00:01Z

The narrator of the title story, a Montana transplant from Back East, contends that Somerset Maugham, Buster Keaton and the Replacements are “the things that matter.” The Moral of These Stories? ‘You Are Not as Special as You Think’ 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Although Fan is the novel’s central character, it’s the voice of the narrator that puts meaning in the story — one person serving as an entire Greek chorus. ‘On Such a Full Sea’: Chang-rae Lee’s vision of a grim future 2014-01-08T23:28:01Z

During several subsequent meetings, the narrator continues to probe his own motives, peeling back the layers of his pretense to expose what need is really motivating him. ‘What Belongs to You’ review: An eloquent tale of desire and remorse 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

In common with Kapadia’s last movie, “Senna,” a race through the life and lap times of the Brazilian Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna, there is no narrator to link the images and tranquillize the mood. “Amy,” Back from Black 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

“It was rather an uncanny experience at first,” the narrator tells us. The 1914 Y.A. Novel That Provides a Fascinating Look at the Movie Industry 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

Joel Rainwater is the narrator and a ghost who is emotionally attached to a lizard; he can’t understand why the spirits want to kill it. Review: In ‘The Great Divorce,’ Searching for Greener Pastures 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

A novel can be unfamiliar in its form; certainly, it can incorporate a variety of narrators and styles. Fame by Daniel Kehlmann 2010-09-19T11:57:00Z

That makes me think of another of the narrator's observations. How an adopted girl's tragic death became fiction: David Guterson on "bearing witness" 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

The song’s narrator sees humanity plagued by existential doom, which may be catching up with Rick and the gang. The Walking Dead Watch: Nebraska 2012-02-13T13:45:34Z

He's tried to laugh it off but the incident is "very painful," said Willard, who was fired as narrator of the new PBS series "Market Warriors" immediately after his arrest. Willard says he did nothing to warrant arrest 2012-07-27T09:01:04Z

Daunted and intrigued in equal measure by the prospect of a female narrator, he jumped in, and began to assemble the novel patchwork fashion. Mick Jackson: 'Taking pity on the reader' 2010-04-08T09:41:00Z

I loved the narrator’s tone, as if I was hearing him talking to me, as he was talking to Cecilia. Hanan al-Shaykh: By the Book 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

The narrator is revealed to be a garrulous ghost named Francescho, trapped in some sort of purgatory. ‘How to Be Both,’ by Ali Smith 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

The narrator of David Gates’s 1971 love song “If” imagines that if the end times come and the stars go out, “you and I would simply fly away.” Music Review: Michael Feinstein Performs at Birdland 2013-12-18T22:22:27Z

Unlike Facebook, the narrator is not trying to curate a flawless image of herself to be envied or admired; unlike Twitter she’s not pledging absolute fealty to a chosen group. Review | Alexandra Chang’s ‘Days of Distraction’ experiments with form to reveal the complexities of modern life 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

Events are related in long, winding sentences punctuated by asides, filtered through the narrator’s gaze; attention is lavished on landscape, often pregnant with meaning. Come as you are 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

“Thanks for being here with me,” the narrator says to the reader as the novel’s craziness reaches its tipping point. A Gun Shop and a Family Prone to Breakdowns: What Could Go Wrong? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

The relentless percussion embellishes lyrics that tell the story of a woman who scrapes the percussive güiro instrument to the narrator’s satisfaction. 15 Essentials From Johnny Pacheco and Fania Records, the ‘Motown of Salsa’ 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

“All plots tend to move deathward,” the narrator of “White Noise” says. Review: In Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K,’ Daring to Outwit Death 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

Although the narrator never solved the mystery of what happened that day, he did learn something that stayed with him ever since. Haruki Murakami on Asking the Right Questions 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

“Letting the music and dance tell the stories, with a little help from the narrators, turned out to be the perfect solution,” she said. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 21-27 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

“You end up forgetting the people you shouldn’t and remembering the people who’ve forgotten all about you,” the narrator remarks. The Roving, Kaleidoscopic Vision of Peter Orner 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

But the tragedy and political motivation require the additional weight of the oratorio, with mighty choral numbers and an oracular solo tenor/narrator. Race, justice, power: Finding new relevance in Kurt Weill's 'Lost in the Stars' 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

The stories are invariably about that wandering—about statelessness as a state of being—and, because the narrator has no proper home, he can also have no proper name. The Rise of the Nameless Narrator 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

“I wasn’t a Nazi,” says the narrator of Starritt’s novel as he recalls his years as a German soldier on the Eastern Front in a letter to his grandson. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Charlotte, not Dickens, invented the child narrator who acutely registers pain. Review: ‘Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart’ 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

And so our narrator, with the concealing cognomen “Jane Smith,” holds down a well-paying job as a security analyst, probing the defensive systems of corporate clients for weaknesses. Review | Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Hummingbird Salamander’ is a gripping eco-thriller full of cinematic set pieces 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

Like the narrator of this novel, the real-life Arthur Phillips has written a novel titled "Prague" and has the same editor, agent and publicist as his fictional doppelgänger. 2011's best -- so far! 2011-07-04T15:01:00Z

The title track, about a tryst in an opulent hotel, brims with sharply written images of decadence as the narrator makes off with another man’s wife. Jack White front and center on 'Blunderbuss' ✭✭✭ 1/2 2012-04-23T14:17:00Z

Affecting a light Appalachian accent, the voice of fictional narrator and teen fighter Katniss Everdeen, the 48-year-old Collins read a couple of pages from the second book of the series, "Catching Fire." `Mockingjay' receives midnight launch at NYC store 2010-08-24T16:01:00Z

“When I woke again it was to a sunset I didn’t deserve,” the narrator, Tess, recounts. ‘Sweetbitter,’ by Stephanie Danler 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

Sitting in a sauna with a naked Billy, Wayne’s narrator invokes “The Silence of the Lambs,” wishing he could slip into his roommate’s skin “like an exoskeleton.” Gay Literature Is Out of the Closet. So Why Is Deception a Big Theme? 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z

Her narrator, Linda, may be a bit perverse and amoral; she may be your averagely narcissistic teenager, prone to casual brutality and blind to the hardships and hurts of those around her. Review: A Teenager Bears Witness to Backwoods Intrigue in ‘History of Wolves’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

The narrator shares the author’s name and much of his biography. With Wit and Anger, Ayad Akhtar Addresses What It Means to Be American 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

Which means giving us the pictures while the narrator tells pleasant lies. Patrick Keiller on London: read the original interview 2012-11-30T15:00:00Z

I found I could neither sympathise with nor dislike this Trotta – who is indeed a superfluous man, and not quite convincing as the narrator of his own disintegration. The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth – review 2013-01-25T20:00:01Z

It effectively assumes the omniscient voice of a silent narrator. ‘Yanagawa’ Review: Her Spell 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

A tale twice told, the ingenious Turkish puzzle “Belonging” opens with an unseen narrator introducing the story and then another voice delivering a just-the-facts description of a murder. 11 Movies You Need to See at New Directors/New Films 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

The narrator of Rachel Cusk’s transfixing new novel, “Transit,” is a listener, too. Review: Rachel Cusk’s ‘Transit’ Offers Transcendent Reflections 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Rosemary Cooke, the protagonist and engaging narrator of the tale, is the daughter of an Indiana University professor who brings his work home, filling the farmhouse with experiments, blackboards and graduate students. How the Man Booker short-list contenders shape up 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

Crucially, Russell makes Vanessa an unreliable narrator of her own knowledge, enthusiasm and agency, but never on Strane’s actions and manipulations, which are unambiguous to the reader if not to her. 7 must-read novels to kick off 2020 right 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

These include unwritten novels, unreliable narrators, memory and exile. Books of The Times: ‘All Men Are Liars,’ a Novel by Alberto Manguel 2012-06-21T21:51:49Z

They lend a friendly face to the fight for climate solutions, and like Harrelson as our narrator, their intermittent presence serves to ground the documentary as it zips from topic to topic. ‘Kiss the Ground’ Review: Regenerating Hope for the Climate 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z

A stag appears in the woods and seems to mean something to the narrator, though just what remains elusive. Motherhood Meets Lust and Violence in Ariana Harwicz’s “Die, My Love” 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Then there are the narrator’s constant asides, which apply to our world, too: “Power is a coat that’s always too small.” A Wildly Inventive Fantasy Series That Began on the Web and Became a Best-Seller 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

“Screw autonomy,” his narrator muses — though he uses a more vulgar word; autonomy is the root of alienation. A French Novelist Imagined Sexual Dystopia. Now It’s Arrived. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

“The Plague,” too, was a testament to the dedication of individuals like the novel’s narrator, Dr. Rieux, who risks his own life to tend to victims. Coronavirus Notebook: Finding Solace, and Connection, in Classic Books 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

No, in this otherworldly version, the narrator is Daisy’s savvy friend Jordan Baker. Review | Nghi Vo’s demonic adaptation of ‘The Great Gatsby’ might be — gasp — jazzier than the original 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

The unreliable narrator is a fairly well-worn literary trick, but seldom has it yielded results as spectacular as this. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-04-27T05:00:17Z

Over a series of paintings in circular frames, a narrator tells of the mythic Chinese character Pan Jinlian, an adulteress whose name is still invoked in modern China to chastise an “indecent” woman. Review: ‘I Am Not Madame Bovary’ Takes Man Trouble to New Levels 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Life appears to be imitating art, but not quite in the way that the narrator of “The Goldfinch” envisaged it. Think That Queen Anne Chair Is Valuable? You Better Take a Seat 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

The narrator draws intimate portraits of the kids and adults who peopled his youth, only to reveal that they too were killed. I Am a Chechen! by German Sadulaev, translated by Anna?Gunin ? review 2011-01-15T00:07:01Z

“Everybody said: so?” the wise narrator tells us, “As in so what? As in shoulder shrug, or what do you expect me to do about it?” Review | Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’ concludes her seasonal quartet on a high note 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z

The implication is that the refugee crisis is forcing white, native-born Swedes to imagine other lives, and other ways of living, just like the newly sober narrator is. Two Début Novels Explore How to Be Good 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

Ms. Russell’s narrator, Trish Edgewater, works at a Pennsylvania branch of an organization called Slumber Corps, which is helping address the insomnia crisis by collecting “sleep donations” from healthy volunteers. Books of The Times: Karen Russell’s ‘Sleep Donation’ 2014-04-02T20:29:11Z

This is an unconscious enactment of the first stages of labor; so many of the narrator’s fixations are placeholders for the deeper losses she can’t face. In Laura Sims’s “Looker,” a Sad Voyeur Mistakes Her Own Life for a Poem 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

Corpses freshly risen from their graves aren’t usually as cozy as Her, the narrator in “Underneath,” a solo performance piece by Pat Kinevane that wears death as if it were a quilted dressing gown. Review: ‘Underneath,’ an Embrace of Irish Ghosts 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

“Our generation doesn’t have to hide anything under the bed,” the narrator of a simmering story titled “Sent” declares. Books of The Times: ‘Four New Messages,’ Stories by Joshua Cohen 2012-07-31T12:00:00Z

The narrator knows, though, that rejected footballs aren't thrown away but marketed cheaply to relatively undemanding customers. Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by John Updike – review 2012-05-24T10:00:01Z

“He is better thought of as an effigy I stuff and sew,” the narrator says, “so that I might whack at him with the sticks of my sentences.” Book review: ‘Against the Country,’ by Ben Metcalf 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

We enter this book already aware that our narrator is an untrustworthy one. A Grisly Teenage Murder and the Ethics of True Crime 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z

The conceptual opportunity in a memoir such as this is to understand that the reader is stalking the elusive striped beast alongside the narrator. An American Writer Goes Into the Jungle to Commune With a Tiger 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

When the novel opens, the narrator is passing a plaque on the road where a man once died. Review | Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel ‘Whereabouts’ is a delicate exploration of despair 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

She was already thinking of a new novel — one that might have an unreliable narrator, like the one in Ford Madox Ford’s “The Good Soldier,” and have as its subject the oddness of memory itself. ‘A Writer Writes’: Penelope Lively’s Fiction Defies the Test of Time 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Its unnamed narrator is a writer in late middle age who, like one of Rachel Cusk’s detached narrators, is attuned to the stories of others. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

As the film’s narrator, she is talking about her erasure from the rise of N.W.A in “Straight Outta Compton,” and by extension the absence of other black women from these stories. Rap Disrupted Music First. Now It’s TV and Film. 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

“To my mind,” the narrator says in the weirdly archaic diction that marks this novel, “he who turns his back on town is as prone as anyone to become evil’s eager and ignorant sponge.” Book review: ‘Against the Country,’ by Ben Metcalf 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

In his new memoir, “Hurricanes,” rapper, drug boss and label head Rick Ross plays with the idea of an unreliable narrator, with mixed results. Review | In recent memoirs, musicians reveal glamorous tantrums, plenty of drug use and the double-edged sword of fame 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

In most cases, we are seeing what the narrator is seeing, or what his other is imagining, not that it’s easy or perhaps even desirable to distinguish between them. Review: Streaming Consciousness Floods ‘A School for Fools’ 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

The narrator sees it as simple southern-rock fandom, now separated from the people who used to fly it in a war to preserve their right to own black slaves. Less Than Accidental Racist: Why Paula Deen’s Comments Insult Her Fans Too 2013-06-20T17:10:41Z

The narrator tries to put a positive gloss on the hardships he has endured: "Summer wasn't bad below the bridge/ A little short on food that's all." Readers recommend: songs about austerity ? the results 2011-01-20T16:32:23Z

The narrator’s conscience becomes as torn as the rest of him. ‘The Sympathizer,’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

At another moment, the narrator thinks: “That’s the worst thing about teaching, that our actions either have no force at all or have force beyond all intention.” Sex, Violence and Self-Discovery Collide in the Incandescent ‘Cleanness’ 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

The sometimes droll, sometimes eerily affectless, occasionally enraged narrator is Roy, the older brother, a mechanic who runs the Os convenience store and gas station. Review | Jo Nesbo’s ‘The Kingdom’ is a suspenseful bundle of Norwegian noir that’s almost impossible to put down 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

In season one and part of season two, the unreliable narrator trope was stretched and reshaped until it was too knotty to decipher. Mr Robot or Mr Woebot? Why the hacker drama might need a restart 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

I defend the “I” narrator even while I recoil against it. Meghan Daum on Rolling Stone, personal essays, Internet culture: “We’re so driven by the idea that one person’s story can guide an entire narrative” 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

"At the end of the day, Joe is an unreliable narrator and a despicable human being." "You" star Penn Badgley thinks his killer Joe has "too many sides .. and he needs to die" 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z

And, refreshingly, the narrator doesn’t make this one about himself. This Is Parenthood — and Not Just the Charming, Photogenic Parts 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

In “Golden Days,” the narrator, Edith, rails against the powerful men in Washington who seem bent on war and the ruin of her utopia. Carolyn See, award-winning Southern California writer, dies at 82 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

That third-person omniscient narrator dramatizes Fitzgerald’s characteristic insider-outsider stance and allows readers access to his imagined thoughts without overstepping the bounds of the plausible. Book review: ‘West of Sunset,’ a novel about F. Scott Fitzgerald by Stewart O’Nan 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

As a narrator, Sahota is the invisible man, never intruding with an appraisal or even an explanation of the Indian words sprinkled through the text. ‘The Year of the Runaways’ review: ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ for the 21st century 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

Eager to escape the shadow of her chilly, politically ambitious mother, the narrator goes off to college, and eventually takes a job that requires her to play Ethel to Aimee’s Lucy. Zadie Smith’s ‘Swing Time’ Explores Friends’ Diverging Paths 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

Failed Novel No. 2 opened with my narrator discovering his terminal illness during a routine doctor’s visit, as I did in reality over a decade later. I wanted to publish a book before I died 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

One man keeps explaining that his daughter is named Albertine, like the key character in the book who is the narrator’s romantic obsession. ‘Le Temps Perdu’ Review: Proust Club 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

All fictional narrators are unreliable to an extent. Review | Joshua Ferris pokes wicked fun at the suburban patriarch in ‘A Calling for Charlie Barnes’ 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

In the wake of that revelation and his father’s suicide, the narrator of this atmospheric novel moves to Garopaba, a small fishing village on the south coast of Brazil, where his grandfather once lived. ‘Blood-Drenched Beard,’ by Daniel Galera 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

That production featured a now excised character, Saint Catherine, as a wisecracking narrator, glibly pointing out the differences between then and now. Review: Glenn Close Raises a Saint in ‘Mother of the Maid’ 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

This is a mock-heroic work of history — or at least cultural anthropology — constructed by scholarly narrators sometime near the end of the third millennium, long after humanity has finally settled into peaceful rationality. Salman Rushdie’s new novel is a swirling tale of genies and geniuses 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

The notion of the omniscient and invisible narrator is very close to the monotheistic and particularly the Judeo-Christian idea of God. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z

The narrator describes the image of her father in a red cowl-necked sweater given to him at the flea market when they were first in Canada, buying basics. ‘The Testament of Mary,’ by Colm Toibin, and More 2012-11-28T21:05:09Z

I now believe that the narrator’s ambivalence comes from his understanding that speaking for anyone means assuming a heavy burden of responsibility, for oneself and for others. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

One narrator describes an acquaintance who, “like many other men in the area,” likes to call himself a former cowboy. Reviews: New Books From Thomas McGuane, Hanif Kureishi and More 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

When his grandfather dies midtransformation — “wolfing out” being a young man’s game — the narrator recognizes the shiny scars on his own forearms for what they are: the pale traces of his dewclaws. The wild boy wants his fangs in Stephen Graham Jones' "Mongrels" 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

The narrator of this mesmerizing Japanese novel moves with her husband to the countryside and finds herself in a landscape rich with life and mystery. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

The narrator enjoys listening to Mozart, Beethoven and other greats of the Germanic classical repertoire. In Haruki Murakami’s New Novel, a Painter’s Inspiration Is Supernatural 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

The Last Czars is a surreal Wikipedia entry brought to life, mixing voiceover, a narrator figure, dramatic reconstructions and talking heads from academics who are experts in the period. The Last Czars: the historical drama that the whole of Russia is laughing at 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

Duncan Rennie Title track from his fourth solo studio album, Still Crazy … features a narrator reflecting wryly on being hung up on the past. Paul Simon: a beginner's guide 2012-07-19T15:00:00Z

Our narrator joins a poker game in which the players wear adult diapers, so they never have to leave the table. Daniel Galera’s ‘Blood-Drenched Beard’ 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

When she witnesses a terrible crime, Anna becomes both an unreliable witness and an unreliable narrator. The 10 best thrillers and mysteries of 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Set in recent times, this new book’s stories have narrators much more outwardly meek and inwardly turbulent than the murderous royals and puppeteers so beloved in her historical fiction. ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher,’ by Hilary Mantel 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

"He believed in the pure form of cinema vérité. It was a strict code that allowed no directing of subjects, no set up shots and no on-camera narrator or correspondent," his son explained. Pioneer of cinema vérité director Robert L. Drew dies at 90 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

The novel’s narrator, brooding over her proposed oral histories of asylum-seeking children, doubts that she can or should ever get as close to her sources as her husband gets to buzzing insects with his mic. Valeria Luiselli Traces the Youngest Casualties of the Border Crisis 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

We give you a tour and we give you the story from an unreliable narrator’s point of view. “Bombshell” takes down Roger Ailes, but some audiences don’t want to see Fox News women humanized 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

Like most stories about card players, you can’t help but root for the narrator to win, even if he’d rather lose. The Best Books of 2014 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Take the early pages, where the narrator moves into her decaying “money sink” for no readily identifiable reason. Rachel Cusk is returning fiction to its roots in storytelling 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

He has referred to its narrator, Nick Carraway, in The New Yorker, in articles written for other publications and on CNN. The Undoing of Jeffrey Toobin 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

In a sequence that encapsulates the book’s easy charm, the narrator takes Billy to Chumley’s, the past-its-prime West Village literary bar, hoping that some of the Hemingway and Fitzgerald magic will rub off on them. This Novel Is Set in a ’90s M.F.A. Program. The Author Is Aware of Your Concerns. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

In this production we have the union of a great narrator and a superb novel. Review | The sordid tale of the Borgias and other great audiobooks for your playlist 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

Writing the sessions between my narrator and the people he treats came from places in me both known and unknown. Siri Hustvedt on the psychoanalyst in fiction 2012-06-08T21:55:19Z

Sam Lattimore, the character relating Howard Norman’s quirky and probing new novel, is not a reliable narrator. ‘Next Life Might Be Kinder’: Howard Norman’s riveting exploration of grief, loss and truth

Neither narrator seems entirely reliable, and something is off-kilter from the first paragraph. Gillian Flynn on her bestseller Gone Girl and accusations of misogyny 2013-05-01T18:14:56Z

Toward the end of the book, we find out where the narrator has been imprisoned, who the shadowy Commandant is, and why everyone is afraid of an even shadowier character known as the Commissar. Review: ‘The Sympathizer,’ a Novel About a Soldier, Spy and Film Consultant 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

“Malina” is a letter that Bachmann—or her narrator, and it really does not matter which—chose not to shred, or to hoard, but to write, and send, with the urgency of “today.” Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Malina” Is the Truest Portrait of Female Consciousness Since Sappho 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

In that first scene, for instance, the narrator startles a would-be thief climbing up the gas pipes toward his bedroom window. Jung Young Moon weaves a metafictional dream in 'Vaseline Buddha' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

They act as an unofficial narrator in chief, laying down fresh rhetorical markers alongside the familiar signposts of the American story. Lessons Taught: Obama’s Legacy as a Historian 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

We first meet the novel’s unnamed Syrian American narrator while he is being examined by a gynecologist. Review | Zeyn Joukhadar’s ‘The Thirty Names of Night’ is a poetic portrait of a trans man’s search for a rare bird — and his own identity 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

Similarly, it is possible to read “Voroshilovgrad” as a bildungsroman, though the protagonist and narrator, Herman, is past bildungsroman age. The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

Mr. Markson excavated the history of literature and art for eerily resonant and often amusing, petty or scandalous tidbits of biography and juxtaposed them with declarations about the narrator’s state of mind. David Markson, Postmodern Novelist, Dies at 82 2010-06-08T03:22:00Z

Spider Woman was the conscience, narrator, the future and death. Remembering Hal Prince: 12 Broadway Luminaries Share Their Stories 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

One of the men, the unnamed narrator, is a young American teaching in Bulgaria. Review: ‘What Belongs to You,’ a Story of Desire and Outcomes 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Adam Gordon, the narrator of Lerner’s novel, is white, born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, living in Madrid on a prestigious arts fellowship. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z

The novel aches with the narrator's sense of loss for two women: one his dead daughter, the other a lover about whom he reminisces 50 years after their affair in an Irish coastal town. John Banville: a life in writing 2012-06-29T21:55:12Z

“We lived without clothes so that we wouldn’t lose a minute before acting on desire,” the narrator boasts after the relationship turns intimate. ‘The Mulberry Bush’ is enriched by Charles McCarry’s real-life spycraft 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Ms. Angelos is the narrator who guides us along the show’s winding path, not unlike that famous yellow brick road. Review: In ‘Elements of Oz,’ Smartphones Enhance a Celebration of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Film 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

The narrator’s North Vietnamese handler, Man, is also an old chum. ‘The Sympathizer,’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

The narrator notes how the rural boy’s “fingers moved only slightly, about like those of a good typist; the music was just there.” Books: ?Deliverance?: A Dark Heart Still Beating 2010-08-24T22:27:00Z

If you like sudsy, bingeable shows, “Gone Girl”-style unreliable narrators or viciously funny takedowns of New York performative coolness, watch this immediately. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

“The place was starting to get to me,” the narrator, a detective in Dublin’s fictional Murder Squad, says after seeing it for the first time, filled with the blood and corpses of its inhabitants. Tana French Finds Her Niche in Dark Themes 2012-08-26T21:37:24Z

The narrator is there with his wife and two children, ages nine and seven. This Week in Fiction: John Lanchester on Ghost Stories 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

What binds it all together is the voice of Nao, who manages to be both a convincingly self-obsessed Tokyo teenager and a sympathetic and engaging narrator. Man Booker Prize 2013: At a glance 2013-09-11T11:13:45Z

"Supposing the universe has a meaning," the narrator ponders early in the novel. Finches of Mars by Brian Aldiss – review 2013-06-05T12:55:01Z

Neither endorsed nor denounced, it is simply … interesting to the narrator, perhaps as an expression of love that simultaneously perverts and venerates the nuclear-familial norm. Love, Icelandically: On Oddny Eir's novel 'Land of Love and Ruins' 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

The novel is "one of the most celebrated works of the 20th century," The Times writes, "a luxuriant unfolding of memory by a narrator of exquisite sensitivity." Happy birthday Marcel Proust! 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

The man looks uncannily familiar, and the narrator approaches closer, giving his own name as Hawthorne. ‘Julian Hawthorne: The Life of a Prodigal Son,’ by Gary Scharnhorst

When the narrator spies a young woman on a Lagos bus reading a Michael Ondaatje novel, it “makes my heart leap up into my mouth and thrash about like a catfish in a bucket.” Books of The Times: ‘Every Day Is for the Thief’ by Teju Cole 2014-03-25T20:21:54Z

Smith, the narrator of “Loneliness,” a 17-year-old thief who had been sent to a reformatory, is similarly opposed to the straight and narrow. Alan Sillitoe, ?Angry? British Author, Dies at 82 2010-04-26T04:37:00Z

"What did she say?" taunts the narrator, "Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does." Perfection comes at a price in latest adaptation of Jane Austen's classic "Emma" 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z

The novel opens with a descent — physical, ethical and aesthetic — from which the narrator won’t rise for several years. ‘What Belongs to You’ review: An eloquent tale of desire and remorse 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Especially for a fetus, this narrator does a lot of winking. Ian McEwan’s ‘Nutshell’: A tale of betrayal and murder as told by a fetus 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Darren, the narrator, tells us: “I am a black man on a mission. No, I am a black salesman on a mission.” Review | Mateo Askaripour’s ‘Black Buck’ is an irresistible comic novel about the tenacity of racism in corporate America 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z

Suddenly Harry, the not-so-innocent brother and the book's narrator, steps front and center. 'May We Be Forgiven': tough times and atonement in suburbia 2012-10-03T21:59:04Z

I knew that I wanted the priest to bear the burden of action in the story, that he would be, in some way, a surrogate for the narrator. Garth Greenwell on Transitional Spaces and the Burden of Action 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

“As long as my body was not for myself, I stopped allowing myself the luxury of wanting,” reveals the anguished narrator of Joukhadar’s “The Thirty Names of Night.” Queer Exile: Three Novels About Émigrés, Lovers and Family 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

There are the checkered pasts and iffy prospects of the songs’ narrators, and of the America where they live. New Music From Tom Petty, Shawn Mendes and Hermán Olivera 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

Our superstitious narrator regales us with memories of "stories my mom used to tell," tales about how "the Devil roams the Earth." 'Devil': Confining chills to a stalled elevator 2010-09-20T21:30:00Z

Popkey’s narrator traverses a series of inflection points over the course of 17 years. How Much Power Do Women Want? A Novel Circles the Question 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

“He cannot make words be anything other than words,” Ben Metcalf has said of his verbose narrator in “Against the Country.” The Rise of the Nameless Narrator 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

To her great credit, Taddeo resists the pressure — rampant these days — to craft a likable, “relatable” female narrator. Battle of the Sexes? For This Voracious Heroine, It’s All-Out War. 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

“We don’t actually have a narrator for the film — it’s all the words and actions of the people who went through this legislative adventure.” 3 SIFF documentaries tell Northwest stories 2013-05-09T00:02:50Z

“The Neapolitan Novels” are about what Elena, the narrator, calls “the unforeseen subject, the woman, I”; they are deeply, insistently feminist books. Ties that bind 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Toward the end of the car ride, the narrator has a moment where he begins to suspect that while he and Duncan are ostensibly in agreement, they’re actually referring to different things. Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on Acting and Amateurism 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

In this 1908 classic, the unnamed narrator moves into an ancient manor, which turns out to have been constructed on the porous threshold between alternate dimensions or realities. Review | Stories that are strange, fantastical — and utterly engrossing 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

Probably because of the gender-neutral pseudonym and the book’s winning, wine-slugging unreliable narrator, Anna Fox, guesses about the author’s identity skewed female. Your Book Editor Just Snagged Your Spot on the Best-Seller List 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

Our narrator is Benji, who worked on the yacht as a deckhand. Review | Mitch Albom serves up another helping of superficial spirituality 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

I now understand there's both a shallowness and a depth to Newman's narrator. Rumer's old music: Randy Newman - Marie 2012-05-25T13:24:57Z

Like Shepard, the narrator is an old man dying of a debilitating illness. Sam Shepard's dual-voiced farewell 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

The narrator declares, “I don’t need a flotilla or a villa by the sea/but oh for a scintilla of some virility.” Music Review: ‘Vienna to Weimar,’ K T Sullivan and Karen Kohler at Triad 2012-10-22T04:20:05Z

Some of my most comforting memories are being on my friend’s parents’ couch, nodding off to soothing fiddle music as narrator David McCullough rattles off facts about Pickett’s Charge, Burns’s camera floating over haunting photographs. Ken Burns's The Civil War: America's greatest documentary rides again 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

It is, in the descriptive sense, a work of art, written and directed by the gifted Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan, who appears onscreen as narrator, interviewer and spirit guide. The Case of the Artist and the True-Crime Documentary 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

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

The flattened use of a child narrator's point of view forces the historical context to be relayed in heavy-handed dialogue. In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner – review 2012-09-29T21:55:01Z

Luiselli’s novel follows a narrator who travels to the southern border with her family to search for the missing undocumented daughters of a friend. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

The catalyst for the narrator’s artistic renaissance is a reclusive businessman who is hiding out in the mountains to be near a 13-year-old girl he believes to be his daughter. In Haruki Murakami’s New Novel, a Painter’s Inspiration Is Supernatural 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

A lot of details in Serena’s account of her life don’t quite add up, forcing the reader to wonder just how reliable a narrator she might be. Books of The Times: ‘Sweet Tooth’ by Ian McEwan 2012-11-05T19:17:19Z

Yet the secret genius of "Your Love" is that the song never directly spells out whether the narrator consummates his crush in real life; we only get one side of the story. Why the Outfield’s “Your Love” is the perfect summer song 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z

“In a grand beautiful house in the center of a beautiful garden,” a narrator intoned, “a couple of elderly bachelors had retreated from the outside world.” Ever the showman, Thom Browne stages a stylish extravaganza 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z

“I was thirteen,” says our narrator, “before I understood that my mother wasn’t coming back to get me.” ‘Lucky Us,’ by Amy Bloom, America’s Victor Hugo

The doc is a cracker-barrel philosopher and occasional omniscient narrator in the folksy tradition of the Stage Manager of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.” Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

He also is one of the narrators on the exhibit’s audio tour. ‘Hamilton: The Exhibition’ to debut in Chicago 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

Woven among the facts are bits of memoir: the narrator, who suffers from depression, tries to get pregnant, and succeeds. “The Crying Book” Reveals How Tears Can Help Us, and How They Can’t 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

The first narrator sounds like a chirpy, disaffected school primer: Toni Morrison, Remembered By Writers 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

A story told by four seemingly disparate narrators and anchored by a massive wooden desk, it explores both the fragile ties that bind us together and the indestructible objects that ground us. 27 best books of 2010: The Seattle Times looks back at a year of great reading 2010-12-18T01:15:33Z

The man with the string is this novel’s first narrator. A Wild, Caustic Satire Packed With the Absurd 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

A puppet, a human dancer and a narrator will all portray Persephone, daughter of goddess Demeter, as she forges a new identity after the gods conspire to send her to the Underworld. Stravinsky’s ‘Persephone’ at Seattle Symphony goes big with puppets, dancers, singers and full orchestra 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

“They both knew that, as they say, the ending was already written — their ending,” the narrator observes. For the Art of Love and the Love of Art 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

The narrator, 31 years old, recounts that she met Jonás a week after his mother died, and that they moved in to a Mexico City apartment together one month later. In This Novel, the Stream of Consciousness Is More Like a Whirlpool 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

The new sections deal frequently with the narrator’s childhood in America, and with his distant relationships with his mother and father. Review: ‘What Belongs to You,’ a Story of Desire and Outcomes 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

When her narrator, a novelist, wondered if perhaps what she most wanted was to be a celebrity, it seemed at once a plausible confession and a cultural indictment. Mother of All Decisions: Sheila Heti’s New Novel Weighs Whether to Have a Child 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

It was she who helped secure Samuel L. Jackson as the narrator for his film, although Mr. Jackson has never been her client. She’s the Hollywood Power Behind Those Seeking a Voice 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

We are also reminded that the seeming misogyny that runs through much of what’s described here is hardly to the taste of these contemporary narrators. Review: Reliving Those Arabian Nights in ‘Pay No Attention to the Girl’ 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

“The French and the Vietnamese shared a love for melancholy and philosophy,” the narrator says, “that the manically optimistic Americans could never understand.” Review | In ‘The Committed,’ Viet Thanh Nguyen continues his Pulitzer Prize-winning story 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

The drama builds to a tense showdown when Lemaitre inexplicably shifts narrators, causing some last-minute lurching. Three New Chilling Page-Turners Feature Unlikely Psychopaths 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

During most scenes, the narrator briefly speaks, then some physical feat ensues, then the narrator speaks again. Identity Crisis: Theater Productions That Refuse to Be Theater 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

This was, perhaps, the strangest moment in the first book, the death of the first-person narrator, a cliffhanger of the most unlikely sort. David B. continues the secret history of 'Incidents in the Night' 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

This character is not the narrator of the novel but the “author” of a slab of sci-fi horror hack work coextensive with it. Books of The Times: Rick Moody?s ?Four Fingers of Death? Dips Into Absurd 2010-08-16T22:24:00Z

Connor has perfect recall, is computer savvy, can play chess in his head, land a punch, and tells some amusing stories, despite being, at times, an unreliable narrator. Jack Kesy is a chatty hacker in comic thriller "Dark Web," in which the truth is loosely defined 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

Love renders Guess I'm Dumb's narrator incapable, unfortunately a state that would become familiar to Brian Wilson. Readers recommend: songs about fools ? results 2011-08-11T14:33:14Z

One of the attractions of contemporary puzzle movies — with their ambiguities and labyrinths, unreliable narrators and storytelling thickets — is that their complexities are by turns beguiling and confounding but also familiar. ‘Ultrasound’ Review: Trapped in a Murky Mystery 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

In one novella here, the narrator recalls about certain movies, “It seems to me that the clouds, sun, and shadows of my 20th year miraculously live on in those films.” ‘Suspended Sentences,’ Novellas by Patrick Modiano 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

The scale of that national tragedy is a mental obstacle for the narrator, the thing she cannot wrap her head around. Well Educated, Well Employed, and a Paycheck Away From Disaster 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z

Logistically, the narrator attempts to help Hayley by getting her hired at the call center. This Week in Fiction: Rivka Galchen Discusses Her Story “How Can I Help?” 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

The narrator learns that she is not interviewing Emerence for a job; Emerence will decide, in due course, whether she will work for her. The Hungarian Despair of Magda Szabó’s “The Door” 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Man, kept abreast of the scheme, orders the narrator to remain in the States even as this army heads back to Asia, but he is once again rent by divided loyalties. ‘The Sympathizer,’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

It’s the narrator’s first experience of sex—he’d imagined it would be like something out of “Dynasty,” but it’s very different. Douglas Stuart on Growing Up Queer Before the Internet 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

In the casinos of Macau, the narrator of the novel “The Ballad of a Small Player,” by Lawrence Osborne, is known as Lord Doyle, a wealthy British aristocrat. The Best Books of 2014 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Gill-Peterson was then called in to review the footage and serve as the documentary’s narrator and resident expert on transgender history. A Trans Icon of the 20th Century Revived by Trans Stars of the 21st Century 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z

And the softly spoken Bolladottir, reliving it all with undisguised bewilderment, is the ultimate unreliable narrator. 'Deep down, I knew it didn't happen': The woman whose memory invented a murder story 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

The adult narrator can see Henry as in some way identified with these rudimentary scavengers; and the narrator intimates that without adults the children feel how much is out of control or under-controlled. Adam Phillips on the happiness myth 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

Even when performing a small act of self-restraint, Fleming is, to the narrator’s eye, a cad. Caleb Crain: The Hectic Career of Stephen Crane 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

The narrator feels “the shame that felt like home.” Sex, Violence and Self-Discovery Collide in the Incandescent ‘Cleanness’ 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

“X” will leave you, in the same way it leaves its narrator, wondering: What are you ignoring? The Dystopia Has Just Arrived 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

In “The Night I Learned How Not to Pray,” the narrator is haunted by the memory of watching a baby brother die in a household accident. Iris DeMent interview: After 16 years, the songs start to flow again 2013-02-07T04:22:00Z

In an unusual twist, the narrator of the film is the building itself. A New Film Visits the Futuristic Berlin Philharmonic 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

“My insides were a collection of happenings,” says the young narrator in “This Is Who She Was.” ‘Goodnight, Beautiful Women’ — lucid, sensual stories 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

That narrator, by the way, is the most surprising element of “Women Talking.” Review | More than 100 women were raped by their neighbors for years — but no one would believe them. 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

You get the sense that whatever the details of this possibly fictional breakup, and the role the narrator himself played in it, it means a lot to him that someone is living free. Listen to 14 Essential Tom Petty Songs 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

His shifty friend, the narrator, will be picked off eventually, unless he continues to rise in elected office. Thomas McGuane on Small-Town America 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

“She is the narrator of the story, she is the mouth, the frontperson for this whole thing.” How the Breeders Finally Learned to Get Along 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

"The building will blend unobtrusively into any of the high-rent sections of the city," intoned the video's narrator. How a SCI-Arc design spoof predicted New York's 'poor doors' 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

“They don’t want you to just show up and be like any narrator. They want you to be able to bring yourself authentically to the event. And I think that’s really wonderful,” he said. Kelli O’Hara, Richard Thomas join Tabernacle Choir Christmas 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

The fig tree isn’t the only narrator — parts of the novel are told from a traditional third-person point of view — but the tree’s arboreal perspective is grafted right onto the trunk of the story. Review | In Elif Shafak’s ‘The Island of Missing Trees,’ a surprising narrator makes sense of surreal events 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

The other narrators tend to be tonally similar – withdrawn, calm, searching – so that Aaron's sections threaten to overshadow them, especially when, feeling his advancing age, he makes one final attempt to understand his unknowable son. Great House by Nicole Krauss ? review 2011-02-19T00:05:23Z

The narrator recalls a soldier named Lemon, who had stepped on a booby trap and was blown to bits, his remains sprayed onto nearby branches. Will Holt, Who Wrote ‘Lemon Tree,’ Dies at 86 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Not only does he choose to immerse himself in exotic locales, he also insists on anchoring himself, Mischa Berlinski, journalist and novelist, as the narrator, intermediary and witness. ‘Peacekeeping’ review: Haiti endures despite outsiders’ good (and bad) intentions 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

"Through all these memorable events, normal life was what I was seeking to preserve for myself," the narrator says, and the co-existence of ordinariness and evil is part of the point. Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z

Suddenly, the boy narrator turns outward and confronts us with the first great ethical crisis of our reading experience: “Should we tell her about it?” he asks. Analysis | New York Public Library’s most checked-out books say a lot about what we read and why 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z

Ms. Kuhn’s interpretation of the song and of the jazz standard “Something Cool” both began modestly, then intensified as their narrators became consumed by their illusions. Music Review: Judy Kuhn at Feinstein?s at Loews Regency 2012-03-07T23:04:06Z

The song is a one-sided conversation between the narrator and a telephone operator, expressing that he misses a girl named Marie, and that they are being kept apart by Marie’s mother. 15 Essential Chuck Berry Songs 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

“It was a dangerous world for women,” the narrator declares, “and more dangerous for a woman whose very bloodlines would have her do not as she was ordered, but as she pleased.” When Witches Run in the Family 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Some state delegations approached the task of submitting a 30-second video with more virtuosity than others; some featured narrators in festive costumes. Perspective | The 2020 Democratic National Convention won with viewers. Now its organizers hope to win an Emmy. 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

He started dance lessons at sixteen and began his career on Broadway performing in “Zorba,” “The Rink,” and “Cats,” in which he played Munkustrap, the narrator cat. How Rob Marshall Made Mary Poppins Sing Again 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

“The narrator is often inhabiting multiple states at once — past and present, asleep and awake, rat and human — and the language works to blur those lines,” says the translator, Sam Malissa. In Japan, His Disaster Art Saves Lives 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

In any case, the narrator insists that the fate of the world hangs in the balance, in sentences that combine pompous syntax, palatial rhetoric, and dodgy grammar. The Sensational Idiocy of Donald Trump’s Propaganda Video for Kim Jong Un 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

Bearden was a sophisticated storyteller — he relished the idea of the “unreliable narrator” — so he surely intended both associations. Review | First the New Yorker profiled Romare Bearden. Then the artist and activist decided to tell his own story, in pictures. 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

“We barely know these films, but there is no reason to look away,” says the narrator, the character actor Udo Kier. Review: ‘Hitler’s Hollywood’ Unearths the Cinema of the Third Reich 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

At various moments in the film, the narrator reminds the viewer with mind-numbing seriousness that the Persians “fear” or “mock” or even “are annoyed by” Greece’s fledgling democracy. Zack Snyder and the West Should Stop Killing Ancient Persians 2014-03-10T14:33:58Z

“I am interested in understanding how she and I are relatives,” the narrator says in one of her better digressions, and one answer she contemplates is: in Minkowski spacetime. Was That Really Me? A Novelist Discovers Her Younger Self 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

In elaborate feats of retrospection, his 11 narrators re-enact conversations with lovers and friends, scrambling their memories for clues and causes. A Debut Story Collection, Filled With Characters Humbled by Love 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

It is all too much for our narrator. ‘Every Day is for the Thief:’ back home in tumultuous Lagos 2014-03-20T21:15:07Z

Suddenly, with the lightly colloquial “cut out for her,” we are in the mind not of an omniscient narrator but of a character — Clarissa Dalloway, as the succeeding lines make clear. Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z

We follow along with satisfaction as the narrator makes her way toward her imminent destiny as an author. Jami Attenberg’s Memoir Is a Portrait of the Artist as a Born Writer 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

Dunthorne thrusts poetry into the observational and is unflinching about the business of being a teenage boy, so Tate is a mostly believable and likeable narrator. Rachel Trezise's top 10 Welsh underground novels 2010-05-19T07:56:00Z

In “My Octopus Teacher,” this year’s Oscar-winning documentary, the filmmaker and narrator Craig Foster tells us that two-thirds of his new octopus friend’s cognition is in her arms. There Is More to Us Than Just Our Brains 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

The narrator of “Satin Island” calls himself U. “Call me U.,” he says, either cleverly or too cleverly, depending on your tolerance for that kind of thing. The Long Shadow of “Two Paths for the Novel” 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

The story line is told by different narrators, a technique particularly reminiscent of “The Sound and the Fury” by William Faulkner. A.B. Yehoshua, Israeli Writer Who Explored Moral and Political Dilemmas, Dies at 85 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

In Dylan Thomas' Fern Hill, it is the morning sun, "born over and over" each new day, that drives the narrator's childhood pleasure in life and the natural world. Poster poems: the sun 2013-06-07T13:28:26Z

The narrator, Yanis, is a taxi driver who is utterly devoted to his only child, Pierre. Buying Dora Maar’s Diary on eBay and Other Classy Tales From France 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

The mood in the house is fraught with adult tensions beyond the narrator’s ken. Perspective | The end of summer is always sad. This year, my grief led me back to a favorite short story and book of photographs. 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

While a pianist plays jazzy riffs on Edvard Grieg tunes, narrators introduce scenes and paper over gaps, like the elided fourth act. The Immediate Family Adapts 'Peer Gynt' 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

The female narrator is obsessed with tracking and encountering a real tiger. An American Writer Goes Into the Jungle to Commune With a Tiger 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

Describing a young woman he loved, the narrator recalls, “She always laughed at my jokes.” | 'Absolution': One Man?s Wrathful Vengeance 2010-09-16T04:30:00Z

The narrator says things like, “While writing the previous paragraph . . .” or “I strayed a little in the previous two sentences . . . ” or even the comically pedantic, “I reported in the fourth most recent paragraph that. . . .” Review | The relentlessly introspective vision of Gerald Murnane 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

In her bestselling novel “The Aviator’s Wife,” the introspective narrator, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, examined her suffocating marriage to the chilly, autocratic Lindy. ‘The Swans of Fifth Avenue’ review: Would you trust Truman Capote? 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Uhtred, the hero and narrator of this series, is a fascinating mixture of divided loyalties and internal contradictions. Cornwell’s ‘The Pagan Lord’: a bloody battle for England 2014-01-22T22:29:30Z

The narrator of “No. 4 Imperial Lane” is David Heller, an American college student who comes to England in 1988 and promptly falls in love with a young woman at the University of Sussex. ‘No. 4 Imperial Lane’: A powerful elegy for lost love and lost empire 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

The film's principal figure is not Gatsby but Nick Carraway, a classic unreliable narrator, aged 30 in that summer of 1922, a midwesterner educated at Yale alongside Tom Buchanan and Daisy's second cousin. The Great Gatsby – review 2013-05-18T23:07:04Z

The star pianist Daniil Trifonov’s playing, tasteful in the extreme, tips from elegance into grimness, but Goerne commits to its inspiration, singing Schumann’s cycle as a narrator already mourning a love he hasn’t lost yet. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

“My mother was like one of those women who never stopped chattering,” the narrator says, “even while yawning.” Review: ‘No Knives in the Kitchens of This City’ Describes a Syrian Hell 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

But there’s also something compelling about the breadth of the world the narrator inhabits. The Brexit Romance: Finding Love in Irreconcilable Times 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Musa is the narrator’s older brother and their mother’s favorite, and, at the same time, a kind of Arab Everyman. Review: Kamel Daoud Interrogates Camus in ‘The Meursault Investigation’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Bon, his blood brother, is still determined to kill communists and has no idea that the narrator is one. Review | In ‘The Committed,’ Viet Thanh Nguyen continues his Pulitzer Prize-winning story 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

Zien didn't mind being dubbed cast "curmudgeon," though he revealed a tender side in his homage to the late Tom Aldredge, who played the narrator. 'Into the Woods' reunion shows Sondheim can still cast a spell 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

The desire the narrator feels is both spurred and checked by grief, and he experiences himself as desiring beneath a prohibition. Garth Greenwell on Transitional Spaces and the Burden of Action 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

The narrator doesn’t yearn for the rescue, revenge or adventure that typically drives a novel. ‘Temporary’ Is a Debut Novel That Leans Into the Absurdity of How We Work Now 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Between these events, and underneath the high winds, the emotional core of “10:04” details the relationship between the narrator and Alex, a close friend from college. In Ben Lerner’s ‘10:04,’ New York Is a Character 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

The narrator reads letters from a fictional cameraman visiting Japan. Watching Tokyo Through the Eyes of Outsiders 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

Although “Evening in Paradise” is inspired by Berlin’s life, the narrators are not always the author’s stand-in but rather a viewer who looks in on that character. Review | Two new books bring Lucia Berlin back to life 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

In a sense, Morris sees the MacDonald case the same way, only he believes that those different perspectives are all unreliable narrators — himself included. ‘A Wilderness of Error’ Points the Lens Back at Errol Morris 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

The narrator does not render judgment, reflecting instead on his own flaws and the male gaze. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

“On Nietzsche” recalls the narrator’s obsession, years ago, with writing a book about Nietzsche, a project he cannot complete. Review: New Novels by Kris D’Agostino, Kathleen Rooney and Others 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

In a novel, especially one with an unreliable narrator, there is no necessary distinction between fantasy and reality, and no way to verify or falsify the narrator's account. "The Killer Inside Me": Much ado about misogyny 2010-06-17T14:01:00Z

Where gaps exist for the readers it's because they exist for the narrators. Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann – review 2012-08-08T09:30:02Z

Mr. Shepherd — who dazzled as the inexhaustible narrator of “Gatz,” the Elevator Repair Service’s epic staging of “The Great Gatsby” — is even more unvarying as Troilus, whom he presents as an adenoidal, whiny adolescent. Review: ‘Cry, Trojans!’ Is the Wooster Group’s Take on ‘Troilus and Cressida’ 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

Advertisement Advertisement The narrator, a theoretical physicist, is fretful, introverted, a paragon of rationality; his wife, Nora, is exuberant, ethereal, a dervish of chaos. Review: In Paolo Giordano’s ‘Like Family,’ the Nanny Departs and Cracks Emerge 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

“This did not feel like real life, exactly, but nowadays what did?” the narrator wonders. Patricia Lockwood’s First Novel Reaches for the Sublime, Online and Off 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

At worst, the sporadic leaping from allusion to allusion is distracting and pedantic, as in the story “Waiting,” where in one paragraph the narrator discusses Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Wharton, Anderson, Joyce, Porter, Faulkner and Beckett. ‘Paper Lantern’ and ‘Ecstatic Cahoots,’ by Stuart Dybek

Loe’s narrator, for instance, is searching for something to impress him; he becomes impressed by his own capacity to perceive the world’s phoniness. The Coming-of-Age Tale That Inspired Mayor Pete to Learn Norwegian 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Quinto brings a grave simplicity to his role as the narrator of sorts, and plays two other parts with equal finesse. Review: ‘Smokefall,’ About Several Generations of an Eccentric Family 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

She also noted that the Apollo is on 125th Street, a few blocks from the corner where, in a definitive Velvet Underground song, the narrator waits in “I’m Waiting for the Man.” Critic’s Notebook: Lou Reed’s Complex Spirit Is Invoked at a Reunion of His Inner Circle 2013-12-17T22:39:52Z

What follows their magnanimous decision to become three-way moms is endearingly told through the eyes of Janey, a Shakespearean specialist and self-described "un- reliable narrator" who offers to become the household's cook. 'The Atlas of Love': three grad students, one baby, many plot twists 2010-08-19T21:00:00Z

She has emerged as one of Audible’s most popular narrators, said Diana Dapito, the audio company’s head of consumer content. That Voice You’re Hearing? It Might Be Hers. 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

The narrator is a young woman beset by unending emotional betrayals and physical abuse. Review: ‘A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing,’ by Eimear McBride

"When Reilly's work was first remarked upon the critic, Gower, suggested that he represented the small moments before the larger, more significant moments of our lives," comments the narrator in the first chapter. Nimrod's Shadow by Chris Paling 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z

But if you follow the original urging by Giancarlo Esposito's narrator, and watch closely from another angle, the melodic approach makes sense. "Dear White People" visits the "Big Brother" Cookout via a pointed parody of reality show racism 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

The narrator sets up the historians as his foils, though of course he shares in their motives. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Thin-skinned and yet haughty, Clara doesn’t make a very reliable narrator, but she gets the gist right. Fleeing Home, but Not Homophobia 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

But it takes a while, because the friendship of the narrator, Davy, and his lifelong drinking buddy, Joe, appears at first to be rooted only in bar chatter. The Language of Friendship, as Heard in a Dublin Pub 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

A best seller in Korea, this novel traces the defining relationships of its cynical, hard-drinking narrator’s young adulthood, from college to postgraduate life in Seoul to burgeoning literary success. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

I knew my mother had to be one of the narrators. "The Persian Version" director on creating a film that is "playful in terms of sexuality" 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z

And in fact, another narrator appears, a young man who serves as an anchor to Highway's flights of fancy. Valeria Luiselli's 'The Story of My Teeth' is a collision of storytelling, lying and art 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

"Desperate Housewives" shocks with just one, that of the omniscient narrator who dies by suicide without warning. From clear scripts to big-name casting, the Jan. 6 hearings meet the standards of must-see TV 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

Over the next few weeks, the narrator meets with Mitko repeatedly and then, recklessly, brings the young man to his apartment. ‘What Belongs to You’ review: An eloquent tale of desire and remorse 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Even the narrator sounds voice-over-ready, her accent baked into her words. Newly Released Books 2010-12-16T06:34:36Z

Add to that one of the most brilliantly realized unreliable narrators in fiction and the book becomes irresistible. Marlon James: By the Book 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

Its mysterious central character is a traumatized woman who might be the narrator’s younger self or one of her victims. Rosanne Cash Takes the Long View on ‘She Remembers Everything’ 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

“There was no need for the French to condemn us,” the narrator says. Review | In ‘The Committed,’ Viet Thanh Nguyen continues his Pulitzer Prize-winning story 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

Her insanity — like the narrator’s chemically induced “hibernation” in “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” — is not a surrender, but a means of survival. Ottessa Moshfegh Is Only Human 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

This is the home of the book’s unnamed narrator and the protagonist, Fan: Both are residents of B-More, once a city of abandoned row houses called Baltimore. ‘On Such a Full Sea’: Chang-rae Lee’s vision of a grim future 2014-01-08T23:28:01Z

Fleifel is an engaging narrator, and "A World Not Ours" is strongest when he connects with the bitter cycle of poverty, frustration and hopelessness that the inhabitants of Ain el-Heweh endure. Ugly realities of refugee camp fills 'A World Not Ours' 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

The sweet first-person narrator tries giving Rosemary, the neighborhood bully, the silent treatment, but ends up telling her "what's what" — an honest confrontation which, surprisingly, does not solve the problem. Reading fun in the sun for children, teens and young adults 2012-06-15T17:02:38Z

Cusk’s first novel since her acclaimed Outline trilogy shares similarities to her previous work — a sharply observant narrator, meditations on themes of art, beauty and the “tyranny” of parenthood — but it is also a departure. New in Paperback: ‘Second Place’ and ‘Lady Bird Johnson’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

In a way, Beginners is a rather literary movie, in which Oliver is a novelistic narrator figure, a figure who does the noticing and the remembering, but seems to be himself an unreadable presence. Beginners ? review 2011-07-21T14:00:00Z

The narrator says: "Nothing melts away the cold like Campbells soup." This unexpected secret ingredient will radically transform your chicken noodle soup 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z

Women are regarded as unreliable narrators who can’t even be trusted to speak for themselves or to testify to their own pain. Three Views of the Crisis in Women’s Health 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

In “Always Something” the narrator observes a good Samaritan helping a man stranded in a rainstorm. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New CDs 2011-01-10T22:51:16Z

Written in three parts, each with a different narrator, the book begins quite plainly. Dendrophilia 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

This might have been justified by stardom or at least a recognised body of work, or, had it occurred in the context of fiction, by a narrator's self-importance. Unmastered by Katherine Angel – review 2012-08-10T21:55:05Z

These sections recap narrator Bud Frazer’s rough-hewed yet largely happy childhood and, later, the tragic death of his sister. ‘Falling from Horses’: bringing the Western myth down to Earth 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

“What drove them to fight with such a fury?” the narrator asks as he begins the tale. Theater Review: ?An Iliad? at New York Theater Workshop 2012-03-08T03:00:16Z

One of those narrators is Dawn Chapman, an environmental scientist who announces, “My hair is one of my best features.” Reading ‘The Terranauts,’ by T.C. Boyle, is like being trapped in Tupperware 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

But neither of these “clever” responses to her situation occur to Esther Greenwood, who is the narrator and central character in this novel. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

There is a dark undertow to the book and to its narrator. Schroder by Amity Gaige – review 2013-03-29T17:19:01Z

The narrators of Ai’s poems are male and female, young and old, famous and unsung. Ai, an Unflinching Poetic Channel of Hard Lives, Dies at 62 2010-03-28T02:20:00Z

In one instance, the narrator points to the enduring echoes of privilege and the lack thereof: “these rooms had been kept so pristine, while our homes in town had been treated as kindling.” Review | Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s ‘My Monticello’ explores America’s racist past — and present — with grace 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

Jeffers uses that oracular narrator to carry us swiftly through the foundational sins of North America. Review | ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is the kind of brilliant epic that comes around only once in a decade 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

He also struggles to find a believable tone for his adolescent narrator, and the absence of angst in the voice of a suffering, solitary high schooler seems particularly off. Review | For a lonely teen in the Midwest, radio is a sound salvation 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

“It was a case of ‘Phew!’” the narrator says of the son trying to guess whether his father might kill one of them. A Gun Shop and a Family Prone to Breakdowns: What Could Go Wrong? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

Serving as director, co- editor and narrator, Brown turns the obsession of top-ranking surfers into a universally appealing celebration of excellence on the treacherous North Shore of Oahu. 'Highwater': Breathtaking celebration of surfing excellence 2010-09-02T20:09:00Z

In some cases Mr. Brown serves less as a narrator than as a keen-eyed aggregator and extractor of quotations. Books of The Times: ‘Hello Goodbye Hello,’ by Craig Brown 2012-08-05T20:56:23Z

The person who steals the spotlight in “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at the Kennedy Center isn’t Ace Young as Joseph or his wife, Diana DeGarmo, as the singing narrator. ‘American Idol’ stars are no match for the tech in ‘Technicolor Dreamcoat’ 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

The narrator feels alienated from her own body, and identifies an unsettling correlation between her unstable identity and the neighborhood of misfits. Read Your Way Through Mexico City 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

At the opening of Baltasar’s novel, the unnamed narrator is at the edge of a high building, contemplating suicide. From Spain to Sydney to Small-Town New Mexico, 3 Debuts Anchored by a Strong Sense of Place 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

Though the shows’ title characters are given plenty of stage and voice time, our views of them are framed and distanced by two critical narrators, who marvel at the impact of ultimately unexplainable figures. Spring Performance: On Broadway, a Penchant for Celebrity Biographies in Song 2012-02-23T22:15:24Z

Despite the prosaic narrator, the arc of this story gleams — Perillo exercises total, exquisite, chilling control. 'Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain': down, out and confronting death 2012-06-06T21:18:09Z

“Bedtime stories help me zone out. Sometimes I don’t even remember going to sleep,” said Ms. Colford, who chooses her stories from the Calm app based on the narrator’s voice and a sense of familiarity. Once Upon a Time … Bedtime Stories Were Just for Kids 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z

The fragrance of crispy browned bread — the only dish his mother knew how to cook without ruining it — is the Proustian madeleine that unlocks the memories of Nigel Slater, the narrator of “Toast.” | 'Toast': ?Toast,? About the Food Writer Nigel Slater - Review 2011-09-22T21:32:22Z

In other words, he's a hugely flawed narrator with whom young readers readily identify. Author Jeff Kinney's hot streak not wimping out 2011-11-19T07:49:23Z

The narrator of “The Midnight Zone” suffers a debilitating concussion while attempting to change a lightbulb at a vacation cabin, “so far from humanity in all that Florida waste.” Review | New stories from Lauren Groff, who wrote President Obama’s favorite novel in 2015 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

You could easily be forgiven for taking against the narrator himself. Reading group: Bogged down on Swann's Way? 2013-02-07T14:01:15Z

He’s “fantasizing about a life like his heroes,” the narrator reassures us as there’s a cut to a scene of bank robbers using hostages as shields against police fire. ‘Dreamland’ Review: Bang Bang, Blah Blah 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

The novel is set in Vienna, where our narrator meets the aging, cranky, once famous Suvorin, and persuades him to tell his life story. ‘In a World That Shouts, This Book Is a Song Played Softly,’ Ethan Hawke Writes 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

This is, of course, a parallel to what the narrator’s friend is experiencing as she faces the end of her life. Sigrid Nunez’s New Book Asks a Timely Question, Right in the Title 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

As our narrator loses his grip on reality, Davis drops her readers into successive scenes so fluidly that even we forget what just happened. Four Debut Novels Follow Strivers and Survivors 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

The narrator of the story refers to himself as “that most useless of creatures: a writer obsessed with Jesus.” This Week in Fiction: John L’Heureux on Faith and Not Fitting In 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

It wasn't meant to be an advocacy book, it was meant to tell the truth of the narrator. Book Talk: Oregon writer finds beauty, redemption on death row 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

The narrator seems to be peering at events from a distance behind the stiff collar of an upturned trench coat. Jonathan Lethem Returns to the Borough That Launched Him 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z

“The Unpassing” begins with a discordant scene that sears itself on the mind of the narrator, Ruby’s brother Gavin: His mother walks into a room bearing a plate of grapes and collapses. Review | In the wake of the space shuttle Challenger disaster, a family tragedy unfolds 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

But now a chirpy narrator on a commercial for the toilet tissue bluntly tells us: “There’s nothing healthy about holding things in. Those who go with Charmin really enjoy the go.” If You Think the Poop Emoji Is Gross, Don’t Read This 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

As Rachel Cusk’s narrator observes in “Transit,” another novel in conversations, “The moments when life could be observed in a meaningful arrangement were rare.” How Much Power Do Women Want? A Novel Circles the Question 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

It's an exercise in vast cultural difference, as even the narrator struggles with the idea of the "dolly, innocent, pure kind of angel look" that her manager realises is a cash cow. The Culture Show at Edinburgh 2010-08-12T07:00:00Z

The narrator, nicknamed Little Dog, looks back as a way of embracing his past and reaching beyond it. Review | Ocean Vuong’s ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ is permanently stunning 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

“Outline” is about an unnamed narrator, a divorced writer who lives in London with her two youngish children. ‘Outline,’ Rachel Cusk’s New Novel 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

“That was the moment she fell in love with him,” the narrator notes, before Julie goes on to prove him right. ‘The Worst Person in the World’ Review: Oslo, Her Way 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

As his nameless narrator walks through Harlem, Ellison floods our senses with impressionistic images, illusions that never quite resolve into tangible form. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

With Never Let Me Go I only think of that aching final tableau: the narrator disappearing in the distance in her car, destination unknown. The Nonsense of an Ending: In Defense of the Middles of Books 2012-01-04T15:58:18Z

It’s hard for the reader to tell how trustworthy a narrator Nora is, and things get considerably messier after she meets the Shadid family. Books of The Times: ‘The Woman Upstairs,’ by Claire Messud 2013-05-02T16:47:10Z

Elsewhere, the narrator tells us that her father is set in his ways: “Any potential new tendency, foodstuff or pair of pants is deliberated over for weeks,” because he’s “a man of habit.” The Mysterious ‘Parking Lot Attendant’ at the Center of a Web of Intrigue 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Each is a sustained monologue, of roughly 80 minutes, told by a narrator who, we learn early, has committed an unspeakable crime. Review: In ‘Tonight/Jungle’ by Philip Ridley, Darkness Rules 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

These are, instead, gentle and sombre poems whose moments of "nonsense" erupt like canned laughter, serving only to underline the narrator's dejection. Nonsense by Christopher Reid – review 2012-09-28T21:55:02Z

Jodie Foster, who served as the narrator and an executive producer for “Be Natural,” was keen to participate after Green told her about Guy Blaché’s history. A Century Late, a Giant of Early Cinema Gets Her Closeup 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

Australian actor Caroline Lee, a talented narrator of many of Moriarty’s novels, delivers this one with her customary Aussie panache and pronunciation, both of which stick in your brain long after you’ve finished listening. Review | Best new audiobooks to listen to this month 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

In the title piece, the narrator develops a third breast. Books of The Times: ‘American Innovations’ by Rivka Galchen 2014-05-07T20:15:28Z

The Bunker Diaryby Kevin Brooks To be fair, the voice of the narrator is quieter, more measured – and perhaps more congenial – than those of its predecessors. The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks – review 2013-03-23T10:00:01Z

“If reading really does increase empathy, as we are constantly being told that it does,” the novel’s narrator, an unnamed novelist, observes, “it appears that writing also takes some away.” With ‘The Friend,’ Sigrid Nunez Becomes an Overnight Literary Sensation, 23 Years and Eight Books Later 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

There is always a first-person narrator; there is usually a boy named James; the narrator loves James. Brian Selznick’s Lockdown Masterpiece 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

In fact, I would argue that one of the most powerful descriptions of a journey in literature works precisely because its narrator stays close to home. Summer voyages: The War of the Worlds by HG Wells 2013-07-26T10:50:02Z

They are not the most reliable narrators, even when they believe themselves to be. How Tana French Inhabits the Minds of Her Detectives 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

Birds of a Feather: A Boy and Flamingos Felix is an untrustworthy narrator. Theater Review: Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas’s ‘Bird in the Hand’ at the New City 2012-09-13T22:12:03Z

Toward the end of the novel, the narrator tries to avenge his parents by firing second world war mortar shells at his mother's lover. Pow! by Mo Yan – review 2013-01-18T21:00:03Z

In his absence, Joe’s mother begins an affair with a man named Warren Miller, who — as described by the teenage narrator — appears utterly repellent. What to Read Before Heading to Movie Theaters This Fall 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

The narrator finds himself thinking of Walt Whitman, and in particular the poet’s claims to be able to express through his “simple separate person” some kind of collective American experience. ‘Homeland Elegies’ Sings for a Fading Dream of National Belonging 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

“My cancer patient was blogging every day like it was his last,” the female narrator, an observer, writes in “The Lucky Lady.” Review: The Bold Voice of Rebecca Schiff, in 23 Stories 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

In particular, critics have singled out Amy Poehler for her performance as the voice of Joy, the film’s narrator and Riley’s most defining emotion. “The voice of fear is Lorne Michaels’ voice”: 13 famous comedians choose their dream cast for Pixar’s “Inside Out” 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

The prize, first given in 2007, goes to writers who display a "quirky brilliance," unusual perspective or a strong voice- perhaps like that of Holden Caulfield, the rebellious teen narrator of "Catcher." Dropout Salinger creates mystique at Pa. college 2013-09-06T14:31:09Z

She proceeds, dizzily, as though Sarah were a more reliable narrator than she herself is. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

We meet many members of the narrator’s sprawling extended family: cousins, uncles and aunts. With Wit and Anger, Ayad Akhtar Addresses What It Means to Be American 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

But still, Weir is worried whether readers will take to his narrator, whose sensibilities are modeled after his own. Andy Weir's 'The Martian' was a huge hit. And now he's hoping he's not a one-hit wonder. 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

And the role of the narrator — identified only by her childhood nickname, Li’l Bit — fitted the captivatingly vulnerable Mary Louise Parker so naturally that it was hard to imagine anyone else in it. Theater Review: ?How I Learned to Drive,? With Norbert Leo Butz 2012-02-14T03:01:00Z

As a narrator, Crawford is patient and deliberate, and almost completely without judgment. Whitney Houston’s Confidante Robyn Crawford Breaks Her Silence 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

“In ‘The Landing,’ we were using narrators and kind of telling short stories onstage. Kander’s second act: Kander and Pierce, with new musical ‘Kid Victory’ 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

"I remember that month of January in Tokyo, or rather, I remember the images I filmed of the month of January in Tokyo," says the narrator. Chris Marker obituary 2012-07-30T11:57:53Z

At times, the individual and collective narrators seem to step on each other’s toes, covering the same events and recollections in a manner more repetitive than it is illuminating. Imbolo Mbue’s ‘How Beautiful We Were’ Exposes the Human Cost of Capital 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

In Ana Clavel's updating of centuries-old doppelgänger tales, the title story's narrator sends his enemy "Three Messages and a Warning in the Same Email." 'Three Messages': Mexican stories of the fantastic 2012-02-01T19:23:08Z

It features a narrator who recounts a story of a friend who attempts to get an abortion but is harassed at the clinic. Roe v. rap: Hip-hop artists have long wrestled with reproductive rights 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z

Elena has a decidedly linear approach to life, and, as a narrator, she often takes a matter-of-fact tone, but that appearance of control belies the roiling, chaotic, Lila-like emotions beneath. Review: Elena Ferrante’s ‘The Story of the Lost Child,’ the Finale in a Quartet 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Even the minor characters in the book — friends of the narrators, parents, a drug dealer who spends time with Bill — are empty of any redeeming qualities. Stephen Markley’s “Ohio”: This year’s “Hillbilly Elegy” of fiction 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

The female narrator’s father was “one of the founders of the Dream.” Love and War in European Fiction 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

Its unnamed narrator is a solitary Roman woman — though Rome is never mentioned — who recounts her few excursions in brief chapters. Writing in Italian, Jhumpa Lahiri Found a New Voice 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

In fact, Ms. Clark and Mr. McAnally wrote the closing bit for the show’s narrators on the Saturday before the first preview, via text message. Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally on ‘Moonshine: That Hee Haw Musical’ 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

The mouse family, including Helena — the book's narrator — and her three siblings, decide to sneak aboard the ship and travel along with the human family. 'Bigger Than a Bread Box' among tasty new novels for kids 2011-11-26T03:03:45Z

Dori, his beautiful new girlfriend and the movie’s occasional narrator, personifies a neediness so desperate that she can’t stop herself from pestering Norman for proof of his affection. Movie Review: ‘Love Sick Love,’ Directed by Christian Charles 2013-04-18T22:57:11Z

“Here, at least,” the narrator says, “the thrum of the forest is audible.” The Pill That Makes Life Shine Brighter, Fallout Be Damned 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

The narrator has at least gotten her act together enough to publish the book. Jami Attenberg’s Memoir Is a Portrait of the Artist as a Born Writer 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

The characters, who weren't in the movie, originally served as the musical's narrators, delivering goofy plot commentary. James Monroe Iglehart releases the genie inside 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

We feel the narrator rising, dressing and commuting by rote. From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

The story ends as the narrator is left alone to paraphrase his father’s thesis on postcolonialism into a tape recorder. The Tragic Death of Mark Baumer, a Prolific Poet and Environmental Activist for the Social-Media Age 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

The hero narrator is 16th century Dutch engraver Hendrik Goltzius, who stages the stories in order to get a possible patron to pay for a revolutionary new printing press. Greenaway on sex, art and death 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Endicott, Boston’s chief homicide prosecutor and the novel’s narrator, is out and about in Back Bay with her boyfriend, Ty, when they’re accosted by a stranger toting a Glock and demanding drugs. Dangerous Disappearing Acts, With Killers in Pursuit 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

At times, Bennett’s narrator seems to serve primarily as a vessel for this chimerical presence. Fiction That Will Make You Feel Pleasantly Insane 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

An elderly person looking back on life is a reliable frame in fiction, and Sam Cunningham, the narrator of Robert Olen Butler’s “Late City,” has an awful lot of life for material. A 115-Year-Old War Veteran Looks Back at It All, With God as a Guide 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

"More than 60 heads of state and government will meet to discuss crucial matters of security and stability in the Euro-Atlantic area," a narrator's voice says as the video plays panning shots of Chicago. Chicago, capital of Ill.? NATO goofs in video 2012-05-03T20:22:00Z

The book’s color palette, strong on grays and pale blues, conveys its honest yet hopeful depiction of its young narrator’s situation. Picture Books That Bring Black Heroes to Life 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

“Robert E. Lee’s precise professionalism and orderly intellect made him what the military most needed in the 1830s and 1840s: a gifted civil engineer,” the narrator, Michael Murphy, says. Television Review: How an Engineer Became a White-Haired General 2011-01-02T22:11:34Z

To struggle to be fair to Dylan, in the universe of this book, and in most of these songs, the men the narrators confront are no better — sugarless daddies, jacks mistaken for kings. Bob Dylan Breaks Down 66 Classic Tunes in His New Book 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z

It pits one of the Sisters' most exuberant choruses against one of their darkest lyrics, which has the narrator blotting out the spectre of Aids by indulging in a night of passion. F&M Playlist 2010-07-08T20:45:00Z

A premonition that even someone as spectral as the narrator might have a chance at resurrection too. His Debut Novel Won the Pulitzer. Now It Has an Action-Packed Sequel. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

Told by dueling female narrators, it is also as much a fantasy of violent revenge as the new play that Malcolm is readying, perhaps unwisely, for production. Missing the Theater? Trade Playbills for These Novels 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

Ellison's sharp, loquacious narrator lives in an overlit basement apartment, and stalks the streets of New York. Teju Cole's top 10 novels of solitude 2011-08-24T11:45:07Z

In the introduction, a narrator tells how, long ago, reindeer didn’t pull Santa’s sleigh; a lone horse named Silverbell accompanied Santa. Perspective | 10 great holiday-season books to enjoy with your little ones 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Back at school in the fall, the narrator receives his most brutal beating yet. Review | Mieko Kawakami’s ‘Heaven’ follows a bullied boy searching for meaning 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

But, as the narrator collects erotic experiences, his imagery evolves. Saeed Jones’s Striking Memoir About Race, Sex, and Self-Invention 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

“Poor manners can really interfere with the fun of the party,” the narrator deadpanned after Bob, who was gesticulating wildly while telling an exciting story, knocked over a quarter-full glass of milk. Table manners aren't dying. They are changing, though 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z

His narrator, a thinly veiled stand-in for the author, is an expatriate writer in Berlin in the late 1920s and early 1930s. 50 years of 'Cabaret': How the 1966 musical keeps sharpening its edges for modern times 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

We refer to the “narrator” and “character,” not to the writer directly. It’s possible that their work is all fiction, though my own writing done in these workshops is usually thinly veiled memoir. A little room to write 2012-08-17T00:00:00Z

Her narrator makes a banquet out of her objections to bourgeois verities. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Billy effortlessly beds the woman he brings home, while the narrator finds himself unable to perform after some awkward groping with his own date. This Novel Is Set in a ’90s M.F.A. Program. The Author Is Aware of Your Concerns. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

I spent the first part of “Outline” waiting for the narrator to emerge from the shadows and the second part wondering what it would mean if she did. Rachel Cusk Strips the Novel Down to Its Frame. Again. 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

Unlike his current book, which gives only the most subtle indications that its narrator would grow up to be a musician, the follow-up will focus on his music career. The Texas Tribune: Rodney Crowell?s Audacity of Spirit 2011-02-06T08:00:04Z

That’s why Mr. Sands’s self-effacing mien as a narrator and commentator comes to seem so touching and so appropriate. Theater Review: ‘A Celebration of Harold Pinter,’ Directed by John Malkovich 2012-10-17T02:00:10Z

The narrator casually guides readers through the town’s violence, worrying more about his liaisons with various mistresses than the blood and body parts on the streets. ‘Endgame’ — a Turkish seaside noir by Ahmet Altan 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

The narrator comes to suspect that the lieutenant’s true goal is neither to stop the spread of disease nor to suppress the Kurdish Workers’ Party, but cruelty for its own sake. Three New Story Collections Make Place a Protagonist 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the narrator divides her time between wallowing, composing elaborate mental fan fiction about the actress, and delivering lectures on amorous poetry to her students. In Laura Sims’s “Looker,” a Sad Voyeur Mistakes Her Own Life for a Poem 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

For the narrator, the wildest part of the terrain is desire. Clare Sestanovich on Desire and the Dangers of Metaphor 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

There's a narrator, there are electronic sounds, there's bestial - or rather cetacean - improvisation from the choir, there are football rattles and a whip, there's serialism, crunching dissonance, and loud-hailers. A guide to John Tavener's music 2013-02-19T16:15:03Z

Two-thirds into “Drifts” the narrator realizes she is pregnant, and as she beholds her “exquisitely tender and changing body” her diction stoops slightly into the hackneyed. Locked in a Creative Struggle, With Rilke as Her Guide 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

Or "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin'," in which the narrator protests being used for sex by her drunken husband who otherwise ignores her. Loretta Lynn's music: That's how the Republican women I grew up with talked (behind men's backs) 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

The nameless protagonist-­narrator, a memorable character despite his anonymity, is an Americanized Vietnamese with a divided heart and mind. ‘The Sympathizer,’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

To leave this “island” means the narrator is no longer a “girl.” 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

Our narrator maintains that list throughout his youth. Jonny Donahoe in ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ at Barrow Street 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

Mr. Stein said that Mr. Knausgaard’s invention of a “narrator who is a real person and is in charge of the story” has “solved a big problem of the contemporary novel.” Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle’ Is a Movement 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

The narrator Jim tells us he has been asked "to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island" but to keep back its bearings. Laurence Scott: rereading Maurice by EM Forster 2013-07-05T10:00:01Z

Elena, meanwhile, is a successful writer and our narrator, and so we see her through the unsparing filter of her own self-doubt. Elena Ferrante and What Liking Is Like 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

The unnamed narrator is the youngest child of the Tsai family, born Feb. 28, 1947, the day of the horrendous massacre that marked the beginning of martial law in Taiwan. In her novel 'Green Island,' Shawna Yang Ryan explores Taiwan under authoritarian rule 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

Susan Werner’s “Did Trouble Me,” whose narrator regrets the years wasted not heeding his conscience, sounds like a spiritual cry in the wilderness. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Korn, Currensy and Tom Jones 2010-07-26T00:05:00Z

The narrator is transparent, but omniscient, recording the tremors running beneath the happy exterior of these people’s lives. ‘Commonwealth’: Ann Patchett’s masterful novel of family and family secrets 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

In the years immediately after the Emancipation Proclamation, young narrator Lizzie is hungry to learn, and her hunger is nurtured at home, in school and by her neighbors. Four children's books introduce African American experiences 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

“The idea I took from it was precisely the idea that there is no such thing as a dispassionate observer, that every narrative is inflected by the narrator’s bias.” Janet Malcolm, provocative author-journalist, dies at 86 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

When the narrator does achieve that direct accordance with things, the effect is unnerving. Fiction That Will Make You Feel Pleasantly Insane 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sheen will also read the part of “First Voice,” a narrator, one of the parts originally read by Thomas. Michael Sheen and Kate Burton to Appear in "Under Milk Wood" in New York 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

The stalled time effect as the narrator notices the exact details and that "intent expression". The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman – review 2013-06-23T07:00:01Z

The narrator in “Drifts” is trying to write a book called “Drifts,” a detail that sounds more gimmicky than it is, but she’s finding it difficult to focus. Locked in a Creative Struggle, With Rilke as Her Guide 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

At one point, Marker’s narrator compares Greek words to the angels in Wim Wenders’s “Wings of Desire”: benign, invisible, ubiquitous presences. ‘The Owl’s Legacy’ Explores the Glory That Was Greece 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

“Wait, Blink” feels most organic in these moments of squalor and when its plotlines intersect, an impressive feat given that its narrators revel in serendipity and coincidence. Cold Cases: Three Scandinavian Novels Explore Chilling Emotional Territory 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

For example, the unnamed narrator of Wells’s book is ­revealed to be Walter Jenkins, now the best-selling author of the “Narrative of the Martian Wars” and a sufferer from post-traumatic stress syndrome. ‘The Massacre of Mankind’: a sequel to H.G. Wells’s ‘The War of the Worlds’ 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

She was our narrator, a kind of everygirl figure, awed and slightly intimidated by the talent surrounding her. Writing with your dad…writing with your daughter 2013-06-26T11:49:20Z

Seemingly cobbled together from found recordings of phone calls and therapy sessions, there’s not even a narrator to tell you where you are, or when. In ‘Homecoming,’ a Sound Experiment Becomes Something to See 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

Sometimes the novel's voice is that of an omniscient narrator. Sons and Lovers: a century on 2013-05-25T07:00:22Z

The narrator of the story is lying in bed with a book, listening, in spite of herself, to Mildred’s performance, and wondering what it is. The Sympathetic Spy Downstairs 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

That’s because Johnson’s narrator, Warren Duffy, is “mixed,” the child of a black mother and an Irish-American father; he identifies as black, but his light-colored skin often leads strangers to mistake him for white. “You get a cookie for being offended”: Mat Johnson on the fine art of racial satire 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

This is the narrator figure who plays the Romanov children’s tutor: “In 1905 I accepted a job with the Romanovs, Russia’s royal family.” The Last Czars: the historical drama that the whole of Russia is laughing at 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

The narrator soon becomes, as many people of color do, a mascot for the school, paraded around at events and fund-raisers as she is bullied and excluded by her peers. A Beauty Brand That Turns Self-Improvement Into a Nightmare 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

The narrator looks around at the pasture, at the cows, the incremental sunset. Fiction That Will Make You Feel Pleasantly Insane 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

A skein of dread whorls around the narrator’s job at The Hague. ‘Intimacies,’ a Coolly Written Novel About the Arts of Translation and Power 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

“We’ve seen the narrator business before — hello, ‘The Glass Menagerie,’” he said playfully. Oscar Wao Takes His Superpowers to the Stage 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

As a young woman the narrator shoplifts coats from the J. Press store in Harvard Square. Review: In ‘I Must Be Living Twice’ and ‘Chelsea Girls,’ Eileen Myles Ruminates 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

I first read Rebecca years ago, when I was much the same age as its young, unnamed, narrator. Sophie McKenzie's top 10 teen thrillers 2012-11-21T10:33:58Z

After a pure and ardent time together, the narrator’s love dies at the hands of two other hitmen. How novelist Fernando Vallejo's work reveals Colombia's deep divisions 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

“What,” asks the narrator of this novel, “are the consolations of philosophy or the affirmations of religion beside an afternoon’s rich meal of doubles, triples, and home runs?” Philip Roth’s retirement lesson 2013-02-12T12:39:00Z

The narrator is named Alexandra — and Chang used to work at Wired — but leave the speculation about how much of this story is autobiographical to another reader. These Debuts Arrived at a Tough Time. They Deserve Your Attention. 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

All of the people in this scene stop what they are doing — the minicab driver, the uniformed schoolgirls, the grandfather, even the narrator — to join in the ritual procession. Zadie Smith’s New Novel Takes on Dance, Fame and Friendship 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Jamie Morton, the novel’s narrator, recalls an incident from when he was 6 years old, the youngest of five children in a boisterous, big-hearted clan. Book review: ‘Revival,’ by Stephen King

Here, McConaughey takes the lead and serves as the narrator but often feels irrelevant. ‘The Gentlemen’ Review: Boys Will Be Boys, Sometimes With Guns 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

Its narrator is an 18-year-old multiple murderess who lives with her devoted sister and fantasizes about killing again. Arts & Leisure Preview: Violence That Art Didn?t See Coming 2010-02-24T19:11:00Z

We’re here, of course, for the ones that spring from the title character, Ana Ivan, whom our narrator — nameless in his own story — first meets on a rooftop on the opening page. A Tale of Soviet-Era Bucharest Probes the Ties Between Writer and Muse 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

The narrator claims that only the "old-school" teachers are effective; the new ones don't have an "ounce of creativity and ingenuity". State schools: are they failing our children? 2011-02-27T00:05:50Z

The story opens on the campus of an undistinguished college in Norfolk, where the narrator, Jessica Walker, is a student with a singular interest in Christie’s mysteries. Murders Most Foul 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

Her young, empathetic narrator forced from her gated community to the unruly streets to find allies, in a heroic arc that also inspires, planting seeds, using empathy to build unlikely connections. Quarantine book club: Reading for mental health in a plague year 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Vonnegut’s narrator, Leon Trout, spoke to the benefits of these rollbacks. Shades of Atwood and Vonnegut in Louise Erdrich’s Dystopian Novel 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

But we don’t think in the simple past, and we don’t think by the agency of an omniscient narrator. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z

There is a sense of calm in Soot’s story that is in direct and jarring contrast with our narrator’s tell-all. Review | In ‘Hell of a Book,’ an author and his imaginary friend go on a book tour 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

With the poor narrator I suffer afresh each time.” Michael Dirda browses books that will make you love reading 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

Save for the first part and the last, they were designed to be read in any order, thus resembling more closely the tumbling memories stirred by the narrator's day out. Drama on 3: The Unfortunates; An Audience With Ed Reardon; William Quilliam 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z

Indeed, the child narrator of the very first story seemed in possession of a darker knowledge than anyone else in the book. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z

Without a narrator or explanatory titles or transitions, they tell a roughly chronological story in a nonlinear fashion. Television Review: George Harrison Documentary From Martin Scorsese 2011-10-04T21:53:34Z

In the final draft, the narrator is burned, wounded, but he follows the Martians in a way that’s more “get it over with.” Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Sequel to ‘The War of the Worlds’ 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

For all their antics, the governesses are not “unsavory,” according to the narrator. ‘The Governesses’ Offers Subtle Lessons in Shame, Constraint and Lust 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

And there is a sustained analogy between land and mind, whereby the narrator's access to his buried emotions is enabled only by means of a literal digging into the Jurassic bedrock of south-west Dorset. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male 2013-03-15T12:03:22Z

Trust the tale, not the teller, Lawrence famously said, and in Sons and Lovers this means trusting ourselves to derive meanings that neither the hero nor the narrator offer up. Sons and Lovers: a century on 2013-05-25T07:00:22Z

But a podcast is superflexible as a format, and it needs a narrator. Richard Simmons’s Disappearing Act Inspires a Hit Podcast 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

Using the "stream of consciousness" technique, her book begins with its narrator speaking from inside her mother's womb. Debut novelist wins Goldsmiths prize 2013-11-14T11:42:34Z

The implied equivalence between Meursault’s crime and Harun’s, and between the moral compromises of the narrator and the possible deceit of the listener, is more than a clever literary device. An Algerian novelist takes on Camus in ‘The Meursault Investigation’ 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

“You were white, you were brown, you were red, you were dust,” the narrator says. Review | What does it mean to be Native American? A new novel offers a bracing answer. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

Events, meanwhile, generally seem like the caprice of a cruel God-like narrator rather anything that makes sense – even within the warped logic of the novel. Looking back at the Lost Booker: Muriel Spark 2010-05-13T14:52:00Z

A few scenes are successful, like an encounter on a park bench, but others aren’t, like a disquisition on the secret identity of the narrator of “Don Quixote.” Review: ‘City of Glass,’ Down a Rabbit Hole of Meta-Noir 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

Written mostly in the form of a memoir, “Sight” recounts the history of the narrator’s struggle to arrive at her decision, a process that goes beyond mere difficulty to something more like torture. “Sight” and The Pleasures of Overthinking Motherhood 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

The original had Jean Shepard as the narrator from behind the scene where Broderick needed to be. Review: ‘A Christmas Story Live!’ Wasn’t Lively Enough 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

The opening chapter, with an epigraph from the Faulkner book, is told by a 10-year-old child, an echo of perhaps Faulkner’s most striking narrator, the mentally challenged Benjy. A.B. Yehoshua, Israeli Writer Who Explored Moral and Political Dilemmas, Dies at 85 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

The narrator reconstructs her past with the help of a 1978-1979 journal she discovered while helping her elderly mother move into assisted living. Review | A woman reconstructs her past with the help of an old journal in ‘Memories of the Future’ 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

Teresa, the narrator of Giordano’s bighearted novel “Heaven and Earth,” is barely a teenager when she first encounters the three boys who will alter the course of her life. Novels From Around the World Examine Kinship and Conflict 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Brick asked the author why he changed narrators in one book. ‘I can write the words. He supplies the melody’: The harmonious bond between authors and audiobook narrators 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

Mnouchkine, herself an epic narrator of historical events, is named as an inspiration several times in the playbill, and her influence was clear throughout. In Paris, Young Theater Makers Swing Big 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

The narrator of this charming young-adult book is a gorilla named Sally Jones who understands everything humans say. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Vanessa Redgrave, narrator of the British drama "Call the Midwife," gets some actual face time in the "Call the Midwife Holiday Special." TV This Week, Dec. 21-27: 'Doctor Who: Last Christmas' and more 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

“I had questions about how Ted wanted to stage it because it felt uncomfortable doing some halcyon utopian thing set in the 1970s,” said Kit Green, one of the show’s narrators. A Queer Revolutionary Classic Book, Now Onstage With Music 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

But the novel’s allegorical potential is stifled by a narrator who explains too much. A Town Is Besieged by Children, Foreign and Violent 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Our narrator is Beth, serious, highly sensitive and crisply witty, a tough but vulnerable woman we first meet as she waits in a queue to board a huge luxury liner. The Blue Book by AL Kennedy ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:06Z

He overcame his shyness to discuss his novel, a gripping psychological thriller with the ultimate unreliable narrator – a woman with memory problems. Val McDermid: addicted to crime fiction 2013-07-11T11:35:00Z

At its core is the account of a late-in-life friendship between the unnamed narrator and an elusive older man named Earl, whose protracted death takes up the bulk of the book. Andrew Holleran’s Work Has Traced the Arc of Life. Now, He Takes on Death. 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z

Throughout the novel, our unnamed narrator battles with how to tell his story. Review | In ‘Hell of a Book,’ an author and his imaginary friend go on a book tour 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

It’s also possible that he deliberately constructed an emotional photonegative of the earlier song, whose narrator is keeping someone out, proactively setting up boundaries. The Playlist: Jay Z Sips Lemonade and Adele Divides and Conquers 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

Excerpts from the narrator’s work in progress are spliced into the book’s main text, providing a welcome change of pace. Review | In ‘The Memory Police,’ an authoritarian government tries to erase the past 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

In “The Boy Who Dreamed Too Much,” the narrator is quarantined and undergoes psychological evaluation before being assigned to one of Michigan’s prisons. An Addict, a Confessed Killer and Now a Debut Author 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z

The narrators sift through anecdotal evidence of their heroes’ lives, wondering if they were ever who they claimed. What if Gatsby Worked at a Tech Start-Up? 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

South African writer Bruce's economical prose, arrogantly deluded narrator and subject matter inevitably invite comparison with Coetzee, although the novel lacks the latter's casual brilliance. First novels roundup ? reviews 2011-08-26T21:07:01Z

“As long as people were looking at that mind, it was still active in the world, asking and answering, finding out about things, making small dear cries of discovery,” the narrator thinks. Patricia Lockwood’s First Novel Reaches for the Sublime, Online and Off 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

No sooner are the women introduced to us with these lightly fetishistic descriptions then the narrator turns on them — “the poor little fools.” ‘The Governesses’ Offers Subtle Lessons in Shame, Constraint and Lust 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

The story's narrator, Gibbons, is their joint descendent. Three essential tales of black vampirism 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z

Actors were cast as the Soldier, the Devil and the narrator, and a dancer was given the role of the ailing Princess whom the Soldier cures. Stravinsky?s Devil, Reignited 2011-06-03T18:21:16Z

In a work of traditional fiction, the narrator would perhaps celebrate his outsider status and become a defiant rebel. ‘The End of Eddy’ Captures a Savage Childhood and a Global Movement 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

Francis, the film’s narrator, suspects there’s a link between this sneaky fellow and a series of grisly murders. Top 10 Movie Shrinks 2011-11-22T09:59:12Z

“I will take such measures as are necessary to secure myself a pulpit,” the narrator thunders, but securing a pulpit is easier than securing a congregation. Book review: ‘Against the Country,’ by Ben Metcalf 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Another narrator’s grandfather falls in love at 26 with a woman who loves flowers; one day he sneaks into her house to water all her plants. The Macabre, the Sinister, the Absurd: Story Time Just Got Weirder 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Rachel, the No. 1 wife and one of the story’s three narrators, is the devoted, traditional one. ‘Everybody Loved Blake, Except His Wives. Sometimes, We Hated Him.’ 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

I believe there was an unreliable narrator, which I always enjoy, I suspect. Charlie Kaufman Is Sorry, He’s a Bit Distracted 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

Even as we laugh, our minds turn to Tom, the narrator of Williams’s autobiographical drama “The Glass Menagerie,” which for the moment bears a different title. Review: In ‘The Gentleman Caller,’ a Talky Tennessee Williams 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

Repelled, but aware of guilt in his own life, the narrator learns that "the horror lies in the war, but long before it already lay within us". Javier Cercas: A life in books 2011-04-04T07:00:01Z

We begin with Walt Whitman, with a soaring overture to America and a dream of national belonging — which the narrator methodically dismantles in the virtuosic chapters that follow. The 10 Best Books of 2020 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

The identity of the song's narrator is disappearing. Readers recommend: songs about mirrors – results 2012-08-16T09:11:32Z

The sarcastic narrator of this lawless animated series offers advice for stick-figure characters who repeatedly put themselves in unfortunate situations: “Try not doing that!” What’s on TV Friday: ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ and ‘Comrade Detective’ 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

The sequel employs three narrators, most notably, Aunt Lydia, a matriarchal tyrant who trains women to be obedient and passive handmaids. Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share the 2019 Booker Prize 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

At Daltrey's instigation, the narrator was dropped: he says: "I made the audience Jimmy basically." Quadrophenia: Music for all times 2013-06-14T00:30:49Z

The narrator is Lillian, a depressed young woman approaching 30 without romantic or professional prospects. Review | Children burst into flames in Kevin Wilson’s ‘Nothing to See Here’ 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

Though she’s one of the novel’s organizing principles — the story starts and ends with her — Emily is essentially a quirky collection of details used to give meaning to the narrator’s existence. He Wrote a Novel From Jail. She Wrote One About a Different Kind of Imprisonment. 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

My father was an enthusiastic narrator, with oratory prowess. We need diverse influences: Artist Shahzia Sikander on her multicultural past and our future 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

The narrator is an unnamed woman who sits next to Valerie on her deathbed, asking her questions. “Valerie” Is an Extraordinary Love Letter to a Radical Feminist 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

It is instead another mother figure whose chilly attitude toward children seems responsible for making the narrator’s thinking on the subject so exceptionally fraught. “Sight” and The Pleasures of Overthinking Motherhood 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

As for Jonny, he — like the hero of “Kapitoil” — is a highly observant and thoughtful narrator, caught up in the swirl of big-time American success, but with growing intimations of its dark side. Books of The Times: ‘The Love Song of Jonny Valentine,’ by Teddy Wayne 2013-01-28T20:14:16Z

The unnamed narrator of “Die, My Love” has a baby, a husband, a widowed mother-in-law, and a lover, but she feels alone in the world. Motherhood Meets Lust and Violence in Ariana Harwicz’s “Die, My Love” 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

As he plays the game, the narrator finds himself surrealistically placed into a scene from his father’s life, where he controls the events that will determine his own future. The Echoes and Echoes and Echoes of War 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

Each narrator works on the fictional “Dublin Murder Squad,” and they appear in other books as partners or other minor characters. Murder, She Wrote 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

An online celebration will accompany the final installment; its release date and narrators are still a secret. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

Our narrator is a Black man who tries desperately to forget he’s Black. Review | In ‘Hell of a Book,’ an author and his imaginary friend go on a book tour 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

Morris serves as an avuncular and at times comic narrator, waving his arms wildly as he tries to explain the fascination criminal trials exert on us. ‘A Wilderness of Error’ Review: Errol Morris in the Fog of Murder 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

That swerved me, and I got the narrator in there. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Sequel to ‘The War of the Worlds’ 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

A favorite of mine in this stellar collection, “The Indian Uprising,” begins when the narrator, Maude, is invited by her former poetry professor, Franklin, to celebrate his 71st birthday in Washington. Ann Beattie is one of our few contemporary masters of storytelling 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

The narrator — or erotic taskmaster — is a woman known only as “Angelina.” I tried “Siri for sex” so you don’t have to (but maybe you want to anyway) 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

And as the movie advances, you discover that the ideas voiced by the narrator are embedded in scenes that need no further explication. Movie Review: Braden King?s ?Here? Raises Questions of Philosophy 2012-04-12T21:55:25Z

Angel Woolsack, the narrator of “The Blood of Heaven,” is soon dead in the early pages of this new novel, but who shot him? ‘Secessia’ is Kent Wascom’s vivid portrait of 1862 New Orleans 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

The narrator of “The Scapegoat,” at first, seems like your prototypical absent-minded professor: He’s employed at a prestigious university and keeps losing track of time, brooding over 30-year-old regrets. Four Debut Novels Follow Strivers and Survivors 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

“Watch as his wisdom, bravery and honor finally gets rewarded in the typical Game of Thrones way,” the narrator says as Jon is shown getting stabbed to death. The Honest Trailer for Game of Thrones Questions Why People Keep Watching 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

The death of Joszef and the narrator's need to attend to a dying retainer, not to a new wife, is an image of the whole tale. The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth – review 2013-01-25T20:00:01Z

Three countertenors function as narrator, singing in gorgeous overlapping harmonies. John Adams' staged `Gospel' has NY premiere 2013-03-29T13:55:09Z

It is possible to be transfixed or delighted by unreliable narrators on television while being disgusted by those same behaviours in real life. The lying game: why unreliable TV narrators matter in the Trump era 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

And her narrator, in retelling the experiences of her grandfather’s generation, enfolds them into her own. Revisiting ‘The Tiger’s Wife’ and the Balkan Wars 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

But his reluctance to resume the role of narrator for the rest of his story doesn’t help the transition of his image. He shot George Wallace to be famous. Now he lives in silence. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

And podcasts thrive in part because of the appeal of a reliable narrator, the docent guiding listeners on the subway, in the car, at the gym – pretty much anywhere one can safely pop in earbuds. Listen closely: why Hollywood has become obsessed with podcasts 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

In between these dialogues, the narrator thinks about the past, glances back at the pains of the sisters’ young lives, even calls an ex. The Macabre, the Sinister, the Absurd: Story Time Just Got Weirder 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Much of the writing, seen through the eyes of a wise-weary narrator, is an achievement of attitude. Toni Morrison Taught Me How to Think 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

So from the start, the narrator makes sure that the reader knows that there is no return to normalcy in the last chapter, that hope for a Disney ending is in vain. 'The Fireman' may be the best apocalyptic read of the year, if you can stand the heat 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

One character is a painter and the other a student; one is the protagonist and the other the narrator, though if you focus too long on these delineations they squirm and dissolve. In ‘White on White,’ the Traditional Landlord-Tenant Pact Is Ruptured 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

The narrator is Jaxie Clackton, a troubled teenage boy who lost his mother to cancer and suffered years of beatings from his drunken father. Review | The tale of a disaffected teen on the run from a crime he didn’t commit 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

When we meet her in “Bridget Jones’s Baby,” the narrator is in her late 30s, hung over and jamming a piece of cheese into her mouth. Bridget Jones’s Latest Movie, Now a Novel 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

As with “The Instructions,” this novel’s presiding philosophical shades are solipsism and interpersonal brutality, resulting once more in a narrator of rich if ingrown innocence unnerved by the nasty brutality of less innocent others. What if, Instead of the Internet, We Had Xenobots? 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

By the time half the town has been lit on fire, even the mayor thinks the narrator should probably carry a gun. ‘Endgame’ — a Turkish seaside noir by Ahmet Altan 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

Ms. Hawkins makes fine use of an unreliable narrator — a hard-drinking woman who delivers observations from a moving train — and knows how to rattle readers. The Top Books of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

The opera’s narration always has been a problem, but the narrator here is another inspiration. 'Young Caesar' finally conquers: Troubled 1971 opera is reborn at Disney Hall 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

“Is the choice of a writer-protagonist in a bildungsroman too facile and predictable?” a professor asks in the book’s opening pages, in the midst of a brutal critique of the narrator’s first workshop submission. This Novel Is Set in a ’90s M.F.A. Program. The Author Is Aware of Your Concerns. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

“The Changeling,” it should be noted, is a particular kind of fairy tale: “the old kind,” in the words of the omniscient narrator, “when such stories were meant for adults, not kids.” This New York Love Story Subverts Its ‘Happily Ever After’ 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

The narrator reads his own memories as deeply as a monk studies scripture in his cell and imprints his inner life on the world around him. Review | The relentlessly introspective vision of Gerald Murnane 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

In the new world order, Mr. Baxter’s narrator is not so much a “quiet American” as he is an increasingly irrelevant American. Books of The Times: ‘The Apartment,’ a Debut Novel by Greg Baxter 2013-12-10T22:30:31Z

There are some mildly annoying typos, but he's a good narrator and very matter of fact about everything he's encountered on the Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. Tips, links and suggestions: What you are reading today? 2012-08-21T16:05:56Z

For example, in his novel “Ordinary Grace,” Krueger’s narrator describes his sister’s organ playing at a funeral as “fingers shaping the music every bit as magnificently as God shaped the wings of butterflies.” The Ideal Reading Experience, The American Dollar and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

If, at such moments, the narrator’s dwelling on her emotional ordeals begins to wear the reader down, her intelligence and honesty continue to dazzle, and the novel as a whole exudes a strange consoling power. “Sight” and The Pleasures of Overthinking Motherhood 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

It’s biting and wonderfully wry, as are many of the narrator’s observations. Review | Mona Awad’s struggles with chronic pain and the health-care system fuel her new novel 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

"I find it harder, self-consciously so, to write a female narrator," the author, whose other works include "This Book Will Save Your Life" and "The End of Alice", told the Guardian newspaper last year. U.S. writer A.M. Homes denies Hilary Mantel literary treble 2013-06-05T18:23:44Z

There’s more of me in that narrator 20 years ago when I first started seeing the world. Jason Isbell’s got hope for the high road: “If you yell at people they’re going to stop listening” 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

Hitting these satirical targets would seem as easy as shooting fish in the Terranauts’ fake lake, but the story comes to us entirely through three aggressively self-justifying narrators who alternate chapter by chapter. Reading ‘The Terranauts,’ by T.C. Boyle, is like being trapped in Tupperware 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

Atxaga’s narrator is something of a wandering soul, which serves him well as he and his family arrive in Reno in 2007 so he can write and teach at the university. Review | A Basque author contemplates a complex city in ‘Nevada Days’ 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

In The Death of the Adversary, the more philosophical of Keilson's novels, an anecdote relayed to the narrator reiterates that point. Hans Keilson: "Genius? I'm not even a proper writer!" 2010-11-21T00:05:00Z

Lending lightness, which is exactly the right tone, narrator Bill Kurtis asks the same question: "If all these solutions are such great ideas, why haven't they happened yet?" 'Carbon Nation': Dealing with climate change in a lively and fun way 2011-03-03T21:02:05Z

As noted in “Another Day’s Begun,” Howard Sherman’s new book about “Our Town,” Holbrook played Thornton Wilder’s narrator, the Stage Manager, on three occasions, the last at Hartford Stage in 2007. Perspective | From Twain to Deep Throat, Hal Holbrook left an indelible mark on American entertainment 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

The narrator, who is the supposed “author” of the book before us — a memoir of his deeds as a stalker — befriends us. A Psychological Thriller Asks, Are We All a Little Stalker-ish? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

What the narrator ends up celebrating is the power of literature’s comparative immateriality—how you can describe works that can’t be made or haven’t yet been made, for instance. This Week in Fiction: Ben Lerner on Art, Language, and Uber 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

In the final seven pages of the book, as she holds her “babbling and cooing creature,” the wide-eyed narrator is “grateful” that her “major affect is only intense exhaustion from night feedings.” Locked in a Creative Struggle, With Rilke as Her Guide 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

Michael Angelis, best known as the narrator of Thomas the Tank Engine series Thomas and Friends, has died at the age of 76. Michael Angelis, Thomas the Tank Engine narrator, dies aged 76 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z

As she encounters horror after horror, the story trains an eye on aspects of black history too often co-opted by white narrators. Paperback Row 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

The narrator has fallen for his new friend’s star quality. Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby: From Jazz Age to Baz Age 2013-05-09T18:30:54Z

Rushdie’s memoir has done this perhaps more successfully than any lightly fictionalized version would have permitted, recreating him as author, narrator, and protagonist at once: the character known and immortalized as he. “Joseph Anton”: Memoir as noir 2012-11-05T21:58:00Z

In “My Year of Rest and Relaxation,” the relationship between Reva and the narrator is reminiscent of Bergman’s 1966 film “Persona,” in which a stage actress suffers a breakdown and becomes mute. A Woman Sleeps a Year Away in Ottessa Moshfegh’s Darkly Comic New Novel 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Before the two escape the hostile work environment that is Santaland, the audience also enjoys sexist statements from the narrator, who drops a line about the delicate womenfolk. It’s not just “Rudolph”: Holiday TV specials are mostly creepy, weird or depressing as hell 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

These poems play with different registers, but they return to lamentation, to annihilating grief for “all the black people I’m tired of losing,” one narrator says. Sonnets That Reckon With Donald Trump’s America 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

Based on the exploits of a con man, William Douglas Street Jr., with Harris playing the title role and narrator, the film was initially described as a Black equivalent of Woody Allen’s “Zelig.” ‘Chameleon Street’: The Art of the Con 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

It called into doubt the question of the story; it's not just an unreliable narrator, it's an unreliable narrative. Stefan Merrill Block on his new novel 'Oliver Loving,' which follows the fallout of a tragedy in a small West Texas town 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

That didn’t stop PBS from promptly firing him as the narrator of the new series “Market Warriors” — which, OK, cowardly public relations, no surprise there. Poor Fred Willard 2012-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You’re driving a little too fast and have a false sense of confidence,” the narrator says. The Archival Delights of Public Service Broadcasting 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

This novel’s young narrator has believed from an early age that he is Cassandra, the Trojan priestess whose prophecies go unheeded. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

The narrators of this winning and amiable novel are triplets — known as One, Two and Three — with very different reactions to the discovery that their new neighbors are behind the chemical company poisoning their town. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

There’s no place in this sorority for our narrator, with her bad luck and bad skin and inability to hold her liquor. Review: Vendela Vida’s ‘The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty’ Offers Freedom to Escape 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Such is the fate of the nameless narrator in Yishai Sarid’s “The Memory Monster,” a brilliant short novel that serves as a brave, sharp-toothed brief against letting the past devour the present. When the Holocaust Becomes an Obsession 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

"The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song" opens with a gospel hymn sung by a familiar voice. . . that of Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., its creator, host and narrator. PBS' ambitious & fraught "Black Church" takes a tour of America's complex history, music and faith 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

It adds to the sense of confusion when the Solicitor forces the narrator to penetrate him. Douglas Stuart on Growing Up Queer Before the Internet 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

Its heroes are the free-spirited narrator of “The Lady Is a Tramp,” the loner of Rod McKuen’s “Man Alone” and the rebel in Mr. Sondheim’s “Everybody Says Don’t.” Music Review: She?s Young, Restless and a Bit Dreamy 2011-02-20T22:54:19Z

Mr. O’Neill’s narrator also gives voice to the priests, whom he interrogates and admonishes before dispatching them. | 'Absolution': One Man?s Wrathful Vengeance 2010-09-16T04:30:00Z

Here, Ms. Newsom’s narrator is preoccupied with thoughts of birth, aging and death, and seems only halfway to enlightenment. Review: Joanna Newsom’s ‘Divers’ Shares Thoughts of Life and Death 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

It is told retrospectively, with the adult Scout, now known as Jean Louise Finch, as the narrator. Deep Dives Into Justice From Shakespeare, Wilde and Atticus Finch 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

Tarantino is a narrator who likes to show and tell, making him a boisterous if somewhat undisciplined presence. Review | Quentin Tarantino turned his last movie into a novel, but don’t think you know the ending 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite,” the narrator says. Review | Susanna Clarke’s infinitely clever ‘Piranesi’ is enough to make you appreciate life in quarantine 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

The chapters feature an omniscient narrator, but focus largely on the perspectives of Mussolini and his collaborators. A New Book About Mussolini Is Provoking a Debate Over His Legacy 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

Now we find ourselves debating the best narrators, listening speeds and multitasking activities, among other matters. Perspective | Let’s talk about audiobooks: best narrators, best listening speeds and why we like them to begin with 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

Faulkner told this story in a chorus of voices: 15 narrators in the 59 chapters. To locate an equivalent for the novel’s polyphonal scheme, Franco often employs split screens. As I Lay Dying: James Franco Does William Faulkner 2013-05-22T08:40:13Z

American noirs especially favour stories told in retrospect, with a voiceover by a desperate, dying or imprisoned narrator anxious to explain how they got where they have. Six novelists on their favourite second artform 2013-04-27T07:00:18Z

Mr. Banks’s own intentions as a writer are summed up in his narrator’s closing lines in “Continental Drift”: Russell Banks, Novelist Steeped in the Working Class, Dies at 82 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z

In a garden, or The Garden, a dragon offers the narrator fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. Brian Selznick’s Lockdown Masterpiece 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Eventually I arrived at what was once the Grand Hotel Saint-Louis, a frequent haunt of the narrator, now boarded up. James Salter’s ‘Blue, Indolent’ Corner of Burgundy 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

In addition to the author/historian, a second narrator is Hriday, the saint’s nephew and bewildered disciple. ‘The Cauliflower’: The life of the Hindu mystic Sri Ramakrishna 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

The narrator added: “This year, the bow ties were gone and replaced by Nazi hair. Nazi hair. Nazi hair.” Samantha Bee Show Apologizes to Writer for ‘Nazi Hair’ Mockery 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Faraday's charm as a tough protagonist and poetry-quoting narrator, ably supported by his faithful secretary Stella, proved popular. Basil Copper obituary 2013-04-14T12:32:22Z

So there you are, trying to keep your pace below 17 minutes per mile, while the narrator, Jonathan Reese, reads from Pynchon’s saga about the “savage Vacancy” called America. A Personal Foray Into the Long-Lost Pynchon Tapes 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

But sooner or later the question dawns: For whom are clues gathered — the narrator, or the reader? A Second Wife Haunted by the Shadow of Her Husband’s First 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

The narrator returned to say that the drug contained “melatonin, extra strength quaaludes and what Michael Jackson’s doctor called ‘One-and-dones.’” ‘S.N.L.’ Jokes About the Midterms, and Pete Davidson Pokes Fun at Himself 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

But they are intensely interwoven, more than interwoven: they all have the same narrator; they take place within a period of a few years; there are story lines that arc across them. Garth Greenwell on Transitional Spaces and the Burden of Action 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Based on some asides that the narrator utters that are too funny. Phil Morris narrates Ken Burns-style 'Game of Thrones' Castle Black battle retelling 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

The air of magical contrivance was sustained by encasing this friendship in the expositions of a narrator physicist – played by Bhattacharjee – and a Hardy disciple many years later. Paul Bhattacharjee obituary 2013-07-18T14:53:53Z

The narrator can make or break a story. Once Upon a Time … Bedtime Stories Were Just for Kids 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z

His narrator is at least intermittently aware of his precarious place and the absurdity of his quest. He’s a Lifer at Angola. He’s Black. Was He Falsely Convicted? 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

How long does he inspect “the device”? This narrator, who pretends to know only the kind of evidence available to a biographer, won’t say. The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With Others 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

She is angry at the assertions from some critics of the film that she an “unreliable narrator”. 'They called me the antichrist': JT LeRoy, Laura Albert and the literary hoax 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

“Speaking of the act entirely apart from its moral aspect,” observes our narrator, “I may say that it was a good shot.” Review | Before Tolkien created hobbits, there were Snergs. And oh, how delightful they were! 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

Her narrator wears sweat pants that are “a blend of cotton and self-loathing.” ‘Days of Awe’ review: A novel of grief and humor 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

I liked this book a lot because it switched narrators, from Alex and Herbert to this evil guy named Gordon, a janitor at the museum. Herbert's Wormhole by Peter Nelson and Rohitash Rao - review 2013-01-23T09:00:00Z

Or there is James Hogg’s strange, unsettling “The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner,” in which the narrator is pursued around the city and the countryside by a terrifying avatar named Gil-Martin. Read Your Way Through Edinburgh 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

A damsel in distress can be a poor narrator. Dangers Close to Home: Four New Domestic Thrillers 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

The narrator is privy to a warmth from his father’s ex, and the question becomes whether or not, and how, he’ll incorporate that in his own life, and toward the people he cares about. Bryan Washington on Writing Stories That Don’t Make You Feel Worse 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

Miss Elphinstone — the revolver-wielding heroine of the flight from London — turns out to have married, but then divorced the narrator’s brother Frank, and she now works as a freelance journalist. ‘The Massacre of Mankind’: a sequel to H.G. Wells’s ‘The War of the Worlds’ 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

These scenes are created with a great moody melancholy, the narrator fully aware how soon they will be over and how they must be secured before they crumble. In a Dying Country, Garth Greenwell’s Narrator Comes Alive 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

“Had to find my rope/To pull me up/Because I needed some kind of hope/To fill me up,” raps the narrator in the prologue. All beat, no heart 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Suffice to say that reading sdrawkcab plays a pivotal role in a story that also features James Corden as the neighbour who serves as the story's guide and narrator. Never a Dahl moment: Esio Trot on TV 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

“Read Me” is constructed not as a linear tale but rather in layers, sometimes recounting what the narrator actually sees and at others deploying an assumed omniscience. A Psychological Thriller Asks, Are We All a Little Stalker-ish? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

This year, the narrator described the piece simply as a “depiction of all victories over oppression, including our own War of 1812,” and spoke about the Civil War battle at Gettysburg. Amid Ukraine War, Orchestras Rethink ‘1812 Overture,’ a July 4 Rite 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z

After all, they seem to share its unnamed narrator: a gay American man teaching in Sofia, Bulgaria. Garth Greenwell Comes Clean 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

We meet the narrator at a tough juncture. ‘Vladimir,’ a Debut That Celebrates Transgression — Up to a Point 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z

“The reshuffling of taste,” Ms. Yi’s narrator tells us, “awaits a new metaphysics.” 2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

We see the captive narrator struggling to keep track of the passing days, and to keep his mind sharp by playing memory games about the Napoleonic Wars. New Graphic Novels Detail Personal Journeys and Twists of Fate 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

The unnamed narrator murders an old man with a "vulture eye". Kate Mosse's top 10 ghost stories 2010-10-27T10:24:00Z

Andromeda Dunker, the show’s voice-over narrator since 2009, stresses that while the show, like any reality series, is produced, the only thing scripted is her commentary. For 20 years, ‘House Hunters’ has been reliable reality TV. For millennials, it feels more like a fantasy. 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Violent, lurid, scabrous, hilarious and beautiful, this novel teems with life, death and narrators. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

The narrator by now has found a certain amount of fame as a writer, but it brings him little money and less joy. The Pleasures of a Writer Who Was ‘Richard Pryor on Paper’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

A type of fairytale, stretching from the arrival of a new boy at the provincial school - Meaulnes of the title - whose impact captivates the schoolmaster's son, who is our narrator. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z

For the narrator, her mother is the galling exception who turns tables on the teachers and manages to lift herself far above her station. Zadie Smith's 'Swing Time' is a tour-de-force 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

I also wanted the narrator to play a silent part in Agnes’s loneliness and guilt, simply by listening to her story. Ayşegül Savaş on Imitation and Identity 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z

One narrator sarcastically threatens to redesign the interior of her home into a duplicate of her husband’s favorite bar, complete with neon sign. Music Review: Linda Purl Sings at the Metropolitan Room 2010-06-10T22:16:00Z

Her title is a wry double entendre, referring at once to the elderly characters she depicts and to the collection of Egyptian archaeological artifacts almost obsessively guarded by the novella’s narrator, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie. Review | With ‘Antiquities,’ Cynthia Ozick is as vibrant on the page as ever 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

The narrator is Dr. Paul Allen, chief of rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, who divorced Daniel’s mother when the boy was young before moving on to a perfect new family with his second wife. New Fiction From Olen Steinhauer, J. G. Ballard and Others 2012-03-28T22:20:12Z

It’s a risky device, employing as first-person narrator an amnesiac narcissist, a narcissist moreover who isn’t even an outsize baddie but merely indifferent, self-pitying. Crossing Abbey Road: It’s More Dangerous Than You Might Think 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

As narrator and vocalist for Friday’s performance Ms. Sciubba, who was born in Rome to German-Italian parents and grew up in Munich and Nice, was a subdued and riveting presence. Music Review: A Fairy-Tale Anniversary 2011-06-12T22:15:28Z

The reader snorts: it's a ridiculous thing to say, and our narrator is simply being contrary and mischievous. Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld – review 2013-06-13T14:58:19Z

The Seediq believed that “a true man dies on the battlefield,” that anyone who tried to enter the heavenly hunting ground without blood on his hands would be turned away, declares a solemn narrator. Movie Review: ?Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale,? by Wei Te-Sheng 2012-04-26T23:32:16Z

The opening track on “The Nashville Sound,” “Last of My Kind,” is a good example of this, where the narrator is noticing so much. Jason Isbell’s got hope for the high road: “If you yell at people they’re going to stop listening” 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

You are very much a presence in this film, especially as narrator. A Killing Spree Ignored for Decades 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

The narrator’s calm recitation quickly progresses from interesting to irritating to oppressive. | 'The Sound of Insects': A Man?s Slow Suicidal Walk to Starvation in the Forest 2010-12-22T00:29:04Z

They might discover that Fredwynn, as the narrator intones, "is you." "Dispatches From Elsewhere" casts a wondrous spell, but can it overcome our cynicism? 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z

Inevitably, this leads our narrator to sound somewhat abject or debased, given how abject or debased the culture is likely to be at any given point. David Shields: Literature saved my life! 2013-02-09T00:30:00Z

The narrator is especially focused on how naming things changes their nature. Review | ‘Flights’ is a beautifully fragmented look at man’s longing for permanence 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

Popkey’s sentences careen breathlessly as her halting, staccato prose mirrors the “churning” within the narrator’s mind — the pulsing interior dialogue, the em-dash-laden reasoning back and forth with herself. How Much Power Do Women Want? A Novel Circles the Question 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

He’s the narrator equivalent of a buzz kill. New Books by Sadie Jones, Laurent Binet and More 2012-05-30T21:07:15Z

According to the narrator, “The thing on both of our minds hung above us, swaying in the lights.” Bryan Washington on Writing Stories That Don’t Make You Feel Worse 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

The self-conscious narrator, the kooky parents and above all the dying girl — these elements are likely to raise alarms among grown-up admirers of the auteurs whom Earl and Greg mock and revere. Review: In ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,’ a Comfort Zone That Cannot Last 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Many appear maladapted to land: “There are those who would call our devotion to the pool excessive, if not pathological,” our narrators tell us. Julie Otsuka Dives Into the Underground World of the Community Pool 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

What really surprised me was how the narrator evolved. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Sequel to ‘The War of the Worlds’ 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

It’s worth mentioning that the narrator does exert quite a bit of effort during his audition, even to the point of rolling on the floor and getting dirty. Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on Acting and Amateurism 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

Now the need to make the field more diverse for narrators of color has become a central issue for publishers. As Audiobook Market Grows, Narrators of Color Find Their Voice 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

The narrator assiduously listens to other women tell their stories; for her, the highest form of intimacy is perhaps the act of divulging. How Much Power Do Women Want? A Novel Circles the Question 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

“The Promise” is told by a slyly humorous narrator who flits among characters, revealing the inner thoughts of people and even animals. Booker winner Damon Galgut laments South Africa’s gloom 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

“They became the closest of friends, initiating from the moment of Georgia’s founding a practice of diplomatic negotiation and cohabitation,” a narrator asserts in a video promoting the park. Muscogee dismayed by nearly naked statue of Georgia ancestor 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

Fearing for his life, he takes up residence in a secret room in the narrator’s house. Review | In ‘The Memory Police,’ an authoritarian government tries to erase the past 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

I mean, we know with an unreliable narrator that we are going to be messed with! ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2 Finale: Fade to Black 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

In “The Testaments,” Atwood weaves together the stories of three female narrators in Gilead, a religious autocracy in what was formerly the United States. Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo Share Booker Prize 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

But I also thought it made a better story for there to be real-time repercussions, and a contrast, from the narrator’s relationship to his visitor. Bryan Washington on Writing Stories That Don’t Make You Feel Worse 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

Both narrate their lives in similar form — the plot of each novel is as desultory as the narrators themselves, and unapologetically interior. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z

To heighten that feeling, the narrator of “Swing Time” goes unnamed throughout to the novel. Zadie Smith, in Los Angeles, says 'I am a voyeur' 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

There's still a certain cosiness to the places the narrator visits, which Wells exploits to the full. Summer voyages: The War of the Worlds by HG Wells 2013-07-26T10:50:02Z

He is currently appearing as a guest narrator in his play Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World. Dog days 2011-05-19T07:25:27Z

Mr. Kelly’s narrator isn’t the freewheeling ghost of before, breaking fourth walls and walking through scenes he’s describing. Television Review: R. Kelly’s ‘Trapped in the Closet’ on IFC 2012-11-22T22:48:45Z

Luckily the nameless narrator of this exuberant first novel has her best friend, Felicia, at her side. Newly Released Books 2011-04-20T22:05:44Z

Fleeing isn’t really an option for the narrator—he could run from the man, but he can’t run from himself. Douglas Stuart on Growing Up Queer Before the Internet 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

The following month, he performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Bernstein's Candide, alongside the actor Bradley Cooper, who was a narrator in the production. Timothy McDevitt, Cameron Bartell 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z

Indeed, there’s so much panting adventure in Eli’s tale of life among and after the Comanches that it’s hard to imagine at first how the two other narrators could possibly compete. ‘The Son’: the brutal march of time on the plains of Texas 2013-06-06T20:37:35Z

The narrator of “Pond” is not insane, it’s important to note. Fiction That Will Make You Feel Pleasantly Insane 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

The narrator's religious faith was much discussed, either with puzzlement or identification. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 2012-05-18T21:55:12Z

The title character is a friend of the narrator’s who, in the 1950s, came down with a mysterious, debilitating rash. Theater Review: John Guare’s ‘3 Kinds of Exile,’ at Atlantic Theater Company 2013-06-12T02:00:12Z

She’s a funny, smart, compassionate narrator, and I’m not surprised that she has a lot of friends. Gen X Women: More Opportunities, Less Satisfaction? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

In one of the play’s typically abrupt descents from the mundane — the subject is salad dressing — to the penetrating, the narrator interrupts his churning thoughts to address us directly. Theater Review: ?Title and Deed,? by Will Eno, With Conor Lovett 2012-05-21T02:00:00Z

Still, most of the citizens seem to agree with our narrator, who maintains, “I’d rather eat unhealthy meat than healthy turnips.” Books of The Times: ‘Pow!’ by Mo Yan 2013-01-01T15:23:25Z

West not only captures this estrangement for the narrator’s middle-aged father, but for the narrator himself — alienated before he’s even 21. Unhappy Families Abound in These New Books About Fathers and Sons 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

The narrator of “Shackled and Drawn,” one of the album’s best songs, is far more assertive and direct. Born in the U.S.A.: When the president met the Boss 2012-05-28T18:00:00Z

The other narrators — all were selected to represent the city’s diversity — deliver segments with titles like “Incline,” “Light” and “Scale.” The Guggenheim Is Proving That Museums Aren’t Just to Be Seen 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

It's a cacophony of local voices, recorded in situ, and led by narrator Frank Burnett, whose commanding voice is a cross between the mayor and Will Self. Radio review: Hackney Podcast 2011-07-26T19:29:01Z

Lisbon's narrator has found a modicum of peace, although he's still searching for a song to "slow down all the madness" and wondering why his friends are drunk and lonely. The Walkmen: 'We're not difficult, honest' 2011-01-13T22:45:01Z

Anthropomorphism is in full flower, as when a Ford narrator looks longingly at the Mustang Shelby GT350, “this special guy next to me.” Lust and torque at the auto show 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

The narrator, Beth Marriot, is a volunteer at the Dasgupta Institute, a Buddhist retreat outside London which bans smoking, drinking, and contact between men and women. The Server by Tim Parks ? review 2012-05-18T21:51:01Z

The first section of the book leans heavily on the hackneyed ploy of the child narrator, whose unconsciously ironic observations are apparent to the reader. Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘Bream Gives Me Hiccups’ is no masterpiece 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

In the same way, her narrator, Beth, settles into their new apartment off Dupont Circle and tries to enjoy herself, but their new acquaintances don’t make it easy. ‘The Hopefuls’ captures everything we love to hate about Washington 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

I probably read it four years later, and it made a big impression on me, especially the character of the son, Charlie, who is the narrator and the P.O.V. Paul and Justin Theroux on Eccentric Patriarchs and ‘The Mosquito Coast’ 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

In this tale, the narrator is a young University of Virginia student. Review | Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s ‘My Monticello’ explores America’s racist past — and present — with grace 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

The narrator identifies numerous discrepancies in Dickens’s various statements about the evolution of “Pickwick” to argue that Seymour had a greater impact on the finished project than Dickens wished to acknowledge. ‘Death and Mr. Pickwick’ asks if Dickens stole his famous first novel 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Fountain, who produces a fiction podcast with a narrator who solves mysteries involving food, still regularly cooks Mr. Kerr’s jambalaya. A Slower Pace for TV’s ‘Galloping Gourmet’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

The glory is in the resonant chords and proud chorus, not whatever happens between the narrator and his partner; the sound suggests the most promising outcome. Tom Verlaine’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

The narrator was the first speaker of its assembly, and at the time of writing is the country's president. David Lodge: rereading Anthony Trollope 2012-12-14T22:55:04Z

The narrator’s infidelity raises the story’s central questions: Will she leave her affable husband and little son? Motherhood Meets Lust and Violence in Ariana Harwicz’s “Die, My Love” 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

“You can’t find another sound with so many good meanings,” the narrator of the first story in Ye’s collection says of her daughter’s name. Love’s Perils, Trauma’s Wounds: New Story Collections 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

“History may appear to repeat itself for generations,” the narrator says. The Sensational Idiocy of Donald Trump’s Propaganda Video for Kim Jong Un 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

Over the first two installments, titled "act i: VISION" and "act ii: PURPOSE," Coodie establishes himself as the mostly unseen narrator invited by the rapper to bear witness to his journey. If "Jeen-Yus" is in the eye of the beholder, this film doesn't adequately explain Kanye West's 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

While the sentences “I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus” might shock some readers, Kidd uses her unexpected narrator to reveal new perspectives on an endlessly parsed era. Ten books to read in April 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

He also serves as the film’s occasional narrator. Review: ‘Ben-Hur’ Is a Savage Update for a New Generation 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Ocean has honed his cinematic eye for story here, telling complex, visual tales through a variety of narrators. Best albums of 2012, No 1: Frank Ocean – Channel Orange 2012-12-14T00:00:00Z

Except for these passages, everything we’ll learn about him arrives obliquely and in fragments, stories told to that invisible narrator by seven invented characters. The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With Others 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

His presence as narrator adds appealing perspective and gravitas to the podcast, which begins with the story of the Clash’s origins, in a West London riot in 1976. Three Podcasts to Listen to in March 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

In conventional terms, the plot of this Mexican novel — Lozano’s first to be translated into English — is simply that the unnamed narrator is waiting for her boyfriend to return from a trip abroad. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

The narrator once cleaned for a living, and her meditations on the subject are unforgettable. Review | ‘Brood,’ a quiet meditation on the small stuff, makes for a perfect pandemic read 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

Dantine has gone from narrator to bit player; the tension between him and Disney, Old World and New, has vanished without being replaced by another drama. Music Review: ‘The Perfect American,’ by Philip Glass, at Teatro Real 2013-02-01T16:17:23Z

The narrator’s thoughts about having children undergirds the story, but the novel is also concerned with the nature of grief, selfhood and memory. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Sight’ Balances Grief, Freud and Parenthood 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z

Not an unreliable narrator then, since she freely confesses to us, but not a clearly likable one either. From Marguerite Duras, an Uncovered Tale of Young Womanhood 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z

They say books instill empathy, but it can be just as exhilarating to read a novel in which the narrator doesn’t have any. Why Can’t Women Be Serial Killers, Too? 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

LAGOS, Nigeria — The chaos of Nigeria's largest city of Lagos gets boiled down to prose as a narrator notes "how unpretty" its sprawl looks, with "its unplanned houses sprouting like weeds." Nigerian authors look West to gain their fame 2012-01-26T11:21:09Z

I often wonder if it’s the reader who is unreliable rather than the narrator. Charlie Kaufman Is Sorry, He’s a Bit Distracted 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

True, Conrad’s narrator, a yarn spinner not an activist, does little more than bear witness, but he sees clearly. Letters to the Editor 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

We initially think that this is going to be the narrator’s story, but once she and Agnes start talking, it becomes clear that this is Agnes’s. Ayşegül Savaş on Imitation and Identity 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z

Two sections end with the narrator fainting dead away. The 19th-century best-selling horror novel that isn’t ‘Dracula’ 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

As Gravenhurst – an ex-clubber himself – explains, Love & Devotion explores "the fragility of memory … the idea of the unreliable narrator, and how we so often fill in the blanks and idealise the past." New band of the day: Heterotic (No 1,443) 2013-01-31T16:58:09Z

The subliminal disjointedness suits the narrator’s view of a disconnected world. Review: Streaming Consciousness Floods ‘A School for Fools’ 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

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

Bentley and Fisher play it straight but reality shows are ripe for understated sarcasm, persuading sofa cynics that the narrator is on our side. TV voiceovers 2010-03-25T15:43:00Z

Banished from her native Iran, the narrator of Djavadi’s remarkable novel builds a life in France by recalling family stories. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

“Barton Hollow,” the album’s title track, tells a tale of sin and thwarted redemption in a town just west of Florence: “It’s not Alabama clay / That gives my trembling hands away,” the guilt-wracked narrator sings. The New Sound of Muscle Shoals 2012-12-25T13:20:15.353Z

As a narrator, he lacks the necessary vocabulary to describe this unknown civilization, opting for a perspective of bewilderment. Read Your Way Through Mexico City 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

Fitzgerald's best narrators always seem to be partaking of the festivities even as they shiver outside with their noses pressed up against the glass. Why Gatsby is so great 2012-06-09T23:05:21Z

Despite taking place in different worlds, both books feature narrators whose lives are shaped by words. Optimism Rears Its Sunny Head on the Best-Seller List 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

The narrator of April Smith’s angry waltz, “Stop Wondering,” sarcastically tells an ex, “If you ever wonder if I’m thinking of you/Well, I’m not, so stop wondering.” Kate Baldwin Shows Her Range at 54 Below 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

The first questioner of the evening in fact went to the heart of the matter by asking why Townsend had made her narrator male. Book club, week three: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13? 2011-01-01T00:05:27Z

Her narrator is Clare, a middle-aged academic speaking in the present tense. 2010-01-12T06:57:00Z

The narrator tracks Feldman to a halfway house where he is allegedly living in the fog of dementia. Review | An obsessed woman hits the road with the man who may have killed her sister 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Here, though, “Rude” felt dinky, lacking not muscle but propulsion; it just kind of lay there, accepting defeat even as the song’s narrator fights it. Magic! pulls out all its tricks at El Rey Theatre 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

The narrator knows that the internet is no place for bereavement; here, there are only drive-by mourners, rubberneckers gawking at the pain of others. Patricia Lockwood’s First Novel Reaches for the Sublime, Online and Off 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

As a memory play framed by the lyrical recollections of the narrator, Tom, a stand-in for the young Williams, “The Glass Menagerie” is particularly susceptible to productions that shroud it in a mist of elegy. Theater Review: Judith Ivey Brings Grit to a Tennessee Williams Jewel 2010-03-25T02:29:00Z

In the first, “Afterimage,” the narrator searches for the truth about a Magnum photographer named Jansen who pulls a slow fade from his own existence, like a Polaroid left in the sun. ‘Suspended Sentences,’ Novellas by Patrick Modiano 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

It frames the action through a shifting set of 15 different narrators and the shortest of the book's 59 chapters contains just five words: "My mother is a fish." James Franco to direct William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy adaptations 2011-01-04T13:05:43Z

The narrator, meanwhile, sustains the illusion of his own affection and beneficence, in essence paying for the privilege of being an American savior, wavering between the thrill of passion and the “acidic sense of entrapment.” ‘What Belongs to You’ review: An eloquent tale of desire and remorse 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

On “Winter,” she employs fairy tale-esque imagery and several benevolent narrators to function as her conscience. “Because it’s fear, after all, that kills us”: Tori Amos released “Little Earthquakes” 25 years ago today 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

The narrator is attending a fiction workshop, which brings together American and Bulgarian writers. Garth Greenwell on Transitional Spaces and the Burden of Action 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Crowell largely hangs back as the narrator of his parents’ story, yet not too far back. The Texas Tribune: Rodney Crowell?s Audacity of Spirit 2011-02-06T08:00:04Z

The narrator is often an unquiet man entertaining night thoughts. Rickie Lee Jones and James Taylor 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Mr Madden is also a skilled narrator, negotiating the twists and turns in the city’s destiny without getting hopelessly mired in detail. New histories of Istanbul 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Throughout All Made Up the narrator seems able to recall screeds of dialogue between mother and daughters. All Made Up by Janice Galloway ? review 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z

It’s an adult narrator who’s pointing out ironies and abuses more from an adult critique standpoint, in a good-natured way. Q&A: Richard Linklater on time, nostalgia & ‘Apollo 10 1/2’ 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

Dracula too is told by many narrators, each given only a partial view of events. Frankenstein or Dracula? A mix-up that may have done pupils a favour 2013-06-01T10:30:01Z

Women exist as accessories, the world seems to be universally white and Johnson’s narrators seem uncomfortable with anything that isn’t heteronormative. Denis Johnson' posthumous collection 'The Largesse of the Sea Maiden' is a poetic argument against toxic masculinity 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Fans of “My Struggle” will find some finely articulated passages in “Winter,” written by a gentler, more mildly tempered narrator than that of the longer books. Knausgaard’s Seasonal Book Series Continues With a Wintry Mix 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

In “The Sympathizer,” the narrator had gone undercover as a refugee in Southern California after the fall of Saigon. Viet Thanh Nguyen Packs Plenty of Action and Outrage Into ‘The Committed’ 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

The narrator herself sweeps, tidies and paints disordered rooms, through the wall, only to find them reduced again to chaos in her absence. Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes 2012-07-05T08:22:05Z

Recognition of how unreliable a narrator he has been comes with the revelation of central truths. Life! Death! Prizes! by Stephen May ? review 2012-05-18T21:55:02Z

The narrator, also named Michael Hastings, is just out of college but senses that his skill set is dead on arrival, as if he were a blacksmith or “a poet in 1991.” ‘The Last Magazine,’ Michael Hastings’s Posthumous Novel 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

As the narrator, annoyed that American soldiers and politicians have monopolized the story of the Vietnam War, explains, “this was the first war where the losers would write history instead of the victors.” 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

Principal among them is Matt Santos, a C-list actor and the novel’s narrator, who is more focused on telling his story than his acting. A Father-Son Novel Served With a Twist 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

The movie takes its tone from Ms. McIver, who is a wry, frank narrator with a comedian’s timing. At Home With Beverly McIver: At Home With the Artist Beverly McIver 2012-02-08T23:47:19Z

The narrator is dubbed “the new girl,” and for more than half the novel, her background and name fail to exist, reflective of her lowly status as a mere squib in the organization. ‘Sweetbitter’: Stephanie Danler’s delicious debut novel 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

Bucky is referred to here as "Mr Cantor", indicating that the otherwise non-childlike narrator, who doesn't show his face until later on, is remembering him partly from a child's point of view. Nemesis by Philip Roth 2010-10-02T09:03:00Z

“The old guys are me now, is the horror,” his narrator writes. Barry Hannah, Darkly Comic Writer, Dies at 67 2010-03-03T16:39:00Z

“The disappearances are beyond our control,” a character says to the narrator. Review | In ‘The Memory Police,’ an authoritarian government tries to erase the past 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Throughout the story, the narrator’s asides tell the reader about events that happen just beyond the scope of Harper’s knowledge. 'The Fireman' may be the best apocalyptic read of the year, if you can stand the heat 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

The strength of this slim book is the vibrant, heartbreaking character Mr Greenwell creates in Mitko: object of the unnamed narrator’s desire, fear, obsession and, ultimately, pity. Come as you are 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

The essentials: More than two dozen performers play characters, narrators and props in this imaginatively bare-bones production, notable for its scrupulous fidelity to Dickens’ text. The 99-Seat Beat: A theater in fire-scarred Ventura makes its holiday wish 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

There are multiple narrators and dozens of characters. Review: ‘The American People, Volume 1’ by Larry Kramer Retells History With Passion 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

In a moment, the narrator’s magnanimity curdles into resentment. Review | In ‘Cleanness,’ Garth Greenwell explores the mysteries of love and pleasure 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

Saatchi, the ultimate arbiter, never appears onscreen, except as a still photograph in the opening credits, as the narrator pronounces him "one of the most influential and enigmatic figures in the world of modern art." 2009-12-03T23:00:00Z

And I particularly enjoy that the narrator is oblivious to who is Ron Howard. Ron Howard Talks the Arrested Development Reunion 2013-05-21T18:03:14Z

Women exist as accessories, the world seems to be universally white and Johnson’s narrators seem uncomfortable with anything that isn’t heteronormative,” she writes in our review. Books: An editor with a vision, the late Denis Johnson and more book news 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

“How to Behave in a Crowd,” Bordas’s third novel and her first written in English, joins the league of novels about adolescence persuasively told by adolescent narrators. A Trove of Continental Fiction Explores Loss 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

Her narrators don’t spare anyone who wrongs them; they don’t forgive their own failings either. Jazmine Sullivan Ponders Love and Materialism on ‘Heaux Tales’ 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

The narrator, being watched, in turn watches you. A case of shifting identities in Vendela Vida’s twisty new novel 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

Strasberg suggests waiting seven years, but "Strasberg was wrong," Antrim's narrator, a fortysomething drama professor at a small liberal arts college, informs us. Donald Antrim's new story collection goes in unexpected directions 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Despite his extraordinary skill as a modern-day social critic, Coates never intrudes on the stately, slightly antique voice of his narrator. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z