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

Ironically, the greatest triumph for both protagonists was the time they were forced to cooperate during the goblin insurgence. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Downtrodden Americans gravitated strongly toward the Horatio Alger protagonist, the lowly bred Everyman who rises from anonymity and hopelessness. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wilkerson begins the paragraph by stating that the actions of her protagonists are universal, but she does not rest with that generalization. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Jane, your films were about sticking it to the man, snapping back at the patriarchy by showing strong female protagonists who didn’t conform to gender roles. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

On the TV, Halliday guides his square protagonist into the game’s secret room, where the words created by warren robinett appear in the center of the screen. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He liked that there was a new protagonist in the same world and that the previous protagonist was now the antagonist. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Not even the chronology is described in conventional language: the century is an aging person, a contemporary of the story’s protagonists. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

These brief vignettes were told from the point of view of 2112's anonymous protagonist. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As the play’s protagonist concedes, the pupils of Unjust Discourse are the occupants of all the positions of power and eminence in the city. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I wrapped my right hand around the joystick and began to play, guiding my pizza-shaped protagonist through one maze after another. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Helen, once a peripheral figure in these discussions, became the epicenter, instigator, and protagonist. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first he could get nowhere, in rooms where the proprietress would enter during the best moments of love and make all sorts of comments about the intimate charms of the protagonists. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Well, that, and also because it was completely awesome, with an old-school teenage computer hacker as the protagonist. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I think my students will be able to identify with the teen protagonists in all of the books I’ve selected. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s worth looking at a couple of tricks that allow O’Connor to keep this unblinking focus on his protagonists. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was already possible to look back over the Scientific Revolution, to identify its leading protagonists and sketch out its main characteristics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She reads all the time—in the halls, in the cafeteria— mostly novels with angsty protagonists: The Virgin Suicides, Catcher in the Rye, The Bell Jar. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t An Imperial Affliction, but the protagonist, Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem, was vaguely likable despite killing, by my count, no fewer than 118 individuals in 284 pages. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It’s a beautiful dream, like the end of an American movie, where the protagonist and his girl drive off into the rest of the world. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

All eyes are on an agent: a protagonist, a mover and shaker, a driving force. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In The Stranger the protagonist, Mersault, has a chance meeting with an Arab, a stranger, that results in Mersault’s killing the man. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The novel’s protagonist, a microbiologist and epidemiologist named Henry Parsons, is on the front lines of trying to slow the virus’s spread and engineer a vaccine as the pandemic cripples countries around the world. Pandemics in the Pages of ‘The Stand,’ ‘Severance’ and More 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Unlike the female protagonists in “Insurrections,” the women in this book are primarily sirens, seducing the men of Cross River either to self-discovery or to their drowning deaths. First He Imagined a Town Founded by Rebel Slaves. Now He’s Exploring the Lives There. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

When Tom swaps Rachel for Anna as queen of Westchester, siring infant Evie but a year later, such rancor becomes even more understandable given the protagonist’s battle with infertility. Rise of the sane and angry woman: “Girl on the Train” is the 2016 rejoinder to “Fatal Attraction” 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

The unnamed black protagonist of the novel, set between the South in the nineteen-twenties and Harlem in the nineteen-thirties, wrestles with the cognitive dissonance of opportunity served up alongside indignity. Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” as a Parable of Our Time 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

Time and again we exonerated the ruthless protagonist Vic Mackey on the basis of his charm and occasional displays of largess. Television Review: Stirring Chicago?s Corruption Stockpot 2011-02-06T20:30:11Z

They’re shows premised on sex that include barely any talk of it, as if its protagonists, once they become parents, don’t crave the thing that got them there. ‘Virgin Territory,’ About Celibate Youth, Debuts on MTV 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

Johnson’s narrator and protagonist is Warren Duffy, the offspring of an Irish American father and an African American mother. Book Review: A gently funny exploration of biracial identity 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

She feels for her protagonist without apologizing for her flaws, granting the complexity of this woman and her situation — a refreshing counter to the sinner/saint split of too many cinematic mothers. Offbeat Streaming: ‘Knock Knock,’ ‘John Lewis’ and ‘Sleight’ 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

And he totally gets that, but it’s all superseded by the fact that he’s the protagonist in question, and he can never be all things to all people because his own story is so specific. For Joel Kim Booster, Making ‘Fire Island’ Was a Real Trip 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

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

But House of Cards author Lord Dobbs claimed that it was the responsibility of political dramas to "portray the darker side" of its protagonists. AUDIO: TV politicians 'add to cynicism' 2014-04-10T14:33:34Z

Things start to go awry when other people come sniffing around the protagonists’ houses. Two Novels on the Complexities of Revisiting Past Loves 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

The ease with which the protagonist accepted his unexplained blindness seemed utterly unrealistic, and I was bored by his tangles with authority and red tape. Taking another look at James Kelman 2010-09-21T08:34:00Z

There are no storybook perfect endings here, but this compelling novel raises the possibility of a hopeful way forward for the protagonists. Three stories of loss and love with Northwest roots 2012-02-22T22:02:03Z

This short novel’s protagonist is a little girl named Mary who lives in a poorly governed city filled with elegant possibilities: “interesting songs and stories, foods and clothes and conversations.” A Parable About Good, Evil and the Inevitable 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

The latest installment in the mega-popular “Wimpy Kid” series sees protagonist Greg and his family off to a tropical island for a vacation. Fantastic books for the teens, toddlers and kids in between on your list 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Walker plays the role of nice-guy outsider protagonist, which means everyone else gets to have fun. Every 'Fast & Furious' Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

The protagonist of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” pauses for a minute to take in the peace of a sylvan snowfall before continuing a journey of “miles to go before I sleep.” Perspective | Climate change has altered the winter season and the gardener’s sense of it 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

Tender and outlandishly amusing at its best, "Up Here" is a work in progress that, like its protagonist, shouldn't be dismissed because of a mixed first impression. 'Frozen' team premieres 'Up Here,' a quirky, pleasing, undercooked musical 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

In the story “The Parable of Goats,” the protagonist is Second Lt. The Echoes and Echoes and Echoes of War 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

What sustains the film through the rockier times are its challenging themes, offering real issues for the young protagonists to wrestle with, rather than whether anyone will be carded trying to buy beer. 'The Fault in Our Stars' elevates sad story by cutting the sap 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

I ran to the door like a rom-com protagonist, stopping to blow a kiss at my hacking child before blasting to the drugstore to clean out the child medicine aisle. Ginger ale cured every sickness when I was a kid, or so I thought — but why? 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

All three make the still-revolutionary point that such a person is just as entitled to be the protagonist of her own story as generations of reckless and self-destructive men have been. Bad girls, big trouble: The self-destructive young woman as feminist archetype 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Eliot, the other protagonist in the modernist revolution, “was for the first time in my knowledge, rapt, enthusiastic,” on reading “Ulysses.” The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

The protagonist searches for something in a dark, dank corridor. Review: In ‘The Nun,’ a Franchise Resumes Its Scary Habits 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

While Sweeney is the man with a plan for revenge, Mr.s Lovett, his accomplice and business partner, is every inch the protagonist along with him. Here’s to the ladies who lunch: One of Sondheim’s greatest achievements was writing complex women 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

The way he makes the orchestra the chief protagonist of the drama inspired me, and it's just so visceral. Brett Dean on the trials of getting his opera Bliss on to the stage 2010-08-29T21:00:00Z

It’s tempting to compare him to the protagonist of “A New Novel,” a character named B., who, though he engages in a lot of rough sex, is mostly lonely and lovelorn. ‘A New Novel,’ an Art Show and Book by Bjarne Melgaard 2012-12-26T20:59:12Z

Her first novel, "Disgruntled," is a fitting follow-up — a smart, philosophical coming-of-age tale featuring a vivid protagonist who battles "the shame of being alive." Coming of age with Asali Solomon's 'Disgruntled' 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

A life-size poster of this conflicted protagonist looms on a conference room wall at Ubisoft. Delay Tests Video Game Developer 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

Greenwell’s book is a sort of wistful paean to the place where his protagonist lived in uneasy exile, or learned to grow up, or both. In a Dying Country, Garth Greenwell’s Narrator Comes Alive 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

The study found that in films with at least one woman director and/or writer, females comprised 58% of protagonists, as opposed to 30% of protagonists for films with only male writers and/or director. Record high in Hollywood films with female lead characters 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

It’s because you are in a healthy relationship with a person you met through said friend, as if you’re the charmed, clumsy protagonist in a romantic comedy. I Quit Dating Apps. Five Times. 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

The narratives differ in tone, setting and style, but their protagonists share a longing for truth and stability in turbulent homes where secrets and lies abound. Two Novels, United by Troubled Daughters of Damaged Fathers 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

One fundamental difficulty with hitwoman movies is that the film-maker would like audiences to empathise, if not sympathise, with protagonists who are not just merciless killers, but mythical creatures. Assassins in stockings and stilettos: is it time movies killed off hitwoman cliches? 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z

Simon, a recovering gambling addict with an ailing wife, is a sympathetic secondary protagonist. Revenge and corruption plays a part in Jo Nesbo's thriller 'The Son' 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Instead, the protagonist utters something you would never expect to hear from Saul Goodman in a courtroom — the truth — and blows up his plea deal. ‘Saul’ Great, Man 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

She added that she and Ms. Heller were also careful to avoid a third type, “the snarky, witty, precocious one,” like the hyperverbal protagonist of “Juno.” Breakthrough Performances of the Summer Movies Season 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

Vasquez's scratchy, yowling voice seamlessly suits the drifter protagonists and hardscrabble realities in the ensemble's tunes. Lollapalooza Day 2: Chief Keef, Frank Ocean, Chili Peppers and an evacuation 2012-08-05T07:02:00Z

But unlike either, he also places his protagonists squarely in a real world that’s not always welcoming. Salman Toor, a Painter at Home in Two Worlds 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

Davies said he had Alexander in his head when he started writing Ritchie Tozer, his chief protagonist, who is an aspiring actor. ‘It’s a Sin’: Sex, Adventure and Loss in 1980s London 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

This all brings us back to what a terrific protagonist the film has in Landis: beguilingly weird, oddly charming, with his own sense of logic.  'Art and Craft': The life and times of Mark Landis, devoted forger 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

His colleague refers to both the “Impossible Conversations” in Vanity Fair in the 1930s and to a magazine page featuring Stalin and Schiap as unlikely protagonists. Dream Dialogue Between Schiaparelli and Prada 2012-05-07T11:30:28Z

The outsider hero, alone and misunderstood, has become an even bigger cliché in American movies than the old-fashioned nonneurotic protagonist was once upon a studio time. ‘ParaNorman,’ About a Boy and Zombies, With Elaine Stritch 2012-08-16T21:44:18Z

Kelly makes for a unique protagonist in the story. ‘Bombshell’ almost died; How Charlize Theron helped saved it 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

It’s hard to root for a protagonist who is focused only on his own narrow needs and seems indifferent to the broader issues his tale raises. Review: Is the Girls’ Volleyball Team Ready for ‘Miles’? 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Told from the perspective of a rat, the protagonist embarks on a journey across the sea and grapples with its dreams, destiny, and hunger. In Japan, His Disaster Art Saves Lives 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

Your protagonist, Ranger Darren Mathews appears to wrestle at every moment with the legacy of Southern history in all its ugliness and triumphs. Attica Locke lives in L.A., but she writes about what she knows — black life in Texas 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

“A Scandal in Paris” and “Lured” both feature protagonists who cross over from a particular unsavory milieu to become respectable enforcers of the law. ‘Lured’ and ‘A Scandal in Paris’: Douglas Sirk’s Costume Capers 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

I also really like K, protagonist of Kafka's The Castle. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak: Part Two 2013-05-15T10:31:24Z

Page — who was just 20 at the time — made history for debut in Jason Reitman's coming-of-age abortion drama, for which he earned an Oscar nomination for his performance as the film's titular protagonist Juno MacGuff. Elliot Page said “Juno” red carpet appearance almost killed him before coming out as transgender 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Usually, the protagonist is coming up against a moment where they’re invited to take on an act of violence, or to resist or to try and avoid it in some other way. Meet Chanelle Benz, whose debut book is 'The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead' 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Sure, the synopsis that is handed to audience members as they enter has similarities to the story of “Woyzeck,” including a blue-collar protagonist who descends into madness. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable’ in London 2013-07-23T21:05:32Z

This describes not a few difficult modern dramedy protagonists, human and otherwise. ‘M*A*S*H’ at 50: War Is Hell(arious) 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

Their pachydermous protagonist governs a benevolent plutocracy – but the books' great joy is the frequent sly and subtle lampooning of his capitalist pomp. JP Martin's elephant Uncle unforgotten in fan's republishing plan 2013-03-27T17:06:55Z

Throughout the book, Koch plays with narrative authority, switching from first to third person, from sections in which M appears to be the protagonist to others in which the stalker takes the lead. Someone is stalking a famous novelist in Herman Koch’s ‘Dear Mr. M’ 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

“The Mare” is not a colossal epic of our era; its vision is precise; its protagonists — all female — are socially invisible. Mary Gaitskill’s ‘The Mare’: A bracing, tender take on motherhood and guilt 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Related: Star Wars new female character 'extremely significant', says producer Completing the trio of key protagonists is Adam Driver’s villainous Kylo Ren, the supposed primary evildoer of The Force Awakens. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – new trailer features Rey, Finn and Kylo Ren 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

It is to deny her narrators a selfhood independent of society, and to deny Tsushima the freedom, as a writer, not to be conflated with her protagonists. The Overlooked Autofiction of Yuko Tsushima 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

The book’s female protagonists create their own counterparts, as projections and helpmeets. In Mark Haddon’s “The Porpoise,” Storytelling Is an Instrument of Violence and Solace 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

“I wasn’t ever afraid for the objects I made to be the protagonists,” she said. Es Devlin’s Next Stage 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

Candace, the protagonist of Ling Ma’s debut novel, “Severance,” is frequently enraptured while observing the routines of those around her. The End Is Near in Two Dystopian Debut Novels 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

There, too, the scenario forces the protagonist upwards in a straining gesture towards human triumph over an anti-human enemy: these are climbs towards transcendence. In "Blade Runner," who are the androids and what do they dream of? 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

Fleabag circled the protagonist’s guilt at betraying her closest friend. Sequins, eyeliner and loos: how female friendships on screen got real 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

Fulfilling that mission here means digging into what Captain America and all superpowered protagonists stand for, and how aspirational symbols can become dangerous idols. The forging of a Black Captain America by battling supremacy in "Falcon and the Winter Soldier" 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z

Divine Garland plays the excitable demigod with boyish charm and touches of the same brand of arrogance the Greeks loved to grant their mighty male protagonists. ‘Live From Mount Olympus’ Review: Oh My Godsss, Who Am I? 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

While not mythologizing JFK and Jackie as "Nixon in China" does its protagonists, the new opera begins in the world of mythology. 'JFK' is a surreal spin on president's last night in Texas 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

But when its young protagonist, Sammy Fabelman, moves to California in the 1960s, he’s confronted with Aryan boys who mock his religion and with gentile girls intrigued by it. When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

But in a way, the show’s fractured narrative reflects the many ways the world sees its protagonist. The Fashion Closet, Seen From Inside and Out 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

He has also self-consciously made a film focused on the struggles of women; his previous three features, including the 2011 “Shame,” about sex addiction, have all featured tormented or self-tormented male protagonists. Steve McQueen on “Widows”: “It is an emotional awakening for these women” 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

"Haunting, sensitive production that meshes the protagonist's acoustic compositions with sombre, intense beats" – soulculture.co.uk. New band of the day ? No 1004: Ed Sheeran 2011-04-13T16:35:14Z

He said last year he did not contact De Havilland, who was a close friend of Davis and is Feud’s only living protagonist, in order not to “intrude”. Olivia de Havilland, 101, on suing Feud: TV show 'put false words in my mouth' 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

In “Better Call Saul,” the protagonist is just as much of an enigma to us as anyone else in the story. “Better Call Saul”: Season 1 ends with Jimmy’s better nature slipping away 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

The protagonist of the main story is Harriet Guest, the motherless, Shakespeare-quoting daughter of a scientist who likes to fool around in the lab herself, setting off explosions with phosphorus. Books of The Times: Stella Tillyard?s ?Tides of War,? Napoleonic Novel - Review 2011-12-21T21:56:44Z

The song sets the mood as the three protagonists are introduced and defined by the issues — and men — that they will overcome over the course of this briskly entertaining film. Haddish, McCarthy and Moss take charge in "The Kitchen," which gleams through the grit 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

One set of pins, for example, mirrors a scene in Tomboy with the young protagonist’s first kiss, with folds in the presenting card enabling the characters’ eyes to be covered. #MeToo and pin badges: how Tomboy beat the odds at South Korea's box office 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

Yet even without good prose or a thrilling plot, "Midnight Sun" manages to be a fun read, with a likable protagonist and a brisk, page-turning pace. 'Midnight Sun' is a softer, gentler Jo Nesbø - as far as that goes 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

Instead, the finishing line for their female protagonists is independence and a sense of identity from work. Sequins, eyeliner and loos: how female friendships on screen got real 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

Filming in a series of lateral tracking shots as eerily obsessive as the mind of his protagonist, Toyoda has fashioned a reptile-cool Taxi Driver for his own country and our time. New York Asian Film Festival: A Scalding Wind from the East 2012-07-06T23:42:38Z

But “Still Alice” remains in the mind of the sufferer, and so Genova must, when her protagonist reaches the advanced stages of the disease, leave the knowable behind. A Place Beyond Words: The Literature of Alzheimer’s 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

In “American Beauty,” he famously showed the middle-aged male protagonist’s sexual fantasy of a naked teen-age girl being covered in a sprinkling of rose petals. The Beauty of Sam Mendes’s “1917” Comes at a Cost 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Selin is amazingly passive and almost seems miscast in her own life as protagonist. An Unassuming Heroine Envies Her Harvard Classmates the Confidence of Their Convictions 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

Despite the displacement and disconnect endured by a delightfully complex protagonist whose anxiety-induced bons mots would surely kill on Twitter, the novel tugs at your heartstrings. She Is a Rock; She Is an Island 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

And structurally, the detective is never the protagonist, so that means these movies are always going to need somebody different at the heart of the story that the audience cares about. Can Movie Theaters and Netflix Coexist? Rian Johnson Makes His Case. 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

Her Amanda is the protagonist of “The Pretty Trap,” Williams’s slight but intriguing one-act precursor, which is being given its New York premiere by Cause Célèbre at the Acorn Theater. | 'The Pretty Trap': A Mother?s Familiar Optimism, Without the Familiar Letdown 2011-08-05T22:55:29Z

Halfway through Barry Jenkins’s heartrending film “Moonlight,” the young protagonist, Chiron, is asked by his mother, an addict, for money to fuel her drug habit. Life in the Black Miami of “Moonlight” 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

It’s perhaps the collection’s only hollow moment, acting more as an authorial indictment of New York City than an exploration of its protagonist’s personal trauma. What’s Wrong With Men in America? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Simsion’s unlikely hero, Don Tillman, reminded me of the comic charms of two other protagonists whose insistent voices slip easily into the reader’s consciousness. Dear Match Book: Funny Pages 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

It’s remarkable that the protagonists of the film — so clearly just lost kids being kids — are the same ones who are confidently, imaginatively creating it. ‘Therapy Dogs’ Review: It’s Time to Be Real 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z

When The Comeback was first on, it seemed cruel to its protagonist, so vain about her elaborate red hairdo and her dreams of stardom; now, it just seems prophetic. Don't Call Lisa Kudrow "Brave" 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Limitations that continue to box in Black performers to supporting characters to white protagonists. The missed opportunity of an all-Black women "American Horror Story" season 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z

The protagonist of “The Gift” is a woman named Barbara who has in common with Browning her job, hobbies, habits, friends, and university-subsidized apartment. The Inappropriately Intimate Exchanges of Barbara Browning 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

This gives the show a new life, appropriate to its protagonist's addiction to rebirth. "You" star Penn Badgley thinks his killer Joe has "too many sides .. and he needs to die" 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z

Ms. Mattila will no doubt wield her lustrous voice and dramatic gifts vividly to illuminate the rage and anguish of the protagonist, abandoned by her lover. The Week Ahead: Jan. 23 ? 29 2011-01-21T16:42:50Z

His novel contains what I believe are the three essential ingredients of the genre: a brave and curious protagonist, a big-idea catastrophe, and meticulously convincing rendering of the practical details of everyday life. Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes 2012-07-05T08:22:05Z

Vivian Qu’s “Trap Street,” set in an appropriately generic Chinese city, opens unpromisingly with lurching tone and broad acting, but flips midway when its protagonist accidentally stumbles on a secret government facility. Critic’s Notebook: New Directors/New Films Highlights Include ‘Fish & Cat’ 2014-03-24T22:13:52Z

"Brave," Pixar's first film with a female protagonist, didn't garner the kind of critical or popular support that movies like "WALL-E" and "Up" did. Pixar's 'Brave' wins Oscar for best animated film 2013-02-25T02:02:12Z

Here we have an unnamed protagonist who herself comes off as rather ghoulish, lamenting the fact that she supposedly lives in a haunted house but has yet to see an actual ghost. Fright Lite 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

He realized the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Modernism and the Cold War — with its rugged individualist heroes from Ayn Rand's protagonists to the Marlboro Man — had led Westerners to overemphasize the lone genius. Joshua Wolf Shenk argues for the dynamism of duos in 'Powers of Two' 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

A staging strong on the nature of communal violence ends awkwardly, and with little sense of suffocation when its protagonists are entombed alive. Aida - review 2011-03-13T14:55:38Z

In these works, which he liked to project onto large white balloons, Mr. Lutz acted the part of the protagonist, appearing as a miniature figure clad all in white, jerkily traversing terrestrial and cosmic spaces. Klaus Lutz: ‘Selected Stories’ 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Wolff is a media writer by trade and, like his protagonist, he repeatedly scorns the mainline press for what he suggests is its liberal bias. From ‘Fire and Fury’ to Political Firestorm 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

The film aims to be pulpy and provocative, teasing the idea that its lovesick protagonist turns homicidal with jealousy. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

“Last” and “Worst” are not judgmental about their characters: Sometimes our protagonists behave terribly, myopically, hurtfully, but they live with the consequences of these behaviors. What You Should Watch This Week if You’re Missing a Favorite Show 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

In choosing her protagonists as she has, Deer has made a canny portrait of Mohawk domestic life during a modern conflict. ‘Beans’ Review: Growing Up Fast in the ’90s 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Despite the self-promotional nature of this phenomenon, most of these workaday video protagonists claim altruistic reasons for putting their lives under the microscope. Keeping Up, on Camera, Is No Longer Just for the Kardashians 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

The effect is unexpected enough to startle anyone out of a political stupor, and serves to make the protagonist in question immediately identifiable and memorable. John Fetterman and the Remaking of Political Image 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

Do they identify, more than ever, with an awkward, unconfident female protagonist? Stephenie Meyer on Twilight, feminism and true love 2013-03-11T06:00:03Z

The story is light-hearted at first, but darkens once Juliet, the protagonist, visits Guernsey and realises the occupation has taken hold. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z

Certainly the priorities of the main protagonists have changed because they must. We can't say enough about "Stranger Things" season 3 — literally 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

Price’s synthesis is less successful, as at times the external world disappears into the textures of his protagonist’s consciousness. How a Dying Man Wrote a Timeless Novel 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

The protagonist Si’r, a bright, impulsive 14-year-old, is enrolled in a secondary school where the uniforms and regimentation provide an unforced parallel to military rule. On DVD: Rock ’n’ Roll High Schools in Taiwan and America 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

As he did most famously in “The Passion of the Christ,” he once again plunges a man of peace into a charnel house of cruelty, testing the fortitude of protagonist and audience alike. Review: ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Has Guts and Glory. But Where’s the Gun? 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

A typical Mary Higgins Clark protagonist was a self-possessed, professional woman whose life, through no fault of her own, was struck by evil. Mary Higgins Clark, best-selling author of suspenseful tales, dies at 92 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

The protagonist, Henry, was a grumpy, selfish narcissist, entirely disillusioned with his own life. No more Mr Nice Gay: how TV representation changed from Will & Grace to Empire 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

Early in the novel its three leading protagonists meet for a bittersweet dinner. Howard Jacobson: 'I've been discovered' 2010-10-13T17:14:00Z

Yet, despite the enduring legacy of testimony by black women, white women have often played the protagonists in the history of sexual violence, and black women have been relegated to the supporting cast. One Year of #MeToo: The Legacy of Black Women’s Testimonies 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

These female protagonists are looking for respect in ways that don’t necessarily fit with their lived experience. Florida Women Are No Joke. I Should Know. 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

But through Shin's understated performance and the movie's shifting perspectives, the protagonist grows increasingly sympathetic, his reactions more generous and selfless. "Cafe Noir" a Seoul-set elegy to lost romance 2010-07-06T23:39:00Z

The Hunger Games franchise is completely alone in the current film landscape with its powerful female protagonist. Beefcakes are the new cheesecakes 2013-12-22T20:00:00Z

For the most part, I’ve been a fan of the Avengers movies, especially the stand-alone films centering on individual protagonists. Perspective | What defines a ‘must-see’ movie? And does ‘Infinity War’ make the cut? 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Maybe it's information about the main antagonists that grants the protagonists hope, real or false, or sends them spiraling into despair. The Michael Cohen Show: Where GOP politicians angle to become Trump's new co-stars 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

They decided early on that Washington’s protagonist would be a different kind of spy than we’re used to seeing. John David Washington cements his stardom in ‘Tenet’ 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

Of this season’s desperate, dogged heroes, only the nameless protagonist of J.C. All Is Lost: Robert Redford’s See-Worthy Adventure 2013-10-17T03:30:42Z

The script finds just enough variations to Rob's recurring day, but the protagonist's descent from sweet everyguy to entitled creep makes for an ugly journey. 'Premature' thinks crudeness is a teen's path to success 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

He makes these movies look as if a guerrilla camera crew has somehow tagged along with a movie's protagonist to catch key moments in an unfolding story as it explodes in the character's face. Bourne again: "Green Zone" a remarkable movie 2010-03-05T06:26:00Z

Partly because we know so little of her back story, she comes across as an icon, and is the musician whom the film’s protagonist, the pianist Joe Gardner, most wants to play with and emulate. Why Is It So Hard to Show Black Women’s Musical Genius Onscreen? 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

Even Nye’s eerie and disquieting forays into genre, “The Sins of Man” and “The Good Shepherd,” are circumscribed by the protagonists’ mundane finances. What’s Wrong With Men in America? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Traynor said tourists would be descending on Dublin to follow in the footsteps of Joyce's most famous protagonist. Bloomsday fans celebrate as James Joyce scholars do battle 2012-06-16T10:02:08Z

Stephen, the protagonist of “The Long Room,” catches an unexpected view of himself in a mirror and sees “a bare, forked animal,” a startling and perfect fragment of defamiliarization plucked from Shakespeare. Six New Thrillers for Fall 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

On the other hand, if you’ve seen Sally Draper as the secret protagonist of Mad Men, “Person to Person” delivered. Recap: Mad Men Watch: Om Sweet Om 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

The teen protagonists are undeniably nice, likeable guys who try to do the right thing. Cobra Kai, Bill & Ted: comebacks redefine middle-aged masculinity, but where are the women? 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z

The lone protagonist also suffers from a drinking problem — sometimes mixing her daily beverages with an assortment of pills — and is demeaned by her neighbors who believe she's "bats**t crazy." For Kristen Bell it's always wine o'clock in new psychological thriller spoof "Woman in the House" 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

The protagonist crosses the border to get to the city to purchase whiskey. Letters to the Editor 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

All the usual Murakami elements are there: the detached protagonist, the creepy authoritarian cult, the mysterious quest, the moments when the bizarre bleeds into the buttoned-up world of modern Japan. IQ84: A Murakami Novel Sans Murakami 2011-10-31T09:00:03Z

Yes, as in “Groundhog Day,” the protagonist keeps repeating the same day, but this brassy show uses that structure to explore very different themes: not nihilism but addiction and trauma. I Love Top Ten Lists 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

Several of Ishiguro’s novels feature artists as their protagonists, but his work will not be pinned down in terms of genre and setting. Kazuo Ishiguro, a Nobel Winner Whose Characters Are Caught Between Worlds 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Le Carré’s novels weren’t notable just because his protagonist wasn’t handsome. John le Carré is back in fine form — with George Smiley — in 'A Legacy of Spies' 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

At no point during that film were you in any doubt about the roles of the protagonist and the antagonist. Creed 2: how will a Russia-baiting Rocky sequel play in Trump's America? 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

With beautiful prose and sly humor, Brandon leads his young protagonist through sundry dangers. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

While Scottie is Vertigo’s protagonist, his point of view is unambiguously delusional. Vertigo is not the last word in misogyny, but a feminist deconstruction of it 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Following Clifton’s death, Ellison’s protagonist leads the funeral procession and delivers the eulogy for his slain friend, repeating his name time and again to the crowd. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

A boat of American soldiers taking the protagonist, played by Martin Sheen, upriver stops to search a Vietnamese family’s sampan. Viet Thanh Nguyen, Prizewinning Author of ‘The Sympathizer,’ Still Wrestles With ‘Apocalypse Now’ 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

A peculiar, semisweet, slightly mysterious slow burn, “Nobody Knows I’m Here,” the debut feature of Gaspar Antillo, introduces its protagonist, Memo, by cutting between him at two ages. ‘Nobody Knows I’m Here’ Review: Letting a Repressed Tune Ring Out 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

Smollett's upstanding protagonist, Matthew Bramble, takes pity on him and finds him a posting in the East Indies. John Mullan's 10 of the best: highwaymen 2012-05-18T21:54:02Z

The new protagonists include Rey, a heroine so capable that she does all the saving; Finn, a black leading man wielding blasters and lightsabers; and Poe Dameron, described as the Resistance’s “best pilot.” A gay “Star Wars” hero could save lives in this galaxy: Why the lip bite that launched a thousand ‘ships matters 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

In some of the films, the protagonists get caught, but none of them really repent, and their punishments seem more like legal technicalities than victories of moral order. The Luxe Life in ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Bling Ring’ and Other Films 2013-05-16T12:00:01Z

This Circe is for once the protagonist, in “Circe,” a novel by Madeline Miller slated for release this month. Two New Books Look at Mythology With Fresh Eyes 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

The young protagonist of Bryan Buckley’s “Asad,” filmed at a Kenyan refugee camp with a Somali refugee cast, faces an occupational choice between piracy and fishing. Movie Review: ‘The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013’ Anthology 2013-01-31T22:57:57Z

None of the protagonists in “The Memory Police” are named. Yoko Ogawa Conjures Spirits in Hiding: ‘I Just Peeked Into Their World and Took Notes’ 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

It's she who seems more the protagonist, while he is the object of desire, to be gazed upon for his beauty. Anne Billson on One Day 2011-08-18T21:10:01Z

Of course, everyone knows that Harper Lee, who died Feb. 19 at age 89, was not Scout, the protagonist of her novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The most important moment in books of 2016: The death of Harper Lee 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

In this story, as in her other work, the young protagonists project both the plucky curiosity of Nancy Drew and the fragile innocence of a sleeping Snow White. Holly Andres’s Adolescent Fairy Tales 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

In “Samson,” Handel set a libretto by Newburgh Hamilton, based on “Samson Agonistes” and other poems of Milton, that — like “Elijah” — pits its Israelite protagonist against worshipers of false gods. Music Review: American Classical Orchestra Performs Handel’s ‘Samson’ 2014-03-05T22:05:31Z

The protagonist is a playwright who, like Parks, is warm but exacting, and is rewriting and restructuring the show as opening night nears. Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

"Instead of just exploring the struggle of what it means to transition, these films are about transgender protagonists who just happen to be trans," she said. Outfest Los Angeles explores a world of transgender experiences on film 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

I don’t want to oversimplify this: Series like “Atlanta,” “Ramy,” “Master of None” and “Insecure” all have complex stances toward their protagonists. How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

In a refreshing gender reversal, Philip is the more sympathetic protagonist, both a warmer parent and more conflicted spy. Matthew Rhys: agent provocateur of ‘The Americans’ 2014-04-22T23:25:31Z

But the fatalistic protagonist and finned predators of “The Gulf Stream” also serve as a metaphor for the unrelieved obstacles and threats for Black people and especially for Black men, that remain crushingly pertinent today. Winslow Homer: Radical Impressionist 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

But, while there are echoes of that idea in David Farr's stimulating new RSC version and Jonathan Slinger's riveting protagonist, both suffer from an excess of detail. Hamlet – review 2013-03-27T18:17:55Z

The protagonist of this week’s story, “On the Street Where You Live,” is a woman named Becky. This Week in Fiction: Yiyun Li on the Drive to Identify What’s “Normal” 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

Whether or not she is the actual protagonist of Sarah Burgess’s “Kings,” which opened on Tuesday night at the Public Theater, is the defining problem for both the play and for us. Review: In ‘Kings,’ Washington Is Where Idealism Goes to Die 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Though “Mediterranea” is sensitive to its protagonists, no one is idealized. In ‘Mediterranea,’ Two Migrants Speak for Many 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

Fans of Xena the Warrior Princess or of Arya Stark from “Game of Thrones” would welcome the protagonist of this new drama series. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘No Passport Required’ and ‘Drug Lords’ 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

Its battered, lonely protagonist was a pro wrestler who drags his weary body into the ring night after night because that's what he is -- a wrestler. Ballet thriller "Black Swan" so bad it's good 2010-09-01T23:26:00Z

It is important to me to tell my protagonist's story — that of a Latina at the heart of an epic adventure. On cultural appropriation: A Latina novelist calls herself out amid the "American Dirt" controversy 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

But the biggest change may be that, as the title of this show — “Angel at the Wheel” — suggests, here the angels have gone from sidekicks to protagonists, and they’re harnessing some cosmic forces. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Along with Hidden Figures, Girl’s Trip and of course Black Panther, it showed that the old beliefs about films with non-white protagonists not selling at the box office are bigoted nonsense. Radicalism lite: eight things we learned from the Oscars 2018 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

James Bond, Mission Impossible – whatever your franchise of choice, the pleasure is in identifying with some mysterious, ultra-competent , ultra-slick protagonist, whose body is a weapon. American Ultra: should the the amnesiac spy trope be forgotten? 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

In fact, she had — through some kind of special training — prepared herself to combat any cranial intrusion by guarding her inner self with four wildly different screen-narratives, each recounted by a very different protagonist. Review | What it might feel like to live in a high-tech surveillance state 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

Jordan Berman, the hapless but lovable protagonist of Joshua Harmon’s entirely delightful new play, “Significant Other,” seems to see tiers of tulle, sprays of baby’s breath and ill-fitting bridesmaids’ gowns wherever he looks. Review: In ‘Significant Other,’ a Young Man Pines as His Pals Pair Off 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

"Anything for Money" is another L.A. story, but its protagonist dwells at the opposite end of the economic spectrum. 'Refund' burrows into what's right, wrong about 21st century America 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Ellmann’s unnamed protagonist, a middle-aged housewife in Ohio, is at once conventional and specific, not to mention funny. The Best Books of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Frankenstein — or whoever we choose to identify with that name — is not the protagonist but the figure behind the scenes whom we forget at our peril. Philharmonic to Present H. K. Gruber?s ?Frankenstein!!? 2011-12-04T04:23:05Z

They reminded me of so many friends and relatives, and for that were more touching than, say, the protagonist of a Schubert song cycle or a Verdi tragedy. Review: ‘The Mutes’ Gives Voice to Musical Outsiders 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

In that version the protagonist was a grey flannel suit, working for an insurance company. No adjustments needed for 'Bureau' 2011-03-03T14:55:00Z

But, far from endorsing and depicting emotion as such, “Captain Marvel” polices and filters its protagonists’ emotions with a Stakhanovite rigor. “Captain Marvel” Wants You to Know It’s a Capital-“D”-Democratic Movie 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

The book contains little plot, an abundance of obscure poetry and the untimely death of three protagonists. A' life-affirming romp through death in 'All My Puny Sorrows' 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Everything seems typically Hemingway — a writer protagonist and plenty of fishing, fine food and wine, and allusions to war — when Catherine takes a sharp turn into gender-switching. The androgyny of being Ernest: A gender-fluid reading of Hemingway that upends his macho image 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. Yehoshua once said of the protagonist of “A Late Divorce”: “Like the father who gives up his responsibilities and goes to America, Jews who leave Israel for America are escaping their responsibility.” A.B. Yehoshua, Israeli Writer Who Explored Moral and Political Dilemmas, Dies at 85 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

The protagonist, like the author, is an interpreter for the Swiss immigration authorities. The Light and the Dark by Mikhail Shishkin – review 2013-03-13T15:49:39Z

Devon Teuscher, a company soloist, played the protagonist, Caroline, with wonderful vulnerability and transparency. Ballet Theater Presents a New Version of ‘Raymonda’ 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Jacobs so strongly disapproves of his protagonists’ duplicity that he seemingly stops his ears and sings “la-la-la” in order to shut out their voices and their inner lives. “The Lovers” and the Limitations of the Modern Rom-Com 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

I do know of one other place the curtains have hung: in the bedroom of the protagonist in “Rossovermiglio.” | The Narrative of Home 2014-05-06T15:28:42Z

His 1948 novel, "Other Voices, Other Rooms," had been published when the author was just 24, and was met with critical acclaim and controversy for its openly gay protagonist. Richard Avedon, Truman Capote and the brutality of photography 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

His protagonists are hungry for love, but they’re hampered by fear and apprehension. Review: ‘Arctic Summer’ by Damon Galgut, a fictional biography of E.M. Forster

"The female protagonist was allowed to be fully flawed and fumbling her way toward her own identity and be really human," Shelton says. Lynn Shelton follows her own direction in 'Laggies' 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

Over and over, Brown’s protagonists awaken to the shock of what they believe will be their last day. Apocalypse Anxiety, the Musical 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z

But it works, thanks to an exuberant voice, the playfulness of the half-hour episodes and the passion for the protagonist’s verses, which appear onscreen as if written in fire. ‘Dickinson’ Is an Offbeat Literary Origin Story, Written in Fire 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Her protagonist, Selin, is an 18-year-old Turkish girl, the daughter of secular Turkish immigrants who raised her in a genteel suburb of New Jersey. Elif Batuman’s ‘The Idiot’ 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

This is a crime drama whose protagonist just happens to wear a mask. 'Daredevil' series premiere recap: A Show Without Fear 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

But the twist bears repeating, from a different perspective: Famuyiwa took his aspirational geek protagonist and, in order to make him an antihero, turned him into a drug dealer, by the character's own choice. Not as 'Dope' as hyped, but it has its moments 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Until recently, a young male protagonist was expected to be brash, or at least stoic. The Year in Good Men 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

But in spite of their obvious differences of gender, class and period, the two protagonists share a common plight, and Mr. Brizé’s interest in them is rigorously consistent. Review: Indelible Heartbreak, Moment to Moment, in ‘A Woman’s Life.’ 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Wahlberg, on the other hand, might seem an unusual actor to portray Case, the novel's antihero protagonist. Will Liam Neeson and Mark Wahlberg be plugging into Vincenzo Natali's Neuromancer? 2012-08-02T15:00:00Z

But Locke’s family didn’t leave and neither did the family of her protagonist, Texas Ranger Darren Matthews. Attica Locke left Hollywood to write novels. Now she’s found success in both worlds. 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Yet by the end of their conversation, Stewart said he was intrigued by their vision of a world — and a protagonist — changed significantly since “The Next Generation.” Can ‘Star Trek’ Chart a Way Forward? 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

This unconvincing backdrop foregrounds cardboard cutout protagonists devoid of backstory or interiority. Why 1917 should win the best picture Oscar 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

She is the best of all the Marvel protagonists, along with Daredevil and The Punisher. The Creator of ‘Jessica Jones’ Serves Up a Dark Mirror for Our Moment 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

The book’s protagonist is a steamship passenger named Henry Preston Standish, who slips on a spot of oil and tumbles overboard. The Custodian of Forgotten Books 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

Repeated, suffocating scenes of remote warfare make you acutely aware of the soul-draining despair felt by its pilot protagonist. 'Good Kill,' with Ethan Hawke, targets human costs of drone warfare 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Garner's young protagonists do not have an easy path, and that makes following them all the more interesting. Reading group: have you fallen under Alan Garner's spell? 2012-08-08T15:34:48Z

The dancers perform it with complete urgency, precision and motivation; the range of physical detail shown by PeiJu Chien-Pott, as the victimized protagonist, is especially exciting. Dance Review: Martha Graham Company in Old and New Works 2014-03-23T22:39:40Z

Here, we follow our hobbit protagonist Bilbo Baggins and a baker’s dozen of dwarves, who amble along in Tolkien’s narrative with little individual distinction. TIME’s Guide to The Hobbit‘s 13 Dwarves 2012-12-13T13:00:20Z

She would quickly learn that the protagonist of a forthcoming book she is now working on, “The King of Jerksville,” actually didn’t have much in common with Mr. Maxwell. Where Words Matter: Politics, Fiction, Romance, Scrabble 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

This habit of avoidance leads to a series of prevarications for both protagonists — most disturbingly, in their relations with women. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z

The protagonist, a teenage girl, knows her family owes its good fortune to their angel: In the latest wave of science fiction, authors of color take space to imagine multiple new societies 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

Its protagonists remain tightly coiled and unpredictable; balanced right on the edge. TV thriller Homeland goes right back to the edge 2012-10-01T23:30:04Z

Through it all, the show’s protagonists wander through fire-limned streets in slow motion, carrying their looted haul from the disco club, Les Inferno, that represents everything they’re agitating against creatively and spiritually. ‘The Get Down’ on Netflix: A Superhero Fable About the Birth of Hip-Hop 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

But Mu’min, who based “Jinn” in part on her own upbringing, approaches her protagonist’s journey of self-discovery with a delicate sense of wonder and a striking lack of moral judgment. ‘Jinn’ Review: A Not So Typical Coming-of-Age Story 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

The protagonist is a chemistry professor named Noah Selvaggio who recently retired to avoid the risk of becoming a laughingstock. Review | Emma Donoghue’s ‘Akin’ sends an odd couple to France 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

But her protagonist, Birdie Baker, is a little different. Novles by Glenn Beck, Stephen McCauley and Others 2010-06-16T22:42:00Z

It’s a tricky game “Barry” is playing, cultivating our empathy for its protagonist, then confronting us with this recognition. Review: In ‘Barry,’ This Actor Slays Them, Offstage 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

“Lethal White,” the fourth Cormoran Strike mystery, is a big, stuffed-to-the-brim, complicated bouillabaisse of a book, not least because of the busy inner lives of its protagonists. Blackmail, Murder and Other Bad Behavior Abounds in Robert Galbraith’s ‘Lethal White’ 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

But, much like the black protagonist in “Night of the Living Dead,” “Monkey Shines” did something that, to this day still, few horror movies do: put a character with a disability in the spotlight. 5 George Romero Films to Remember 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

Poor short-changed kids, being read to – poor kid being read about, come to that – and indeed poor Kate, giving birth not just to an heir, but a protagonist several times over. Royal baby books: regal or ridiculous? 2013-07-19T09:36:00Z

With crisp dialogue, a winning protagonist and a propulsive plot, the tale is enormously entertaining. New Fantasy Novels for Kids (and Adults) Ready to Go Beyond Harry Potter 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

If I find myself yelling at the protagonist to just tell her, or for the dupe to simply read the letter he dropped, then I’m likely to put the book down and walk away. The One Book Stacey Abrams Would Require the President to Read 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

One of the stars of “USFS 1919” is Bill Bell, the Forest Service ranger and head packer who is idolized by the youthful protagonist. ‘Llama therapy’ in the wilds of Yellowstone National Park 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

He took some time to talk about his artist protagonist, his relationship to the art world and why it is fun to draw bad sculpture. Comics artist Scott McCloud on art, death and drawing bad sculpture 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Haydn distributes his arias even-handedly among his protagonists, giving everyone the potential to shine, but permitting no one to dominate. L'Isola Disabitata ? review 2010-10-27T22:29:00Z

You have to justify showing hideous murder by balancing it out in the life of your protagonist. Charlie Brooker and Daniel Maier build the perfect TV detective 2012-08-24T23:05:00Z

“The film’s Scandinavian bacchanal of ritualistic murder,” he writes, “depicted a not unreasonable way to process the grief its protagonist was going through after an unfathomable family tragedy.” Rob Delaney Wants You to Know How He’s Feeling (It May Ruin Your Day) 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

Mary is not yet Esther, the protagonist of “The Bell Jar.” A Lost Story by Sylvia Plath Contains the Seeds of the Writer She Would Become 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

There’s some work to be done here: Stu is almost too good to be true, and a less saintly protagonist might give the show a little edge. ‘Stu for Silverton’ sings about small-town tolerance 2013-07-24T01:37:24Z

Most superhero series, for instance, begin with young protagonists discovering their powers. Review: ‘Black Lightning’ Is Pulp With a Purpose 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

“Sex Education” centers and decenters Otis; he’s the protagonist but more comfortable observing and listening, as a supporting player in others’ stories. Review: ‘Sex Education,’ a Sweet Teen Comedy of Modern Lust 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

Soon afterwards, our female protagonist, Jake Whyte, through whose eyes these scenes are described, finds a pigeon with a damaged wing. All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld – review 2013-06-30T09:00:01Z

The five teen protagonists are neither heroes nor antiheroes: They are "troubled youths" hit by lightning while performing community service. "The Misfits:" British superheroes just want to be teens 2011-08-11T22:12:00Z

For the better part of the opera, which runs 90 minutes, Powers, the protagonist, disappears from the scene into The System. Opera With Atmosphere of Brave New World 2010-10-04T12:00:00Z

Depending on your tolerance for the existential anguish that defines so many of Woody Allen’s characters, a philosophy professor is either the perfect protagonist for one of his movies, or the worst. A Handy Guide to the Philosophers Referenced in 'Irrational Man' 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

It has been a bumper year for female protagonists at Cannes, with the majority of in-competition titles led by women. Sex, ghosts money and sainthood – now playing at Cannes 2016 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

The protagonist is a choirmaster, possessed, we’re told, of a voice angels themselves might envy. ‘Mystery of Edwin Drood,’ Dickens’s Unfinished Novel 2012-11-25T00:40:06Z

It has, let's just say, a highly indeterminate conclusion, with the fate of the protagonist very uncertain. The "Drive" backlash: Too violent, too arty or both? 2011-09-23T14:01:00Z

The Hunter The clammy chill that pervades “The Hunter,” the fourth feature film by the Iranian director Rafi Pitts, seeps under your skin as you wait for its grim, taciturn protagonist to detonate. | 'The Hunter': ?The Hunter? by Rafi Pitts - Review 2012-01-03T23:01:40Z

Who, in this massive cast, is our hero, or at least our protagonist? ‘American Horror Story’ Season 5, Episode 8: That Answers That 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

For that matter, a certain Joss Whedon has a history of delivering movies with strong female protagonists. Why Max Landis is wrong about Scarlett Johansson's 'whitewashed' Ghost in the Shell remake 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

Still, there were certain people and events that Boyd knew he wanted his protagonist to collide with. Any Human Heart: William Boyd on telling the story of the 20th century 2010-11-21T08:00:00Z

The self-destructive protagonist of the series, Patrick Melrose, struggles to cope with a family history that includes alcoholism and abuse. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Edward St. Aubyn Ends a Series With 'At Last' 2012-02-10T23:00:26Z

In the satirical “Catastrophe,” Mandell parodied a megalomaniacal director creating the ridiculously right pose for Ryan as the protagonist standing on a pedestal. L.A. Phil's revelatory pairing of Beckett and Schubert, 'Night and Dreams' 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

In his old age, he made art in support of the young protagonists of the May 1968 revolution. Joan Mir?'s art is more alive than ever 2011-08-15T12:08:33Z

Yet it's the eponymous brute protagonists who dominate the action. Animals United defeat themselves 2010-12-20T11:11:45Z

Does, our protagonist, perhaps, have another flighty teenage daughter with a Eurorail ticket in her pocket and a shocking disregard for daddy's warnings about hanging out with strange older men? Taken 2 trailer: Liam Neeson is still the daddy 2012-06-22T13:42:00Z

The earliest Disney animated features, for example, painted childhood as an unrelenting nightmare, from which the young protagonists eventually escaped to a happy ending more by luck than by heroism. Oz Revisited – Part 3: A Parable of Empowerment 2013-09-18T15:30:10Z

The novel’s protagonist, an Indigenous woman named Kari James, loves the White Horse — so much that she’s thinking about buying the place — and can often be found there with her cousin and closest confidante, Debby. An Ancient Bracelet, a Personal Haunting and an Overdue Reckoning 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z

Another cliche narrative that persists is the mystical Asian mentor who trains a white protagonist in martial arts. Marvel’s ‘Shang-Chi’ jabs, flips Asian American film cliches 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

In Morrison's novel "Tar Baby," the protagonist is a model who's depicted as the "Copper Venus" in a magazine spread. In "Rumors," Lizzo and Cardi B pull from the ancient Greeks, putting a new twist on an old tradition 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z

Dana, the protagonist, slips back and forth against her will between her life in 1976 Los Angeles and a Maryland plantation before the Civil War. The Essential Octavia Butler 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z

Frieders might also cut way back on the simpering, frantic, lisping mannerisms of his protagonist, a caricature in search of a character. You still have time to catch some daring, funny, touching solo performances 2010-03-17T18:53:00Z

The protagonist's ethnic background has been cause for debate since the book's publication. 15 things you might not know about "Catch-22" 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z

It also marries together the real and the fantastic so well that by the time the protagonist tumbles down the rabbit hole it seems not shocking but inevitable. Review | Fairies and their magical worlds have captivated us for centuries. Here are some of the books that did it best. 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

The movie’s protagonist, Arthur Fleck, would trudge up them on his way home from work. ‘Joker’ Stairs Become a Bronx Tourist Draw. Hope You’re in Shape. 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Music I hardly imagined that in this city of legendary musicians, the protagonist of my trip would be a local radio station, the ubiquitous WWOZ. Frugal Traveler Blog: In New Orleans, a Trio of Thrifty Lures 2013-01-22T20:19:03Z

And earlier TV dabbled in difficult protagonists, like Archie Bunker of “All in the Family.” How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

For years Heidi W. Durrow heard the refrain: editors wouldn’t publish her novel because readers couldn’t relate to a protagonist who was part black and part Danish. Race Remixed: Pushing Boundaries, Mixed-Race Artists Gain Notice 2011-07-05T16:59:30Z

We might also call them the Faye trilogy, after their protagonist. With ‘Kudos,’ Rachel Cusk Completes an Exceptional Trilogy 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

Remember, this is the guy that the female protagonist is destined to fall for in the end. In ‘Set It Up’ and 2 Other Netflix Comedies, No One Emerges Unscathed 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Bloom said it was not just protagonist Wye that she felt a connection to, but also the character of Paul. Transgender love story shines in Cannes 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

But if the caliber of the main cast doesn't let you know this show is better than making its middle-aged protagonists the butt of its jokes, the production's pedigree should spell that out for you. "Girls5eva" is a feel-good story about what happens when one-hit wonders get a second chance 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

I also hoped that the bad boys at Rockstar would finally try their hand at a female protagonist. ArtsBeat Blog: New Grand Theft Auto to Cruise Some Familiar Streets 2011-11-03T16:16:43Z

Luke, the superhero protagonist, is a wrongfully convicted ex-con with unbreakable skin, remarkable endurance,incredible strength and the ability to withstand extreme temperatures. Luke Cage Star Says Binge Watching is Disturbing 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Following the standard Saturday-morning-cartoon formula, each episode of the series had the protagonists encounter some new obstacle that they good-naturedly overcame with the use of their talents — and usually some silly costumes and wigs. From ‘Proud Family’ to ‘The Boondocks’: 11 Black Animated Series 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z

Their visuals quietly capture the dichotomies that pulling at the hem of its protagonists' lives. The must-see "Pachinko" is a pure and flawless beauty about the unpredictability of living 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

Still, literary rock stars – and by this I mean major fictional protagonists – seem relatively few and far between, given how saturated our culture is by popular music. Rock stars in fiction 2011-03-17T16:00:50Z

Male protagonists with polar opposite personality traits - one who develops into a drunken bully, the other awkward but ingratiating - show there is more to theater in London than the West End. Male as drunk, male as nerd feature in two London plays 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

Like its protagonist, I hoped to grow up and experience a world outside the one I knew. An Accidental Activist 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

"As sporting dramas go, Moneyball is as unconventional as its protagonist, which in this arena counts as a good thing" - Jason Best, . Oscars: Best picture nominees 2012-01-24T17:21:48Z

“I was actively looking for a protagonist that could break those rules.” Charlize Theron’s Sick Work Ethic 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

Johnson jammed in vinyl copies of Armstrong’s “Black and Blue” — a record that the protagonist in Ralph Ellison’s novel “Invisible Man” listened to constantly. In Rashid Johnson’s Mosaics, Broken Lives Pieced Together 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

The protagonists of “Cold War” are named after his late parents. Story of doomed love 'Cold War' wows Cannes festival 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

In this week’s story, “God’s Caravan,” the protagonist, a boy named Earl Lovett, is captivated by a travelling preacher who has some unorthodox sermons to give. Tiphanie Yanique on the Necessity of the Spirit 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

As it happens, all three feature a protagonist on a personal quest, set in cultures and communities that are often ignored. Review | New TV is starting to dwindle, so watch these 3 recent shows that are among summer’s best 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

In a chapter mulling the meaning of the nearly 900 American streets named after Martin Luther King Jr., the protagonist is not King himself but rather an appealing St. Louis postal worker named Melvin White. What Street Names Say About Us 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

The protagonist of this graphic novel is an art-loving seventh grader who is starting at a fancy private school, where he is one of the few African-American students. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

In Rankin’s now two dozen Rebus books, the author has allowed his protagonist to age. The 10 books to read — and gift — in December 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

And, of course, not only does the new film reunite the characters, it reassembles the real-life protagonists: the same actors, director, producer, writer. Ewan McGregor: ‘What if I'm not Scottish enough any more?’ 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

Mookie, the film’s protagonist played by Spike Lee, is a young unmotivated and unambitious black man, who works a job as a delivery guy at Sal’s Pizzeria. White supremacy stripped bare: What “Do the Right Thing” tells us 25 years later 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

Halliday only teases at the inner life of her female protagonist in the book’s first half; it blooms, unexpectedly, in the second. One Year of #MeToo: “He Said, She Said” Is a Literary Problem, Too 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

The film explores the impact of the protagonists’ decision to act on long-dormant memories of abuse on scouting excursions and summer camps, bringing upheaval into their relationships with parents, children and friends. Berlinale film breaks silence over church child abuse 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

And one thinks, further, that in 2014, the man wielding a corporate briefcase as an emblem of traditional values looks a bit like the protagonist of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man.” | To Have and To Hold 2014-03-06T14:00:39Z

"I felt the least amount of self-consciousness as I've ever felt doing any role," Pratt says of voicing "Lego" protagonist Emmet. 'Lego Movie' actor Chris Pratt on the freedom of the vocal booth 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

There were three actors reading the different three protagonists. Lily Rabe waited 15 years to make her directorial debut: "It's not the arena for playing it safe" 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z

The protagonist, who is celebrating a 35th birthday in the show, is now female, implicitly introducing the biological clock into perceptions of her singleness. ‘Company’ Returning to Broadway, With a Woman at Its Center 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

As the story's protagonist, "your" meteoric rise is charted in the novel from rural poverty to urban success. Mohsin Hamid 2013-03-26T19:07:18Z

His slumping presence suggested not only the end point for generations of rust-belt workers but also the collapse of the Shakespearean protagonist. American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

But the rest of the storytelling is more traditional, and it is flattened by a humdrum plot and a poorly written female protagonist. Where Does ‘Unicorn: Warriors Eternal’ Rank in the Tartakovsky Canon? 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

Adams attached a feminist program, highlighting the misogyny of the Scheherazade legend; the protagonist holds her own against dogmatic thrashings of the orchestra, and steals away in a mood of melancholy rapture. Listen to the Future 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

It emerged earlier this year that Ford was in talks for the new Blade Runner film, which has since been revealed as a sequel with a female protagonist at its core. Ridley Scott wants Harrison Ford for Blade Runner sequel 2012-05-28T12:11:13Z

Florence was under the control of the Grand Duchess Maria Magdalena and Christine of Lorraine, who in the works they commissioned pushed for confident, righteous female protagonists. Review: The First Opera by a Woman Dances Out of Obscurity 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

The singer becomes the protagonist of this bleak story about a young man jilted by his beloved, who now fancies someone else. Matthias Goerne Sings Kentridge’s Version of ‘Winterreise’ 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

Hawke’s young protagonist can be a fool, but he’s wildly energetic. Review | Ethan Hawke turns his acting experience — and past infidelities — into brilliant fiction 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

What protagonist these days is not afflicted with nightmares, vividly recovered memories and other tightly edited torments? FX’s ‘Legion’ is intriguing, but do we need more characters who are always seeing things? 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

As the pages flew by, my mind drifted from the tribulations of its protagonist, Oliver Park, to the cultures in which such stories ferment. A White-Knuckle Ride to the Dark Side of Love and Infidelity 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z

“In the first series, we saw Georgiana through the lens of Charlotte and Sidney; now there was a real opportunity to make a character of color an equal protagonist.” ‘Sanditon,’ Unfinished No More 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

Rebecca Watson’s debut novel begins on a Friday morning in June, with our protagonist, who appears to live in the United Kingdom, waking late. Review | ‘Little Scratch’ drops readers into the reality of a distressed mind 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

Wild is the first big movie– or bestselling book, for that matter–to re-tell that central American story with a female protagonist. Wild and the Rise of the Lone She-Wolf 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

Sport for Sassoon is also a way into the national character: it roots his protagonist, George Sherston, in place and class. Literary giants at play 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

What is new is the protagonist’s anguished, gorgeous voice, filled with rage and tenderness. 10 books to read in March 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

It’s about a family cobbled together by liars, cons, grifters, impersonators, and protagonists whose family loyalty and personal integrity is matched—and sometimes beaten to a pulp—by their extreme flexibility with the truth. Inspiration Information: Lucky Us 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Writing with the assurance and wry omniscience of an easygoing deity, Makumbi watches her protagonists live out invariably provisional answers. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

But Bernal is such a graceful, appealing performer that we soon forget that he is not the Tehran native that the protagonist is. 'Rosewater' finds Jon Stewart in solidly serious mode 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Though white protagonists figure prominently in Miller's drama, she also takes a hard-edged look at the tragic, unintended consequences that can occur when journalists report from the inside of genocidal chaos. Black History stories travel to Liberia, Darfur, Rome and Texas 2011-01-20T22:48:47Z

Its monochrome protagonists are essentially humanoid gingerbread cookies, who move with a stark and jittery simplicity that conveys a similarly stark and frank emotionalism. What to Stream: “Tux and Fanny,” Albert Birney’s Boldly Imaginative Instagram Animation 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

Mike and Phyllis, our happily wed protagonists, are two jolly good eggs who battle through, trying to do the decent thing. Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes 2012-07-05T08:22:05Z

The village is torn apart by past tragedies and secrets, the young protagonists are alienated and alone, and strange creatures start appearing to blur the boundaries between the normal and the uncanny. Anime for beginners: five TV series to get you started 2013-04-01T14:00:00Z

Bobby Cannavale was working perhaps too hard to sell a character drawn from a word-cloud about male TV protagonists of the past decade. 'Vinyl' on HBO Was a Major Disappointment: What Went Wrong? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

On paper, a teen film reworking Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter sounds fairly disastrous but Stone pulled off her role as Easy A’s protagonist rather well. Emma Stone: five best moments 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

The vividness of Whitehead’s book, and its propulsive sense of thrill and adventure, spring directly from this literalization—from the fearsome puffing trains that carry Cora, the novel’s enslaved protagonist, toward freedom. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

It genuinely did not occur to me until I was heading towards the end that it's got a woman protagonist. Mick Jackson: 'Taking pity on the reader' 2010-04-08T09:41:00Z

“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,” the White Queen famously tells Alice, in a line that the protagonist of Vásquez’s new novel, “Reputations,” cites often. In Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s Novel, a Political Cartoonist Answers to the Past 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

It encompasses each person’s physical interaction with him- and herself; the one between the protagonists; and, finally, the relationship of the photographs to a viewer. Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, from many angles 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Greenway locates a bleak personal odyssey amid serene natural beauty, which offers her tortured protagonist glimpses of a world beyond suffering and sorrow. ‘The Bird Skinner’: bleak, beautiful tale of a man in retreat 2014-01-15T22:16:27Z

Their protagonists are American civilians who learn that there is adventure to be had and money to be made by flying to a war zone. War games 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Like their protagonists, these stories do not give up their secrets easily, although they are by no means difficult to understand. Black Vodka by Deborah Levy – review 2013-02-18T19:00:02Z

In it, the protagonist discovers he is part of an ancient race of people who change gender identity every year, finding themselves in a whole new body. Life in our transgender family 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

But the essence of the modern police procedural is to blend the crime, forensics, cop culture and the protagonist’s personal story into something akin to magic and Connelly still has the formula down pat. Michael Connelly starts a new thread with 'The Late Show' 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

She found the indecisiveness of the female protagonist especially hard to bear. “Sun Dogs” 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

As Newton became more unpredictable and isolated as the Panthers’ leader, he turned to The Godfather and would extol “its protagonists’ machiavellian cunning and ruthlessness”. How Hollywood feted the black power movement – and fell foul of the FBI 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Speculating about his post-Fox future, Mr. Colbert turned to a novel by Mr. O’Reilly, whose protagonist is a fallen television host who murders some of the people associated with his downfall. Trevor Noah Has a Theory on Trump and That Aircraft Carrier 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Plots are often driven by protagonists attempting to shake off the fetters of their run-of-the-mill lives. Will the lockdown trigger a new wave of kitchen sink cinema? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

While Heinlein’s fiction frequently imagined “the competent man,” a protagonist who could cook a gourmet meal or lead an army, L. Ron Hubbard actually seemed to bring him to life. Review | Let us praise the giants of science fiction: Campbell, Asimov and, yes, L. Ron Hubbard 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

Cleverly worked into the mix are the owner’s art and antique heirlooms, including a collection of Picasso’s ceramics, which serve as what Parente calls “protagonists” in several rooms. In Paris, an Apartment Where Picassos Meet 17th-Century Antiques 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

In each installment, the protagonist overhears the theme tune from “Bewitched” and then succumbs to a bizarre phenomenon. Analysis | The novel that inspired ‘Blade Runner’ didn’t predict our current reality, but these writers did 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Banks's protagonist, Alban McGill, struggles to prevent his family's company being taken over by a US giant, occasioning diatribes against American capitalism and American foreign policy that seem straightforwardly authorial. Iain Banks dies aged 59 2013-06-09T17:22:02Z

Viewers ask two questions of their protagonists: "Who are you?" and "why do we care?" James Donaghy's Screen burn: The Prisoner 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z

As this happens, the protagonist of the novel, Wallinger’s friend and fellow SIS veteran Tom Kell is drinking beer in a London pub. ‘A Colder War’ by Charles Cumming spins spy intrigue in search for a diabolical mole

Otherwise, “Animals” walks the fine line between acknowledging the romance of narcotics — something any honest movie about addiction must do — and actively romanticizing its sweet, basically harmless protagonists and their way of life. Review: In ‘Animals,’ a Couple in Love With Heroin 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

While Nicholson claims that publishers favour "abused Irish alcoholics" as protagonists, what sort of characters do you think are the most entertaining to read or watch? Anyone for a spot of middle-class drama? 2011-07-13T12:17:02Z

Rain-lashed Jakarta is such a forsaken place in both Belenggu and The Forbidden Door that the protagonists are shepherded into diminishing circles, finally unable to trust even themselves. Indonesian cinema and the rise of a new noir 2013-06-05T15:36:08Z

Those I’ve gone on could be assembled into a montage of forgettable dinners before the protagonist stumbles into the right person. Modern Love: Casting Call: Bit Player, Male 2011-03-10T22:08:55Z

Though vastly different in setting, both films offer refreshingly rare protagonists, yielding spirited — if occasionally middling — results. ‘Madres’ and ‘The Manor’ Review: Maligned Women Uncover the Truth 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Jojo, the reluctant hero, is a classic Ward protagonist: a tender, ungainly teenager — easy prey. Faulkner and Other Ghosts Sing Through Jesmyn Ward’s New Novel 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

The grueling encounters with bandits and reanimated corpses were a crucible that the protagonists Joel and Ellie barely survived, and the awful acts perpetrated by and upon them left them emotionally deformed at the end. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: Exploring Meaningful Violence 2013-12-27T13:01:52Z

The “Double Life” of the title, then, alludes to fact and fiction entwined here — or, more personally, to the external reality of the protagonist set against her inner world. ‘The Double Life of Liliane’ review: A novel that blends fact and fiction 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

The protagonists, though seen from a variety of perspectives, are women much like herself. The Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin Continues Apace 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

But she is not the victim-turned-avenging angel so often found in horror movies or thrillers, and instead emerges as a complicated protagonist who makes mistakes and is not always easy to like. ‘Piggy’ Review: A Bullied Teenager Gets an Unexpected Assist 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

The story hinges on Maya, a spiky loner with next to no back story, no friend or family, who’s more of an ambivalent protagonist than a traditional heroine. Movie Review: Jessica Chastain in ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ 2012-12-17T23:06:45Z

“Also, having a franchise with a female protagonist driving it is such a rare opportunity. Certainly, I feel the enormous pressure of that — the weight of such a big property on my shoulders.” Scarlett Johansson and the perils of white feminism 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

But such a breezy, Instagram-friendly adaptation feels like a betrayal to Dessen’s original, neurotic protagonist, who has a more difficult journey from self-induced solitude to romance. ‘Along for the Ride’ Review: Becoming a Kid Again 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

The best entries reveal enough about the protagonists to generate sympathy or empathy for them. "Berlin, I Love You" won't bring you down 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

This opens the conversation to other perspectives – Mr. Robot’s, and other unexpected protagonists too. Unhinged melody: "Mr. Robot" puts a grim holiday bow on its endgame 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

The first of a series set in 1920s Bombay and featuring a protagonist based on India’s first female lawyers. Perspective | 23 adult books for teens who are ready to read beyond the YA shelf 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

There's no reason for the time-twisted storytelling: It serves only to leave us on unsteady ground and suspicious of our protagonist. Unconventional 'In Stereo' explores love in three time-twisted parts 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Seeing the glittering lights of Los Angeles blink out from afar was one of the most frightening images that puts you mentally in the same space as our protagonists. Fear the Walking Dead: season one, episode three – The Dog 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

One from Joan Rivers railing against double standards for men and women bolsters the many comparisons between her and the protagonist of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

The game’s protagonist is a Faith, a runner who accesses valuable data by climbing and vaulting from building to building. Lara Croft Has Company: More Female Heroes Appear in Big-Budget Games 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

Our titularly “atypical” protagonist Sam — played by Keir Gilchrist of “United States of Tara” and “It Follows” —  isn’t any more three-dimensional. Netflix’s “Atypical” is offensive, but that’s not its real problem 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

The protagonist of “The Humbling” rediscovers himself, in part, through stage acting. Al Pacino and Barry Levinson on Age, Accomplishments and 'The Humbling' 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

The slave girl is definitely coded as darker than Ana, and she exists only as a vehicle for the protagonist to suffer and rage and decide whether to unleash her devastating power. In Y.A., Where Is the Line Between Criticism and Cancel Culture? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Here is the question: If the protagonist volunteers for her own victimhood, can it be called a work of feminism? Her Lover May Not Exist, but Her Doubts About the Patriarchy Are Real 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Stewart suggests that his lack of interviews with 80s protagonists is because of "the possibly unreliable memories of those who shaped the period". Bang! A History of Britain in the 1980s by Graham Stewart – review 2013-01-17T08:00:02Z

Reminiscent at times of Michael Ondaatje’s novel “Anil’s Ghost,” whose protagonist, like Attila, sifts through the aftermath of war, “Happiness” is a meditation on grand themes: Love and death, man and nature, cruelty and mercy. Review | ‘Happiness’: An exquisite novel about how chance and love connect us 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

The author even jokingly compares himself with Catcher in the Rye protagonist Holden Caulfield, who had appeared as a character in earlier short stories. JFK Library to show Salinger letter to Hemingway 2010-03-26T10:44:00Z

If the protagonists were mindless brutes enslaved to social conditioning, their doings would be something of a bore. Ill Manors just wants a little respect for our gangsters 2012-06-06T11:07:56Z

The protagonists of “The Cleveland Show,” “American Dad” and “Family Guy” are united by a hurricane. ArtsBeat: Fox Postpones Animated Comedies With Hurricane Story Line 2011-04-29T20:00:40Z

Beyda creates a constant state of unease with the very namelessness of the protagonist. March to the shelves for these new books: Recommended reading for spring break and beyond 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

Q: And it’s got a strong, female protagonist. With ‘Three Billboards,’ director Martin McDonagh shows his softer side 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

And yet the play fails to commit its focus to its protagonist. Review: Name-Dropping Harlem in ‘Blues for an Alabama Sky’ 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Hani, the protagonist of the second story, calls this Tel Aviv suburb “Bourgeoisville.” Three Floors, Three Different Israeli Stories 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

Before the events of the game, Transistor’s playable protagonist, Red, was a famous singer. Reviews — Murdered: Soul Suspect, Transistor, Among the Sleep 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

Evans is particularly gifted at depicting character, especially female protagonists. New Story Collections Reconsider History and Upend Tradition 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

The film’s protagonist all but kidnaps a young, dark-skinned, indigenous man to guide her and becomes too dependent on his skill for her racism to deter their trip. The Mystery of the Oscars: How Do You Really Vote for a Script? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

One takes the audience on a deep-sea swim through existential angst as its protagonists wrestle with the reality-altering impact of what they're doing to eradicate a vicious evil. We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z

Honestly, the things a person has to go through to play the protagonist in what is essentially a carefully plotted but highly unorthodox financial mystery. The Scenes of the Crimes: Landfalls, Stadiums and Creepy Blogs 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

“Do I respect women?” asks the protagonist of this novella about a book editor brought low in the #MeToo era. New & Noteworthy, From Philosophy to New York Architecture 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

Wright’s protagonist, Bigger Thomas, is a young black Chicagoan who accidentally kills a white woman, Mary Dalton, the daughter of his employer. A New Adaptation of “Native Son” Reaches the Limits of What the Text Has to Offer 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

Gabriel Dan, the protagonist  in Joseph Roth’s 1924 novel “Hotel Savoy,” is on his way home to Vienna after spending several years in Russian POW camps. The dying world of “Grand Budapest Hotel” 2014-03-07T23:59:00Z

The protagonists are a pair of androids — an anime-gorgeous female killing machine and a talkative male scout — but the point of view sometimes shifts to the aliens’ mute robots, in winsome and melancholy ways. An International Buffet, From Elena Ferrante to ‘Slow Horses’ 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

This is the journey the three protagonists make, too, as their bellicosity turns to brokenness. Your next box set: The Pacific 2011-08-04T20:59:01Z

Yet that’s not what Eastwood actually presents in the movie; there’s little or nothing in the way of Trump’s personality or actions in the movie’s protagonist, but rather a great deal of Hillary Clinton’s character. The Best Movies of 2016 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

The battle scenes are copiously bloody, but the animation, from the studio MAPPA, has a lonesome beauty that matches the protagonist’s temperament. Review: ‘Yasuke’ Reclaims a Black Samurai From History 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

The characters are real and the story sticks to the facts of history, but the inner turmoil of the protagonist is imaginary. Why fact-based stories are destroying the art of fiction 2011-01-23T00:04:25Z

“Honestly it’s less about the look than what the look means when a protagonist that looks like this takes it on,” Mr. Mitchell said. Tyler Mitchell: ‘Black Beauty Is an Act of Justice’ 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

Unlike the protagonist – a maths genius with a distinct voice – my little bro, now nearly 20, can't really speak at all. Autism: of mice, men and my little bro 2013-04-30T07:00:03Z

I picked up “Summer of Fear” next: a teenager’s beautiful cousin moves in with her family after a terrible tragedy and begins to steal the protagonist’s life. I Know What I Read That Summer 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

Most often, my narrator, my protagonist, is a guy I could have been but who isn’t me. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

We’re given glimpses at who they are as people, but rarely is that developed outside their relationship to the protagonist. White hero, sidekick of color: why Marvel needs to break the cycle 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

The protagonist of the story, Luce, lives in a constant state of anxiety as she watches the landscape around her fall apart and her friends succumb to cancer and other illnesses. Joyce Carol Oates on Catastrophizing and Environmental Collapse 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

“Easter Sunday” has all the makings of a rollicking family comedy: The protagonist is a struggling actor and comedian with wacky relatives and a rocky relationship with his son. ‘Easter Sunday’ Review: A Feel-Good Filipino Family Comedy 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

The other solution to this transitional difficulty is to make the protagonist a singer by profession, as in works as divergent as Kiss Me Kate and The Bodyguard. Theatre about theatre shows there's no business like show business 2013-03-08T09:30:01Z

She is a natural-born protagonist who works in a language of big ideas and tiny details. Esperanza Spalding Will Record ‘Exposure’ in Front of the World 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

All four plays competing for the top Tony award feature protagonists whose lives are shaped by economic hardship in one way or another. Down-and-Outs Are Center Stage Once Again 2011-05-12T14:32:27Z

Like our protagonist’s garden, these pages teem with life. Picture Books for the Wild at Heart 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

But Miller is a problematic protagonist in a way that Sam Pulsifer, the accidental arsonist, was not. Books of The Times: A 9-Year-Old Fan of ?A Fan?s Notes,? Finding Truth in His Own Fiction 2010-09-29T20:52:00Z

“Invisible Man” ends with the protagonist being chased by policemen during a riot in Harlem, and falling into a manhole in the middle of the street. Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” as a Parable of Our Time 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

This is a show in which the protagonist is a collective, an improbable Broadway company at a historical crossroads. 'Shuffle On' delivers a powerful kick from Broadway's musical past 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

In classic novels featuring young protagonists, readers are often drawn to vivid first-person narrative voices. A Religious Boarding School That’s Actually Hell 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

Molière’s protagonists are driven by forces too painful and humiliating for them to confront. Comedy for hypochondriacs: It's A Noise Within's 'The Imaginary Invalid' 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

If the thriller “Daniel Isn’t Real” were a recipe, it would call for unappealing ingredients — psychiatric stereotypes, jumpy editing, a mopey protagonist — simmered together until they crackle, pop and blister. ‘Daniel Isn’t Real’ Review: Even an Imaginary Friend Can Hurt You 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

If we tell stories to children to impart moral lessons, and the protagonist of such a story isn't someone to admire, has the storyteller failed? Poor unfortunate souls: False feminism and criticism of Disney’s "Little Mermaid" 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

It’s how I discovered the character of Ana, my book’s protagonist. An Undocumented Woman Struggles to Root Her Family in New York City 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z

You were wide awake mere minutes ago, and the protagonist just uncovered a promising new lead in the case. The reason reading makes you sleepy 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

For a theatrical character to transform, present circumstances must be challenged. The bigger the obstacle in a protagonist’s path, the more explosive the drama.  In defense of anger: A critic's appeal to playwrights to let their tempers fly 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

As Offred, the protagonist in The Handmaid’s Tale, 34-year-old Moss has dramatically cast off her iconic Mad Men character of seven years. Elisabeth Moss on The Handmaid’s Tale: 'It is a feminist story' 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

Ramos seems to be suggesting that, like the "Berserk" protagonist he referenced in his final tweet, he felt conflicted about killing. Exclusive: Inside accused Annapolis shooter’s alt-right theology of mass murder 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

As in Guerra’s previous novels, “Everyone Leaves” and “Revolution Sunday,” the similarities between author and protagonist are impossible to ignore: They are both artists in Havana, they share a last name. Banned in Her Home Country, Wendy Guerra Writes of a Lost Cuba 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

The bay, home to vast oyster beds and also an Indian burial ground some believe is haunted, is the home of protagonist and narrator Leonie Russell. ‘Bone River’: an anthropological mystery on Willapa Bay 2013-01-16T23:08:47Z

The film’s second protagonist, Mélanie, is an earnest redhead who lives in a Paris suburb with her mother. A New Film About Young French Women Drawn to Jihadism 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

I’m hungry for new points of view, and longing to see more than that one type of protagonist. How the Showrunner of Netflix’s ‘You’ Took Aim at Self-Righteous Male Feminists 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

His protagonists were sweetly intellectual teen-age boys smitten with complicated, charismatic girls. Margaret Talbot: How the Y.A. Novelist John Green Built an Ardent Army of Fans 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

Its protagonist is an ex-convict hoping to make amends with his estranged daughter as he faces his own mortality. New in Paperback: ‘These Truths’ and ‘There Will Be No Miracles Here’ 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

What do we desire from our American literary male protagonists these days? Men in books 2012-06-30T14:00:00Z

He silences women, he silences families, he silences even other men who aren’t the protagonists of the drama. The Cinematic Merits and Flaws of Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

Six-and-a-half minutes long and flagrantly provocative, it's a deeply uncomfortable song, its protagonist anguished and violated. Taylor Swift is angry, darn it 2010-10-23T00:16:00Z

But the protagonist’s many monologues provide only the crude structure of the character’s complex thought: he can’t talk to us forever, after all. Theater Review: Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man,’ at the Huntington Theater 2013-01-28T22:57:11Z

Often the climactic life-and-death fight between the three protagonists is little more than self-conscious pantomime. Swan Lake ? review 2011-01-25T18:40:02Z

What an archetypal story does is introduce you to a central character – the protagonist – and invite you to identify with them; effectively they become your avatar in the . John Yorke on why the best screenwriting works 2013-03-15T16:00:03Z

Taylor points out that of the last 10 books to win the Booker prize, eight had male protagonists, one a female protagonist, and one both male and female protagonists. Has Virago changed the publishing world's attitudes towards women? 2013-03-14T08:00:02Z

Yet it’s hard not to notice that these protagonists are all young, intelligent, attractive and, with the exception of Edie, white and well off. Heroines of Self-Hate 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z

This plotline suggests that the film is less interested in politics than in the strategic deployment of politics in the media—and, in this regard, the movie itself mirrors its protagonists’ actions. “Late Night,” Reviewed: Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling’s Incisive Comedy about the Gender Politics of TV 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

I also think that the whole premise of the show, even from the very beginning, was that there were protagonists who were unreliable. The Stars of ‘Homeland’ Get Their Final Debriefing 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

We're even told at one point that Galen "used his opposable thumbs" to grip an axe, as if to clear up any ambiguity over whether the protagonist possesses hooves. Dirt by David Vann - review 2012-06-22T21:55:03Z

The protagonist of “Sun King” is a “Walrus”-like trickster spewing Apollonian gibberish in broken Spanish and Italian. When the Beatles Walked Offstage: Fifty Years of “Abbey Road” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

The camera may follow a familiar protagonist through a metaphorical narrative that, suddenly, includes an A-list actor prominently cast in a small role. Terence Nance on “Random Acts of Flyness”: How HBO’s most daring show gets made 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

One of the play's protagonists, actor Seth Numrich is American and 27. Russian classic takes English accent 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Philip Roth calls him in “The Human Stain,” as the novel’s protagonist watches him play Prokofiev at Tanglewood. Bronfman Braces for the Five Piano Concertos 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

Both movies feature indomitable protagonists who fall into a mountain chasm with two good arms and come out with just one. 127 Hours and the one-armed box-office bandits 2011-02-24T22:15:01Z

Either way, the films underestimate the depth of their protagonists and the awareness of the audience. ‘Judas’ Is the Latest Political Movie to Punt on Politics 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

Woody Allen is clearly Kemp's model, and the self-pitying protagonist sees his life as a theme park, recording his disastrous life as sideshows. My Last Five Girlfriends | Film review 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z

The entire production is a much better movie to think about than to watch, because the movie on view elides the core of its subject—the consciousness of its protagonist. Generic Teen Spirit 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

And each film uses an architecturally striking set of stairs to symbolize the protagonist’s development. "Joker" fans flocking to a Bronx stairway highlights tension of media tourism 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

The movie’s style is as reactionary as its explicit doctrine: it reflects its protagonist’s embittered sense of entitlement. “Dragged Across Concrete,” Reviewed: A Stylish, Repugnant Crime Thriller Starring Mel Gibson 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

Watching the protagonist Ned Weeks — a blunt, opinionated gay man not unlike himself — Mr. Mantello understood his need to take action in the face of death and denial, he recalled recently. A Return to Acting That?s From the Heart 2011-05-25T15:10:50Z

Other scenes include instructions in which “you” — the viewer, perhaps, but also the film’s protagonist — operate cameras or manipulate photographs. Art Review: Conceptual Works in ‘Images of an Infinite Film,’ at MoMA 2014-01-02T21:51:10Z

Of course, as is typical in Austen, the female protagonist finally achieves her desired marital match -- the apogee of aspirations for young women of the time. A puppet version of Jane Austen's 'Northanger Abbey' is modest success 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

While the chief pleasure of the Murderbot Diaries is the protagonist’s unique and delightful voice, “Network Effect” introduces new characters and subtly different perspectives in a way that only amplifies its shocking joy. Visit These Science-Fiction Worlds to Make Sense of Our Own 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

The movie is intentionally quiet and bleak, with Autumn, its unwilling protagonist, spoken to far more than she speaks. From "Plan B" to "Grandma," 5 abortion road trip movies that reflect our frustrating reality 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z

Don is not the only flawed protagonist on television to fade out by looping back to the start. Shifting From ‘Mad Men’ to Strong Women in a Series Finale 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Ms. Crosley, for instance, has a novel coming out next year that she worked on during the pandemic, in which her protagonist is forced to bump into everyone she’s ever dated, every night. The Welcome Return of the Run-In 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

No rental car and GPS for him: “There was something that to me felt corrupt and dishonest about having an air-conditioned experience of the protagonist’s ordeals,” he said. A Debut Novel. A Tiny Press. A Pulitzer Finalist. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

In these stories, which so far have seemed to mostly feature men, the protagonists undergo a transformative experience without ever leaving the microcosm where we first encountered them. With Films Like ‘Inside,’ One Actor Does the Heavy Lifting 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

There's been spring's breakthrough, "Love, Simon," a teen rom-com with a gay male as its protagonist. Rom-coms finally get a #MeToo reboot 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

He had exactly the right level of empty-headed neediness to play Lost’s ostensible protagonist. No thanks for your time: the worst movie auditions from A-list stars 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

“I was assigned to Field 748 today,” says our Chinese protagonist Tao. The dystopian future is already underway in Maja Lunde's novel 'The History of Bees' 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

“The viewer sitting down to watch “Bodyguard” was nervously aware that the ‘James Bond Rule’ — the protagonist must survive to play another day — may not apply.” ‘Bodyguard’ Was a Sensation in Britain. But Can It Conquer America? 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

When the protagonist of “The Painted Skin” initiates a passionate affair with a young woman of ethereal beauty, she makes him promise never to mention her existence to anyone. Review | The perfect book to help celebrate the Chinese New Year 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

His protagonists tend to see women as ruthless money-grabbers who exchange sexual favours for shopping trips. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam) ? review 2010-11-19T12:35:00Z

Accurate though it may be, it’s an odd experience to watch the protagonist of a large-scale disaster movie electively lapse into deadly inaction. What Disaster Films Miss About Death 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

And while the protagonists never actually hit each other, they don’t need to, finding words far more lethal. Movie Review: Cynicism Alongside Hope at Venice Film Festival 2011-09-01T12:30:05Z

There’s one great song — “Pick My Brain,” in which the protagonist goes to a party, with the usual intentions, and finds himself vexed by a dimwit asking him how to get into the music business. Critics? Choice: New Music From Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson 2010-04-18T23:21:00Z

If Alice and Oliver are tamer protagonists, Bock is still interested in what makes us reckless — how we search for escape when our lives are put under too much pressure. 'Alice & Oliver' is like 'Love Story,' but with more grit and less sap 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

That role is Annalise Keating, the tough-talking criminal law professor and protagonist of ABC’s “How to Get Away With Murder,” which earned Ms. Davis her first Emmy nomination, for outstanding lead actress in a drama. Viola Davis, on Finding Creative Space in TV With No Limitations 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

Plus, there are at least 10 reasons why Game of Thrones is pushing the show's two major protagonists into one another's arms. It's Getting Harder to Deny the Connection Between Jon Snow and Daenerys on Game of Thrones 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z

Anna, the protagonist, is, like Lessing, a novelist from Africa. Doris Lessing’s ‘Golden Notebook’ and Our Era of Unrest 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z

Many of Flattery’s protagonists have endured some sort of trauma, but the events are so buried we feel we’re getting only their bitter remains, and we’re unsure if those remains are strength, or apathy. The Macabre, the Sinister, the Absurd: Story Time Just Got Weirder 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

The novel becomes, among other things, as the young protagonist's experience gets ever more extreme, a sustained interrogation of the idea of "normal". 'America beats on you so hard the whole time' 2012-06-16T23:05:27Z

It is presented without judgment, with full agency in the hands of its protagonist and with a nuance rarely achieved among its predecessors. Why 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl' Should Be Required Viewing 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

It’s spooky and unnerving, as the protagonist begins to feel the modern city streets are haunted by strange creatures called paramental entities, and one of them might be after him. Perspective | Beyond ‘The Shining’: Let’s talk about our favorite scary stories that take us inside unusual hauntings 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

Hollywood’s fixation on Manson comes at a time when cult leaders and serial killers have joined doctors and lawyers as the television protagonists du jour. In Hollywood, a Focus on Manson and His Women 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Except that their workplace appears to be some kind of panopticon command center, from which they can observe and even manipulate our five idiotic protagonists as they launch themselves into horror-movie hell. “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z

“I like to think I know what death is,” says Jojo, the young protagonist. The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

It didn’t abandon the idea of the truly tortured protagonist, though. ‘Homeland’ Season 7: Once Again, It’s All Up to Carrie 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

Perhaps the ultimate irony of the book is what it has in common with its protagonist: Like June herself, “Yellowface” seems desperate to not be misunderstood. Her Novel Became a Best Seller. The Trouble: The Manuscript Was Stolen. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

I was captivated by the protagonist's reluctant political awakening, by his final act of rebellion, so quiet and so reckless at the same time. Rereading: Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi 2011-01-04T14:26:37Z

Béjart’s “Boléro” is a steady crescendo in which a lone protagonist standing on a tabletop gradually, like a dance demagogue, drives an all-male ensemble of followers into a frenzy of excitement. Dance Review: The Paris Opera Ballet at the David H. Koch Theater 2012-07-12T21:49:08Z

But his chief delusion may be that he’s the protagonist of this film. Review: ‘The Day After’ and the Awkwardness of Lunch With the Boss 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

The protagonist of Archer, the filthy and brilliant animated comedy which begins its fourth season in the UK this week, Sterling is an immensely gifted, immensely attractive secret agent. Life of spy: the return of Archer 2013-07-12T13:00:00Z

The energy flickers only briefly during the longer monologues, one of which is an update on the protagonist of “In the Red and Brown Water” that feels a bit beside the point. 'Brothers Size' thrills with wit, vibrancy at Fountain Theatre 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

At first glance, the movie appears to be a playful “Rugrats”-style comedy, with youngsters engaging in high jinks while our protagonist runs after them in exasperation. ‘Bébé’s Kids’ Shared a Lesson About Racial Injustice 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z

“People, all people, Americans, whoever, are at their most civilized when they’re playing cricket,” the novel’s Trinidadian protagonist muses. When Cricket Was a Symbol, Not Just a Sport 2011-07-17T02:00:06Z

The original Splosion Man is captured by evil scientists, but a female protagonist is created and sets about to release her male companion. Game On: 'Ms. Splosion Man' challenges; 'Catherine' puzzles 2011-08-16T22:38:04Z

But casting a wolf as a protagonist becomes a tricky gesture when expressing inner feelings is limited to encyclopedic facts about the species. ‘Wolf Play’ Review: What Keeps a Family From Falling to Pieces? 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

The protagonist is an outwardly ordinary-looking hit man who’s as physically unassuming as he is inevitably nihilistic: Other people are awful, the world is hopeless, “we’re living on a pile of corpses,” etc. ‘The Killer’ Review: He’s a Deadly Bore 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

The protagonist of “You Will Never Be Forgotten” is working at “the world’s most popular search engine” as a content moderator. Mary South on Content Moderation and Trauma 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

Musicals have license to make the protagonist’s colorful inner world explode in song and scenery, but they risk losing what’s understated and, with it, the comedy of contrast. “Amélie” Arrives on Broadway 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

The protagonists were patrician stalwarts of the British aristocracy who, moved by a sense of duty to empire and the old order, were intent on delivering civilisation from the Devil's icy fingers. Truly, fangs ain't what they used to be 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

Like Jack, the protagonist in “Herman Melville, Volume 1,” is originally from Tucson, although the setting of this story is a long way from the dryness and heat of Arizona. This Week in Fiction: Victor Lodato on the Short Story as a Fling 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Gerard artfully blurs each event into the next, echoing the protagonist's anxiety-ridden confusion as she circles her boyfriend and tries to hold herself together. Sarah Gerard's debut, 'Binary Star,' radiates beauty 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Each protagonist is wrestling with the morality of romance, but the calculus of seduction is different in every time frame. Review | What was it like to live in a world both more formal and more brutal than our own? 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

Rappers are sonic protagonists who turn words into sounds, and whenever they break our collective contract with time, they’re literally telling us how to get outside of life. Review | Is Blueface ahead of his time? Or does he just rap like it? 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

The book's key ingredient – a sassy but klutzy female protagonist, embroiled in comical misadventures – could arguably be found in Jane Eyre, leaving any definition so elastic as to verge on meaningless. Sophie Kinsella: 'You can be highly intelligent ? and also ditzy and klutzy' 2012-02-12T20:00:11Z

Its protagonist starts out pro-Communist but ends up so disillusioned that he tries to assassinate Fidel Castro. Leon Ichaso, Whose Films Explored Latino Identity, Dies at 74 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z

In the series premiere of “Silicon Valley,” protagonist Richard acknowledges as much. Teach girls to embrace their inner nerd: Making Silicon Valley look less dorky won’t solve its gender problem 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

Still, Ms. Williams said she could identify with the protagonist’s desire to express herself and feel comfortable in her own feelings. Jessica Williams Charts Her Course: ‘I Know What I’d Be Incredible At’ 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

In "The Soft Machine," the protagonist confronts Mayan priests who manipulate the minds of slave laborers, and Burroughs uses the so-called "cut-up" splicing method to jumble the text and disrupt the narrative order. Turkish state pans Beat Generation author 2011-05-16T11:46:04Z

"The disdain the filmmakers seem to have for their protagonist is constant, inescapable," Gay says in her review. "The Whale" rocked the Oscars' boat 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

Ramos tweeted the anime cover art from "Berserk – The Golden Age Arc Movie Collection" on DVD, which features the protagonist Guts. Exclusive: Inside accused Annapolis shooter’s alt-right theology of mass murder 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

She has drawn a protagonist who doesn’t at all see herself in a teary TV movie. Carrie Coon, at the top of her game, returns to the stage where it all began 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Concluding with the eerie grace of the title track, this album shows Wilson to be one of modern rock's most cunning and soulful protagonists. Steven Wilson: The Raven That Refused to Sing – review 2013-02-21T21:45:02Z

Some classic children’s fables painted life as a Museum of Surrealist Art, a dreamscape for the underage protagonist to wander through. Oz Revisited – Part 3: A Parable of Empowerment 2013-09-18T15:30:10Z

Inspired by the adult-seeming protagonists, I wore eyeliner and high heels to my middle school dances and got my uniform skirt hemmed as high as my parents would allow. How the Clique Books Taught Me to Hate Other Girls and Myself 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema shoots him in a constant state of isolation and worry, harkening back to the way he photographed the young protagonist of 2008 Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In. Wahlberg Punches Above his Weight in The Fighter 2010-12-09T06:00:00Z

In the end, as the old architectural adage goes, "form follows function," and this was going to be a movie about Riggan Thomson, our harrowed protagonist. 'Birdman' screenwriters created tension within its one-shot narration 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

He decided that protest an anthem authored by a slavery protagonist that lays a fragile promise of freedom and equality was his best option. Colin The Lionheart: Kaepernick is pushing the envelope for black male athletes 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Both books' protagonists are obsessed with environmental preservation. How to turn a great American novel into a Great one 2011-02-17T09:49:44Z

With their relentless self-examinations the protagonists mostly disprove one of the sharpest insights in the book, spoken by the female journalist: Review | A novel attempt to understand the father of the atomic bomb 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

“His brain, both hemispheres, welled up with unanticipated infusions of new information,” she writes of one protagonist. Three New Story Collections Make Place a Protagonist 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

She brings a notable religiosity to her conversations with the show’s protagonist, Celie, and a greater intensity to both her anger and her desire for Celie’s abusive husband, Mister. Heather Headley’s 15-Year Intermission 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

So we begin with Mozart's Abendempfindung at 19.30, then follow our protagonist as he contemplates the natural beauty of the night, before conflicting feelings begin to erode his calm. William Berger: Insomnia – review 2012-08-08T14:31:41Z

The first in a series, the book introduces readers to the curious protagonist, who lives in Africa with her extended family and longs to see snow. Dear Reader, Meet Your Match: An Advice Column for Book Lovers 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

It narrates the events leading up to Anne Boleyn's execution, a climax arranged by Mantel's protagonist, Thomas Cromwell. The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z

It is written as a dramatic monologue, with the protagonist constantly addressing the reader as "you," and it changed how I thought books could work. Mohsin Hamid on his enduring love of the second-person narrative 2013-03-22T07:00:02Z

It’s not male, it’s not female, it’s protagonist. ‘Unbound’ Shows Transgender Men Ripping Up Old Scripts 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

It prints two pages of the protagonist's supposed laughter at her husband's infidelities. Guardian book club: The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore 2010-04-23T23:07:00Z

And there's no letup for the next several tunes, including "Gun," which skewers a violent culture that just might lead its lone-wolf protagonist astray. Review: Iggy and Stooges still have raw power 2013-04-29T14:07:09Z

Rather than placing the daughter in peril, it forces the protagonist to juggle parental responsibilities and professional duties. Movie Review: ‘3 Days to Kill’ Stars Kevin Costner 2014-02-20T23:34:30Z

But there is a tiny subset of unresolved and evil endings that leave their protagonists poised, helpless, on the brink of cataclysm, with the reader forever conscious, forever appalled and forever powerless to intervene. Coming to bad ends: stories that refuse closure 2012-11-20T11:53:34Z

Personally, I'm hoping to embrace and exert at least some of the energy of the protagonist of the Netflix series "Samurai Gourmet." Netflix's "Samurai Gourmet" has the pleasure-seeking, main character energy I want for the summer 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z

We follow three protagonists – a survivor of the opening slaughter, an anti-lycan politician and a teenage werewolf girl – on an examination of identity and xenophobia in a world fearful of the other in its midst. Science fiction roundup – reviews 2013-06-14T07:00:00Z

For it will turn out that "Stephen" is not – was not – the protagonist's "real" name after all. Spies by Michael Frayn 2012-06-01T21:51:01Z

Early PC games were often built around selecting dialogue for your protagonist from a menu, or even asking you to type your own. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: A Playwright on the Art of Video Games 2012-12-26T13:00:50Z

But to make up for Otis' annoying storylines, his best friend, Eric alleviates the banality of the boring protagonist. On "Sex Education," Ncuti Gatwa's Eric always shines, even in a disappointing final season 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z

To research her protagonist, a Revolutionary War-era surgeon, she decided to study every book such a person might really have read. A Bubbling Caldron of Witches, Daemons and Vampires 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

As distastefully abusive as that premise seems, an undeniable chemical spark occurs between Dockery and Botto — enough to propel “Good Behavior” past the glut of stylish but mediocre cable dramas that feature morally ambiguous protagonists. Lady Mary as a boozy, floozy Southern criminal? Works like a charm. 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

The tiny protagonist journeys along a narrow plank that changes continuously: It snaps, it tilts, it rises, it lowers; it transforms from a solid rod into an undulating tube and even into a segmented organism. Spare Times for Children for April 26-May 2 2013-04-25T22:27:06Z

There’s a full slate of Pixar films to come, including “Brave,” the first of its features with a female protagonist. ArtsBeat Blog: Ask Pixar's John Lasseter Your Questions 2011-10-13T21:39:56Z

But the hope is there — or if it isn’t hope, it’s maybe something better: levelheaded, compassionate protagonists, with just enough integrity and ambivalence that they never feel sentimental. ‘Friday Black’ Paints a Dark Portrait of Race in America 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

Miller’s book promotes Circe to protagonist status, imagining a vivid, multifaceted heroine. Analysis | Women, once relegated to supporting roles, are becoming the protagonists of their own stories 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

It wants its protagonists to steer the ship, not to be carried by the current. Two Astonishing Views of O.J. Simpson and His Trial 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

The novel is essentially choral: it has multiple protagonists, and it aims to speak to the condition of men generally. Two Novels About Frustrated White Men, Thirty-five Years Apart 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

If the hot animated dad thing feels like a modern phenomenon, that’s in part because early Disney movies were more content to leave the protagonist’s parents out entirely. Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? An Investigation 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

Although only her Johnson book trafficked explicitly in psychoanalytic methods and concepts, this education quietly informed her later work, which benefited from her focus on her protagonists’ upbringing, personality and human relationships. The True Grit of Four American Presidents 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

The book centers on the adventure the protagonist embarks on with his three friends to save his brother. Festival of Books: How actor Jason Segel rescued his own 'Nightmares!' 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

Sam Roth, our heroine, is much like many of my female protagonists: self-deprecating and pragmatic. We sent the wrong bachelor on this date. Was he Mr. Right after all? 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

When the eponymous protagonist, an elderly and overweight journalist, confides each day in the photograph of his dead wife, I experienced their relationship as a living thing. Rereading: Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi 2011-01-04T14:26:37Z

In fact it’s really only because he focuses his tales on young protagonists that his books are marked as intended for children. In Philip Pullman’s First Graphic Novel, a Ghost Ship Travels Through Time 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

As with “The Chase,” it’s unclear whether the protagonist has awakened from one dream or entered into another. 1940s Dispatches From the Land of Wynken, Blynken and Noir 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

The production’s newly enhanced scale matches the aspirations of not only the play’s author but also its protagonists. Review: ‘Oslo’ Fills a Large Canvas in a Thrilling Production 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

And then deflates when on the first page the young protagonist, 6 years old and living in a cramped East Cleveland apartment, struggles to wake up her naked mother from their bathroom floor. In Hollywood, Stories About People of Color Are Still Rare. These Y.A. Fantasy Novels Pick Up the Slack. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

How do you identify with Erin and the other female protagonists in your films? "Destroyer" director Karyn Kusama: "I’m keeping a smile on my face and seething inside" 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

Similarly, the town of this “Lucia” begins to match its protagonist’s mind, eventually arriving at a fragmented cluster of buildings in the mad scene. Risking Boos, the Met Opera Puts Present-Day America Onstage 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

Why did you choose him as your protagonist? This Week in Fiction: Anne Enright on Writing from Life 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

Twelve of those 21 films feature a female protagonist, most of them with bigger fish to fry than mooning over men. As Cannes closes, a new breed of female lead emerges: empowered, careerist –and 'gender-neutral' 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Enter our cynical protagonist who used to repossess organs and is now being hunted for his heart. Review | Let’s talk about ‘Starship Troopers’ and other science fiction and fantasy novels that wowed us on screen 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Many of these were cheaply made and plotted repetitively, but gradually their gruesome protagonists became smarter and slicker. World War Z unleashes an unedifying breed of zombie 2013-06-17T13:58:58Z

Henry's Phastos may not be the main protagonist of "Eternals," but his cynicism and heartbreak with the ways humanity has weaponized innovation ground the movie in reality more deeply than many other Marvel projects. The dazzling star power of "Eternals" is both its triumph and its undoing 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

"Physical" and its energetic, oceanside setting and relatable and determined female protagonist make it the perfect summer addition to Apple TV's growing catalog. In Apple TV's trailer for new series “Physical,” “Desperate Housewives” meets ‘80s nostalgia 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Though Olive is the book's protagonist, she barely figures in many of the stories, which loosely coalesce around themes of marriage, aging, community and mental illness rather than a propulsive narrative. Frances McDormand embraces abrasive 'Olive Kitteridge' 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

It’s hard not to wonder, too, how this story might play if its protagonist wasn’t a woman who, as this movie sees it, needed so much male defending. Review: The Big and Minor Stakes of ‘Molly’s Game’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z

Jones also spoke about why Rogue One‘s portrayal of strong female protagonists is so important. “I would say there’s a huge amount of respect for women in the Rebellion. Felicity Jones on Rogue One’s Jyn Erso, 'Unlikely Heroine' 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

The stakes, that is, as Leonard and his protagonist define them, which is the fulcrum on which this entire book turns. A Fascinating Page-Turner Made From an Unlikely Subject: Federal Reserve Policy 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z

Mark you know as Rick Grimes, the closest thing to a protagonist on “The Walking Dead.” “Game of Thrones,” “Mad Men,” “Breaking Bad,” “The Office”: Let’s play Six Degrees of “Love, Actually” 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

You mean the one where the ostensible protagonist is literally banned from talking for the majority of the film? Snow White and the seven lines: has Disney got a princess problem? 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

Suri, the protagonist, lives among traveling merchants — but she claims she comes from “the land of monsters” and was carried into the valley by a dragon when she was an infant. Beauty and the Beasts 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

At its most literal level, “Knight of Cups” is an encyclopedia of its protagonist’s love affairs, casual and serious, painful and frolicsome, blonde and brunette. Review: In ‘Knight of Cups,’ a Writer’s Flesh Is Willing but His Spirit Is Weak 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

After “Hannah Montana” ended, Cyrus began the familiar process of distancing herself from the show’s wholesome protagonist. Miley Cyrus’s Quest for Realness 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

In “Shoplifting from American Apparel,” Lin inserts himself as the protagonist Sam, a vegan writer who lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

Racial animus is never far from the surface, but if Zahler’s protagonists are casually bigoted, his bad guys are far worse. A Director Who Is Old School With a Vengeance 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

Dorothy is the protagonist's single mother, and he's her only child. "The Tender Bar" star Lily Rabe on "confident" director George Clooney: "He's a great leader" 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

The original trilogy’s protagonist Luke Skywalker, played by Mark Hamill, narrates the beginning of the trailer, but does not appear in the clip. Watch Han Solo Return in the New 'Star Wars' Trailer 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Some of our main protagonists are castaways from their previous lives. "Nudity is not indecent": "Naked Gardens" directors on baring all, even themselves, for documentary 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z

It’s not as if he’s been mauled by a bear, left for dead by his compatriots and sent traipsing through hostile Indian country like Hugh Glass, the early-19th-century protagonist of “The Revenant.” Meet the author of ‘The Revenant’ — except you can’t because of his federal job 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Leave it to the team at MythBusters to put Breaking Bad protagonist Walter White’s last act of desperation under the microscope. MythBusters Proves Breaking Bad Final Scene Possible 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Those who are protesting don't want to see non-whites patronised with background roles as saintly ciphers; they want them to play mainstream parts as three-dimensional protagonists in what is, after all, their story. Attempting the Impossible: why does western cinema whitewash Asian stories? 2013-01-02T13:48:00Z

Far from sticking to its own narrative style, "Euphoria" has fun drawing on different fictional styles to personify the inner worlds of its protagonists. How "Euphoria" challenges viewers’ expectations of what a television show should be 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

Trust that no one would be more stalwartly at your side than this novel’s protagonist. Moral Questions Lurk Beneath a Ghost Story in ‘Melmoth’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

He’s the only one of our protagonists who seems to have come to terms with the extremely crooked nature of politics in the suburbs of L.A. “True Detective” recap: Internal investigations and the shoot-out of the century 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

In Graham Greene’s 1940 novel, “The Power and the Glory,” the unnamed protagonist, a “whisky priest,” utters the book’s most resonant line. Books of The Times: ?Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb? 2010-08-05T22:00:00Z

Did the nominees play love interests, sex objects, and worried wives of the male protagonists, or were they the agents of their own stories? Oscar Spotlight: The Actresses 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

For me, the real challenge was turning from an antagonist to a protagonist of sorts. Corey Stoll on Becoming the New Face of Fortune in ‘Billions’ 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

Although the film-makers may have hoped to address the abolition of Iran's family protection law following the revolution, their stark juxtapositions between the protagonists' religions make the film a crude vehicle for Christian triumphalism. Ben Affleck's Argo takes Iran's revolutionary themes as its own 2012-11-07T15:09:52Z

Give us more and better contemporary stories in which Jewishness isn’t the problem or even the main subject, but rather a facet of the protagonist’s nuanced identity. Why Are There So Many Holocaust Books for Kids? 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

The embodiment of such variation in emotions illustrates the complexity of the issues the protagonists are going through. How "Euphoria" challenges viewers’ expectations of what a television show should be 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

We see kisses, punch-ups and even a car chase from the protagonist's viewpoint. How Enter the Void sees itself in Lady in the Lake 2010-09-22T11:15:00Z

His films are known for being almost completely devoid of action, featuring lengthy conversations between the usually young protagonists. 2010-01-11T19:20:00Z

Mr. David has been the voice of the Arbiter, a character first introduced in Halo 2 as an enemy to the series’ protagonist, the Master Chief. Familiar Faces Lend Star Power to Video Game Voices 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

But it’s not the protagonist who gets the ax — it’s the presumptive antagonist. I’m a Grown Man, and ‘The Invisible Man’ Made Me Scream 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

“I treat depressed people, anxious people, people in deep grief,” her protagonist declares.“It’s not ‘Silence of the Lambs.’ A psychiatrist and a sociopath face off in Lisa Scottoline’s latest thriller 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

Instead of connecting us with a single protagonist like "24"'s Jack Bauer or Carrie Mathison's CIA operative on "Homeland," "Accused" offers a new traveler in the gray areas of morality every week. Marlee Matlin and Billy Porter help viewers understand the "Accused" in Fox's new crime series 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

Grace is the protagonist of “Minding Ben,” a title from Hyperion that is due out next year. Cornering the Market on Nanny Novels 2010-07-13T22:34:00Z

Most of the protagonists don't quite fit into the world – some are too old, some too young, some dream too much and many drink too much – but there's not much coherence in mood or vision. Town & Country: New Irish Short Stories edited by Kevin Barry – review 2013-07-05T15:24:00Z

Twain's protagonist takes advantage of his knowledge to set up the infrastructure of a civilised society. Michael Brooks's top 10 time travel books 2012-11-28T13:38:00Z

In “Palindromes” — perhaps Solondz’s most perverse and inscrutable work — the naive runaway protagonist is played by numerous different actors, varying in age, race, gender and size. Todd Solondz: I’m Judd Apatow’s dark side 2012-06-06T00:00:00Z

The play features a divisive, punitive protagonist and whistle-blower, Dr. Thomas Stockmann, who tries to warn his town about contaminated water polluting the spa that keeps the town solvent. Ibsen Wrote ‘An Enemy of the People’ in 1882. Trump Has Made It Popular Again. 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

The video depicts an intense fight in which a soldier from Halo fights the protagonist from the Nintendo game series Metroid before they join forces against swarms of aliens. Monty Oum, Web-Series Animator, Dies at 33 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Ms. Whittaker grew up on beloved 1980s genre films like “Back to the Future,” “The Goonies” and “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” never discouraged that there were so few female protagonists to identify with. Jodie Whittaker Brings ‘Doctor Who’ Its Biggest Change in 55 Years 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

Crime writer Lawrence Block may have had that definition in mind in the 1970s when he dreamed up Matthew Scudder, the protagonist who so far has appeared in 17 Block novels. Review: Liam Neeson Gets Taken on A Walk Among the Tombstones 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Both protagonists are eventually revealed to be pawns in a wider game – and forced to rely on each other in order to survive. Belfast-set thriller penned by ITN man Tom Bradby set for cinema debut 2012-08-20T17:13:14Z

If one imagines for a moment that Eric is going to become something resembling a sympathetic protagonist, such notions are dashed the moment he needlessly kills a tough little person who’s selling him a gun. Review: ‘Rover’ an intense look into near future 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Though I don’t consider the book autobiographical, the protagonist does go through something similar in terms of national media exposure. Confessions of a Prep-School Feminist 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

The fictional O'Brien is a powerful government official who uses torture and manipulation to gain power over the thoughts and actions of the protagonist, Winston Smith. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Willimon, the author of the political drama “Farragut North,” creates a modestly touching character study as he explores the ramifications of this traumatic incident in the life of his protagonist. | 'Spirit Control': Four Seven Whiskey, We?ve Got a Problem: A Controller?s Life in a Tailspin 2010-10-27T04:30:00Z

Far stranger, meantime, is the situation of another protagonist. Steve Erickson’s ‘Shadowbahn’ is the best kind of experimental novel 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

The films present Black protagonists in bloom — musically, visually, thematically — giving these characters a dimensionality and a depth that reflects the music itself. Jazz Onscreen, Depicted by Black Filmmakers at Last 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

But can cowboys outdistance vampires, the current reigning romantic protagonists? Galley Girl: Linda Lael Miller and the Rise of the Cowboy Romance Novel 2011-12-02T18:30:19Z

When a protagonist becomes a phenomenon, I am always interested in whether the novelist remembers the exact moment of conception. Andrea Camilleri: a life in writing 2012-07-06T21:55:16Z

The 8,000-word story seems to be a thinly veiled portrait of Fitzgerald’s own situation at the time: its protagonist is Emmet Monsen, an alcoholic writer floundering in Los Angeles. Newly Discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald Story Published 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

This is the second in the four-book Prisoners of the Empire series, which shows readers the bombing of Pearl Harbor and its aftermath through the eyes of Japanese American protagonists. Books on the Pearl Harbor attack and its aftermath for kids and teens 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

The word “controversial” often pops up in articles about the playwright so don’t be surprised if the show, livestreaming from London’s Southwark Playhouse, holds dark surprises for its protagonist. Theater to Stream: ‘Uncle Vanya’ and an Ayad Akhtar Revival 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

Mr. Stiller, suppressing his well-honed sketch comedian’s urge to wink at the audience, turns Roger into a walking challenge to the Hollywood axiom that a movie’s protagonist must be likable. Movie Review | 'Greenberg': Ben Stiller as a Slacker in Noah Baumbach?s Work 2010-03-18T21:46:00Z

Aside from best picture award at Saturday's ceremony, Lou is also up for best director and female protagonist Hao Lei is a candidate for best actress. China's 'Mystery' vies for Golden Horse film award 2012-11-23T05:38:08Z

There are some obvious similarities between you and your protagonist Josie. Author Scott Cheshire on his debut 'High as the Horses' Bridles' 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Yorkey’s clunky lyrics are what ultimately do the songs in; some are attempts to add introspection to a deeply withdrawn protagonist with a wooden disposition. Review: ‘The Visitor’ Lags Behind the Times 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

This requires the protagonists' personal issues to take a back burner to knock-down CGI wallop fests that destroy local ecosystems or ravage many square miles' worth of real estate. Bad romance: The problem with "Thor" is that the MCU is better at thunder than love 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

Like his protagonist, Vargas Llosa is a globetrotting man of adventure, easily multilingual, a teller of truth to power in his homeland, a writer unafraid to excoriate political leaders abroad. Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z

The protagonist wears the uniform of the Manhattan professional because he yearns for anonymity. Radio review: The Essay 2011-01-26T08:00:01Z

“Sometimes on my knees in a posture of prayer I am able to break through the ‘censor barrier’ — to remember,” the protagonist, Adriane, begins. A Dystopian Thriller From Joyce Carol Oates 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

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

The protagonist of “Crucify” is tired of figuratively self-immolating, acting against her best interests or chasing after the wrong guy: “Every day I crucify myself/And my heart is sick of being in chains.” “Because it’s fear, after all, that kills us”: Tori Amos released “Little Earthquakes” 25 years ago today 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

They're the ones saying, "This is the protagonist, this is the antagonist." "I'm not trying to fool anybody": From Elvis to Zod, Michael Shannon is versatile but no chameleon 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

The point about these films is not that they feature disabled protagonists, but the way the films treat the characters. Disability in film: is cinema finally moving with the times? 2012-11-12T12:25:57Z

When we meet our trio of protagonists — crass-talking, in street clothes — it’s hard to tell they are cops. ‘Les Misérables’ Review: Injustice Still Stalks the Poor of Paris 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

History, in this novel, is inseparable from story, as its protagonist Saleem Sinai was born on the same day as the nation. 5 books and films that tell the story of the trauma of the Partition of India and its aftermath 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z

He wades into touchy territory — the Holocaust, #MeToo, his mother’s sex life — but the aim here is not to tell it like it is but to find obstacles for his hapless protagonist to navigate. Jokes + Exasperation + Subtext = a New York Club Comic on the Rise 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

One of Crain’s characters is even called Hyacinth, on occasion—a nickname he was given, we eventually learn, because he reminded one of his friends of James’s protagonist. Caleb Crain’s “Overthrow” and the Power of Literary Form 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

Who is the protagonist of this novel, after all? Secret conflicts shape a family in Sandip Roy's 'Don't Let Him Know' 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

The protagonist risks his job, starves himself, goes sleep-deprived, destroys his relationship with his daughter, all in order to sit zombie-eyed in front of the box and avoid the “silent, spectral, unreal” real world. The Future Is Now, and Dark, in T. Coraghessan Boyle’s Stories 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

I mean an ironic mode of narrative, in which what a show “thinks” is different from what its protagonist does. How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

The two protagonists in “Already Gone” have to decide who they want to be, he said — and he faced a similar choice when he dropped out of high school to pursue a career in acting. A Virginia man wanted to help his charity. Keanu Reeves wanted to promote his movie. Things ‘just fell into place.’ 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

In each story, it’s too confronting, or not yet possible, for the protagonists to choose lovers their own age, the boys they really desire. A Booker Prize Winner Takes On First Love and — Just Maybe — Hope 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

But James Bond began as the literary creation of writer Ian Fleming, who himself enjoyed a life as remarkable as his famous protagonist. ‘Ian Fleming:’ James Bond’s creator — author, philander, spy 2013-12-18T23:36:01Z

The two young female roles tally with rumours that Michael Arndt's screenplay for the new film might feature a female central protagonist for the first time in a Star Wars film. Star Wars: Episode VII – casting wishlist revealed 2013-06-20T13:14:00Z

After a promising opening in the wilderness, we were transported to a 21st-century pizzeria and expected to believe that the main protagonist, Enrico, was a villain to be feared. Stage reader review roundup: your take on Damned by Despair and This House 2012-10-12T15:11:55Z

Though Tanguera flows like a drama, the plot and protagonists don't sweep you along in its current. Tanguera 2010-08-05T20:31:00Z

Making history matters a lot to the book's protagonist. The Autobiography of Fidel?Castro by Norberto Fuentes 2010-04-30T23:14:00Z

The Paris shows for summer 2013 over fashion’s long weekend have divided the protagonists into those who get the depth of possibilities — and those who are still making just clothes. Fashion Review: Then Comes the 4th Dimension 2012-09-30T17:54:41Z

I wanted the editorial landscape to mirror the protagonist's interior. "Zola" director on making a stripper and sex movie that looks and feels "consensual" 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z

In other tales of danger in which he was a protagonist, there also tend to be variations. Williams’s story on Israel rocket fire changed from one telling to another 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

Light, to adapt Manet, appears to be the main protagonist of the symbolist landscape. Van Gogh to Kandinsky; Edvard Munch: Graphic Works; Picasso and Modern – review 2012-08-04T23:05:38Z

"I am a white dwarf," her protagonist says. Sarah Gerard's debut, 'Binary Star,' radiates beauty 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

The 19th century’s other great theme — see Wagnerian opera — is redemption, and the male protagonist of most 19th-century ballets demonstrates much that needs to be redeemed. Classic Tales Of Temptation In the Woods 2011-05-14T07:11:21Z

Both Smart in “Rejoice” and Rimbaud in “Illuminations” are played as the stage protagonists. Richard Alston Dance Company at Monclair State University 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Also a protagonist who's super-dreamy and slightly unavailable, which absolutely never hurts. 'Grantchester' on PBS splendidly combines crime and contemplation 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

The protagonist of “The Stranger Inside” is Rain Winter, an investigative journalist for a national radio news service. Cunning, Damaged and Deranged: The Latest Thrillers by Women 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

Among the challenges of writing a naturalistic play featuring a protagonist more or less rooted to center stage is the difficulty of animating the drama. Theater Review: Shuler Hensley in ‘The Whale,’ by Samuel D. Hunter 2012-11-06T03:00:22Z

For one thing, I don't know of another adventure story that has a gay protagonist, at least in adult literature. "You have to think about hope": Author Silas House on democracy's demise, climate refugees and dogs 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

“Here were three African American female protagonists who weren’t necessarily divorcées or consoling each other or going away for a girls’ getaway,” he said recently. The ‘Hidden Figures’ stars on how working at NASA in the 1960s is a little like Hollywood 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

This is the fleetest, funniest and — in keeping with its adolescent protagonist — most sophomoric of the volumes translated into English thus far. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Kipling's protagonist certainly notices all the bad behaviour revealed in Austen's novels. Jane Austen is not that soothing 2013-07-11T16:47:00Z

Bernstein’s score for “To Kill a Mockingbird” exemplifies this principle with lyrical elegance, both in his simple, childlike theme for the film’s protagonist, Scout, and the more mysterious, melancholy orchestral theme for Boo Radley. Is the success of a movie score measured only on screen? 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

It was what the film needed, the film needed a character like that that would essentially be the antagonist of the protagonist. Cannes: Scott Thomas' glorious dip into darkness 2013-05-22T19:29:13Z

In the section of the play in question, the protagonist teenager named Jason tries to win over a girl by performing part of the routine with a sock puppet. ‘Hand to God’ Play Sued by Abbott and Costello Heirs Over Use of ‘Who’s on First?’ 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Often a sidekick for the human protagonist, these characters provided assistance, comic relief, and an abundance of cuteness. Clip joint: five of the best creatures in 80s fantasy cinema 2013-07-24T13:35:27Z

The central protagonist of the royalty portion of this upstairs-downstairs comedy is the type of clueless, privileged dolt we've seen a thousand times before. Sweet but unchallenging, "Miracle Workers: Dark Ages" dresses our modern ignorance in medieval garb 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Degout, as the protagonist, sings with a vigorous, taut, darkly burnished tone. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

Although Towles tells the story in the third person, there’s clearly some deep sympathy here between the protagonist and the author, who retired from a lucrative career in finance to write fiction. ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ is a charming reminder of what it means to be classy 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Homer’s Odyssey, whose protagonist endures years of peril on his way home after the Trojan War, is seen as another metaphor for the ordeal of a nation in its fifth year of recession. Myths explain Greece 2012-06-25T15:15:00Z

But the film, like the hearts of its protagonists, continues to dwell in a state of unruly, unbuttoned intensity. Movie Review: ‘Wuthering Heights,’ by Andrea Arnold, With Kaya Scodelario 2012-10-05T00:03:37Z

Among these millions, Hamid says, are those, such as his protagonist, leading lives unrecognisable to their parents – despite considerable obstacles. Mohsin Hamid 2013-03-26T19:07:18Z

Nixon sports a killer Polish accent in an against-type role, and she is the perfect foil to film’s young protagonist, a recent immigrant from India played by the impressive Geetanjali Thapa. Cynthia Nixon knows "Sex and the City" had a white feminism problem 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Flynn, unfortunately, is just another scruffy male protagonist of a type that is all over television. Review: In ‘Hunters,’ Another Hero Roots Out Planetary Aliens in Our Midst 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

You’re taking the story of Hamlet, you’re putting it in a backyard barbecue in the South with a young, queer, Black male protagonist. Sterling K. Brown Is on His Best Behavior, Just in Case 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hart, the protagonist — he is also one of the executive producers — is whiny and unappealing, which is the point. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Real Husbands of Hollywood’ and Lack of Black Male Leads 2013-01-14T23:20:39Z

Williams' Charlotte commands central attention as the resident Austen protagonist who, alongside Clarke's Georgiana, embody grace, good sense and composure above all else. A less sexy "Sanditon" doesn't evolve the plot, but so what? That's not why people watch 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

Opie’s protagonist has chosen to set fire to a failed dream; this spark reminds us that we too have a choice. Lautner fans, be warned: Catherine Opie's 'The Modernist' will play like a horror movie 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

Her most formally radical film, “The Headless Woman,” is deliberately disorienting, putting the viewer in the position of its discombobulated protagonist. Lucrecia Martel: A Director Who Confounds and Thrills 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

The best erotic thrillers often have not only calculating, glamorous female protagonists but also the guiding hand of an auteur. Where have all the erotic thrillers gone? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

But it’s always the same: The protagonist steps inside and is summarily devoured. She Escaped From Nxivm. Now She’s Written a Book About the Sex Cult. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

That poses challenges in an entertainment landscape full of antiheroes and rule-breaking protagonists. Jack Ryan Returns, This Time on Amazon 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

Edie, the protagonist of “Luster,” would never have allowed this to happen. In ‘Luster,’ a Young Woman Moves in With Her Lover — and His Family 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

Here too, of course, the protagonist's social privilege matters. The Millstone by Margaret Drabble 2011-03-26T00:05:29Z

The twinned protagonists serve as story engines even as the question of their individual fates fails to compel. Bloodlines and bloodshed run through 'World Made Straight' 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

He played George, a witty protector of the protagonist. James Franco Is Now a Theater Director, Too 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

Could you talk about the decision to first show the film’s protagonists in masks? David Mackenzie Narrates a Scene From ‘Hell or High Water’ 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Fans of Italian cinema will recall Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1970 film “The Conformist,” in which a conflicted protagonist offers to assassinate his former professor, now an anti-fascist leader in exile. Anti-Fascism With a Human Face 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Nettie, the protagonist of the first section of the book, lives with her husband and makes money giving colonics from her home. Grief, Pain and the Lingering Impact of Trauma on Black Women’s Bodies 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Paramount Pictures Jake, our protagonist played by Blake Jenner, isn’t shaken by proceedings and instead establishes himself as a cocky lothario who isn’t intimidated by people throwing ping-pong bats at him. Everybody Wants Some trailer – Linklater goes back to college for Dazed & Confused 'sequel' 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

His plots hold their share of surprises, and the little gray cells of his protagonist, Inspector Salvo Montalbano, work just fine. Review | Montalbano says farewell in the lovably quirky novel ‘Riccardino’ 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

While some may see The Bling Ring's protagonists as dumb, superficial kids, Coppola's compassion shines through. Sofia Coppola on The Bling Ring: 'What these kids did really took ingenuity' 2013-07-04T19:00:00Z

The game opens with the invasion of the protagonist’s kingdom and the brutal slaughtering of his family. Final Fantasy XVI Takes on Its ‘Star Wars’ Problem 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

The nationality of the young people — underscored by their sometimes appearing in lederhosen — also echoes the fixation of the novel’s protagonist on Adolf Hitler. Review: The Lists We Live by in Daniel Fish’s ‘White Noise’ 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

It's told with Clowes' usual biting humor, vivid renderings of plausibly bizarre behavior and his protagonist's sudden eruptions of rage. Daniel Clowes is looking for a role model in comics (sort of) 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

BoJack Horseman comes back to the streaming service on Sept. 8 for the show's fourth season — although the series protagonist appears to be missing. Here's What's Coming to Netflix in September 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

The protagonist is an American microbiologist named Henry Parsons. A Virus Upends the World in a Sweeping New Novel 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

Here are five new romances that grapple with their protagonists’ shortcomings and virtues — their worthiness of a happy ending — or at least leave their readers doing so after the final page. In These Romance Novels, the Characters Are Sexy, Hot and Toting a Ton of Emotional Baggage 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

It’s so much about water, and so much about the sea, and how the mood of the sea is musically, intimately connected to the different moods of the piece, the different moods of the protagonists. With 28,000 LEDs, It’s Lights! Lights! Lights! Action! 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

If the story of American R&B unfolds in the tension between Saturday night and Sunday morning, Green may be its truest protagonist. Al Green, the soul legend and Kennedy Center honoree, is still tired of being alone

If this sounds unbearably pretentious, rest assured there's much that is down-to-earth about this bittersweet, dialogue-driven piece which follows its protagonists through the domestic, romantic and existential ups and downs of a week. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-12-09T00:05:40Z

The protagonists of both films start off believing they are in control of the situation, but as events unfold they lose control and realize nothing is what it seems. 'Most Violent Year's' J.C. Chandor on the Sidney Lumet link 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

The original song nomination was the only nod for “Tell It Like a Woman,” which features seven short stories with female protagonists, some of them fictional and some inspired by true events. ‘Naatu Naatu’ From ‘RRR’ Wins Best Original Song 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

When its protagonist Margo disappears, she leaves oblique clues as to her whereabouts. The imaginary American town that became a tourist attraction 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z

Wanting protagonists to be likable signals a lack of sophistication. Review: In Netflix’s ‘Girlboss,’ a Heroine Who’s a Tough Sell 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

However: This may be partly because they are so much in the shadow of the protagonist. Reader reviews roundup 2012-06-08T17:37:00Z

The stories are his own — some he experiences as a protagonist, others he simply observes. Four Rising Theater Stars to Watch This Spring 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

This protagonist withholds from others, but to the reader, she is an open, if addled, book. Review | ‘Little Scratch’ drops readers into the reality of a distressed mind 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

“It’s a relief to be the protagonist, instead of the girlfriend,” she says, grateful for the increased screentime now given to women aged over 40 on TV. Diane Lane: ‘It’s a relief to be the protagonist instead of the girlfriend’ 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

The protagonist or narrator is often an author, sometimes he is looking for an “ideal friend” — Walpole himself was gay — and sometimes the plot reflects the jealousies and psychological complexities attendant on the literary life. He met Hitler, was mocked by Maugham, but what of Hugh Walpole’s books? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

The only exception is Charles Xavier, who as a character with a physical disability is near-unique as a blockbuster movie protagonist. The “X-Men” franchise’s diversity problem is getting worse 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

The protagonist is so busy frolicking naked with his ballerina doll that he doesn’t realize his students have stopped attending class, the police are raiding their dormitories and election candidates are being disqualified without reason. ‘Owlish’ Is a Darkly Fantastical Parable About Totalitarianism 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

And only 24 percent of protagonists of the year’s top 100 grossing films were women. Analysis | How Scarlett Johansson and Dwayne Johnson represent Hollywood’s uneven strides toward inclusivity 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

Throughout the first part of the book, Lee builds the tension, drawing us in slowly, revealing the Maycomb her protagonist thought she knew. Review: Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' reveals a darker side of Maycomb 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

The protagonist, Detective Superintendent Linna, is a dour but utterly principled and likable fellow. Review | Oh, the horror! Why it’s hard to look away, even when a book is full of gore. 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Complicating the plot is a romantic conflict between the protagonist and his former girlfriend. Sting musical 'The Last Ship' struggling at Broadway box office 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

Yet the plot does show a series of ethical gray areas in the protagonists' lives, avoiding the simple black-and-white view of morality that can sneak into historical storytelling. Democracies don’t bounce back post-dictatorship. "Argentina, 1985" shows how justice looks afterward 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z

The recent New York productions starred Stephen McKinley Henderson as the protagonist, who is clinging to his Riverside Drive apartment while also dealing with family and legal matters. Stephen Adly Guirgis wins Pulitzer for 'Between Riverside and Crazy' 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

The protagonist of one my all-time favorite books, “The New Confessions,” by William Boyd, begins life in Edinburgh, on the High Street. Read Your Way Through Edinburgh 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

The lonely 12-year-old protagonist of this novel has lost her mother to cancer, but over spring break she befriends an independent-minded boy who changes everything. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

A sense of disorientation unites audience and protagonist in “The Other Place,” a new drama by Sharr White about a forceful businesswoman confronting the onset of an illness whose nature keeps eluding her grasp. | 'The Other Place': Confronting an Illness and a Life in Shambles 2011-03-29T08:30:23Z

Mortality loomed large; several of his films featured elderly protagonists that were clearly meant to be surrogate figures. Manoel de Oliveira, Pensive Filmmaker Who Made Up for Lost Time, Is Dead 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

The number of female protagonists on the big screen was down five percentage points in 2017, according to a new study. Number of female Hollywood leads fell in 2017, study shows 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

Throughout the novel, you describe Fitzgerald’s process writing “The Last Tycoon” and the way in which his protagonist haunted him. Stewart O'Nan chats about F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'West of Sunset' 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Now he has raised the stakes — widening both the emotional palette and the spectrum of human and canine abuse — in a feature-length film he wrote and directed, “Tyrannosaur,” centered on the same less-than-lovable protagonist. Paddy Considine Directs ?Tyrannosaur,? Starring Peter Mullan 2011-11-12T22:00:05Z

It’s the product of the protagonist, Cleo, scrubbing the driveway and cleaning up dog mess, which her employers, a middle-class Mexican family, chide her for not removing promptly. Oscar contender Roma stirs up nostalgia and guilt in Mexico’s middle class 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z

He says his protagonist may not be Taliban, even; the whole ordeal might be a case of mistaken identity. David Thomson on Jerzy Skolimowski 2011-03-24T22:17:00Z

Sure, I'd like to play the protagonist, but it is more fun playing the bad guy. 'iZombie': David Anders says villain Blaine is part-Spike, part-James Spader 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

And then in the second part the script is repeated – with the actors replaced by the true protagonist of the story and his true friends. Paris, home of the avant-garde 2011-03-26T00:05:47Z

There are so many different protagonists and hero journeys inside of "P-Valley." Katori Hall on creating "P-Valley," demystifying sex work and the art of filming a pole dance 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

This opens up to reveal the protagonist and to embody the two different prisons in which he was detained. The Arrest of Ai Weiwei – review 2013-04-18T00:04:17Z

Its three movements, each in a different style, correspond to the childhood, adolescence, and adulthood of its female protagonist—and that’s all you need to know. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z

Of course it’s not irrelevant that the protagonists in this love affair are two women, and of course there are political and social issues at stake here. “Carol” isn’t just a “lesbian movie”: Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara’s ’50s love story is a classic American screen romance 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

As plain "Iain Banks", our author began his career with The Wasp Factory, a novel whose dénouement brought a shocking twist, in which our assumptions about the protagonist were overturned. Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks 2012-07-20T21:55:02Z

But “Ordinary People” is less invested in the celebrities that serve as its touchstones than in the diaphanous experience of its non-famous protagonists. In “Ordinary People,” Diana Evans Blends Domesticity and Celebrity, with a Gothic Twist 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

We know very little about the protagonist’s life: what exactly she translates and writes, who her boyfriend is, what her kids are like, how old she is, what she looks like. “Seasonal Associate” Is a Labor Memoir for the Amazon Era 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

The operation took its gory code name, Mincemeat, from the fact that its protagonist was literally dead meat. Books of The Times: ?Operation Mincemeat? by Ben Macintyre 2010-05-11T21:44:00Z

His latest film, "Lingui," which premiered at Cannes and next screens at the Toronto International Film Festival, is his first feature with a female protagonist. In "Lingui," a teenager is forced to seek an abortion in Chad: "Injustice is against women, always" 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

I love a kind of shambling outsider protagonist who always feels like they’re “other.” 'Transparent' Creator Jill Soloway on Making the World Safer for Trans People 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

Art is a mystery whose lineaments are often obscure to its protagonists. The secret to creativity 2010-05-17T12:06:00Z

Each of her ongoing Movie People series of little wooden cutouts describes the plot of a movie, alongside painted silhouettes of the film's protagonists. Dorothy Iannone: art's original bad girl 2013-03-13T18:00:54Z

For Mr. Warlikowski, Thomas’s protagonist shares a great deal in common with the mythological figure of Orestes. A Decidedly French “Hamlet” Returns to Paris 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

At times, the proceedings resemble a particularly painful episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” with the wisecracking, can’t-help-himself protagonist sinking deeper and deeper into a quicksand of his own making. ‘Weiner’ Covers a Political Campaign Set on Self-Destruct 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

But then his productions are famous for their gentle irony, their ridiculing of theatrical and operatic conventions, and their unheroic protagonists. My fair fräulein: an Eliza Doolittle for the 21st century 2012-08-14T19:00:04Z

Most closely, it mirrors “Ruby,” on the Style Network, which has followed its protagonist through four seasons of the ups and downs of weight loss, with side helpings of romantic and personal drama. Television in Review: ?Women, War & Peace? on PBS - Review?Chelsea Settles,? an MTV Reality Show - Review?Reed Between the Lines? on BET - Review 2011-10-10T23:24:44Z

Her protagonist, a nurse named Raymond, gets involved when he helps care “for the 24th known case of a mysterious new illness” — ground zero, as it were. Joyce Brabner looks back at the early days of AIDS 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

Like the protagonist, Tursun found work at a government institute after graduating. A Uyghur Author and Translator Were Detained. Now, Their Novel Speaks For Them. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

But because there is no single protagonist, that creates its own tension, its own drive. Tom McCarthy Narrates a Scene From ‘Spotlight’ 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

The protagonist of “The Girls I’ve Been,” Nora, was raised by a con artist mother and brought up in a world of violence and deceit. 6 Unforgettable Y.A. Thrillers to Add to Your Reading List 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

This pitch-black series, with its brooding protagonist, may draw comparisons with “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” but consider this: The stories are even sharper. Review: ‘The Keeper of Lost Causes,’ Pitch-Black Nordic Noir 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

I think there’s been some reaction to the fact that we didn’t cut away to victims, that the protagonist didn’t get proper punishment. The Oscar Hunt: For DiCaprio, ‘Wolf’ Is ‘Reflection of the Truth’ 2014-02-13T22:40:31Z

His protagonists were likely to be impaled by love’s harpoon, or swept away by a romantic typhoon, or treated like a buffoon, or finding solace only when marooned. Remembering Gerry Goffin, the '60s Poet of Teen Heartbreak 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Short chapters presented in free verse make this an easy book to read, though it’s the most sober of the three under review, thanks to the more realistic career of its protagonist. Of Mice and Men 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

Flawed yet sharply drawn characters like Ruth Galloway offer so much more than the stoic, seamless, practically peerless protagonists who command the pages of too many mysteries and thrillers. 'The House at Sea's End': mysterious remains 2012-01-18T21:16:10Z

Only three years ago, the eminent children’s book writer and artist Walter Dean Myers wrote an opinion article in The New York Times lamenting the paucity of children’s books with African-American protagonists and themes. Children’s Primers Court the Littlest Radicals 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

But at least two films — “Somewhere” and “Greenberg” — took a tough-love attitude toward their immature male protagonists, reckoning the emotional costs of delayed maturity and extended adolescence. Film: The Cinematic State of Things 2010-12-16T19:28:34Z

Certainly I learned more about our protagonist's relationship with Clara and his line of work from reading synopses of on Amazon. Review: George Clooney's 'The American' Fails to Thrill 2010-09-01T10:15:00Z

In his later work, though, Mamet seems to begin not with a location or protagonist but with a theme. Has David Mamet lost the plot? 2013-06-12T19:00:03Z

I hesitate to make this story into a parable—its protagonist would have protested—but this, after all, is a keynote address. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

In the TV series, the protagonist had 24 hours to save the world. Get me Jack Bauer - Labour calls in 24 director to revive election campaign 2010-04-26T23:05:00Z

Chief among its merits is Mark Rylance’s instantly winning gentle giant, who beautifully butchers the English language while protecting the story’s pint-sized protagonist and bringing Dahl’s whimsical ideas to life. The 12 Best Summer Movies You Might Have Missed 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

There will be regrets, and deaths, and special appearances from other recurring Mosley protagonists as Easy continues his journey through the country as it was, and is, rather than the stuff of myths and dreams. Four Crime Novels, Brimming With Venom and Dread 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

Todd, one of the things that’s almost universal in your films is that you offer us a protagonist that we may not like. Todd Solondz: I’m Judd Apatow’s dark side 2012-06-06T00:00:00Z

Yet it’s not entirely the writers’ fault that touchstone male protagonists are jerks. Keep your man-child antiheroes: The new crush-worthy guy is the quietly competent, grown-up man 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

In “Submission” and his other novels, Mr. Houellebecq’s protagonists are numb men who long for feeling, nonbelievers who crave belief. Michel Houellebecq, Casually Provocative 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

What prevents that from happening is "Leviathan's" skill with character, the way its top-flight actors convincingly bring its despondent protagonists to life. Open up mighty 'Leviathan,' see bleak Russia's soul 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

And it was such an unusual element for your female protagonist, your heroine, to be a blackout drunk. Emily Blunt Rides the Unnerving Rails of Addiction in ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Or is the entire form inherently regressive and ill-suited to the present era, especially when it comes to stories about race told from the point of view of a white protagonist? Perspective | ‘Green Book’ won big at the Golden Globes. Will it hold up under increased scrutiny? 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

It rearranges and polishes the truth to allay our doubts about its protagonists' heroism. "The Woman King" poses the conundrum of making a great action movie about exceptional killers 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

Compared with previous works, “Echo 3” is more allusive about regional tensions, shifting much of the intrigue to the complex interpersonal dynamics and shared histories of its protagonists. With ‘Echo 3,’ Mark Boal Stays in His Comfort Zone: Danger Abroad 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

The white protagonist who loves the black child uses the n-word in a heated argument. Kevin Costner's 'Black or White,' a labor to produce, explores gray areas 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

How many women today grew up with sporadic portrayals of women as protagonists with autonomy and agency? Amid calls for gender equity in Hollywood, the stakes are high. 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

We find ourselves in Robin's dream, which features a liberated version of himself as the mischievous protagonist free to create a new script, in which he wreaks havoc on his actors' and crews' lives. Aiming for the stars in A Midsummer Night's Dream 2011-02-14T16:42:52Z

The protagonist, Nephthys Kinwell, is, in one light, an alcoholic taxi driver, and, in another, a Stygian ferrywoman haunted by the violent death of her twin brother, Osiris. A Cabdriver Who Also Ferries Souls and Ghosts? Just Another Day on the Job. 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

“Well, here it feels like the protagonist is flinching,” she concludes, and “all the plotty stuff” might just be there to cover up some fundamental reluctance to examine himself too closely. This Novel Is Set in a ’90s M.F.A. Program. The Author Is Aware of Your Concerns. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Deaf protagonists are rare enough, but really rare is a book like this, which reflects the true spectrum of views and experiences of deafness. Alexandra Strick and Sean Stockdale's top 10 inclusive children's books 2013-07-19T15:20:03Z

Yet it is deeply unnerving to experience this scene, knowing that the main protagonist will have little to no memory of it, even as it lives on in the heads of hundreds of audience members. Review: To Revisit a Sexual Assault, She Drugs Herself Onstage 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z

Yet all these characters are developed only insofar as they aid the arc of a male protagonist, with nary a scene or story strand to call their own. Best supportive wife: how female characters fare at the Oscars 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

The ensemble is led by Patrick Heusinger, who plays Max, the protagonist whose hedonistic ways are about come to an abrupt end. 'Bent' exhibits enduring power of love, courage and identity 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

It was a bunch of pencil drawings, but you got a sense — if you could use your imagination — of the protagonist, his journey, his quest, his exile, epiphany and resurrection. Where the Deer and the Chameleon Play 2011-02-25T19:58:56Z

Opie’s protagonist sleeps on the couch in an immaculately curated modernist living room, surrounded by books about L.A. modern architecture and carefully arranged flowers. Lautner fans, be warned: Catherine Opie's 'The Modernist' will play like a horror movie 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

This time, in a story TV rarely tells, the protagonist is a parent in her 30s, with a partner, a career, a mortgaged house full of Ikea furniture – and an accidental foetus in her uterus. Mothers who have abortions: what to do with TV’s third rail? 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

At first glance, the protagonist of “Jane the Virgin” bears little resemblance to any other character on television, never mind any viewer. ‘Jane the Virgin’ Aims Beyond Its Latin Ethnicity 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Now retired and reformed, our protagonist — we only learn his first name quite late in the novel — possesses a remarkable talent for imitating the penmanship of 19th- and early 20th-century writers. Review: ‘The Forgers,’ a suspense novel by Bradford Morrow 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

This image, once warbled about in the chorus of an ’80s pop hit, gains a terrible new meaning for the protagonist of “Grounded,” George Brant’s solo play. ‘Grounded’ at Studio Theatre: A new view of drone warfare

That ideal narrative format, he tells his 9 a.m. class, ends with the protagonist achieving a “modified version of the original goal.” His class is famously tough. ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Westworld’ wouldn’t exist without it. 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Parker, the protagonist of 16 Stark novels, is a crook and a killer who nevertheless adheres to a rigid moral code. ‘Parker’: Hard-as-nails malice put to good use 2013-01-24T23:35:34Z

A novel with a poker player protagonist would actually require me to understand the game more than I’m capable of. Surviving at the Poker Tables: Colson Whitehead Talks About 'The Noble Hustle' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

“She’s not quite comfortable in her role as a mother or a wife,” Aster said of the protagonist. The story behind ‘Hereditary,’ the Toni Collette horror movie that scared the bejesus out of Sundance 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Hell or High Water is unusually engaging because it lingeringly allows us to regard protagonists and antagonists alike as the actors stew in their characters’ regret, exuding cinematic charisma. Hell and High Water: why film-makers should keep it slow and simple 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

“I was so young that I had never thought that I could grow old, that I could die,” Capote’s young protagonist reflects in “Miss Belle Rankin.” Lost Stories by Capote Are Published 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

The game’s unnamed protagonist–the Spelunker, if you like–is an unflappable, plump-nosed Indiana Jones type, who shows up at a desert temple with loot on the brain. ‘Spelunky’ Review: A Punishing Platformer That’s Always Changing 2012-07-05T17:37:40Z

Simpson is also the protagonist or antihero of an operatic tragedy too implausible for fiction; if Don DeLillo or Theodore Dreiser had invented his story it would seem laughable. O.J. Simpson, American icon: Why the football star turned accused killer is one of the 20th century’s most important cultural figures 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

The shows typically star brawny, blue-collar protagonists roaming in far-flung, backwoods settings. Kentucky man catches snapping turtles, TV audience 2012-06-01T15:39:18Z

Just like this woman, Mr D, the opera's protagonist, couldn't find his way home one day. Maps of the mind: The Lion's Face 2010-05-25T20:46:00Z

By many accounts he is thus the play’s real protagonist, its tragic hero. Review: Can Trump Survive in Caesar’s Palace? 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Jack Taylor, the self-destructive protagonist, is Irish with a suicidal vengeance. Michael Connelly’s Mickey Haller Is Back. This Time He’s the Suspect. 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

If creators, even creators with explicitly feminist aims like Smith and Moss, believe that audiences won’t pay attention to female protagonists absent of youth and beauty, they will likely frame empowerment narrowly. Catherine Was Great. But Was She a Girl Boss? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

Like her protagonist, Nair is an amalgam of two clashing cultures. The Reluctant Fundamentalist: How a Nice Islamic Guy Got Mixed Up in Terrorism 2013-04-26T03:30:28Z

“You’re Next” is not overly direct about its class implications, but it does set a scrappy protagonist against a rich family intent on cannibalizing itself. I Know Where You Lived Last Summer 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Killing Sylvia, her formidable mermaid protagonist, would be a major departure from her novel. These Are Not Your G-Rated Fairy Tales 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

It would also be a firm insistence on “Black Girl Magic” in a genre that has been dominated by white male protagonists for the past decade. The end of Scandal: in praise of Olivia Pope, TV's most glamorous antihero 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Does this mean that there is a sea change, and that the studios will start filling their slates with outrageous international exploits, constitutional fights and gravely flawed, complex protagonists? Manohla Dargis’s Top Films of 2012 2012-12-15T00:37:44Z

The story of the romantic protagonists, who are mentioned in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, grew deeper and richer over the years as Tolkien returned to their tale in both poetry and prose. A New Tolkien Book Was Inspired by the Author’s Own Romance 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

But he disliked the "false naivety" of the protagonist. Wandsworth jail reading group: 'Here, they don't have to be prisoners' 2013-01-15T15:30:01Z

Last spring, the Black Panther, lately of “Captain America,” was resurrected by Marvel as the noble protagonist of his own comic book series, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author of “Between the World and Me.” Afrofuturism: The Next Generation 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

But as the novel unfolds, he finds his stride and manages to write and paint a thrilling adventure with a relatable protagonist. In Armand Baltazar’s ‘Timeless,’ People, Dinosaurs and Robots Co-Exist 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

But it takes the direst circumstances for the suit to be summoned, turning the human protagonist into the magically powered Moon Knight. ‘Moon Knight’ Review: Raiders of the Lost Identity 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

Of the three protagonists, Elissa is the only one Leach knew personally. The Trouble With the Troubled Teen Industry 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

“Arrival” is an elegant puzzle, an engrossing exercise in problem-solving — for the protagonist, the filmmaker and the viewer alike. Cinema Is Dead? Telluride Says Not Yet 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

The protagonist of “Cruise” discovers he is H.I.V. positive in 1984 and spends the following four years living life to its fullest. Theater to Stream: ‘Assassins’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

As ripe for rebuttal as her assessment may be, it doesn’t make Fox Rich any less compelling a protagonist. ‘Time’ Review: What We Really Mean When We Say Mass Incarceration 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

It doesn’t assume that a mostly white audience, like the one at 59E59 Theaters, will need a white protagonist in order to engage emotionally with the story. Review: In Ken Urban’s ‘Sense of an Ending,’ Lives Are Caught Between Truth and Tale 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

This lyricism is, however, tempered with a sense that the beauty fetishized by the protagonist, Charles Ryder, is a facade. ?Brideshead Revisited,? 30 Years Later 2011-12-30T17:00:00Z

In "Lost," Sayid emerges early on as skilled protagonist and ally. Fifteen years after "Lost," which drama most successfully carries its legacy? 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

The sequel to her spun-sugar “Younger” finds protagonist Liza turning 50 after two years of quiet. Review | The ‘Younger’ sequel, ‘Older,’ has a lot of wisdom between its one-liners 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Gao won an Emmy for the third season "Rick and Morty" episode "Pickle Rick," an installment that kicks off with its narcissistic protagonist transforming himself into a brined cucumber to avoid attending family therapy. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe comedy is a woman's work 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

Is it a coincidence that all three have male protagonists who instinctively resist patriarchal brutishness? The Best Movies of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

“This is my feeling about it, and it was also Joel and Ethan’s feeling about it — she’s not the protagonist, the protagonist is Rooster,” said Scott Rudin, one of the film’s producers. The Carpetbagger: Oscar Snubs, but Still Room for Surprise 2011-01-26T22:53:04Z

They are also working on a remake of the action adventure The Rocketeer, centered around a black female protagonist. White Men Can't Jump remake in the works 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Giving Episode VII a female protagonist or two would allow the US film-maker to put his unique stamp on the series, in the era of The Hunger Games. Star Wars Episode 7: women should be a force to be reckoned with 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

For the first time, Brakhage’s protagonist was fully the entity behind the camera. Elusive Vampire Film Steps Out of the Shadows 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

But a novel grants us more direct access to the hidden life of a protagonist than the stage. Orwell's '1984' has never seemed so current and terrifying as on the Broad Stage 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

The following seasons expand the train’s mythology — there’s a long-running struggle over the position of “conductor” — and rotates in new protagonists. The Strange, Lovely ‘Infinity Train’ Reaches the End of the Line 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

There’s a slightly more visible formula to the other storyline, although its protagonist remains as delicately drawn and the details of her predicament are lightly scattered, to put it mildly. The Girlfriend Experience: a welcome return for TV's most audacious drama 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

Perhaps mimicking the obsessive nature of his protagonist, Kubrick shot every scene in The Shining multiple times. Let's try that again … the most difficult scenes to film in cinema history 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

Like his unnamed protagonist, Mr. Lipton, 41, pays his rent predominantly through freelance jobs in publishing. Ethan Lipton?s ?No Place to Go,? at Joe?s Pub 2012-03-12T21:44:22Z

“Poultrygeist” pulls no punches as, right at the start, we see the story’s protagonist, a chicken casually crossing the road, flattened by a trailer truck. Fright Lite 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

McLain tries to spin this into an attempt to “have it all” — she anachronistically uses those very words — and, I’m afraid, has her protagonist “lean in.” Review | Martha Gellhorn imagined she and Hemingway could form an unbeatable team 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

Hollywood has long subscribed to the notion that movies with female protagonists don’t sell. Why It Matters That Inside Out's Protagonist Is a Girl 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Shot in 35 millimeter by the cinematographer Robert Maly, “Preparations” manifests its protagonist’s uncertainty through fluttering reflections and slinky shadows, and images that conceal and obscure the full picture. ‘Preparations to Be Together’ Review: Mysteries of Love 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

But this movie genuinely earns the label: Its protagonist is punished simply for existing, or at least for her insistence on pursuing an individual destiny. “Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem”: A riveting divorce drama, Israeli-style 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Despite being bombarded by boxing world clichés, I found myself invested in the protagonist, the contender Andre Bishop. Video Game Review: Putting Up Your Dukes, or at Least Your Thumbs 2011-03-21T22:07:55Z

Dwarsliggers take after Green’s protagonists: one can will oneself to love their quirks. Are Tiny Books a Sign of the Twee-ification of Literary Culture? 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Manning is the real hero and protagonist of the piece. WikiLeaks documentary: 'Julian Assange wanted $1m' 2013-07-09T18:00:04Z

Elizabeth Bennet in “Pride and Prejudice”: Has there even been a more appealing protagonist? Daniel Mendelsohn: By the Book 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Silverstein says that the four screenplays on the inaugural list, announced here at TIME.com, all feature a female protagonist in a leadership role. These Are the Best Unproduced Screenplays with Female Protagonists 2014-02-06T14:00:20Z

A small, superbly unified work, it shows its handsome protagonist crouched over a stream, drinking water stained with his own blood. At the Met Museum, the Grand Enigmas of Delacroix 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Only six of the top 500 box office films of all-time feature a protagonist who is a woman of color, according to the Representation Project. Outer Space Is the Best Place to Be For Young Actresses 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Indeed, in Mr Chesterton's admirable illustrations the contours of Mr Petre recall sometimes the earlier protagonist. A novel by Hilaire Belloc with twenty-two drawings by G.K. Chesterton 2012-06-05T06:30:00Z

Szalay’s novel is composed of nine narratives with different male protagonists. Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

This is a quintessential Zahedi story; he is not the protagonist, actively hurting someone, but is retroactively aware of the specifics of the pain, which he articulates so honestly that it’s moving. Caveh Zahedi Has So Many Stories to Tell 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z

Justine is the deeply depressed protagonist of the two-act “Melancholia” whom we watch first destroy her day-old marriage and then face, with remarkable aplomb, the end of the world. The New Season Film: Kirsten Dunst Handles ?Melancholia? Disaster With Aplomb 2011-09-18T03:53:02Z

It’s also the rare feminist TV comedy whose perspective is split evenly between male and female protagonists. Review: In ‘Catastrophe,’ True Love Is Not Convenient 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

She found her protagonist while interviewing women at the Keemba Rural Health Center. | Putting a Human Face on the African AIDS Epidemic 2013-12-12T23:28:02Z

The delightfully antisocial protagonist, Wednesday, played by Jenna Ortega, is an outcast among outcasts – the Poe figure at a school whose name evokes Poe. How Edgar Allan Poe became the darling of the maligned and misunderstood 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z

The book very vividly depicts its protagonist’s intense frustration with Hollywood and his estrangement from his own work and accomplishments. Jim Carrey, Unmasked 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

In movies like "Water for Elephants," "Simon Birch" and "The Year of Living Dangerously," disabled characters are sacrificed to prove their worth or to help the protagonist reach his goal. On screen and on stage, disability continues to be depicted in outdated, cliched ways 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z

Faced with a fateful decision that may determine his family’s future, does our protagonist choose wisely? Forget “Captain America”: This amazing Korean thriller is the summer’s first great movie 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

“Radic is a key protagonist of an amazing architectural explosion in Chile,” the gallery’s directors said in the statement. ArtsBeat: Chilean Architect to Design Serpentine Gallery’s Summer Pavilion in London 2014-03-14T11:34:52Z

What characteristics would you say she shares with your many other female protagonists? Nancy Meyers on The Intern, Anne Hathaway and Rom-Coms 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

He feels like SpongeBob’s caretaker, having gotten involved in the TV show’s development so early on that the protagonist’s name was still Spongeboy. How ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ invaded our brains 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

When she first appears to our protagonist Shadow Moon, she takes the form of Lucy Ricardo from the classic TV series “I Love Lucy.” Behold Gillian Anderson as Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust” in “American Gods” 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Another is transformation, as experienced by the books’ protagonists, who choose to put themselves in challenging and unfamiliar circumstances that they must navigate in order to … if not exactly survive then evolve. Magic Mountains: Novels of Appalachia From Natalie Lloyd and David Barclay Moore 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

“How was I supposed to live in America,” says Sepha Stephanos, the book’s protagonist and the store’s owner, “when I had never really left Ethiopia?” 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

Both are satires featuring underemployed, middle-aged New York Jewish protagonists with abandoned artistic dreams, cheating wives and snack-food obsessions. A Madcap New Novel Bursts With Fake Gurus, Yoga and a Bit of Bone-Marrow Smuggling 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

The camera closes in on the protagonists’ hands as they work meat or wood or fur, driving home the quiet majesty of manual labor. ‘The Last Autumn’ Review: The Majesty of Shepherds 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

The thing is that for Lyon, the opera is a very important ambassador, a very important protagonist in cultural life. Lyon Opera's Dorny wants to stand out from crowd 2011-06-09T16:54:47Z

“The Good Doctor” does that, counterintuitively, with a protagonist whose inability to connect emotionally is one of his defining features. On ‘The Good Doctor,’ the Anti-Antihero Is In 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z

It is a novel as oral history — much of the action involves Fraser's protagonist talking to people, collecting their stories — but also as social statement and even, in a sense, memoir. In Ronald Fraser's 'Drought,' outsider gets in path of village's future 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

The staging hides a certain amount of its technology until Winston, Orwell’s hapless protagonist, discovers the ugly truth. How to design a dystopian play 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Imagination, rather than brute force or magic, actually saves Fantastica, the setting of the complicated tale that Bastian, the schoolboy protagonist, is reading. Spare Times: For Children, March 23-29 2012-03-22T22:00:09Z

If Robinson Crusoe is your protagonist and he’s on the island, there’s no way to zip your readers back to England to check in on his estate — not until he gets back there. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 4: David Copperfield 2012-02-02T23:24:54Z

And on top of rich and compelling storytelling, the show also makes crucial progress in centering a new, more honest kind of female protagonist. Kate Winslet stopped "Mare of Easttown" from editing out her "bulgy" belly from sex scene 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

If the aspirational figure shows us what the protagonist wants to be, the cautionary tale is the opposite — it’s the character our romantic leads might become if they don’t find love. The many types of romantic-comedy best friends 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

“Jersey Shore” labor is 24-hour labor, both on and off camera, and the show improves in proportion to the toll that ruthless schedule takes on the protagonists. Critic?s Notebook: ?Jersey Shore? Has Its Day at University of Chicago 2011-10-30T22:32:05Z

This is certainly the case with “The Red Turtle,” which works on a pretty spare scale, showing its protagonist nearly dwarfed by the nature around him. For ‘The Red Turtle,’ Studio Ghibli Looks West for an ‘Eastern’ Approach 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Marengo said she had felt the responsibility of portraying the protagonist of a story that evolves entirely from Giovanna’s perspective. Netflix Brings the Intensity of Elena Ferrante’s Naples to the Screen 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

In many of his novels, Mr. Scliar places a Jewish Brazilian protagonist in a dangerous, bewildering world whose external complexities reverberate in the hero’s interior journey of self-discovery. Moacyr Scliar, Brazilian Novelist, Dies at 73 2011-03-06T02:03:37Z

Now, the transformation is tailored to the story, specific to the protagonist and her needs. The new rom com fantasy: A happily-ever-after based on equality and humanity 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

Both protagonists follow the same trope of the bungling woman whose life crashes down around her as hilarity ensues, set against a background of middle-class privilege. A modern Bridget Jones 2012-11-11T21:30:03Z

When stories eschew the white gaze and exist entirely inside of blackness, the protagonists and antagonists are all black. Moonlight portrays black gay life in its joy, sadness and complexity 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

Like Crazy Rich Asians, it features a visit to China by an Asian-American protagonist who finds the world they are faced with at once familiar and deeply strange. Awkwafina: 'Growing up, I latched on to strong Asian-American idols' 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. Simone’s writing is possessed of more life than her listless protagonist. Neil Gaiman’s ‘Ocean at the End of the Lane,’ and More 2013-06-26T18:50:28Z

The protagonist of the Disney version misses her father when she agrees to become Beast’s prisoner, but she never mentions her mother. For the Most Complex Heroines in Animation, Look to Japan 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

The nature of the catastrophe confronting the protagonist and his son while unspecified was blisteringly apparent. Under the Dome has already got me thinking about busting out 2013-07-10T02:49:26Z

Books such as “My Side of the Mountain,” by Jean Craighead George, where the young protagonist runs away to the Catskills, lives in a hollowed-out tree and tames a bird. What Moves Nina Stibbe Most in a Book? ‘Dogs’ 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

In the opening scene of “Pericles,” the titular protagonist visits Antioch to express interest in the king’s daughter. On many area stages, tattoos are all the rage 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

And in retrospect, Game of Thrones has been setting up a romance between the show's two main protagonists for a long time. 10 Reasons Jon Snow and Daenerys Might End Up Together on Game of Thrones Even Though It’s Kind of Weird 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

The protagonist Archie Bunker was modeled after Lear’s own father: He was a working-class, seemingly uneducated and outspoken but “lovable” bigot. How Mister Rogers’ faith shaped his idea of children’s television 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

Strange cartoonish characters abound, including sentient animals, mainly dogs and horses — which are often the protagonists. Roy De Forest’s Greatness Shines Even in a Virtual Display 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

Some critics faulted “Green Book” for portraying a white character, in this film played by Viggo Mortensen, as the main protagonist in a film about discrimination against black people. 'Ref made a bad call,' Spike Lee says of 'Green Book' award 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

O-levels form much of the anxiety that drives the protagonist in Sue Townsend's The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, along with the constant threat of nuclear war. Culture Flash: exam results 2011-08-17T21:08:00Z

Mel Brooks’ The Producers imagined the fictitious musical Springtime for Hitler, a work so supremely offensive that it would surely disgust Broadway and provide the flop the protagonists’ get-rich-quick scheme requires. From Charlie Chaplin to Jojo Rabbit: an unlikely history of Nazi comedies 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

I really liked the development of the protagonist over the course of the novel. Fifty Shades of Grey gets the spoof it deserves 2012-08-09T15:41:25Z

So the only way for my protagonist to respond to her hunger for the tango was for her to take this journey to push the boundaries of gender. Carolina de Robertis talks about dancing through history with her novel 'The Gods of Tango' 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

While seeking solace in self-help podcasts and the verses of her favorite poets, the protagonist watches as her concerns for herself, for her family and for others start to bleed together. In Her First Adult Novel in 14 Years, Julia Alvarez Travels Home 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z

Ulysses shares this objective with nearly all of Springsteen’s most beloved protagonists, men who roam, adventure, and journey—or die pining. Springsteen’s Most Anxious Album 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

Gothic stories tend to have what is known as a "burdened male protagonist." "Flowers in the Attic: The Origin": How to be Gothic, from creepy manors to severe housekeepers 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z

“Season five happens in real time – we’re experiencing a riot at the prison in real time,” says Taylor Schilling, who plays Orange’s original protagonist, Piper Chapman. A riot in real time: how Orange is the New Black is changing the rules 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

By creating one of the most blithely self-involved, unfiltered, socially maniacal protagonists on television, David has contributed a lot to the cause of human happiness, even if that happiness is mainly of the Schadenfreude variety. Festival Dispatch: Life Lessons from Larry David 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Not conforming to Taipei … in his latest novel, Tao Lin's protagonist Dan drifts from New York back to the city of his origins. Why Tao Lin's Taipei can breathe new life into literature 2013-06-13T14:55:55Z

At one point in the solo play “Buyer & Cellar,” the endearing protagonist, a cash-strapped actor named Alex More, is tasked with serving frozen yogurt. Review: Michael Urie in ‘Buyer & Cellar’ at Sidney Harman Hall

When it comes to Jane Austen, marriage or an engagement is the desirable end game for her protagonists. "Sanditon" boss on that heartbreaking finale, a curious "Bridgerton" connection to and Season 3 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

Like its protagonist, it becomes most alive when it leaves Othello behind. | 'Desdemona': ?Desdemona? at Lincoln Center White Light Festival - Review 2011-11-03T22:47:19Z

Will, the boy who is this show’s protagonist, has vivid dreams, and you can imagine that one of them is a midsummer night’s. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

The book’s protagonist, Marian Sutro, is a veteran of a perilous program that parachuted women into occupied France to help the Resistance during the war. In Simon Mawer’s ‘Tightrope,’ a Female Spy Masters the Tools of Her Trade 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Her protagonist lumbers through the early chapters, never quite convincing me that she really is a guidebook compiler – Lonely Planet would have gone bust before this contributor filed. Villa Pacifica by Kapka Kassabova ? review 2011-08-26T21:55:00Z

His protagonists are often laconic men of action, badly overmatched by the women in their lives. Story collections by Thomas McGuane, Luis Alberto Urrea and Graham Swift 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

He made the orchestra, and thus the conductor, into a crucial protagonist, to communicate some of his most powerful musical ideas. Wagner bicentenary: the music is still what matters most 2013-05-21T23:59:01Z

And Will Ferrell becomes a reluctant protagonist in “Stranger Than Fiction.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘George Michael: Freedom’ and ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

Rather, he was embarrassed by the movie’s emphasis, its trivialization and effacement of the experience of the actual protagonists. The Rarely Seen Ingmar Bergman Thriller That Bergman Himself Rejected 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Its protagonist is a young man who comes to terms with the secret second family of his dead father, who had been a flamboyant record producer. ‘People Like Us’ and Other Summer Movies in Real-World Settings 2012-06-12T22:23:28Z

The protagonists of each of those shows actually committed the crimes for which they were sent up. "Power" producer 50 Cent brings a story of wrongful conviction in ABC's "For Life" 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

The actor, a former cast member of the Showtime series "Weeds," is playing Claude, the fresh-faced tribal leader from Queens, and the closest thing the musical has to a protagonist. Cast gives 'Hair' a quick styling before Hollywood Bowl shows 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

The boys and men in the movies and TV shows I consumed were usually the protagonists, the ones the audience is supposed to identify with from beginning to end. ‘Superbad’ & Me 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

A recast version of Marianne Elliott’s highly acclaimed London production — which changed the gender of its singleton protagonist — was to have opened on Broadway this season. What Is the Sound of a Theater Season Interrupted? 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

A far cry from the deeply conflicted protagonists of today’s TV dramas — Don Draper, Walter White, Tony Soprano — J. R. was always smugly satisfied with his bad behavior. Riff: When ‘Dallas’ Was the Capital of America 2012-06-02T04:00:06Z

Its protagonist, newly released from prison, hooks up with the girl next door, an aspiring stripper, in a doomed quest to leave their dead-end town. At the Tribeca Film Festival, Movies for Every Taste 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

So when Gaiman portrays the immensity of the obscene evil that torments the unnamed young protagonist as some sort of vague combination of distressed fabrics, we were disappointed. What We’re Reading with Our Kids this Summer 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Television, which is full of despicable protagonists and power-hungry snakes, seems to hardly care whether people are any good. Perspective | Why is ‘The Wall’ so obsessed with ‘good people’? Maybe because TV has enough bad ones. 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

Onscreen, happily ever after is being rewritten for a generation where romance ranks low on a list of priorities – shows such as Crazy Ex Girlfriend and Fleabag concluded with the female protagonists going it alone. Love Is Blind shows us the problem with the single positivity movement 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Oberyn very clearly saw himself as the protagonist not only of his own story but of a much larger one as well — one that involved Kings Landing and the Lannisters and revenge and justice. Game of Thrones: Why You Can't Stop Thinking About Oberyn Martell 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

The protagonist, Lester Ballard, is a social outcast who lives in the woods, far away from a society that does not accept him. James Franco: “If people have Franco fatigue, they should stop paying attention” 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

But beyond the external factors of race and politics, the protagonists seem most ill at ease with their own bodies and ages, which they refer to frequently, unnaturally and, often, loudly. Middle Age Doesn’t Happen ‘Just Like That’ 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

Sure, earlier seasons of the show featured shocking and decisive ends for beloved characters, from protagonist Ned Stark’s beheading in Season 1 to the high-body-count “Red Wedding” of Season 3. 'Game of Thrones' Proves Death on TV Is Meaningless Now 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Though Antonin fashions himself as a tormented literary protagonist — a scrupled thief and a thwarted artist — he emerges as little more than a posturing, self-pitying millennial unwilling to take charge of his life. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

And Mihai shoots her protagonist in intense close-ups throughout the film that scrutinize her as she goes on this harrowing emotional journey. In the gripping "La Civil," a daughter is kidnapped as the fallout of Mexico's ongoing drug wars 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

But the episode is also distinctively “BoJack” in the way that it forces its protagonist to push past his alienation and, briefly, care for someone other than himself. ‘BoJack Horseman’ Returns for a Hilarious and Hallucinatory Season 3 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Its protagonist, Bach, is a poet who sacrifices all his relationships to the demands of an obsessive imagination, and resists any pressure to be responsible. Howard Barker: a champion of imagination, not 'relevance' 2010-04-29T15:41:00Z

Sure, we’ve got those Christmas carols, but Santa Claus is the main attraction, the holiday’s protagonist. Dreaming of a dark Christmas: Decoding the seasonal iconography we take for granted 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z

Demetrio, the protagonist of Javier Fuentes’s debut novel, “Countries of Origin,” was 13 and on a trip to Niagara Falls in New York when his uncle revealed why they could not cross into Canada. The Horrors of Immigration and the Pleasures of Food in a Debut Novel 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

For those who saw the show in Washington and were intrigued by its protagonists, the Artisphere is offering an opportunity to learn more about conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton on Oct. Director and playwright who met on an artistic blind date are great collaborators

In battling a British opponent, the protagonist in “Creed” was positioned to be as quintessential an American hero as President Obama. Then and Now: Hollywood Remakes as Election-Year Players 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

Maybe the idea of needing a central protagonist/antagonist to create conflicts for the ensemble would inevitably be disappointing; at this point the ensemble is the star. The Office After Michael: Who?s In Charge Here? 2011-11-10T16:15:34Z

Though one gets the sense that the “investigation” proceeds despite the protagonist’s meager efforts. Four Debut Novels Follow Strivers and Survivors 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

In both cases, too, the scenes were intentionally laborious and slow — two-and-a-half minutes with the tooth and a minute breaking down Annelise’s body — which made clear the grueling effort and labor our protagonists underwent. Shocking sex, vicious violence and exquisite betrayal: “The Americans” keeps testing our limits, week after week 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Perhaps he knows what’s next for us: In “Heroes of the Frontier,” his protagonist Josie runs off to Alaska after her life falls apart. North to Alaska in Dave Eggers' new 'Heroes of the Frontier' 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

And it ended true to its ideas and its protagonist. ‘Saul’ Great, Man 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

Angrier and meaner than Dicey, but just as strong-willed, is Saba, the furious protagonist of the post-apocalyptic YA novel Blood Red Road, who has always been inseparable from Lugh, her beautiful blond twin brother. Little women: children's literature's stand-in parents 2013-05-17T10:00:00Z

Donnie Darko was a mostly passive protagonist struggling against both the oppressive system of high school and the levers of fate that he could only pull at the film’s climax. Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly: 'Sometimes films need time to marinate' 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

And Mr. Marek finds in the beleaguered, married Burgess hints of the more fully drawn, dissatisfied Gurney protagonists to come. Review: The Ages of A.R. Gurney in the Wistful ‘Final Follies’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

The protagonist, an undergraduate named Mary Darshini Clarke, is the daughter of an Indian mother and a white father, and is struggling to figure out how she fits in. Bhangra Is Big on Campus. Now It’s Inspiring a Musical. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

Carruth’s exaggerated face rests like a bobblehead doll atop the various antagonists and protagonists of Shakespeare’s plays, each set on pedestals or installed in playful scenes. When Harper Lee Doodled in Shakespeare Class 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

And too often the protagonist in the books recommended for young readers is a boy. Dear Reader, Meet Your Match: An Advice Column for Book Lovers 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

By this I mean the fans of shows with female protagonists, both comedies and dramas, who crave not bloodshed but empowerment. The Female Bad Fan 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

“Utøya” is a dramatization of the 2011 terrorist attack on the eponymous Norwegian island and tracks the journey of a fictional protagonist from the moments just before the siege to its conclusion. The Power of the One-Take Film 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

The protagonist of “The Plot” is Jacob Finch Bonner, a once-celebrated young author of a literary novel called “The Invention of Wonder.” Review | The plot of ‘The Plot’ — the best thriller of the year (so far) — is too good to give away 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

Yet Camilleri answered to the same impulse that led Christie to write “Curtain”: to give a proper send off to such a reliable and valued protagonist. Review | Montalbano says farewell in the lovably quirky novel ‘Riccardino’ 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Details of "Moana" are largely being kept under wraps, but one of the notable takeaways from the announcement Monday is that the movie will focus on — and indeed, be named after — a female protagonist. In 'Moana,' Disney sets sail with another female protagonist 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Wilkerson recalls interviewing about 1,200 people over 18 months to find the perfect "protagonists" for her book. Genealogy class sprouts tale of Great Migration 2011-01-14T23:06:00Z

The apparent protagonist of Season 1 was the Waspy Piper Chapman, based on Piper Kerman, whose memoir of serving time for drug trafficking provided the show’s outline. Emily Nussbaum: “Orange Is the New Black” and “Louie” Reviews 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Enter Andy Murray: a great sports movie protagonist – spiky, idiosyncratic, unwilling to play the media game, yet ultimately taken to the hearts of a nation following a climactic centre court battle. Andy Murray – the movie: who would you cast? 2013-07-08T15:39:23Z

It is widely considered to be the first full-color picture book to feature a black boy as its protagonist. ArtsBeat Blog: 'The Snowy Day' Celebrates 50 Years 2011-08-18T15:21:34Z

The heart of this book, however, is not the clever plot but the resourceful and principled characters, from an ambitious housemaid to the passionate protagonists. 'Crystal Gardens': Action-packed start to new Amanda Quick series 2012-04-18T22:55:09Z

His biographies of Marie Antoinette, Erasmus and Mary Stuart, all published in the early 1930s, were acute studies of doomed protagonists; his novellas sharp parables for his own dark times. Song of exile 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Bowie’s character in the movie, an alien named Thomas Jerome Newton, will be the protagonist in the play, according to the Hollywood Reporter. David Bowie Wrote a Play That Will Debut in New York 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

But the playwright's artistic, spiritual side is found in Marchbanks who, as with many of the dramatist's protagonists, is essentially an outsider. Candida – review 2013-07-11T13:23:00Z

He didn’t want to talk much about certain aspects of Pixar, like the studio’s shortage of directors who are women and female protagonists in its films. John Lasseter of Pixar Defends ?Cars 2? 2011-10-17T22:17:20Z

But he's not a conventional protagonist, one whose experience serves as the prism through which all other events are viewed. "Boardwalk Empire": Everyone is currency 2010-10-04T06:01:00Z

For instance, although the novel’s protagonist might have worn his “lucky boxers” to work on that first day, the fact is that nobody who works at the Court ever, ever wears underpants. I made Clarence Thomas laugh 2012-08-18T19:00:00Z

Infamously, “Sonic the Hedgehog” was forced to redesign its animated protagonist after an outcry from fans. Is it finally game on for video game adaptations? 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

The wordplay is as mischievous as its protagonist. The Season of the Skulls 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

Seeking to offset the nebulous threats working against the protagonist, the director, James Marsh, chose a clean, wide-screen look for this involuted middle story, shooting on 35 millimeter. 2010-01-30T16:59:00Z

To start, the protagonists of these comic books are black; London looks a lot more like Harlem; and a subtitle like “A Study in Scarlet” becomes “A Study in Black.” Spare Times for Jan. 15-21 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Before the concert, answering a questioner who wonders if his protagonist is “not so average,” Roth jokes, “Perhaps you would rather that I called the book Every Other Man.” Death and the Maiden: Meryl Streep’s Tribute to Philip Roth 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

The book is a retelling of Albert Camus’s 1942 classic “The Stranger” from the perspective of the brother of the Arab man killed by that novel’s protagonist, Mersault. Goncourt First Novel Prize Is Awarded to Kamel Daoud of Algeria 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

That film's protagonists only have to travel form their small town in Pennsylvania to New York City, yet the weight of that odyssey is many times more ponderous than Bailey and Veronica's sunny expedition. "Unpregnant" takes a serious subject and makes it the reason for a road trip 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

But even with the advent of back-to-back female protagonists, the women onscreen are only now catching up with those working behind the scenes at Industrial Light & Magic, the special-effects studio founded by George Lucas. The Women of ‘Star Wars.’ (It’s Not Who You Think.) 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Which is why so many of my protagonists are queer, why many are Asian. How to write about murder for teens, as an adult: Consider Piggy in "Lord of the Flies" 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z

It isn’t only the plot that’s schematic; so is the range of responses from the protagonist’s colleagues. What Movies to See This December 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

Q: A protagonist, Robert, in "Dirty Love" vividly recalled his farm upbringing. Novelist Dubus now looks homeward after gritty memoir 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

But the way things play out does not provide much investment with the protagonist. David Fincher cast the wrong "Killer" in the Netflix thriller that lacks the auteur's usual edge 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z

“The Manor,” which Amazon is releasing alongside “Madres” as part of their “Welcome to the Blumhouse” series of horror films, also tells a story of marginalized womanhood, albeit with a septuagenarian protagonist. ‘Madres’ and ‘The Manor’ Review: Maligned Women Uncover the Truth 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

The opening of Season 2 slyly raises that introspective theme, as the protagonist’s face is reflected in a mirror on a Cinnabon employee-motivation sign. Review: ‘Better Call Saul,’ Quirky and Absorbing in Season Opener 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

The party is where the film's five main protagonists are first introduced. Why, Damien Chazelle, why?!: "Babylon" is a busy, bawdy and bad orgy of Hollywood nothingness 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

In the lives of the four protagonists of “Miguel Wants to Fight,” brawls are ubiquitous. ‘Miguel Wants to Fight’ Review: A Rite of Passage 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z

The monster stalking the protagonist throughout this story is work, and it made me question the ways I let my identity become tightly intertwined with my job. New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From Los Angeles Graffiti to Korean Art 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

Who can forget “hill scum” Heaven, the protagonist of “Heaven,” and the predatory stepfather who becomes her true love? In Y.A., Where Has All the Good Sex Gone? 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

She plays the coiled, pensive protagonist: a woman who flees the mainland under violent circumstances and heads to the small Scottish island where she grew up. Ruth Negga: ‘I never fitted anywhere – in life or in Hollywood’ 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

As a doctor tells Jude, the melodrama’s human punching bag of a protagonist, “Only you know how much pain you can tolerate.” ‘A Little Life’ Review: A Collage of Unrelenting Torment 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

The protagonist is Billy, a middle-class white kid navigating the social maelstrom of the 1960s and 1970s. 'Jim Shaw: The End Is Here' taps public's id in a weird, humorous way 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Assassin’s Creed: Liberation is not the only, or even the best, game with a nonwhite protagonist. Critic’s Notebook: Assassin’s Creed: Liberation Examines Colonial Blacks 2014-01-27T22:50:06Z

But the reality is even worse: most don’t get to talk about race; they just get to talk about the film’s white protagonist. How to fix Hollywood's race problem 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

There is no rule in drama that a protagonist should be likable or well mannered. 'The Revisionist' has an uninspired role in need of a rewrite 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

But perhaps the most interesting recent example comes from T. Geronimo Johnson, an African American novelist who realized while writing “Welcome to Braggsville” that his black protagonist should be white. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

She cleverly splits her duelling protagonists into their older and younger selves. Women, Power and Politics 2010-06-13T17:56:00Z

The protagonist of his first feature, “Perfect Blue,” is a vapid girl-group singer named Mima, who angers her fans when she leaves a successful trio for an acting career. Animation That Broke the Rules 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

What’s more, for all the focus on growing physically old, the show’s protagonists often behave with curious immaturity. Middle Age Doesn’t Happen ‘Just Like That’ 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

He later turned his comedy to the dark side in films in which middle-aged male protagonists — unlucky womanizers, artists at the end of their creative tethers — are just one banana peel away from disaster. Blake Edwards, Prolific Comedy Director, Dies at 88 2010-12-16T20:39:02Z

An awful lot happens to Adam Brewster, the protagonist of John Irving’s new novel, “The Last Chairlift.” Sex, Secrets and Absent Fathers: It’s the New John Irving, of Course 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z

Tricky, because Highsmith’s behavior could be as creepy and unsettling as that of the protagonists in her most famous novels, “Strangers on a Train” and “The Talented Mr. Ripley.” Review | Patricia Highsmith’s sordid search for inspiration 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

“If I were the protagonist of a book or a movie,” Milo says to his onetime boss, “it would be hard to like me, to identify with me, to like me, right?” Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis 2010-05-08T18:21:00Z

A powerful drama, brilliantly realised on stage, it seemed the most touching and emotionally powerful of his works, despite having a protagonist who was part bull. This week's new live music 2013-01-12T06:00:12Z

His protagonist in “A Cool Million,” Lemuel Pitkin, is an innocent, energetic striver, tasked with saving his mother’s house from foreclosure. The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

And in many classic fairy tales, ogres and Bluebeards are undone by the cleverness and courage of young protagonists. A Scheherazade for Our Times 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Teresa, the protagonist of the first part, “Paradise: Love,” is Anna Maria’s sister. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Faith,’ the Second in Ulrich Seidl’s Trilogy 2013-08-22T21:51:23Z

For instance, if you accidentally hit someone with your van, don’t go back to scene, roll the body into a ditch, then drive away, as the protagonist of “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” does. ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight?’ Review: Hit and Run, Sleight of Hand 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

They are about successful writers, and describe very honestly their protagonists’ feelings about fame and status. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Not only does the paucity of fact open up spaces in which the novelist can operate with greater freedom, but Morgan has turned our lack of knowledge into a quality of unknowableness in his protagonist. The Secret Life of William Shakespeare by Jude Morgan - review 2012-11-13T16:55:01Z

He proposes marriage, and Wharton, describing a dinner at the Marvell family home, takes another opportunity to fillet her protagonist, even as she keeps us hooked on Undine’s magnificent, incorrigible selfishness. What Edith Wharton Knew, a Century Ago, About Women and Fame in America 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

It’s an uncommon episode of television that halfway through leaves you realizing that the protagonist probably would have been better off had he been killed in the opening scene. 'Outlander' Recap: The Violence That Men Do 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

In essence, the protagonist is claiming to be a hit with the ladies. Readers recommend: songs about showing off ? the results 2011-02-24T16:38:51Z

As Parco, Bratt employs the charisma he wields as a protagonist the way an assassin might secret a blade in a shirt sleeve. A Second Civil War and too many plotholes plague "DMZ," HBO Max's latest dystopian adaptation 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

He looks back on how he came to make The King and thinks, yes, he could have chosen a different tragic protagonist. Shake, rattle and Rolls: across America in the shadow of Elvis 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

"Girl5eva" could have been a simple parody of '90s pop bands, emphasizing a desperation to reclaim a youth long gone and playing up its protagonists' inability to accept what is instead of what was. "Girls5eva" is a feel-good story about what happens when one-hit wonders get a second chance 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

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. and Mrs. Loving” has two things, two centrally human things, that the rarefied symbolic protagonists of “Loving” don’t: sex and humor. Jeff Nichols’s “Loving”: An Airbrushed Portrait of the Interracial Couple Whose Struggle Changed History 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

“Unbroken” is perhaps the closest of the three to a conventional Hollywood film in its focus on an empathetic protagonist. ‘Fury,’ ‘Unbroken,’ ‘The Imitation Game’ and World War II Heroes 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

There are a few surface similarities: middle-class milieu, protagonists who are the “popular kids,” and more. ‘Alex Strangelove’: Boy Meets Boy. Awkwardness Ensues. 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

Later, I watched movies, like “Boyz N The Hood,” “Juice” and “Menace II Society,” all of which showed young Black protagonists trapped in the cycle of gun, gang and police violence. In 2021, Black Boyhood Got More Complex on TV 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

Forty-one percent of these books featured LGBTQ+ themes, 40 percent of these featured a protagonist or prominent secondary character of color, and 21 percent featured discussions of race and racism. Fahrenheit 2023: Even in Mississippi’s segregation academies, we learned about Emmett Till 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

The title character doesn’t turn up for a while, and she isn’t even really the protagonist. “Viktoria”: A Great Film About Women, by a Woman 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

He fell in love with its characters, he said — “your heart breaks, that’s all” — and found the story’s Jewish protagonist intrinsically appealing. James Schamus, a Hollywood Honcho, Takes on Directing 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

In a more philosophical sense, Mr. Lang said, it rose from the dichotomy of the earlier work’s conclusion: listeners in anguish as the protagonist achieves final bliss. Music Review: David Lang?s Music at Zankel Hall 2012-01-31T22:55:56Z

It’s not easy to identify the protagonist of “Parasite,” an intricately layered, darkly comic class-war thriller from Korean director Bong Joon-ho, who is best known in the English-speaking world for the apocalyptic action hit “Snowpiercer.” "Parasite": A prickly, disturbing class-war thriller — and a signature film of 2019 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

The outcome of this love is pure bullying, but the protagonist feels that he is the one being bullied. This Week in Fiction: Etgar Keret on the Purest Form of Racism 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

The book opens in a packed courtroom, the moment after a jury has acquitted Dieudonné Sabrina, our protagonist, of the murder of his lover. 2 Novels by ‘Alternative Nobel’ Winner Take On Power and Its Abuses 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

With a richer character to work with than the protagonists in the early films, Barrera does an effectively brooding job playing a tortured possible antihero. ‘Scream VI’ Review: Yes, Another Scary Movie 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z

But as the protagonist, Evelyn, discovers, “the agony was in the waiting.” You Can’t Avoid Death, but You Can Make It Easier 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Phillips’s protagonist, Josephine, is a woman in precarious financial straits, relieved to finally obtain a job entering information into a database. The Office Politics of Workplace Fiction by Women 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

Far from the well-worn paths of academic scholarship, Dann acquaints his reader with a protagonist who is an American mystic, a new-age prophet, a cosmic explorer. Thoreau the Weird: A New Interpretation of His Philosophy 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Christopher Maltman was the baritone replacement in the Brahms, where, fine and forthright as he was, it's the chorus that is the main protagonist, with Brahms taking every opportunity for fugal writing. LSO/Gergiev – review 2013-04-02T16:45:01Z

James Cameron has proved with Avatar that you don't have to use human protagonists to keep people interested in the motivations of your central characters. Week in geek: Can Ridley Scott give Alien new life with 3D prequels? 2010-06-17T16:15:00Z

The protagonist/defendant in Spokane County is Sean Replogle, a high school senior age 18 when his life changed for the worse. ‘Chasing Gideon’: shocking failures of the justice system in defending the poor 2013-05-01T18:25:42Z

The chart however doesn't include villains exclusively in Doctor Who books, audio books and spin-off shows - only the televised serials and only enemies, as opposed to protagonists. Every Doctor Who villain since 1963 - as a spreadsheet and visualised 2012-10-02T22:20:00Z

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

Of course, women and people of color appear in folklore, myths and legends across cultures, but they are less often depicted as heroic protagonists in the prominent, globally renown tales. How Three Artists Are Exploring Mythology and Race 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

For the last several years, the word “nice” has almost become a pejorative to describe female characters, with many writers and cultural critics urging us to embrace “unlikable” protagonists instead. Killing with kindness: “Lady Dynamite” and “Kimmy Schmidt” prove nice women can be funny and complex, too 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

When a female-led movie fails, the gender of the lead protagonist is immediately flagged up. With Scarlett Johansson front and centre, finally it's Black Widow's time to shine 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

It touched on everything viewers have ever loved about the show and its protagonist — including our inability to ever truly know her. ‘The Good Wife’s’ mission accomplished: Alicia has triumphed. 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

The protagonist of James’s era — the scholar in his dim library — was supplanted in our imaginations by curious young women roaming gloomy manors and innocently unleashing hell. The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

Imagine that — a genre movie for grown-ups, with a woman protagonist to boot. 'Crimson Peak' trailer: Guillermo del Toro's haunted housewarming 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

As Hirshey states in her introduction, her book is concerned more with the character and psychology of its protagonist than with her cultural surroundings. Was She a Feminist? The Complicated Legacy of Helen Gurley Brown. 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

And, taking cues from its protagonist, the movie doesn’t play around with cinematic craft or technique either. ‘Boogie’ Review: There’s No Laughing in Basketball 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

Yet, no matter her/his gender or the arcane rules laid down by the Changers Council, our intrepid protagonist doggedly continues to love the same fiercely intelligent girl. Trans-ported: the power of walking in someone else’s shoes 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

Why did you want to place your protagonist at the center of this recognizable focal point of American history? Salvatore Scibona on the Difference Between Fiction and History 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

In one common form, a protagonist with a question will pose it to a succession of others. New Picture Books Pose Two of Life’s Biggest Questions 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Your story for this week’s issue, “Brawler,” opens as its protagonist, Sara, arrives at a pool for a swim meet. Lauren Groff on the Animal Ecstasy of Athletics 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

Comic book protagonists like Captain Atom and Doctor Solar have bodies that can manipulate atoms to create blasts of energy. Fusion? We’ve Seen This Movie Before. 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

The script is so busy satirizing the sleazy and desperate denizens of this world — Bunzel himself is a "wealth manager" as well as a writer — that it never settles on a protagonist or a story. A one-note aria of the financial world in '63 Trillion' 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

His purpose is to make the protagonist, an engineer played by Allison Williams, nervous and move the story along. In ‘M3gan,’ a Detective’s Guilty Laugh Speaks Volumes About Him (and Us) 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

Like Japanese ronin, Howard’s warrior protagonists possess both iron self-control and an innate fatalism. Review | Robert E. Howard became famous for creating Conan. But that warrior was only the beginning. 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

We see the film’s main protagonist, driven lawyer Rachel “Ruchie” Freier, fight against sexist attitudes in the Hasidic community as she cajoles and encourages her group of women into training as paramedics. 93Queen: the incredible story of the all-female Hasidic emergency service 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Burger, whose previous films include “The Illusionist,” an elegant and clever sleight-of-hand caper, unwinds Eddie’s story with a feverish, hyperactive clarity that mirrors the protagonist’s inner state. | 'Limitless': A Simple Prescription for Superior Powers 2011-03-17T21:59:56Z

The fourth episode, centered on Fosse’s production of “Pippin,” ends with a musical interlude likening him to that show’s self-absorbed protagonist. Review: In ‘Fosse/Verdon,’ a Portrait of the Artist as Problematic Fave 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

Like any good Beckett creation, Noll’s protagonist recognizes that his quest is futile. Three Novels Take Readers Deep Inside the Writer’s Life 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

But his new concerto makes another leap by turning the spotlight on the theorbo as the protagonist, here accompanied by a chamber orchestra of strings and harpsichord. The magic lute: Baroque instrument gets electric update for world premiere 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Their incompetence leaves them stranded along a remote stretch of highway; the incompetence of the movie around them, however, has the unfortunate effect of leaving the audience even more helpless than the film’s protagonists. ‘Villains’ Review: Blundering Robbers Meet Their Match 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Conjuring an image of Connell's staid, outwardly wholesome protagonist, I inevitably draw on the television I watched as a child. Lionel Shriver: rereading Mr Bridge by Evan S Connell 2013-02-15T18:30:01Z

"Without our traditions," the musical's protagonist Tevye says at the end of the song, "Our lives would be as shaky as . . . as a fiddler on the roof!" How "Fiddler on the Roof" helped usher in the Jewish Pride movement of the 1960s 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z

This unsettling question hangs over the novel, and the protagonist’s seesawing unreliability feels intentional and well executed, not the jarring result of tonal indecision. ‘Lurid & Cute,’ a Novel by Adam Thirlwell 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

So when I sat down to think about what is this story with four black protagonists about, and you start scribbling, that rises up. Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bringing Back Black Panther 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

Wells’s protagonist, the Black abolitionist David Ruggles, helped to found the city’s Vigilance Committee to protect Black citizens from police officers acting on the Southerners’ behalf. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

“You’re never going to get closer to being a black person than watching a black movie with a black protagonist,” he said. ‘I’d Never Seen My Fears as an African-American Man Onscreen’ 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

The best-selling vampire novel is the perfect King classic, containing many of the most recognizable elements of his style: a writer protagonist, a Maine town full of idiosyncratic characters and memorably creepy setpieces. 33 Works of Fiction and Poetry Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

The novel charts a jagged course through the lives of its six protagonists in a world transfigured in one fantastic way. Can fantasy ever tell the truth? 2011-03-17T09:37:12Z

In short, these immature, fairly pitiable protagonists go about their absurd project in all the wrong ways. "A Good Old Fashioned Orgy:" Gen Y gets its group grope 2011-09-02T01:01:00Z

"I Care a Lot" delivers the same kicky pleasure as the recent "Promising Young Woman," as these female protagonists use a ruse to get what they want. "I Care a Lot" is a darkly amoral joyride for Rosamund Pike and Peter Dinklage 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

The acting in “Moonlight” has been tricky to honor, since its protagonist is played by three different actors, and so Ali has emerged as a kind of ensemble deputy. Meryl Streep at the Golden Globes 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

But then, my experiences are ordinary, as ordinary as the everyday horrors suffered by the book’s protagonist, Jiyoung. In This Korean Best Seller, a Young Mother Is Driven to Psychosis 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Its origins are virtually medieval, the protagonists are locked into deadpan mode, and the chances of reconciliation stand at zero: everything, in short, that you want from a celebrity tiff. A Shambolic, Kind of Fabulous Oscars Ceremony 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

But how many other protagonists leap into open graves to grab their ex-jester's skull and reminisce about the kisses they once shared?   Top 10 deranged characters 2011-04-06T11:21:05Z

But really, it treats the family itself as a protagonist, an organism that maintains collective quirks and personality even as its members evolve and transform, are born and grow old. Season 2 of ‘Transparent’ Expands Its View of the Pfefferman Clan 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

The hero, Kratos, is something of a reborn video-game protagonist: in his previous six outings, he was no more than a monosyllabic muscleman. The Best Video Games of 2018 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

However, "Running Up That Hill" is no compromise: It's a singular statement made by a strong, confident protagonist asserting their worth. The enduring resonance of Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill," 35 years later 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

After all, he could have been just another of television’s unlikable male protagonists. Review | 2017 Emmys: TV stops to bask in its own glory — and note some of its progress 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

For all the stress and strife endured by the teenage protagonists of “Days of the Whale,” a drama set in Medellín, Colombia, the movie also puts across the bright beauty of its urban environs. ‘Days of the Whale’ Review: A Battle Between Art and Power 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

A female reader who had first read the novel as a young academic probed the author about her choice of profession for her protagonist, who is writing a thesis. The Millstone by Margaret Drabble 2011-03-26T00:05:29Z

At one point, when describing the protagonist’s relationship with a phone’s dial tone, he softly says, “He hung up, very dramatic.” A Grand History of Small Operas 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

As I write this, I’m reminded of a “Publishers Weekly” interview, published last year, in which Claire Messud chastised her interlocutor for saying that she “wouldn’t want to be friends” with Messud’s protagonist. Elena Ferrante and What Liking Is Like 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Pixar was clearly capable of creating a female protagonist with depth. Why It Matters That Inside Out's Protagonist Is a Girl 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Though the protagonist, Audrey, is a woman, her biography mirrors the author’s. David Lat’s ‘Supreme Ambitions’ Is a Thriller for Lawyers 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

“A musical needs a great big protagonist with a great big want — a hope or goal that is so overwhelming that the protagonist is moved to sing about it,” Mr. Lechner said. Long Gestation: Turning ?The Kid? Into a Musical 2010-05-06T21:41:00Z

Watching the five protagonists try to deal with the weird, dangerous consequences of their actions is entertaining as hell, but it’s also strongly resonant with our own weird, dangerous world. In “Injection” a team of Internet do-gooders get tasked with making the digital space a better place and get it horribly wrong 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

The protagonist, a black man whose father was killed by police, wants to reinstitute segregation in his California town. Paul Beatty becomes first American to win Man Booker Prize 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

The protagonists both discover imminent plans to kill the creature, and both labs mention “vivisection”. Exclusive: playwright's estate says The Shape of Water used his work without credit 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

Yet even in this context, declares Gunn, he was determined to make his protagonists seem as real and authentic as possible - raccoons included. Galaxy's quest to put fun in fantasy 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

What the show has lost in the focus on a single family and protagonist, it’s gained in establishing its own voice separate from the books. Game of Thrones Watch: Fire, Meet Ice 2012-06-04T14:44:21Z

And our fantasies may contain scenes involving unlikely characters who are protagonists in scenarios that represent our deep desires – even if we do not recognise how. I’m a straight man but I am disturbed by my fantasy of being a woman having sex with a guy 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

Our central protagonist doesn’t die, and everybody doesn’t reunite in the afterlife. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 2 Finale: Nobody Does It Alone 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

The protagonist is intrigued by words and sounds, her mother’s name “like a chant” in her head, her computer filled with “hundreds of lines” of poetry. When the Past Can’t Be Buried: Debut Novels Dredge Up Old Ties 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

Or as a bemused observer in “Later Life” notes of its classically Gurney protagonist, “When you die, you’ll probably say, ‘Excuse me.’ Review: They Meet Again in ‘Later Life.’ Will Fireworks Follow? 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

The Blush"; "Dangerous Calm''; "Flesh"; "Perhaps a Family Failing" – so too are their protagonists. The other Elizabeth Taylor's Complete Short Stories 2012-07-06T21:55:05Z

When I decided to make this character white for this film, I thought it was interesting to have a white protagonist make bad choices and not be a savior. “I remembered as a kid, seeing dead bodies washed up on shore”: A conversation with Kareem Mortimer, writer and directed of “Cargo” 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

When the book opens, things have gotten only worse for our protagonists. Review | The best science fiction and fantasy to read this month 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

The other is the private worlds of the protagonists who find themselves caught up in this historical process. Martín Kohan's powerful prose is both public and intensely personal 2013-03-19T14:23:49Z

Grushin’s novel begins when the unnamed protagonist is 4 years old, living in Soviet Moscow in a family of intellectuals. ‘Forty Rooms’ asks: Can a woman be an artist and happy? 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

Tom Burke plays the shifty protagonist whose name might be Steve or Bob or Fletcher, and who might be a concerned relative or private detective or hit man. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

Of course, those protagonists don’t have the benefit of reading the title or the premise of the story in which they’re dwelling. The politics of Important TV: Why "The Terror" and "Our Boys" won't get the "Chernobyl" treatment 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

This remarkable book’s secret weapon is its protagonist, Welsh police detective Fiona Griffiths: blunt, blue collar, slightly unhinged — and with an unnamed, haunting “illness” in her past. Adam Woog’s best mysteries of 2012 2012-12-07T00:24:05Z

If I were writing a novel I would have liked to have a protagonist that goes through a similar radical transformation. ‘Britain Is No Home to Me’: Five Artists Respond to ‘Brexit’ 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

"This fabulously enjoyable read will keep you entertained and rooting for the protagonist until the very end, while delivering startling truths about cricket and about Sri Lanka," said chair Margaret Busby. Shehan Karunatilaka wins 2012 Commonwealth book prize 2012-06-08T14:58:40Z

It’s the same when she’s speaking about her best-selling 2005 memoir “The Glass Castle,” whose child protagonist — Jeannette Walls — was the daughter of a nomadic, often jobless and homeless alcoholic and his painter wife. ‘The Glass Castle’ writer Jeannette Walls on the movie version of her difficult life with daddy. 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

Its protagonist remained, to the end, morally offended by the forces that made it her inescapable destiny to relinquish her career and play more of a domestic role. Dirty Work by Gabriel Weston – review 2013-06-28T09:00:01Z

“Paterson,” the story of a poet and his poems, is set in Paterson, New Jersey, and its protagonist is a bus driver named Paterson, who is played by Adam Driver. Jim Jarmusch’s “Paterson” and the Myth of the Solitary Artist 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

The protagonists are warped too, but then they always were. Love Is the Devil: the view from the art world 2012-11-09T09:00:00Z

She’s currently working on a set of short stories, many with elderly protagonists. What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

But such opportunities are scarce: only 12% of the protagonists and 30% of all major characters in the top 100 grossing movies in 2014 were women, according to San Diego State University’s Celluloid Ceiling report. 11 Movies Starring Women That Will Rival Summer Blockbusters 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

One of the things that made this show distinctive was that it made finding love a goal in a female protagonist’s life without making it the goal. 30 Rock Finale: I Lizzed, I Cried 2013-02-01T02:01:45Z

Fatal Attraction, Fear, this is kind of… Most people are used to the woman being the protagonist in these sort of films. 'The Boy Next Door' Star Ryan Guzman: You're supposed to laugh at my movie 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

That look reminds me of a crucial moment in Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life, when Sarah Jane, the film’s secret protagonist, faces her worst fear: Her boyfriend discovers she’s half black. Why America hates its poor 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

They were also of a piece with dramas like “The Sopranos,” which asked you to like watching their protagonists without like-liking them. How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

Writers of children’s stories tend to be introverts and so do their protagonists. Introverts of the world, rise up! 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

At one point, the protagonist, a Black doctor, brings a patient back to life. How Black writers and journalists have wielded punctuation in their activism 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z

At the Oscars, this assumption has taken a subtle form of condescension in the name of “diversity” that perpetuates black protagonists as the often subservient “other” and not the norm. #OscarsSoWhite? It’s the audiences, not just the industry. 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

It's impossible to care about the fate of the protagonists. Prince of Persia shows why films based on video games will never work 2010-05-24T11:06:00Z

She shines a light on the complicated humanity of Wilson’s characters and creates the ensemble unity that is necessary in a play that doesn’t make its titular legend the protagonist of the piece. Resilience and dignity are the rich, bluesy music of 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Its protagonist, Ben Weeks, is a squash champion from one of his boarding school’s reigning families, a triple legacy for whom popularity comes as naturally as breathing. How a Novel Can Unmake the Myth of Meritocracy 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

Stranger still, this development is only apparent to our protagonist; no one Bride encounters acknowledges her peculiar transformation. Toni Morrison’s ‘God Help the Child’ 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

In 2018 this shouldn’t be a surprising addendum, and yet female protagonists of color are still a rarity in Hollywood. 'We're part of a greater movement': Hollywood finally gives Asian stories a spotlight 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

In “True West,” a major betrayal fuels the protagonists’ climactic clash. Two plays deal with betrayal with mixed results 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

For a protagonist who was wrestling with her own perceived invisibility and the irrelevance of middle age, that should be reassurance enough. Don’t Mind Me While I Wear My Dog 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

While her students are unforgettable, Ms. Mino is the star, a protagonist with a luminous face that hides nothing as she reflects the audience’s complicated emotions. Movie Review: ‘Best Kept Secret’ and a School for Special-Needs Children 2013-09-06T02:22:20Z

Various scenes in the movie are silent or expressed through close-ups of the protagonist, and Villeneuve said he needed a strong actress like Amy Adams to be able to do that. Villeneuve says creating alien world in new sci-fi movie was 'nightmare' 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

Despite the jaunty animal protagonists and inexplicable magic, Steig seems to me to be one of the more realist of writers for children. William Steig’s Books Explored the Reality That Adults Don’t Want Children to Know About 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

The novel’s protagonist is Tiller, a 20-year-old college student from New Jersey. Chang-rae Lee’s Latest Is Fueled by Harrowing Travel, Witness Protection and Food, Food and More Food 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

MacLaverty manages to dramatize this without reducing his protagonists to mere casualties. Exploring the mystery of a long, challenged marriage 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

Moore was the actress first attached to play the film’s protagonist, author Lee Israel. Julianne Moore fired from "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" for wanting a fat suit, says Richard E. Grant 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

DSWii Yogi Bear Namco Yogi Bear: The Video Game takes the form of a conventional 2D platforming adventure, which entails flinging its protagonist between ledges, gathering scattered collectibles and outmanoeuvring gently aggressive American wildlife. Yogi Bear: The Video Game ? review 2011-01-30T00:05:51Z

Divided into chapters, “Soft in the Head” builds — a tad moralistically — to a finale in which the protagonist is confronted with the selfishness of her self-destruction. Movie Review: Worlds Collide in ‘Soft in the Head,’ by Nathan Silver 2014-04-18T00:33:24Z

But if you yearn to harness the power of a screen death, yet want to avoid the messy inconvenience of the loss of a protagonist there is an alternative: fake it. Clip joint: fake deaths 2011-04-13T14:49:37Z

However, the road the six protagonists travel to reach that final scene is a troubled one. Flickonomics: eight movies that teach us how money works 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

A man's voice leads you through the city and into a 45 minute heist movie; you are the protagonist, you must deal with a bank robbery and it's aftermath. Getting Blasted at Sundance 2011-01-20T13:08:39Z

The protagonist of "Satin Island," who goes by the name U., works in the corporate sector, but his duties are a bit of a mystery. Tom McCarthy keeps protagonist and readers guessing 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Nothing in this setup is revolutionary, of course, and a protagonist living a secret life is a sitcom premise hoary enough for, well, TV Land. Review: On Younger, Comedy Starts at 40 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

The classic novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, published 100 years ago this summer, takes the traditional children's literature trope of the orphan protagonist and twists it. The Secret Garden's hidden depths 2011-08-05T11:42:29Z

It is unclear whether the spirits will harm or help the protagonist. Hayao Miyazaki’s "Spirited Away" continues to delight fans 20 years after its U.S. premiere 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z

Documentaries help viewers process an overwhelming amount of data into structured, relatable narratives, often with emotionally compelling protagonists at their core. At AFI Docs, audiences seem younger than ever. Is it a trend? 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

That intrepid soul is Wilbur, the toothy protagonist of “Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Underground Rock Experience,” a special that begins streaming on HBO Max on Thursday. Naked No More: A TV Rodent Teaches Families About Tolerance 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

Advertisement “Masaan,” which opened in India on July 24, portrays provincial life in India through the divided lives of its youthful protagonists. ‘Masaan’ and Other Indian Films Steer Away From Bollywood Escapism 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

If surfing was now big business, it no longer worked as cinematic shorthand for “romantic outsiderdom”, nor as the perfect setting for the dangerous, outcast protagonist. Turning the tide: why surf films have lost their counterculture cachet 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

Her protagonist, childless 36-year-old Grace, is so newly engaged to a divorced father of two, Victor, that they haven’t announced their new status yet. On Mother’s Day, three new novels about motherhood 2013-05-13T05:55:34Z

Reading “Denial” is like ingesting a novel from a particularly damaged Joyce Carol Oates protagonist come to life; Ms. Stern can seem like a potent distillate of every Oates character ever put to paper. Books of The Times: Jessica Stern?s ?Denial? Returns to a Dark Past 2010-06-24T20:41:00Z

Ms. Clare’s characters are tougher and wittier than the lugubrious Bella and Edward of “Twilight” fame, and her female protagonists are smart and sassy. Cassandra Clare Created a Fantasy Realm and Aims to Maintain Her Rule 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

Here, Poe explores its opposite: his protagonist, approaching the South Pole, encounters a vast world of menace and shrouded monsters. Carsten Jensen's top 10 seafaring tales 2010-04-14T11:04:00Z

This summer, the trajectory of the anorexic protagonist is more visible — and more mainstream — than ever. The “eating disorder movie,” beyond sickness and health 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

This is a haunting, of course, but one that will drag the protagonist into sharing the feelings of those who have died. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill 2012-02-10T22:55:08Z

“Among storytelling mediums, games especially excel at their ability to immerse the audience in the identity of the protagonist and the problems facing the world they live in,” she said. These People Helped Shape Video Game Culture in 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

One of the greatest pleasures of watching “Broad City” is seeing a staunchly feminist show with a major protagonist who just enjoys the hell out of being a woman in her 20s. Joy is a feminist (comedy) act: With her playful, dirty swagger, “Broad City”’s Ilana is breaking the mold 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

Funnily enough, when today I looked up synonyms for “hero” on my computer, the top two entries were “brave man” and “male protagonist.” MTV doesn’t think Katniss is a hero 2014-03-11T14:09:00Z

Lake Success is a subdivision of Great Neck — the town that, in , F. Scott Fitzgerald fictionalized into West Egg, the adopted home of his 1925 novel’s charming criminal protagonist. The Wolf of Wall Street: Scorsese and DiCaprio Fall for the Big Con 2013-12-28T00:40:27Z

But there are some TV series that have just the right blend of action, gadgets, and middle-aged protagonists to really excel at capturing your dad's attention. 10 TV shows with big dad energy 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

He wanted them to feel as anxious and confused as the protagonists. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

The violated female body is a running theme; the protagonist reveals past traumas to Hendricks, and her wounds accentuate the healing power of the missives she writes. A Dystopian America Where a Woman Who Can Read and Write Wields Special Power 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

But for its protagonist, grade-schooler Pete Simmons, the mysteries of the world, both pleasurable and terrifying, bring him to a point of reckoning, after which he will never be the same. Stephen King's 'Bazaar of Bad Dreams' pulls us in and then out 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

Most Shakespeare protagonists confide their thoughts to the audience in soliloquies. Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus: The Paths of Gory 2011-12-04T18:37:40Z

His name is Jared, and he’s the protagonist of Simon Stephenson’s laugh-out-loud-funny debut novel, “Set My Heart to Five.” Review | Simon Stephenson’s hilarious ‘Set My Heart to Five’ follows a robot with Hollywood aspirations 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

We asked our significant others to scrutinize our female protagonists, and the novel further improved in the deft hands of our editor. Why write a collaborative novel? Well … why write alone? 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

Over the ensuing decades, presidents have been reliable go-tos for screenwriters looking for compelling protagonists facing high-stakes conflicts against the photogenic backdrop of the White House. Perspective | Trump’s exit may be too late to save the presidential movie 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

And then the whole idea that all these beings find the protagonist so unfathomably attractive even though she's the most self-centered girl I've ever encountered? Q&A: Humorist Dave Barry 2010-05-14T08:00:00Z

There is a startling moment in the soulful Mexican drama “Dos Estaciones” when it shifts from the protagonist to a secondary character. ‘Dos Estaciones’ Review: A Tequila Factory’s Story, Sip by Sip 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

“We have a many-tentacled antagonist, and the nation’s storytellers are begging for protagonists to battle against the hydra.” Trump has been great for the economy. The anti-Trump economy, that is. 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

Beattie asks of the protagonist of "Missed Calls," a 73-year-old widow who once met Truman Capote and is now being interviewed for a book. Ann Beattie doesn't settle for easy solutions in 'The State We're In' 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

His Demon Princes series consists of five novels in which the protagonist, Kirth Gersen, seeks revenge against the five villains, one per book, who destroyed his childhood home, a peaceful space colony. Jack Vance, Writer of the Fantastical, Dies at 96 2013-06-03T02:51:11Z

They would very much bristle if someone tried to describe them as Jewish writers even though the vast majority of their protagonists were Jewish. Book Talk: The dark doubts in the heart of a Mormon missionary 2013-06-21T14:18:17Z

One was undeniably misogynistic, a knee-jerk reaction against seeing such a major franchise associated with women, thanks to gender conservatives being used to seeing only 15 percent of movies star female protagonists. Buying “Ghostbusters” — or not: How buying in or boycotting a summer family movie became a political act 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Now we’re just in the land of “The Walking Dead,” where identical problems will plague characters for a decade, and we’re meant to see the protagonists’ obstinance as ethical rather than idiotic. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Is Brutal and Not Much Else in Season 2 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

Hush and Don’t Breathe, two of the better recent efforts, throw a game-changing disability into the mix for good measure, their under-siege protagonists deaf and blind respectively. Don't move! The single-location movies that ramp up the tension on screen 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

The first is that it does so without Will Smith as Agent J or Tommy Lee Jones as Agent K, the protagonists of the original trilogy. In defense of "Men in Black: International" 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

Like the protagonist of his story, Orellana seeks to express the suffering of a country traumatized by genocide and civil war, while largely shunning the materials of Western music. To Express the Sound of a Country’s Soul, He Invented New Instruments 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

Only this time, rather than controlling virtual people or creating space creatures, the protagonist of "HiveMind" is the actual player. "The Sims" designer creating new game for real life 2012-01-02T17:28:44Z

Her grave voice, with its biting elocution and rough-woolen texture, brings us inside the dimming psyche of the protagonist with a hypnotic seductiveness that leaves a lingering chill. | 'Fragments': ?Fragments? at Baryshnikov Arts Center - Review 2011-11-15T22:05:03Z

She ultimately decided to begin with the third character in the title, the anonymous protagonist of the 1970s “Go Ask Alice.” How to Craft an Opening Line to Electrify a Theater Audience 2012-10-28T04:10:05Z

The zestful, bitter voice of the book’s protagonist, Jason T. Fitger, a professor of creative writing at Payne University and frustrated novelist, begs to be read aloud. Dear Match Book: Funny Pages 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

"The drunken city" suggests collective amnesia: perhaps others are about, in a condition similar to that of the protagonist, but agreeing not to notice. Poem of the week: City Boy by Peter Daniels 2012-05-22T15:23:00Z

Many took issue with the casting of Johansson as the cyborg protagonist who was Japanese in the original, calling it another example of Hollywood “whitewashing”. Boss Baby trumps Beauty and the Beast to top US box office 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

Yet I found myself both seized and intrigued by its method, which allows the reader to inhabit the escalating errors of the protagonist. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z

There is the chief protagonist, the bountifully mustachioed Gen. Otis, a veteran of the Civil War and the Spanish American War, and staunch anti-union man. The 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times has been the subject of books and film. Now it's a bus tour 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

The Pulitzer Prize winner even deputizes her on-page doppelgänger to hire her protagonist at an unnamed Minneapolis bookstore that sounds a lot like the one Erdrich owns in real life. Starring Louise Erdrich as Herself 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Putting her seemingly content protagonist through very low-key emotional crises, director Maria Sole Tognazzi gently explores what it means to be unmarried, middle-aged and female. An engaging journey through 'A Five Star Life' 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Ford subjects his mostly middle-aged-male protagonists to jarring dislocations, then lets them cope. In Richard Ford’s New Stories, Ambivalence Is the Default Condition 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

By using older and newer styles of music, coupled with the protagonist’s struggles to rise above the same discrimination endured today, the show explores how little race relations have progressed. The Evolution of Black Music, and a Man’s Soul, in One Show 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

Was the fact that the protagonist of “The Killing” is a female part of the material’s appeal to you? ArtsBeat: Making 'The Killing,' AMC's New Nordic Noir 2011-04-01T14:56:56Z

Novels like “The Lying Life of Adults” do indeed contain wisdom, in this case insight into the wild drama of adolescence as seen through eyes of its protagonist. Review | Elena Ferrante returns with ‘The Lying Life of Adults,’ and fans of the Neapolitan novels will be thrilled 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

But in developing them, it sidelines its own perfectly compelling protagonist — and wastes a magnetic lead performance from Arnezeder. ‘The Colony’ Review: Fertile Ground Goes to Waste 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

The lines of each protagonist are inscribed, anachronistically, in Hebrew rather than Aramaic on the base of each statue. Art Review: The Great Rustici Emerges From the Shadows 2010-12-13T15:41:00Z

Black filmgoers finally experienced a protagonist who is not only black, but is also able to fight those who would oppress him: white zombies. From Blacula to Get Out: the documentary examining black horror 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Rather it denounces discrimination by contrasting the ease with which the protagonists embrace their gender fluidity with the stereotypical reactions of the men around them. How "Euphoria" challenges viewers’ expectations of what a television show should be 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Trump saw the source of the protagonist’s troubles differently. Trump Isn’t Watching Too Much TV. He’s Watching the Wrong Kind. 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

I think great worlds are important because they allow readers to play in that world with their imagination long after the book is done, but a great world isn’t complete without a great protagonist. Tomi Adeyemi Hates Assigned Reading 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

The remake now allows Leon, the grizzled protagonist, to place unwanted weapons in storage and customize his case with colors and charms that add minor perks, like increased levels of healing. Scare Me Once? Great Game. Scare Me Twice? Great Remake. 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

The protagonist of the story is, and always was, the music. Behind Wilco’s 2001 Masterpiece, a Band Breaking Its Heart 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

The title of Sebastián Silva’s film “Tyrel” comes from a momentary mispronunciation of the African-American protagonist’s name, but it speaks to the simmering discomfort summoned by this agonizingly dead-on cringe comedy-drama. ‘Tyrel’ Review: Drowning in a Whirlpool of Drunken Dudes 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Short chapters alternate between the two protagonists’ perspectives as they fall into a routine of daily visits and nurture their obvious attraction. Review | ‘Ellie and the Harpmaker’ plucks the heartstrings 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z

They featured universal adolescent themes, like alienation and a hunger for acceptance, and thrust protagonists into chilling situations, often with supernatural elements. Lois Duncan, 82, Dies; Author Knew ‘What You Did Last Summer’ 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z

Lloyd, the protagonist of Audrey Magee’s new novel, “The Colony,” hopes to revitalize his career by spending three months painting the landscape and its handful of inhabitants. A Tale of Well-Meaning Visitors Reflects a Colonial Legacy 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

Kinsella, who wrote Shoeless Joe, the book on which the movie is based, named his protagonist after the Salinger character—not his own surname. The 22 Lost Salinger Stories 2013-09-07T09:45:11Z

To paraphrase Brontë’s most famous protagonist, no matter how obscure or little they may be, they are still full of heart and soul, much like these books. Charlotte Brontë and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Before the World Knew Them 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Even more notably, as the trio of protagonists, the movie’s backstory proves to be dominated by mothers. “The Kitchen,” Reviewed: An Engrossing Mob-Wife Drama That’s Relegated to a Table Read 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

A central theme of the novel is loyalty: both protagonists are motivated by friends in need of justice and support, and misguided loyalty fuels the behavior of some of the more villainous characters. ‘Dream Eyes’: paranormal powers in the service of justice 2013-01-03T20:19:16Z

Marcus Goldman, the novel’s protagonist, is, like Dicker, young and rich and famous. Francophone Hit, American Letdown 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Nothing makes you inhabit the experience of the protagonist quite like a video game. ‘The Last of Us’ Finale: First-Person Shooter 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

The good news is that he weaves his three protagonists’ deceptively discrete trajectories together, creating a triptych of poignant and at times haunting stories. Review | Three tragic characters are mysteriously linked in ‘From a Low and Quiet Sea’ 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

And “2 Broke Girls” and “New Girl” have stirred debate by describing their adult protagonists as girls, though Ms. Dennings said she fully endorsed the title of her show. The New Season: Kat Dennings and Other Young Actresses Star on TV 2011-09-14T23:40:26Z

He’s a classic Allen protagonist: Intellectually gifted, existentially drifting, and apparently, in this case, alcoholic and at least partly impotent as well. Woody Allen’s at it again: He gets older, his ingénues stay the same age 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

I'm fascinated by this story, really fascinated by Elizabeth Holmes as a protagonist. Michael Showalter on American con artists: "We really are screwed if there's no such thing as truth" 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

But, from the point of view of insane protagonists and formal invention, it is endlessly fascinating. Top 10 deranged characters 2011-04-06T11:21:05Z

Her two unhappy protagonists find tempting opportunities to satisfy their thwarted desires in this secretive marketplace, whose business practices Amend convincingly paints as considerably less lovely than the artworks being sold. ‘A Nearly Perfect Copy’: seduced into art fraud 2013-04-10T18:14:27Z

It is about its protagonist’s struggle with these realities, and about the possibility of a measured triumph over them. What the Church Meant for James Baldwin 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z

Grant was inspired by Sophocles’ play “Antigone,” whose female protagonist defies political decrees to honor her dead brother. Two artists try to portray the indescribable at Pasadena Museum of California Art 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

“I wanted to entrust this female protagonist with characteristics that I sometimes have,” Mr. Moretti said. A Director Casts a Woman to Play Him in the Tale of His Life 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

“Not Okay” may sympathize with its protagonist’s mental health struggles, but it also leeches its clout from real, pitiable people. ‘Not Okay’ Review: Posting Through It 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

More importantly, it conjured up a world where justice was served and the protagonist always found happiness. Enchanted, I’m sure 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Its protagonist is an obsessive fan called David who is on the verge of becoming a teenager, and is terrified at the prospect. The Diary of a Dr Who Addict by Paul Magrs 2010-05-21T23:07:00Z

Sciamma’s film moves backwards—she knows where her protagonist is meant to end up, and she seems to retrofit the action to bring about the needed results. “Timbuktu” and “Girlhood” 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

Dark Night” offers no single participant as compelling as Willis Earl Beal, the musician protagonist of Sutton’s film “Memphis,” because it presents an entirely different spectrum of experience. Two Important Documentaries from Sundance 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

Similar to “Alita: Battle Angel” and “Roma,” “Greta” is a movie that elides the distinctive and significant psychology of its protagonist in the interest of shaping the plot. The Most Disturbing Aspect of “Greta” 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

Conventional at its core, Whiplash has a lot in common with movies made from YA novels — The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Maze Runner — that set daunting rites of passage for its protagonist to overcome. Review: Whiplash Moves to the Beat of a Driven Drummer 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

His protagonist, Lucy Willows, lives in an unnamed New Jersey town based on Westfield, where Mr. McCarthy’s family lived until he was 15, when they moved to Bernardsville. Andrew McCarthy’s Newest Role: Young Adult Novelist 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

The film industry reflected the concerns of the immediate postwar era and helped to assuage the anxieties of a frustrated public that, like "Miracle on 34th Street's" young protagonist, dreamed of a home. "Miracle on 34th Street" reminds us that home ownership was once an elusive dream for many Americans 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z

If he’s going to sing — and if he’s the protagonist he has to — William must have something worth singing about. Review: In ‘Almost Famous,’ the Heart of Rock ’n’ Roll Flatlines 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Its protagonist, a Scottish journalist called Colley, finds himself implicated in the crimes of a serial killer. Iain Banks dies aged 59 2013-06-09T17:22:02Z

You’ll laugh a lot reading this book as the protagonists learn more about each other — and much more about themselves. Jen Lancaster’s ‘The Best of Enemies’ is a cheeky take on girl friends 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

The idea is there in the title image and at the start of the show, when the dairyman protagonist, Tevye, explains that the people of his shtetl maintain their balance by relying on tradition. In ‘Fiddler,’ a Balancing Act to Rival Tevye’s 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Bezos establishes a dichotomy between caregivers and protagonists, then sets about demonstrating the falseness of that division. The Idealized, Introverted Wives of MacKenzie Bezos’s Fiction 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

“Dickinson” caters to readers and viewers who prefer a more wildly imaginative protagonist, a poet who knows how to dream, party and joke around. Perspective | ‘Dickinson’ is another example of pop culture trying to liberate Emily Dickinson 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

“Oftentimes if you’re a protagonist in a film, at least with the kind of actor I am, I feel this need to drive things, to drive the scene,” says Phoenix. Joaquin Phoenix, Mike Mills on sincerity in ‘C’mon C’mon’ 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

But the protagonist’s reputed greatness has not made it to the screen. ‘Baggio: The Divine Ponytail’ Review: Dribbling Through a Career 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

In the tiresome manner of most studio-generated comedies, its protagonist must undergo a trajectory that confronts him with his character flaws and improves his defective personality. "Gulliver's Travels" relies too much on effects 2010-12-23T00:26:57Z

Writing his first feature in the late ’90s, Mr. Villeneuve said, he consciously chose a female protagonist because he felt it would bring him “the necessary distance” from his subject. Denis Villeneuve of ‘Arrival’ Leans In to Strong Heroines 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

“Desperate Housewives” achieved lift-off by drawing us into the relatable life stories of its four protagonists, who live in the same neighborhood and share the same interest in figuring out why their friend killed herself. Smart Watch: Why is there yet another season of "13 Reasons Why"? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

As one of the final three, Sae-byeok is definitely set up to be one of the series' central protagonists. “Squid Game” missed an opportunity to show capitalism & patriarchy are one 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the most chastised has been "The Little Mermaid" protagonist Ariel, called anti-feminist because, of course, as many point out, "She gives up her voice for a man." Poor unfortunate souls: False feminism and criticism of Disney’s "Little Mermaid" 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

Compared with the misogynistic protagonists in the works of the silver generation, his actions do seem tame. Future Tense: Celebrities Behaving Well 2014-03-07T21:36:13Z

The creator of the Slayer, first incarnated in the 1992 film starring Kristy Swanson and then reborn as the protagonist of the world's best ever television series, does not own the film rights. Oh, Buffy! I don't know whether to weep or cheer 2010-11-23T20:00:00Z

Among them are the broke and lovelorn protagonist of the lead single “Pay Your Way in Pain,” Nina Simone, Marilyn Monroe and her own father, whose release from prison in 2019 inspired the title track. St. Vincent Is Trying to Understand People 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

In both cases, the passive observer becomes the active protagonist. Review | Brian De Palma and Susan Lehman deliver a silly, fun pastiche of hard-boiled crime fiction 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

My first relation to and understanding of love also came from a literary character, Lieutenant Glahn, the protagonist in Knut Hamsun’s novel “Pan.” Karl Ove Knausgaard: By the Book 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

It’s not something she could find on screen growing up, instead having to perform mental gymnastics to project herself onto all the thin, white protagonists. Natasha Rothwell is ready to be the lead of her own rom-com 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

For Bear Bavinsky, while unquestionably the book’s central presence, is not, in fact, its protagonist. Portrait of the Artist as a Complete Jerk 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

“We waited for a movie like the one we wanted to make, and secretly wanted to live,” says one of the protagonists of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1966 youth film, “Masculine Feminine.” ‘My Girlfriend’s Wedding’: Her Life Plays Like a Movie 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

It places you in the perspective of the protagonist, whether that protagonist is valorized or not. ‘Cops’ Is Off the Air. But Will We Ever Get It Out of Our Heads? 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

In “Betrayed,” for example, the protagonist, Angus Gordon, is overcome by the sight of another character, Fiona Hay, in her bath. Bertrice Small, 77, Writer of Risqué Romance Novels, Dies 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

In the time-honored tradition of American protagonists facing a crisis that will require spiritual growth and transformation: Sam Raymond runs away from home. When the ‘Change of Life’ Means It’s Time to Change Your Life 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

The longer Horse Girl probes its protagonist’s ostensibly unremarkable life, however, the more complex and fragile her mental state is revealed to be. Streaming: To All the Boys: PS I Still Love You – the longed-for sequel lands 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z

In “The Starless Sea,” the protagonist, Zachary, is unnerved to discover a story from his own childhood in a mysterious book, and sets out on a quest to save an underground, literary realm. 13 Books to Watch For in November 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

But, he adds “I believe children instinctively understand passion and tragedy. And a 6-month-old, bank-robbing baby is a pretty good protagonist.” Bruce Springsteen on ‘Outlaw Pete’ and not sheltering kids from the realities of life

Bloodless revolution … some sparkling moments cannot disguise the essential coldness of Jonathan Grimwood's protagonist. The Last Banquet by Jonathan Grimwood – review 2013-07-20T10:01:08Z

Clearly his plan works out, for in the fifth narrative, set in a dystopian future, the protagonist, a clone called Sonmi~451, watches a forbidden film. Guardian book club: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

And, in this later piece, Huff pokes much meta-fun at his own conceits, not least when he conjures up a device that has the protagonist of a one-character show losing her voice. 'The Detective's Wife' probes the limits of protection 2011-06-02T19:05:39Z

A man tragically trapped by his own circumstances, Andy is a brutish yet compelling protagonist. Wigtown Ploughman: Part of His Life by John McNeillie - review 2012-11-13T16:55:01Z

In Season One, the creators said it was a journey through the female mind by way of a male protagonist. A Minute With: Thomas Jane and his role on "Hung" 2011-09-28T09:01:56Z

Luna, a young woman who shares the name of the poem’s protagonist, is firing questions, insistent on learning more about her mysterious namesake. Review | ‘The Last Romantics’ is a sweeping family saga with a poetic streak 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Which is the entire premise of CBS’s The Great Indoors, another new show featuring hipster protagonists. TV for hipsters: how two new shows are trying to appeal to the cool kids 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

Kayce, caught between cultures, becomes something like the protagonist of “Yellowstone,” and its entree into the reservation. Review: ‘Yellowstone’ Wrangles Daddy Issues on the Range 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

The protagonist in the first song confronts her boredom. Review | Read this boring review of last night’s Courtney Barnett concert 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

Toward the end of “The Cathedral,” a movie filled with restrained feeling and shimmers of beauty, the young protagonist describes in voice-over a photograph that fills the screen. ‘The Cathedral’ Review: A Boy, a Home, a World 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

And each of their female protagonists has her own strength — strength that in some cases changes the men in their lives. The Problem With Broadway Revivals: They Revive Gender Stereotypes, Too 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

Beck's protagonist is Noah Gardner, a Manhattan yuppie with a corner office at his father's high-powered p.r. firm. Glenn Beck's Thriller Mixes Romance, Tea-Party Politics 2010-06-16T08:30:00Z

Desplat praises the film's restraint, especially in allowing its star, Benedict Cumberbatch, to portray protagonist Alan Turing's inner turmoil with circumspection. Godzilla, Alan Turing and more move to Alexandre Desplat's music 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

The Last Song treats the fate of its teenage protagonist as something to be defined solely by her dealings with men. With The Last Song, Miley Cyrus leaves her fans to their fate 2010-05-04T09:00:00Z

“Norma” and “Elektra” have riches beyond their dominating protagonists; “Medea” is almost entirely Medea. Review: In the Met Opera’s ‘Medea,’ a Soprano Stands Alone 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

A young Sylvia Plath lived there too, and in her semi-autobiographical novel, “The Bell Jar,” she fictionalized it as “The Amazon,” the hotel where her protagonist, Esther Greenwood, stays during a summer magazine internship. Some of America’s Most Ambitious Women Slept Here 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Ms. Seymour began to dance Odette-Odile, the protagonist of “Swan Lake,” in 1959, the same year she became, at only 20, a principal of the Royal Ballet’s touring company. Lynn Seymour, Acclaimed Ballerina and a Dramatic Force, Dies at 83 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

In the thriller “Mr. Robot,” characters and whole story lines have proved to be inventions of the protagonist’s subconscious. ‘Legion’ and the Rise of Surreality TV 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

But “Deutschland 83,” an espionage series from Germany set in that wretched decade, is fresh and enjoyable nonetheless, distinguishing itself with a young protagonist and a losers’-history perspective. Review: ‘Deutschland 83’ Focuses on a Reluctant Cold War Spy 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

There’s an uncomfortable scene in “Samurai Gourmet” when the protagonist can’t muster the courage to tell the intimidating proprietress of a Chinese restaurant that the heartless bowl of noodles she served him is bad. Day Drinking with Japanese TV and comics creator Masayuki Qusumi 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

LaBeouf, after playing the main protagonist in the "Transformers" series, did not star in the latest "Transformers" movie, titled "The Last Knight," which opened in the United States last month. Actor Shia LaBeouf arrested in Georgia on disorderly conduct charge 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z

The protagonist enters a life of crime because of unemployment and the broken promises of a "golden future". Readers recommend: songs about criminals ? results 2011-03-31T12:49:24Z

Hanks directed, co-wrote and also stars as the protagonist in the movie, which is about a middle-aged man who reinvents himself by going back to college after he loses his job. Tom Hanks launches new film at London premiere 2011-06-06T21:25:08Z

One of Rhodes's protagonists shows the fiancée he dumps the less attractive girl he's leaving her for. Marry Me by Dan Rhodes – review 2013-02-08T11:00:01Z

The Playhouse’s announcement says the protagonist, presumably not named Gordon Gekko, is “an upstart genius hell-bent on changing all the rules.” New plays by Ayad Akhtar, Quiara Alegria Hudes and Joe DiPietro highlight La Jolla Playhouse season 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Liselle’s call to Selena happens in the first few pages of the book, just before dinner begins, which is to say that we meet our protagonist at the precise moment her Potemkin life becomes intolerable. This Novel Nods to Virginia Woolf While Staring Down Modern Class Lines 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

And yet he is the protagonist of one of the 20th century's acknowledged classics. The Necrophiliac by Gabrielle Wittkop ? review 2011-07-21T09:00:02Z

We see the gang of protagonists organising brunch. The Bedford Stop: online reality show proves that Williamsburg is over 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

The show offers a menagerie of people in protagonist Sam Fox’s world, of varying ages, genders and races. ‘Magical’ ending for ‘Better Things’ fifth and final season 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

The journey bringing the narrative protagonists face to face with malevolence at the heart of “The Outsider,” however, is not entirely predictable. The slow dread of "The Outsider," HBO's series that defies Stephen King expectations 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

His protagonists, Thaddeus Kaufman and Grace Cornell, fall in love in Chicago and move to New York in search of artistic success. Can you live a moral and creative life and still enjoy a bit of luxury? 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

Unlike the characters in Mr. Lethem’s recent novels, such protagonists are a sketchily defined lot — crudely carved chess pieces that he moves about mechanically to illustrate his plot points. Review: ‘Lucky Alan,’ Jonathan Lethem’s Dreamlike Tales of Seclusion 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Indeed, in these post-mortgage-crisis days of real estate dreaming, a desirable property in the right part of town could give even a protagonist a run for her money. When a 'City of Conversation' becomes a union divided: Political factions propel drama at the Wallis 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

Tripp, winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for fiction, imbues the novel with a protagonist who forces the reader to consider the breadth of O’Keeffe’s talent, business savvy, courage and wanderlust. Beyond “the eternal feminine”: Novelist Dawn Tripp reimagines the life and work of Georgia O’Keeffe 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

In both, a cognitively limited protagonist navigates the perplexing and perilous outside world, teaching its neurotypical habitués some simple but life-altering truths along the way. The curious incident of Leela in the nighttime: New play explores the OC through autistic eyes 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Filmed with the film’s protagonist in tight close-ups, “Son of Saul” makes potent use of the oblique margins, where the unspeakable events of one night in the character’s life take place. The best movies of 2015: ‘Spotlight,’ ‘Love & Mercy,’ ‘Creed’ make the top 10 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

Here would be highly theatrical storylines with protagonists who are riddles beyond the reach of journalism. The story of O: A Presidential Novel 2011-01-21T12:15:40Z

Russell Janzen’s debut performance as the male protagonist of “Robert Schumann’s ‘Davidsbündlertänze’” was the finest account of this role to date, and the next week he was finer yet. New York City Ballet’s Spring Was Full of Revelations 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

The protagonist’s narrative, which takes the form of a confession written to a mystery man known as “the commandant,” begins in the final days of the war, as Communist forces close in on Saigon. ‘The Sympathizer,’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

In her haphazard new book “Grand Pursuit,” Ms. Nasar says she set out to tell that story through the lives of “protagonists who were instrumental in turning economics into an instrument of mastery.” Books of The Times: ?Grand Pursuit? by Sylvia Nasar - Review 2011-12-01T22:20:40Z

Insulated by their exorbitant wealth, the Silicon Valley protagonists seem just mildly perturbed that the proletariat is up in arms over invasions of privacy, manipulative algorithms and underpaying gig jobs. Podcasts About Impeachment, Mr. Rogers and a Purring Cat: What’s New 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

Even as the lockdown accelerates intimacy and conflict between the protagonists, their actions feel inconsequential compared with the greater world outside. ‘The Pink Cloud’ Review: Love in Lockdown 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

But there isn’t much setup for Walter; perhaps intentionally, given how much the show goes on to focus on its white protagonist. Review: ‘The Visitor’ Lags Behind the Times 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

“What makes it powerful,” he wrote, “is that we must speak into our computer microphones to advance through the home, letting our protagonist know that we’re there for her.” No Guns, No Dragons: Her Video Games Capture Private Moments 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z

We watch as McCann’s writer casts about for a protagonist and finally lights upon a Marine — “let’s say a young woman” — in Afghanistan, pining for home. Sleeping giant Colum McCann awakens with new collection 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

Some past Broadway productions have starred Eva Le Gallienne, Jean Arthur and Maude Adams as the bratty, airborne protagonist. Allison Williams in 'Peter Pan' continues a cross-dressing tradition 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

“It’s called Silencio because that’s the principal element that drives the worst things that happen to the main female protagonist,” he said. Pedro Almodóvar Shares Title of His Next Film, Teases Details 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

The terrible magic of the war is missing, and so is the heightened, wide-eyed perceptiveness of the child protagonist. Review: With ‘Queen and Country,’ John Boorman Continues a Tale 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Patino enacts a few intelligent shifts away from Wood's original story, such as making the protagonist a woman and a medic named Alma instead of yet another heroic male journalist. A Second Civil War and too many plotholes plague "DMZ," HBO Max's latest dystopian adaptation 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

It is a fiercely composed, historically informed, and richly textured film, as insightful regarding the particularities of the protagonist as it is on the artistic life—and on the life of its times.. “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” Reviewed: Melissa McCarthy Finally Gets the Dramatic Role She Deserves 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

It looks clear and bright, and moves as briskly as its protagonist, with the editing and lively music doing more conspicuous work than the discreet cinematography. ‘Anaïs in Love’ Review: Portrait of a Woman on the Run 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

Even as the journeys of the author and his protagonist merge, Mr. Barry and Lennon remain stubbornly distinct. Review: In ‘Beatlebone,’ an Imagined Trip With John Lennon 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

Will the protagonist, who loves to “descant on mine own deformity,” make us see anew the premium that society places on women’s appearances? Review: An All-Female ‘Richard III’ Makes for an Evening of Discontent 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

In 2011, Bailey published the novel “Chapman’s Odyssey,” in which an elderly male protagonist, lying ill in the hospital, is visited by people real and imagined: lovers, dead parents, characters from literature. What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

One true fact is that the protagonist is an aging opera composer. Review: ‘Quicksand,’ Robert Ashley’s Enigmatic Spy-Thriller Opera 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

Q: Does it bother you that movies about young protagonists automatically get pigeonholed as family movies? ‘Wonder’ author and director talk about teaching empathy in the age of Trump 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z

Ulysses Temper is the modest, searching, wandering protagonist. Does Life Imitate Art or Is It the Other Way Around? 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

If anything, the protagonist that illuminated the most human of truths wasn’t human; it was the boat. This is the only way “Mad Men” should end 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

Arnold filmed “Cow” over four years, capturing the quotidian rhythms of Luma’s life, giving the bovine the kind attention and empathy she would for any human protagonist. New this week: Camila Cabello, Tony Hawk and ‘Tokyo Vice’ 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

Strictly speaking, the protagonist of “Inside Out,” which takes place mainly in the mind of an 11-year-old girl named Riley, is Joy. At Comic-Con, It Feels Like the Year of the Woman 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Most of the protagonists in Hold Steady songs appear younger than the ones he writes about on his solo album. Album review: Craig Finn, 'Clear Heart Full Eyes' 2012-01-20T05:03:00Z

For the protagonist in “Cherry,” it was to fuel an opioid addiction. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Last Chance U’ and ‘Stockton on My Mind’ 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

This is the fact underscored by the first episode of the second season, “Sand Hill Shuffle,” where the protagonists attend exploratory meetings at seven different venture capital firms. HBO’s “Silicon Valley” leans in: The bro-tastic startup culture confronts its woman problem in season 2 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

With its references to emo music and late-aughts pop culture, it seemed like a comedic time capsule of my own life, so its protagonists, though Hollywood beautiful, felt real to me. What Megan Fox Taught Me About the Power of Subversive Girls 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Chastain is a gutsy protagonist, and her moxie is appealing, even if her dialogue is crummy. "The 355" delivers all the glammed-up action you want from a badass women spy flick 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

Urban dictionary defines a "lick" as "a successful type of theft which results in an acceptable, impressive and rewarding payday for the protagonist." Schools warn students destroying campus property as part of ‘devious’ TikTok trend: ‘Charges may be filed’ 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

Vidal-Naquet sells this facile notion by keeping his protagonist a borderline cipher — even-tempered, accommodating, seemingly at peace with drifting. ‘Sauvage / Wild’ Review: A French Hustler Gets Too Close to His Work 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

“There are days … when I have to remind myself how I got here,” Sarah Hagen explains to Tom Combs, the protagonist of Nick Dybek’s novel “The Verdun Affair.” He Can’t Remember His Name. Maybe He Doesn’t Want To? 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Other TV shows will certainly spotlight a corpse or murder, but stalkers and serial killers are far less often the show’s central protagonists. Does Netflix have a killer problem? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

As in earlier books by Mr. Twelve Hawks, this protagonist lives in an ominous, technology-dominated world where machines aid or spy on all aspects of life. ‘Spark,’ the Latest Dystopian Novel From John Twelve Hawks 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

Her young protagonists are ethnically diverse, typically urban, often immigrants and rarely well heeled; fathers may be absent. Vera B. Williams, Who Brought the Working Class to Children’s Books, Dies at 88 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

My protagonist became Generic Old Man: crabby, computer illiterate, grieving for his dementia-addled wife. What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

When the protagonist Obi's job with a finance house folds up he flees to the US to join Uncle Happiness, only to discover that the stories about America were far from accurate. EC Osondu's top 10 immigrants' tales 2011-01-26T15:26:49Z

The Houston Grand Opera last year premiered “The Snowy Day,” based on the 1962 book, one of the first mainstream children’s books to feature a Black protagonist. Opera’s Lack of Diversity Extends to Offstage, a Study Shows 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

Gaitskill’s novel is set in an office, an arena where #MeToo has completely changed the culture, and that change has slammed into her protagonist like a tidal wave, leveling his life. Review | A new novel explores the nuance of #MeToo accusations. Are we ready for that? 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

Similar sentiments were widely and repeatedly shared as the show traced the same trajectory as its protagonist, winning over people with the surprising emotional depth and charm beneath the goofy exterior. ‘Ted Lasso’ Is Back, but No Longer an Underdog 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

That was recognizably the musician who played the Dvorak concerto on Thursday: a charismatic protagonist and a generous collaborator in chamber-like passages. Review: The Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason Makes an Entrance 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

She presents herself as a wry if bumbling protagonist of her own story, describing her attitude toward the prospect of children like this: “I acted like my eggs were Fabergé: feminine but decorative.” Comedians Turn Their Attention to Abortion 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Each of these novels condenses to a day its protagonist's sense of what his life has been, so there is plenty of the past in the present. A history of the present 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

"Skip the beginning," the weary father of the talkative protagonist of Karen Joy Fowler's "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves" advises. How the Man Booker short-list contenders shape up 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

Many critical and audience darlings on the streaming and more prestigious cable networks are replete with alienated antiheroes, morally blinkered protagonists and straight-up evildoers. With ‘Roadies,’ Cameron Crowe Takes His Good Mood to TV 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

In some stories she revisited characters, most prominently Linnet Muir, the independent young woman who, more than any of her other protagonists, Ms. Gallant said, reflected her own life. Mavis Gallant, Short-Story Writer, Dies at 91 2014-02-18T19:55:45Z

Both series open with their protagonists facing pivotal moments in their moral development out in the middle of nowhere. The "Better Call Saul" point of no return: Jimmy McGill is dead, and Saul Goodman rises 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

Jane's experiences shape her into a writer, and Husson captures how her protagonist picks up on cues about a woman's place in society, the differences between classes, and issues of race and gender. "Mothering Sunday" director on challenging politics through intimacy: "Nudity levels out classes" 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Things quickly take a turn for the worse — and for the absurd — as the protagonist is faced with issues and events that can’t be calculated, unlike everything else in his life. Read Your Way Through Helsinki 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

One study from 2013 found that nearly 90 percent of protagonists in award-winning and best-selling Y.A. titles claim no religious or spiritual identity whatsoever. Is Any Topic Off Limits When You Write for Teenagers? Maybe Just One 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

We watch politics because the protagonists who strut and fret on the great Canberra stage can still surprise us. The Major Minor Party - review 2013-05-30T02:59:26Z

Designed in four movements and lasting about 26 minutes, Prokofiev’s new work treats the orchestra as “a community of people,” with some solo instruments as “protagonists.” The next ‘Become Ocean’? Seattle Symphony to unveil new commissions 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

The tone is witty yet abrasive, in keeping with a protagonist whose aim is to dent bourgeois and ecclesiastical certainties. Strauss: Don Quixote; Till Eulenspiegel – review 2013-04-11T10:37:41Z

The same can be said of “Where the Air Is Clear,” Carlos Fuentes’s 1958 novel that features Mexico City as its protagonist. Read Your Way Through Mexico City 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to love a book whose protagonist is as unlovable as Andrea. ‘All Grown Up,’ by Jami Attenberg, is an X-ray of Gen X life 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

Merkin could stand as the play’s protagonist, but “Junk” is really an ensemble piece. Seduced by Ayad Akhtar's 'Junk,' the new play that picks apart the Wall Street playbook 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

“We have two main protagonists who are people of colour, and the whole friendship group is a mixture of ethnicities.” Rocks stars: meet the teenage cast of the hot new British film 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

“Sex and the City,” a show that dealt with Gen-Xers, barely touched on a single protagonist’s parents. We are the lamest generation! 2013-06-01T13:00:00Z

Most of the protagonists got the happiest endings we could imagine for them, except Daenerys. You can’t rush perfection. ‘Game of Thrones’ tried and came out like an undercooked Hot Pocket. 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

Sample protagonist voice-over: “If we’re built from spirals while living in a giant spiral, then everything we put our hands to is infused with the spiral.” ‘100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know About Math and the Arts’ 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

As in her previous novels, Cassella’s protagonist is a doctor who questions whether her medical efforts are helping or hurting her patient. ‘Gemini’: mysteries of love, identity and inheritance 2014-02-26T20:25:57Z

Here he turned his orchestra into another character, one representing the subconscious urges of the protagonists. Review: Berlin Philharmonic’s ‘Pelléas et Mélisande’ Boldly Stretches Boundaries 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

Venue details I am currently appearing in Alan Bennett's People at the Lyttleton, playing June, an archdeacon and one of the three female protagonists. Courting the cat: how to hold a theatre to attention 2013-01-02T18:17:00Z

In this impressive and memorable debut, Tsamaase presents a surrealist odyssey: A city is bisected by a railway of the dead, and the protagonist sheds her color and her name. Best science fiction, fantasy and horror books of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

She is this queen of the construction zone — and a woman, like many an overconfident protagonist in classic tragedy, who comes to know herself only after losing all that previously set her apart. Lily Knight sets 'A Small Fire' aglow with her performance 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Making protagonists “difficult” is a sign of authenticity. Review: In Netflix’s ‘Girlboss,’ a Heroine Who’s a Tough Sell 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Merida, the film's protagonist and Pixar's first female lead, fires an arrow and astonishes onlookers in a still from the final scene in Brave. Behind the Scenes of Pixar's Brave 2012-02-24T09:58:35Z

The black thug was not the protagonist and in many cases he may not have even had a name. Gone With the Wind and the damaging effect of Hollywood racism 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z

It starts in the present, when its protagonist, Woody Selbst, is a successful businessman. Letter from the Archive: Saul Bellow's 'A Silver Dish' 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

A new stage musical based on the protagonists of the A&E reality series "Duck Dynasty" is aiming to open next year in Las Vegas. 'Duck Dynasty' musical aiming for Las Vegas in 2015 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

The phrase describes a large vertical board kept out of sight by a dogged protagonist or freakish suspect who knows exactly what it says about them. HBO's QAnon series "Q: Into the Storm" is a bewildering attempt to decode a super-conspiracy 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z

“He’s a bipolar Nero,” Giorgio Adamo, who plays the athletic and tuneful protagonist of the musical, explained at a news conference on Tuesday. Nero Rock Opera Is a Burning Issue in Rome 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Dividing the protagonist into “Walt” and “Heisenberg” makes for an easy discussion shorthand. Is Heisenberg Dead? Walter White and the Light-Switch Theory of Morality 2013-09-24T16:44:50Z

When you start to think about it, whether human-child or beast-, odd is the animated film protagonist with two living parents. Everyone dies: Why the best kids’ movies are also the saddest 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Three dozen identical panels in which the schlubby protagonist stares off into the middle distance, followed by one nearly identical one in which he sighs. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z

He solved it in an unexpected way, by employing the language of Shakespeare to transform his protagonists from cardboard figures of ridicule into full-blown characters of tragedy and pathos. Mike Bartlett Turns to Shakespeare to Voice His ‘King Charles III’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

Instead, it honors its protagonists by insisting on their frailty. Barry Jenkins Is Trying Not to Think About ‘Barry Jenkins’ 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

I’m not talking about Bernhardian antiheroes or protagonists who are hard to relate to. So You’re at a Literary Conference With a Bunch of Jerks 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

A “Girls” without the gloss, trailing pot smoke as it went, it followed its protagonists, Abbi and Ilana, as they blazed a zigzag trail through young adulthood. In ‘A League of Their Own,’ Abbi Jacobson Makes the Team 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

This is far from the first time that someone has suggested the protagonist of the original “Star Wars” trilogy might not be straight. Luke Skywalker, Dumbledore and the problem with secretly-queer heroes: “As LGBT as you want them to be” isn’t enough 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

One of the most moving scenes in “The Death of the Adversary” is when the protagonist watches his father packing his battered old rucksack for exile. A Physician Examines His Novels 2010-09-03T22:26:00Z

A common narrative arc involves a bully mocking the protagonist for being poor or having acne; then a twist of fate strikes the bully with poverty or pimples. The Moral Philosopher of YouTube 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

On the other hand, the headline pressures – feting work with female protagonists, remembering to nominate female directors including Greta Gerwig and not just their films and leads – all of that should be pretty straightforward. Oscars 2018: the four big problems the Academy needs to fix 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Such an economical approach also permeates the lyrics, which resemble running narrations from omniscient protagonists. "Talking Heads: 77," released 40 years ago tomorrow 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

This is the sort of sad state of affairs when films are trying to get made with a female protagonist at the core. Women Flip the Script on Hollywood 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

At the core of both protagonists, the same iron truth: they are more similar than they would like to admit. Why is Justin Bieber Cruising for a bruising? 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

The story’s protagonist is named, a bit fussily, Elyria, in commemoration of “a town in Ohio that my mother had never visited,” but the novel, although consumingly pensive, is anything but fussy. A Novel of the “Post-Wounded Woman” 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

“What stands out, in my view, is how realistic, and human, the protagonists on both sides seem,” he said in an interview. Books: Highlighting Differences in Interpretations of the Opium War 2011-08-18T15:14:28Z

But I wonder if synthetic biology would gain more sympathy in the public mind if the protagonists conveyed a little less hubris. Creation: The Origin of Life; The Future of Life, by Adam Rutherford – review 2013-04-06T14:00:01Z

I still occasionally burst out laughing just thinking of the protagonist’s nemesis Bertrand Welch, a pompous pseudo-intellectual who wears a beret and says “You sam” — a stretched out version of “You see.” Amy Chua: By the Book 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

Dr. Hannibal Lecter is prominently featured in four novels by Thomas Harris and is the protagonist in the last two. Top 10 Movie Shrinks 2011-11-22T09:59:12Z

Only this time, the protagonist’s object is not to save the world but to find a place in it: to stand up for herself by doing standup for herself. Review: In ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ a Comic Asks, Take My Strife, Please 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Furst's deeply addictive books share certain traits: rugged, melancholy male protagonists; slowly unfolding plots; abundant atmosphere and vivid characters; and unexpected romantic sweetness in the midst of danger. Crime fiction from the world's hot spots, from Beijing to Sedalia, Mo. 2010-06-09T23:59:00Z

Perhaps inspired by his experience, the young protagonist, who now works at a cinema himself and is an aspiring film editor. Berlinale film shows refugees' lives at historic airport 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

The film is punctuated by violence and brutality, much of it committed by the film’s protagonist, but Ms Ramsay’s camera lingers most on Mr Phoenix in moments of existential despair and self-loathing. The film world is hard for women directors 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Faulks's unromantic choice is to have his protagonist forget the woman he loved once he is in the trenches. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 2012-06-22T21:55:12Z

The protagonist, the classics scholar A. E. Housman, starts by saying: “I’m dead, then. Good. And this is the Stygian gloom one has heard so much about.” Dance Review: Underworld Notes, in the Homeric Sense 2014-02-02T22:31:20Z

“Becoming Steve Jobs” does not absolve the protagonist of his foibles, but shows that his accomplishments were indeed legion. Jobs 2.0 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

But attention is fuel, for “Girls” and for its flawed protagonist. 6 Ways ‘Girls’ Changed Television. Or Didn’t. 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

It opens unceremoniously with Michel, as our protagonist is known, speaking with another middle-aged man about an apartment renovation. Review: ‘The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq’ Blurs Fiction and Reality 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

A common pitfall is the white love interest appearing as a savior, swooping down to free the protagonist from her predicament. Writing the White Boyfriend: How today's love stories are revising interracial romance tropes 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z

That meld between audience and protagonist when you have a well-written character. "It Lives Inside" director on his psychological monster and "counterintuitive" approach to suspense 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z

In a way, Chandor set himself and his audience the same restrictions as his protagonist. All Is Lost: Robert Redford Is Our Man 2013-05-23T10:30:57Z

In stories like “Back to the Future,” “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” and “The Butterfly Effect,” the scale is that of a personal narrative, with a white protagonist comfortably insulated from a larger racial history. “See You Yesterday” and the Perils—and Promise—of Time-Travelling While Black 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z

It’s impossible to prove one way or another, but arguably Marcel and Taylor-Johnson brought added psychological insight to a female protagonist who is far less compelling and layered this time out. Women almost never direct big movies. ‘Fifty Shades’ shows why that matters. 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

In most movies, an emotional triumph at the Olympics would be the principal goal for a protagonist. ‘The Swimmers’ Review: Overcoming the Greatest Challenges 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

Still, there’s a distinct feeling at the channel that “Enlightened,” like its striving-for-attention protagonist, just hasn’t gotten the notice it deserves. HBO Gives Low-Rated ‘Enlightened’ a Second Shot 2013-01-08T22:53:38Z

Wolf's searing identification with her protagonist is made explicit in the novel's opening passage where the reader witnesses the merging of the author's voice with Cassandra's. Cassandra by Christa Wolf – review 2013-03-29T17:49:01Z

The prose is visceral, as taut as his teenage linebacker protagonist. I Love My Brother, but He’s a White Supremacist 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

They both include a love triangle, a decent amount of PG-13 violence and have a strong female character as their protagonists. Teen-Heroine Smackdown: 5 Ways Katniss Is Better Than Bella 2013-11-20T10:45:36Z

I want to just back up to what you said about seeing Julia as the protagonist. Resurrecting "Hellraiser" Cenobites as part of "an interrogation of how we negotiate our desires" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

Both dramas rely on protagonists entrusted with critical jobs despite routinely reckless behaviour. The next Homeland? The problems with Fauda, Israel's brutal TV hit 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

The undead protagonist of the title is Gwendolyn Dylan, 20 and holding, who must eat a brain once a month to avoid becoming the shambling stereotype. Comics: Flaws aside, animated 'All-Star Superman' still fun 2011-03-01T19:20:03Z

The center found that in films with a female director or writer, 50 percent of the protagonists were women. Women Make Strong Gains in Depictions on the Big Screen 1459-02-03T05:00:00Z

When a protagonist's life is still hanging in the balance as the credits roll, we are compelled to trace his or her steps and imagine every possible outcome. Clip joint: dead or alive? 2012-11-21T16:38:02Z

Hart is the actual protagonist, an aimless young guy who starts burglarizing houses to supplement his paycheck from  a beeper store. Kevin Hart: Five movie roles you probably forgot about 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z

This year’s most passionate Oscar chatter centers around the civil rights drama “Selma” and Hollywood’s reluctance to recognize films that feature black actors playing non-subservient protagonists. White echoes: Rap, race and Iggy Azalea 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Her generally sympathetic protagonists tend to measure themselves against impossibly high benchmarks and often find themselves wanting. Mary Gordon’s latest offers thoughtful characters in the throes of change

It’s about a protagonist—known around Dickens as BonBon or the Sellout, though his family name is Me—whose father raised him according to the rigid dictates of academic theory. No Compromises 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

The climax is the stage at which the protagonist finds release from their seemingly inescapable predicament. John Yorke on why the best screenwriting works 2013-03-15T16:00:03Z

Combined with the brilliantly stylised movements of the protagonists, it creates a vivid series of stage pictures with Alden's imprint on every one. Radamisto 2010-10-08T11:09:00Z

Mike Nichols, the director of Regarding Henry, no doubt thought Walking On the Moon summed up the disabled state of his protagonist. Soundtracks of my tears: how movie music sets a mood and sums up an era 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

The world in which he is from, he is the protagonist. "I'm not trying to fool anybody": From Elvis to Zod, Michael Shannon is versatile but no chameleon 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Appleby wrote that he interprets this final song as “the voice of the protagonist in disguise,” whose pain is “the crucible that clarified and purified him to his essence: an artist.” Music Review: A Song Cycle by Schubert Mirrors an Artist?s Journey 2010-12-01T22:47:00Z

“Paradais” is a phonetic spelling of Paradise, a gated community in Mexico whose English name our protagonist, Polo, finds difficult not to pronounce “Pa-ra-dee-sey.” Inside a Gated Paradise, Evil Breeds and Strikes 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

To British viewers, Morgan seems like the protagonist from a satirical novel about the modern day media. Piers Morgan meets Oprah in his debut as CNN's new Larry King 2011-01-17T23:34:08Z

In many of these books, the past has hardened the protagonists, rendering them isolated and skeptical of good will. Gay Literature Is Out of the Closet. So Why Is Deception a Big Theme? 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z

Buy The Devil's Garden by Edward Docx from the Guardian bookshop   All the greatest mad protagonists in modern western literature are descended either from Quixote or Hamlet. Top 10 deranged characters 2011-04-06T11:21:05Z

Debut novelist Rum was born, like her protagonist Deya, in Brooklyn to Palestinian immigrants. The 10 books to read in March 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

Even though "Euphoria" is built on the narrative of a flawed and irreverent protagonist, Rue elicits empathy because she doesn't try to hide her fallibility. How "Euphoria" challenges viewers’ expectations of what a television show should be 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

Purcell’s opera shows them as protagonists of alternating scenes; the Sorceress plots Dido’s doom. The Hot List: Mark Morris’s ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ With Mostly Mozart 2012-06-21T21:32:03Z

When Gary sings, "Am I a man or a Muppet?" at his crisis point in 2011's The Muppets, he's articulating the quintessential dilemma all protagonists face at this crucial structural point. John Yorke on why the best screenwriting works 2013-03-15T16:00:03Z

Donald J. Trump, like any good reality TV protagonist, does not inspire neutral opinions. What ‘The Apprentice’ Taught Donald Trump About Campaigning 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

Is it possible that Sally Draper is the secret protagonist of Mad Men? Mad Men Character Study: The Education of Sally Draper 2012-05-02T14:43:22Z

That the story’s protagonist is a woman, particularly one in law enforcement, offers the first clue that the film is not your typical movie about the war on drugs. Emily Blunt Plunges Into the Drug War’s Morass in ‘Sicario’ 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

The Safdies have long specialized in drama kings and queens, in protagonists who knock their lives out of joint and into action with breathless, reckless, perpetual cycles of frenzied, self-imposed challenges and daily dangers. The Mesmerizing Chaos of “Uncut Gems” 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

The enormousness of Brexit dwarfs its protagonists; Blair liked nothing more than a big occasion. The Return of Tony Blair 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

Perversely, though, for such a risk-miser, I enjoy reading fantasy and SF novels in which protagonists are playing for the biggest stake of all: their lives. Stories played out in games 2010-04-16T14:30:00Z

The protagonist of Butler’s quiet novel counts himself a man pretty much satisfied with his life. Families Banter and Bicker Their Way Through Three New Novels 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

Female protagonists on TV today and stronger and more capable than ever before, but they have one kind of Kryptonite: men. TV’s Strongest Female Characters Share One Stupid Flaw 2013-10-10T09:45:31Z

However, Mr Barrett paints his protagonist as a well-meaning tragic hero undone by hubris rather than a venal con man. Murky truth 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

The novel is a slowly shattering and re-forming reflection of the protagonists’ corresponding descents into wintry numbness, until, near the end, they begin to revive, and to love. A Life Altered by War and Transmuted Into Fiction 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

Robbie's subtle palate now established, the movie follows the group of friends as they pull off an audacious whisky heist - carried out while wearing kilts, of course - which ultimately leads to the protagonist's redemption. Kilts and whisky hit Cannes screens in Ken Loach film 2012-05-22T16:38:49Z

In “Strawberry Girl,” one of Lenski’s most famous novels, the protagonist, Birdie, the new girl in town, goes to a one-room schoolhouse, where she encounters the Slater boys, who hate “book-larnin’.” A Lifetime of Reading Taught Min Jin Lee How to Write About Her Immigrant World 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

The surreal nature of that incident offers an airplane-size window on the compliant protagonist of Tyler’s 22nd novel. Review | ‘Clock Dance,’ Anne Tyler’s 22nd novel, feels familiar — for better and worse 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

"I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul," he writes. | Orhan Pamuk 2012-10-04T15:00:21Z

Such a disillusioned protagonist allows, too, for a comic perspective, insofar as the comic presupposes distance, shuns identification and is nourished by the outrageous. Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Submission’ 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

When confronted by a man murdering women in a restaurant, the protagonist of "Pieces of Her" does something unexpected. Is the real monster in “Pieces of Her” the mother-artist? 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

The book’s secret protagonist is the father figure’s half brother, inevitably named “Little Angel,” who brings an outsider’s perspective and a measure of ambivalence to the festivities. Review | A family saga with bounding heart, poetic delivery and plenty of swagger 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Conversely, that seemingly black-and-white divide amplifies the moral grayness that all of these shows create when the prisoners are the protagonists and the people on the outside are their opponents. 3 small-screen shows that depict life in the big house 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

“With Spontini, the chorus is no longer decorative or secondary,” said Patrick Barbier, a scholar of the composer, “but an essential protagonist.” Two Centuries Later, a Composer Gets a Second Look 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Forster, the British author of “Howard’s End,” who appears as a spiritual guru to the play’s protagonists. ‘The Inheritance’ Arrives at a Festival of German Drama 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

He’s a philosopher as much as an MC in that he welcomes struggle, the notion that sometimes his protagonists don’t have all the answers and feel trapped, lost, dead tired, desperate. Album review: The Roots, 'Undun' 2011-12-02T16:25:00Z

Rather than setting Devi on a path of personal growth, the breakup ultimately means very little for our would-be heartbroken protagonist. "Never Have I Ever" should let Devi be single 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

But the protagonists – Patty especially – are constantly making new discoveries about themselves: redemptive insights, lessons in the contradictoriness of the human heart. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z

“Out of 10 projects I get sent, seven or eight are female protagonists and that’s not the only thing I‘m interested in,” Morano said. Post-Sundance, female filmmakers find Hollywood dream elusive 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z

Springsteen, the quintessential working class rock ‘n’ roll troubadour, broke from both his white worker protagonists and his medium of “blues verses and gospel choruses,” as he often calls it, in the mid-’90s. Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad," then and now 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

Before Harry Potter was a character in a play, an attraction at a theme park, the hero of eight films, he was, of course, the protagonist of a series of books. How ‘Cursed Child’ Puts Parenting at the Center of the Potterverse 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

Its psychology, while darkly intriguing — the protagonist is a man who, unable to recover from the death of his wife, falls in love with her doppelgänger — verges on overly simplistic. How a Forgotten Opera Made a Big Comeback 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

These premises may not be original compared to where this series has traveled in past seasons, but they offer a throwback comfort that "Joan Is Awful" denies its protagonists and us. The best new "Black Mirror" episode is a Netflix self-own that plays out our current AI nightmare 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z

By contrast, the protagonist of “Wu-Tang: An American Saga,” on Hulu, only seems to read books for reasons of relentless self-improvement. Four Shows at the Center of a Golden Age of Hip-Hop Television 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

She is one of those nonfamous, not so quick protagonists placed into the orbit of a great celebrity. Books of The Times: ‘The Chaperone’ by Laura Moriarty 2012-06-14T21:43:56Z

Like a Woody Allen protagonist, this is a man who seems to view life as a series of opportunities to foul things up. A Night Out With Stephin Merritt, the Singer for Magnetic Fields 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

The two new shows also share the defining “24” characteristic: They are — in harmony with the repeatedly justified paranoia of their protagonists — cheerfully, maddeningly implausible. In the Long, Paranoid Shadow of ‘24’ 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

The protagonist of the novel is modelled after Kait, and the book was dedicated to her. I Know What I Read That Summer 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

The lawyer also compares Jongsu’s father to a protagonist in a story, a remark that suggests our stories are written for us. Review: In ‘Burning,’ Love Ignites a Divided World 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Yet these stories and their protagonists are not bound by their roots. Their Characters Are Stuck, but the Filmmakers Are Anything But 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

Young adult "protagonists are, at their heart, asking, 'Is there a place for me in this world?'" she said. Young adult market opens up a new world for authors 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

It contrasts with, say, AMC’s “Better Call Saul,” which established a different voice for a different protagonist. Review: On ‘The Good Fight,’ a Lawyer Claws Her Way Back to Normal 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

The protagonist, who works for the machine company, must confront her son’s unwillingness to follow its prescriptions. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

The 92-year-old protagonist is sent to an elder-care institution, where she unlocks a world of enigmatic abbesses, murder plots, mythology and apocalypse. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

Online, civilians act like celebrities — or, maybe more to the point, protagonists. Down and out and extremely online? No problem: Just enter a new ‘era.’ 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

This is how Bachelder’s novel, which takes place over the two-day reënactment, functions as a whole: unremarkable events become, in the minds of his protagonists, fraught with symbolism, and provoke outsized passions and consequences. Two Novels About Frustrated White Men, Thirty-five Years Apart 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

This time I did return to Coetzee’s “Disgrace” because I found his strategy so instructive: The very flawed protagonist blows up his life in the first third, and then things continue to escalate. Dana Spiotta Loves Coming Across Jokes in Really Old Books 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

The game ends with the protagonists broken and emotionally exhausted, which mirrored how I felt after finishing it. The Video Games That Got Us Through 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

Le Carré, who worked for MI5 and MI6 in the 1950s and 1960s, also doubted the credibility of Fleming's smooth protagonist. Was James Bond just a "neo-fascist gangster?" 2010-08-17T12:53:00Z

But he said he identifies instead with the young protagonists of that series, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, the irrepressible fourth-grade artists who accidentally turn their irritable school principal into a scantily clad superhero. Festival of Books: Dav Pilkey says 'Captain Underpants' will be a movie 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

Royle's protagonist, Paul Kinder, also teaches creative writing at a university in Manchester. First Novel by Nicholas Royle – review 2013-01-04T12:00:01Z

If Basil Bunting were not remembered for “Briggflatts”—his longest and best poem, first published fifty years ago—he might still be remembered as the protagonist of a preposterously eventful twentieth-century life. The Improbable Life and Prescient Poetry of Basil Bunting 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

Except for having a middle-aged male protagonist, Anger Management doesn’t have a lot in common with FX’s other genre-bending comedy series. TV Tonight: Anger Management 2012-06-28T11:43:48Z

EO is an astonishment and so too is this wild, boldly expressionistic movie that conveys the life of its largely silent protagonist with a bare minimum of dialogue. ‘EO’ Review: Imagining the Lives of Other Creatures 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

But to compare that work with the sadness of Jean Rhys’s female protagonists strikes me as not quite fair. Rereading Jean Rhys and Re-evaluating Margaret Thatcher 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

The absence of Bruce Campbell, the hammy protagonist of the original trilogy, is felt. ‘Evil Dead Rise’ Review: Mommy Issues 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

The fact that the world badly needs more female protagonists doesn't mean it needs more David E. Kelley-style ones. Why "Wonder Woman" can't get off the ground 2011-05-13T18:14:00Z

I like the protagonist, Harry Hole; it’s a ridiculous name, but it works. Kim Gordon: By the Book 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Powell was one of our two chosen novelists over the age of 60 – like his protagonist. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z

For the first 20 pages of the script, I was thinking, this is the character that I’ll play, this is our protagonist, and this is the guy that I’m identifying with. J.K. Simmons on the Art of Being the Bad Guy 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

Also, through loss, the protagonist begins to value the world more. This Week in Fiction: Akhil Sharma on Alcoholism and Honor Killings in India 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

Both directors said Mr. Garfield possessed a moral conviction necessary for playing their protagonists, each of whom happen to be devout and forced to face down Japanese antagonists. Andrew Garfield, Spiritual Ghost in the Hollywood Machine 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

My editor insisted, "You need to get your protagonist involved in the story. You need to place her on the farm." An author struggling to write her novel finds a story novel among the grapes 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

As I wrote a few weeks ago, one of the main differences between “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul” is that their lead characters are completely different types of protagonists. The heartbreak of “Better Call Saul”: Season finale hints the series will be even more devastating than “Breaking Bad” 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

On the protagonist’s first week on the job, an unsympathetic manager named Norman instructs her on the correct way to unpack products and scan them into the computer. “Seasonal Associate” Is a Labor Memoir for the Amazon Era 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Figuring that audiences were younger and with lower attention spans than ever before, Hollywood directors began to turn out movies that were a cocktail of musclebound protagonists, car chases, fight scenes and epic explosions. The Expendables: Old-timers wheel out the one-liners 2010-08-16T15:36:00Z

Writing this and exploring my own experiences allowed me to use the protagonist as a proxy for my younger self — what had happened to me, and what could have happened, or could have gone wrong. Examining "what consent means" for a teenage girl in audacious "Palm Trees and Power Lines" 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

Indeed, Mr. Cao, a product of Communist China who teaches American workers the hard realities of global capitalism, is in many respects the film’s protagonist. Julia Reichert, Documentarian of the Working Class, Dies at 76 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

The protagonist Raven Boy possesses both the ability to "communicate with animals and see in the dark". Reader reviews roundup 2013-06-21T08:01:00Z

But it was, perhaps, exactly this limitation that heightened her ability to pinpoint, with a beautiful specificity, the character of her feline protagonist. Mog the Cat, and the Mysteries of Animal Subjectivity 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

Similar satisfactions await the protagonists of Mr. Dahl’s other children’s books, even as a harsher fate is delivered to the Veruca Salts of the world. ArtsBeat Blog: Happy Birthday, Roald and James 2011-09-13T20:54:02Z

Arguably, the gift of an interesting protagonist allows its author to be somewhat reticent about the aspects that other musicians would have to go large on. Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn – review 2013-01-24T07:00:03Z

I had never tried to map story — the elements of narrative that move from a state of equilibrium for the protagonist to disequilibrium to equilibrium restored — onto theory. In ‘Afropessimism,’ a Black Intellectual Mixes Memoir and Theory 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z

The new protagonist Aaron Cross, like Bourne, is also the product of a shadowy spy project and – here's the killer – he's portrayed by one of the most exciting actors on the rise today. Jeremy Renner is a shot in the arm for the Bourne-again franchise 2012-08-13T11:56:30Z

Whenever one of Mr. Leonard’s alienated protagonists is goaded into action, there’s no telling what he might do. Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies at 87 2013-08-20T14:28:20Z

The culturally reflective references accumulate incongruously: Tourist Trap's 12 protagonists apparently refer to the "12 spies" sent by Moses, against God's express wishes, to scout Israel, resulting in 40 years in the wildness. This week's new exhibitions 2011-03-19T00:06:46Z

Narrated by a 16-year-old girl in Vermont, Bohjalian’s suspenseful and provocative novel pushes some hot buttons — child homelessness, mental illness, nuclear energy — while creating one of the most memorable teenage protagonists in recent fiction. The top 50 fiction books for 2014

Set primarily in the supermarket of a small Maine town enveloped in a mysterious murky fog, the story features supernatural forces, killer creatures and protagonists cracking under pressure. Stream These 9 Shows and Movies Before They Leave Netflix in June 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

“Some people come up to me and ask me to give them material outside the books — for instance, what is Gansey’s favorite ice cream flavor?” she said, referring to one of her teenage protagonists. J.K. Rowling Just Can’t Let Harry Potter Go 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

TV’s new takes on the conspiracy genre are often clinical, featuring protagonists who find themselves in eerie institutions, questioned by therapists and navigating psychotic breaks. The Surreal World: TV Delves Into Paranoia, Anxiety and Misinformation 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

Her protagonist is Marji, a tough, sassy little Iranian girl, bent on prying from her evasive elders if not truth, at least a credible explanation of the travails they are living through. Review: ‘Persepolis,’ by Marjane Satrapi 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Discovering her own faint and distant connection to Neanderthals gave Ms. Cameron the confidence to write the novel, despite her worries that her prehistoric protagonist would come across as outlandishly campy. Neanderthals: They’re Just Like Us 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Another tale of the dangers of drink, in which the protagonist Don Birnam winds up in an alcohol ward. John Galliano: the books he should have read in rehab 2013-06-05T11:50:27Z

“There was an accident,” a family friend tells Mary, the 18-year-old protagonist of Sarah Healy’s thoroughly surprising new novel, “The Sisters Chase,” fewer than 20 pages in. In ‘The Sisters Chase,’ They’re Starting Over After Mom Dies 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

We tried to develop this into a plot involving a subway ghost or ghost subway but couldn’t figure out a realistic way to prevent the protagonist from simply running out of the station to safety. Perspective | Inside the horror website that’s freaking out millions of people 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

The titular character, for starters, is a fascinating protagonist. Alita is a fascinating badass. "Alita: Battle Angel" fails her at every turn 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

In a film in which everything is designed to portray its protagonist as someone extraordinary, you need an actor on a grand scale. 'Kill the Irishman': Ray Stevenson gives us a gangster to root for 2011-04-08T21:43:05Z

"Besides the question of who developers perceive their audience to be, game protagonists are simply not representative enough of people in the real world," she adds. Diversity challenge for developers 2013-04-13T23:05:15Z

But where those dramas fetishise dead women, The Handmaid’s Tale revels in keeping its protagonists alive – but only just. Why I’ve stopped watching the Handmaid’s Tale 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

The living protagonists are often forced to carry traumatic visions with them as they try to make their way in a new country. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s ‘The Refugees’ couldn’t come at a better time 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

Writing while she was working as a freelance journalist – over several years, holed up in libraries and cafes across London – she crafted the voice of her protagonist with care. Debut author: Lottie Moggach 2013-07-01T09:00:01Z

Often, these characteristics would be innate in the protagonist, for example Meredith in Mills's books, or Darrell Rivers in the Malory Towers series. Has public school fiction passed the test of time? 2011-01-04T14:53:11Z

When we meet in a restaurant near Riley's Shepherd's Bush home, she concedes that her protagonists are always fairly similar to her. Gwendoline Riley: 'The buck stops here? I've got bad blood' ? interview 2012-05-18T10:45:03Z

She is the best of all the Marvel protagonists, along with Daredevil and The Punisher. The Creator of ‘Jessica Jones’ Serves Up a Dark Mirror for Our Moment 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

The protagonist of “Mother Land” occupies his mother’s cottage on the Cape during the high season and she has the audacity to charge him for his stay. Why Paul Theroux Loves Cape Cod 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

The director pointed to the character of Sarah Connor from his own Terminator films as a positive example of a female protagonist. Patty Jenkins hits back at James Cameron: 'He doesn't understand Wonder Woman' 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

Light is the main protagonist, binding landscape and man snugly together, and the atmosphere is reverential; look close and you will see a tinier world of detail praised in the rich surface. The 10 best watercolours 2011-04-09T23:05:56Z

The lyrics are imbued with nauseating, do-or-die dread: Our protagonist is locked in a bathroom, drenched with sweat, washing off a regurgitated wad of pasta clinging to his hoodie. One Night at Mom’s Spaghetti 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

In most versions of the suburban male midlife crisis story, the protagonist comes by our sympathy as if it were a birthright or a secular manifestation of grace. Review: In ‘The Land of Steady Habits,’ Suburban Malaise, With a Twist 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

But the unforgivable thing he does here is to make Ellie into a non-player character again, denying her the agency to be the protagonist of her own life. ‘The Last of Us’ Finale: First-Person Shooter 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

Now 66, Seger is more than twice the age of the song's "little bit older" protagonist seeking relief from the daily grind. Bob Seger never forgets 2011-05-15T14:44:00Z

This book moves beyond the specific sagas of its protagonists — those who walk on two feet and those who walk on four feet — to offer deep insights into human behavior. 27 best books of 2010: The Seattle Times looks back at a year of great reading 2010-12-18T01:15:33Z

Readers often tell me that there’s an unreal world in my work—that the protagonist goes to that world and then comes back to the real world. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

The protagonist contests his divorce and the judge bursts out laughing: "Do you seriously think I'm going to make her stay married to you?" Marry Me by Dan Rhodes – review 2013-02-08T11:00:01Z

Just as the novel’s protagonist returns from her travels with an amputated arm, Smith’s piece is similarly maimed. What to see in L.A. galleries: An ode to a black sci-fi trailblazer and Lari Pittman 'Mood Books' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

The Carters are their own protagonists in a grand narrative of establishing a black élite. What It Means When Beyoncé and Jay-Z Take Over the Louvre 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

The show’s protagonist, Walter Blunt, hosts a nightly cable news show. Being Blunt: The Price of Workplace Pandemonium 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

The teenager, his 18-year-old son Ugyen — no relation to the protagonist of my film with the same name — was born here in LA and hadn’t yet visited Bhutan. Oscars diary: A yak in the classroom, a family in Hollywood 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Instead she lands as a caricature of one, as the film never really metabolizes or unpacks its conceit: the bonkers time-traveling predicament of its protagonist. ‘Alice’ Review: American Slavery and Black Power Collide 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

She played a fortune teller who could actually see the ghost – and so she was giving advice to the protagonist Patrick Swayze. Oscars reward actors of color when they play stereotypes: “They were not the same kinds of roles that a non-minority would have” 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

The idea that black people can advance only with the help of whites is anathema to Clarence Thomas, who has identified with Wright’s protagonist throughout his life. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Big Bird was the protagonist of the 1985 “Sesame Street” feature film, “Follow That Bird,” and Spinney was the subject of a 2014 documentary, “I Am Big Bird.” Original Big Bird, Caroll Spinney, Leaves ‘Sesame Street’ After Nearly 50 Years 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

There's nothing particularly charismatic about its protagonist, whose voice-over narration quickly gets lost in a confusing timeline and a sea of flashbacks seen from other characters' perspectives. 'Road to Juarez' gets lost on its journey 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

With a narrative whipsawing among four neurotic protagonists, “Paradise, Nevada” charts a collision course through the gaming industry, grappling with Vegas’s objectifying entertainment complex and accelerating tech sphere. Review | ‘Paradise, Nevada’ tries to capture our anxious American essence with a collision course through the gaming industry 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

She also faced something of a numbers problem: 33 potential protagonists — as well as wives, sisters, children, government officials and engineers — is an awful lot to keep track of. Review: ‘The 33’ Recalls a Chilean Mine Disaster and the Men Who Endured It 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Thammavongsa’s protagonists find respite from their loneliness in unexpected connections, even if they are only temporary. Where Lonely Refugees Learn English From Daytime Soaps 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

But as Burnat's camera captures defiant chants in the protagonists' village accent, or rocks being hurled at fleeing Israeli jeeps, ecstatic applause filled the hall. Oscar nod for protest film cheers Palestinians 2013-01-29T12:24:00Z

What decisions do you make when you portray your female protagonists? "They are both lying": Claire Denis on creating ambiguous tension between her "Stars at Noon" lovers 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z

Jane is a bit of a blank slate as a protagonist, and her flatness feels jarring when she encounters other characters with more depth. ‘The Seven Faces of Jane’ Review: One Movie, Eight Directors 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

They are most likely to review science-fiction films and genres dominated by men—and least likely to voice their two cents on a movie with a woman protagonist. The growing gender divide over “Ghostbusters”: Why movies starring women get slimed by male critics 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

At this point in the project, the protagonist is still just 12 years old, but Weiner is beginning to trace the major events and themes of his adult life:   'Mad Men' exhibit sheds light on Don Draper's origins -- and future? 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

What were the positives and challenges about crafting a female protagonist with a disorder similar to yours? Review | John Green talks about his first novel since ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

The protagonist’s experiences are “relatable on one level and full-stop alarming on another, a hallmark of the psychological thriller genre that’s executed with gripping precision here.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

But director Arthur Penn’s film — in which the protagonist has aged 10 years, to 121 — brought renewed attention to Mr. Berger’s novel. Thomas Berger, author of ‘Little Big Man’ and other novels, dies at 89

This spring, a complicated new protagonist is coming to television. Television puts more faith in religious-themed projects 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

Their most recent project, the television series Sense8, features a transgender woman protagonist, and is much bolder in addressing issues of identity and gender. Will Matrix film-makers coming out as women turn off men's rights activists? 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Mike Nantz, nominal protagonist of "Battle: Los Angeles," would actually fit beautifully in "Starship Troopers." "Battle: Los Angeles": Bizarre fantasy of imperial decline 2011-03-10T02:01:00Z

The answer is that Atticus isn't the protagonist in the book and the movies. Aaron Sorkin read Breitbart for inspiration as he wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird" script 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Now, on shows like “The Americans” and the coming “Allegiance,” Russian spies and their masters are the protagonists. On ‘The Americans’ and Other Shows, Russian Spies Invade 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

In Cantor’s orchestral fantasy, LaBeouf “gets down on all fours and breaks into a sprint,” eventually driving the protagonist to a cottage for a vicious final battle. "'Shia LaBeouf' Live," an oral history of the Internet's most bombastic meme on its anniversary 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

Instead of K, our hapless protagonist is the Investigator. The Investigation by Philippe Claudel – review 2013-02-07T09:00:02Z

In the verse, West's troubled protagonist comes home to find his girl with another man. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam) ? review 2010-11-19T12:35:00Z

Is Dena playing a character, and if so, does the protagonist want the titular desirables, or is she condemning those who do as shallow? New band of the day – Dena (No 1,335) 2012-08-21T16:01:51Z

With its video game imagery, slacker geek protagonist and sardonic 20-something humour, it is not the type of fare which generally tends to capture the imagination of Hollywood awards body members. Take that! Twice. Scott Pilgrim Vs the World wins two Satellite awards 2010-12-20T11:29:02Z

Such inner conflict also leads naturally to devastating moments of repose when the protagonists are later alone and we see in burning, churning closeup what they are thinking. David Tennant and Olivia Colman: the best actors on TV? 2013-04-25T11:07:42Z

In a later novel, “The Old Neighborhood,” the hard-driving protagonist reconnects with his childhood neighborhood in the Bronx, rediscovers his roots and finds inner peace and contentment. Avery Corman writes memoir of Bronx boyhood 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

It was the job of the film’s protagonist to expose and eliminate these figures who sought to destroy the community. The return of blaxploitation: why the time is right to bring back Shaft and Foxy Brown 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Take, for example, the suggestion in the "She Loves You" entry that likens the song's speaker to the protagonist in L.P. Paul McCartney’s “The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present”: A visual feast, if flawed, for Beatles fans 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

It’s an image that evokes this book’s destabilized atmosphere, what Mr. Lerner’s protagonist describes at one point as his “residency late in the empire of drones.” In Ben Lerner’s ‘10:04,’ New York Is a Character 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

But those publications helped and shaped many young women, as much as comics did Chabon and his male protagonists in “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.” The Magazine Business, From the Coolest Place to the Coldest One 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

The protagonist is an Italian immigrant who works as a longshoreman, a tragic hero who is also a working-class Everyman. Arthur Miller’s Screenplay ‘The Hook’ Finds a Home Onstage in England 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Each of the protagonists of each of the narratives seems to have the same "comet-shaped birthmark" on his or her body – and finds it remarkable enough to mention it. Guardian book club: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

But Morris finds the third novel, in which the protagonist settles down and takes a job in advertising, a sell-out and an unforgivable betrayal. Book World: ‘Finders Keepers’ by Stephen King 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche revolves around the two aforementioned protagonists at work on a remote road in the woods in 1988. Explosions in the Sky Explore a Muted Sound on the Prince Avalanche Soundtrack 2013-08-09T18:56:46Z

After they presented the song to the screenwriters, Elsa became the movie’s protagonist. How to Follow Your Dreams and Burst Into Song 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Around them, the Uninvited’s feud escalates, building to a conflict orchestrated by a nefarious merchant ruler named Billy Kingery, who holds a vicious vendetta against the protagonist. A Dystopian America Where a Woman Who Can Read and Write Wields Special Power 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

According to Knopf’s site, the novel’s protagonist is a woman named Mae Holland who is hired to work for the Circle, “the world’s most powerful Internet company.” ArtsBeat: New Novel by Dave Eggers Due in October 2013-08-13T18:00:50Z

Each episode hews closely to one protagonist: Kunta in episode one, Kizzy in episode two, Chicken George in episode three and Tom in episode four. Roots remake: seminal slavery narrative still resonates in revamped miniseries 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

The doomed youthful protagonists must make their way through Warsaw’s labyrinthine sewer, which is a literal translation of the title and an existential statement. Remembering Andrzej Wajda, Unflinching Observer of Modern Poland 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Galy Gay, the hapless protagonist of Bertolt Brecht’s 1925 play “A Man’s a Man,” falls victim to several mind games during the course of his brainwashing at the hands of British soldiers stationed in India. Theater Review: ‘A Man’s a Man,’ a Brecht Rarity, is Revived 2014-01-31T03:00:17Z

Her protagonist isn't "unbearably grim" at all, she continues. Are you reading novels to make new friends? 2013-05-03T15:24:48Z

A medical drama named after its protagonist – maverick doctor, contemptuous of authority, probably an alcoholic, probably a depressive, who breaks the rules but gets away with it because of his brilliance. TV review: Monroe; Health Before the NHS 2012-10-01T21:00:01Z

Two new middle grade novels examine the privileges and pressures of being “gifted,” as their protagonists struggle to reconcile their true selves with the faces they show the world. Young, Gifted and Searching for a Sense of Self 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

The show also included sculptures and neon-light wall pieces that riffed on Caravaggio, Manet and maybe Bruce Nauman with Black protagonists. The Most Important Moments in Art in 2020 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z

The lyric, which Rodgers delivers like the bludgeoning it threatens, is a warning to a would-be rival; after that comes a dramatically surging instrumental passage that might be the protagonist's victory dance. Andy Fraser: A bassist whose rumbling sound allowed Free to soar 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Jenkins takes his protagonists out of the arena of realism and lifts them into an aria of beatific sadness. Can we Trust the Beauty of Barry Jenkins’s “If Beale Street Could Talk”? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

It would be glib to fail to mention the sadness hidden in the folds of this novel’s dark playfulness — particularly the sadness of its protagonists’ relentless self-objectification. A School Where the Student Body Is Obsessed With Student Bodies 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

In American Gods, you know you are in a fantasy novel when the protagonist, Shadow, finds that the stranger sitting next to him on a plane already knows his name and his history. American Gods by Neil Gaiman 2011-08-19T21:55:08Z

It’s a show whose own protagonist complains, “It’s like if ‘The Walking Dead’ was also ‘Glee.’ Review: ‘Schmigadoon!’ Has a Song in Its Heart, and Everywhere Else 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

A character shown in the first-season finale executing one of the series’ protagonists may nevertheless be integral to saving the world. “The Man in the High Castle” season 2: an alternate “then” only slightly removed from our “now” 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

Bins of human organs and body parts pass through a T.S.A. checkpoint while our protagonist watches. Galleries Shift Shape to Survive in a Changing Art World 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

In “Safe Spaces,” the sole story with a female protagonist, a homeless drug dealer finds temporary refuge in the unlikeliest of places: a dirty frat house sofa. What’s Wrong With Men in America? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

But that was maybe because of the mountain, which is another character in this film — maybe the protagonist that effects everyone. "Everyone needs to find the best way to live": "Eight Mountains" stars talk friendship and choices 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

But although you might hear the term "makeover movie" and cringe, a number of fine films actually build from the protagonist getting a makeover, though it may be of an unusual sort. Clip joint: makeovers 2011-03-02T16:59:00Z

The protagonist has a lot to say, on micro and macro levels, about her job. Review: ‘A Manual for Cleaning Women,’ Lucia Berlin’s Soul-Baring Stories 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Be warned that DiLouie does not spare his child protagonists from violence. Best science fiction and fantasy books out this month 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

In text, Jesus can be a fairly two-dimensional and illogical protagonist, as he willingly walks into the trap laid for him. ‘Going Clear,’ ‘Killing Jesus’ and the enduring mysteries of faith 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Much of the power of Petrenko's interpretation lay in his ability to align the inner lives of the ballet's protagonists with the confused world in which they function. RLPO/Vasily Petrenko 2010-04-25T22:15:00Z

But a good agent can prove a frustrating protagonist; a spy may require a second spy to make her spill her secrets. A Novel of World War II Espionage With an Unlikely Heroine 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

Because the camera remains largely fixed on the protagonist, other characters the player encounters seem to exist only to aid the hero. Final Fantasy XVI Takes on Its ‘Star Wars’ Problem 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

In one scene, as the protagonist wrestles with her brother while their mom hunts a seal, Keener quips, “I wanted to help her, but I was busy.” ‘Polar Bear’ Review: On Thin Ice 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

In the same way, to the opposite effects, they allow their protagonists daily lives and love; they are not victims all the time. 'Book of Negroes' is a compelling look at a slave's journey 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

The protagonist of is Uxbal, a man from southern Spain, who at fortysomething looks in poor physical shape and first reveals his true condition to us when he passes blood. Biutiful 2011-01-30T00:05:53Z

Ms. Jones herself reads ravenously, up to three books a week, most recently the Patrick Melrose cycle of novels, whose protagonist seems in a hurry to kill himself with drugs and drink. An Interview With January Jones of ‘Mad Men’ 2013-05-17T22:09:45Z

Rather than neatly tying up loose ends, as movies typically do, “Everything Everywhere” mimics realistically what change can look like, by letting its protagonist make mistake after mistake. How ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Helps to Heal Generational Trauma 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Cathal MacIlwaine The biggest challenge for a show about gangsters is humanising the monsters who are its protagonists so that the viewer has a reason to invest time in their struggle. Have you been watching … The Fear? 2012-12-06T15:04:20Z

Annie and Her Sisters Like many protagonists in Woody Allen’s movies, the title character in his new film, “Blue Jasmine,” sometimes speaks with a familiar stammer and exhibits a telltale existential dread. Woody Allen’s Distinctive Female Characters 2013-07-17T12:00:01Z

A psychological thriller that doesn't play by any rules, following the mystifying activities of its protagonist for some time before a sudden moment of violence changes everything. This week's new films 2012-11-10T00:05:50Z

But we also know from the first page where everything will lead, as Doughty includes a prologue in which her protagonist is cross-examined in the dock of the Old Bailey as an accessory to murder. Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty – review 2013-06-08T08:31:01Z

"Sadly, it's still unusual to work on a play with a female protagonist who is allowed to exercise such muscle," says Findlay. Polly Findlay: Muscles, magic and suicide bombers 2012-05-30T18:00:00Z

This seems the filmmakers’ main attempt at injecting some conscience into their protagonists — the scene ends with Montagu declaring, “May God forgive us all.” ‘Operation Mincemeat’ Review: A Bland Hash 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

Mosher, 73, shares that urgency, and there’s no telling how much else he might share with his young protagonist. ‘God’s Kingdom’ review: The story of a boy becoming a man 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Sam, the plucky protagonist of the affable family film “Luck,” has had a lifetime’s supply of bad breaks. ‘Luck’ Review: Bad Day at the Fortune Factory 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

But this image captures the many protagonists that were moving through and living in that space. Eight Photographers on Their Favorite Image from Robert Frank’s “The Americans” 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

Brilliant yet mentally ill, completely unlikable yet poignantly human, and a woman of color besides — Ren is a rare science fiction protagonist, and Newman handles her complexities with aplomb. The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

The drama's main protagonist, Jason, is a young man who arrives on Atlantis and begins a series of adventures. Juliet Stevenson ventures on to BBC's Atlantis 2013-03-26T20:46:35Z

Three of last year’s top 10 grossing films were led by female protagonists, making 2013 a banner year for women in film, right? ArtsBeat: Only 15 Percent of Top Films in 2013 Put Women in Lead Roles, Study Finds 2014-03-11T04:01:38Z

Before we see even a hint of smoke, however, "Fire & Rescue" reintroduces us to the protagonist of the earlier "Planes." 'Planes: Fire & Rescue' soars amid blazing-hot visuals 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

It marched inexorably forward, its grim energy matching its protagonist’s desperate ambitions. Review: Riccardo Muti, the King of Verdi, Still Rules With a Firm Baton 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

The protagonist, Boogie, lives in a violent household, but you’re careful about not demonizing his parents. Eddie Huang: Filmmaker Was on His List of Things to Do Even Before Chef 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

It began during the inauguration, when the four protagonists rose to the occasion with grace and forethought. 100 Days of Vice-Presidential Style 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

Film's ability to glide from the supernatural panorama to the eyes of the protagonist is a boon for a play in which the outer world uncannily mirrors the unconscious life of the protagonist. 'Macbeth' succeeds in avoiding its onstage curse when it's on-screen 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

Now the French have come up with their two world-beaters, though apparently one potential investor in Untouchable did nervously ask if the protagonist, though paralysed from the neck down, could possibly "walk a little bit". Disability in film: is cinema finally moving with the times? 2012-11-12T12:25:57Z

Many novels are risky, but I have never read a story that goes so far out on a limb to risk alienating a protagonist because of his sudden and abominable actions. Marlon James: By the Book 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

In “One Italian Summer,” now in its fourth week on the hardcover fiction list, Rebecca Serle immerses her protagonist in this fantasy. Rebecca Serle Met Her Mom’s Old Boyfriend, Then Wrote a Best Seller 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

The protagonist, Anil, is a conflicted young Indian — the titular “golden son” — attempting to adjust to America. ‘The Golden Son’ review: An immigrant’s dilemma 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

The songs’ protagonists include killers, brutal military commanders and a performer whose last show is his own death. black midi Bristles at a Bleak World With ‘Hellfire’ 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

Like the protagonists of those shows, the main character shares his name and the show mirrors, somewhat, his own life. The genius of Louis CK can fit in your pocket now 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

I identified with and appreciated the complex protagonists of these films. Bad times make great art: The AIDS crisis and the New Queer Cinema 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

The protagonist, Chihiro, begins as a petulant adolescent: Her “skinny legs and sulky face” symbolize her overprotected, underdeveloped personality. For the Most Complex Heroines in Animation, Look to Japan 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

Like a “Breaking Bad” or “The Sopranos,” his presidency invited fans to compartmentalize their own morality from the dishonesty, racism and bullying of the protagonist whose exploits mesmerized them. President Trump’s Show Has Been Canceled 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

The protagonists are mostly unlikable and unsympathetic, which makes it tough to root for them to get away with it. The 18 most memorable movies of 2018 — for better and for worse 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

While Williams and Miller believed their protagonists—and often identified with them—Albee was just as often skeptical if not down right distrustful of what his characters said, and how they said it. Postscript: Edward Albee, 1928-2016 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

She confessed that she had entertained hopes of allowing her protagonist finally to escape his fleshly inclinations, but that it became clear to her that this could never happen. Book Club: Restoration by Rose Tremain 2012-10-05T21:55:08Z

It’s symptomatic of Bassani’s historical pessimism that his two finest novellas end with their respective protagonists’ suicide. The World War II Tragedy of Italy’s Jews, Preserved in Fiction 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

The families meet weekly, share meals and songs and play games, and the unnamed 13-year-old protagonist marvels at the tenderness her unhappy parents are able to show each other in the company of the Nguyens. Debut Stories From Clare Sestanovich, Brenda Peynado and Choi Eunyoung 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

“Let me be the protagonist! At least once in a while,” he shouts despairingly. ‘Chairs and a Long Table,’ About Slighting Asians Onstage 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

The jury, presided over by Colombian novelist Héctor Abad Faciolince, highlighted Quintana’s work as a “powerful story narrated from an apparent ingenuity that contrasts with the unfortunate atmosphere that surrounds the protagonist.” Pilar Quintana reconnects with childhood and wins Alfaguara 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

With visceral prose as taut as his teenage linebacker protagonist, Zentner has written a novel about white supremacy that invites us to see how bigotry operates in real life. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Its protagonists are gay Asian American men, its kitchen is merely adequate. How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Rom-Com? Three Comedians Try. 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

At the beginning of the interview, Stipe coyly declares the protagonist of his most famous song a “total fabrication.” ‘Song Exploder’ and the Inexhaustible Hustle of Hrishikesh Hirway 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

His protagonist, Gillian, is passing in and out of consciousness in a hospital bed. Reconstruction 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

The protagonist is a journalist working under cover in Paris on an investigative story about an elusive Communist. A Writer’s Controversial Past That Will Not Die 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

A chance meeting at Westminster begins a chilling downward spiral for Doughty's protagonist. Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty – review 2013-06-16T08:00:01Z

I was admittedly reticent at first to embrace Leo as the protagonist, as opposed to someone like Indian environmentalist Sunita Narain, who also shows up in your film. The new “Inconvenient Truth”: Leonardo DiCaprio’s new documentary wants to challenge climate change skeptics 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

“The Sentence” finds its protagonist squeezed into a space like that between the rough and soft sides of a Velcro closure. Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Sentence’ Considers the (Literally) Haunting Power of Books 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

Miano’s protagonists are not the abducted but those who investigate their disappearance: the midwife, the chief’s scheming brother, a desperate mother who tracks her kidnapped son through the bush. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

So was the show that she stood at the center of, not as a heroine but as something rarer: a protagonist who never pulled off the mask she wore but hardened it into a shield. Goodbye to “The Good Wife” 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

At first, the sight is bracing for the Hong maven: his pictures often feature writers as protagonists, but they’re almost never shown actually writing. ‘Grass’ Review: Eavesdropping in the Coffee Shop With Hong Sang-soo 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

There’s the endless violence, to which all protagonists are apparently desensitized. TV for the fake news generation: why Westworld is the defining show of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Unlike a conventional Realist protagonist, The Reenactor is completely free to author his own plot. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z

Then again, Mara is no stranger to category high jinks: Six years ago, she was nominated as a supporting actress for “Carol,” even though she was clearly playing that film’s protagonist. Inside the Oscars’ Best-Actress Battle Royal 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

Scorsese stays with Rodrigues, who becomes the movie’s protagonist, ministering to the isolated Christians while also bringing danger upon them. Martin Scorsese Tests His Limits in “Silence” 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

More radically than “J. Edgar” or even “Greenberg,” this movie, written by Diablo Cody and directed by Jason Reitman, challenges the dreary conventional wisdom that a movie protagonist must be likable. | 'Young Adult': Charlize Theron in ?Young Adult? - Review 2011-12-08T13:00:01Z

This time, instead of paying a visit to the protagonist’s French parents, the film revolves around the weekend when her family shows up for a surprise visit in New York. Downtown Gabby: Top 15 Chatter-Worthy Films from Tribeca 2012-04-18T19:30:46Z

In most coming-of-age tales, we root for the protagonist to grow up. The Dark Manhood of “Kicks,” an Anti-Coming-of-Age Story 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Indeed, Ms. James gave readers protagonists who were less than sympathetic — “frequently meanspirited, selfish, or simply victims of profound emotional exhaustion,” critic Martha Duffy wrote in Time magazine. P.D. James, who brought a gritty realism to the British detective novel, dies at 94

He may yet become one of the series’ rare protagonists that you hope ends up on the wrong side of a walker. Fear the Walking Dead recap: season two, episode three – Ouroboros 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z