| 单词 | speculative |
| 例句 | He led the way into the line, still not speaking, though his eyes returned to my face every few seconds, their expression speculative. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The argument rests, of course, on certain assumptions about the core of human beings, and is necessarily speculative. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of them sat languidly along the benches or milled in the aisles discussing the trial in hushed and speculative tones. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Denna gave the remains of her apple a speculative look, then began to eat it from the bottom up. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There is a plausible and quite persuasive answer to the second question, which will then lead us to a plausible but more speculative answer to the first. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Her eyes, more just open than alert or speculative, reflected chiefly their own size and color. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z But his cosmological arguments are purely speculative and philosophical. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Their eyes during these conversations look dewy, blurred, pulpy, easily hurt, like the eyes of blind baby kittens; but also sly and speculative, and filled with greed and deceit. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The most speculative option involved element 94, that purportedly hyperfissionable substance discovered in Lawrence’s laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For most workers, the only time in the last three decades when the rise in hourly pay beat inflation was during the speculative bubble of the 1990s. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Like Silicon Valley in the heyday of the Internet bubble, London was the center of a speculative mania about the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Vivi gives her a speculative look and then shakes her head. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He chuckled, and a speculative look came into his eye. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Perhaps a speculative novel where the main character is an archaeologist digging for bronzes who is then transported to an idyllic past? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z If you are bitten by a Malaclaw, all bets, wagers and speculative ventures should be cancelled, as they are sure to go against the victim. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Jorge Borges, in his recent bestiary of mythical creatures, notes that the idea of round beasts was imagined by many speculative minds, and Johannes Kepler once argued that the earth itself is such a being. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z All of this is speculative, to say the least, and may well be wrong. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I gave the lute’s neck a sour, speculative look. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Jack wasn’t at work today,” my dad said in this slow, speculative sort of tone. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The search for new weapons continues unceasingly, and is one of the very few remaining activities in which the inventive or speculative type of mind can find any outlet. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Although there may be some truth in both hypotheses, this sort of posthumous off-the-rack psychoanalysis is a dubious, highly speculative enterprise that inevitably demeans and trivializes the absent analysand. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His claims for his new science were entirely speculative. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Murky, speculative stuff, a smear campaign on a dead woman. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a happily speculative look on her face. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Gilbert’s interests also extended, necessarily in a more speculative way, into the heavens. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Francie took a speculative look at the Pennsylvania fellow standing ten feet away. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched him repress the anger, watched as his eyes grew speculative. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z A scholar named Thomas Cole, however, published an ingenious speculative essay in 1991.2 Corax’s name—giving extra piquancy to the judge’s joke—means “crow” in Greek, and Cole starts out arguing from common sense. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The Voyager spacecraft are the lineal descendants of those sailing-ship voyages of exploration, and of the scientific and speculative tradition of Christiaan Huygens. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time in 2012, Occupy Wall Street was dominating the news cycle, and at Burning Man there was a life-size installation that was meant to represent the financial exploitation of people by speculative capitalism. Exclusive: Burning Man is supposed to be a safe space. Sexual assault survivors say it's not 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z I'm throwing the net wide to any and all science fiction, fantasy, horror, weird and speculative fiction. The great sci-fi hunt: help us find the best independently published books 2013-02-22T12:02:18Z An entirely speculative investigation turns up two prime candidates: Carol Vorderman and Anne Robinson. The mystery of Robina Hood 2010-04-05T18:30:00Z Its list of the war’s potential outcomes ranged from “a lot of really bad speculative historical fiction” to “the Mets win the World Series.” Finding humor in Ukraine war? It’s (always) the Onion’s way 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Which books got you hooked on speculative fiction? For William Gibson, Seeing the Future Is Easy. But the Past? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Her plots are straightforward, even slightly predictable, though that may be a generational matter; what passed for speculative warning in the 1970s and ’80s, now seems more directly descriptive of our present ills. Where Every Coupling Depends on Lies, and Men Are Aliens 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z A section on the opiate crisis includes a speculative and persuasive disquisition on the possible links between chronic pain and the authoritarian promise of control. How the Mind-Body Connection Is Rewiring Our Politics 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z For a sci-fi writer who prizes facts over fiction, Weir is taking a leap further into the speculative with his new novel, which Ballantine publishes on Tuesday. Andy Weir’s New Space Odyssey 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Yes, Ye frustrated most progressives and Democrats with his speculative comments about running for president. "Blacks and Jews" authors on Chappelle, Kanye caught in the "face of Black antisemitism" loop 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z The model soon spread to Atlanta and Boston, where the real-estate firm Cabot, Cabot & Forbes turned the speculative development of office parks into a bonanza of profit. The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z This is speculative fiction as burning ring of fire. Review | Most novelists avoid all mentions of Donald Trump. Mark Doten went the other direction. 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Italian postwar classics by globally admired names such as Manzoni and Lucio Fontana have been viewed by many collectors as a safe haven after the speculative excesses of the last art market boom. Auction Houses Gear Up for Frieze Week 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Yet despite — or perhaps because of — the current highly speculative market for young art, blue-chip names continue to rack up sales at Art Basel. Sales at Art Basel Fair Don’t Show Signs of Downturn 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z He filmed a speculative 22-minute pilot for TV last April, but the footage was unusable: "The camera angles were awful, the cameraman hadn't filmed everything he was supposed to," says Benta. Why black British drama is going online, not on TV 2012-07-02T19:30:01Z Something historical, perhaps, keeping in mind the fundamentally speculative nature of imagining the past. For William Gibson, Seeing the Future Is Easy. But the Past? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z See More » After all, there hadn’t been any speculative leaks beforehand about disagreements between Mr. Simons and his corporate bosses. Fashion Creates a Slippery Slope of Designer Departures 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z How can speculative literature and other fiction help the American people and the world make sense of Donald Trump? Novelist Jonathan Lethem: "There is no allegory crude enough" to capture Trump's America 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z For one thing, he says, the way he staged Fiennes’s scenes — where the audience can see him preparing amid lights and cables, and talking over last-minute notes with Amirani — signals its speculative nature. Perspective | Actors in documentaries used to be taboo. Now they’re the stars. 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z McLaughlin taunted the panelists to elicit counter-opinions, and he demanded predictions — creating, in short, the kind of speculative, subjective conversations that political junkies and sports fans adore. John McLaughlin: The man who pumped up the volume on political talk shows 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z But “The Mandibles” suffers from a common flaw of speculative fiction: Virtually every detail of the narrative serves to communicate some expository element, giving it a didactic tone. Lionel Shriver Imagines Imminent Economic Collapse, With Cabbage at $20 a Head 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, two major Australian author acquisitions were announced by Macmillan's UK speculative fiction imprint Tor. Science fiction and fantasy: the wonderful wizards of Oz 2013-06-06T15:57:29Z Do you see any kind of division between the more speculative ones and the more ostensibly realistic? Mary South on Content Moderation and Trauma 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z The unorthodox narrative mix will speak to your interest in speculative and spiritual realms. Dear Match Book: Seeking Literary Page-Turners 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z What did that fantastical, or speculative, element offer you as a writer? This Week in Fiction: Mohsin Hamid on the Migrants in All of Us 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Is it a falling back into the 20th century, a desperate end of days way for major labels to attempt to repair themselves as talent spotters, trend hunters and speculative entrepreneurs? Paul Morley Showing Off ... Magnetic Man 2010-10-01T17:37:00Z African speculative fiction is finally getting its due. Review | Andy Weir’s ‘Project Hail Mary’ is a bestseller. It also has some problems. 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z Her manner is as quiet and unshowy as her way of speaking, but what might seem thinly speculative in the prompts burns away as she warms up. Review: Jennifer Monson, the Spellbinding Shape-Shifter 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z However, the auction lacked speed, and there was consensus among some collectors and analysts in the salesroom that declines in speculative bidding and increases in interest rates were hurting business. Fair Warning: Lots of Passes, But Sotheby’s Modern Sales Still Bring In $427 Million 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z “Big Night” plays like a speculative humor essay on urgent themes. Paul Rudnick's 'Big Night': Comedy and crisis in the awards machine of Hollywood 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Caustic, lonely and obsessive, the novel offers a richly speculative portrait of early Anthropocene resignation. It’s the End of Humanity. Maybe It’s for the Best. 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z They’re not, in the end, particularly “speculative”; they know exactly what they want to say. The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z There are two ways to read “Sutton,” by J. R. Moehringer: as a third-rate novel with a deep and crippling cornball streak, or as a loose and journalistic speculative biography of a famous bank robber. Books of The Times: ‘Sutton,’ by J. R. Moehringer, a Fictional Biography 2012-10-09T12:00:00Z In a speculative riff on the future of the womb, Hazard talks to a biolaw professor who imagines a world in which fetuses could be gestated outside the body in mechanical “biobags.” The Womb Is a Miracle, and a Mystery 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z What follows is an act of literary conjuring, an intensely imagined and deeply felt speculative biography, an impressionistic examination of black boyhood and manhood. Stellar nonfiction chosen by the National Book Critics Circle 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The author raises interesting questions about the evolutionary explanations for eating disorders—though his answers are highly speculative. Shape-shifting 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z They have separate casts and each takes place in contemporary settings, though one has a modest, somewhat random splash of speculative fiction. ‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’ Review: What We Talk About 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z "The jury's punitive damage award was speculative and clearly the result of the jury's dislike of the defendant and/or his businesses," the judge wrote. Judge halves slander verdict won by casino mogul 2012-11-12T19:23:07Z It was made and broadcast in 1984, although the film’s realistic content easily trumped whatever speculative Orwellian resonance was there to be noticed that year. Threads: the film that frightened me most 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z For Reinhardt, art was a speculative, philosophical endeavor with political dimensions. The Joy of Reading Between Agnes Martin’s Lines 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z He said the scourge of the speculative investor has long haunted the art market. Barbarians at the Art Auction Gates? Not to Worry 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z Photograph: Greg Fonne/Getty Images If you look at the centre of any large British city today, you see a real skyline – a collection of speculative towers, all competing for attention. High stakes 2013-02-12T07:00:01Z Writing about Mr. Farocki in 1992, The Los Angeles Times called him “surely one of the most challenging, speculative and distinctive filmmakers ever to confront an audience.” Harun Farocki, Filmmaker of Modern Life, Dies at 70 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z A Jackson estate spokesman said the IRS's appraisal values "were based on speculative and erroneous assumptions unsupported by the facts or law." U.S. agency says Michael Jackson estate owes $702 million in taxes 2013-08-23T21:15:41Z It is the combination of Conceptualism’s bare-bones physicality and speculative thinking and an uncompromising, sharp personal and political content that defines Ms. Piper’s work so far. Art in Review: ADRIAN PIPER: ?Past Time: Selected Works 1973-1995? 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z The new show functions as a live stage speculative documentary, or, as he said, “a documentary of our process.” A Choreographer Gives ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ a Makeover 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z For example, the speculative sentence for one early January edition runs: "There is much concern about the children but will Alan's intervention make any difference?" Archers fans prepare for shock anniversary episode 2010-12-31T14:55:45Z Butler takes time travel, one of speculative fiction’s oldest and most overdone premises, and infuses it with lasting depth and power. The Essential Octavia Butler 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z Whether you call it well informed speculative history, docu-drama recreation or very stripped-down suspense film-making, Zero Dark Thirty matches form and content to pretty terrific ends. Zero Dark Thirty – Oscar in the crosshairs 2012-11-26T17:33:50Z Are there ways in which speculative fiction allows you a better possibility of approaching “truth”? Helen Phillips talks about getting under people's skin in her new book, 'Some Possible Solutions' 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z But "Riot Baby" goes far beyond the counterfactual and the speculative premise of, "What if black people gained superpowers, and then what happens?" "Riot Baby" author on his novel of black superpowers: "I don't want justice. I want vengeance" 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z Ms. Larson’s speculative soul reading is useful but perilous — not so much because it risks misrepresenting Cage’s thinking, but because it can sometimes generate homely, overempathetic prose. Books of The Times: ‘Where the Heart Beats,’ John Cage Biography, by Kay Larson 2012-07-22T21:59:58Z This winter, while walking through a speculative Smithsonian exhibit called “Futures,” Ms. Iheme said that the point of her work is to challenge the norms of online interaction. What if There Were One Less Thing to Worry About Online? 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z It seems likely that he used the fable of The Fixed Period to explore and relieve his own anxiety by turning it into speculative fiction. David Lodge: rereading Anthony Trollope 2012-12-14T22:55:04Z For decades the answer to that question has been the Bigfoot of word origins, chased around wild speculative corners by amateur word freaks, with exasperated lexicographers and debunkers of folk etymologies in hot pursuit. ‘The Whole Nine Yards’: Seeking a Phrase’s Origin 2012-12-26T22:43:52Z “It’s almost like reality moved closer to what I imagined as a sort of speculative future in my book,” Vara said. She Wrote a Dystopian Novel. Now Her Fiction Is Crossing Into Reality. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z In a prose biography that needn’t matter; indeed, we do not want too much speculative psychology from historians. Review: In ‘The Great Society,’ Another Presidential Nightmare 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z He wrote some “speculative” music and began reading about dance and attending ballet performances. ArtsBeat: Paul McCartney Collaborates With City Ballet 2011-02-23T19:28:55Z In the science fiction and speculative fiction genres there are two dimensions, metaphor and reality. "Riot Baby" author on his novel of black superpowers: "I don't want justice. I want vengeance" 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z In contrast to Bob Woodward with his I-am-a-tape-recorder approach, Mr. Todd does not shy away from analysis, which mostly proves revealing, though it can tip over into the speculative. Chuck Todd's 'The Stranger,' About Barack Obama 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z “The speculative reminds me that there are other narratives,” he says. L.A. artist Rodney McMillian peels back the facade on the ultimate symbol of power: the White House 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z “The incomparable thing about myth is that it is always true,” Wagner wrote in one of his speculative essays on music and drama, “and its content, through utmost compression, is inexhaustible for all time.” From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z She's practical and highly efficient but dangerously speculative, with a focus on the world around her. Beyoncé, Obama, Lady Gaga – what does their handwriting say about them? 2012-10-14T16:59:02Z That's a division between those makers for whom theatre is a representational space, and those for whom it produces a speculative or reflective mode of reality. Reader reviews: your take on Three Kingdoms, Snow White and Henry IV 2012-05-18T09:56:45Z Young adult speculative fiction is a big tent. Young Adult Fantasy Novels That Sweep Readers Away 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z LOS GATOS, Calif. — “Black Mirror,” the speculative fiction series that encouraged people to be wary of new technology, is now hoping they will embrace it. ‘Black Mirror’ Gives Power to the People 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Taking full advantage of creative liberty, they can conjure a wider range of speculative realities and posit alternative ways of responding to environmental change. ‘Between Bodies’ at Henry Art Gallery asks us to consider the natural world through different lenses 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z The point of a good speculative fiction novel is for the reader to reach the end and ask: Is this a future I want? Is this the future we want? 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Here are several examples selected from the thousands of densely worked, diagrammatic watercolors that he produced depicting speculative aerial vehicles. Review: The Morbid Anatomy Museum Presents a View From the Subconscious 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z “I wanted ideas, propositions, musings. It’s purely speculative; no one really has any idea what we’ll be wearing in the future.” Fashion Honors Zaha Hadid With ‘Extraordinary Process’ Exhibition 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z A striking work of speculative fiction, it depicts – in terms sometimes hopeful and other times cautionary – a future of alien contact, interplanetary travel, conscious machines and even the next great evolutionary leap of humankind. “2001: A Space Odyssey” still has insight on future decades later 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Wood emerges as a dutiful and brave guide, but one who might have been more poetic or speculative in his prose. In the age of Google Maps, why walk the 4,000 mile Nile River? Levison Wood's book explains 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z When fans of “The Underground Railroad” first heard of Jenkins’s plans to adapt, many readers’ imaginations understandably went to the story’s most speculative, magical realist elements. Perspective | With ‘The Underground Railroad,’ Barry Jenkins looks squarely at Black trauma. And doesn’t blink. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z The only reason for cutting through it all and writing a short book might be to offer a fresh and challenging interpretation, a speculative essay to get us all thinking differently about the conflict. World War Two: A Short History by Norman Stone – review 2013-02-13T15:09:49Z Some never outgrow these visions, and speculative fiction provides alternatives to our personal daydreams. New in science fiction: the dreams and visions of outsiders and misfits 2012-03-28T19:31:05Z The annual short fiction anthologies of the late Judith Merril were a remarkable introduction to a superbly cosmopolitan view of speculative fiction. For William Gibson, Seeing the Future Is Easy. But the Past? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Simon Ings, editor of Arc, a new magazine devoted to imagining the future, explains the importance of speculative thinking and the sadness of the modern world. Guardian Books podcast: The future – dystopia or utopia? 2012-06-08T12:00:01Z Brief texts — part encyclopedic essay and part speculative fiction after Jorge Luis Borges — introduce each of seven series of works that make up “We Have Never Been So Populated.” What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Liu has built an international following for his groundbreaking speculative trilogy, “The Three-Body Problem,” which leaps from Beijing to Inner Mongolia to a far-off planet. 20 New Works of Fiction to Read This Season 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z But to begin with it was an exercise, a speculative ventriloquy. Impersonating Philip Marlowe 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Some of the ideas presented are quite speculative. Nature, the physicist 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z In “A Sand Book,” the threat of annihilation is not just speculative but historical. The Apocalyptic Visions of Ariana Reines 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z There was his speculative attribution of the Democratic National Committee hacks to a guy who “weighs four hundred pounds,” which earned a collective “Huh?” The First Debate of the Twitter Election 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z The movie leaves no loose ends to invite or allow speculative or critical thought, or to spark further questions; it’s a film of conclusions. The Documentaries They Deserve: Hannah Arendt and Rainer Werner Fassbinder 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z But soon Ms. Frank is back in her speculative science-fiction world. ‘The Pleasure Shock’ Review: This Is Your Brain On Batteries 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z All that new money was helping to fund another speculative bubble while simultaneously leaving little room for the Fed to maneuver in the event of another crash. A Fascinating Page-Turner Made From an Unlikely Subject: Federal Reserve Policy 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z Both are also linked by, among other elements, their engagement with the life of the mind and unexpected turns down speculative paths. Works of Fiction That Are Best Read Together 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z His imagination is philosophical and speculative, and in style he is more a poet than a fabulist, at home in the gaps between our various ways of making sense of the world. ‘Memoria’ Review: In Search of Lost Time 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z You can't have escapism about tax credits or fantasise about the breakup of retail and speculative banking. Sex and shopping are no worse than gadgets or guns 2010-05-31T06:00:00Z Hayes eases into the flow by using Etheridge Knight’s life and career as his alibi, introducing a book “as speculative, motley and adrift as Knight himself.” In a (Prose) Tribute to Fathers and Father Figures, a Fast-Paced Poet Slows Down 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Snippets of hazy, speculative chatter issued from the queuers, as if they were in line at a movie theater discussing the fate of some character: “I hope Roger gets a taste.” This courthouse is the closest you can get to Mueller’s probe, one wall away from its secrets 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Without fully endorsing its veracity, he offers it as part of a speculative account of Custer's final maneuvers. 'The Last Stand': An end for Custer, Sitting Bull and a way of life 2010-05-12T23:19:00Z As recent coverage of the health and whereabouts of the nation’s leader, Kim Jong-un, reminds us, fiction may offer more durable truths than speculative news. A Novel From North Korea Offers Glimpses of the Everyday 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z It is a “speculative” award, the foundation emphasizes, awarded purely in the hope that a fellow’s great work will continue with the boost from this windfall. ‘Now my life will change’: Meet the 2016 MacArthur ‘geniuses’ 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The duo Carolyn Hall and Clarinda Mac Low, working as Sunk Shore, created a speculative tour of the future banks of the East River. Five Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Typically, existing shareholders are wiped out, while bondholders see their promises of guaranteed debt payments converted to more speculative shares of stock. Six reasons we may have another bank crisis 2012-08-20T17:53:00Z This is the contradiction of optimistic pessimism common to speculative fiction. Writers imagined drowned worlds for centuries — what they tell us about the future 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z But if you have the patience and an appetite for thoroughly imagined speculative sci-fi, you can consider the show’s deficiencies the import duty for the delivery of a good tale. ‘Three-Body’ Review: A Chinese Series Beats Netflix to the Screen 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z There's nothing speculative about this idea, by the way; today's marketers often hire people to hang around in bars, talking up products without revealing that they're being paid to do so. How novels came to terms with the internet 2011-01-15T00:06:06Z Patrick Connellan's handsome 1920s casino setting makes a fine distinction between the worlds of old money and new; it invests the action with a decadent, speculative air as the decade roars towards the crash. The Merchant of Venice ? review 2011-02-10T17:16:00Z I hadn't read speculative fiction since my teens. Iain Banks, my Fife friend and storyteller extraordinaire 2013-04-03T16:39:26Z Now, in this fascinating speculative piece, he tackles head-on the famous extended visit Hans Christian Andersen paid to Dickens at Gad's Hill in the summer of 1857. Andersen's English 2010-04-08T23:34:00Z On occasions, Goddard might have been even more speculative. Ziggyology by Simon Goddard – review 2013-05-03T18:32:01Z A writer from her poverty-stricken childhood to her death in 2006 at the age of 58, she committed her life to turning speculative fiction into a home for Black expression. The Essential Octavia Butler 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z Or — to confront another terrifying speculative scenario — would they just seem uncool? It Came From the ’80s 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z “The 11th Green” begins with a beguiling text stating that while much of what you are about to see is “necessarily speculative,” the narrative that follows represents “a likely factual scenario.” ‘The 11th Green’ Review: Investigating Aliens, Eisenhower and Golf 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z A different kind of film would have ventured beyond the perceptions of the European characters and offered at least a speculative glimpse at the world of their captors. Movie Review: ‘A Hijacking,’ a Modern Piracy Drama, Unfolds at Sea 2013-06-20T22:51:37Z “What I am saying is: in a speculative mania, it can be very hard to tell which companies are for real.” John Oliver on cryptocurrency: 'You’re not investing, you’re gambling' 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Admittedly, said plan initially has all the hallmarks of a speculative, superpower-assisted real estate development, but it'll probably turn out to be much scarier when we can see the wider picture. The Great Offices of State | Lizzie and Sarah | Wonders of the Solar System | Jersey Shore and more | Watch this at the weekend 2010-03-20T06:45:00Z The problem was, of course, that while his speculative thinking was limited, his search-and-destroy powers were not. Art Review: ‘Degenerate Art,’ at Neue Galerie, Recalls Nazi Censorship 2014-03-13T21:50:31Z Incorporating found sounds from a house in the Swiss Alps, it’s speculative dance music. Playlist: Melodic Wanderings, Starting in Timbuktu 2011-01-09T02:34:14Z The often bleak speculative fiction of Octavia E. Butler might seem an odd escape from the news, but I found most of the vampires in Butler’s final novel, FLEDGLING, somehow reassuring. New & Noteworthy, From French Pancakes to a Bipartisan Road Trip 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Sloan said he owed his job at Current to another bit of speculative fiction. Robin Sloan, Author and More, and His ’24-Hour Bookstore’ 2012-10-03T21:50:31Z It shifts from a sharp work of feminist speculative fiction to a frothy thriller delivered in a fusillade of three-page chapters as though the author herself were wearing a wrist counter. Review | Donald Trump has made feminist dystopias great again 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Suspenseful and emotionally engaging, “Barsk” brings readers into a fascinating speculative world. Best science-fiction and fantasy books, December edition 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z They claimed Dad made “speculative bookings” and a host of other things that they interpreted as objectionable based on a clause in the contract about “fraudulent usage”. My father had a lifelong ticket to fly anywhere. Then they took it away 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Several works focus on the century-long development of Puerto Rico as a speculative real estate investment by both carpetbagging outsiders and an opportunistic home government. Puerto Ricans Expand the Scope of ‘American Art’ at the Whitney 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z It would be termed New Wave, and it was characterized by an insistence that speculative fiction doesn’t need to rely on laser blasters, one-eyed Martians, and sub-light engines to expand its imagination. The Anti-Tolkien 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Short fiction, some previously published, some new, by Duchamp, a Seattle author working in the field of speculative fiction. Local books: a novel of Chief Leschi's war, Luna Park and Kennewick Man for kids 2011-08-15T19:54:04Z Such questions swirl like a ghostly mist through Carol Morley’s “Dreams of a Life,” a wildly speculative documentary biography of Joyce Vincent, a British woman of mystery who is remembered posthumously by former acquaintances. Movie Review: ‘Dreams of a Life’ Looks at Joyce Vincent 2012-08-02T20:52:19Z For many, that was graffiti’s great formal shift, the thing that elevated tagging to speculative art. Rammellzee, From Living Letters to Living Sculpture 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z These successes have spurred yet more speculative forays down Baker Street, some of which will happen, others of which will ever remain show business rumor. The televisual Sherlock: The role that made Benedict Cumberbatch a star drove another actor insane 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z "Too Much and Never Enough" takes armchair psychologists' speculative analyses of Trump's psyche one step further: The author is an actual psychologist, and more important for these purposes, she is the president's niece. Perspective | The weird masculinity of Donald Trump 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Today, we expect speculative tales to at least gesture toward rationality; we fetishize the “origin story.” The Old, American Horror Behind “Stranger Things” 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z At 70, Robinson — who is widely acclaimed as one of the most influential speculative fiction writers of his generation — stands as perhaps the last of the great utopians. A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z The narrator of “This Land Was Made,” the playwright Tori Sampson’s speculative account of the Black Panther Party’s powder-keg origins, is an aspiring writer named Sassy. For Her New Play, Tori Sampson Revisited Her ‘Black Power Household’ 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z “It acknowledges the ‘Rites’ I’ve seen, but also alludes to a sort of retinal burn of recurrent themes and ideas, and to a speculative future.” ‘Can You Rotate That?’ A Hyperkinetic Spin on ‘Rite of Spring’ 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z It didn’t work out because the money evaporated after she handed it to a broker at Merrill Lynch, who used it to trade speculative options, she said. Suze Orman Is Back to Help You Ride Out the Storm 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z These arguments are at once eminently practical and wildly speculative. | 'Into Eternity': Humans, Who Once Buried Their Treasures, Now Bury Their Dangers 2011-02-01T22:51:58Z “The speculative art buyer, or ‘flipper,’ motivated purely by short-term investment potential, is the anomaly in our experience,” Christie’s said in a statement. Barbarians at the Art Auction Gates? Not to Worry 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z Billy, in desperation, tries a brash speculative investment that pits him against Hap Briggs, and by the time it plays out, he has earned Hap’s respect. Review: ABC’s ‘Blood & Oil,’ Washing Away the Past 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z They just don’t feel very fresh or fully integrated into a coherent speculative world. Christoph Waltz Drowns in Technocracy in ‘The Zero Theorem’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z "To say the whole case is speculative is frankly nonsense... to say there is not a shred of evidence is going too far," Vos said. High court judge criticises police failure to fully investigate phone hacking 2011-02-15T18:44:42Z If you drew a Venn diagram for your reading habits — with a circle each for speculative fiction, well-plotted mysteries and satire — the categories would overlap in modest, but vivid, segments. Dear Match Book: I’m Seeking Satirical, Semifantastical and Stand-Out Literary Fiction 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The quasi-insights he gleans about Dad — who died in 2004 at age 93, deep in dementia — are admittedly speculative, but not outlandish. 'My Father at 100': Ron Reagan's memories of Ronald Reagan, president and Dad 2011-02-03T20:14:04Z By merging the psychological profundity and emotional realism Mazin applied in his historical drama to Druckmann's speculative premise, its nine episodes feel at once harrowing and, strangely enough, hopeful. Have hope for "The Last of Us," a drama about enduring at the end of the world, not just surviving 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Photograph: Kim Westerskov/Getty Images The relationship between the literary and speculative fiction genres is like the episode of original Star Trek where Captain Kirk is teleported in to an evil, parallel dimension. The best young sci-fi novelists 2013-04-15T11:51:22Z In Clifton’s mind, this proposition was not speculative but resolutely practical. In Richard Powers’s New Novel, Hope for a Grieving Kid and Planet May Lurk in the Human Brain 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z To some extent, Ms. Poitras and Mr. Greenwald are engaged in a theoretical inquiry, a kind of speculative mapping, of the shape and reach of this mysterious entity. ‘Citizenfour,’ a Documentary About Edward J. Snowden 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z As the executive editor of the Vertigo imprint at DC Comics, she oversaw illustrated tales of fantasy, speculative fiction and outcast characters who did not fit into the publisher’s mainstream lineup of costumed adventurers. Comics’ Mother of ‘the Weird Stuff’ Is Moving On 2013-05-29T21:48:48Z Sometimes it’s just easier to cave in and call it speculative fiction. The final frontier: how female directors broke into sci-fi 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z It’s a commonplace that speculative fiction speaks to the anxieties percolating in its age. ‘Coherence’: Dinner party gets caught in a sci-fi maze 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Teen fans of speculative fiction will savor Jemisin’s fine writing, the story’s setting and the memorable characters. Perspective | 23 adult books for teens who are ready to read beyond the YA shelf 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Of course, the implications are almost completely speculative. Lara Croft battles male jerks 2012-06-14T16:15:00Z One could come up with any number of speculative explanations; I’ll hazard two. Do guns or people kill people? 2013-03-06T13:12:00Z George Lucas’s first “Star Wars” trilogy, set not in the speculative future but in the imaginary past, answered the malaise of the ’70s with swashbuckling nostalgia. Review: Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar,’ with Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Is there a particular "Australian voice" in the country's speculative literature, though? Science fiction and fantasy: the wonderful wizards of Oz 2013-06-06T15:57:29Z The stated reason for this battening down of hatches is that the Royal Opera doesn’t want the piece prejudged by speculative, sensationalist gossip before it has appeared. Far From Valhalla: A Tabloid Star Is Joining The Sisterhood Of the Fallen 2011-02-13T01:06:18Z Start your list with three black writers who conjure an array of speculative worlds. Dear Match Book: Genre Fiction by Black Writers, About Black Characters 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z These papers were particularly popular among working class readers who reveled in the speculative shenanigans of high society. West Elm Caleb and the rise of the TikTok tabloid 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z Speak to socially relevant issues within the context of fiction, and in a way that offers hope, humanity, and a better version of speculative fiction. Why #Resistance TV shows are so hard to watch 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Owners of other contemporary art galleries caution that the speculative frenzy surrounding Andres may not last. Six-Figure Artworks, by a Fifth Grader 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z "It's a reflective, speculative and deeply personal album that beguiles with an open honesty that recalls the best of the singer-songwriter genre." Alvin Stardust album gets early release 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Each is viewed through the lens of a spiraling speculative logic in which disaster is about to happen, has already happened and is happening, all at once. In This Novel, America and the Weather Are Both Extreme 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Others, such as “Raising Robotic Natives,” are speculative projects designed to raise eyebrows. Design Shows Take On the Future. And It’s Not Pretty. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z “The Infinity Engine” represents Hershman Leeson’s recent shift from media to science and from a speculative, intimate tone to evangelistic wonder. Lynn Hershman Leeson: The Artist Is Prescient 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Gibson’s visions of the democratizing ability of computers to dissolve geographical, economic and political boundaries — here in a common hallucinatory graphic interface called cyberspace — will fascinate teens who love speculative fiction. Perspective | 23 adult books for teens who are ready to read beyond the YA shelf 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z This inclusive, Enterprise crew is still living that speculative future. Boldly take us where we've been, Captain Pike 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z For a piece of speculative fiction to succeed, the foundational abnormality must feel present and lived in. In This Novel, Witchcraft Makes Women Powerful, and Vulnerable 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z This is speculative BS wrapped up in the guise of creating a more nurturing, holistic approach to work and parenting. Marissa Mayer can work if she wants 2012-10-03T19:35:00Z It lands uncannily now, since at some point during its gestation, real life caught up with the book’s speculative world. From the Ice of Greenland, a Deadly Virus and a Familiar Doom 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Your books always have this meeting of speculative technology and feminist rewriting of history. Writing a novel about Jews set in 1942—without Hitler: “Once you mention Hitler’s name, his mustache is in the room. The stakes change” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Like the movies that inspire it, moreover, “Stranger Things” hails from the slightly drunk, “just roll with it” school of nineteen-eighties speculative screenwriting. The Old, American Horror Behind “Stranger Things” 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z “Upload” has elements of the darkly speculative series “Black Mirror” and the comparatively hopeful “Years and Years,” but its preoccupations are as timeless as they are the finest genre fiction. Review: ‘Upload’ Asks Old Questions With New Technology 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z It is an idea that is no longer just speculative. Art Review: Harun Farocki Video Installation at MoMA - Review 2011-08-25T22:27:41Z The Muslim world is no stranger to speculative fiction, though that label wouldn’t be used there. Mysteries Unfold in a Land of Minarets and Magic Carpets 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z But "it's got elements of speculative fiction in there, little hints of steampunk and it's kind of a spy show, really, more than a big, swashbuckling pirate show." Blackbeard epic 'Crossbones' has NBC crossing its fingers 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z There was once a risk that the gardens would be submerged under speculative semi-detacheds, but they became a municipal park. Chiswick House: 2010-06-12T23:04:00Z Its casually apocalyptic title also suggests purpose, linking that end to another one: the desire to be done with the idea that art is a coldly speculative endeavor defined by professionals — financial and otherwise. 'And There Is an End' -- but no end to its goofy appeal 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z It triggers an inflationary process and underlines the increasingly speculative trend in the market. Auctions: Impressionist and Modern Sale Marred by Optimistic Price Tags 2011-05-04T12:28:14Z Anderson's vision is one of speculative anthropology, with poetic and philosophical overtones. Review: 'World Headquarters' ? at Velocity Dance Center ? is kinetic storytelling for a dystopian future 2010-10-02T19:46:00Z When the Pentagon and pundits repeat the refrain that the breach of secrets endangers the lives of those involved, one journalist observes that “speculative blood became worse than real blood.” Movie Review: ‘We Steal Secrets,’ a Documentary on WikiLeaks 2013-05-23T22:39:50Z The conclusions are inevitably speculative, but Hawking's speculations are worth more than most. Spitfire Women 2010-09-18T05:45:00Z George said Harper's estimate of the cost of his idea "speculative". Bedroom tax bill splits coalition as Lib-Lab pact forces second reading 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Purloined Scotch, a concussion, an ill-timed parrot: Morgan drops plenty of zany twists into readers’ laps, and the latter part of the novel takes on a speculative dimension. 13 New Books Coming in July 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z While acknowledging “this blurred line we face every day with market forces,” he expressed confidence that the collector’s relationship with Pesce’s art is not speculative. MOCA's Gaetano Pesce exhibition stumbles across a bright ethical line 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z Every segment seemed a speculative glimpse into the angelic. ‘How Like an Angel’ Blends Music and Acrobats 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z I was drafting “This Is Not the End,” a speculative novel in which resurrection technology exists. Is this the future we want? 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Sure: all such talk is speculative and subjective. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z Admittedly, the confirmed and speculative details of the president’s malfeasant career are hard for fiction to match, but this plot doesn’t exert itself any more than Donald Trump lumbering around his golf course. Review | In the era of countless Trump exposés, do we really need a new ‘Primary Colors’? 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Viotti’s wide range and sensitivity are probably where the similarities with Viardot begin and end, but why cheapen such beguiling singing with speculative comparisons? 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Cline’s book is a natural for teens who love speculative fiction. Perspective | 23 adult books for teens who are ready to read beyond the YA shelf 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z But for many places, international flights carrying leisure travelers remain on hold or are banned outright, and the process of reopening remains speculative. The First Signs of Travel’s Return? 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Stacked silos of speculative development, the worst of these banal blocks should be banned. Should views of the Gherkin be protected? 2013-06-18T12:59:20Z But once Knowlton gets to the bubble’s inevitable puncture, the sheer gravitational pull that eventually grounds all speculative balloons exerts its irresistible power. Built on Sand: The Get-Rich-Quick Scams of 1920s Florida 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z And he’s done so without abandoning the multitasking complications that make art an invaluable speculative tool. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Shelden’s assertion, for example, that the birth of Morewood’s son was accompanied by “the knowing glances of astute observers” is highly speculative, to put it mildly. Do you know the truth behind Herman Melville’s ‘Moby-Dick’? 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The cynical romanticism of noir and the cosmic mind games of speculative sci-fi are a tricky and not always successful blend. Review: ‘Altered Carbon,’ Netflix’s ‘Blade Runner’ Replicant 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Rarely was the speculative character of the market more blatant. Auctions: In Contemporary Art Sales, Big Is Better and Famous Is Best 2011-05-13T12:00:05Z This isn't merely the stuff of speculative fiction or space opera. From bureaucratic drudgery to prison labor, “Andor” shows how exploitation leads to the Dark Side 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z “What that source of social discipline might be is a speculative matter.” Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Getting a Cuban to say anything remotely critical – or even mildly speculative – on camera is all but impossible. TV review: Cuba with Simon Reeve; Inside Guinness World Records 2012-12-11T22:10:01Z But speculative stories aren’t just about the rearrangement of historical possibilities. The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z In one sense, I understand how these could be interpreted as “speculative bookings”. My father had a lifelong ticket to fly anywhere. Then they took it away 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z While Gaiman told the New York Times that “speculative fiction usually ages very badly,” in his case, not so much. “Tell Me How This Ends Well”: Tricky gods, sex slaves and patricidal Jews 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z James’s 1992 speculative fiction, is also a world that has no future. Still Stoking Terror: The Hopeless World of ‘Children of Men’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z The title of Mr. Lewis’s work of ticktock speculative fiction is harrowingly plain: “The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States.” Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Imagining the Unimaginable in a Nuclear-War Novel 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Ms. Okpokwasili cites as other influences “dystopian folklore, speculative fiction, Igbo cosmology and the futures and commodities markets.” Dance This Season: Tap, Ballet and the Inexplicable 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z They're found in fellow speculative fiction author Cory Doctorow's "For the Win," too, though Doctorow's characters are clearly oppressed sweatshop workers, while Stephenson's seem more a lamentable feature of the modern scene. 'Reamde': criminality in a digital world 2011-09-14T22:20:05Z In Bruce Holsinger’s fourth novel, “The Displacements,” the space between our past and speculative future has finally collapsed. In This Novel, America and the Weather Are Both Extreme 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z The sly speculative questions inevitably give rise to a few plot holes. ‘Jonathan’ Review: Ansel Elgort as Two Brothers Sharing One Body 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Woolf’s life has been endlessly pored over, but Gill finds a fresh way in by structuring her chatty, occasionally speculative biography around the female influences on Woolf’s thinking and well-being, including her bohemian sister, Vanessa. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Around that open wound, Charles builds a speculative fable that weaves between Haiti, Connecticut and Quebec, where the filmmaker grew up. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z As a speculative fiction writer and student of science fiction and the surreal, how do you make sense of it? Novelist Jonathan Lethem: "There is no allegory crude enough" to capture Trump's America 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Highfalutin, lightly enjoyable mush, “Reminiscence” is one of those speculative fictions that are at once undernourished and overcooked. ‘Reminiscence’ Review: Out of the Past, Into the Future (and Back) 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Alternative history, a genre of speculative fiction where certain historical events happen differently from how they did in real life, is an evocative place to set a story. With an Elon Musk-like villain, “For All Mankind” launches a new season into orbit 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z The stress of outperforming realism in works of speculative fiction sometimes risks a dangerous rise in the literary mercury. Review | Most novelists avoid all mentions of Donald Trump. Mark Doten went the other direction. 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Language, speculative thinking and borrowed imagery are common. Roots of Conceptual Art, Caught by a Camera’s Eye 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z "It's still speculative," Sarandos said at "The Grill" conference hosted by The Wrap website. Netflix aims to bring 'Arrested Development' back 2013-09-25T01:11:09Z I am writing a book on the fictional strategies employed in late 19th-century British speculative narratives to creatively revive patriarchal masculinity. Boys and men in the age of Trump: How the president is affecting our understanding of masculinity 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z He began writing Super Sad True Love Story in 2006, as a speculative exercise. 'America's top satirist' 2010-09-04T23:02:00Z Finding the witnesses to the events of the book, which often involved picking names from files in the National Archives, matching them to likely candidates on the electoral register and writing dozens of speculative letters. Matthew Sweet on West End Front: Paperback Q&A 2012-05-30T08:56:16Z There’s something authentically Greek, something primordially visionary and speculative, in Lee’s imaginative, profoundly sympathetic approach—and that, too, risks becoming a source of misunderstanding. Spike Lee’s Necessary, Overwhelming “Chi-Raq” 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z For weeks, pundits on both right and left rehashed the history of end times “prophets” in the US, interviewed scores of believers and non-believers and sparked a speculative national conversation about end times survivalism. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z Art prices have been speculative for decades now. Beeple Has Won. Here’s What We’ve Lost. 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z His speculative future is one of stark inequality, replicating the dominant vision of 20th century popular culture. "Cowboy Bebop" is an off-key adaptation that captures the jazzy color but not soul of the original 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z It is also one that, for now, ends up being purely speculative. The Quest for Immortality, Rebooted 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z H-shaped, a Neoclassical behemoth, conceived as a speculative real estate development, so its architect, Ernest R. Graham, maximized the interior square footage by including no setbacks. Take a Virtual Tour of the Financial District and the Battery 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z As in Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” — which shares the crown with “1984” for most important speculative novel of the 20th century — the more omnipresent the role of the law, the less visible it becomes. What Do the Make-Believe Bureaucracies of Sci-Fi Novels Say About Us? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z One of the great things about horror and speculative fiction is that you are throwing people into really outsized, dramatic situations a lot. Talking to Victor LaValle about 'The Changeling' and the horror of parenthood, H.P. Lovecraft and more 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z He presents a series of speculative vignettes of life at various low-lying locations, from Miami to Venice to the Netherlands to Bangladesh, as the level of atmospheric CO2 and the oceans rise. 'The Flooded Earth': Peter Ward's vision of a world awash in the consequences of climate change 2010-06-10T20:50:00Z Like many blaxploitation films, these are, in some ways, exercises in speculative metafiction. Blaxploitation Movies Are Ready to Stream, Nostalgia Included 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z So, what other science fiction and speculative novels — old and new — have caught our attention? Review | Beyond ‘Dune’: Let’s talk about science fiction and fantasy novels about ecology and climate change 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Some of the music unfolds in twisting, long-lined themes, some in softly exhaled solo-sax reveries; there are skittish dancing melodies and speculative group conversations that suggest Wayne Shorter's musings. Tim Whitehead: Colour Beginnings ? review 2010-12-02T22:40:00Z Kunzru is torn about speculative finance, finding it intellectually thrilling and socially disgusting. Hari Kunzru: 'What's happened since 2008 is a class war based on faith and credit' 2011-08-07T19:00:02Z Mr. Riley’s futurism is not merely speculative or playful, and while “Sorry to Bother You” is too nimble to be polemical, it is insistently political. Review: ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ but Can I Interest You in a Wild Dystopian Satire? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Without a doubt, he’s already in the pantheon for science fiction/speculative fiction, but as weird as it might sound, I think he’s still underrated. Charles Yu Loves Reading With His Children. Don’t Tell Them. 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The result was inevitably highly speculative, and Langer's caveat emptor – that Hitler was "elusive to the diagnostician" – did not protect him from future criticism. The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess and the Analysts by Daniel Pick - review 2012-08-01T07:00:03Z But these closet productions, fully odd though they may be, are nearly always warmer, more penetrating and more speculative in exploring gender than the works of the old-school male gurus. Review: Building a Better Girl in ‘Honestly Sincere’ 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Kahn is one of a crop of abstract painters who are currently attracting a feeding frenzy of speculative buying and re-selling among market insiders. Auction Houses Gear Up for Frieze Week 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z There are no spoilers but there is plenty of speculative gossip and a few teasers being trickled by the BBC, so good luck avoiding all forms of media for the next eight months! Who's in store 2013-04-10T15:22:22Z I watched now as a long, speculative cross floated across Liverpool’s goal mouth. Perspective | The World Cup will show us soccer is more than just thrilling. It’s art. 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z The simultaneous fondness for the recurring motifs of speculative fiction and its irreverent mocking of twists and tools that have been done to death are central to this show's duende. "Rick and Morty," resistance heroes, face a new nemesis channeling our current uncertainties 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z “It’s the one that always engages in speculative thinking, critical thinking, challenging status quos, taking risks. And it’s really an incubator for the arts field.” Roy Lichtenstein’s Studio Becomes Home to an Artistic Community 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Equal parts provocative and riveting, “Riot Baby” is what all speculative fiction should strive to be: wholly captivating. 7 must-read novels to kick off 2020 right 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z The issues are fudged with creamy indulgence; and speculative trading, notionally reviled, is finally shown to be the means of getting vital funding for politically correct clean energy, and even of reuniting father and daughter. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - review 2010-10-07T12:00:00Z The shortcoming to this way of thinking about “speculative” fiction is that stories are more than experiments; they are speech acts, written by particular people who wish to get some feeling across. The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Though U.S. writers play a major role in speculative fiction's world scene, the United States is not its only source. 3 new titles in speculative fiction 2011-11-17T00:25:06Z Tidbits of autofiction, and dashes of speculative fiction are mixed together and seasoned with current events. Review | Zadie Smith’s debut short-story collection is a dazzling experiment in form and genre 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z In the new speculative fiction, the futures we shape are many. In the latest wave of science fiction, authors of color take space to imagine multiple new societies 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z And then also to use a genre, I would say, that I respect, which is speculative fiction, and not only do I respect it, but it was how I was introduced to storytelling. Wayétu Moore on writing the immortal heroine of "She Would Be King": "She grew as I grew" 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z They were questioned by American around the “speculative bookings” that were deemed retroactively fraudulent. My father had a lifelong ticket to fly anywhere. Then they took it away 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z South Korea's legion of retail investors, mainly middle-aged people, tend to jump on speculative stocks. "Gangnam Style" hit doubles value of Psy's father's stock 2012-09-25T04:09:44Z Of course I don't condemn speculative thinking, or organising people to help them do good, or setting up hospitals or giving hospitality to travelling strangers or educating people. Philip Pullman creates a darker Christ in new assault on the church 2010-03-26T18:21:00Z But – the third aspect of "speculative fiction" – has had markedly less success. Horror: a genre doomed to literary hell? 2012-11-07T11:47:02Z When we think about the work of someone in this abstract art, the intrusions of speculative biography can seem quite out of place. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z Opening episodes of the first season of "The Witcher" remind me of all the ways that high fantasy, comic books or, really, any type of speculative fiction fandom has long expected women to compromise. "The Witcher" is back to give women a more equal share in its power 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z Even so, there is probably no worse place or time to read speculative fiction about 9/11 than North End Way during the week before 9/11. The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Until the president actually makes a decision, a news story projecting the course of events can be speculative and even inaccurate, they said. Scoop. Denial. Scoop confirmed. That’s business as usual for writers covering the Trump White House. 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Even something as speculative as string theory is based not on faith but on hope: the hope that it will some day be empirically testable. Q. & A.: Jim Holt on Why the World Exists 2012-07-18T14:09:41Z “Engaging with the past, while also exploring a space of speculative imagination, Halsey offers us a powerful statement about civic space, social activism, and a reconsideration of the possibilities for architecture and community engagement.” Lauren Halsey Chosen for Met Roof Installation 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z And then there’s the challenge of defining “science fiction” itself, as well as related genre terms like “science fantasy” and “speculative fiction.” Tracking the Vocabulary of Sci-Fi, from Aerocar to Zero-Gravity 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z A few years ago, writing an early draft of a satirical speculative fiction novel, “Landscape With Invisible Hand,” I included a plotline that refracted my own struggle with what we now call a “pre-existing condition.” Planned Obsolescence 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z By then, he’d also become more familiar with the whiplash oscillations of show business that were mostly speculative when he made the movie. Let Him Entertain You: Billy Crystal Returns to Broadway 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Innovating science fiction is an incredibly daunting task regardless of who's doing the world building because very few speculative visions are remarkably different from anything that's come before. Ridley Scott's new series "Raised by Wolves" imagines a bleak future for humanity – and android moms 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z We are meant to be charmed, rather than terrified, by speculative fiction about the whoopsie doodles of the world’s largest Internet company. The 2019 Super Bowl Ads Are a Case Study in Technological Dread 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z But naysayers and optimists agree: The world’s largest auction houses are back in the business of guaranteeing prices on works that they sell, one of their most speculative practices. Sotheby’s and Christie’s Return to Guaranteeing Art Prices 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z King Charles III” Though it speaks with a posher-than-thou English accent, Mike Bartlett’s speculative drama about the future life of the current Prince of Wales is in its way as audacious as “Hamilton.” The Best Theater of 2015 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z They were compilers of knowledge, either utilitarian or speculative, who used chapters as a way of organizing large miscellanies. The Chapter: A History 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Before then, speculative novels and stories were loosely referred to as fantasies, romances, future war fiction, adventures in the style of Jules Verne or, as H.G. Michael Dirda on the evolution of science fiction 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z The Kitschies – born out of the Pornokitsch books website – despite being for SF, are a broad church: the only rule is that the prizes go to "novels containing elements of the speculative and fantastic". The Kitschies: a joyous SF shortlist 2013-01-18T11:35:14Z The first news reports about a potential lab accident in Wuhan as the cause of the outbreak were speculative at best. The media called the ‘lab leak’ story a ‘conspiracy theory.’ Now it’s prompted corrections — and serious new reporting. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z “The King of Lighting Fixtures,” includes flash fiction, speculative fiction, magical realism and more traditional stories; what unites the work is a sense of place. Daniel A. Olivas on his short story collection 'The King of Lighting Fixtures' and more 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z They don't propel the action or intervene in moments in crisis; they are like most of us so much of the time, bystanders offering speculative commentary that doesn't do anyone much good. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: A Chorus of Voices 2012-07-12T16:46:49Z We also discover what a group of Bristol sixth formers thought of Russell Hoban when they came to hear him talk to the Guardian book club about his 30-year-old classic of speculative fiction, Riddley Walker. Guardian Books podcast: Alan Bennett and Romantic Moderns 2010-12-03T12:30:00Z A lot of the technology the authors discuss is still proprietary, so their arguments about technical limitations remain speculative at best. What If We Had Perfect Robot Referees? 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Despite their success, Berlin’s clubs were already facing a cocktail of challenges before the coronavirus crisis, including gentrification and speculative buying in a breakneck property market. A new form of house music: Berlin clubs livestream DJ sets 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z The historical records are sadly thin, which means Mr Wilson-Lee often resorts to what feels like speculative filler. All the world was his stage 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z O’Toole recoiled at Marche’s lamentations that catastrophe was inevitable, and at his speculative narratives of what might hasten the collapse. ‘How Civil Wars Start,’ a Warning About the State of the Union 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z In this reality and the tale's speculative version, the corruption of patriarchal governance is inevitable, part of a ceaseless cycle of lording over others by seizing control of wealth. A Second Civil War and too many plotholes plague "DMZ," HBO Max's latest dystopian adaptation 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z But art, especially popular art, abhors a vacuum, and the Shoah is, among other things, a rich reservoir of stories, true and speculative. Review: ‘Son of Saul’ Revisits Life and Death in Auschwitz 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Jemisin, the Hugo Award-winning fantasy author, blends speculative and literary fiction in this, the first of a new series. Perspective | What to read in 2020 based on the books you loved in 2019 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z When my co-founders and I first announced our intentions, in the autumn of 2011, they caused quite a stir, and we were surprised at the volume of noise generated by a single, speculative press release. Why we need the Folio prize for fiction 2013-03-14T17:51:36Z The novel straddles domestic realism and speculative satire. ‘White Noise’ Review: Toxic Events, Airborne and Domestic 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z DW: You must have seen and done as much in speculative as anyone, so can you tell us just what is speculative fiction? Q&A: Harlan Ellison 2013-06-14T15:00:16Z The violin part does not always seem on equal footing with the oboe in this speculative version, and principal second violinist Marissa Regni was a little rushed and covered over. Helmuth Rilling returns to NSO with sweet gifts of Bach We always look for books that challenge people's expectations of the speculative and fantastic. The Kitschies: a joyous SF shortlist 2013-01-18T11:35:14Z The Myers collection of Russian speculative fiction, the biggest in the country, is held at Liverpool University, along with his history of the genre. Alan Myers obituary 2010-08-22T17:26:00Z Many of the promises of generative A.I. are speculative, with Blizzard already abandoning machine-learning technology it had patented to create environmental textures like stone and brick. A.I. May Help Design Your Favorite Video Game Character 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The project is part of a growing movement called design fiction that applies design to speculative, science-fiction type situations. Design Fiction: Real Solutions, Unreal Problems 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z The brainy, highly imaginative speculative fiction writer publishes a novel set in “multiple futures” in America. Fall books: 37 new titles to add to your reading list 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Roberts is an alto saxophonist, electronic musician and multimedia artist who is now four albums into a planned 12-record exploration of her family’s lore, one that merges improvised music with anthropological inquiry and speculative history. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z While Ptolemy’s geography was accurate for Europe, it became increasingly speculative as it ventured farther into Africa and Asia. A rare map of America? Not so fast, experts say 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Most engage in the speculative thinking long associated with science-fiction literature and film to explore social issues. For Latino Artists in Sci-Fi Show, Everyone’s an Alien 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Bringing others — no matter how little or how speculative — into the equation seems likely to distract from the immediacy and/or intimacy. Date Lab: He wants kids. So does she. Is that enough? 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z How Shakespeare Shuffled Off This Mortal Coil Robert Brustein lovingly kills off William Shakespeare in “The Last Will,” a speculative version of the end of Shakespeare’s life that completes Mr. Brustein’s trilogy on him. Theater Review: ‘The Last Will,’ by Robert Brustein, at Abingdon Theater 2013-04-21T20:40:34Z This fall Broadway will be paid a visit by a future monarch, when “King Charles III,” the Olivier Award-winning speculative play about a paranoid Prince Charles ascending to ruler, opens at the Music Box Theater. 'King Charles III' to Reign on Broadway in October 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Noted editors of numerous anthologies of speculative fiction, the VanderMeers have compiled one of the best volumes of feminist — or any other — science fiction in years. Close encounters with feminist science fiction in 'Sisters of the Revolution' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z The future is a speculative space into which we project fantasies about ourselves. Forever now: What sound or video would you send into space? 2013-07-12T01:45:36Z In the tradition of internet science fiction, “World’s Fair” teases the boundary between the actual and the virtual, though in a frame of mind that is quietly ruminative rather than wildly speculative. ‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ Review: Is It Horror, or Just Ennui? 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z The details become sketchy and speculative; the narratives become unreliable. When First Love Is as Lethal as Religious Extremism 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z With its combination of rigorously detailed historical re-creation, real-life archival footage and purely speculative fantasy — not to mention Portman’s searing physical and psychological performance — “Jackie” creates an unsettling, almost hallucinatory mix of fact and fiction. ‘Jackie,’ art and accuracy in a post-fact world 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z At just 50 minutes long, Adichie’s speculative tale — one of six in a new “Black Stars” series by various authors — imagines a world dominated by matriarchy. Newly Published, From the AIDS Crisis to Anthony Bourdain 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z For Rickels, the link between technology and mourning isn't merely Freudian and speculative, but also solidly historically grounded. Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z So it sounds like quibbling to point out that the theory remains highly speculative. Perspective | How Hannah Gadsby’s evisceration of Picasso helped her change stand-up comedy 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z If you were to write something besides speculative fiction, what would you write? For William Gibson, Seeing the Future Is Easy. But the Past? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z This is interesting information but the hazard is that art is turned into a rhetorical instrument rather than a bearer of illuminating or speculative ideas. ‘Greater New York,’ a Show of the Moment, Dwells in the Radical Past 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z This disruption of the familiar lies at the heart of the best speculative fiction. "Little Bird": The terrifying possibility of what a Christian nationalist America could look like 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z How did this lead us into a speculative bubble? Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z Any solutions tend to be limited to the kinds of short-term reactions or speculative technological quick fixes we see in "Don't Look Up" rather than long-term change or human-centered initiatives. With threats of nuclear war and climate disaster growing, America’s "bunker fantasy" is inadequate 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z This show, a reboot of an earlier TV series, opts for the unofficial, speculative narrative. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Original Cast Album: Company’ and ‘Songland’ 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Miles’s use of “intuitive descriptions” can seem overly speculative in a few instances. Detroit’s Untold Stories of Slavery 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Jemisin, the acclaimed speculative fiction novelist, called advances “an indicator of ‘consumer confidence.’ Publishing employees organize ‘day of action’ against racism 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z At the fringes, the cosmological theories with the best jargon and cleverest names are often the most speculative. This Is How It All Ends 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z And this is, in itself, a statement; in science and speculative fiction, food often serves as a simple stand-in for what life as a whole will be like. Why the utterly uncool food on "Avenue 5" is my favorite part of the show 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z Because Netflix doesn’t publish viewing statistics, discussion of successes and failures is purely speculative. Pay Attention to Movies Released on Streaming Platforms 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z In other words, it’s fair to say that the last thing the world was itching for in 2019 was another speculative account of Hoffa’s final days. Made Man: ‘In Hoffa’s Shadow’ Replays a Famous Disappearance 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Stripping down a hugely complex series of events, the films distil a simple message from their examination of the speculative frenzy that linked suburban American home buyers, complacent officials and irresponsible global financiers. Cannes films eye "robbery" behind banking crisis 2010-05-19T08:27:00Z The glimpses into the Amish community are a welcome change from the typical speculative fiction narrative. The Amish survive the apocalypse in 'When the English Fall' 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z In 2010, the Syrian-born poet Adonis topped many speculative lists, and instead the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa came away a surprise winner. Swedish Poet Wins Nobel Prize for Literature 2011-10-06T11:58:05Z In San Diego subprime lending soared; in Los Angeles speculative buying was a big part of the problem. America's Worst-Selling Housing Markets 2010-04-05T10:00:00Z Instead, she describes her futuristic stories as works of “speculative fiction,” and argues that her plots depict plausible scenarios rather than fantasy tales. Margaret Atwood, Digital Deep-Diver, Writes ‘The Heart Goes Last’ 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z The analogy has its limitations: one approach is empirical and scientific, the other is amorphous and speculative. The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess and the Analysts by Daniel Pick - review 2012-08-01T07:00:03Z A fourth volume, The Age of Extremes: 1914-91, more quirky and speculative but in some respects the most remarkable and admirable of all, extended the sequence in 1994. Eric Hobsbawm obituary 2012-10-01T09:59:14Z At a superficial level it is stunning, violent entertainment, but its study of how the development of apparently intelligent robots could dehumanise their creators makes it a philosophical speculative fiction of the highest order. From Buffy to Boardwalk Empire: your favourite boxsets ever 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z The term, which was coined in 1994, describes a cultural movement that pulls from elements of science fiction, magical realism, speculative fiction and African history. "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" continues the series’ quest to recover and celebrate lost cultures 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z Drawing on personal letters and diaries, author Amy Gary draws a colorful — if oddly speculative — portrait. The bold, boisterous woman behind the classic children’s tale ‘Goodnight Moon’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Time travel is, of course, a familiar device in speculative fiction, particularly the trope of the single event that changes the course of history. What if You Could Go Back in Time to Stop Terrorists Before They Strike? 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z “We then narrowed it down to seven people and asked them to submit speculative proposals, which gave us a sense of their methodology,” Ms. De Salvo said. Inside Art: Whitney Museum Announces Biennial Plans 2012-11-29T20:45:41Z He told me about these speculative fiction books he reads by Kim Stanley Robinson. This Tom Hanks Story Will Help You Feel Less Bad 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z “Severance,” which premieres its first two episodes on Apple TV+ on Feb. 18, takes a speculative approach to work-life balance. In ‘Severance,’ Adam Scott Gets to Work 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z This squares with what is now possible, and what keeps Westworld in the realm of speculative fiction rather than fantasy. The Good, the Meh and the Ugly: are Westworld's villains firing blanks? 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z But much that has been presented was speculative or contrived, as was the case with the Oscar-nominated Zero Dark Thirty. A Former CIA Analyst on the New Osama bin Laden Documentary, Manhunt 2013-05-01T14:45:23Z Almost as quickly, a bidding war broke out, and in April, “Deeper” sold to MGM for $2 million — a breathtaking sum in an era when most speculative screenplays sell in the low six figures. Max Landis Is a Hollywood Disrupter With an Attitude 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Often, it means that someone is peddling a speculative reconstruction of fragmentary sketches, as happened in 2012, when the appearance of an alleged piano sonata by Beethoven prompted accusations of scholarly shenanigans. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Some of the most important — and simultaneously most depressing — lines of praise about Margaret Atwood’s influential dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” center on the speculative narrative's prescience. Maybe Gilead can't hold: Lessons from Margaret Atwood's "Handmaid's Tale" sequel "The Testaments" 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z In any given year, having that many long-in-the-tooth contenders in the speculative echo chamber of Oscar season would be an aberration. Seasoned Actors Like Michael Caine and Lily Tomlin Dot Awards Field 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z The show is a love letter to the VCR era—a satisfying mash-up of all the scary and speculative movies you loved when you were twelve. The Old, American Horror Behind “Stranger Things” 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z How important is the speculative aspect of the story to you? This Week in Fiction: Thomas Pierce on an Anti-Escapist Space Adventure 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z “There is already great speculative demand for this wine in China.” Coming to America: A ‘world-class’ wine born near Shangri-La 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z However disquieting his technocratic remedy for what ailed his times, Wells meets the imaginative worst with a speculative resolution. Movie Review: ‘Elysium’ Sends Matt Damon Into a Dystopian Future 2013-08-08T17:18:18Z The island section of the book is thrilling, but with Jo’s return to her old life, the speculative elements of the novel’s world-building retreat, like the island itself, to the realm of hearsay and rumor. In This Novel, Witchcraft Makes Women Powerful, and Vulnerable 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z But I’m not sure they make him fair game for a speculative docudrama like “Fall,” by Bernard Weinraub, playing at the Huntington Theater Company’s Calderwood Pavilion here. Review: Putting Arthur Miller on Trial in ‘Fall’ 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Using speculative elements or things that are not necessarily realistic. Zola Jesus: I hope my music helps people who are struggling with anxiety 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Padgett said the arts center is trying to prevent bots and brokers from buying tickets and noted that some of the online offers are speculative, meaning sellers don’t actually own the tickets they are promoting. ‘Hamilton’ presale: All Kennedy Center website users have to wait for it, willing or not 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z And I'm open to any kind of writing that is weird or speculative in nature. The great sci-fi hunt: help us find the best independently published books 2013-02-22T12:02:18Z “Alternate history, in my opinion, is a more demanding game,” says the author of “Agency” and other science fiction novels, “if only because conventional historical fiction, like history, is itself highly speculative.” For William Gibson, Seeing the Future Is Easy. But the Past? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The same is true of speculative fiction, which envisions what might happen if such moments tilted differently, leaving us in a distinct, if not unidentifiable, world. Some alternate Americas for the Fourth of July 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Hear the groundbreaking futurist/speculative fiction author discuss his book "Zero History," new in paperback. Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-07-31T04:01:06Z Her contribution, titled Her Only Living Son, is an eerie, speculative response to Rosemary’s Baby – which she describes as “one of the most important films to me personally, a titanic achievement”. The female directors bringing new blood to horror films 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Tux is philosophically speculative, delivering aphoristic riffs that reveal Kierkegaardian abysses in such daily trivialities as a campfire, and mini marshmallows in cocoa. What to Stream: “Tux and Fanny,” Albert Birney’s Boldly Imaginative Instagram Animation 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z In this work of speculative fiction, set in a future São Paulo, “the System” governs its subjects’ every movement and thought. Read Your Way Through São Paulo 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Artificial intelligence has long been an obsession of speculative fiction, but there is a big change now: Reality is catching up. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z He made clear on the page that he was unaffiliated with the Met and that his information was “speculative.” Web Page About the Met Closes at Opera?s Request 2011-08-17T22:15:27Z But now that reality has caught up with speculative fiction, there are some questions to ask yourself before picking up “The End of October.” Review | The fiction writers saw it coming: The plot of ‘The End of October’ feels all too real 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z This balance sheet composition seemed rather more . . . speculative? Watching Lehman Brothers collapse from the inside: A 2008 recruit on the bank’s final days 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Robinson seizes the opportunity to lead a speculative exploration for undersea gold based on a rumor and enlists a loutish crew of British and Russian seamen. ‘Black Sea’ Stars Jude Law as a Seething Adventurer 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The foundation emphasizes that the grant is a “speculative” prize, meant only to help a fellow’s work continue with the benefit of wider recognition and an unexpected financial boost. MacArthur ‘genius’ grant winners ponder a new future: ‘Your life can change in an instant.’ 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Bacigalupi said that the topic of climate change is "so loaded with speculative uncertainties that it seems like there are unlimited potential stories to write and explore". Top writers tackle climate change in short stories 2011-08-10T11:42:20Z Morris pioneered the use of speculative "reconstructions" in documentary film, which are now found everywhere from TV true-crime shows to Oscar-winners like "Man on Wire." "Tabloid": The beauty queen who "raped" a Mormon 2011-07-15T00:30:00Z The sprawling, fictionalized Civil War-era account of the life of Thomas Greene Wiggins, a blind savant pianist born into slavery and exploited by a string of characters, doesn’t fit neatly into any one speculative genre. Dear Match Book: Genre Fiction by Black Writers, About Black Characters 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Gossip is sometimes speculative but it is not inherently untrue and indeed, most of what is characterized as gossip is actually the sharing of opinions rather than facts. In defence of gossip: no better way to navigate life's flawed relationships 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z It now strikes me as an exercise in speculative showing off: look at me, so young and hard at work imagining old age! What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z What we actually liked about Knossos was the color, despite Evans’s speculative touch-ups. In Crete, Henry Miller Found His Muse Amid the Ruins 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The speculative market for NFTs has skyrocketed in the last 12 months, and continues to grow. Beeple Brings Crypto to Christie’s 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z The play, set in 2019, is in the form of speculative fiction, or future history. Onstage, Rapidly Reacting to the Dawn of the Trump Era 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z This includes a billowing silk curtain imprinted with site plans for speculative water-based projects and made in collaboration with textile artist Charlotte Hansson. Datebook: Baroque works, samurai armor, amateur dancing, skid row arts 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The feature directorial debut of Dante Ariola from a screenplay by Becky Johnston, it is a road movie, a romantic comedy and a speculative contemplation of identity scrambled into a bland salmagundi. Movie Review: ‘Arthur Newman,’ Starring Colin Firth and Emily Blunt 2013-04-26T00:31:05Z Despite its speculative elements, “Come With Me” continues in this vein. A Silicon Valley Start-Up Offers Hints of Alternate Lives 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Young’s book, which is largely about England’s amped-up folk music during the late 1960s and early ’70s, is ardent and learned in its search for what the author calls “a speculative Other Britain.” Books of The Times: Primordial Soup, a Musical Brew 2011-05-12T22:00:06Z Along the way, the novel brings in the story of a famous detective show, giving it a noirish, and speculative, bent. 14 Books Coming in March 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z “I have this speculative idea that hundreds and hundreds of years ago, there was the ‘domestication of electrons’ through witchcraft,” she said. Moon-landing conspiracy theorists aren’t all the same. Meet some from the Pacific Northwest. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Demographers have known for years that the birthrate in America is going nowhere but down, with causes that range from the extremely obvious — student debt, poverty, climate change — to the purely speculative. More Kids? After the Last Two Years? No Thanks. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z In “A Film Unfinished,” the Israeli director Yael Hersonski embarks on a critical analysis of “Das Ghetto” that is remarkable as much for its speculative restraint as for its philosophical reach. | 'A Film Unfinished': Yael Hersonski Revisits a Nazi Film of the Warsaw Ghetto 2010-08-17T16:43:00Z In early 2010, they claimed, “Rothstein had a history of making speculative, fictitious, impossible and/or illogical reservations on behalf of companions.” My father had a lifelong ticket to fly anywhere. Then they took it away 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Given that Duchamp probably intended Fountain to be a critique of greedy, speculative collectors, it is an interpretation that would appear plausible. Putting modern art on the map 2012-08-24T20:35:17Z Back in 2014, during the last speculative frenzy for young, emerging art, abstract paintings by Lucien Smith, which were fashionable at the time, were routinely being flipped at auction for multiples of their gallery prices. Speculators Win Big With Bets on Young Artists 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z In Felix J. Palma’s third outing in his speculative fiction “Map” trilogy, the creators of the Mad Hatter, the Invisible Man and Sherlock Holmes team up to save the universe from the Age of Chaos. ‘The Map of Chaos,’ by Felix J. Palma 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Yet the date is inaccurate, perhaps reflecting speculative reports that Mr. Beatty would have it ready for the annual spring festival in Cannes. If Warren Beatty Is Directing, Shooting Can Wait. For Years. 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z "These were highly speculative housing markets," says Jonathan Miller, president of Miller Samuel, a Manhattan-based real estate appraisal firm. Ten U.S. Cities In Free Fall 2010-04-09T20:20:00Z The larger power of the exhibition is purely speculative, a chance to consider might-have-beens. Review | Philadelphia might have been a sylvan Athens. Instead, we got Washington, our muddy Rome. 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z He finished a novel, a piece of speculative fiction about a society where drugs have never been criminalized, titled “Narcotica.” Prison Is a Great Place to Get Reading Done 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z In the past movies like François Girard’s award-winning feature “32 Short Films About Glenn Gould,” from 1993, sought to get around that problem by mixing interviews with speculative, fictionalized segments. Film: Seeking the Ordinary in the Eccentric 2010-09-03T15:14:00Z Prices for some listings are crossing into speculative territory and raising concerns about something of a mini-bubble for Amazon listings. The Great Amazon Flip-a-Thon 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z The market for contemporary art today is a vast speculative bubble, a commercial enterprise without soul or substance. Sturtevant retrospective at MoMA is double trouble indeed This is especially true in his case, because he is not popularising accepted theories of physics; he is putting forward a speculative new foundation for the whole of theoretical physics that challenges much accepted wisdom. Time Reborn by Lee Smolin – review 2013-06-06T06:30:01Z David Hooper, a partner with law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain who represented Bloomsbury, called the claims "hopeless and speculative." Harry Potter plagiarism case dismissed in UK 2011-07-18T15:01:34Z Mr Brauner has drawn up a speculative list of the US novels that might have won the Booker in the 21st Century, had they been eligible. 'A surprise and a risk': Reaction to Booker Prize upheaval 2013-09-18T18:25:17Z For the curators of time capsules, what is more important than factual testimony is the endlessly speculative revival of the past — the production of stories not unlike those now housed in the Future Library. This Library Has New Books by Major Authors, but They Can’t Be Read Until 2114 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z It’s all speculative, of course; no one but President Obama has access to the sixth season. "Game of Thrones," Let Cersei Reign 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z For now, we have the stories collected in this volume, which give us a preview of how September 11th might look through a “speculative” lens. The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Here it becomes clear that Kalfar has much larger aims with “Spaceman of Bohemia” than to write a spry, madcap work of speculative fiction. Meet an Intergalactic Spider in ‘Spaceman of Bohemia’ 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Looking ahead to the rest of his life, he said creating music that was ahead of its time had given him a kind of speculative financial security. Holger Czukay, 79, Influential Rock Experimenter, Is Dead 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Arrive at a party girded to the hilt with speculative conversation starters. We Are Scientists present the rules ? of partying 2010-05-12T08:51:00Z Given how much scepticism and opposition IVF faced when it was still an untried and somewhat speculative field of research in the late 1960s, it’s surprising how quickly it became accepted. Seven ways IVF changed the world – from Louise Brown to stem-cell research 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z But there is already plenty of money to be made in less speculative space pursuits. Last Stop on the Way to the Cosmos? No Thanks. 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z She praises "Proof" for standing apart from other shows about paranormal phenomena because of its grounding in scientific fact rather than speculative fiction. What happens after you die? TNT's 'Proof' examines the mysteries 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z "Her Mother Was Imagination," a new piece of speculative drama debuting at Annex Theatre, is busy indeed. Review: 'Her Mother Was Imagination' is a drab showing of dystopia at Annex 2010-08-12T20:27:00Z At a time of global investment mania, New Yorkers can’t seem to get enough of one of the world’s oldest speculative assets. Are There More Tulips Than Usual This Year? 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Stern has been vocal about his distaste for the speculative frenzy that has overshadowed the Nautilus in recent years. Patek Philippe’s Nautilus Turns to White Gold 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Now the tête-bêche is having one of its resurgences, with two separate publishers announcing books in the format – and again, they are in the speculative fiction market. T?te-b?che books make a speculative return 2011-07-28T10:57:58Z That way of thinking about African-American practitioners doesn’t afford us the luxury of doing speculative or other kinds of work, which white architects are automatically afforded. How Can Blackness Construct America? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z In a haunting but hopeful work of speculative fiction, Rice traces the tale of a family in northern Canada as it rebuilds following the collapse of society. Perspective | 23 adult books for teens who are ready to read beyond the YA shelf 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z A lot of recent books fall into this microgenre: climate-aware, speculative poetry, mixing the fantastical with what you might call dystopian realism. In Defense of Poetic Nonsense, With a Character Who Shares Your Frustration 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Feminist writers of speculative fiction don’t need the bizarre rituals of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 classic, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” or even the fantastical elements of Naomi Alderman’s terrific recent novel, “The Power.” Review | ‘Red Clocks’ imagines a world where abortion is outlawed. And it feels eerily real. 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z “I think what they did was realistic planning, and with a lot of the cities it’s just, kind of, speculative planning,” Mr. Wallechinsky said of London. With the Olympics Over, Six Former Host Cities Worth Visiting 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z “I would love to take another stab at really smart, speculative sci-fi – my first was a bit of a stumble,” she says with an audible, good-humoured shrug down the line from New York. The female directors bringing new blood to horror films 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Solms draws his inspiration from Freud, who briefly explored the biological correlates of psychology early in his career before deciding that the neurology of his day was too speculative for him to continue. 'In the Mind Fields' and the renewed emphasis on a mindful approach to mental illness 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Black writers of speculative fiction once struggled to find a place on bookshelves. Review | African speculative fiction is finally getting its due. Let’s talk about books to seek out. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Government typically shrinks, and speculative manias, when they occur, are delirious. Where did Steve Bannon get his worldview? From my book. 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Like the films of Jordan Peele or Bong Joon Ho, Clipping uses speculative fiction to reflect the cruelty of contemporary reality. 2020 Is Chaotic. Clipping’s New Horror-Rap Album Captures It. 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z The series is one example of many more in which black comic books have reimagined the world, or in some cases even created their own brand of speculative science fiction. Spare Times for Jan. 15-21 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Quentin Meillassoux has dubbed this mind→object relationship — the impasse that is at the heart of the Kantian tradition — “correlationism,” and the term has become a rallying cry for speculative realists. HP Lovecraft, pulp philosopher 2013-04-11T20:22:00Z The first landscape, viewed from a bluff in what is now Arlington County, is so speculative as to be modern, even if its details are impeccably 19th century. In the galleries: Washington from on high, as it was and as it was meant to be 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z The slyly subversive nature of speculative fiction is something Atwood is well aware of, citing the ingenuity of science fiction authors during the McCarthy era. Margaret Atwood has a few wry comments about being a PEN Center USA lifetime achievement honoree 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z It was not the first time I have asked about some speculative treatment, but it was the first time the clinic had agreed. My four miscarriages: why is losing a pregnancy so shrouded in mystery? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z To some degree, “Beloved Sisters” is speculative fiction. ‘Beloved Sisters,’ Directed by Dominik Graf 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z I chatted with author Naomi Alderman on Skype about her origins as a writer, working with mentor Margaret Atwood, and the constant exploitation of women’s suffering that led to this powerful work of speculative fiction. Naomi Alderman on her electrifying work of feminist sc-fi, 'The Power' 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z American political fragmentation also gets a rigorous speculative workout. Review | In Neal Stephenson’s ‘Fall,’ there is life after death 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z In 2004, when Philip Roth published his speculative fiction novel The Plot Against America, the perfect title had already been taken. 'It can't happen here': the horrifying power of The Plot Against America 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z The novel is in equal measure a gripping detective story and a disquieting work of speculative fiction. Review | Imagine a country that prioritizes truth-telling above all else. Is it an improvement? 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z A show within Amazon’s “The Man in the High Castle” resembles “The Twilight Zone,” a speculative tale that appears to take place in a timeline closer to the one we know. Finally, "The Man in the High Castle" fascist fantasy ends amidst America’s sobering reality 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, the tone is more philosophically speculative: “In or around 1929 the character of dreams changed.” A Poet Who Looks at the Stuff of Daily Life and Sees Looming Apocalypse 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z And like the best speculative fiction, it poses complex questions about how one might live in frightening circumstances. 'Hunger Games' pits book gore against movie gore 2012-03-22T06:06:26Z Many early Red Car routes ran from one speculative subdivision to another, across a landscape that was largely empty, a civic map waiting to be filled in. Why the Expo Line to Santa Monica marks unprecedented progress in the history of American cities 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Jim’s under-explained transition through hazy stages labeled Incarnation, Examination and Debut leave the speculative portions of this science fiction lacking calories. Reviews: New Books From Anne Roiphe, Nickolas Butler and More 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z He began designing small projects for the Oneida, as well as teaching at the university in Milwaukee and doing his own speculative designs. How an Indigenous Architect Came Out of His Shell 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Somehow, “Ministry” — which depicts a grim but ultimately hopeful speculative future — manages to be as analytic as a Thomas Piketty tome and as moving as a love story. ‘Extrapolations’ and the Peril of Climate Cringe 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z This is an essentially light-hearted picture, and – with a pinch of salt – slips down pretty nicely as a dark, speculative comedy on the themes of love, free will and fate. The Adjustment Bureau ? review 2011-03-03T22:15:01Z The benefits of being on good terms with your friends and family are obvious and concrete; the benefits of writing about them are still largely speculative. Jonathan Franzen: the path to Freedom 2012-05-25T21:55:12Z To genre fans who prefer more challenging speculative fiction, Bradbury was known as the SF writer for people who don’t like SF. Ray Bradbury: 1950s comics’ illustrated man 2012-06-21T00:00:00Z But that book hasn't appeared yet, and until it does its use as a yardstick for measuring an actual work is speculative and improper. Response: Though I didn't have his diaries, my biography of Nikolaus Pevsner is still reliable 2010-07-27T23:05:00Z In other words, “Normal” is an exemplary piece of speculative fiction, acutely observed, well made, and, with its interesting array of predictions about the near-future, likely to satisfy Mr. Ellis’s numerous fans. Review: ‘Normal’ Looks Into the Abyss and Finds the Future 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Because these characters often don’t question their basic realities, I think that more distinctly reveals the ways in which their worlds, both speculative and realistic, are distorted for the reader. Mary South on Content Moderation and Trauma 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z But art mavens remain wary of speculative buying at a time when the world's wealthy, waylaid by political and economic uncertainty, are eager to place cash. As art flies off the walls at Basel, buyers beware, experts warn 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z The best thing about writing speculative or dystopian fiction, surely, is updating human language, pushing strange new words into a reader’s mind. In a New Dystopian Novel, the Country is AutoAmerica, but Baseball Is Still Its Pastime 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z As a result the plan is both deeply, sometimes mind-numbingly technical and highly speculative. Metro's Union Station master plan a significant shift 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z The book is a marvel of imagination, empathy and detail, speculative fiction at its best. The Essential Octavia Butler 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z As the band acclimatised, Iverson mingled speculative prodding and elegant long lines over Lasserson's fast walk and Williams's foaming cymbals on Just in Time, and imparted purposeful focus and harmonic ambiguity to Wayne Shorter's Juju. Ethan Iverson – review 2013-04-22T17:07:40Z Reading “In the Shadow of the Towers,” you wonder what this kind of speculative storytelling is for. The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z He's done a few speculative 2016 stories, not recognizing the subject is enough to send most people screaming from the room. Matthews raises profile during campaign 2012-12-27T14:04:08Z And he has so much fun chewing over the question of what will become of this genre that it almost comes as a surprise when he gets around to a few speculative answers. Review | Can classic rock survive the death of classic rock stars? 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z A speculative bubble inflated by dazzling new financial instruments? Caledonia 2010-08-22T14:41:00Z The tale McClenon allusively recounts is speculative but not entirely abstract, as she demonstrates with the blue-yarn map of Mid-Atlantic waterways. Review | In the galleries: Face to face with a world both beautiful and horrific 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z The idea that synthetic humans harbor feelings, desires and dreams — that they are mirrors of us, that we are replicas of them — has long been a staple of speculative cinema. Review: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Tries to Honor the Original and to Slip Free of It 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Demand for those speculative pieces is still depressed, but there are encouraging signs of renewed interest for challenging new work. Design: Mixed Signals, but Some Signs Point to a Comeback Season 2010-06-06T18:42:00Z He thought of himself as “a speculative anthropologist,” his son said, interested in human beings and their foibles and their ability — or inability — to adapt to strained and bizarre situations. Jack Vance, Writer of the Fantastical, Dies at 96 2013-06-03T02:51:11Z Dreamy and speculative, they are a little flexible with facts. The Zambian “Afronaut” Who Wanted to Join the Space Race 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z That’s partly because this array includes “Tripping,” a speculative cityscape that melds Washington and European landmarks, placing cathedrals near the latest generation of Metro train. Review | In the galleries: Six artists go deep into the weeds 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z The data represented begin in 1000 B.C. and run into a speculative future ending in 2400, echoing some of the exhibition’s overall aims. The End Is Nigh. Can Design Save Us? 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Cranes towered over the half-built shells of condos and hotels that lined the river like a speculative stretch of a Monopoly board. A Test Run at Russia’s Olympic Hopeful 2013-12-20T16:51:32Z I wonder what it must have been like for you as an actor, going from where this was much more speculative to being in this moment in our reality now. "Mrs. Davis" star Betty Gilpin on her risk-taking acting style: "I like playing high stakes" 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z Singh’s character and motivations, on the other hand, are rendered in such broad and sometimes speculative brush strokes that readers are likely to be left wondering what really drove him. Twenty Years After a Brutal Massacre, It’s Payback Time 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Green Lantern will have to hope that its luck with audiences trumps its deficiencies as speculative fiction. Green Lantern: Not So Super-Hero 2011-06-16T15:55:00Z The film, both agree, changed profoundly in the ensuing years, becoming as much a meditation on middle-aged regret as a speculative glimpse into a space-age future. Brad Pitt is ready to kick masculinity to the curb: ‘We have to redefine it’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Far from being preachy, the play is humane, multi-stranded and generally engrossing; and my only reservation is that, in the later stages of its three-and-a-quarter hours, it descends into a speculative, futuristic whimsy. Review 2010-08-05T00:48:00Z We were heady from all our speculative texting, but real life, as always, was more awkward. My Quarantine Boyfriend Lost Everything (but Found Me) 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z As speculative fiction, “They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears” is only intermittently compelling. What if You Could Go Back in Time to Stop Terrorists Before They Strike? 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Here are the author's thoughts about war, apocalypse, and prophecy as they relate to speculative fiction. William Gibson's observations and prophesies, nonfiction version 2012-01-11T22:09:05Z Here, we get both: This manages to be a speculative novel about the future and a well-researched tale about living primitively, arrowheads, hides and all. Review | Diane Cook’s ‘The New Wilderness’ is accidentally timely but also timeless 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z "Wrath of Khan" revolved around a vendetta, a more reliable attractor for moviegoers than a story about a speculative concept. "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" ventures into the wrath of Khan's legacy through his descendent 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z The necklace has the air of a speculative artifact, an imposing piece of treasure that suggests the distortional effects of power. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z One test of speculative fiction is whether or not it gives you nightmares, and when mine came — I knew they would — it was a full week after I’d finished this time bomb of a book. A Chilling Debut Novel Puts Mothers Under Surveillance and Into Parenting Rehab 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z I wasn't the only one to have such speculative musings. Deciphering cosmic cornrows in "Obi-Wan Kenobi": Why natural hairstyles belong in the future-past 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Mike Bartlett’s speculative drama, written in Shakespearean blank verse, has a sharp grasp of politics, the private lives of very public figures, and the logical absurdity of the British monarchy. Top 10 Plays & Musicals 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z They have not yet tackled any of the truly interesting discussions of humanity that are treated in speculative fiction. Q&A: Harlan Ellison 2013-06-14T15:00:16Z The most speculative element of this book is its structure. The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z A speculative exploration of their personal and artistic chemistry is only one aspect of Lauren Fox’s remarkable cabaret show, “Love, Lust, Fear & Freedom: The Songs of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen,” at the Metropolitan Room. Music Review: Lauren Fox Sings Songs of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen 2012-02-20T22:38:14Z I wanted to stay in her speculative worlds, exploring alternative possibilities. Helen Phillips talks about getting under people's skin in her new book, 'Some Possible Solutions' 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z “A lot of the works in this show look at A.I. as an applied form of machine learning, how it actually works, not the speculative fantasy of A.I.,” she said. Artists Explore A.I., With Some Deep Unease 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Much of Shriver’s work operates in a speculative vein; she likes to let her fiction sprout from the germ of “what if”-type thought experiments, unconfined by genre. Lionel Shriver Imagines America’s Collapse 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z “Ex Machina” This provocative speculative thriller also came out earlier this year and also deserves to be on catching-up watch lists. The best movies of 2015: ‘Spotlight,’ ‘Love & Mercy,’ ‘Creed’ make the top 10 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Yet the city itself is curiously absent from this slim, speculative volume. Review: ‘If Venice Dies’ Examines a City Sinking, and Not Only Into Water 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z But I say: “Dad, some of the bookings they cited for what they called speculative as evidence in the case were … well … shady.” My father had a lifelong ticket to fly anywhere. Then they took it away 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Embedded in the passages of cosmology, microbiology and spiritual allegory is a story whose familiarity is at least as important to the design of “The Tree of Life” as the speculative flights that surround it. | 'The Tree of Life': Heaven, Texas and the Cosmic Whodunit 2011-05-26T16:50:46Z That’s the magic of speculative fiction, a genre I’ve long enjoyed but didn’t begin to analyze until I became a speculative fiction writer myself, and then again when the 2016 election rolled around. Is this the future we want? 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Shrewdly imagined and persuasively made, "Ex Machina" is a spooky piece of speculative fiction that's completely plausible, capable of both thinking big thoughts and providing pulp thrills. Unnerving consideration of artificial intelligence in 'Ex Machina' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The whole story is riddled with contradictions, competing claims and counter-claims, and speculative accounting about other people's money. Wanna be startin' something? 2012-08-14T16:00:02Z I’d read extensively in science fiction, speculative fiction, utopias and dystopias ever since my high school years in the 1950s, but I’d never written such a book. Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Often, speculative fiction betrays itself, becoming predictable just at the moment when it’s supposed to be “out there.” The Weird Thoreau 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Still, it seemed to represent a speculative side of the market hungry for the next big thing. Contemporary Art Evening Sales Bring $981 Million, Led by Koons and KAWS 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z In effect, he said, the company wasn’t entitled constitutionally to the speculative value associated with the building of a new tower above the terminal. Times Square, Grand Central and the Laws That Build the City 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z From that perspective, speculative histories are really about us—our desires, our ideas, our intuitions, however marginal, wrong, or unrealized they may be. The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z If “Clarissa” is an epistolary novel, then so, really, is “The Post Card” — and then half of “Tristram Shandy” is speculative philosophy. Tom McCarthy Thinks the Wrong Kurt Vonnegut Book Is Famous 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z To Murphy, the seven-episode "Hollywood" demonstrates his faith in the power of movies and TV to move society forward, a loving postcard to Hollywood's Golden Age that doubles as speculative fiction. Ryan Murphy on "Hollywood": "I wanted to give a happy ending to so many people who didn't have it" 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z But if Morgan's speculative and essentially static high-class political gossip – what you might call Pepys behind the scenes – acquires emotional resonance, it is largely thanks to the naturally majestic Mirren. The Audience – review 2013-03-05T23:02:01Z It's true that betting on food has had political effects – a speculative boom in grain prices helped trigger the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt, for example. Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott – review 2013-07-05T07:01:01Z Gathered in the spirit of Octavia Butler’s expansive body of work, the collection touches on Black culture, folk tales and fantasies, with stories pulling in lived experiences alongside speculative imaginings. 6 Great Y.A. Fantasy Novels 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z “Anyone involved in a market like NFTs that is so volatile and speculative would have an easy time transitioning to the art world where those same dynamics occur.” After Pak and Beeple, What’s Next for NFT Collectors? Art Made With a Paintbrush 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z Bradbury, like his peers at the pinnacle of speculative fiction in the middle of the 20th century, endured a casual disdain from the literary lions and most critics. Ray Bradbury and the fever of inspiration 2012-06-06T20:50:17Z And Lindsay-Hogg would later direct "Two of Us," a kindhearted, highly speculative TV movie about Lennon and McCartney's last day together. If "The Beatles: Get Back" has a villain, it might be Michael Lindsay-Hogg 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z The practice speaks of old-fashioned connoisseurship, not conspicuous or speculative consumption. Pollock's stellar 'Lucifer' and impressive Anderson Collection 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z “Nothing here is speculative,” Jeffrey’s father says with his typical arrogance. Don DeLillo’s novel ‘Zero K’ captures the swelling fears of our age 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Since then, Robinson has experimented liberally with sci-fi tropes, writing everything from an alternate history of China to an epic about deep space exploration to a speculative historical novel set in the Ice Age. A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z To the inhabitants of the Niger Delta, oil is a specific, destructive, stolen substance; to Western stock traders it’s an abstract source of competitive and speculative profits. Art In Review: MARK BOULOS: ‘PROJECTS 97’ 2012-06-21T22:04:03Z This is “speculative” fiction in the financial sense, too, a new way to gamble on futures. When Science Fiction Comes True 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Not just because “Whiplash” achieved the rare feat of putting “jazz drummer” and “Oscar buzz” into the same speculative orbit. Jazz’s Year of Complaint, Citing ‘Whiplash’ and The New Yorker 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Here is our highly preliminary, wildly speculative thematic guide to American cinema in the Obama Era. ‘Lincoln,’ ‘Django Unchained’ and an Obama-Inflected Cinema 2013-01-16T16:28:50Z The very definition of collecting, in a time of speculative buying, is now up for grabs. Review: The Broad Is an Old-Fashioned Museum for a New Gilded Age 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z For A Dangerous Method is also an example of the genre of speculative biography — exhuming famous corpses to examine the dirt under their fingernails — that recently gave birth to Anonymous and My Week With Marilyn. A Dangerous Method: Freud Had the Theories, But Jung Had the Sex 2011-11-22T17:45:41Z “Relatedly, we are asking for a new trial and that the damages awards be vacated because they are too speculative and there is no legal basis for awarding punitive damages under California law.” Judges to hear appeal in lawsuit over John Steinbeck works 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z If prospective collectors are interested in art only for interior decoration or speculative investment, Zlot Buell would prefer not to work with them, regardless of budget. Artiquette 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z I mean something far more speculative, and symbolic. Afrofuturist Room at the Met Redresses a Racial Trauma 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Shawl, an acclaimed short-story writer and anthologist, dedicates her first novel to the late black feminist author Octavia E. Butler, whose own brilliant speculative legacy lives on in Everfair, a nation ultimately determined by women. ‘Everfair’: a fantastical utopia amid King Leopold’s hell 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z “The investors’ reaction today was a physiological and speculative reaction to what happened.” Lapo Elkann, Italian Scion and Fashion Designer, Is Arrested in Manhattan 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Having sold his first short, Day of the Fight, Kubrick embarked on another speculative newsreel item: a 10-minute human-interest feature about a priest who gets about his enormous New Mexico parish in a two-seater aeroplane. Stanley Kubrick's best films – ranked! 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Throughout his work, the frisson of fiction and its assorted deceptions attracted Eco, from speculative travelogues to the phenomenon of lying. ‘Umberto Eco’ Review: Remembering a Literary Explorer 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z |
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