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CNN anchor cuts off GOP strategist griping that Dems pre-writing 'dystopian fan fiction'

A CNN anchor politely interjected as a Republican strategist bemoaned that Democrats are pre-writing "dystopian fan fiction" about President-elect Donald Trump's incoming pick to lead the FBI. Patel's statements became the topic of conversation Friday night on CNN's "The Source," with anchor Kaitlan Collins pointing to an interview in The Bulwark with Bannon, where Bannon said Patel is serious about …

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1 week, 1 day ago

Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival book prizes announced

The Hindu

The 10th Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival book prizes were announced at BLF on Sunday. The organisers said they had over 200 books nominated for the fiction prize, close to 250 titles for the non-fiction prize, around 50 titles each for the cover design and popular choice prizes. They had over 100 children’s books nominated for best fiction and best non-fiction …

1 week, 4 days ago

A Holocaust novel zigzags through fact and fiction to memorialize a Polish teenager

LA Times

Book Review The Rest Is Memory: A Novel By Lily Tuck Liveright: 144 pages, $24.99 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. A black-and-white photograph of a pretty young girl with a bruised lip, a striped uniform and a numbered tag adorns the cover of Lily …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Raymond Chandler’s L.A. comes alive at auction, but ‘crown jewel’ fails to sell

LA Times

Near the bottom of a list of things crime fiction writer Raymond Chandler hated is that ubiquitous Los Angeles demographic: “actors.” The list, simply titled “THINGS I HATE,” is one of dozens of Chandler’s rare personal items that were auctioned Friday at Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers in Manhattan. In a letter to his stepson that sold for $4,480, Chandler wrote …

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2 weeks ago

Writer Ted Chiang on AI and grappling with big ideas

NPR

Writer Ted Chiang on AI and grappling with big ideas toggle caption Alan Berner Science fiction author Ted Chiang wishes he could write faster. Sponsor Message Chiang sat down with All Things Considered host Scott Detrow to talk about his writing process, the philosophical ideas that undergird science fiction and why he doesn't think AI is capable of making art. …

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China Daily

Young professionals are increasingly helping to fill in gaps in Chinese versions of French literature, past and present, Fang Aiqing reports. This year, Cao Danhong won the Essay category for her translation of Fact and Fiction: In Defense of a Border by Francoise Lavocat; Shi Xueying won the Literature category for her translation of Aime Cesaire's Notebook of a Return …

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2 weeks, 2 days ago

"Gladiator II" and the missed opportunity of history far more riveting than Ridley Scott's fiction

Salon

About two hours into "Gladiator II," Hanno steps up to deliver a speech that might finally tell us why we should care about anyone or anything in Ridley Scott's newest sharks-and-sandals potboiler. Fred Hechinger plays Emperor Caracalla in "Gladiator II" Ironically enough, the real-life Caracalla, described as a soldier's emperor who bore all the hardships of an enlisted legionary, might …

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2 weeks, 2 days ago

Young adult fiction recommendations from NPR's 2024 Books We Love

NPR

Young adult fiction recommendations from NPR's 2024 Books We Love NPR staff recommend four young adult novels: "Heir," "Annie LeBlanc is Not Dead Yet," "The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette For Young Ladies of Mad Science," and "Dragonfruit." Books We Love, NPR's list of best reads has lots of recommendations, including these young adult fiction favorites from our colleagues. The …

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2 weeks, 3 days ago

Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey’s Orbital shows only a true talent can deliver a great short book

The Independent

When Orbital, a tale of some 136 pages, by Samantha Harvey, the 2024 Booker Prize winner, landed on my desk, my first thought was for an old friend, an acclaimed English writer, now in the twilight of his career. How can you claim to be the premier English fiction prize if you exclude new writing from the most dynamic expression …

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3 weeks, 2 days ago

When Jagadish Chandra Bose proved science fiction wasn't just a white man's game

India Today

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Lavanya Lakshminarayan: “Sci-fi is a reflection of what makes us human”

Hindustan Times

Where did the germ for this book arise – merging a cooking competition with a universe of the future? Food is quintessential to making us human, not just from a survival point of view, but it’s something that brings us together. All this kind of coalesced into building a universe, with the thought that ‘if this is where we are …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Joy: Birth of IVF true story: Fact vs. fiction in Netflix’s movie about Jean Purdy.

Slate

The grinding trial-and-error process that precedes world-changing scientific discoveries doesn’t really lend itself to dramatization. According to Barry Bavister, a Ph.D. student of Edwards’ whose work with hamster embryos played a crucial role in Edwards and Purdy’s ability to create cultures suitable for preserving sperm and extracted human eggs, “Jeannie was a devout Christian who told me that she was …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Woman of the Hour movie review: Truth is stranger than fiction in Anna Kendrick's chilling directorial debut

Hindustan Times

Woman of the Hour movie review: Anna Kendrick has always been a standout as an actor. Woman Of The Hour, which marks her directorial debut, takes that promise several notches higher – proving her to be a formidable talent even behind the screen. Woman of the Hour movie review: Anna Kendrick's chilling directorial debut This is a tough subject matter …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Inside JD Vance’s Hollywood

Politico

While the movies Vance alluded to cover a range of styles and genres — from Martin Scorsese’s historical epic Gangs of New York to the rom-com Forgetting Sarah Marshall — they tell a coherent story about his cultural outlook. He went on to explain that the film’s central relationship — between a Black-nationalist-minded father, played by Laurence Fishburne, and his …

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1 month ago

How novels changed in the 20th century, and why

LA Times

Book Review Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel By Edwin Frank Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 480 pages, $33 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Now Frank has written a book of his own, “Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel.” Taking Alex …

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1 month ago

Report: The 16th IDSFFK

Hindustan Times

A mind-boggling package of 335 films from 54 countries was the cornerstone of the 16th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala held in Thiruvananthapuram in late July, earlier this year. Audience interaction at the 16th IDSFFK The festival’s opening film was Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, a documentary on the South African photographer whose images made the rest …

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1 month ago

L.A. author Percival Everett wins National Book Award for retelling of ‘Huck Finn’

LA Times

Percival Everett’s novel “James” is told from the perspective of Jim, Huck’s unlikely companion in the Mark Twain classic “Huckleberry Finn.” Percival Everett has won the National Book Award for Fiction for his novel “James,” a retelling of Mark Twain’s classic “Huckleberry Finn.” Published in March to widespread critical acclaim,“James” is told from the perspective of Jim, the escaped slave …

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Do air purifiers actually work? Separating fact from fiction with expert insights and top air purifier recommendations

Live Mint

With the rising concern of air pollution across the cities, the demand for the best air purifiers is on a significant rise. These days, many of them rely on a combination of filters to get the best results, including: Check out the best air purifiers with HEPA filters: How do air purifiers clean the air? Check out the best air …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Vikrant Massey on India’s Independence: Fact, Fiction, or Film Promotion?

The Quint

Actor Vikrant Massey has stirred a fresh debate around India’s independence and Hindu identity through his statements in promotion of his new film, The Sabarmati Report, based on the 2002 Godhra incident. In a recent podcast, Massey questioned whether India’s 1947 independence was truly freedom, calling it a “so-called” independence. Comparing India’s history of colonization, he claimed that Hindu identity …

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1 month, 1 week ago

The inconvenient truth about this year’s Booker Prize winner

The Independent

The Booker Prize is billed as “the world’s most significant award for a single work of fiction”. What is hard to believe, though, is that the Booker judges would have risked the fallout from trumpeting a shortlist dominated by “the highest number of women in the prize’s 55-year history” and, being fully aware that the prize has gone only six …

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1 month, 1 week ago

British author Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for Orbital

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “It was my main reference point,” she said in an interview with BBC Radio 4’s …

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1 month, 1 week ago

British writer Samantha Harvey's space-station novel 'Orbital' wins the Booker Prize for fiction

Deccan Chronicle

London: British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with "Orbital", a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station. De Waal praised the crystalline writing and capaciousness of Harvey's succinct novel at 136 pages in its U.K. paperback edition, one of the shortest-ever Booker winners. The other finalists were American writer Rachel Kushner's spy …

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1 month, 1 week ago

British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins the Booker Prize for fiction

Associated Press

LONDON — British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station that ponders the beauty and fragility of Earth. Writer and artist Edmund de Waal, who chaired the five-member judging panel, called “Orbital” a “miraculous novel” that “makes our world strange and new for us.” …

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Percival Everett’s ‘James’ is a finalist for Carnegie Medal for fiction

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Percival Everett’s “James” has received yet another literary nomination. Everett’s reworking of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is among the finalists for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, $5,000 honors for fiction and nonfiction presented by the American Library Association. One of the Carnegie nominees for nonfiction is Adam Higginbotham’s “Challenger: A True Story of …

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CNN anchor cuts off GOP strategist griping that Dems pre-writing 'dystopian fan fiction'

Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival book prizes announced

A Holocaust novel zigzags through fact and fiction to memorialize a Polish teenager

Raymond Chandler’s L.A. comes alive at auction, but ‘crown jewel’ fails to sell

Writer Ted Chiang on AI and grappling with big ideas

FOUND IN TRANSLATION

"Gladiator II" and the missed opportunity of history far more riveting than Ridley Scott's fiction

Young adult fiction recommendations from NPR's 2024 Books We Love

Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey’s Orbital shows only a true talent can deliver a great short book

When Jagadish Chandra Bose proved science fiction wasn't just a white man's game

Lavanya Lakshminarayan: “Sci-fi is a reflection of what makes us human”

Joy: Birth of IVF true story: Fact vs. fiction in Netflix’s movie about Jean Purdy.

Woman of the Hour movie review: Truth is stranger than fiction in Anna Kendrick's chilling directorial debut

Inside JD Vance’s Hollywood

How novels changed in the 20th century, and why

Report: The 16th IDSFFK

L.A. author Percival Everett wins National Book Award for retelling of ‘Huck Finn’

Do air purifiers actually work? Separating fact from fiction with expert insights and top air purifier recommendations

Vikrant Massey on India’s Independence: Fact, Fiction, or Film Promotion?

The inconvenient truth about this year’s Booker Prize winner

British author Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for Orbital

British writer Samantha Harvey's space-station novel 'Orbital' wins the Booker Prize for fiction

British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins the Booker Prize for fiction

Percival Everett’s ‘James’ is a finalist for Carnegie Medal for fiction