Word: fictions
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Publishers sent about 80 requested books and 50 unsolicited books, Coyle said. Most of the reviews in this issue are of fiction, a decision that reflects the reviewers' preferences, though Coyle said writers are free to choose what they will review...
...persistent and perversely entertaining theme in Ian McEwan's fiction has been the anguish of conflicting moral obligations. For example, should a composer, at the moment he begins to sense how he can complete the symphony that will define his career, abandon his concentration to intervene on behalf of a woman who may be in danger of being raped...
Milton is a perfect and delicious literary counterweight to More. And both the history and the fiction emanate from and complement Ackroyd's 1996 biography of the late 18th century poet and artist William Blake, who cast himself as Milton in the epic of the same name to redeem the older poet. Blake's works remythify Britain, replacing an imposed sanctity with the rediscovery of sacredness. Blake begins the restoration of God's calendar by pointing out that there is "a moment in each day that Satan cannot find...
First of all by nothing that dark comedy is where it's at in contemporary Hollywood. The one movie in recent years that was an unqualified success, both critically and commercially, was a sort of dark comedy: Pulp Fiction. Maybe it's more profitable to compare this latest incarnation of the genre to another dark comedy, one trashed by critics and rejected by the public: The Cable Guy. Perhaps only myself and a few other moviegoers, most of them residing in attics or asylums, think that The Cable Guy was a brilliant film. Nonetheless, it's a useful point...
...Better Things. The question of whether dark comedy, which was so vital so recently, can survive is unresolved. Certainly the existence of the movie paints a pessimistic picture of what happens to innovators in Hollywood: their innovations are derivatively imitated or altogether scorned. Such were the fates of Pulp Fiction and The Cable Guy, respectively. One hopes, however, that despite all of the industry's calculations and simplifications, a few good dark comedies are slouching towards Hollywood to be born...