Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WALTER KIRN brings a unique perspective to this week's story on the reading renaissance in the U.S. He recently joined TIME as a contributor after spending three years as a book reviewer for New York magazine and has just completed his third work of fiction, a novel called Thumbsucker. As a critic, says Kirn, you're always curious as to whether anyone is following your advice or heeding your warnings. "People's reading habits are a murky subject," he says. "Unless you catch people in the act, you really have no idea of what's actually happening. There were...
...contemporary fascination with real stories raises a question: Just how real are they? McCourt, Harrison and all the wannabes may be telling the truth about their past, but they are also, as Harrison puts it, fictionalizing what really happened. Did McCourt's grandmother really say to him, when he was a small boy, "If 'tis a thing I ever find out you were telling jokes to Jesuits, I'll tear the bloody kidneys outa you"? Did Harrison's grandmother really tell her, once she began crossing her eyes as a child, "They'll get stuck like that...
Since then, it has become an established tradition to bring manga, or comic magazines, to animation. Anime includes science-fiction like mecha (space sagas with robot war machines), dungeons-and-dragons-type fantasy, police/detective series, high school dramas and comedies...
Much of science-fiction/fantasy anime is marked by charming anachronisms, such as people having swordfights in the most technologically advanced armor. Perhaps this is a Japanese attempt to have things both ways--to be technologically advanced but still maintain a soul...
...This is fiction, of course. It's the plot of my recently-published techno-thriller, "Albrick's Gold." But could it become fact? And if so, what should we be doing about...