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Many science-fiction and fantasy sagas are driven by the quest for One Big Solution: a singular objective that, realized, fixes everything. Someone throws a ring in a volcano and Sauron is obliterated. Someone kills the emperor and balance is restored to the Force.
On 1948's Joan of Arc, Fleming's final film and the project that led him to begin an affair with star Ingrid Bergman: "The making of Fleming's last picture, Joan of Arc, becomes one of those behind-the-scenes sagas far more fascinating than the finished film, like...
The fictional Erlendur's success has spawned a wave of young crime novelists in Iceland. Until Indridason, Icelandic literature consisted primarily of medieval sagas and the somber novels of Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness. Indridason has overcome the skepticism of local critics by taking pains to remain credible to his compatriots...
The books produced by this generation are "not about partition, or the Emergency, or three-generational family sagas written in Oxford English," says New Delhi literary agent Renuka Chatterjee. Instead, the topics are populist and contemporary (college, finding a job, looking for love) and the English is as unpretentious as...
The uncompromising modernity of the new writing is also uplifting. Speak to any of these authors, and there is a sense of defiance in choosing to write about the present - an insistence that the stories of how Indians live now are just as worthy of being told as the more...