Word: unexpectedness
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It's not every day that scientists uncover an unexpected new role for an old, familiar body part. That's why a paper published in the current issue of Cell is generating so much buzz. A team led by Dr. Gerard Karsenty, chairman of the department of genetics and development...
Most of the authors previously had work published in each other's countries. That puts them in a select group: only 3% of new titles appearing in the U.S. each year are translations (vs. about 20% in France). As You Were Saying is proof that foreign writers can be every...
In the end, it is the detail itself that feels flat. Unpredictability becomes expected, and unexpected depth becomes predictable. Some of the book’s deepest and potentially most moving revelations get lost in the cavalcade of surprises, turning the lack of cliché into a cliché in...
Meanwhile she keeps half a dozen plots simmering on the back burners. It's book 7, so it's time for the remaining couples to pair off. Tonks and Lupin get married, as do Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour. Harry's romance with Ginny is still smoldering, and if their...
After all, this isn't just our last shot at the Potterverse, this is Rowling's, too, her last opportunity to hammer on additions - that extra wing, that upstairs bathroom - and fill in a few blank areas on the map. We get a breakneck tour of the bowels of Gringotts...