In ‘The Room Next Door,’ Pedro Almodóvar grapples with life, love and assisted suicide
Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar's English-language feature debut, "The Room Next Door," stars Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore as ...
How Does a Real Person Become a Character?
Two novels take different approaches to bringing the dead back to life.
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Review of the Year: On and on to the break of Don – Children’s titan tops the pile and bags TCM record
The Bookseller is the incisive and independent source of news and analysis for the book trade and publishing industry. Get ...
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, 90, Dies; Her Internment Inspired a Memoir
In “Farewell to Manzanar,” she wrote about the more than three years she and her family spent in a camp for Japanese ...
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A Jewish family’s trauma is the villain in an epic Israeli-Palestinian love story
Zeeva Bukai wrote The Anatomy of Exile from the perspective of a familiar literary figure: the anxious Jewish mother. Only in this novel about a Mizrahi Israeli family moving to America, the main ...
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6 First State teachers win Presidential math/science teaching award
Six Delaware teachers have won the 2021 – 2023 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST ...
In Han Kang’s Latest, a Quixotic Bird Rescue Expedition Turns Tragic
A 2021 novel by the South Korean writer Han Kang, “We Do Not Part” is now being published in English for the first time in a ...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky: "Could life have gone any other way?"
The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a prison planet where the biology is very different to that on Earth ...
7 Harry Potter Characters Ruined by the Movies
Harry Potter is one of the most successful franchises ever, still loved by fans and talked about for generations. Its popularity was so huge that it became a pop culture classic, with a spinoff, a ...