What he is really doing is layering more fictions on to fictions.
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Realistic facts / surreal fictions / realistic fictions / surreal facts: Virginia Wagner shuffles them like a card shark.
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"So strong is the power of the legitimizing narrative, that even those who are victims of these violent fictions are rarely deterred from crafting justifying fictions of their own," Coates writes.
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He will anchor the helpful fictions he creates in reality.
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These fictions speculate and demand that we examine our lives.
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Nunberg has a reputation for bold pronouncements and occasional fictions.
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Ms Seiffert's fictions are different: they inhabit the events themselves.
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So, "pure" sativa or indica strains are also probably fictions.
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The weirdest fictions consciously challenged the limits of social acceptability.
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If no side dominates, it is because they are fictions.
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Even his most outlandish fictions, I subscribed and assented to.
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As a writer, I specialize in very brief, surreal fictions.
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But these are negative fictions, tales of wrongdoing by others.
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In the process, we unknowingly embellish reality and create fictions.
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It's a reality check, because his worst fictions aren't statistical.
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And soon enough we've spun an actual web of fictions.
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Dr. Latesco: At the risk of venturing into guesses and fictions.
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"Mythopoeia" explores historical and mythical fictions grounded in culturally specific perspectives.
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We live by our fictions, and there is no supreme fiction.
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By reusing images across works, temporal boundaries collapse into malleable fictions.
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How can digital media reinforce fictions until stories become accepted truths?
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There are whole museums dedicated to the presentation of outrageous fictions.
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First, whereas the truth is universal, fictions tend to be local.
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"Telling polite fictions is good politics," Bernstein writes in Bloomberg Opinion.
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All genres are partial fictions, but some seem truer than others.
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"missing" server as one of the fictions propagated by Russia's security
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Dystopian fictions that extrapolate from this shift are starting to appear.
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The academic's insistence that memoirs are fictions is unpersuasive to readers.
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The elaborate fictions these swindlers spin tend to inflate their own egos.
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That was the latest twist on one of his most enduring fictions.
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GOING FOR A BEER Selected Short Fictions By Robert Coover 20053 pp.
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"Godsend" opens, as perhaps it must, like a thousand other contemporary fictions.
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Despite that, he maintains these crazy fictions that shore up his base.
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All the higher motives and values that Moi invokes are pious fictions.
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But even the best fictions take liberties to make things more interesting.
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Most fictions about artificial intelligence are not, of course, about artificial intelligence.
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I build those fictions all the time and call them my life.
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He thrived off the tragedies, the ideas and the fictions of others.
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He thrived off the tragedies, the ideas and the fictions of others.
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She deftly sifts through the famous stories for half-truths and fictions.
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" Fittingly Milena Jesenská called his locomotive-like fictions "true, stark and painful.
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"My Life as a Man," which introduces the character of Nathan Zuckerman, is relatively early Roth but it already plays with the notion of fictions within fictions that he would come to explore at greater depth in successive novels.
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Instead, he suspends a "clash of climates and differences" by acknowledging necessary fictions.
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The tour focused on the presentation of cultures and the fictions that persist.
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No bitch fictions unless protecting her bad self with their dad self counts.
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You have to realize that the worse fictions have a basis in reality.
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These are fictions – lies, if you will – that we expect candidates to tell.
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Ms. Le Guin's fictions range from young-adult adventures to wry philosophical fables.
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These two fictions are so powerfully popular that they absorb reality, Blob-like.
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The public seems to feel that the worst speculative fictions are coming true.
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These fictions are harmful, even if they're deployed for purely domestic political purposes.
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You can go from cartoons, to soap operas, to the news, to science fictions.
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Fox News excelled at wrangling facts — and sometimes fictions — into familiar points of view.
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"Sentence Order" consists of combinatorial, second-person flash fictions presented in five discrete fragments.
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Her work embraces narratives and fictions that result in wearable objects, exhibitions, and interventions.
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This propagation of fictions makes it difficult to build a convincing case against him.
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The structure of The Underground Railroad similarly sets it apart from other historical fictions.
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This latest collection of micro-fictions is a treasure trove of tiny wry masterpieces.
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Of all the fictions told about the Arctic, these are among the least plausible.
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All of the feuds and fictions are connected, Conway says, by narcissistic personality disorder.
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These fictions are harmful even if they are deployed for purely domestic political purposes.
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It's the start of a series of fictions like a set of Matryoshka dolls.
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But the thing to remember is that almost all economic reports are essentially statistical fictions.
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As most AU fictions demonstrate, humans have a powerful urge to connect cause and effect.
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Most people will find it impossible to believe that any of these fictions are real.
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From the beginning, horror was presented as found stories as opposed to completely imagined fictions.
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But most of the dreams went nowhere, disguised by accounting fictions that eventually fell apart.
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To our immense benefit, several more such group introductions have followed, "Fictions" being the latest.
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The Turkish people cannot be lulled to sleep forever with fictions of an Ottoman revival.
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Titus Kaphar's lack of response for his sculpture "A Pillow for Fragile Fictions" reads differently.
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There was no formal declaration, even to myself, that I wouldn't be spending as much time reading, watching, being entertained by fictions this year—especially speculative fictions, pointing far out toward seemingly distant futures—it just seemed an intuitive reaction to living in hellworld.
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And the punishments are strong, but they are legal fictions because they are impossible to prove.
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The mental items that populate consciousness are more like fictions than accurate representations of internal reality.
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It is interesting to see how our fictions treats each coast though, since you mentioned it.
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But despite these invented fictions, the banalities of stars' real lives still held sway over fans.
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In fact, the only things Andrew ever created were fictions about himself, passed off as fact.
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It lays bare these fictions he's created, sorta like a commentary track you can opt into.
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"These meetings are fictions," said Michael D'Antonio, Mr. Trump's biographer, who has watched him for decades.
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It spread like wildfire, distorting facts into outlandish fictions, despite being attributed only to obscure sources.
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It is not how it is done in parts of Europe, with its polite political fictions.
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That it's a documentary only makes the story more involving — and more worrisome — than most fictions.
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"These fictions are harmful even if they are deployed for purely domestic political purposes," she said.
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Under fire, Trump rages, rails and frequently doubles down on his convictions and even his fictions.
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We feed on exact science as much as we do on myths, on fictions and fabulations.
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He said on Tuesday that China would "fight to the end" if Washington escalates trade fictions.
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She longs for the days when anyone could experience themselves as an unstable, subjective creature who has created a lot of very nice fictions about a fundamentally unknowable world in order to cope with it, and who may very well change those fictions at any given moment.
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Although the facts quickly supersede the fictions, once an idea is out there, it tends to linger.
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Curious Fictions is an mobile-friendly site where readers can find, read and pay for short stories.
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No street fictions either—if you must come strapped, they request you leave it in your pants.
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The alleged dangers of personal firearms were fictions created by reporters and researchers with anti-freedom agendas.
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Judges must put aside legal fictions to face the reality of this unprecedented and unconfirmed government appointment.
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Perhaps it's easier to rewrite history through futuristic fictions, where worlds can collide before everyone moves on.
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One of the sillier fictions we collectively maintain is that rich, powerful people author their own work.
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Le Guin's major fictions serve as the scaffolding of the documentary and—one suspects—her own life.
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The powerful version we are shown is posited as one of Ash and Astrid's several possible fictions.
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John WilliamsDaily Books Editor and Staff Writer GOING FOR A BEER: Selected Short Fictions, by Robert Coover.
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Aghast critics chalk up his self-obsession to narcissistic personality disorder and his fictions to pathological lying.
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Kahn's poems are strategic attacks against mythic fictions like selfhood, gender, even the universal acceptance of scientific knowledge.
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Vonnegut had a startling ability to imagine the future, and the novel's fictions appear to have become reality.
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What's left, Adebayo reveals, are the resilient little fictions we tell ourselves to make sense of unfathomable tragedy.
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Trump did this on Wednesday after Robert Mueller contradicted several of the president's fictions about the Mueller Report.
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And people have to actually engage with the facts before they can change their minds about the fictions.
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But where most magazines pay authors one time, upfront, Curious Fictions can provide a recurring source of income.
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There are many fictions of motherhood, and many leftist essays about socialism and the need to end war.
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DE) dismissed speculation that it might seek a merger as "fictions", while the Telegraph reported that Amazon (AMZN.
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Terry Winters: Facts and Fictions continues at The Drawing Center (35 Wooster Street, Soho, Manhattan) through August 12.
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Gorgeous and harrowing, "The Feast of the Goat" is also the most accessible of his great political fictions.
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We were focused on college students at that point, but we had real identities while Myspace had fictions.
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The administration is able to point out that the status quo is built on a series of fictions.
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As a work of literature the Bible has everything: poetry, philosophy, storytelling, myths, fictions, riddles, fables, parables, allegories.
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He helps us imagine what American society could look like if we stopped believing in long-held fictions.
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Kosinski is a slippery figure to write about, since the facts have gotten mixed up in his fictions.
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There are too many fictions her: there is a ceasefire, no outside nation is involved, terrorist fights fascist.
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Our journey toward consequential communication and companionship seems as convoluted and wearying as it is in his fictions.
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Did teach a course from time to time called "Exemplary Ancient Fictions," in which we worked our way from creation myths and the Gilgamesh epic through Ovid and medieval romance, writing our own fictions, touching on the various stages of the reading along the way (dream stories, animal tales, transformations, etc.).
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In fact, most of these 2017 fictions about the future dealt directly with a necessary, all-important generational shift.
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Williams's micro-fictions are meant to unsettle and confound, to push our understanding of the world slightly off kilter.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Last week I reviewed Terry Winters: Facts and Fictions at The Drawing Center.
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We can use that page to make fictions on, for one thing, and to make calculations on, for another.
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They choreograph forms, facts, and fictions that put people in touch with each other and with the (built) environment.
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In virtual spaces, finally, there is refuge, and a freedom to create new symbols, new histories, and new fictions.
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Away from the myths, the legends, and the pure fictions, what is life really like as a bareknuckle fighter?
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Nor had I, in college, questioned my gravitation to courses like Lesbian Fictions, or novels depicting intimate female relationships.
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Both historical fictions, her first two novels looked critically at events that shaped the world we live in now.
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Teenagers are fascinating and prickly, and movies and TV shows about them are among my favorite fictions out there.
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And it's one of those fictions of the modern state that it's not going to be easy to rebuild.
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Too many Republican senators understood that the bill's defenders could make up fictions about it for only so long.
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Among her other books were another memoir, "In the Beginning" (1991), and a satirical novel, "Fictions and Lies" (1999).
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Predictably enough, climate-change deniers, like President Trump, have used the polar vortex as an excuse to spout fictions.
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Our Back Pages Yu-Yun Hsieh reviews Robert Coover's selected short fictions, "Going for a Beer," in this week's issue.
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The fogginess of many attacks––with conspiracy theories and government meddling either suspected or proved––is perfect for looser fictions.
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That may be true: But first the president must distance himself from the many fictions he's been peddling about immigrants.
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"Star Wars" is a fairy tale, a fantasy, a legend, finding its roots in some of our most popular fictions.
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If some novelists observe a kosher-like separation between their autobiographies and their fictions, DeWitt seems to encourage the contamination.
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Robert D. Farrell, gave him a choice of topics: American Popular Literature, New World Classics or New Forms, New Fictions.
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It's fitting that "Christmas Card…" should have two fictions behind it before the first blue piano chord lounges in though.
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Fictions like white supremacy have long wielded power over the public imagination and divided us all into winners and losers.
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To help combat food fictions, we've rounded up and corrected dozens of the most shocking food "facts" in this list.
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At one point, she even proposes that the fictions we construct around ourselves are a possible cause of car accidents.
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"These fictions are harmful even if they are deployed for purely domestic political purposes," Ms. Hill said of these notions.
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In her book, Ms. Haskell brilliantly articulated the contradictions that haunt the movies, with their dispiriting truths and transporting fictions.
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But thankfully, there's at least one attendant issue here which isn't up for discussion: that the bot fictions are themselves multiplying.
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In this case, the administration's reasons are invented, not real, and it is relying on a series of fictions, not facts.
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The stories of Momo and Slender Man are online updates of other urban legends: collective fictions where many different permutations coexist.
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Like much else in our gilded childhoods, those women lived fictions created by adults whose betrayals came unstuck all at once.
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Editor's Letter One of the sustaining fictions of being a magazine editor is that you somehow determine the publication you produce.
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Impeachment should terrify you because it would mean a continued, relentless, overwhelming focus on Trump's lawlessness, antics, fictions and inane tweets.
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"These fictions are harmful even if they are deployed for purely domestic political purposes," added Hill, a longtime Russia hawk. Rep.
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The eight fictions in "Mad Country," Samrat Upadhyay's whirlwind of a collection (his third, along with three novels), are no exception.
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But we're all familiar with the way that institutions accept people into them, and the fictions that happen during that process.
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But I think that we live in a time where corporations have become so powerful relative to the state — and relative to the fourth estate, which is really under assault — that they are able to promote fictions in ways that are really dangerous, and I think in this moment in time, it's important to rudder against those fictions.
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Indeed, a whole host of ridiculous fictions are being algorithmically accelerated into wider view, here in the 21st (not the 17th) century.
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The curved edges of the shots, echoing those of a television screen, provides a perfect reminder of our obsession with these fictions.
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Similarly, there has been a misguided focus on the bureaucratic fictions of readmission agreements cooked up by the EU with sending countries.
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"Erotic notices, fictions and videos, as well as violent electronic games, are spreading through the mobile phones without limits," the newspaper wrote.
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The revelation also had a more subtle effect on the numerous fan fictions that had explored Dumbledore's sexuality prior to Rowling's statement.
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Slowly, painstakingly, Tarkington had taught himself to write reliable prose and construct appealing fictions; he was unpretentious—always literate but never showy.
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He transcribes voice mail messages he might need later; he spins out disturbing fictions that feature Alec, sea voyages and sex trafficking.
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It's a book about memory suppression, and about the slippery nature of identity itself, slapped together from docile facts and devious fictions.
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She is gold to viewers who loathe sugarcoated lies, polite fictions, and the constant stream of aspirational success stories for self-improvement.
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Fictions are peddled and contested through the news cycle, disinformation has destabilized democracies, and social media has simultaneously connected and atomized communities.
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To see years of Ms. Williams' confounding fictions collected in so hefty a volume is like seeing snowflakes accrue into an avalanche.
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The literature has primacy over the life, yet the truest and most vital life is not in the facts, but the fictions.
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She looks cheery when attacking, even cheerier when attacked and absolutely radiant when descending into a bog of half-truths and fictions.
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Slowly, painstakingly, Tarkington had taught himself to write reliable prose and construct appealing fictions; he was unpretentious — always literate but never showy.
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Compared with the digressive exuberance of these more densely populated fictions, "Slave Old Man" transpires in a solitude that can be limiting.
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Not that the border crisis is one of Mr. Trump's self-serving political fictions — like the deep state or widespread voter fraud.
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If borders have always been geopolitical fictions, the selective deployment of capital and arms still menaces certain people seeking to cross them.
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"I have found evidence for similar 'science fictions' in ancient India and China, but so much has been lost or destroyed," Mayor said.
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There is no true world, nothing "natural," and games can point over the horizon in the same way that Le Guin's fictions did.
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The facts and fictions and stances and "pivots" of year's election cycle are about as transient as the stuff in your Twitter feed.
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SO ONE OF THE FICTIONS HERE IS THAT THE MARKETING COST – EFFECTIVELY YOU CALL IT THE MARKETING COST – GETS BOOKED OVER 12 MONTHS.
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FAKE NEWS AND TRUE LOVE: FOURTEEN STORIES BY ROBERT BAINES History-spanning fictions presented through eccentric jewelry, accompanied by extensive "documentary" evidence. Oct.
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All that made it ideal for the Toronto International Film Festival, a sprawling showcase for unapologetic genre fictions and pleasurably difficult art films.
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David Lowenthal has labeled the idea that cultural heritage "deserves to be preserved in toto" one of the "sacrosanct fictions" of cultural heritage.
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He's betting that he can bend the Republican Party to his will and get congressional Republicans and administration officials to parrot his fictions.
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There may be no Rosebud in Spielberg's life, just an inveterate urge to make fictions and a natural sense of what's broadly appealing.
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By contrast, Martín Zimmerman's "On the Exhale" and Courtney Baron's "When It's You" use the Newtown catastrophe as a stimulus for anguished fictions.
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The party nominated a compulsive liar for president, and its congressional leaders tried to pass a major health care bill based on fictions.
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This allows him, he tells us, to see past the limiting, self-defining walls of fictions that most of us erect around ourselves.
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This epistemological status has been fortified in recent years with a series of spectacular leaks that successfully reframed official narratives as grand fictions.
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It's for this reason that the fall of 2017 is poised to be the fall of killer clown fictions — on big screens and small.
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It's true that these fictions meet a psychological need, but it's not as if they just spring up innocently from some national collective unconscious.
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Fictions show possible paths, and all of those possible paths assume that things will either stay the same or transform in a significant way.
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Which means every facet of her, both the fictions she created and the truths that were uncovered, now belong to the world she inspired.
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Audacious fictions about real-life luminaries abound: Michel Foucault lectures while receiving a blow job in a bathhouse; Julia Kristeva conspires with Bulgarian assassins.
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FICTIONS This latest of the museum's regular surveys of emerging black artists highlights a resurgence of narrative in contemporary visual art. Sept. 14–Jan.
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Above all, we have to more fiercely call out and refute manipulative liars — as well as the people who insist on believing their fictions.
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Late Victorian pulp fictions are the stuff Ernst's dreams are made of, but their true subject is the lengthening shadow of the Nazi nightmare.
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However, it feels naive to expect authenticity or sincerity from Hollywood when it has always manufactured fictions that seduce us into abandoning our realities.
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Twitter, in the hands of Trump and the Republicans, is a way of postulating speculative fictions, — the worries and woes of possible future perfects.
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He goes on to say that his imagery often becomes an alternative to the unpleasant reality around him: I think I paint bittersweet fictions.
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It was easier to believe our own pleasant fictions about the way things work in America before our president made a mockery of them.
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He's Trump's unabashed Iago, whispering sweet fictions about the magnitude of the "movement" that the president is leading and specifying how to feed it.
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Ghosh argued that there were no "serious" fictions on climate change because the modern novel had historically found its audience after the Industrial Revolution.
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Others have called Bana and her mother fictions created by the United States as a propaganda tool to malign the Syrian and Russian governments.
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Curses are versatile fictions, foundational to myth and literature, to the power of speech acts and religious taboos, even to national and ethnic identity.
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Hays's dementia plays a role in preserving those fictions in the end — although isn't there a twinkle of recognition when he's drinking the water?
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Science writers for The New York Times answered questions about why that season had been so brutal, and other facts and fictions about tornadoes.
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The fictions and facts blur together in a way that make the time and place as spectacular as the Wild West or ancient Rome.
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"The Encounter" is meant to subvert such fictions, in part, as it reminds us of the destructive encroachments of lucre-minded Westerners into the Amazon.
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One of the things people do when they've become uprooted is to retreat into us-them fictions, and that often means dividing the world racially.
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In the first part of this book, fifty-eight micro-fictions eulogize the figures whose lives and work are a balm for the disillusioned author.
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South America: Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina), The House of Spirits, by Isabel Allende (Chile), Lituma in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru).
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In Dictionary Stories: Short Fictions and Other Findings, Burrows creates short stories made entirely from these found sentences, and the result is delightful and compelling.
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These in-betweener fictions, typically in the realm of 1583 pages (17,500 to 40,000 words, say authorities), have never been known to fly off bookshelves.
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In the fictions of Mark Twain and CSI and more, the identification of fingerprints is one of the most well-known methods for solving crimes.
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Their account of Vasari's Tuscany, and of the facts (and fictions) that went into his "Lives," is a fitting tribute to their subject's biographical achievements.
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In other words, design solidifies, and naturalizes, things that start off as opinions, stories and traditions, supplying form to the fictions by which we live.
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He never seemed to me entirely at home in his domicile of deception; she dwells without evident compunction in a gaudier fairyland of grander fictions.
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This first SWAT trained on a Universal back lot, the same place "Adam-12" was about to enact its televised Los Angeles Police Department fictions.
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JASON FARAGO "Asia One" is set in a China of the near future — but like so many great speculative fictions, it's really about the present.
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This British painter's canvases of black dancers and dandies are not strictly portraits, but fictions invented by the artist that have the ring of truth.
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Those viral fictions reflect the fabled status Jackson has attained among teams hastening to solve the very electrifying unpredictability that has left them awe-struck.
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A series of what our reviewer, Monica Ali, called "beautifully precise micro-fictions" form the grist of the novel, based on Faye's interactions with others.
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Opinion Columnist CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Election meddling needn't be a foreign power planting fictions on Facebook and courting the ragtag disciples of a real estate magnate.
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These overwrought fictions were attempts to excise my intellectual anxieties, a glib performance of my vocabulary and theoretical smarts to prove my fitness for authorship.
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I didn't know then the degree to which his scenes were imbued with fictions, but my overactive imagination whizzed and whirled across his grand canvases.
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Raad is asking us to consider: If these histories are just a consensual editing of the "facts" by a particular group, aren't they also fictions?
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Necessary Fictions continues at the Factory Contemporary Arts Centre (15 Nguyễn Ư Dĩ, Thảo Điền Ward, District 2, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) through October 27.
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The hand-drawn illustrations in Howie Tsui's 25 meter long video installation were inspired by a traditional form of Chinese martial arts fictions known as wuxia.
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More than any of its particular facts and fictions, Making A Stationary Rain's general atmosphere of self-censored vigilance leaves the strongest and most abiding impressions.
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Long before he wrote fiction professionally, Mallory was experimenting with gothic personal fictions, apparently designed to get attention, bring him advancement, or to explain away failings.
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In different ways, "The Wolves of Currumpaw" and "Presenting Buffalo Bill" provide opportunities for young readers to critically explore some stubborn historical fictions about the West.
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You can't always tell where archive footage of the urban turmoil ends and the scripted semi-fictions begin, so restive and so probing is the camera.
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At least in the fictions I have created, the anthro plane swallows the pilot and passengers and becomes pregnant with their baggage while carrying them around.
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No matter that an earlier presidential quisling, failed Kansas gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach, could find no evidence of another of Trump's fictions, millions of illegal voters.
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The other likely inspiration was Elmslie, who was working on a collection of preposterous fictions that would be published under the title The Orchid Stories (1973).
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After you've seen "Fictions," check out an accompanying show of the museum's impressive trio of 2017 artists-in-residence (Autumn Knight, Julia Phillips and Andy Robert).
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Twitter in the hands of Trump and the Republicans becomes a way of postulating speculative fictions, all the worries and woes of the possible future perfects.
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They say that individuals who lack the resources or faculties to carry out devastating attacks on their own are getting caught up in labyrinthine government fictions.
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"4 3 2 1" is a work of outsize ambition and remarkable craft, a monumental assemblage of competing and complementary fictions, a novel that contains multitudes.
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"4 3 2 1" is a work of outsize ambition and remarkable craft, a monumental assemblage of competing and complementary fictions, a novel that contains multitudes.
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To commemorate the last days of its exhibition Fictions, the Studio Museum in Harlem has invited six contemporary poets to respond to the work on view.
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Collected by USC's Hadrian Predock, Errors, Estrangement, Messes and Fictions explores the dinner party of form that results from bringing together everyday architectural objects at various scales.
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Even then, however, time isn't an unlimited luxury in many future utopian fictions, and no matter how much you pay, it will always catch up with you.
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"I am king because I have provided a light to lead my people forward in the darkness, and they have turned my fictions into realities," he declares.
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Not just the spots flooded with tourists but the simulations and the fictions, the ways that the world of tourism supersedes reality and becomes its own space.
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It was unclear if regular column characters such as Fat Thomas the bookie, the arsonist Marvin the Torch and Klein the Lawyer were real, composites or fictions.
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The only existing parallels are tyrants like Stalin, who used fictions of saboteurs and foreign agents to keep the population in line, and explain away any setbacks.
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Learn from my mistakes, kids, and don't do that, because it will lead you to an article titled 12 Haunting Slash Fictions That Will Ruin Your Childhood.
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That is, the U.S. is embracing reality and every time the U.S. has embraced realities instead of hopeful fictions in the Arab-Israeli conflict, peace eventually ensues.
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The style of My Vibe is in keeping with the brief and hybrid prose of works such as Lydia Davis's micro-fictions and Maggie Nelson's Bluets (2009).
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I'm trying to celebrate and invent some sort of new fictions of the queer black male by subverting pre-existing Caribbean and ancient Fertile Crescent religious myths.
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But it does further blur the lines between our reality and Tarantino's fictions with a cheekiness that connects it to his alternate narratives about WWII and slavery.
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By the time their stories (and fictions) start to merge, the pleasure of fine in-the-moment writing is hopelessly jumbled with dread about what happens next.
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Art & Museums This British painter's canvases of black dancers and dandies are not strictly portraits, but fictions invented by the artist that have the ring of truth.
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Political Fictions by Joan DidionOvershadowed by the flashy early work and her more somber late phase, this middle-period collection of essays may be Didion's truest triumph.
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You explore this unfamiliar geography, visit strange ports, and read through hypertext micro-fictions, taking the odd gamble or making the odd choice to advance the story.
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Created entirely of newspaper clippings covering drunk driving accidents and deaths as well as alcohol advertising in Cambodia, the installations' fictions collide with the harsh visceral realities.
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Works such as The Ballad of Black Tom, Cthulhu, and Lovecraft Country build on this fundamental understanding of Lovecraft's fictions while shredding and directly commenting on the racism.
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It's not surprising that even their direct-to-TV fictions tends to think harder and more specifically about burgeoning tech-related anxieties than anything made by their cohorts.
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My job was to weave these personal plotlines and collaborative fictions into a broader story where, somehow, each player sharing in it felt like it was "their" story.
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And if they built those fictions into a good enough story and told it with a dangerous enough glint in their eye, they might even earn some notoriety.
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The memes that kept them glued together for a short time—from "Dieu et mon droit" to "Bring the world closer together"—are exposed as fictions of state.
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Well, there's a Y Combinator -backed startup called Curious Fictions looking to change that — and to turn those stories into a regular source of income for their writers.
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It's only when our belief systems shift, and culturally we experience a seismic disruption, that we suddenly recognize the underlying fictions on which our designed world is built.
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One might think the violence would be enough for liberals to avoid such depraved fictions, yet some have eagerly signed on to the broader moral panic surrounding trafficking.
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Our reviewer, Tom Perrotta, called the story "a work of outsize ambition and remarkable craft, a monumental assemblage of competing and complementary fictions, a novel that contains multitudes."
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And The Onion's hard-partying, earnestly sleazy Joe Biden became the template for parodies of the former vice president, a fictional version on which subsequent fictions were based.
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Maria Romasco Moore's GHOSTOGRAPHS: An Album (Rose Metal Press, paper, $15.95) is an eerie, intimate sequence of flash fictions illuminating the author's carefully curated collection of vintage photographs.
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Whitman did not one day set aside the hack journalism and cheap fictions of his journeyman years in favor of a brand new idiom for our American literature.
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Over four seasons on the NBC comedy, both Michaels spent their time devising elaborate, twisty fictions and trying to settle on a suitably just plan for the afterlife.
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That's a lesson for these times, as the new administration moves to shut down previously public information while denigrating the journalists committed to separating facts from its fictions.
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Because we know such things "could never happen," they mark the story as fiction; because we know similar things have happened and will happen, they become truthful fictions.
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It makes us all participants in interactive storytelling these days, so it makes sense for our fictions to reflect that, and video games are the ideal medium for it.
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She is represented by Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago and is currently showing in the Studio Museum in Harlem's Fictions exhibition, curated by Connie H. Choi and Hallie Ringle.
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Foregrounding the absences present in spaces where fictions are staged, these artists reveal the constructs and hierarchies of culture and the context in which fiction is created and consumed.
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It helps explain why attempts to stage photographs — to create fictions — only rarely work as powerfully as the kind of quotations from reality that we get in documentary photographs.
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Rather, it's to see them for what they are — manufactured fictions designed to manipulate both you and the larger conversation in order to further unknown (and sometimes known) agendas.
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Former stormtrooper and Rebel pilot Poe share meaningful looks when they're reunited; Poe biting his lip for a brief second was the gesture that launched a thousand fan fictions.
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If Comey doesn't do these things, then fictions, lies and innuendos will likely carry the day, and American democracy will be diminished due to the handling of this matter.
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Both novels use the Brontë fictions to explore the role of the outcast in society and the various forms that imperial, patriarchal oppression — both unthinking and intentional — can take.
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"These fictions are harmful even if they are deployed for purely domestic political purposes," she will tell lawmakers as part of the impeachment inquiry, according to her opening statement.
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And he was reminding us, in shocking fashion, about his readiness to sell (and buy) fictions if they serve his self-interest, which he reliably puts before all else.
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This sort of truth-telling is particularly difficult inside a family, where fictions are often deeply baked and compounded by what they have invented (or ignored) to survive tragedy.
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English speakers are more hospitable to fiction in translation, and yet when was the last time you heard someone mention "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship" or "Elective Affinities," Goethe's long fictions?
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Orwell's work continues to feel pressing, so what better way to take a break from the year that will launch a thousand post-apocalyptic fictions, 1.33, than by watching 1984?
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Orwell's work continues to feel pressing, so what better way to take a break from the year that will launch a thousand post-apocalyptic fictions, 2016, than by watching 1984?
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"These fictions are harmful even if they are deployed for purely domestic political purposes," Hill said, adding that Russian forces have put in millions of dollars to advance those narratives.
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Their "firehose of falsehood," as social scientists Christopher Paul and Miriam Matthews have called it, is a shameless willingness to pass on partial truths and outright fictions to create confusion.
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Anyone who cares about the future of either art or neuroscience should see this commanding show, which, like all the best science fictions, offers equal amounts of hope and fright.
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My work is not necessarily about China, but about people, wherever they are, who are the actors of unlikely fictions unraveling before my eyes, with their poetry or their absurdity.
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After "Fictions" ends, the museum will close its main headquarters at 144 West 125th Street to make way for a new David Adjaye-designed building, scheduled to open in 2021.
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Since 2014, Mr. Modi's near-novelistic ability to create irresistible fictions has been steadily enhanced by India's troll-dominated social media as well as cravenly sycophantic newspapers and television channels.
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"Maybe it's the richness of the composition, or the colors that she's tapping into," said Ms. Ringle, who selected Ms. Hamilton for "Fictions," the Studio Museum's showcase exhibition last year.
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The defense argued that the confessions were fictions concocted by a man with mental illness and a low I.Q. who had been subjected to almost seven hours of police interrogation.
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Religious and philanthropic associations were active all over Europe, raising money for ransoms, and publishers hawked both moving memoirs of female captivity and, later, pornographic fictions on the same theme.
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Ms. Scheer, a young playwright out of Boston, cannily exploits the porousness of that divide within adolescents, who still half-believe that thinking hard enough can transform fictions into facts.
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But he just took a vital step toward doing so, in a landmark speech on Friday that in plain language dismantled the dangerous fictions on which the deal was built.
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Express workers were not included in the union, which "would have protected them only by legal and bureaucratic fictions that labeled them a different entity within our company" it added.
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In a world where ad rates are declining for traditional broadcast media, the corporations responsible for making the fictions that millions devour daily need to find a new business model.
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" More than that, this book illuminates Didion's later work, containing the seeds of both "Political Fictions" and her elliptical 2003 book on California and the West, "Where I Was From.
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And over the weekend, he pushed three other fictions -- reversing the timing of two events and touting a supposed Nancy Pelosi quote there is no evidence the House speaker ever said.
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These are the kinds of stories making up "Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine," a taut collection of flash fictions that are often beautiful but impenetrable, structured like little riddles to unspool.
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Unbelievably, Monday night, and with hardly a challenge from moderator Holt, Trump once again successfully fashioned rhetorical fictions to distance himself from this racially charged lie he personally helped to manufacture.
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So, if you're heading out for a psychogeographical drift around London, Poetic Places can help augment the experience and point out some of the fictions the spaces you're journeying through inhabited.
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But most of the science fiction that comes from Hollywood is pulpy, popcorn entertainment that relies on genre tropes to generate spectacle rather than to examine the science behind their fictions.
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All the same, in an era in which the president is constantly trying to impose his fictions on reality, it's incumbent on the rest of us to keep the two separate.
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"The film is earnestly and unabashedly melodramatic to an extent that may baffle audiences accustomed to clever, knowing historical fictions," A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times.
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That vision, every bit as merciless as the cruelties catalogued in de Sade's fictions, isolates the human against vast, encumbering space — helpless subjects evaporating at the whim of an indifferent Creator.
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Does it matter if more people can play a game if you're just exposing a bigger population to the same sexist and racist stereotypes that fuel so much of our fictions?
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They argue that admissions made by Mr. Hernandez to investigators — that he took Etan into the basement of the bodega where he worked and choked him — were fictions he had concocted.
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Dungeon World or World of Dungeons are both medieval-y games where mechanics are (mostly) decoupled from species, and therefore might allow for much more interesting player-generated fictions around monstrosity.
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Their house is full of curiosities: a crude, expressionist Kris Martin sculpture, made of plastic foam and cast in bronze; a massive lattice-textured painting by Garth Weiser, on moiré pattern; fictions within fictions in Agnieszka Kurant's "Phantom Library"; a cardboard beer box maquette by Danh Vo; Abraham Cruzvillegas's accumulated ephemera, painted and arranged above the couple's couch; the "Time Keeper" by Pierre Huyghe, a core of paint layers cut from a wall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The book is divided into three sections: documentation of artworks that incorporate or intervene in blockchain protocols, creative works including speculative fictions that explore the technology's affective potential, and a theory section.
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These fictions often treat the arduous cycle of scientific progress as a footnote or a flashback, glazing over out of necessity the decades of medical research required to merge humans with machines.
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Born, as Sigurjon Sigurosson, in Reykjavik in 1962, the prolific author has beguiled audiences abroad with shape-shifting fictions such as "The Blue Fox", "From the Mouth of the Whale" and "Moonstone".
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For young women on Tumblr, these freedoms to profess their attractions and explore their desires through fictions, fan art, and parody are precious opportunities to be agents of their own sexual journeys.
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While Papers, Please simulated a generic border crossing point in a fictional, vaguely Eastern European country, Orwell is much more specific about how it deploys the real world into its political fictions.
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Bewilderingly, the protagonists of Solstad's fictions have coldly identified the life-lie but seem to have resigned themselves to yet more of it—a resignation so unillusioned that it almost resembles rebellion.
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" He was interested in learning the facts of his life, he told the detectives — since, "as a maker of fictions, I invent versions of myself, never the real thing, if it exists.
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The streetscape at the Lantern, the home at Chagrin Valley, is particularly encompassing and detailed, but comforting fictions—scenery, props, and other simulations—are employed in many homes for people with dementia.
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I suppose I must point out that Mr. Faizon and Mr. St. Geegland are fictions, the alter egos of the comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, who are both in their 30s.
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The notion that these clubs are private, that their business is conducted out of sight of most students, and that associational rights are violated by the new sanctions on membership are fictions.
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Previously, high school players could sign on and earn full professional salaries — safe from the no-income college rules and fictions that invite the sort of abuses laid bare in the complaints.
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But what the novel coronavirus demonstrates, in contrast to these survivalist fictions, is that borders are porous by definition; no matter how fortified, they are more like living membranes than inorganic walls.
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Confessing upfront about their gleeful fictions, the filmmakers reimagine a roughly five-week period in 1926 when McPherson (wholeheartedly played by Anna Margaret Hollyman) disappeared from a beach and was presumed dead.
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He began to hone a method: use real-world settings and hunt for moments that made his fictions feel like documentaries—the takes when an actor stumbled or momentarily forgot her line.
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In order to give Julie this unexpectedly blissful destiny, all parties have to agree to accept the fictions that brought her there: The fiction that Hoyt's daughter, Isabel, was her real mother.
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For a Negro, the idea of sleep is haunted by deadly fictions—racist stigmas passed on from the days of slavery, when falling asleep during the day was a heavily punished act.
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Although some critics recoiled from their early lyrics — which describe the superrich (or at least the moderately affluent) in amused, playful language — these songs were observed fictions, pointed vignettes about class politics.
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They have espoused as truth unsupportable and untenable falsehoods on a daily basis, and it has become the near-full time responsibility of the media to call out the fictions of the administration.
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As a candidate, Mr. Edwards had charged Mr. Jindal, who used highly creative bookkeeping methods in an effort to hew to a no-tax pledge, with indulging in "fictions" in the budgeting process.
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These are among other hallucinatory fictions peddled by opportunists like Mr. Cruz as they comfort an arms industry enriched by a gun mortality rate far higher than that of any other modern nation.
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The Good War; the narrative that crescendos with a single battle, with every piece in its exact position; a sense of rightness in who makes it back and who does not — all fictions.
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He's turning himself into a living painting, but he also seems to be playing with the fictions and stigmas of race at a time — 225-7843 — when America was burning with racial violence.
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If Harry, when high (or, perhaps, low), felt as if he had spikes in his head, his grieving mother has spikes in her head, too: stories and visions and fictions about lost Harry.
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While it exist in a world of flying cars and androids, what makes VA-11 HALL-A memorable apart from the genre fictions it imitates is how low to the ground it feels.
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No burden as heavy, on view at David Castillo Gallery, feels like a response to history's weight: how heavily the past's truths and fictions weigh, how often they (for better or worse) repeat themselves.
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Alohamora The series was published over a 10-year period, during which it was the subject of vast amounts of comment and criticism, as well as forming the basis of innumerable online fan fictions.
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The comics of Chris Ware, for example, are naturally linked to the surreal fictions of George Saunders, but never to J. Otto Seibold and Vivian Walsh's books about Mr. Lunch, despite immediately obvious similarities.
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No burden as heavy, currently on view at David Castillo Gallery, feels like a response to history's weight: how heavily the past's truths and fictions weigh, how often they (for better or worse) repeat themselves.
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The premise of his breakthrough novel, 1969's "The Andromeda Strain," about an alien microorganism that evolves to threaten humanity, served as the DNA for many of the fictions that made him a household name.
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It's the sonically violent equivalent of seeing an actor sweat onstage, seeing their body react the same way that their character's might, realizing that they have the same physical reactions as the fictions they inhabit.
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But not all narratives, whether political or athletic, are fictions, and there are still emotional and existential lessons that can be summoned by the sight of men and women chasing a ball around a field.
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For that answer, you have to turn to the political appeal of fantasy, the way that the genre's world-building offers a way to tell historical fictions in which the ending isn't determined in advance.
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He withheld military aid that Ukraine desperately needed, while asking Zelensky to do him a "favor" and investigate deranged fictions about Ukrainian interference in American elections, as well as Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
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But in the way it seamlessly weaves the facts of her life with fictions—the ghosts that still haunt her, the fact that even time travel could not undo what's been done—is a masterstroke.
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"These fictions are harmful even if they are deployed for purely domestic political purposes," said Dr. Hill, the co-author of a 500-page book analyzing the psyche of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
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They're telling you that they prefer to believe fictions that make life easier — that make their sense of responsibility lighter — because they can then deny the power that money gives to people in their class.
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Yet the figures who are silenced in the public realm are represented in the fictions of the theater, as if the democracy that was denied to those figures publicly is somehow extended to them theatrically.
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In both Girl on the Train and Gone Girl, the fictions we create as lovers and partners are a driving force in relationships, the mechanisms by which we seek to redress some perceived imbalance of power.
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A fan fantasy that frames the band members as hating one another — and paints one of them as rude, stupid, evil, and deserving of death because she is black — is no longer just idle fan fictions.
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Even if some post-Godfather mobster fictions give us compelling, layered, and powerful female characters—like Carmela Soprano of The Sopranos—their narratives ultimately come from the interiority of the male protagonists, who remain the focus.
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Small wonder that Grace speaks of being reduced to one of Frank's "fictions," given that he refers to her as his barren English mistress when she is discovered over time to be none of those things.
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This is a story that is obsessed with stories; indeed, "The God Child" could be described as a series of sharply drawn short fictions, each consequential on its own, each only glancingly connected to the others.
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An idea explored in many science fictions and hypothesized in a paper by Swedish philosopher Nicholas Bostrom back in 2003—it's a concept which was also iterated in a panel talk by Elon Musk last year.
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She creates totemic cork and styrofoam sculptures, one of them eight feet tall, filtered through the Giger-esque cinematography of Alien and Prometheus—merging the fictions and myths of those alien civilizations with those of Earth.
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In both "Girl on the Train" and "Gone Girl," the fictions we create as lovers and partners are a driving force in relationships, the mechanisms by which we seek to redress some perceived imbalance of power.
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Growing up in Oklahoma, Twilley's aesthetic developed alongside the standards of beauty and gender roles established in mainstream movies like Pretty Woman, which confront young women with Hollywood fictions to which they can never measure up.
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Political fictions offer escape, of course, but at their best, they help us to make sense of the senseless, to order and draw lessons from chaos, to reaffirm what we stand for when it's most at risk.
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Perhaps an intuitive idea of this isolation is why our science fiction stories have always been haunted by dreams of interstellar travel, but recently physicists have started to seriously consider how to turn those fictions into reality.
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He's since turned his attention to war footage and online videos of car accidents, but LAX is like a long train of thought concluding that even the most vividly-imagined and well-produced worlds are imperfect fictions.
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All in, Little Fictions feels like the culmination of so many aspects of Elbow, imbued with a new maturity and world-weariness that sees the band settling into a new phase in their career with renewed enthusiasm.
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But then most politicians aren't Benjamin Netanyahu—the Israeli prime minister who, like all masters of authoritarian-ish populism, takes an almost sinister pleasure in mocking genteel civic fictions, even while refusing to admit his own lies.
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Stars are complicated fictions strutting through the world with a sense of meaning, tugged in every direction by forces over which they have little control, used and abused by systems in which they're important until they're not.
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She has edited, written, and published several books, including Happenings and Performances of Marta Minujín, Borges and Xul Solar: The Art of Friendship, Borges: Fictions of an Infinite Time, and Democracy Under Construction: Patterns from Four Continents.
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But this is the same story that everyone has who falls in love—we spin necessary fictions while our brain is steeped in those intense chemical reactions that make us feel amazing and crazy at the same time.
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Over the past two years, a number of African novelists have struck out beyond narrow identity politics to harness stories from the past as a way of trying to make sense of Africa's tangled fictions and multiple memories.
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We indulge the silliness of the fictions in Raad's work because the lattice of paranoia he erects is grounded upon the major blind spots, repressions, and acts of self-censorship endemic to the production and reception of art.
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I even wrote a Trump book of my own, "Don Quixotic," which collected a series of short fictions that were originally posted on social media, in discomfort and then disbelief, over the course of the 2016 election season.
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But O'Brien — who brilliantly captured the terrors of war in works of fictions like "The Things They Carried" and "Going After Cacciato," for which he won the National Book Award — is not a half-measures kind of guy.
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Lily cries, drinks, cheats on her rancher husband, Everett, and aborts a child, because she cannot forgo the "comfortable loving fictions"—the story of being a wife and thus socially acceptable, according to the rules of her tribe.
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Of course, many of the emergencies that we face today are fictions: the "emergency" at the Mexican border or, perhaps, the British government's intentional exaggerations of the threat of a "no deal" Brexit to put pressure on Parliament.
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I know that companies are very particular about ads and that ads are fictions, but this was more than just an issue of different taste or the difference between art and advertising; the interaction revealed a deeper bias.
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Those fictions — that the young men died saving their comrades, instead of in more truthful but less obviously heroic ways — keep the lie going and prop up the powerful, but they also make life livable for the living.
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Her videos, none of which are much longer than ten minutes, are about looking, memory, time passing, one's relationship to history, to the space one inhabits, to the myths and fictions a culture holds dear, and lots else.
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In our favorite fictions, when spirited, non-wealthy children excel at horsemanship, they do it through winning races (National Velvet) or better yet, galloping wild on the sand (Misty of Chincoteague) or best of all, both (The Black Stallion).
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Ironically, the West stayed silent while Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia went away, but furiously try to maintain the national fictions of the Middle East, where the desire to split into tribal and religious enclaves is so much more furiously pursued.
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Strip away the dystopian fictions and imagine the day-to-day life of the survivor—what pleasures they might find in the world; how they might view their bodies in terms of how productive and efficient they can be.
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And according to the writings of Mary Dzon, a medieval literature expert at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville, many clerics even in that era may not have taught these stories, but permitted them to flourish as useful devotional fictions.
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But the disgusting slogans on display in Warsaw and the fictions and paranoia behind them must be relentlessly exposed for what they are and condemned, and the right-wing, populist governments that condone them must be censured, not embraced.
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Applied to recent history in the Middle East — and particularly his native Lebanon and that country's long civil war — photographs here of storefronts and people accompanied by "explanatory" texts show how para-fictions often become facts or official histories.
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Critics focused on Mr. Trump's claim that "we may never know all of the facts surrounding" Mr. Khashoggi's death, highlighting the contradiction between this energetic uncertainty and the reported assessment of the C.I.A. Presidents, however, routinely advance useful fictions.
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But there's a glimpse, however brief, of how the line between artifice and reality, the reader and the author, can smudge and become indistinct, particularly when the real is becoming so much wilder than the pure fictions we're able to concoct.
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We're in the throes of fan theories, fictions, wars, and everything else, alert to and at the mercy of the next development, whatever produces that feeling where your eyes feel like they're both jumping out of your head and melting.
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The brands that sell them are thin fictions whipped up in Squarespace and the actual products are the result of Alibaba manufacturing and Amazon drop-shipping, in which a product moves directly from manufacturer to consumer having never entered a store.
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So if blackness is, in fact, inherently political, if even our alternative fictions must be bound to a history both complex and inerasable, at least let there be Wakandas where blackness can be owned and celebrated – and where it can thrive.
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And while protesters this week hailed the massive day of action a success, the fight is an uphill battle—one that will be fought alongside several other fictions-cum-realities we thought were firmly staying in the land of make-believe.
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Various interpretations of the current moment in American history — competing "political fictions," to borrow Joan Didion's term — created by novelists and politicians alike, have already begun to emerge and will no doubt continue to be written in the decades to come.
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"Perhaps White's most controversial idea, and one for which he was so often shunned by his fellow historians, is that 'all stories are fictions,' " Robert Doran, a professor at the University of Rochester who edited that volume, said by email.
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Once people get in the habit of believing absurd fictions and convenient falsehoods, this habit would spill into more and more areas, and they would consequently make bad economic decisions, adopt counterproductive military strategies and fail to develop effective technologies.
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In doing so without suffering any significant consequences, he has made it more difficult for Americans to continue to delude ourselves with fairy tales about our collective values and to indulge in comforting fictions about the fundamental decency of our politics.
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Trump treated NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to a selection of his favorite fictions, most of which we have fact-checked before, and sprinkled in some new nonsense for good measure.
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After shooting down Uber's motion to compel Meyer to arbitrate the case, an appeal to the Second Circuit forced Judge Rakoff, ironically enough, to force arbitration—even though "it is based on nothing but factual and legal fictions," he wrote.
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Ecstatic transport of the solo kind, nourished by theories and fictions, is also evident in the anonymous terracotta "Blessed Ludovica Albertoni" (221th century) that was created after the Gian Lorenzo Bernini depiction of Ludovica Albertoni in the throes of religious ecstasy.
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Beginning with Train Whistle Guitar in 1975, the picaresque fictions trace the development of Murray's alter ego, Scooter, a riff-style improviser from the American South who comes of age amid complex social dynamics of the early-to-mid twentieth century.
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The apparent fictions included everything from "taking credit for another developer's talk to pretending that he was interviewed in a robotics publication, on screen," as well plagiarizing other images taken from stock sites or news stories for use on social media, Mashable wrote.
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It's a relief in these novels to be able to push back against the alarming trend in the other direction, where more and more people opt out of facts to live in an echo chamber of convenient partisan fictions masquerading as the truth.
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Luckily, provided you don't behave irrationally, everything will get straightened out by the middle of the month — which is when the Studio Museum in Harlem opens Fictions, a group show featuring artists who are harnessing the power of storytelling in their work.
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As someone, who spent two years studying the facts and the fictions underlying the Detainee Library (and by this, I mean, mainly its inventory of books), I can say definitively that I have no interest in being a full-time prison librarian.
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Reading Franzen doesn't particularly help us read Zink: Even though some of their concerns are similar—they are both vicious on the subject of middle-class hypocrisy—there are few obvious similarities between Franzen's universalizing social novels and Zink's short, frantic fictions.
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All these years after Asleep in the Back's subdued indie rock, Elbow's seventh studio album, Little Fictions, harks back to those simpler times when the band were first beginning, before the stadium tours, and the Mercury Prizes, and truckloads of records sold.
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Many of Japan's sushi chefs buy into the fictions that women don't have the physical constitution to keep up with their male colleagues in the kitchen, or that their hands are too warm to handle fish—which are, of course, woefully stupid.
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Just as O.J. somehow distilled America's racial pathologies and JonBenét encapsulated anxieties about an increasingly sexualized culture, Tonya's very existence confronted the country's convenient fictions about being a place where everyone has a fair shot, where an even playing field is the rule.
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The image is particularly troubling because a white woman's fictions caused the murder of the young man, and now a white female artist has mined a photograph of his death for ostensible commentary, which in reality does little to illuminate much of anything.
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But if the plot is compelling, in some ways echoing Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel "Americanah," it is also sometimes murky; you have to listen hard for the clues to what has happened and also be patient with unmarked detours into flashbacks and fictions.
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Maeve has her daughter, Ake has a wife he remembers from a less troubled time, and they're both determined to rekindle these relationships at all costs, even after learning that they're essentially fictions dreamed up to give depth to a theme park.
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He also wrote, for Doubleday, two critiques of the church as an institution: "The Noise of Solemn Assemblies: Christian Commitment and the Religious Establishment in America," and "The Precarious Vision: A Sociologist Looks at Social Fictions and Christian Faith," both published in 1961.
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Though Lerner questions whether "the present's notion of its past and future are changeable fictions," he gives short shrift to the aim of conservationists, which is to find ever more accurate and responsible methods of preserving and restoring original works of art.
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The decades-old trope of female journalists having sex with sources in order to extract information from them (a variant of the stereotypical woman who sleeps her way to the top) has long been one of the most tired fictions in Hollywood.
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There are a lot of things we can do to make care more efficient and coordinated, but at a minimum, we need to restrain health care prices because they are essentially constructed fictions by health care providers trying to maximize their incomes.
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In the exhibition Miracles in a Swamp, on view at Moscow's Regina Gallery, Pepperstein insists on the possibilities of a deconstruction of history and his long-held opposition between the fictions of human history and the inescapable, even terrifying, reality of the cosmos.
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A recent paper by the Computational Propaganda Project at Oxford University found that Twitter-users in swing states were just as likely to come across conspiratorial fictions in the run-up to the presidential election as they were to encounter something that passed for news.
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Its literary lineage starts in the classics (sweet-natured, knowledge-rummaging Pliny), goes through Montaigne and Sir Thomas Browne, and then winds through Rilke's diaristic " Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ," the freewheeling fictions of Kundera and the magical ones of Calvino, the diaries of Gombrowicz.
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" (Opens March 31.) The biomorphic drawings in "Terry Winters: Facts and Fictions," at the Drawing Center, may appear abstract, but for forty years the Brooklyn-born painter has been heeding the advice of Cézanne: "Treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone.
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The opportunity to delight in the meeting of sumptuousness and rigor — a meeting we often associate with music — is more than enough reason to see the beautifully presented exhibition, Terry Winters: Facts and Fictions at The Drawing Center, thoughtfully organized by Chief Curator Claire Gilman.
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Thus, while Selected Works Volume 20113, 1964–69 may contain such rote and uninspiring fare as "On Improving the Work of the Youth League to Meet the Requirements of the Developing Situation," it also includes multiple texts on aesthetics, narrative, and the manipulation of fictions.
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He went on to argue that the liberal world order has relied on fictions like "the customer is always right" and "follow your heart," and that these ideas no longer work in the age of artificial intelligence, when hearts can be manipulated at scale.
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We selected four quintessentially American writers to create short fictions based on four of Shore's most iconic photographs, all of which will appear in the show — and another author, Annie Proulx, to discuss an image of Shore's that made a lasting impression on her.
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De Sade's fictions shred religious morals, familial taboos, and all other laws regulating sex; his extremes galvanized a new generation of writers and thinkers in France who viewed The Enlightenment as having produced a civilization that runs on moral hypocrisy, state violence, and robotic capitalism.
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This Friday, to commemorate the last days of its exhibition Fictions, the Studio Museum in Harlem has invited six contemporary poets — Joshua Bennett, Desiree Bailey, Marwa Helal, Chanice Hughes-Greenberg, Aracelis Girmay, and Nkosi Nkululeko — to respond to the works on view in the galleries.
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One of the ideas that is central to your book Sapiens is that the central quality of Homo sapiens, what has allowed us to dominate the earth, is the ability to tell stories and create fictions that permit widespread cooperation in a way other species can't.
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The Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture has acquired one of her pieces, as has the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, N.C. Her work is currently featured in the Studio Museum in Harlem's influential "Fictions" exhibition of emerging artists.
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It's a fair question given that American big-screen fictions about genuinely sympathetic, fully humanized black criminals are unusual and the only meaningful thing about the title character of this movie is that he was exploited by the law when he was barely old enough to shave.
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There are manifestos, prose poems, flash fictions, detective stories, interviews, reviews, polemics and all kinds of hard-to-classify texts (even film scripts!) in here, and it's the kind of book that is rewarding to read both straight through and in small leaps in and out.
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LA is fictional in at least two respects: it is home to a major cultural industry where large-scale fictions are constructed and produced; it is also a place of self-invention, made easier by the hydraulic machines of promotion that are built into the culture.
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I haven't shunned the hard facts in these fictions of why and how and when tumescent men do what they do, even when these have not been in harmony with the portrayal that a masculine public-relations campaign — if there were such a thing — might prefer.
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Reverse chronologies might work well in fictions like Christopher Nolan's "Memento" or Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," where they are serving grander themes of the fragility of memory and the failures of fidelity, but they are an unsatisfying solution to the problem of how to structure a biography.
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The set includes three rereleases of out-of-print titles—his novels Father of Lies (1998), The Open Curtain (2006), and Last Days (2009)—as well as his latest collection of short fictions, A Collapse of Horses , which finds the author still at the height of his powers. 1.
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My main ambition as a historian is to be able to tell the difference between what's really happening in the world and what are the fictions that humans have been creating for thousands of years in order to explain or in order to control what's happening in the world.
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O. Scott) ★ 'Bridge of Spies' (PG-13, 2:15) In this gravely moody, perfectly directed thriller about a real 1962 spy swap, Steven Spielberg returns you to the good old bad days of the Cold War and its fictions, with their bottomless political chasms and moral gray areas.
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O. Scott) ★ 'Bridge of Spies' (PG-195563, 195553:195543) In this gravely moody, perfectly directed thriller about a real 195533 spy swap, Steven Spielberg returns you to the good old bad days of the Cold War and its fictions, with their bottomless political chasms and moral gray areas.
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His show, which consists almost entirely of a multipart video installation, focuses on another artist obsessed with the same subject, the performer Richard Pryor (1940-2005), who turned the facts and fictions of American blackness and whiteness into a blistering and supersonically brilliant career-long stand-up comedy act.
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Read an excerpt below: However one stands, or kneels, theologically, it's not difficult to agree that Christmas is one of the great human fictions — in that all of us who celebrate it know exactly what role we've been assigned in this year's picture-book enactment of the holiday.
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Which may be why we're seeing a new wave of fictions that explore the future trajectories of this trend; Channel 4's surprise hit series Black Mirror is mostly obsessed with the question of connection, and how technology accelerates and warps the way we relate to each other.
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This myth has absolutely no historical precedent and originated in the popular fictions of a writer named George Lippard, a contemporary and close friend of Edgar Allan Poe, but the veracity of the story meant little to Reagan, who admitted he hadn't bothered to research whether records reflected the incident.
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But in her expansive set of prequels, concurrent fictions and sequels, published between 1984 and 2000, she is particularly adept at picking out the characters one would wonder about most, and writes them so well as almost to make Austen seem remiss for telling us only one side of the story.
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His business, its longevity and health, is a reminder that one of the most seductive fictions of fashion is that it exists as a pure aesthetic expression — and yet those who believe this are those who disappear after a year or five, comets whose tails fade quickly into the glittering black.
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To find meaning in the astonishing historic turnings which have occurred over the weekend due to Brexit is a challenge fit for the acute and intuitive mind of someone like novelist Philip K. Dick, who is said to have divined direction in his historical fictions by throwing the sticks of the I Ching.
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From the title I expected something like a bestiary, where the text would build fictions out of the art to pen (as it were) the creatures into a mythology — but this book is nothing so simple or straightforward; it is, if anything, an anti-bestiary, organized around the systems that produce bestiaries.
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I have engaged with my fair share of fan fictions in order to keep myself connected to the characters, and of course, I've thought long and hard about what Hogwarts house I'm in — Slytherin — what my Patronis is — a mongoose — and what my career after graduating would be — reporter for The Daily Prophet, obviously.
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Alejandro Zambra's Facsímil: Libro de ejercicios (Editorial Hueders, 2014) is a genre-defying collection of short stories, prose poems, and flash fictions, mimicking the form of the Verbal Aptitude Test [Prueba de Aptitud Verbal], a standardized multiple choice test — somewhat like the SAT — that was necessary for applying to college between 1967 and 2003.
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Half of the $4 billion the Justice Department hopes to distribute to victims comes from the government's aggressive move to seize the assets not only of Mr. Madoff and his family, but also of the wealthy investors who over the years cashed out billions from the fund, profits that turned out to be fictions.
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These short fictions describe how the work of 10 poets — among them, William Blake, John Berryman, Audre Lorde, Weldon Kees, Elinor Wylie, Gregory Corso, and Sylvia Plath — might impact the lives of everyday people: a teacher, a high-school student, a waitress at Mickey's Burger Pub, a caregiver at the Hill and Dale Manor.
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Op-Ed Contributor Just in time for the holidays, our primary season for collective fictions — Ebenezer Scrooge, the Nutcracker Prince, Santa Claus — a team of researchers has published, in the peer-edited journal Nature Communications, the results of an extensive study of storytelling among the Agta, a contemporary population of hunter-gatherers in the Philippines.
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At the time of the trial, O.J. took on the role so often reserved for the victim of a crime: the passive body onto which different people could project different desires and beliefs, never confirming or contradicting anything, allowing various fictions to be spun around him until it was no longer possible to see the truth.
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The fictions collected in Almost No Memory, Samuel Johnson is Indignant, Varieties of Disturbance, and, most recently, Can't and Won't, are the Davis I suspect most readers know: epigrammatic confections, one-liners, bits of found text, dense little narratives like some space-age vision of astronaut food: a three-course meal in one easy-to-swallow capsule.
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A half-baked trade rumor, a story about a scuffle, a scrap of trash talk, all of it leads the imagination on a leash, takes the mind to a place where you can romp around in truths, half truths, and fictions of the game—a palace of wondering what did, what will, or what could happen somewhere.
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I got to know Magritte and his household so deeply as I was reading his writing and working on my introduction, and that inspired me to write a novel-in-flash-fictions / prose poems told partly from the perspective of his wife, Georgette, and partly from the perspective of their series of beloved Pomeranian dogs, all called Loulou.
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The title of the gratifying, lurid new play by Aleshea Harris, which opened on Sunday night at the newly renovated Soho Rep Theater, is "Is God Is." And while that might sound a tad ontological for fans of pulp fictions with high body counts, rest assured that the God invoked here is definitely one of vengeance.
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And it is here that we arrive, perhaps, at a final irony: If Kafka's fictions have often been read as parables of belatedness, non-arrival and perpetual deferment, there are other ways — most notably, the genuine, if fraught, multiculturalism of his literary imagination and conception of selfhood — in which he still remains ahead of us, pointing a direction forward.
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" The first novel-length portrait of Roth's indelible alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, is "one of Philip Roth's best short fictions," exhibiting bursts of "exceptional virtuosity," wrote our reviewer, Robert Towers, adding that the "rich promise of its style and inventiveness is in part betrayed by miscalculations of tone and structure, by a cleverness that sometimes bites its own tail.
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But, in New York, the prize for selling the facts and fictions of ethnic bonhomie used to belong to the Italian restaurant Mamma Leone's, which, as the story has it, "opened" in 1906 when Enrico Caruso encouraged fifty friends to shell out fifty cents a head for a down-home dinner in his friend Luisa Leone's living room.
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It goes on to say it was struck by "the remarkable lengths" to which Uber has gone to try to compel agreement with its own definition of its company and the legal relationships between the various parties involved — describing it as "resorting in its documentations to fictions, twisted language and even brand new terminology" to try to advance its arguments.
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Pub date: March 224 Kate Zambreno's genre-bending Screen Tests is hard to pin down — maybe they're essays, maybe they're micro-fictions — but the collection as a whole serves as a peek into the mind of a brilliant woman, meditating on ambition, vanity, age, art, and creativity, and drawing portraits of those who inspire her — Susan Sontag, Kathy Acker, Amal Clooney, and more.
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But he's hale vocally and acute verbally on eight well-crafted new ones and two savvy covers that indicate he's learned a few things—the warm songs to the long-suffering wife he married in 1948 and the progeny who chime in like they've earned it have the kind of detail he always reserved for his fictions, musical and otherwise.
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When "Roots" dethroned "Gone With the Wind" the next year, it wasn't just about ratings: It seemed to displace the power of racist fictions like "Gone With the Wind" and "The Birth of a Nation" to "write history with lightning," to quote the phrase President Woodrow Wilson is said to have used to praise the latter, D. W. Griffith's own Civil War epic.
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Though some may crinkle their brows at the subject matter of X 100PRE, more likely to explore matters of the heart than ways to run off on the plug, Bad Bunny's honesty feels right at a time in rap where we're expected to swallow cartel kingpin fictions from rappers who in all likelihood were low level dealers on their best days.
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" The Ghost Writer, 234 The first novel-length portrait of Roth's indelible alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, is "one of Philip Roth's best short fictions," exhibiting bursts of "exceptional virtuosity," wrote our reviewer, Robert Towers, adding that the "rich promise of its style and inventiveness is in part betrayed by miscalculations of tone and structure, by a cleverness that sometimes bites its own tail.
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" What Didion does capture, powerfully, in this book is the insularity of many places in the South, and, by implication, how insular the elites (like herself) are in places like California and New York and Washington — a thought she would develop further in her essays in The New York Review of Books (collected in the 2001 volume "Political Fictions") and in "Fixed Ideas.
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Except for the relatively few African-Americans who saw through such racist fictions of Africa, drawn upon to devalue their humanity and justify their relegation to second-class citizenship — people such as Garvey, Henry Highland Garnet, Martin R. Delany, W.E.B. Du Bois (who would die a citizen of Ghana), Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou — far too many of us felt that "Africa" was something of an embarrassment.
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When they have run "fake news," whether it's Stephen Glass's fictions at The New Republic in the 28503s or Sabrina Rubin Erdely's sensational Rolling Stone story of gang rape at the University of Virginia in 22019, it has been the result of either intentional malfeasance or extreme sloppiness by a writer and failures of editorial oversight at the publication — and the exposure of falsehood has been followed by retraction and apology.
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But for the U.S., the only responsible option by now is to forsake the procedural wrangles, diplomatic deadlocks and often perverse fictions of the UN. There is no magic solution to all the miseries that bedevil Syria, but it has become, at the very least, imperative to stop the attacks with which Syria's Assad has for years now been engaged in the monstrous business of normalizing the use of chemical weapons.
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The sheer depth and availability of data in the digital era supports faster-than-ever evidence-based debunking of official fictions, threatening to erode rogue regimes built on lies by pulling away the curtain that invests their leaders with power in the first place — by implying the scope and range of their capacity and competency is unknowable, and letting other players on the world stage accept such a 'leader' at face value.
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But it is within the scope of this essay to ponder some implications of the differences between the two fictions, as I found myself doing over the course of the four months during which I was wrapped up in both — not the least of those implications being questions about precisely what fiction is and how it relates to reality, and the extent to which traditional narrative can be a delivery vehicle for saying something true about life.
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Never have we been so suspicious or more ready to expose and accuse, and yet daily we accept fictions as the basis of reality, from the posturings of bots and provocateurs on Twitter to the radiantly lit, commercially sponsored posts of Instagram influencers for whom there is no distinction between the personal and the corporate, to the seemingly innocuous deceptions of friends who obsessively filter photos and curate their feeds to present a better version of themselves.
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Spending time among the replicators has helped me become aware of what it's easy to acknowledge intellectually but more difficult to feel: that a piece of art is mortal; that it is the work of many hands, only some of which are coeval with the artist; that time is the medium of media; that one person's damage is another's patina; that the present's notion of its past and future are changeable fictions; that a museum is at sea. ♦
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The Factory's current exhibition, Necessary Fictions, displays paintings and drawings by two international artists who have made transcultural journeys in opposing directions: Tammy Nguyễn, a first-generation Vietnamese-American painter, born and raised in San Francisco and now based in New York, who studied traditional lacquer painting in Ho Chi Minh City on a Fulbright fellowship in 2007; and Hà Ninh Pham, a Vietnamese artist who has recently returned to his country after two years of study in the United States.
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It doesn't, because we've been living in a country undergoing its own dismal process of Ukrainianization: of treating fictions as facts; and propaganda as journalism; and political opponents as criminals; and political offices as business ventures; and personal relatives as diplomatic representatives; and legal fixers as shadow cabinet members; and extortion as foreign policy; and toadyism as patriotism; and fellow citizens as "human scum"; and mortal enemies as long-lost friends — and then acting as if all this is perfectly normal.
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Probably starting about here, the official style guide of The New York Times Magazine would have me refer to him as ''Marlow,'' but this is a story about storytelling — about the stories we choose to tell and the way we tell them; the fictions that we entertain when we claim to write nonfiction — so I'm going to blow past the usual journalistic claptrap and just refer to our subject as Alex, because that's what everybody who knows him calls him, and people who don't know him tend to call him something much worse.
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