For instance, I would say that I avoid historical fiction, but some of my favorite novels would be categorized as historical fiction.
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Although he loved reading and writing historical fiction, the research required for writing real historical fiction was impractical, he wrote in his biography, I, Asimov.
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Mr Powers moves easily into the realm of historical fiction.
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I love how this episode used the historical fiction narrations.
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Mr. Adler wrote thrillers, love stories, mysteries and historical fiction.
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Dubbing the book historical fiction would have been more accurate.
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This is historical fiction that is the very opposite of escapist.
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There's everything from historical fiction to magical realism and literary fiction.
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Period dramas and historical fiction shows are popular for a reason.
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When she's not folding tiny clothes, she writes military historical fiction.
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Artist retrospectives most often fall into the genre of historical fiction.
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Rosenberg is a philosopher of science and a writer of historical fiction.
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Genre: Historical fiction Commitment: Two seasons, with 26 hour-long episodes total.
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This elaboration, of course, makes the book historical fiction, rather than biography.
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A word on historical accuracy: Hamilton is a work of historical fiction.
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Then it hit me: I should write a historical fiction out of spite.
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Since that aircraft's last hurrah, in 22020, it has become historical fiction instead.
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By now you've written books across several genres: historical fiction, mystery, young adult.
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That still leaves them room to be historical fiction of a high order.
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To what extent do viewers understand that historical fiction is just that: fiction?
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Because it's historical fiction, the characters find themselves up against anti-gay violence.
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Fritz began writing in the 1950s — first picture books and later historical fiction.
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But White Houses, the historical fiction-ish book from Amy Bloom, reactivated all that.
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"Avoiding anachronisms is one of the greatest challenges of writing historical fiction," she explained.
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I mean, I love the work of Bernard Cornwell, who is doing historical fiction.
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Teachers like the way Curtis explores family dynamics and social justice through historical fiction.
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It's part sketch comedy and part advertorial, with some historical fiction tossed in, too.
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I prefer literary and historical fiction, but sometimes a mystery helps keep me awake.
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What I don't read is historical fiction in the period that I am writing.
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Sarah writes historical fiction by filling up notebooks in longhand using a fountain pen.
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It's great historical fiction combined with a spy thriller set throughout the African diaspora.
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Sketchbook | Graphic Review The illustrator Vera Brosgol pays homage to Karen Cushman's historical fiction classic.
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For more historical fiction, turn to the five interwoven novels of Louise Erdrich's Birchbark series.
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If this sounds like historical fiction, I can't really say that it feels that way.
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Before Kepler was hatched, she wrote historical fiction; he wrote novels, plays and one opera libretto.
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I always want to remind them that "War and Peace" and "Les Misérables" are historical fiction.
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Linked stories aren't the ideal way to deliver the amount of exposition that historical fiction requires.
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As historical fiction, "Harriet" engages with the 19th-century tradition but is ultimately a liberation narrative.
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They create scenarios that range from horror, to historical fiction, to teenage fantasies, to the completely absurd.
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Dutton too accepts this fate in her book, which is not traditional historical fiction in any way.
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An adept writer of historical fiction, Wilson relies less on period detail than on vivid, multisensory description.
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Also, to be clear, as far as the fiction section goes, I've limited it to historical fiction.
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People either love this book — and its author, a prolific writer of historical fiction — or they don't.
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We get lost in the story sometimes, and forget it's historical fiction rather than an alternate timeline.
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"Memoirs of a Geisha" is a historical fiction novel about a geisha living in mid-20th century Japan.
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Historical fiction, and in particular historical crime fiction, has to feel of its time and of our time.
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Strangely no one advises him to burn that terrible sounding book of erotic fiction masquerading as historical fiction.
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The historical fiction novel is narrated from the perspective of Lorena Hickok, Roosevelt's long-time friend and lover.
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Inspired by the courtship of his own grandparents, Cleave's foray into historical fiction is both grand and intimate.
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His messaging is scattered -- a combination of historical fiction mixed with personal self-exploration and possible publicity-seeking.
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And you can read a great book, Historical Fiction by Graham Moore about Tesla versus Edison and Westinghouse.
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Anyway, it's an easy read and arguably the book that started the historical fiction craze of the 2000s.
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Some argued that, to one extent or another, all biography is just historical fiction in more respectable packaging.
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This is one of the strengths of the best historical fiction: It allows us access to difficult topics.
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One of the great challenges of writing historical fiction is deploying the research without calling attention to it.
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"As with all great historical fiction, the allure … is the curiosity it inspires," our reviewer, Susan Ellingwood, wrote.
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Part spy thriller, part historical fiction, American Spy ambitiously tackles race, gender, and politics at the same time.
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I really want to read more historical fiction this year, but I find some of it so bland.
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"Cross That River" ends up presenting a historical fiction without engaging with the full context of that history.
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Faye is an author of first-rate historical fiction, including several excellent riffs on the Sherlock Holmes canon.
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In any case, I would much rather read an authentic contemporary diary than a work of historical fiction.
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It has the best qualities of this sort of historical fiction, which include the winking perspective of the present.
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Historical fiction is rarely about women — they appear as supporting characters, but are rarely given scenes of their own.
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In common, I suspect, with most writers of historical narrative nonfiction, I struggle with historical fiction: What is true?
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The premise of the book is like many that give rise to historical fiction: intriguing and a little shaky.
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In this work of historical fiction, Ebershoff takes a critical look at polygamy through his side-by-side narratives.
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First, this show, a work of historical fiction that looks at masked vigilantes from the past, is a big deal.
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The book tells six separate stories, each in a different genre (including historical fiction, pulp crime novel, and dystopian tale).
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"The Sword in the Stone set the standard by which I judge all historical fiction," he told NPR in 2010.
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Jack Aubrey, but then I thought of Flashman in the series of humorous historical fiction novels by George MacDonald Fraser.
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Fans of historical fiction, especially historical Nordic fiction, should jump on this first issue and get in at the start.
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Hilary Mantel was my polestar in approaching historical fiction, and anything I know about humor I learned from Martin Amis.
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The site offers free audiobooks from a multitude of genres, from adventure and romance to science fiction and historical fiction.
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Historical fiction can become a form of cultural memory, a way of saying things society can't say any other way.
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It's a story that could be the stuff of venerable and fusty historical fiction, but Mantel clears away the cobwebs.
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No wonder we seek refuge in the past, in a more direct way than can ever be found in historical fiction.
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Writer of historical fiction, sister, friend, daughter to two great parents, one of whom had just announced his candidacy for president.
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At the Metropolitan Opera, he rearranged the acts of Borodin's "Prince Igor" to transform a historical fiction into a psychological journey.
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This makes historical fiction a safe, even conservative, genre, attractive to writers who aren't looking to go out on a limb.
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Starting in the nineteen-nineties, Le Guin returned in earnest to historical fiction, in "Lavinia," and to science fiction and fantasy.
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It is a deeply researched piece of historical fiction based on the true story of the Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky.
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Historical fiction can be as political and as pertinent to today's world as it is illustrative of the world it depicts.
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The 18 movies screening at MoMA show renewed commitment to a range of genres, from documentary to thrillers to historical fiction.
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As Ms Mantel said in a lecture in 2017, readers of historical fiction are "actively requesting a subjective interpretation" of the evidence.
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"One of the things I can't bear in historical fiction with strong female characters is when they are prematurely woke," says Gilbert.
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It's a work of historical fiction, charting the experiences of five different characters as their lives wind through the real world struggle.
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Reign, a mystery-steeped romance rooted in (not so accurate) historical fiction has been described as Game of Thrones for teenage girls.
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It is historical fiction and a kind of fictionalized biography, the study of the real-life World War II figure Varian Fry.
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Several historical fiction titles from my childhood won Coretta Scott King awards, which recognize children's books by African-American authors and illustrators.
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It can do no harm to a work of historical fiction to tell people what parts of the story are, well, fiction.
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American Born Chinese is a coming-of-age story wrapped around the idea of myth, while Boxers & Saints explores faith through historical fiction.
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"Historical fiction— television, movies, plays, books, and games — would suffer greatly if trademark claims like [Pinkerton's] could even possibly succeed," Take-Two declares.
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The interesting thing about writing the '80s is that I've wanted to write historical fiction for a long time, and now I can.
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It's a delightfully literary historical fiction book about the early days of the BBC, featuring the well-named Maisie Musgrave as its heroine.
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Hilary Mantel has a proven track record with lengthy historical fiction, but it turns out she's a dab hand at short stories too.
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I also like some young adult stuff, which is an embarrassing section to walk through in the bookstore, and I like historical fiction.
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When Donald Trump pardoned self-hating historical fiction writer Dinesh D'Souza last May, many assumed the move was part of a larger plan.
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Ms. Paisley wrote in multiple genres and formats — poetry, short stories, historical fiction and nonfiction, television scripts and dramas for theater and radio.
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I like historical fiction, two favorites being "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet," by David Mitchell, and "Wolf Hall," by Hilary Mantel.
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From a contemporary romance with a pastiche of historical fiction, we move to a historical novel that's a pastiche of … '80s teen movies?
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Melding historical fiction, magical realism and Afrofuturism, Serpell charts the fortunes of these families through their tumultuous ups and downs alongside the country's.
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The series, which mixes surrealism and historical fiction, questions our understanding of the McCarthy era, and whether we realize just how horrifying it was.
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Whatever they come up with for a finale, at this point, the present-day truth could wind up being stranger than their historical fiction.
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Despite the predominantly serious nature of the historical fiction genre, this book's lovable, quirky characters and undeniable wit make it a truly heartwarming story.
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Based on Margaret Atwood's novel of the same name, this work of historical fiction reimagines the 1843 murders of a man and his housekeeper.
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The "Wolf Hall" trilogy is probably the greatest historical fiction accomplishment of the past decade; the first two volumes both won Man Booker Prizes.
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But Daisy Goodwin, the British television producer and writer of historical fiction, who created "Victoria," said that there is at least one important difference.
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"Apology for the Woman Writing" (2008), a work of historical fiction, deals with Marie de Gournay, the amanuensis to the essayist Michel de Montaigne.
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Writers of historical fiction may of course take artistic license with their material to streamline or enhance what we see of a subject's life.
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He selected Frank Slaughter, a bestselling author of historical fiction, who wrote books with titles like Buccaneer Surgeon and Devil's Gamble: A Novel of Demonology.
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Directed by and starring Laurence Fishburne and Larenz Tate and scripted by Academy Award-nominated writer Josh Olson, Bronzeville is historical fiction at its finest.
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IN A TALK she gave to the Royal Society of Literature in 2010, Hilary Mantel offered some advice to would-be authors of historical fiction.
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Then write a piece of historical fiction in which you take your founding father on a tour of issues in the United States of 2016.
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She had traded in the elegiac historical fiction of "We the Living" for another Soviet inheritance: agitprop novels, dedicated to showcasing heroic individualists and entrepreneurs.
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Often in historical fiction the character who is haloed in history is the one who feels more urgent and real than her present-day counterpart.
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That charge is the only one faced by Mr. Burga, who has spent much of the six days of jury deliberations quietly reading historical fiction.
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I hope the point of writing historical fiction for Buckley is not that it's safer to create such characters inside the haven of the past.
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Those involved with the movie have referred to it as "historical fiction," instead of a Rob Ford biopic ... but it certainly has that biopic look.
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They take that person's information and create a piece of historical fiction — a diary entry, letter — about the person living their life in the 19th century.
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I am a sucker for any work of historical fiction, and I'm an immigrant myself, so when immigration is weaved in, I'm even more on board.
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It has all the sweep of historical fiction, but its history is invented, an attempt to extrapolate current trends into a world that feels scarily plausible.
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This tapestry makes for a compelling story that, like all great historical fiction, is not only about the past, but says profound things about the present. ■
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The same could be said for her relationship to historical fiction, which all too often relies on period props and a confounding amount of sensual detail.
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As an avid reader of historical fiction, I loved being able to absorb the nuance of this moment through the emotions and memories of the characters.
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"Inland" is half magical, half historical fiction: the braided tale of two unusual characters scratching a life from a harsh landscape, whose destinies will surely collide.
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Part mystery, part historical fiction, part friend and sister story, the book opens on the night 13-year-old Alisha's 15-year-old sister, Diana, disappears.
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Alternate history, in my opinion, is a more demanding game than imagining the future (if only because conventional historical fiction, like history, is itself highly speculative).
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The work is one of historical fiction, though it is interesting to note that Austen wrote so often of romance, love, and marriage but never married herself.
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And the post-Prohibition setting allows Bayard, best known for his adult historical fiction, to endow his narrator with freedoms most contemporary children can only dream of.
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But the latest Tracy Chevalier and Jane Hamilton novels, stylistically distinct, respectively, as plot-heavy historical fiction and leisurely evocative contemporary literature, form a complementary double feature.
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These characters and settings converge with some surprising results in a book that tests the limits of historical fiction, then writes a few new rules for it.
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It's historical fiction that takes place in World War II, and it's set up as a memoir of his grandpa being on his deathbed telling him stories.
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In 2004, Philip Roth published The Plot Against America, a work of alternative historical fiction imagining a world where Charles Lindbergh drove Franklin D. Roosevelt from office.
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These historical fiction books for young readers (recommended for ages 9–12) are written from the perspective of famous royal young women from all over the world.
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She was also entering a saturated marketplace for Tudor historical fiction, territory that had already been mined by novelists like Philippa Gregory, Antonia Fraser and Alison Weir.
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Authors of historical fiction are always tempted to write a prologue, sometimes set far in advance of the main action, often for purposes of foreshadowing, usually ironic.
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The difficulty, as with any work of historical fiction, is in getting the facts to hum and resonate in our contemporary minds, to illuminate our own mysteries.
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At one point, Febos recounts a meeting with her agent where she talks about her obsession with King Philip's War and her desire to write historical fiction.
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He has written thrillers, dabbled in historical fiction and was last heard from in 2016 as the vice-presidential running mate to the Libertarian nominee, Gary Johnson.
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That same year, Daniel Mendelsohn wrote a lengthy piece on the cover of the Book Review that assessed both "The Master" and the larger project of historical fiction.
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Historical fiction that immerses you into another world while simultaneously telling you something about your own (see: Paragon Hotel's 1920s Portland, To Keep the Sun Alive's Iranian revolution).
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Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox is many things at once: It's historical fiction — a romp through 18th-century London alongside legendary thief and gaol-breaker Jack Sheppard.
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I cannot recommend this highly enough to fans of family sagas, historical fiction, fiction set in East Asia, or really any reader who just wants a good story.
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As Gareth Damian Martin pointed out, though, the flippancy with which the tools of war get deployed in that historical fiction world do much to undermine that narrative.
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Mr. Freed, a member of the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee, formed to commemorate Oppenheimer, said that he viewed the work as historical fiction, but found it rewarding.
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Paying homage to Jewish life in Vilnius, it's a work of historical fiction that means to make large-scale atrocity palpable, comprehensible and urgently relevant to the present.
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Starting 10 years ago with his World War II epic Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino has made a hobby of histories so revisionist that they turn historical fiction into pulp.
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Sepetys is an absolute master of suspenseful historical fiction that plunges you into dangerous political moments, showing the life-or-death stakes for characters who seem achingly real.
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Having won the Booker in 2000 for "The Blind Assassin", a complex work of historical fiction, Ms Atwood becomes the fourth writer to have claimed the prize twice.
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Anderson's ("Tiger Lily") moody, mesmerizing novel, an unusual hybrid of science fiction and historical fiction, is devoted to the restless souls who want to get the heck out.
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ANNELIES By David R. Gillham Where historical fiction can fail is in trying to reimagine the life of a person whom too many readers think they know well.
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Gethin Anthony (Renly Baratheon) went from murder victim to murder mastermind on the now-canceled NBC historical fiction drama "Aquarius," in which he played Charles Manson for two seasons.
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This is not in itself an unusual strategy: Think of all the historical fiction involving the great man's butler, the queen's housekeeper, the overlooked minor bystander speaking at last.
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In a new novel, " Revolutionaries " (Knopf), Joshua Furst has done Hoffman the historical-fiction honor of stealing his life and refracting it, slightly, into the tale of Lenny Snyder.
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This is the incidental stuff that historical fiction wants to script and dramatize, to portray plausibly and without much fear of contradiction, along with what we know actually happened.
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Ohler's claim to be offering new insights too often rests on such leaps in logic, casting doubt on his book's status as history, rather than really interesting historical fiction.
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Verble has given historical fiction lovers a real gift: "Cherokee America" is an excellent illustration of how diverse books enrich literature, and the minds of those who read them.
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Autobiography and Reminiscences of Sarah J. Cummins by Sarah J. Cummins, 1914 (free) Cummins's memoir has the appeal of historical fiction, but with more accuracy (at least, in theory).
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The historical-fiction powers that be seem to think it is imperative that women of color are represented as subordinates, according to several actors I spoke to about this story.
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My all-time favorites include some literary fiction (Barbara Kingsolver's "The Poisonwood Bible"); some magic realism (Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "The Mistress of Spices"); some historical fiction (Mary Renault's Theseus books).. . .
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Wouk is often grouped with middlebrow writers of popular historical fiction — James Michener and Leon Uris, say — but his novels are better understood as pointillistic character studies in historical settings.
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Evelyn Anthony, a best-selling British novelist who transitioned from historical fiction to espionage thrillers, becoming one of the first female writers to explore the spy genre, died on Sept.
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Long Story Short If you want to avoid fiction with a doomed, visionary slant, stick with historical fiction about science and nature, which can be brutal, but usually less apocalyptic.
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Also, I dare not read historical fiction when I am researching the period, in case the author has inserted something wrong or something fictional that may stick in my head.
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She was more versatile than many of her casual readers realize: alongside her better-known realist novels, she wrote ghost stories, historical fiction, and the first biography of Charlotte Brontë.
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This bold crop of fresh lit includes a novel set deep in Kentucky, historical fiction that begins in 18th-century Ghana, and a bio of rich girl turned-revolutionary Patty Hearst.
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They're available in a wide range of genres -- from adventure and fantasy to historical fiction, memoir, and biography -- so certainly there's a graphic novel out there to suit your teen's taste.
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While Murray's work—including Tales of the New World and A Carnivore's Inquiry—is often described with the weak catchall "historical fiction," it is more nearly about the tensions of colonization.
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I cut up rough when a bookseller, asked to recommend good historical fiction, pulled down a paperback with a gorgeous, hunky centurion, his thick-muscled body covered with blood and sand.
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Now that she's finished the grim final chapter of Cromwell's story, Mantel says she's done with historical fiction and plans to focus on writing plays, an entirely new medium for her.
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The author's sprawling historical fiction recalls E.L. Doctorow and William Kennedy, and Yellow Earth is replete with astute exchanges that address power dynamics around law, government, big business, and minority communities.
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During jury deliberations last week Mr. Burga read historical fiction — the third book in a trilogy by the Spanish author Santiago Posteguillo, a novel about the fall of the Roman Empire.
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With Supa Dupa Fly, she helped usher in a wave of Afrofuturism—an artistic movement wherein pan-African culture is expressed through science fiction, historical fiction, magical realism and other fantastical genres.
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American Girl, the beloved manufacturer of dolls and accessories (both of the modern and the historical-fiction genre) has just answered a longstanding call from its customers — and we couldn't be happier.
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For starters, he began "Ulysses" nearly a decade after the events described, essentially making it a work of historical fiction; he was already aware of what had gone extinct in its ecosystem.
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The novel is a conventionally structured work of historical fiction set in Brooklyn during the nineteen-thirties and forties, a period that she became curious about in the wake of 9/11.
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On some larger, meta-narrative level, Game of Thrones is about a bunch of characters who think they're in a historical fiction novel and end up living in a fantasy novel instead.
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In the 20th century, historical fiction acquired its dreaded "genre fiction" status, with its connotations of corsets, unfurling Nazi flags, the fetid smell of Victorian London — the dinner theater of literature, essentially.
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Fuller treatments of religion in recent Y.A. have come in Julie Berry's "The Passion of Dolssa" and Laura Amy Schlitz's "The Hired Girl" — but both are historical fiction, set in bygone eras.
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Historical fiction, particularly detective fiction, and contemporary detective stories set outside New York City, perhaps because I don't want even the most realistically rendered stories to intrude on my lived, quotidian reality.
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We take the weekend to highlight some of the recent books coverage in The Times: George W. Bush's two terms as president are already turning up as the subject of historical fiction.
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Before the end of 222, he had signed Wilbur Smith—once a giant in popular historical fiction (and now, as Mallory put it in an e-mail to friends, "approximately four centuries old").
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Greenblatt the historian seems to let his inner Poggio take over, and thus this nonfiction history takes on the prejudiced slant of a 15th-century anti-religious egotistical humanist and becomes historical fiction.
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Whereas Mason takes a resolutely old-fashioned approach by believing in historical fiction — a genre which trusts that the world and history may be seized unselfconsciously, without the author's formal uneasiness elbowing in.
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It is more horror-fantasy than historical fiction, and where "Neverhome" and "The Evening Road" are grounded, if at times meandering, this one takes off at a full gallop and never looks back.
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Historical fiction rather than a tale wrenched from recent headlines, his desolate testimony hints that the flow of the dispossessed has, like the perpetual chaos of Afghanistan, become a fixed feature of the world.
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In Voyager, the third book in the Outlander series written by historical fiction author Diana Gabaldon, Cho or Mr. Willoughby (the name he's given in Scotland) is described as having a deviant foot fetish.
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This is just one example of how Scott, who also co-authors Two Nerdy History Girls, does historical fiction well: she doesn't render her characters with anachronistic viewpoints, but also doesn't dumb them down.
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The production ends up being more historical porn than historical fiction, with its version of the fatal Frame 225 of the Zapruder film being held off until late in the picture: the money shot.
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Crime, Mr. Zhou says, is a universal theme, which is why detective stories or police thrillers (even from an authoritarian political system like China's) can more easily transcend cultural divides than, say, historical fiction.
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"Golden Hill" is his first novel, and not a typical first novel (mumbled quasi-memoir) but an ebullient, freewheeling historical fiction set in 18th-century New York City three decades before the Revolutionary War.
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Contrary to its reputation as being a romance show for women — it's actually a mishmash of sci-fi, fantasy, adventure and historical fiction — "Outlander" has an audience that is now about 35 percent male.
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The attempts to invest Elizabeth with a little overly modern-sounding feminist resolve fall short, though, and are reminders that historical fiction rarely knows what to do with the little ladies left at home.
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Voice is everything in historical fiction, too: One of the novelist's critical creative decisions is how to present the voices and world views of people in the past, while making them accessible for modern readers.
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In this buzzy piece of historical fiction, actors Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyers take us back to 1989, and the Windy City's "Southside," as a young Barack begins the process of wooing his future bride.
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Synopsis: The Tudors was one of the first mega popular historical fiction series and it's easy to see why — it's absolutely riddled with sex, drinking, petty rivalries, and amazing approximately 13% historical truth peppered in.
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A new kind of historical fiction has evolved to show us that the past is no longer merely prologue but story itself, shaping our increasingly fractured fairy tales about who we are as a society.
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So the book is perhaps best regarded as historical fiction and, like many a good novel, it centers on the rags-to-riches ascent of a colorful protagonist — or, in this case, two colorful protagonists.
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Mary Lincoln is the protagonist of Irving Stone's "Love Is Eternal" (1954), an overdecorated but non-flimsy piece of historical fiction, its author in command of his material even when he's unable to animate it.
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Historical fiction, TV shows, and videogames focused on ancient Rome have all perpetuated the use of SPQR as symbolic of the Roman military, which may have influenced white nationalist groups to adopt it as well.
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" —Sarena (BuzzFeed Book Club) "If you like GOOD historical fiction, if you like GOOD fantasy, if you love reading and magic because they are one and the same, boy, are you in for an incredible treat.
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But what is assumed to be "authenticity" is a genre convention that owes more to the influence of early historical fiction than to genuine speech patterns of ancient Rome or the real pirates of the Caribbean.
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Writers of crime fiction need to figure out how to write about crimes they have not committed; writers of historical fiction need to figure out how to write about real events that they have never seen.
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Atwood's novel is a piece of historical fiction, rooted in the story of "famous murderess" Grace Marks, who, along with fellow servant James McDermott, was convicted in 1843 of murdering Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery.
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Immersive theater has, up until now, typically dabbled in areas like historical fiction and horror, the latter borne from the evolution of the haunted house as guests seek out ever more elaborate setups and psychologically taxing experiences.
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The whitewashing of slavery-era relationships is all too common; so are bizarre historical fiction films that have tried to sell audiences on ridiculous relationships, like a black woman who falls in love with a Nazi (seriously!).
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The turbulent and bloody politics of the Tudor era, which lasted from 1485 to 1603, is a well-trodden path for writers of historical fiction, but Mantel is widely credited with elevating the genre to new heights.
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But Fernandez says that after the success of their minority and women-focused series like Power, and women-led historical fiction dramas Outlander and The White Queen, the network was committed to creating authentic programming for underserved audiences.
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To hear the whole interview with Moore, which also touched on his love of science, why he likes writing historical fiction, his experience writing the book and screenplay of "The Imitation Game," and more, click on http://podcast.cnn.com.
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Quarterly, which has sent boxes to more than 100,000 subscribers, recently acquired book subscription club BooklyBox to build PageHabit, and will first offer the service in six genres: literary fiction, young adult, fantasy, romance, historical fiction, and mystery.
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But the history in historical fiction still matters, from small personal details (Gary Sokolov said it bothered him that his father's name was misspelled "Lale" in the book) to larger complexities that may make a tale more murky.
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Richard Peck, a former English teacher whose award-winning novels for young readers used historical fiction, horror and other genres to tell stories about difficult real-life subjects like rape, unwanted pregnancy and suicide, died on Wednesday in Manhattan.
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At its best, historical fiction isn't a stump speech or a school lesson, but it sure does illuminate the past, give soul and body to our history so we can sojourn with it a while, in privacy and contemplation.
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Picking up on the term Afrofuturism, which combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, and African cosmologies, Al-Maria coined the term "Gulf Futurism" to describe a view of the future shaped by video games and Hollywood films.
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CreditCreditJohn Burke/Science & Society Picture Library, via Getty Images When the American author James A. Michener went to Afghanistan to research his work of historical fiction, "Caravans," it was 1955 and there were barely any roads in the country.
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Cervantes's "Don Quixote" and Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" are literary masterpieces — but the ballet "Don Quixote" (May 15-20) is just another romp, while the ballet "Onegin" (June 19-24) reduces the story into a hammy historical-fiction tear-jerker.
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The creaky story line of the 1898 "Raymonda" was shaped by Countess Lydia Pashkova and Petipa along the lines of the Romantic historical fiction popularized a century earlier by Ann Radcliffe (the novelist satirized by Jane Austen in "Northanger Abbey").
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His other books include "Boxers and Saints" (2013), a work of historical fiction with dollops of mysticism set during the Boxer Rebellion in China; and "Secret Coders" (2015), illustrated by Mike Holmes, about students solving mysteries at an unsettling school.
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The appeal for me to start writing my own historical fiction is to base it on actual history, and I'm so excited to do all the research about 15th-century European history for Joan of Arc and the Ming Dynasty.
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I'm drawn to historical [fiction], particularly these underrepresented stories, because I love the idea that we can give voice to someone who either lost the chance to tell their story or will never have a chance to tell their story.
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In language arts, he was learning to write essays and reading historical fiction about young people who immigrated to the United States in decades past, and he was hoping to get an A. But in algebra, he was falling behind.
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Adapted from Caleb Carr's novel, this historical fiction is handsomely produced and smartly cast, but merely delivers the latest twist on a serial-killer yarn -- a particularly nasty one, true, but which at least initially fails to get under your skin.
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"The Good Fight," by contrast, is also smart, but in its new season veers so far toward reality -- into what's basically a real-time version of historical fiction, mixing actual people with fictional ones -- as to distract from its central storylines.
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There's historical fiction that visits the relatively recent past (Tennessee Williams and his social milieu come to life in Christopher Castellani's "Leading Men") and the very recent past (Thomas Mallon's "Landfall" is a novel about George W. Bush and his presidency).
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It is a coming-of-age fantasy horror tale, 11/22/63 is a time-travel historical-fiction romance, and The Dark Tower combines just about every genre in existence from westerns and science fiction to high fantasy and mystery.
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The Shape of Water is a cross between a dark fairy tale, historical fiction, and an epic romance (between a mute woman and a fish-man), and with its occasional gore and imaginative monster stylings, it's very much a del Toro film.
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In the games, the Animus is primarily a clever but forgettable framing device for sci-fi-tinged historical fiction, and the "real" modern world — where your options and abilities are suddenly limited — is an anemic shadow of its rich, virtual historical settings.
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This is the distinction between books dismissed (fairly or no) as historical fiction and literature that happens to be set in the past, which immerses the reader beyond period verisimilitude and sensory detail, taking her deep into the collective psyche of another era.
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Jean Zimmerman, who includes the book in her shortlist of recent historical fiction, says that "Soli plumbs the contradictions of a man who could massacre Native Americans while conducting an affair with an Indian woman," and describes Cummins's experiences "with grit and grace."
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But I know I bring baggage to every single piece of writing I produce, whether the writing is personal narrative, historical fiction, literary criticism or reportage: I bring the specifically deforming influence of my own history, my hobbyhorse theories and my fascinations.
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Now, in addition to the more contemporary settings — the funky jazz dives with their mugithi music and the eternal dislocation of "Afropolitan" migrants, "not citizens, but Africans of the world," as Taiye Selasi calls them — African writers are also exploring historical fiction.
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Mr. Cooper, a fifth-generation descendant of the early-19th-century herald of historical fiction, was the author of eight books, a longtime writer for The New Yorker and the droll chronicler of goings-on at the august Century Association's clubhouse in Midtown Manhattan.
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The series is historical fiction, but many of the sites involved, from the homes of the main spies to the taverns where they picked up information from drunk British soldiers, are real, and are still standing along Route 25A, between Oyster Bay and Setauket.
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There's another, slyer function of good historical fiction, though, and that is to defamiliarize the present: to remind us that some aspects of our own civilization which we might treat as eternal verities have prevailed, or are likely to prevail, for a relatively short time.
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The result is a lavish stereoscopic historical fiction about the difference between obsession and love, even as it is also subtly a story about what it means to be Korean, when the world, and even your own self, is trying to take that from you.
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But while sitting down with a great biography or historical fiction about times long ago is always a treat (try Wolf Hall or anything by Philippa Gregory), THIS LIST is much more precise: Fictional stories set in modern times that are royal or royal-adjacent.
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But Sayles is clear in his message that romanticizing a lost status quo is disingenuous, particularly as it affects marginalized groups in the US. Yellow Earth is a return to form for Sayles, hitting his sweet spot of historical fiction that is dense and compelling.
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"The Autumn of the Patriarch," Gabriel García Márquez While this is as good a work of Latin American historical fiction as any that I have read, what I love about it is what it teaches about the nature of power and its isolating effects.
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Tom DeLonge claim: The Department of Defense has alien technology Hinted at by the New York Times Much of his first book, Chasing Shadows (which DeLonge calls "historical fiction"), is about secret government programs to recover, test, and ultimately build alien technology for use in warfare.
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On a summer day this year, as Brooklyn explored a virtual playground on Roblox, the popular gaming platform designed for young kids, Petersen read out loud from Meet Kirsten, a kids' chapter book based in the 1850s that's part of doll-maker American Girl's historical fiction series.
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Casey Newton: But, you know, if you've never played these games, they're all historical fiction and so each one takes place during a different historical time and as you play the game and murder bad people ... Louie Swisher: Or good people, depending on how you're feeling.
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The movie will be based on historical fiction novel Finding Jack, which is basically a boy and his dog story, except the boy is a depressed soldier, the dog is a military scout animal, and the whole thing is set in the middle of the Vietnam War.
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"There's a real interest in fiction that is based on history and real people," said Sara Nelson, a vice president, executive editor and special adviser to the publisher of Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, who called the book an unusual hybrid of memoir and historical fiction.
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As though to test this assumption, another kind of historical fiction has taken hold in recent years, one that moves back and forth from one period to another, or several others, in an attempt to create not a suspension of disbelief but a suspension bridge across time.
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And I knew that the reason that I wanted to tell the story of Thick as Thieves is I wanted to revisit a story that meant a lot to me by Rosemary Sutcliff, who was a British author who wrote historical fiction set in the Roman Britain era.
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After cementing his position as a beloved writer of speculative fiction with Snow Crash, he tackled code-breaking and world wars in Cryptonomicon, historical fiction and the origins of science with the Baroque Cycle, philosophy and mathematics in Anathem, and high-stakes, action-packed global adventure in Reamde.
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While imagining things that may not have happened, or did not happen exactly in the way the creator imagines it, is endemic to the process of creating historical fiction, this does not preempt historians' perfect right — even duty — to say where a given work strays from the historical record.
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After flunking out of academia—her feminist dissertation, "Women's Unheard Voices in Antebellum America," bombed with her male adviser—she goes to work at the New York offices of a small film-production company, where she options a piece of historical fiction about a schoolteacher's erotic adventures on the Canadian frontier.
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In her best work—a category in which her latest, " Transcription " (Little, Brown), certainly belongs—she maneuvers the tropes of the murder-mystery genre, of historical fiction, and of privileged white Britishness into a kind of critical salvage of women's work, women's lives, that's as heterodox, in its way, as Cusk's.
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HISTORICAL FICTION ARISES out of a desire to see the human project in a continuum, out of the belief that it is possible to tell stories about a vanishing past that bear on the immediate present, forged at the place at which the archives end and the author's imagination begins.
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"The Night Watch," Sarah Waters I love all of Sarah Waters's historical fiction, but this is my favorite novel, set during and after World War II. It starts slow but picks up insane momentum, using reverse narration to follow the characters backward in time to the explosive wartime scenes that shaped them.
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There were some exceptions—notably, the historical fiction writer Gay Courter, who wrote her best-selling novel The Midwife on an IBM System 6 in the late 1970s—but, generally speaking, the writers whose eyes were most firmly trained on the future were the easiest to lure way from their Olivetti Letteras.
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Her career is filled with achievements in great storytelling that also offer galvanizing visions of worlds that differ from our own: the feminist and anti-capitalist utopias of The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, and Always Coming Home; the Taoist epic fantasy of the Earthsea novels; the emancipatory historical fiction of Lavinia.
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The best of this season's historical fiction demonstrates why all kinds of diversity are important, with writers from varied backgrounds using settings we've seen before — a Native American boarding school, a World War II internment camp in Texas, Okinawa, Chicago during the Great Migration — to tell stories that are nuanced, honest and new.
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Ferretti strives for something realer, but also takes pride in the artifice of his (more technically advanced) artistry: He built the 17th-century Nagasaki of Scorsese's ''Silence'' from scratch in Taiwan, and erected the ''Gangs of New York'' 's Civil War-era slums at Cinecittà, to achieve Scorsese's stylized brand of historical fiction.
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Historical fiction writer Kim Michele Richardson was surprised when she learned in March that English author Jojo Moyes, most famous for her bestselling Me Before You romance trilogy, would be publishing The Giver of Stars, a historical novel about the real-life Pack Horse Library project in Kentucky, on Oct. 233. Why?
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"A Wrinkle in Time" endures 25 years after my first reading as a true favorite for me, but since I tend toward contemporary and historical fiction, and nonfiction, with some plays and poetry, I think my friends might be surprised to see all the science fiction on our shelves and on our Kindle.
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When I was working on "The Moor's Account," which is based on the true story of the first African explorer of America, I read a lot of historical fiction, scholarly works on 16th-century Moroccan history, epics about Spanish exploration of the Americas and research on indigenous tribes of Florida and the Southwest.
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All of Edugyan's novels—from her 2004 début, " The Second Life of Samuel Tyne ," set in rural Alberta in the late nineteen-sixties, to " Half-Blood Blues ," short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2011, to "Washington Black"—are historical fiction, yet they rarely give the sense that history is their main concern.
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Her second, 2006's "Half of a Yellow Sun," was a shimmering work of historical fiction that reminded the world of the Biafran War and made it deeply personal; it won the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (now called the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction) and garnered comparisons to one of her heroes, Chinua Achebe.
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If you're not sure which books to tackle first, consult with the New York Times Best Sellers list: New this week are Hilary Mantel's "The Mirror & the Light," the third entry in the Wolf Hall historical fiction series, and "Journey of the Pharaohs," the 17th book in the late Clive Cussler's Numa Files adventure series.
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Also this week: a selection of the best stories by postmodernist pioneer Robert Coover; a remarkably readable and respectful book about the abortion debate; a novel about a 217-year-old man suffering a midlife crisis; a history of how Christianity became the dominant religion of the Roman Empire; a new private eye introduced by Walter Mosley; and two standout works of historical fiction.
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