fiction

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On both occasions, the now shaven-headed "Pulp Fiction" icon wore fetching French berets, a white one for his award and a black one for the premiere of his semi-autobiographical movie, "Propeller One-Way Night Coach".

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

You might have recognised it from its use in Arrival, Shutter Island, The Last of Us, Stranger Than Fiction, The Handmaid's Tale, The Innocents... and, perhaps most importantly, an episode of EastEnders.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

"Fiction is about sharing experiences," he says -- a process that helps us to be "emotionally prepared when something serious happens to us in life, so we don't fall apart."

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

I was about 12 years old on a family vacation to Italy when I found a Penguin Classic at an Anglo-American bookstore in Rome called “The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Fiction back then had a kind of documentary function; it was one of the places Americans went to learn about how other Americans lived.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times