epic
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What to know: John Steinbeck’s epic novel is the source material for this ambitious limited series created by Zoe Kazan, whose grandfather, Elia Kazan, directed the 1955 film adaptation of the book.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Or that, if it doesn’t come off, the damage to the local economy will be epic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
These include any number of household-name technology giants whose stocks have been borne aloft to epic valuations by AI hopes and ambitions.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" sailed into a close third place, drawing another $7.4 million domestically, for an epic $1.64 billion over its nine-week global box office journey.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
Behind the epic variance of natural organisms—tall; short; wrinkled; smooth; green; yellow; brown—there were corpuscles of hereditary information, moving from one generation to the next.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
“I see their traces everywhere,” he says of those epics in his introduction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Even if Christopher Nolan‘s film adaptation of “The Odyssey” is a smash hit, Matt Damon doesn’t think we’ll see a boom in epics of a similar scale.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Why the latest literary trend favors short, punchy prose over epics.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
That movie appeared 20 years ago, longer than the gap between the second and third Godfather epics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
The novelist would later win the Nobel Prize, but he was already famous for his classic Southern epics like The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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