fiction
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Once I read that simple recipe, it changed the way I thought about every kind of genre fiction, including superhero tales like HBO’s “Lanterns.”
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
She could write and she wrote a great deal, including detective fiction, a gothic thriller “of devilry, seduction, and hashish” and stories about “ghosts, suicides, and kidnapping.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Playing tough guys early in his career, Hunnam says, was his way of trying to bridge the gap between him and his father, to prove he could be like him, even if only in fiction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
But the complicated case hinges almost exclusively on one key piece of evidence: a book co-authored by Davis that he has argued is partially a piece of fiction.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Its account of a voyage to the moon marks the beginning of science fiction in English.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Even Wall Street Journal editor-at-large Gerard Baker, hardly a left-wing firebrand, quipped that the address was so full of fictions he was beginning to doubt whether the USA men’s hockey team actually won gold.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026
Importantly, and often understated, tokenized equities remain tied to the traditional financial-asset universe; they are not “crypto-only” fictions but rather a bridge between legacy asset classes and blockchain infrastructure.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 19, 2026
Previous fictions have deemed Agnes a cradle robber or a shrew or the Bard’s secret co-writer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
Starting in the 1930s, a few established small presses to preserve the pulp fictions of H.P.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
She didn’t start out with these wholesale fictions.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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