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But even daring to fictionalize some version of that atrocity raises “Andor” above other spinoffs.

From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2025

Here’s a look at shows that fictionalize ways in which brain-infecting viruses, unchecked carbon dioxide and hucksterism could determine whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2023

Seeking to cover 16 years in little more than two hours, they condense or flat-out fictionalize with a wink.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021

There was certainly an exigent need to record, analyze and explain Sept. 11, but it was not at all clear if there was a parallel need to fictionalize Sept. 11.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2021

It was a means by which, if not to erase or delete memory, to splice it, to fictionalize it, and to some degree begin again; and yet he judged consciousness to be even less real.

From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)

Prosecutors allege that Matar was motivated by a fatwa that Ayatollah Khomeini, then leader of Iran, issued in 1989 following Rushdie's depiction of a fictionalized Prophet Muhammad in his novel "The Satanic Verses."

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

In “Cast Away,” Francesca de Tores offers a fictionalized account of Selkirk’s tale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

That doesn’t mean there isn’t anything to be learned from true history or its fictionalized version dressed up in dragons and magic.

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026

Mr. Pynchon, a descendant of the colonial family fictionalized in “The House of the Seven Gables,” infuses his chronicle with a modern sense of paranoia and a taste for countercultural heresies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

And though Grove would eventually release a fictionalized version called The Years of Fear, the original historical account was never published.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

The narrator decides to write a novel fictionalizing the surveyor’s account, shame be damned—“And yet, let them scorn me as they will, strong traits of their nature have intertwined themselves with mine.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

It also drew a blank when asked for a speech from George Santos, the New York Republican congressman who was caught fictionalizing his past.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 6, 2023

The pair decided that Tembi Locke’s story of her marriage to an Italian man, over his mother’s resistance to the American interloper, and its aftermath would benefit from fictionalizing the characters.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

The Book Review podcast: Alice Elliott Dark discusses her new novel and Katherine Chen talks about fictionalizing Joan of Arc.

From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2022

And also my conflicted feelings about what I was doing with Hana's story in fictionalizing it, and about mythologizing my father on the page.

From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2022