serial
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Mira the serial novelist quotes Emily Dickinson’s maxim to “tell all the truth but tell it slant.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Hopkins’ voice, still deeply familiar as some of film’s most famous characters, including the serial killer Hannibal Lecter and the English butler, James Stevens, from “Remains of the Day,” now has a weathered rasp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Novel strategy: MacKenzie Scott, the billionaire philanthropist and author, began releasing her first new novel since 2013 as a serial on Substack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The serial tech founder, who has lived outside Russia for years and holds French and United Arab Emirates passports, has frequently clashed with the Russian authorities as Moscow has tightened its grip on the internet.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
He was a serial over-committer, I was coming to understand, taking on new projects without much regard for limits of time and energy.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
So like the serials of the silent era, we’re left, for the moment at least, with a cliffhanger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
“It seizes upon Lucas’ original dream of finding a pop vessel for his obsessions — Akira Kurosawa epics, John Ford westerns, science-fiction serials — and fulfills it with a verve and imagination all its own.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024
Much like the old serials that the new Indiana Jones movie is mimicking.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2023
Lee's court battle dragged on for years with twists and turns worthy of the most dramatic Korean serials.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2022
I try to imagine him with feathers in his dark hair and wearing beaded buckskin like in the newspaper serials.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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