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literary

adjective as in concerning books

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However, the fact that his private investigator has been portrayed more than 254 times in movies and TV speaks to the endless malleability of a literary character that’s more than a century old.

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Every age sees the apocalypse in its own image, as the distinguished literary critic Frank Kermode observed in his book “The Sense of an Ending.”

“The Time of the Hero” helped to usher in El Boom Latinoamericano, the ’60s-era literary movement that had a seismic effect on literature internationally.

Jones is a bold experimentalist in his fiction, employing a mashup of literary genres, often with horror as a key element.

“Columbine” is outstanding literary journalism, balancing the facts with intimate portraits of those who were there on that horrific day in 1999.

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