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Macondon’t

March 22, 2023March 23, 2023 Dr. Carlos Flores 0 Comments Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Macondo, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Satanic Verses, Ulysses

Ready or not, here comes the “magical” Netflix adaption of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’

FICTION

A Glorious Romp in Ye Olde Arabian Seas

March 21, 2023March 20, 2023 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Shannon Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

‘The Adventures Of Amina Al-Sirafi’ by Shannon Chakraborty

CREATORS FICTION Remembrance Writers

Memories of Reading John Jakes

March 20, 2023 Neal Pollack 0 Comments James Michener, John Jakes, North and South, The Bastard, Tom Bosley

The works of the pop-history writer, who died last week at age 90, were my first foray into “grownup” fiction

FICTION

Hemon Not on Hemon

March 6, 2023March 7, 2023 Jim Arndorfer 0 Comments Aleksandar Hemon, The World and All That It Holds

In ‘The World and All It Holds’, Aleksandar Hemon broadens his literary gaze into history

FICTION

You Only Edit Twice

February 28, 2023March 2, 2023 Jamie Mason 2 Comments Ian Fleming, James Bond, Live and Let Die, Roald Dahl, You Only Live Twice

If you rewrite a super spy to avoid retrograde racist attitudes, are you throwing out the Bond with the bathwater?

FICTION TELEVISION

The Year of ‘Three Body Problem’ TV

February 21, 2023March 7, 2023 William Schwartz 1 Comment Liu Cixin, The Expanse, The Three Body Problem, Three-Body

Several adaptations of the modern Chinese sci-fi classic have arrived

FICTION

The Night SHE Came Home

February 21, 2023February 24, 2023 Jake Harris 1 Comment Don't Fear the Reaper, My Heart Is A Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones’ ‘Dont Fear the Reaper’ is a new slasher classic

FICTION Politics Young Adult

Puffin Books Bowdlerizes Roald Dahl

February 20, 2023February 24, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Alexandra Nossel, Ashley Esqueda, Inclusive Minds, James and the Giant Peach, PEN, Philip Pullman, Puffin, Roald Dahl, Salman Rushdie

The despicable, dystopian story behind a publisher’s use of “Inclusion Ambassadors” to transform beloved children’s novels

FICTION

So Far Away, So Close

January 31, 2023February 2, 2023 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Annalee Newitz, Charlie Jane Anders, The Terraformers

In Annalee Newitz’s sci-fi novel ‘The Terraformers,’ familiar problems emerge on a distant rock in the far distant future

FICTION

Critical Mess

January 24, 2023January 25, 2023 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Critical Mass, Daniel Suarez, Delta-v

Provocative science can’t rescue clunky sci-fi novel by Daniel Suarez

FICTION FILM NON-FICTION TELEVISION

Ten Things That Made 2022 Less Scary For Me

December 29, 2022January 2, 2023 Rebecca Kurson 2 Comments Dual, Help! I Wrecked My House, House of the Dragon, Karen Gillan, Kimberly Akimbo, Matt Smith, Mudlark'd, Spelling Bee, Tom Stoppard, Walter Tevis

Our last and maybe most definitive list

FICTION NON-FICTION

Our Favorite Books of 2022

December 27, 2022January 2, 2023 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Alan Moore, Asylum, Dan Chao, Edafe Okporo, Geoff Dyer, Illuminations, Janelle Monae, Jennifer Egan, Katie Gutierrez, Mark Yakich, Michael Twitty, Sleepwalk, The Candy House, The Last Days of Roger Federer, The Memory Librarian

BFG’s esteemed critics offer up their picks

FICTION

DeLillo Predicts the News

December 22, 2022December 27, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Don DeLillo, Libra, Midnight in Dostoyevsky, Shinzo Abe, The Names, White Noise

A novelist attuned to perennial cycles of history, tragedy, and farce joins the Library of America

FICTION

I Remember Aliens

December 6, 2022December 6, 2022 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Among Strangers, Robert Silverberg, Tom O'Bedlam

Robert Silverberg’s science fiction, now reissued, didn’t get everything right. But he was on point about how we might react to alien encounters.

FICTION

Houellebecq Will Never Win The Nobel Prize

November 22, 2022November 30, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Abdulrazak Gurnah, Annie Ernaux, Annihilate, Guy de Maupassant, Michel Houellebecq, Submission

The wrong messenger, and the wrong message

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