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Why should a good novel be realistic? Ask a Marxist
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA man once came up to Pablo Picasso in a railway compartment. Why, he asked, did the Spaniard not paint people as they really are? “What do you mean?”...
Opinion: One surprising source of hope for climate change? Fiction
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA wildfire in Napa County, Calif., in September 2020. (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times) As the...
Art director Rikard Ryberg explains why Alone in the Dark's horror is "grounded" in realism
Creative Bloq via Yahoo News· 2 months agoAlone in the Dark; a haunted manor house. Alone in the Dark details (Image credit: THQ Nordic)...
FIRST Book Club: 7 Feel-Great Reads You’ll Love for April 12th – April 18th
First for Women via Yahoo News· 1 month agoWelcome, literature lovers, to the FIRST for Women weekly book club! Here at FIRST for Women, when...
Sales of The Satanic Verses surge after Salman Rushdie stabbing
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSalman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses is surging up bestseller lists amid renewed interest in...
How Joaquín Sorolla's paintings shed light on social realities
The Conversation en Español via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA happy day, by Joaquín Sorolla. Museo Sorolla/Facebook Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923) is one of the...
Chinese Nobel laureate Mo Yan shocks audience after revealing he used ChatGPT to write speech
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoChinese Nobel laureate Mo Yan revealed he used ChatGPT to write a speech to praise fellow author Yu...
“Nightcrawling” Is Reminiscent of Early-20th-Century Social Realism Fiction
The Oprah Magazine via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNightcrawling, by Leila Mottley (Knopf), opens with one central dilemma: How does a 17- year-old...
‘Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman’ Review: Murakami Anthology Nails the Essence of an Unfilmable Author
Indiewire via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHaruki Murakami doesn’t write in any particular genre — the Japanese literary giant is a genre....
People Are Sharing The One Book That Has Stood Out To Them In All Their Years Of Reading
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThere are millions upon millions of books out there, and it's simply impossible to read them all let...