Tag: fiction
Asako Yuzuki: ‘I’m very far from the ideal Japanese woman’ | Fiction in translation
The next time Japanese novelist Asako Yuzuki comes to the UK, she would like to bake some traditional Japanese muffins...
How Fritz Lang’s Metropolis Created the Blueprint for Modern Science Fiction (1927)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFdvbf9bomMA vast, miserable proletariat squanders its days in meaningless toil. Society is under the control of ultra-wealthy business magnates....
Ignore the 14% on RT, This Cult Classic Is Stephen King’s Greatest Science Fiction Movie
Stephen King is an author so prolific that the word “prolific” doesn’t even seem to cover it, and tons...
Lauren Groff on Masters of Short Fiction
Lauren Groff is perhaps most known for her best-selling third novel, “Fates and Furies,” which President Barack Obama named...
‘Shanghai Daughter’ Director on Blurring Fiction and Documentary
Agnis Shen Zhongmin’s debut feature, “Shanghai Daughter,” approaches China’s Down to the Countryside Movement through an unconventional lens, treating...
‘The Arab’ Director on Moving From Documentary to Fiction: Rotterdam
Albert Camus’ novel The Stranger (L’étranger) recently got a cinema adaptation, under the same title, by French director François Ozon,...
‘You don’t really see it in fiction’: how one novelist brought ‘Detty December’ party season back from Ghana | Books
Each December, hundreds of thousands of diaspora Nigerians and Ghanaians travel to their ancestral home countries. For many, the...