For years after writing Kindred, her seminal novel about a modern-day Black woman who finds herself thrust back into the slavery-era past at unpredictable moments, Octavia Butler would be asked the same question by interviewers and curious readers alike: was her novel science fiction? To Butler, the answer was simple. “There’s absolutely no science in …
Graphic novels expand the possibilities of personal reflection. NICHOLAS TAM/THEVARSITY Until recently, graphic novels were treated like children’s toys I grew up obsessed with the X-Men. On Sundays after church, my father would take my brothers and I to the only well-stocked bookstore we knew of in the mall. As we neared the entrance to …
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The Baillie Gifford Prize is the most prestigious literary award for non-fiction in the world. We checked in with some past winners about their year in reading. * Craig Brown, 2020 Baillie Gifford Award Winner 150 views on the Beatles, recommends: Geoff Dyer is the funniest and most original nonfiction writer we have. IN Last …
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Crackerjack by Noah Baumbach, fantastic adaptation by Don DeLillo White noise is one of the big surprises of the year. Not because Baumbach isn’t an excellent writer and director, but because DeLillo’s 1985 novel, a satire on the “endlessly twisted, religious underside of American consumerism,” is one of the great unfilmable books, a rhetorical playground …
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