The Confederate States of America Tamás Csönge 7.1 Fictionality in Documentaries Richard Walsh draws our attention to the fact that the difference between fiction and nonfiction is not a
In Rye, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC, people work hard, kids go to school, and football is big on Friday nights. An eighth-grade English teacher creates an assignment for her class to debate whether Rye’s mascot should stay or change. Now six middle-schoolers—all with different...
JUDY FOREMANis a former Boston Globe health columnist and the author of three works of nonfiction (A Nation in Pain,The Global Pain Crisis, andExercise Is Medicine). She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley College. She spent three years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Brazil and has a Ma...
Based on her nonfiction books. Get activ-ist!:“What cause would you defend…and how would you defend it?” We’ll discuss various forms of activism and what is important to students right now. We’ll come up with methods to get messages across and students will put ideas into action ...
The Los Angeles TimesreviewsMonstrilioby Gerardo Sámano Córdova (Zando): “At once heartbreaking and unapologetically strange, this is a cross-cultural, syncretic, folksy, razor-sharp narrative about the horrors of grief and the eternal debate over nature versus nurture.” ...
nonfiction necessarily centers on the stars, “Adrianne Geffel” focuses instead on the periphery. Although this novel is a purported oral history of the title character, a mysterious avant-garde musician, hers is the one voice we never hear. Instead, as we seemingly learn about this fictional...
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Arthur C. Clarke has a good record. But writers in the first half of the 20thC missed computers completely. This is not a criticism and goes to show that, indeed, truth can be stranger than fiction. One of the most overdone themes in SF is time travel. Many of the better efforts at...
Importantly, there is a stronger association between reading fiction and cognitive skills than between reading nonfiction and those skills. However, whether the benefits are caused by reading fiction or by one or more other variables remains to be determined through future research.Wimmer, Lena...
For years I feared being exposed for what I truly am. It is still a new thing to dare to believe that what I truly am is this: both and neither. That this is neither disguise nor a costume, any more than my body itself can be these things. ...