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Fact or Fiction: Urgent questions asked of Dallas Mavericks after relatively quiet offseason |…
In the 2021 NBA playoffs, the Dallas Mavericks were eliminated by the LA Clippers for a second straight playoff series. After losing in a win-win Game 7, Dallas' search for their first playoff victory since 2011…
‘Padmini of Malwa’ blurs the line between fiction and history. What does this mean for…
"Believe it or not", says Priyadarshi Thakur "Khayal" in his "autobiography" of Rani Ruupmati, Padmini from Malwa, "This is really Rani Ruupmati's autobiography, I just wrote down what she told me." History says that Rani…
Fancy a summer reading? Try this non-fiction “Feel-Good”
In today's busy world, we rarely take the time to reflect on the past and read for the fun of it - the only exceptions being the end of the…
Research History by Eugene Lim. Coffee House, $ 16.95 commercial paper (210p) ISBN…
Eugene Lim. Coffee House, $ 16.95 commercial paper (210p) ISBN 978-1-56689-617-7
The montage is the…
Fiction: “Paris is a party, Paris is a ghost”
In Mavis Gallant's 1953 big short story "The Other Paris", a woman working for a US government agency abandons her romantic expectations of the City of Light for decidedly more seedy realities: boring office work, gloomy weather,…
Seattle, WA Author publishes fictional novel
My Name Is Not Leila, a new book by Ahmed Amr, has been published by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc.As British and German forces fight…
Marvel’s Women’s History launches new line of non-fiction books on Marvel Comics
Marvel Entertainment and the Simon & Schuster Gallery Books Group subsidiary have teamed up to create a line of non-fiction books exploring the history and legacy of Marvel Comics, starting with Super Visible: Marvel's Women's Story.…
Too Often, Holocaust Education Often Confuses Facts and Fiction
“Hey, I had a question…” This was the tentative opening of an email I recently received from a high school teacher. The Ninth Candle, the Holocaust education organization I founded, had run educational programs for its students, and the…
When fiction borrows from real life: the Alaskan behind London’s ‘Burning…
Imagine yourself - yes, you sweet reader - a character in a novel. How would you feel, sitting in your favorite chair reading the version of you that a writer has turned into a fictional character? Would the president recognize, let…
Dewsbury’s wife drummer blamed fictional gang of men for bloody attack
A woman who attacked his wife and made up a story that a gang of white men attacked her while she was visiting the store has been jailed. Mir Hussain's bloodied and battered wife was found by medics and police on the floor at the!-->…