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In Nick Hornby’s best work – High Fidelity and Fever Pitch – he manages to be a popular writer, a comic writer, and a serious writer...
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The release of Peter Jackson’s film version of The Lovely Bones is likely to send readers back to the 2002 novel on which it is based. It...
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It’s a mystery why there are not more adaptations of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. It’s perfectly suited for the screen. It has...
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies makes a tremendous first impression. It may actually be impossible to think of two works of imagination with less in...
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With the opening of the movie version of Stephenie Meyer’s New Moon – an event which seems to have rendered much of the world demented...
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The measure of truth in literature is not whether the story is plausible. After all, many great books – The Iliad, Dante’s Inferno, Hamlet...
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If the perfect night-table book (1) offers a likeable heroine (2) tells stories about problems you don’t have, (3) is smart but not taxing, and...
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Filmmakers generally take liberties with novels when they turn them into movies. And they should. What director wants to make a movie that is simply a...
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As Halloween approaches, now is the time for a good, disturbing read. So the Philly Lit Examiner herewith presents his personal list of favorite...
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In My Mother’s House, the French author Colette has pulled off one of the most difficult tricks in literature: she’s written a compelling...
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