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The biggest name coming to this year’s non-fiction book festival in Edmonton is a very big name indeed. He’s also about as far from non-fiction as one man could possibly be.
In 2006, two years after winning the first of two Pulitzer Prizes for reporting on the Iraq war, Anthony Shadid took a leave of absence from his job as a foreign correspondent for the Washington Post. He had another international assignment, this one self-imposed: to restore the home that his great-grandfather, Isber Samara, built in Jediedet Marjayoun, Lebanon, at the end of the 19th century.
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As a narrative convention, the arrival of uninvited guests is a surefire way to create dramatic tension. From E.T. to the ultimate uninvited (and unwelcome) guest, Death, in Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death, the presence of the uninvited can be menacing, amusing or puzzling. In Sadie Jones’s darkly humorous new novel, with its shades of the supernatural, it is all three.
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May 192012
Will Smith lost his cool at the Russian premiere of his Men In Black sequel in Moscow on Friday when a male reporter attempted to kiss the actor on the lips during a red carpet encounter.
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May 192012
Hilary Duff and Mike Comrie are loving the gym.
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May 192012
Okay, so you’ve read about the worst series finales - but here are five shows that knew how to close it out and leave us feeling sad but satisfied at the same time.
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May 192012
Speaking with Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane at the Television Critics Association tour last summer, the subject of his movie Ted came up.
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May 192012
At the risk of stating the obvious, series finales are a big deal on TV. Not just for the huge ratings spike they inevitably create, but because everything's got to be neatly wrapped up and put away, and there's no coming back for another year to undo any mistakes.
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May 192012
A funny thing happened while Will Smith took three years off movies to shepherd his kids' careers. They started to get more work than him.
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