But it's not just two narrators; it's two narrators and a bunch of interstitial perspectives.
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Both present unnamed, unreliable narrators on the brink of dangerous personal decisions, and both narrators are disarmingly matter-of-fact.
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Writers involved in the movement have made contact with large YouTube narrators like Mr. Creeps, and negotiations with other narrators are ongoing.
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As you may have gathered, many strands of plot are being spun here, a process further complicated by the unreliability of our narrators (and implicitly, of all narrators).
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Machado's narrators — who are almost always first-person narrators — are all women, sometimes struggling to exist in a world built by (and for) men, and sometimes just struggling to survive at all.
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Keeping my eyes on the page as the narrators read draws me further into the world of the story, while still leaving room for the narrators' performances to bring life to the text.
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Lots of stories have multiple narrators, a large cast of
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Sure, several of Ellis' narrators are struggling or failed writers.
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Both narrators reel from the early loss of a parent.
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Personally, I think men can absolutely write realistic female narrators.
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Ms. Schiff's narrators are educated consumers of their own dissatisfaction.
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As alternating narrators, Jaime and Agatha complement each other wonderfully.
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To further along the process, Corden hosted auditions for potential narrators.
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Brown's narrators are lonesome, uncompanionable types, yet they yearn for more.
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There are no infographics, voiceover narrators, expositional title cards, or interviews.
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" One of the narrators of Tom Perrotta's superb new novel, "Mrs.
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The glass walls encapsulating the different narrators appear to be soundproof.
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We're closer to these narrators, but not more familiar with them.
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There are three narrators: Yoshiko, Furufue, and a man never named.
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Five narrators unspool the bizarre soap opera that is their interconnected lives.
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In earlier episodes, some of the narrators' accents sound distinctly Eastern European.
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Select a topic and listen to narrators read stories from these sites.
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They are the technicians, builders, designers, creatives, culture shapers, narrators and innovators.
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The slightly ill but undiagnosed are better narrators than the truly ill.
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Both Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train have multiple narrators.
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Mangan draws her narrators with broad strokes, using classic Hollywood color coding.
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Other narrators — whose stories are fundamental to the plot — are intentionally underdeveloped.
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I'm not convinced they are always reliable narrators of their own experience.
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Otherworldly I can't stop noticing narration lately, partly because I keep reading books in which the narrators demand attention: unreliable narrators, narratives cobbled together into a document, second-person narration that leaps off the page to address me directly.
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This happens less consciously, perhaps not even literally, when listening to professional narrators.
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Her narrators can be calm observers or central characters with elusive back stories.
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And the Russians could hardly be considered reliable narrators, even with one another.
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It's a first-person novel with three narrators that skips around in time.
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But it's Westworld's hosts who've proved the most unreliable as narrators throughout the season.
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In both, the narrators participate in the dominant system but belong to groups that
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But not all of these objects are as reliable narrators as they could be.
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How does a person become sensible as you are, and as your narrators are?
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But he definitely had a feel for what these true-crime narrators are like.
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"We all have different looks and loves, likes and dislikes, too," the narrators say.
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A combination of Post reporters and professional narrators will work on an audio edition.
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" Those women wrote books in which "the presence of their narrators was wholly relational.
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I looked at how long they run and what sort of narrators they use.
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Female omniscient narrators are rare, but there are some striking examples from this cycle.
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In alternating chapters, two female narrators provide the long, lurid and psychologically complex answer.
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There are two more narrators, whose stories appear in the form of witness transcripts.
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Dear other books with unreliable narrators: This one will see you and raise you.
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The video's narrators are clad in the reflective vests typical of the real-world setting.
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Eilish and her brother carried their quirky songwriting sense for interesting narrators into her album.
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Or both Phil and Jamie are unreliable narrators, trying to put one over on Ethan.
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McGlue is unreliable, intoxicated, and trapped—as are the narrators of Moshfegh's other two novels.
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Rooney's novels are satisfying, too, because there aren't dueling narrators or cat's cradles of plotlines.
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In many notable works of autofiction, we don't get to know the narrators very well.
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Helen and (especially) Noah aren't merely unreliable narrators in this episode, they're also unpleasant ones.
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And because spies invent their world, and often invent their pasts, they're tremendously unreliable narrators.
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So our opinions about the behavior of female narrators are not formed in a vacuum.
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The point at which there's a noticeable switch in narrators is the film's inflection point.
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The eerie tales told by Kafka's animal narrators have left deep claw-marks on this book.
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Meanwhile, the many narrators in these pieces make it hard to tell who exactly is speaking.
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As in real relationships, none of these narrators are perfectly reliable, but they are reliably engrossing.
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His books are only tenuously connected to what his narrators disparagingly call the supposed real world.
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In the original, Ellen Dean is a loyal servant, one of the novel's two main narrators.
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Here was a great writer, the father of the modern story, presenting seven great female narrators.
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You can't help but nod off by the time the narrators get to shoe storage possibilities.
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Call them unreliable narrators, and a lot worse things that I won't repeat on this stage.
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This novel, like its predecessor, is overstuffed, packed with incident and narrators and digressions within digressions.
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Neave Terhune, one of the two narrators of Sharon Pywell's third novel, is a book thief.
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The animals are not just named; they're also given personalities, worries, and desires by their human narrators.
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All — and I repeat, all — psychological thrillers featuring charming, almost likable psychopaths narrators stem from Highsmith's masterpiece.
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Wheaton concurred and noted that it's extremely rare for two narrators to work on the same story.
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Palmer: And it's all definitely intentional—both of our narrators know exactly what they're doing to us.
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If there's an artistic justification for this show, it lies in the old question of unreliable narrators.
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The unnamed narrators of these love poems live in an unidentified place in a distant mythic past.
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Set 15 years after the final scene of "The Handmaid's Tale," the novel features three female narrators.
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The drama builds to a tense showdown when Lemaitre inexplicably shifts narrators, causing some last-minute lurching.
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One of the novel's narrators, Viola Butler, is a 40-something black woman with an eating disorder.
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Their purpose, as explained by our narrators — who also run the firm; are you still with me?
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Both narrators also wanted Trump to succeed with deregulating the economy, cutting taxes and strengthening the military.
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Not everything comes off: some of the narrators' asides, apparently meant to be naturalistic, feel a bit stilted.
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The narrators tell of physical and psychological abuse, beatings and sleep deprivation, humiliations, isolation and threats to relatives.
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The narrators sift through anecdotal evidence of their heroes' lives, wondering if they were ever who they claimed.
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But young children are often unreliable narrators, Mr. Azar said on Thursday, and there has been some confusion.
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The movie's nonlinear narrative and unreliable narrators would also inspire many films, like "The Usual Suspects" and "Hero."
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Add to that one of the most brilliantly realized unreliable narrators in fiction and the book becomes irresistible.
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I really loved how you explored the topic of memory and how we can be our most unreliable narrators.
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Saunders' novel has 166 narrators, intended to represent the numerous cross-sections of lives during Civil War-era America.
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Three of this year's best literary thrillers also tackle complicated women narrators and the murderesses who consume their thoughts.
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Join us this week as we talk about unreliable narrators, writing about grief and A Separation by Katie Kitamura.
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Also, CEOs are not always the most reliable narrators for an investor seeking to gain insight into a company.
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As narrators, Eamon, Dalton, and Evi weave a story of love, loss, and the families that life gives us.
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This cast recording is a little more grounding, with different narrators taking over as perspectives shift in the book.
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The commercial shows the image of King's aides pointing while narrators hit Trump, the GOP's presidential nominee, on race.
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Those who experienced the Holocaust serve as narrators, while their young collaborators re-enact incidents from the survivors' lives.
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We have to rely on two men who, in their past, have proven to be very unreliable narrators. 4.
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Instead, she manages, as so many Hempel narrators have done since "Al Jolson," to provide the care that's needed.
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"Tangerine" works best when Mangan juggles the untrustworthiness of her two narrators, writing and then rewriting their history together.
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The app lets you read along with different narrators and play a game where you help A.J. make breakfast.
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At times it seems as if there are two narrators, so often, and ably, does Armitage vary his delivery.
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Both titles are recognized for their unique identities and cheesy humor, which is entirely conveyed via the game's narrators.
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At the start of Wendy Walker's new entrant in the Thrillers With Unreliable Narrators sweepstakes, Cassandra Tanner returns home.
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All my adult books, every single one of them, has multiple narrators, multiple perspectives; that is actually my default.
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White House aides, however, are not the most trustworthy narrators of what the president is doing day to day.
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The other narrators of "The Testaments" are girls who have no knowledge of life before the existence of Gilead.
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And the book's five narrators (Marina, Charlie, Barlow, Spinks and Lovecraft) combine to tell a beauty of a tale.
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But the novel still hinges on one key bit of information that's withheld from the audience and the narrators.
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Narrators have to be people who are passionate about the story and are dying for more people to hear it.
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They are deep psychological portrayals of narrators who don't understand their own rage, or who actively work to conceal it.
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Freshwater has two narrators: Ada, a young woman from Nigeria, and the trio of ogbanje gods that live inside Ada.
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But in telling a true story, a trustworthy narrator is key, and these documentarians have made themselves into those narrators.
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IN CLASSIC gothic romances, narrators are unreliable, heroines vulnerable, seducers potent and the settings bleak, imprisoning and full of secrets.
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Inside SFMOMA, which reopens to the public May 14th, you can take tours hosted by a variety of engaging narrators.
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Part of the problem are the 18 narrators, half of whom are unnecessary, their confessions too cursory to add depth.
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As witnesses and narrators of current events, we hold a lot of power and we need to use it wisely.
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Roth's narrators are fun to listen to (up to a point), but they're also narcissistic, cruel, sex-obsessed, and deceitful.
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Perhaps the return of omniscient narrators reflects the sense we all have, as internet users, of access to unlimited knowledge.
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A number of stars and journalists — Chadwick Boseman, Julianne Moore and Michael Che, to name a few — join as narrators.
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Women narrators tend to stick to gender-specific subjects, while men are the default voice of authority in these ads.
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In the audio recordings, public affairs officers explaining the mission to viewers at home "just sounded like narrators," Miller said.
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Lizzie is only one of the four first-person narrators, but disorder is evident in her voice almost at once.
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Some of her narrators here come across as inconsistent, unsure and even inarticulate, which is not the same as dumb.
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Shadowy characters prowling sidewalks as narrators warn of the dangers of sanctuary cities have become recurring images in Republican spots.
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If the purpose of autobiography is to uniquely render a unique life, then slave narratives often feel formulaic, the narrators indistinct.
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Evenson's narrators recite various threads of reality, relentlessly questioning themselves: Am I remembering what I am saying happened to me correctly?
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In their own way, each of these narrators is also invested in protecting or benefiting from the rage of another woman.
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The skill features popular Disney characters like Anna, Olaf and Kristoff as the narrators and is exclusive to Kids Edition devices.
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Both the book and show feature scenes in which imprisoned families watch silent films with the accompaniment of benshi — live narrators.
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Rex is one of Gout's three appealing narrators who face impossible problems and are willing to seek out equally impossible solutions.
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On its face, the two memoirs share certain similarities, following the narrators from a difficult childhood to an Ivy League school.
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The seven female narrators of the "Decameron" should never again need to rely on the great Giovanni Boccaccio to express themselves.
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The brothers remain unnamed until the book's final pages and trade off as narrators, though the older one propels the story.
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Like most young first-person narrators, Obe is self-aware and sensitive, with the portrayal of his interior life unusually nuanced.
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The effect is nearly the opposite: deprived of rhetorical shelter, Di Benedetto's narrators seem mercilessly exposed to the events they recount.
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"Separate Hours" (1990) employs dueling narrators — a husband and wife, both psychoanalysts — to paint a portrait of a marriage under stress.
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If you're interested in classic literature, LibriVox specializes in public domain works, read and recorded by an army of volunteer narrators. 6.
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It hasn't escaped our attention, however, that Marcella is just one of many female narrators who seem unreliable and, by default, unstable.
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Hawley seems to want to move beyond what other shows like Mr. Robot, The Tick, or Alphas have done with unreliable narrators.
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In the manner of a public-service announcement, the two narrators ask: What is the difference between moral courage and street justice?
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The narrators of both songs lay themselves bare, trying to re-establish intimacy in one, and admitting bitter defeat in the other.
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Because the key conflicts are mostly described by unreliable narrators instead of enacted directly for us, they feel imposed or even doubtful.
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Women are regarded as unreliable narrators who can't even be trusted to speak for themselves or to testify to their own pain.
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At around the age of 16, I found it reassuring that Boccaccio, in conceiving his narrators, had made most of them women.
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In elaborate feats of retrospection, his 11 narrators re-enact conversations with lovers and friends, scrambling their memories for clues and causes.
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" The Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot argued in "Silencing the Past" that "human beings participate in history as both actors and narrators.
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Like foreigners in Russia before and since, Rappaport's narrators are a separate caste, above and apart from the troubles engulfing ordinary Russians.
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Through their narrators, Brodesser-Akner and Cusk explore a type of empathy that is perhaps—historically, over-simplistically, binarily—specific to women.
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We Have Always Lived In The Castle (TBC) Shirley Jackson There are few first person narrators quite like young Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood.
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Oslo, August 31st begins with a chorus of different narrators describing their first encounters with the city, their voices flowing over vintage footage.
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Sometimes you—OK, sometimes I—don't need challenging prose or epic scope or shifting perspectives and unreliable narrators; sometimes you need a yarn.
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The book is the portrait of a woman named Louki, and a cafe in Paris in the 1950s, as seen by four narrators.
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By weaving the personal into political, historical, and philosophical material, Kraus subverts the respectability politics of "likability" that still burden female narrators today.
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These are haunting books, both with narrators struggling to retrieve a past that exists only in their memory and through notes and photographs.
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As a writer, she is foremost a portraitist, describing figures from the past as they moved into and out of her narrators' lives.
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As she encounters horror after horror, the story trains an eye on aspects of black history too often co-opted by white narrators.
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If you like sudsy, bingeable shows, "Gone Girl"-style unreliable narrators or viciously funny takedowns of New York performative coolness, watch this immediately.
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"As narrators, we get to define the narrative," said Ms. Bichotte, the first Haitian-American woman elected to office in New York City.
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Over the course of three subsequent novels, Rosenfeld stood out for her garrulous narrators who sharply examined the bonds of sisterhood and friendship.
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As with many of French's narrators, Rob clings to an idyll, an interlude of past perfection to which he longs, hopelessly, to return.
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But it also suggests that all stories de facto have unreliable narrators, because of the limited perspective of those who are telling them.
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The company got creative for the day's protest, releasing a nine-hour, "soothing" video where narrators read pro-net neutrality comments to the FCC.
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Elegant musical cues, documentary-style sound clips, and a shifting cast of narrators helped to transform the venerable radio story into something more modern.
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In those instances, you must call upon the psychological thriller genre to sate your craving for mind-blowing twists, unreliable narrators, and intelligent scares.
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The story is all over the place, there are too many narrators, and everyone in the show has either bad or horrible Georgia accents.
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But the power centers are themselves composed of unreliable narrators, many of whom have proven willing to lie on the record, let alone off.
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When mass killers gunned down innocent people in San Bernardino, California, Orlando, Florida and Newtown, Connecticut, local police chiefs became the narrators of tragedy.
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The 60-second video titled "The Wonder of Us," released online Friday, depicts a diverse group of narrators celebrating their individuality while enjoying Coke.
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Nick, like Marcel, is closely modelled on his author, but he's the least Proustian and introspective of narrators, revealing next to nothing about himself.
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"We hoped we were not about to suffer socialist injustice, because we loved socialism," one of Paley's narrators says, on a trip to China.
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Roth was known for his lusty, often startlingly frank male narrators as well as his exploration of Jewish identity and anti-Semitism in America.
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The actual perpetrators show up as narrators, offering slightly different but essentially compatible versions of events with at least the partial wisdom of hindsight.
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In "The Testaments," Atwood weaves together the stories of three female narrators in Gilead, a religious autocracy in what was formerly the United States.
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Both Vanessa and Humbert are unreliable narrators; both use the language of love to mask the trauma lurking beneath the surface of their stories.
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The novel is stuffed with footnotes and horror and strange, unreliable, overlapping narrators, but ultimately—in the author's view, anyway—it's a love story.
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Both stories are told from the point of view of the male narrators, and the solipsistic, incurious treatment of the female characters is remarkable.
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In this highly anticipated sequel, Margaret Atwood describes the state of Gilead 15 years after where The Handmaid's Tale left us, through three narrators.
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There's a moment, early in Laird Hunt's new novel, "The Evening Road," when one of the narrators pauses to contemplate the journey before her.
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The Lost Cat Podcast is a modern homage to Edgar Allen Poe's obsessive, paranoiac narrators and the endlessly disturbing worlds in which they live.
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Audm, an iPhone app, streams audio read aloud by professional narrators of longform articles from outlets including the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and BuzzFeed News.
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By using Findaway, Smashwords' authors and publishers can now find professional narrators more quickly and hear voice actor recommendations from an online casting support team.
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Garth Risk Hallberg's novel City on Fire follows a wide cast of narrators — punks, heirs, detectives, journalists, artists — through New York City in the '70s.
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Who is this man obsessively looking up all his persona narrators, feeling like a hodgepodge, trapped somewhere between Heaven and earth, spitting against the wind?
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His narrators are all witness to a single casualty, their multiple perspectives finally forming a gestalt view of a soldier's journey from mutilation to recovery.
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Her narrators, too, are the same women they've always been, living contingently in temporary digs, doing temporary jobs, observing a tabloid world with grim hilarity.
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With a troika of dubious female narrators, the book isn't an obvious choice for the big screen, partly because of its rotating first-person voices.
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One of the reasons that "many Western readers find so much contemporary Korean fiction to be unpalatable," he writes, is the passivity of its narrators.
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His novels are often written in the first person, with unreliable narrators who are in denial about truths that are gradually revealed to the reader.
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Any one of the five muses who act as narrators here rocks more sequins with each costume than the cast of "The Tempest" put together.
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It pushes past all the old clichés you think you understand about unreliable narrators to make us rethink the fundamental contract between novelist and reader.
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Both novels feature anxiety-ridden, middle-aged female narrators who are afraid to leave their homes, and they witness something suspicious while spying on neighbors.
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I wanted to know how she keeps track of so many characters, what gives her inspiration, and how audiobook narrators make it seem so easy.
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The narrator is quick to rescue the non-Hebrew speakers in attendance, for, like all good memory-play narrators, he wants us to hear his story.
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Tom: The world is still there and we'll still create that world, but we've now got to own that and step into that world as narrators.
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Gattis's novel unfolds in the days after the jury's decision and shifts between the perspectives of 17 narrators, who form a chorus of the city's voices.
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Welcome to the hall of fame of unreliable narrators, Stephen Florida: Your thoughts are troubling, obsessive, captivating, and funny, and we can't help rooting for you.
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While self-help and wellness culture may be a $3.7 trillion industry, the narrators of these books don't buy the idea that it will save us.
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Both narrators periodically lapse into the language of academia, bluntly signaling how we should interpret the narrative rather than letting us figure it out for ourselves.
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"The Testaments" will come out in September 2019 and will be set 15 years after the final scene of "The Handmaid's Tale," featuring three female narrators.
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Over the course of an enormously productive half-century career, British filmmaker Ken Loach has been one of cinema's most reliable narrators of the human experience.
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All these women understood that cinema can help reinvent our world, and Cousins and his narrators elucidate how the medium's plasticity and evolving technology facilitate this.
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Passive female narrators have figured in a number of recent novels written by women; Zadie Smith's "Swing Time" and Rachel Cusk's "Outline" come immediately to mind.
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The disembodied narrators sometimes inform, as with testimonies from various cyberexperts, and sometimes ask us to make choices that will influence the rest of our expedition.
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And it is all the more urgent as the number of Holocaust survivors dwindles, because they are the most powerful narrators of their experiences, she added.
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These two monologues in repertory from the British dramatist Philip Ridley — told from the perspectives of seriously disturbed narrators — begin in shadow and progress steadily into midnight.
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Through it all, there are no talking-head interviews or narrators, only occasional announcements from the festival's MC. The film is light on story, heavy on mood.
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Noa, meanwhile, employs a team of half a dozen narrators based across the U.S., U.K. and Ireland who read the stories published by the company's current partners.
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Florida is a collection of short stories set in, well, Florida, as a a series of narrators navigate their lives and the landscape in the southern state.
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Narrators like Vance and LaVoy, so skilled at crafting individual voices for diverse casts of characters, tend to sound as if they're overdoing it on fairy tales.
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For two centuries, narrators of the American experience have lionized him as the figure who rose above party and upheld the Constitution as law rather than politics.
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Other narrators highlight some key features of the Apple book including its "touch page technology" that lets you swipe to move from one page to the next.
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"Wait, Blink" feels most organic in these moments of squalor and when its plotlines intersect, an impressive feat given that its narrators revel in serendipity and coincidence.
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Lust counterposes the children's genteel hiking trips and war games with the atrocities Karnau dispassionately documents, drawing both narrators' segments to emphasize visual details over their context.
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While teaching a class called Unhinged Narrators, she finally abandoned the book that had so stymied her — about a student who has an affair with a professor.
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If critics occasionally found his plots strained or his characters thinly drawn, they were also gripped by his narrators' wit and his characters' capacity for self-deception.
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I was doing the Rocky Horror Show in the West End and we did a gala performance for Amnesty International and she was one of the guest narrators.
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Gordan Parks, Carrie Mae Weems, Latoya Ruby Frazier, Dawoud Bey, Jules Allen, Ming Smith, and more are visual narrators I have and will continue to look up to.
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Scattered over this tense drama are other narrators, some long dead: violent mothers, past lovers, a former boss and his teenage girlfriend, even a prostitute Burke has abused.
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The film's narrators, a rat named Rizzo and a species of indeterminate origin named Gonzo, stand before a bed of red apples that look as vivid as rubies.
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The most unreliable of unreliable narrators, she shares all without remorse, foul-mouthed and wide-eyed, as though she herself cannot quite believe the batshit stuff that happened.
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And, conversely, in a world where our movements are tracked, where our web searches leave cookie crumbs, and where privacy is increasingly compromised, omniscient narrators resonate with readers.
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The "Tangerine" of the title refers to a native of the Moroccan city, and it seems inevitable that one or both of the narrators will lose herself there.
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He was a film buff and an occasional scriptwriter, and the narrators of his novels relate their descents into hell in the cool, efficient manner of film treatments.
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First-person narrators across the globe share their experiences enduring everything from extraordinary levels of personalized government surveillance to jaw-dropping lengths of time spent in solitary confinement.
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Moments such as when Voltaire then narrates an apocryphal scene out of Candide create the effect of nesting doll narrators, setting the story into an abyss of ambient references.
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There are no interviews or narrators; the only "talking head" is the recorded voice of Walter Cronkite explaining the logistics of the flight to TV viewers of the time.
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While Carnation takes a back seat to the actual narrators on "Radio Rental," Lindsey said, Wilson has plans for Carnation to pop up in other projects down the road.
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Sarah Pinborough has set the swift and entertaining CROSS HER HEART (Morrow/HarperCollins, $26.99) entirely in present-day England, opting (at least initially) for one timestream but multiple narrators.
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Collective and second-person narrators feature alongside 19th-century diary entries and court documents recreating Warm Manor, the sugar plantation where Florence, Abel's great-great-grandmother, is brutally enslaved.
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Her book, which our critic Parul Sehgal calls well researched and "wonderfully truculent," argues that women are regarded as unreliable narrators who can't even testify to their own pain.
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Once they wrote compassionately and from experience, especially on The Suburbs; their grand proclamations about alienation and adulthood were delivered by narrators implied to have lived through such processes.
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Through her two narrators, Yejide (the wife) and Akin (the husband), Adebayo explores the tensions between the personal and political, between tradition and modernity, and community and individual identity.
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In brief chapters with alternating narrators, Pinborough keeps us guessing about just who's manipulating whom — until the ending reveals that we've been wholly complicit in this terrifying mind game.
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Through testimonies from her classmates (who become the "new narrators" of season 2784) we learn that Hannah is no martyr, like some critics accused her of being in season 13.
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But I suspect that the book's weaknesses — the confusion caused by its multiple story lines, its constant switching among narrators and times — stem from the intellectual confusion at its core.
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One thing I started noticing was the use of omniscient narrators — voices of people who never appear onscreen but make grand, sweeping generalizations with an authoritative voice, like this one.
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Theatergoers desiring full immersion in this singular auteur's universe of unreliable narrators have before them both "Arlington" and an environmental theater project, "Rooms," also written and directed by Mr. Walsh.
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R. In many ways, 2019 was a year of fiction that kept us on our toes, full of ambiguous narratives, unexpected formats, and narrators ranging from coy to downright misleading.
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"We need a president who will build on all that President Obama has done," say the narrators of the ad, which will air in South Carolina communities with large black populations.
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Many of his books take the form of digressive monologues — the novel "Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age" famously unfurls in one 90-page sentence — by stouthearted, simple-minded narrators.
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Narrators will use their tweets to highlight fascinating or strange bits of research, like the fact that white–headed capuchins rub millipedes all over their bodies while simultaneously sucking on them.
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"In the last year, ISIS has suffered heavy casualties among its media emirs, video narrators, cameramen, and others associated with propaganda production," Flashpoint chief innovation officer Evan Kohlmann told the Post.
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Her characters and narrators are often a bit eccentric, often solitary or even antisocial, and drift at the fringes of things, nursing remembered pain and relishing the companionship of a dog.
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When Blanks told Blazer that she worked for an exhibition booker who kept close to two-thirds of the fees that companies paid for Coliseum work, Blazer created Narrators & Models Inc.
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Why do you think Ward chose to tell the story from these perspectives, and why do you think the other characters don't serve as narrators: Mam, Pop and Michael, for example?
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Relying on multiple narrators to tell a tale (as Ms. Jordan does) is a common enough novelistic technique, but movies sometimes sag under the weight of even a single voice-over.
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Dovey grants her animal narrators speech with a twist of magic that calls to mind every other unheard voice from history: children, women, and those otherwise silenced by louder people's wars.
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While novelists retain few rights after their books hit readers' hands, the one inviolable right is to never be conflated with anyone in their books, neither characters nor narrators nor speakers.
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I'll say only that at its conclusion, The Factory climbs into a register probably best described as magical (unless, as Furufue worries above, each of our narrators is only "imagining things").
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We warm to the alternating narrators as they warm to each other: Malcolm, "the band nerd with the disreputable family," and Ellery, the true-crime buff whose mom is in rehab.
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" The ad features two middle-aged men discussing the Senate race between McCaskill and state Attorney General Josh Hawley, a Republican, whom the narrators describe as "a man in a hurry.
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"I am a machine boosting energy into the universe and you are the spirit in the wind around me," says one of several narrators, speaking in three languages — English, French, and Thai.
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The last two describe Lady Daniels, the first and more arch of our two narrators, who is introduced speculating about the uniform attractiveness of valley girls ("the beauty's in the tap water").
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ICE usually will not have a warrant, but they may lie and say they do, or show you something else that looks official, the narrators warn, showing sample documents side by side.
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The press release teases that, in the guide, you'll learn how sound volume tends to affect dogs and how dogs prefer narrators that are of the same gender as their primary owner.
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His narrators cannot simply be called "unreliable", for it is not that they set out to delude or trick the reader: rather, they tell us the stories they themselves want to hear.
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In terms of literature, the British writer Martin Amis and the French writer Michel Houellebecq have been buttressing my love for unlikable narrators, dark humor, accessible literary fiction, and satire for years.
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Then he ends up writing a whole novel in a virtuosic patois, conjured out of slavery's erasures, or giving his novel seventy different first-person narrators, one of whom is a ghost.
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One thing we can agree on though, is that it'd be awesome to trust Elliot again, because unreliable narrators can only pull so many tricks before you start to dismiss them offhand.
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Perhaps the same could be done with Hawkins's narrators—three of them, no less, maundering on in the first person, often in the present tense, and each as annoying as the next.
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Several of these narrators quit the squad entirely by the end of their novel, and one—Frank Mackey, the narrator of "Faithful Place"—was never on the Murder Squad to begin with.
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Zoe Walker, one of the narrators in this well-told suspense story, follows the same routine — same train, same car, same door — when she commutes to and from her real estate job.
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Each of these narrators is deeply invested in keeping the reader from learning the truth about their motivations, or admitting to the deep wells of anger that could make them seem less trustworthy.
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Garrett M. Graff — author of a book focused on Mueller, and one of the investigation's best narrators — writes for Axios that we now have a host of new clues to Mueller coming attractions.
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A company called Noa has just launched an Alexa skill that uses human narrators to read you the news from top publishers like The New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist and others.
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His books are complex (and sometimes messy) feats of storytelling, often involving dreams, extended reveries, unreliable narrators — or a combination of all three — so that reality itself devolves into a game of telephone.
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Songs like "Firewood" and "My Employer" see him no longer using narrators as vehicles for his own emotions, as he plumbs the depths of his experience and puts the discoveries on full display.
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A thing I really like about this novel is that, thanks to the multiple narrators, the story has empathy for all — even characters that in a lesser book would be pretty one-note.
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The news is very much out there that none other than Aunt Lydia, Gilead's most terrifying enforcer (in the "women's sphere" of fertility and domesticity at least), is one of the three narrators.
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And when Scout Finch, one of the play's central narrators, called out the man behind a white Ku Klux Klan hood, the crowd oohed as if their team had stolen back the ball.
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On the surface, George Saunders and Amos Oz may seem different kinds of writers: one funny, one serious; one whose narrators grasp at meaning, the other master of an old-school, highbrow eloquence.
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"One of many qualities that Tiffany has and what I love in narrators is that there's no one else like them," Waters told Vulture about the clip, which teases the show's January 23 return.
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Finalists will be invited to The Tower of London for a special live broadcast of Chris Evans's breakfast show on June 16, when the winning entries will be read out by well known narrators.
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We know this because a Greek chorus of chattering locals act as Our Town-esque narrators throughout the show, passing snide judgment on the group of women and trying to intuit their hidden animosities.
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Is it any wonder, then, that the most celebrated audiobook narrators — in particular, Jim Dale, who has read the Harry Potter series for at least three generations of fans — acquire their own devout followings?
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There is a continuing literary trend in which (usually) female narrators twine their own life into that of a classic author: Rebecca Mead's "My Life in Middlemarch" is one of the more successful efforts.
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While Mr. Simon's music pulls disparate ideas together, his songs' narrators are often lonely and isolated, teetering between estrangement and a longing for connection, between hope for the next generation and intimations of doom.
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It harps on the idea of unreliable narrators in literature, without seeming to understand either how the device is used or how it works or how literary critics have approached that idea throughout time.
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Both groups contend with public disputes over the essential nature of our conditions, whether they can be corrected by behavioral or biomedical approaches, and whether we should be considered reliable narrators of our own experiences.
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While Cohen is not the most reliable of narrators (he is headed to prison), he certainly weaved a wild tale of scamming and deceit, and Twitter was particularly interested in one name that came up.
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Each also shines a light on the inveterate sexism -- women as unreliable narrators, women as answerable for their husbands' professional lives, women as weak -- that still, today, takes up so much space in the narrative.
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Our first impulse at The Verge was to try to stump the tool, which seems eminently plausible — trying it out on unreliable narrators, avant-garde metafiction, and (in a long shot) Donald Trump's Twitter account.
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Their relationship serves as a Rorschach test for Melchor's narrators, whose actions reveal not only the details of the crime but the fears, resentments and unacknowledged lusts that condense around it like a distorting mist.
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Handmaids are never far from the minds and stories of the three narrators in The Testaments, which include Agnes Jemima, who comes of age in Gilead, and Daisy, who looks on in horror from Canada.
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Featuring a rotating roster of narrators (Janet Mock, Margaret Cho, Asia Kate Dillon, Neil Patrick Harris and Lena Waithe), director Ryan White ("Ask Dr. Ruth") weaves together interviews with key figures and deftly curated clips.
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Unlikable, irredeemable female narrators have long been underrepresented in mainstream fiction, yet Moshfegh and Broder do fall into a lineage of women authors like Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus who have written about difficult, transgressive women.
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Although Babel mostly lets characters speak for themselves, the narrators' descriptions can be as luxurious as the stolen jewels given to Benya's sister on her wedding night, or as surprising as a slap in the face.
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Atticus's kids, Scout (Celia Keenan-Bolger) and Jem (Will Pullen), along with their friend Dill (Gideon Glick), serve as narrators, jumping in and out of their scenes to explain the stakes and keep the action moving.
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Ms. Altman was a consultant on "Altman," a 2014 documentary directed by Ron Mann in which she was also one of the narrators, sharing tidbits about her long love affair with one of America's great filmmakers.
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His songs have needy, uncertain narrators, and his productions are reticent, almost shy; they avoid overblown bass and drum sounds and back away from obvious buildups, often placing silences where a big, obvious beat could go.
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One way first-person narratives often do this is by giving the reader access to narrators' thoughts as they experience something, describing not just the action, but also what they are grappling with as it happens.
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Its narrators, more than a dozen in number, are usually granted a page at a time before other characters butt in, pick up the thread or offer their own spin on the same series of events.
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A stream-of-consciousness account from Benjy, the first of several narrators and the mentally-challenged son of the Compson family, whose fortunes the book chronicles, it dives back and forth between at least fourteen time zones.
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With their thoughtful, complex young women narrators who we once saw ourselves in as we looked eagerly toward the future, Blume's books remind us of how far we have come, and how far we have to go.
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"It's important to push back and eliminate the idea that transgender people are sort of fundamentally false or that we're not reliable narrators because of who we are and what happens to us," Sias told Huffington Post.
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Jojo, thirteen, the most consistently perceptive of the novel's trio of first-person narrators—a group that also includes his mother and a child who died decades before—is, like Esch, a laconic, prematurely self-sufficient kid.
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The biggest difference between the two books is that Conversations With Friends is set in the past tense, told by a first-person narrator (Frances), and Normal People is in the present, with alternating third-person narrators.
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His best-known novel, "An Instance of the Fingerpost," explored a 17th-century Oxford murder and its aftermath through the memoirs of four unreliable narrators, each hotly disputing the others' versions of reality, science, religion and justice.
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In the novels, Crichton presents Jurassic Park as a series of increasingly complex stories, which rely both narratively and thematically on Malcolm's perspective as a chaos theorist, even though the events unfold through multiple third person narrators.
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Both novels' narrators have been traumatized and wracked with guilt over car crashes that killed their husbands and young daughters, when they were at the wheel, driving in bad weather and fighting with their spouses over infidelity.
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Oberst sort of dives into the bodies of various narrators (a young man tempted to join the army; himself as hot new musician), to humanize cheerful topics like the nihilism of contemporary, monetized warfare, and music industry careerism.
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Everything about the song is captivating, from the brutal way the singer wishes to erase that bad partner to the static over the beats that makes everything muddy — implying she might not be the most reliable of narrators.
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Men may try to gaslight us by telling us that we must be mistaken about what happened to us or about what we want – but we know our own minds and are reliable narrators of our own stories.
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These books offer a necessary corrective to portrayals of women killers as hysterical or cold-blooded, and they draw complex portraits of narrators who have difficulty accessing their own anger or admitting to their own abuses of power.
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The weight of these conflicting emotions pulls on Zhang's narrators and her writing, often in accelerating run-on sentences — but the headiness is balanced by Zhang's incorporation of the (often grotesque) physical realities of being a human being.
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Twenty-five-year-old Shura — born Alexandra Lilah Denton, raised in Manchester by English and Russian parents — creates lovestruck, self-doubting narrators careful to run every experience inside their heads, and the consequences therefrom, before acting them out.
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The cats audition for this apotheosis (because Eliot's poems are often written in the third-person, cat narrators sometimes sing on their behalf), and the honor this year ultimately goes to Grizabella, a former glamour dam (read: prostitute).
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This presents a difficulty, since novels, even when recounted by unreliable narrators, typically depend on the continuity of consciousness provided by memory, the prime source for the production of subjectivity that has been central to the modern novel.
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Their scenes are loosely tied together, and the play is given its wobbly framework, by two spectral eminences who also serve as narrators: the American saint Elizabeth Seton (Kathleen Chalfant) and the almost-saint Pierre Toussaint (Alvin Keith).
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"Over the last few months, I have moved to taking several narrators to task when finding out they used my work without my permission, in every single case I was successful and got my rightful compensation," Lea said.
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The vertical projection squeezes the images, stretching them out to a disorienting degree, an effect Al-Maria compounds with a jarring soundtrack punctuated by assaultive noises and the voices of three narrators, each of whom speaks briefly and pointedly.
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The aesthetic is always the same, and is the cheapest, easiest way to mass-produce #content: The videos almost never have narrators, always use one-note stock music, and almost always use footage WEF has borrowed from someone else.
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Two invisible narrators argue back and forth — in French — about the reality of experience, recalling the dialogue between the protagonists of the Alain Resnais 1959 film, Hiroshima Mon Amour, whose memories may or may not be founded in truth.
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Novik's voice is simple and evocative, but it can occasionally feel cluttered: Miryem is one of six narrators, all of whom speak in the first person without any signposting of who they are to help the reader distinguish between them.
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Her narrators — each speaking in a frustrated but often hypnotic first person — travel through worlds that demand they subscribe to a system of categorization that simply doesn't work for them; each story shows the internal and external manifestations of this conflict.
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Craig Gillespie's portrait of disgraced Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding is a giddy black comedy replete with fourth-wall-breaking, dueling unreliable narrators, and the unforgettable sight of its main character crushing a cigarette out with the blade of her skate.
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Untrammeled by former teleologies of plot, characters who once faced death for diverging from "canon" are now allowed to experiment with their sexual and gender identities, pursuing new family structures and literally searching out narrators who will respect their pronouns.
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While he didn't write an exhaustive 30-page pitch script like Percy, he did submit a treatment discussing elements he wanted to experiment with in audio fiction, such as telling a story in two different timelines and working with unreliable narrators.
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Once the story moves into the meat of the action, though -- from Tonya moving in with Jeff to the insanity that follows -- she paints a layered and unexpectedly sympathetic portrait as the most seemingly trustworthy of the film's alternating narrators.
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The lyrics allude to pretty much every single one as we hear from Jesse Lacey as well as various fictional narrators and real strangers (like the therapy patient) attempting to understand themselves by reconciling the internal and external forces around them.
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The novel cycles through a large cast of narrators that includes Avery, who moved to Big Burr from Los Angeles when her mother, now separated from Avery's other mom, volunteered to lead the task force ("try not to be too jealous").
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While he isn't channeling a rough-hewn character like Ned Kelly, as he did in "True History of the Kelly Gang," his second Man Booker Prize-winning novel, his two narrators still like to kink and twist their Aussie phrasing.
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The group — RZA, GZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Method Man, Inspectah Deck, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, U-God, Masta Killa and sometimes Cappadonna — was a collection of performers who could be fantastical superheroes or of-the-soil narrators, often both at once.
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When, after nearly three minutes, a gentler theme was introduced — a portrait of Mahler's wife, Alma, if she, one of music history's most unreliable narrators, is to be believed — it was bitterly ironic, a term of endearment through clenched teeth.
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But unlike the instant gratification of "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" or "Air Buddies," in which dogs talk among themselves and with other animals, the canine narrators in "A Dog's Purpose" and "Bark Ranger" mostly address the viewer; human characters can't hear them.
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Sometimes Offill's narrators seem vulnerable to the delusion that their dysfunction sets them apart — that they are breaking down against the backdrop of others' composure, which can come across as self-deprecation but is actually its own form of egotism.
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But what's especially intriguing with regard to Us is the idea Persona invokes, of a story that has not one unreliable narrator, but two unreliable narrators engaged in a delicate, collaborative process of maintaining their own and each others' self-deceptions.
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Reading Hawkins's novel, you can kind of see the narrative twist coming from a mile away (I'm trying not to give it away here), because you realize early on that none of these narrators are going to lie to you.
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Even when those special effects aren't present, the work of narrators like Harry Potter's Jim Dale brings an additional level of performance to the text, which turns listening to the series into a very different experience, even if you've read the novels before.
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By the conclusion of the discussion, the audience was responding, as Öz was, to the idea that artistic legacies are generated and mutated by art historical power structures, opportunistic narrators, and even social relationships between those involved in things like the Sharjah Biennial.
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All three narrators deliver their jokes with the comedic timing and the panache you'd expect from such wildly successful curated personas; but it is the deep dark truths we don't see on their surfaces that allow these bursts of humor to soar.
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The best narrators — Simon Vance and Katherine Kellgren are two names to conjure with — get called upon to do things dramatic actors rarely attempt, such as speak like someone much older or younger than themselves or as a member of the opposite sex.
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Because Alice has such a faltering grip on reality and Lucy willfully denies reality, both make for unreliable narrators—a common device in the currently hot publishing genre of psychological suspense (Gillian Flynn's " Gone Girl ," Paula Hawkins's " The Girl on the Train ").
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Critic's Notebook When Oxygen, the television network for women, rebranded itself as a true crime channel last year, it leaned into TV's time-tested approach: a focus on gruesome and mysterious killings, disproportionately involving white female victims and sensationalized by self-serious narrators.
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So at this year's BookCon, a New York-based fan convention for book lovers, Baby-Sitters Club creator Ann M. Martin participated in a panel discussion with representatives from Audible and three of the audio series' narrators to talk about the books' legacy.
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These days "The Wife Between Us" is drawing comparisons to another hot January title, A. J. Finn's "The Woman in the Window," which sits at No. 1: Both pulled in big advances, both feature unreliable narrators and both were written by publishing insiders.
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The stories are propelled by female narrators who lay bare their nastiest impulses to the audience — but not, crucially, to the people in their lives — adding psychological depth and the sense of illicit confession to the cheap thrills of her high-wire plots.
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All had marquee narrators — Tom Cruise for the first, Leonardo DiCaprio for the second, Jennifer Lawrence for the last — but the real star of each was the imagery, whether of spacewalks, astronauts inside a spacecraft or the stunning views out a window.
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"Listeners ... love talking about books, authors, and narrators they are passionate about, and 'Clips' makes it easier for our customers to start meaningful conversations with their friends and family directly from their audio book whenever inspiration strikes," said Don Katz, founder and CEO of Audible.
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As he makes friends, faces bullying and makes it through the gauntlet of fifth grade, Palacio shifts narrators to show the perspectives of Auggie, his classmates, his older sister and other characters, offering a sympathetic look at the inner worlds of tweens and teens alike.
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On such superb solo albums as "Personal Record" (2013) and "New View" (2016) — not to mention the excellently weird music she made in the 2000s as half of the Fiery Furnaces — Eleanor Friedberger has set herself apart as one of indie rock's sharpest narrators.
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But what's already clear is that, in order for him to be tried at all, six women have been through a grueling court experience designed to break them down and paint them as, if not liars, then at least unreliable narrators of their own lives.
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"The Testaments" is the story of her excruciatingly belated turn away from Gilead—of the final days of her plan to bring down the empire, which draws in the other two narrators and relies on their willingness to put their lives on the line.
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Books of The Times The two narrators of Ayobami Adebayo's stunning debut novel — a Nigerian woman named Yejide and her husband, Akin — remember the stories they heard when they were children, and they hope to pass on these stories to their own sons and daughters.
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"The House on the Lagoon" — a multigenerational story about a wealthy and problematically haughty family that begins in 1917, when Puerto Ricans were granted American citizenship, and ends in the 1980s — is told with rival narrators, a husband and wife, with often conflicting points of view.
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The book's alternating narrators, Penny, a gloomy Korean American college freshman with dreams of becoming a writer, and Sam, a tattooed college dropout who works in a bakery, get to know each other over text and on the phone before finally, gloriously, awkwardly crossing over to IRL.
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However, I wish I knew the names of Black trans visual narrators that were doing work 30-50 years ago, and I am confident they existed, but unfortunately, due to colonialism and transphobia, I do not know their names; therefore, I am unable to speak their names.
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In a lot of ways, Into The Water follows the formula of The Girl on the Train (and of the mystery thriller genre as a whole, for that matter): it features multiple perspectives, narrators with debatable reliability, mysteries nested in mysteries, and 11th hour plot twists.
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There are several different narrators, who all speak in dialect, plus a framing tale, and there is a puzzle at the core of the story so complicated and so seemingly unsolvable that some critics have written the whole thing off as a mess and a failure.
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With one sickeningly inevitable choice Atwood has made, The Testaments is even darker, but for most of the book these three particular narrators are shielded from the very, very worst of Gilead either through childhood innocence, some limited personal power, or the actions of other women.
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While the novel in its own right was a popular success, Flynn's depiction of a woman driven to great lengths by the banality of her domestic life soon seemed to inspire many other thrillers, often featuring unreliable female narrators and with "Girl" or "Woman" in the title.
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That kind of novel typically derives its tension from two factors: the ability to let the characters (rather than the author) strategically withhold and reveal information, and the presence of an unreliable narrator — especially when one of those narrators is an alcoholic who routinely blacks out.
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Most of the narrators I know pretty well, so I know the types of stories they like, and then I present them with three or four stories that we're definitely going to do this season and let them pick which one of those that they really attach to.
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The unfolding saga around CNN's July report highlights an uncomfortable reality for reporters in the Trump era — about the pitfalls of anonymous sourcing, the dangers of the reliance on capricious narrators, and what it means for news outlets when the backstory can matter as much as the story.
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What I remembered loving so strongly as a child was that, unlike the usual archetype setups, we may have identified with one of these characters over the other—but with the books switching off narrators every volume, each gave a loving yet utterly honest view of every other girl.
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With intrusive narrators, slatternly plots, odd punctuation, and long, ambling digressions, books like "Tristram Shandy" and "Joseph Andrews" try the patience of many contemporary readers, and modern efforts to emulate them—Thomas Pynchon's " Mason & Dixon " and Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle spring to mind—are frequently greeted with exasperation.
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Sent to him in digital form by an agent of an unknown author, Paula Hawkins, it was a yet-to-be-published novel with three untrustworthy female narrators — one of them an unhappy, alcoholic divorcée named Rachel Watson who believes she has witnessed something key to a woman's disappearance.
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Written by women from the mid-21899th century to the late 25th, and recorded by women in the 238st, these eight titles are all canonical works of both fiction and nonfiction that have been transformed by distinguished contemporary female narrators into vocal performances that might even become classics themselves.
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"The Topeka School"'s alternating narrators can bring us into wonderful intimacy with internal contradictions, where they exist, but the novel as a whole wants to transcend these limits of perspective, and its tendency toward long-lens retrospect eclipses the kinds of scenes where minds might clash and overlap.
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Ford's new storyline, the Ghost Nation warriors who've been lurking in the background all season (and just tackled poor Stubbs), the massive Chekhov's Gun that is the half-frozen army of decommissioned hosts in the control room's lower levels, the multiple time frames and unreliable narrators — where is it all leading?
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Washington (CNN)With just a month to go before the first votes for president are cast in Iowa and New Hampshire, TV audiences are being treated to an onslaught of 30-second attack ads as candidates smear each other with the help of ominous narrators, grainy footage and foreboding music.
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The low-key tone of Murakami's narrators, which in earlier books like "Norwegian Wood" scanned as hipster cool, has in recent years come to feel more like depersonalization and isolation, a malaise not unlike that associated with hikikomori, the young shut-ins who have become a symbol of contemporary spiritual crisis.
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Of the book's three narrators, one has grown up inside Gilead, and so she has access to the small details that structure it from the inside; one has grown up outside of it—in Canada—and so she has access to sources of broader perspective, like history classes and broadcast news.
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"Lucy Barton" is written in a strikingly spare first-person voice, a contrast to the knowing, sophisticated omniscience of the narrators of Ms. Strout's best-known novels, including "Amy and Isabelle" and "Olive Kitteridge," the indelible portrait of a stubborn, difficult, complicated woman that won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2009.
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Just as it's liberating to watch female sadness granted the dignity of complexity on the page — to watch it get angry, get petty, get public — it's thrilling to witness a surge of books portraying other states of feeling entirely: female narrators contoured less by affliction and more by joy, pleasure, curiosity, surprise, delight.
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Clark's use of multiple narrators could have offered readers more insight into how scandals and scams unfold, how we make truth malleable to fit our needs, how something like an art forgery scandal could be a compelling diversion from the social and political chaos of Weimar Germany and the rise of fascism.
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At the start of February, British horror writer and NoSleep contributor T-Jay Lea created something called The Writers Blackout – a "movement designed to help authors receive fair compensation from YouTube narrators via direct mediation and/or advice from experienced writers," according to the pinned FAQ at the top of the subreddit's page.
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At the same time, the authors attend closely to the perceptions and interpretations of its young characters — so much so that when Avery extols stories told by unreliable narrators ("the person telling you what happened can't be trusted with the facts and you have to figure it out"), you should pay attention.
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The famous performer's voice has been featured in movies, TV and commercials for decades -- as the voice of God in "Bruce Almighty," in Batman's ear in "The Dark Knight," in Super Bowl ads for Visa and was one of the narrators for the acclaimed "Civil War" documentary series by Ken Burns -- among many others.
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I'm not the first to compare Tessa Hadley to Virginia Woolf, not even in these pages, and "Late in the Day" calls to mind, in particular, Woolf's "The Waves" in its circling around a magnetic central character (for Woolf, it's Percival, beloved childhood friend of six overlapping narrators) whose absence becomes the book's main character.
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"Potential history […] is at one and the same time an effort to create new conditions both for the appearance of things and for our appearance as its narrators, as the ones who can — at any given moment — intervene in the order of things that constituent violence has created as their natural order," she wrote in 2013.
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In recent years, Ms. Raja's name and that of her husband, the novelist Domenico Starnone, have been most often mentioned as possibly being responsible for Ms. Ferrante's books because of stylistic echoes in Ms. Ferrante's work, in Mr. Starnone's novels and in Ms. Raja's translations of German novels whose self-aware female narrators recall those in Ms. Ferrante's books.
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Without giving too much away, The Testaments is a book with three narrators: one naive young girl living within Gilead; another one living outside it, in a version of Canada wracked by its controversial relationship with Gilead, which sits at its southern border; and an old, conniving, endlessly fascinating Aunt observing and puppeteering the end of her own time.
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The sequel features two new narrators — a young woman who has been brought up in Gilead and a Canadian teenager who escaped the regime as an infant — and a third who will be familiar to fans of the original novel and show: Aunt Lydia, the terrifying, vindictive architect of Gilead's system for training women for reproductive servitude.
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But her descriptions of Pippa, the features and mannerisms she chooses to focus on and emphasize when writing from Strike's POV (generally one of our two reliable narrators in this world) are consistently objectifying and othering in ways that are very familiar from the ways transphobes describe and debate the validity of trans men and women's identities.
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That includes Stanley Tucci as profane studio chief Jack Warner, who want to milk the catfight element for promotional purposes; Judy Davis as gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, who plays the stars against each other; and Catherine Zeta-Jones and Kathy Bates as actresses Olivia de Havilland and Joan Blondell, who essentially serve as narrators, reminiscing about Davis and Crawford to a documentary filmmaker.
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For one, as the stories place the children in increasingly surreal and preposterous-sounding adventures — featuring demon forests, a farting dragon, double-crossing knights, horse-devouring quicksand and a wicked queen mother — we readers begin to lose all sense of what's true and what's not, just like the inquisitor, who must contend with an entire inn full of unreliable narrators.
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"The Ruin of Kings" is the story of a young man called Kihrin, as told by three narrators: Kihrin himself, imprisoned and speaking into a magical stone that records his words; his jailer, Talon, a shape-shifting creature who can read minds, speaking into the same magical stone; and a scholar named Thurvishar D'Lorus, who has transcribed and footnoted the stone's recordings.
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Regardless of whether the Senate votes to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court on Friday, Ford's testimony and the discourse that's swirled around her claims for the past two weeks points to two infuriating realities: that women are largely not considered reliable narrators of their own experiences, bodies, memories, and relationships, and that the bar remains impossibly high for a woman to be believed.
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Amazon's mobile apps have a feature called "immersion reading" that lets you read the book on the page as it's being narrated for you, which is useful, I find, when tackling books with archaic or unfamiliar language (I recently slogged through Crime and Punishment), or books with unconventional structures (such as George Saunders' marvelous Lincoln in the Bardo, which has an audiobook that features 166 narrators).
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Next month, Audible will release the recorded version of John Scalzi's upcoming novel Head On, a sequel to his 2014 thriller Lock In. Like Lock In — but unlike most audio editions — this release will come in two versions: one narrated by Star Trek: The Next Generation's Wil Wheaton, and the other by Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Amber Benson, who are each popular audiobook narrators.
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About a Boy I wanted to recommended David Mitchell's recent work for you and your son to listen to together, but after starting to listen to his time-traveling, fantastical 2014 novel "The Bone Clocks," which uses six different narrators, I realized that it might be hard to keep track of the bold, sprawling (often terrifying) worlds Mitchell created while also keeping your eyes on the road.
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In "Mothers, Daughters" (20063), which begins in Los Angeles but takes place mostly in Northern California, and "Rhine Maidens" (1981), whose mother and daughter narrators live in different social strata and have little in common besides genes and unfulfilling marriages, Ms. See concentrated on women whose lives are being lived out disappointingly, the pain of riven generational ties and the emotional wanness of a society in the latter days of the sexual revolution.
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"Ultimately, we want to achieve a standard baseline of pay for all writers when negotiating with any content creator that makes substantial profit on various platforms, build bridges with smaller or non-profit channels that can foster good relations as they grow, educate writers on what constitutes fair rates for their work (online adaptations pay differently to a publication, for example), educate narrators on copyright laws, and ensure everyone benefits," Lea said.
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That's because this production, directed by Ethan Heard without some of the graceful subtlety that made his "Fidelio" with Heartbeat Opera so powerful last season, takes its aim at the men who tend to co-opt Susanna's tale: Daniel, who in the Bible is depicted as her savior; Stradella, who puts her story in the mouths of male narrators and performers; artists, who have painted scenes of her, front and center and often nude, while clothed men look on hungrily.
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At the Berliner Ensemble, the storied theater in the German capital that Mr. Reese has led since last season, the young actor Nico Holonics disappears into the role of Oskar Matzerath, the novel's main character and one of 20th-century literature's most memorable narrators: a 4-year old who decides to stop growing when the Nazis come to power and who spends the Third Reich banging incessantly on his toy drum and terrorizing the adults trying to curtail his percussive pastime with earsplitting and glass-shattering shrieks.
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