Hints and tips:
...The question comes partway through Steven Spielberg’s 2002 film adaptation of Philip K Dick’s novella The Minority Report....
...A bigger pity is the presumption, belied by movies such as Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, that provoking an audience to reflect on history’s big questions must necessarily be a drag on entertainment....
...Bacon’s final days, spent in a hospital bed in Madrid in the spring of 1992, are the subject of Max Porter’s mercurial novella The Death of Francis Bacon....
...Another director — Steven Spielberg, no less — snapped up the film rights to Carole Stivers’s debut novel The Mother Code (Berkley, RRP$26) well before the book was published....
...Meanwhile the BBC have banked Steven McRae’s almost psychopathic reading on iPlayer....
...It’ll take you four hours to read, maybe, and it’s a little novella translated from an Indian regional language....
...Visconti put Thomas Mann’s novella into the art-cinema blender in 1971 and it came out puree’d, prolix and purged of art or cinema. They are both there in quotes, of course....
...Brevity is the closest Morrissey’s 128-page novella gets to the soul of wit. That, and a few viciously turned barbs, the only mode of writing the ex-Smiths singer now displays any aptitude for....
...So went the local premiere of John Luther Adams’ startling Inuksuit, composed for a barren Alaskan landscape, but uncommonly eloquent when delivered in this sun-blessed landscape under Steven Schick’s masterly...
...Novella-length stories such as David Moles’s sparkling “Seven Cities of Gold” and Robert Reed’s pacy “Dead Man’s Run” sit alongside contributions that can be as brief as three pages....
...His wonderfully original novella, published in 1932 and now translated into English, is structured around images of photographic fragments, negatives and developing processes, and demonstrates intensely...
...And in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) three men and a shark – four ciphers in Peter Benchley’s book – are allowed a grandeur of characterisation, salted with wit and squalled with compelling emotions....
...It sounds like a Cluedo solution, and Michael Apted’s film from Steven Dirty Pretty Things Knight’s script is a bit like a Cluedo game....
...By Boris Akunin Translated by Andrew Bromfield Weidenfeld £12.99, 336 pages FT bookshop price: £10.39 Moscow-based crime writer Akunin’s latest translation into English consists of two contrasting novellas...
...Steven Johnson’s The Ghost Map (Allen Lane, ₤16.99) also covers this subject....
...Chesney’s novella was the direct inspiration for Wells’s invasion fantasy, The War of the Worlds....
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