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Writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who won the Nobel Prize in 1982, died Thursday at 87.

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A Love Letter To Literature: Reading Gabo In 'The Paris Review'

7:13pm April 18, 2014

by Gustavo Arellano

Gabriel Garcia Marquez died Thursday. It would be hard to overstate the importance of his novels, but author Gustavo Arellano recommends getting to know him in a different medium.

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In Under The Skin, Scarlett Johansson plays an alien who adopts an English accent and cruises Scotland enticing hitchhikers into a darkened building.

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Undead Hipsters And An Abstract Alien Star In Two Arty Horror Pics

2:20pm April 18, 2014

by David Edelstein

Every so often an arthouse director dips a toe into the horror genre and you realize vampires and space aliens are subjects too rich to be the property of schlockmeisters, says critic David Edelstein.

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A Story Of Torture And Forgiveness That Spans A Half-Century

8:06pm April 17, 2014

by NPR Staff

Director Jonathan Teplitsky speaks about his film The Railway Man. It tells the true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who was a prisoner of war during World War II at a Japanese labor camp.

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Admirers ask Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- seated alongside his wife, Mercedes Barcha -- to sign books in Santa Marta, Colombia, in 2007.

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Writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Who Gave Voice To Latin America, Dies

8:06pm April 17, 2014

by Mandalit del Barco

The master of magic realism was the region's best-known writer. His novels were filled with miraculous events and characters; love and madness; wars, dreams and death. He died Thursday at 87.

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Kumail Nanjiani (from left), Martin Starr, Thomas Middleditch, Zach Woods and T.J. Miller star in Silicon Valley, Mike Judge's new sitcom about young programmers trying to hit it rich.

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'Silicon Valley' Asks: Is Your Startup Really Making The World Better?

6:45pm April 17, 2014

Mike Judge's HBO sitcom pokes fun at programmers hoping to hit it rich. It's not the first time Judge has satirized the workplace: His 1999 cult film Office Space explored desk-job-induced ennui.

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'Bintel Brief' And 'Hellfighters': American Stories, Powerfully Illustrated

4:57pm April 17, 2014

by Maureen Corrigan

Critic Maureen Corrigan recommends two graphic novels — one about a Yiddish advice column in the early 1900s and another about a regiment of African-American soldiers who fought during World War I.

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Kinder Than Solitude is Yiyun Li's sixth book.

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Book Review: 'Kinder Than Solitude'

8:20pm April 16, 2014

by Ellah Allfrey

Ellah Allfrey reviews Kinder Than Solitude, by Yiyun Li.

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Crime writer Giorgio Scerbanenco was born in Kiev in 1911, grew up in Rome and worked for decades as a journalist in Milan.

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Exploring Life's Incurable Soiledness With The Father Of Italian Noir

3:33pm April 16, 2014

by John Powers

A crackling new translation of Giorgio Scerbanenco's crime novel Private Venus has just been released. Critic John Powers read it in a single sitting.

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Carlotta Gall began reporting on Afghanistan in November 2001, just after the U.S. started bombing the country in response to the Sept. 11 attacks.

Pakistan, The Taliban And The Real 'Enemy' Of The Afghanistan War

7:42pm April 15, 2014

In a new book, New York Times correspondent Carlotta Gall offers new information about how Pakistan has helped the Taliban in Afghanistan and may have helped hide Osama bin Laden.

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FX's 'Fargo' Is Neither Remake Nor Sequel

5:05pm April 15, 2014

by David Bianculli

The cable network premieres a new drama series tonight. It's called Fargo, and has the same title as the 1996 Coen Brothers movie. Critic David Bianculli says it's very definitely a wonderful show in that same wacky spirit – but it's just as important to note what this new Fargo is not. It's not a remake — and it's not a sequel.

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