Postmodern literature
20th-century literary form and movement
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| 2024 |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Australian rapper Kote$ releases the album 'Fear n Loathing', featuring album art and music videos that pay homage to the film's characters and scenes.
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| 2024 |
Slaughterhouse-Five
The book was banned from school libraries in Florida and by the Katy Independent School District in Texas, with the latter citing reasons of 'adopting, supporting, or promoting gender fluidity'.
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| 2024 |
Slaughterhouse-Five
The book was banned in Wilson County Schools, Tennessee, as part of compliance with a new state law adding to the 2022 Age Appropriate Materials Act.
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| 2024 |
Parallel novel
Percival Everett wrote 'James', a parallel novel that reimagines Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' from Jim's point of view.
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| 2023 |
Parallel novel
Sandra Newman published 'Julia', a parallel novel that retells George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' from Julia's perspective.
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| 2020 |
Lolita
Kate Elizabeth Russell publishes her debut novel My Dark Vanessa, which references Lolita and explores the story from the victim's perspective.
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| 2020 |
Lolita
Jamie Loftus hosted a podcast examining the cultural legacy of Lolita and its interpretations.
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| September 2020 |
Slaughterhouse-Five
First graphic novel adaptation published by BOOM! Studios' Archaia Entertainment imprint, written by Ryan North and drawn by Albert Monteys.
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| 2019 |
Quichotte
The novel is shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, receiving favorable reviews.
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| September 14 2019 |
Quichotte
Quichotte debuts at number fifteen on The New York Times Hardcover fiction best-seller list for the week ending on this date.
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| September 3 2019 |
Quichotte
Quichotte is published in the United States by Random House.
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| August 29 2019 |
Quichotte
Salman Rushdie's novel Quichotte is published by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom and Penguin Books India.
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| May 24 2019 |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
ABC/Marvel Studios' Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. broadcasts 'Fear and Loathing on the Planet of Kitson', an episode that takes its title and plot elements from the novel and film.
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| March 2019 |
Lolita
The musical 'Lolita, My Love' was revived at the York Theatre in New York, adapted from Lerner's drafts by Erik Haagensen with a score recovered and directed by Deniz Cordell.
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| 2015 |
Lolita
Joanne Harris wrote an article in The Independent discussing the ongoing controversy and literary significance of Lolita.
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| 2013 |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Panic! at the Disco releases the album 'Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!', named after a line from the movie adaptation of the novel.
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| 2013 |
Slaughterhouse-Five
Guillermo del Toro announced his intention to remake the 1972 film, planning to work with a script by Charlie Kaufman.
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| 2013 |
Parallel novel
Jo Baker published 'Longbourn', a parallel novel that provides a different perspective on Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice'.
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| 2012 |
Lolita
Lana Del Rey's album Born to Die features numerous Lolita references, including a bonus track titled 'Lolita' that quotes the novel's opening line.
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| August 2011 |
Slaughterhouse-Five
The novel was banned at Republic High School in Missouri. In response, the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library offered 150 free copies of the book to students.
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| February 2011 |
Lolita
A concert performance of an opera based on Reading Lolita in Tehran premieres at the University of Maryland School of Music, with music by Elisabeth Mehl Greene and a libretto co-written by Mitra Motlagh.
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| 2010 |
Slaughterhouse-Five
The novel's first line, 'All this happened, more or less,' was ranked No. 38 on the American Book Review's list of '100 Best First Lines from Novels'.
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