Often marginalized by critics during his life, M.C. Escher (1898-1972) is now famous for woodcuts and lithographs that roam the wild frontier of mathematics, images of rooms that warp and buckle, ...

In an era in which we’ve been told that mass data-mining and plagiarism will lead to a magical artificial intelligence that will solve all the great mysteries of life, “The Book of Records” is a ...

The new novel "The Book Of Records" begins when a 7-year-old girl named Lina arrives with her father in a place called The Sea - S-E-A. MADELEINE THIEN: It's buildings that are a waystation for people ...

As a child I loved Tom Thumb, the perfectly formed human who was only a couple of inches tall; he roamed the countryside while sitting on the back of a mouse or hitched a ride in the ear of a horse.

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Associate Dean International, Faculty of Arts, Design & Humanities, De Montfort University The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien intricately blends historical and speculative fiction to tackle ...

Madeleine Thien’s allusive novel features a father-daughter duo, migrants from China who find refuge at the Sea, a run-down resort literally on the margins of time and space. Wui and 10-year-old Lina ...

The People's Book of Records was a comedy game show made in the United Kingdom, which offered members of the public the opportunity to set unofficial records for any activity that they chose. Examples ...

Guinness World Records has declared Sultan Kösen the tallest living man in the world (8 feet, 2.8 inches), Bilal Ilyas Jhandir the best at identifying Taylor Swift songs in a minute or less (34 songs) ...

The 'Guinness World Records' 2015 book is released on its 60th anniversary. The longest tongue measures 10.1 cm (3.97 in) from its tip to the middle of the closed top lip and belongs to Nick Stoeberl ...