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Top 10 modern Victorian novels

Top 10sFictionNarrative tricks minted in the 19th century are still working in contemporary fiction by authors from Margaret Atwood to Sarah Waters In historical fiction, as in all things, fashions come and go. As we near the end of Hilary Mantel’s glorious Tudor revival, the ancient world is again getting a look in, with writers such as Madeline Miller and Pat Barker refashioning the Homeric epics to glittering effect. But these trends mask more durable patterns, at least from a crudely chronological point of view.

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Joe Jonas & Sophie Turner Headed for Divorce

Getty Composite UPDATE 10:29 AM PT -- Here's a shot of Joe going ringless just a few weeks ago in NYC, while he was making a coffee run. UPDATE Backgrid UPDATE However, it looks like he goes back and forth between putting it on and taking it off. Just yesterday, he posted a shot of him and his brothers for Labor Day ... and there, he's wearing it.

'Finding Me': 8 Biggest Bombshells From Viola Davis' Emotional Memoir

Viola Davis isn't holding anything back in her newly released memoir, Finding Me. The 56-year-old actress bares it all in the emotional book; looking back on a traumatic childhood filled with poverty, abuse and heartbreak. The Tony, Oscar and Emmy winner recounts living in a condemned building, vicious bullying by boys who threw rocks at her for being Black, enduring more racism as she made her mark within the predominantly white entertainment industry and eventually finding joy in the life she built with her husband, Julius Tennon.