If you're still unfamiliar with the quasi-mythical story of Sixto Rodriguez (as most people outside South Africa and Australia apparently were until this award-winning documentary made headlines) then Searching for Sugar Man (2012, StudioCanal, 12) tells a story so seeped in intertwining fact and fiction that you may start to wonder whether the whole thing isn't a set-up.
Its satirical tone and explicit sexual content immediately garnered loads of attention, but mainly her talent for intertwining fact and fiction stood out.
The narrative, a collection of poems subtitled "A Life in Five Movements and a Short Play," intertwines fact and fiction to flesh out Bridgetower, the son of a Polish-German mother and an Afro-Caribbean father.
Throughout the poem sadness and ecstasy are intertwined, a fact emphasised by the exclamation marks in the second and third verses.
In the realm of popular science books, Britain's ongoing fascination with what one critic called "trivium" was in full evidence as authors intertwined hard facts and historical gossip to explore abstruse subjects.
The genre whereby a writer intertwines the facts of his own story, with a fictitious plot isn't new, and already has a perfectly good name - the semi-autobiographical novel.
Politicians typically talk about rising inequality and the sluggish recovery as separate phenomena, when they are in fact intertwined.
But I doubt that anyone who was here in the fall of 2001 will forget the revelation, bitter and beautiful, that our lives and fates were all, in fact, intertwined.
Because most societal issues are in fact intertwined, global and fast-developing, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions that have the potential to build a more peaceful world.
The challenges, here, include separating out conflicts that are a situational response to something work-related from those that reflect some disturbance within the person, independent of work; identifying when the two are, in fact intertwined; and knowing how to best deal with any of them.
This article argues that those two seemingly disparate clinical events are in fact intertwined, and together offer a novel explanation for the disheartening observation that spontaneous circulation returns to only 44% of 14,720 adult cardiac arrest victims who received in-hospital resuscitation [1].
