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Rushdie’s sprawling picaresque is, as the title promises, a riff on Don Quixote.—
Erin Somers, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
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The bickering survivors of the Canterbury, led by reluctant captain Jim Holden (Steven Strait), become an unlikely band of freedom fighters/kingmakers after commandeering a Martian warship and rebranding it as the Rocinante (named after Don Quixote's horse).—
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The chronic daydreamer can easily identify with Catherine’s near-delusional longing for something to happen beyond the courtships and evenings around the pianoforte that seem to make up the better part of her future.—
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, based on James Thurber’s 1939 short story, starred Ben Stiller in the role of the daydreamer made famous by Danny Kaye in the 1947 Samuel Goldwyn original.—
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“Woolgatherer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woolgatherer. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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