Word: essayistic
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...talk-show host Bill O'Reilly trumped the standard definition of chutzpah--a man who kills his parents, then pleads for mercy as an orphan--by complaining that the country is "as polarized as it's ever been in the history of the Republic." In TIME two weeks ago, essayist Charles Krauthammer expressed astonishment at the level of antagonism toward President Bush among liberals. Newly anointed New York Times columnist David Brooks has deplored both the viciousness and the shallowness of today's politics, compared with the Athenian atmosphere he recalls in the 1980s...
...think for the most part people at the Lampoon were clever and witty, and could do clever parodies and things like that, but George was laugh-out-loud funny,” says Crist. “It wasn’t a formal, studied, essayist sort of humor...
Lucinda falls in love with her new home at first sight, and if The Quality of Life Report (Viking; 309 pages), a comic, caustic first novel by essayist and National Public Radio regular Meghan Daum, were any less honest, her story could have ended on page 15. But Daum's bittersweet deconstruction of Lucinda's illusions reads like The Bridges of Madison County etched in acid. Lucinda acquires a boyfriend, an apathetic woodsman named Mason Clay, who--while he bears a passing resemblance to Sam Shepard and says "warsh" instead of "wash"--turns out to be both much more...
CRITIQUE In a quickie book for the intelligentsia, novelist and essayist Norman Mailer challenges Bush's war aims and the patriotic impulses they engendered...
...embraced the world as a social activist--a Catholic anarchist. Merton withdrew from the world to become a monk, memoirist, essayist. O'Connor lived surrounded by her famous peacocks on a farm in Milledgeville, Ga., her body restricted by disease, her imagination ranging with strange originality through a universe of her creation. Percy labored on, exploring the modern self that he considered essentially empty. Elie braids these four distinctive strands into a story, both inspiring and deeply intelligent, in which, as he says, "art, life and religious faith converge." --By Lance Morrow