Word: fictions
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...which urged action over purely conceptual thought, and broke leftist ranks by denouncing Soviet communism as fascism - the mediagenic BHL (as he's usually known) has been relentless. He has published countless essays and more than 30 books, including his 2003 "investi-novel" Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, a partly fictionalized investigation of the people and places that led to the Wall Street Journal reporter's 2002 beheading by Islamic extremists in Pakistan. When not typing, BHL is a frequent guest on chat shows, a staple of celebrity magazines and a durable symbol of the Parisian high life with his wife...
...other difference is the films' choice of enemy. Who's out there in the night? In the new film, it's a specific group (we won't say which) with a motive familiar to readers of cynical crime fiction. In the original, it's an L.A. street gang, but one that metastasizes into a more generalized and troubling plague: the whole roiling sweep of urban pestilence that seized the U.S. in the '70s. It's the rampaging unknown, voiceless and ruthless--a nightmare that will end only if you can stay awake, and alive, till dawn...
CDIED. FRANK KELLY FREAS, 82, artist whose career included designing posters for NASA, illustrating Isaac Asimov's science-fiction books and creating the definitive portraits of Mad magazine's grinning mascot, Alfred E. Newman, originally drawn by Norman Mingo; in West Hills, Calif...
...outset of her career Sontag produced two fairly bloodless novels, The Benefactor and Death Kit. Neither one made it seem that fiction was her natural milieu. But she went on to publish some fine and original short stories and eventually returned to the novel with new juices flowing. In America, her story of a 19th century Polish actress who sets up a utopian commune in California, won the National Book Award in 2000. But it was as a tireless, all-purpose cultural critic that she made her lasting mark. "Sometimes," she once said, "I feel that...
...DIED. SUSAN SONTAG, 71, prominent critic, novelist and outspoken public intellectual; in New York City. Although she was best known for her works of nonfiction, including Against Interpretation and the critical study On Photography, Sontag wrote fiction (including The Way We Live Now and the best-selling The Volcano Lover), directed films, produced the movie Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo, and wrote numerous articles?proving, according to her own definition, that a writer should be "someone who is interested in everything...