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...Hamlets. His minders hired an idealistic young physician to take care of him, but when the doctor used his access to the weak-minded King to take control of the nation--and to romance the hot-blooded young Queen--things went very rotten indeed. Enquist, a celebrated Swedish novelist, turns this actual historical incident into an enthralling fable of the temptations of power--and a surprisingly poignant love story...
...Everyone has become a literary critic,” novelist and member of London’s literary intelligentsia Martin Amis proclaims in the foreword to The War Against Cliché, and not without a touch of bitterness. Accused by his father, the equally, if not more famous novelist Kingsley Amis, of a “terrible compulsive vividness in his style,” Amis the younger has never been one to pander to the masses. At his best, he is a witty purveyor of critical and cultural insight; at his worst, he is an arrogant misogynist. Like many...
...Anderson-Wilson sophomore effort, 1998's prep-school comedy Rushmore--another funny riff on rivalry and forgiveness--also charmed the critics, but The Royal Tenenbaums, with its all-star cast (including Wilson as a western novelist with a taste for cowboy hats, loafers without socks and hard drugs), is expected to be their most successful movie...
...worshippers (actually, the Prophet tore down the idols in Mecca). And Dante, in "The Divine Comedy," placed Muhammad in the Eighth Circle of Hell with the schismatics (even pagans such as Plato and Aristotle got relatively better treatment, with placement in the more scenic Limbo). Much more recently, the novelist Fay Weldon ("Affliction") wrote this about Islam: "The Koran is food for no-thought. It is not a poem on which a society can be safely or sensibly based...
...spiritual guru for 2.5 million Tamil people; in Kauai, Hawaii. Known as Gurudeva, he founded America's first Hindu temple in 1957 in San Francisco and oversaw more than 50 independent temples worldwide. He won the 2000 U Thant Peace Award. DIED. DOROTHY DUNNETT, 78, a Scottish historical novelist, whose epic series The Lymond Chronicles and The House of Niccolo depicting medieval Europe inspired conventions and fan magazines; in Edinburgh. Dunnett, honored with an Order of the British Empire in 1992, wrote more than 20 novels and was a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts...