Word: novelistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that changed with the end of the war and the U.S. occupation. Many of the old laws went off the books, and the emancipation of Japanese women made giant strides. Just how wide the break with the past has become was demonstrated when Novelist Shusaku Endo published, in the popular weekly Shukan Asahi, an interview with no less a personage than Mrs. Hiroko Sato, wife of Premier Eisaku Sato...
...Order of Merit is the most coveted nonpolitical honor to which a Briton can aspire. Membership is restricted to 24 British subjects and is granted directly by the Crown. That honor was fittingly bestowed last week on Novelist-Humanist E. M. Forster (A Passage to India) on the eve of his 90th birthday. The sage celebrated birthday and royal gift quietly with friends, then returned to King's College, Cambridge, where he has lived as an Honorary Fellow since 1946. Age has not dulled his gentle wit. Asked if he would not some day want his death...
...Passant. The central event that impinges on the well-earned satisfactions of Eliot's Indian-summer years is the sadistic murder of an eight-year-old boy by a lesbian couple. This grisly action greatly resembles the Moors murder case, described in 1967 by Snow's novelist wife Pamela Hansford Johnson in a short book of moralizing social criticism called On Iniquity. Trying to match modified reality with near-art, Snow contrives to have Eliot drawn into the murder's aftermath and the murderers' trial through a series of unconvincing coincidences. The brother...
Beginning as a novelist in the 1940's, when he wrote The Naked and the Dead, Mailer has recently turned to journalism. His latest works are Armies of the Night, on the 1967 march on the Pentagon, and an account of the political conventions in Miami and Chicago...
...whom most people consider the most accomplished novelist in English, Vladimir Nabokov, will publish his first new book since Pale Fire. Called Ada, it is Delphically described by the author as "an attempt to grapple with the problem of time." Saul Bellow, the man whom most of the other people consider the most accomplished novelist in English, has a new novel too. Like his bestselling Herzog, it will deal with urban intellectuals, more than ever a promising subject since Norman Podhoretz's Making It made...