Word: novelistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...OPERATIONAL NECESSITY, by Gwyn Griffin. Novelist Griffin specializes in dramas that pit military discipline against moral imperative, and this World War II sea story is his best...
...Novelist Ludvik Vaculik, who shook a recent congress of the Czech Writers' Union with these angry words, was proved right sooner than he thought; he was forthwith fired from his post as an alternate member of the union's central committee and roundly denounced by the government. Czechoslovakia's Communist regime, which for a time was Eastern Europe's most tolerant in permitting liberalization to flourish, has recently returned to a pattern of repression. It is preparing not only to discipline Czechoslovakia's "unruly" writers, but also to take back a good deal of what...
Hans Koningsberger is an unabashed romantic who believes that intuition is a novelist's best guide. In a few spare, insightful bedroom novels (The Affair, An American Romance), his judgment could hardly be faulted. Last year, after a brief tour of Red China, Koningsberger attempted to add his own intuition to China reportage. The result, Love and Hate in China, was both unknowing and superficial...
...Yorkshire moors that the girls loved. She has read 20 years' worth of Blackwood's magazine to trace the sources of Charlotte's erudition and deciphered trunkfuls of childish scrawl to interpret her juvenilia. If the result is not the vivid portrait that Victorian Novelist Elizabeth Gaskell wrote right after Charlotte's death, it is more complete and accurate-an exhaustive source of Bront...
...book is a bitter attack on all whites from the W.A.S.P. of the title-a liberal white lawyer who often defends destitute Negroes-to charitable foundations, welfare departments and anyone with white skin. Horwitz, a novelist (The Inhabitants) and former welfare investigator in New York City, has not bothered to draw characters or write a plot. His people speak strictly in paragraphs, the blacks detailing their misery, the whites chittering on about the hopelessness of it all and concocting theories about a racial murder. The book is written in honest wrath, but Horwitz is one of those whites who have...