Word: novelists
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MOVIES . . . TOUCH: Writer-director Paul Schrader's sly and nicely understated adaptation of novelist Elmore Leonard's 'Touch' is the story of Juvenal, a Christ figure who has adapted to the modern era. Played by Skeet Ulrich, he has done time in the wilderness, suffers the stigmata and can cure the incurable by the laying on of hands. Otherwise, though, he's a cool dude. He likes girls, shows no particular interest in spreading any sort of gospel and turns a politely bemused face toward the hustlers and lowlifes who swarm around when word of his preternatural healing gifts starts...
...Played Out, by Pete Davies. The story of the 1990 World Cup, from the perspective of the ultimate semifinalists, Team England. Davies, a novelist, was given the kinds of behind-the-scenes access that even John Feinstein might have found envious. And the results are breathtaking, whether he's analyzing the sweeper system or chronicling England's problems with hooliganism...
DIED. MOLLIE PANTER-DOWNES, 90, novelist and correspondent for the New Yorker who wrote the magazine's Letter from London for more than four decades, chronicling Britain from Churchill to Thatcher; on Jan. 22; in a nursing home in Surrey, England...
...grew up in privilege. Her father was a well-connected Jewish financier who made millions on Wall Street and was an adviser to Presidents. Her mother, a writer and socialite, counted among her friends the sculptor Constantin Brancusi and the novelist Thomas Mann. In 1940 Kay married Phil Graham, a charismatic protege of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and later something of a golden boy of the postwar liberal establishment. It was quite a family...
...globe should need another umbrous island, anchored by one man's imagination halfway between Iceland and Greenland, is not something novelist (and former TIME contributor) Brad Leithauser bothers to explain. If you don't like Freeland, the gray and chilly outpost of which he is the sole curator of history, customs and current events, then chase your moonbeams in Lake Wobegon or your copperheads in Yoknapatawpha County...