Word: novelists
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Westerners often consider Russians shiftless and lazy. While their style of work may be puzzling to outsiders, it has a logic all its own, rooted in the peasant's seasonal cycle of activities, when months of idleness gave way to short but intensive periods of planting and harvest. As novelist Leo Tolstoy once explained, "The Russians harness their horses very slowly, but they ride with great speed." Russian people have little patience for daily chores and fixed schedules. They prefer to get things done in sudden bursts of activity. This style of work came to be known in the Soviet...
Amos Oz, a distinguished Israeli scholar and novelist, last night urged compromise, humor and elimination of stereotypes as solutions to Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East...
...APPRENTICE PAINTER HONES his rough craft by sketching a bowl of fruit or a reclining nude. The would-be novelist pulls a diary from her dresser and changes the names. But ambitious young filmmakers, with a fondness for old genres and an eye to the box office, take tours of the underworld. When in doubt, go with the gangsters. Not every first-time director can make Citizen Kane; the budget, let alone the vision, would be out of reach. But a Mean Streets, Martin Scorsese's 1973 breakthrough film about a brotherhood of toughs in Manhattan's Little Italy...
...meaning of Malcolm X's name is in danger of being commodified out of existence ("X" Potato Chips will soon be on the market) this book restores his complexity. By questioning our assumptions about Malcolm X and American history, Malcolm X: In Our Own Image re-captures what novelist John Edgar Wideman calls "the freeing power of [Malcolm's] example, its witness, its disruptive, revolutionary threat...
...there any poet or novelist who particularly inspired...