Word: novelists
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...Days (the WB, Wednesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.) is flawless: if the only reason Murder, She Wrote isn't still on the air is that its viewers brought in only Depend commercials, then make a Murder, She Wrote for teens. The lead character here is dark but likable young mystery novelist Mike Dolan (Eddie Cahill), and the setting is a crime-beleaguered Northeastern vacation island that happens to employ the world's hottest coroner (Poppy Montgomery), who could become the hero's love interest. If Williamson were a stock, Warren Buffet would...
...Long before September 11, Algerian novelist, poet and journalist Tahar Djaout learned how fearsome religious fanaticism could be. On May 26, 1993, Djaout was shot by assassins outside of his home in Bainem, Algeria. His death was attributed to the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS). Dajout's death was the first in a series of murders by the FIS that targeted high-profile intellectuals. "The Last Summer of Reason," a haunting novel in French, was found in Djaout's papers. It is the story of Boualem Yekker, a bookstore owner whose country is being overtaken by fundamentalists. The book has just...
...talking of Iraq, the BBC reports that an anonymous new novel 'The Fortified Castle,' which is drawing rave reviews in the Iraqi media, is in fact the second work of that coy romance novelist Saddam Hussein. His earlier effort 'Zabibah and the King,' about a torrid but noble romance between an embattled monarch and a brave married commoner, is due to be turned into a 20-part TV series. The new one has a war hero falling in love with a Kurdish refugee from Northern Iraq - presumably not one fleeing from his vicious bombing of Mosul...
...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...