Mr. Brokaw is not the first, last or most incisive writer to take stock of 1968 and its youthquake.
The rock climber Harold Drasdo, who has died aged 85, tackled the heartlands of British mountaineering with the leading climbers of the postwar era – and later became an incisive writer and educationist, whose books unearthed the sport's deeper philosophical roots.
Holofcener is a smart, incisive writer about human foibles and weakness of mind when it comes to love and romance.
The first was that perfect gentlemen rarely make incisive writers, and the second was that the book would be filled with endless speculation about the identity of dear old Dad, without any resolution.
But Carr's legacy, as one of the paper's most incisive writers and as a leading ambassador for Times' journalism, prompted editors to be especially deliberate in making a final decision.
At the Sunday Times, he was a resourceful reporter on British and American public affairs, and an incisive editorial writer with a fine indignation.
Malcolm is so effortlessly incisive a writer that any of her subjects is liable to feel cut, but she at least seems fascinated by the book's deep contradictions – and she does call it "extraordinary", although maybe not exactly in the laudatory sense of the word.
Brown, long one of Britain's most authoritative and incisive music writers, brilliantly recreates the atmosphere of camaraderie and dogged labour that went into creating Spector's 'Wall of Sound', one of the key signatures of 20th-century pop music.
As she has shown in her novels "The Condition" and "Faith," Ms. Haigh is one of the most subtle, incisive fiction writers currently exploring the dynamics of big, secretive families, the kinds whose members are much more apt to betray private thoughts than speak them out loud.
Elements of the murder mystery and noir genres abound, but it's the incisive way writer-director Taylor Sheridan examines justice, otherness, and male fragility that puts this sleeper-hit starring Jeremy Renner squarely in Western territory (both literally and figuratively).
My generation still thinks of Tony Howard as an elegant writer, incisive polemicist, hugely successful editor of two national magazines and deputy editor of this newspaper.
