"I would rather give a healthy boy or healthy girl a phial of Prussic acid than this novel," an editorial in the Sunday Express declaimed.
Amid the novel European editorial sniping at Mr. Obama, a detail in passing: Dalil Boubakeur, rector of Paris's Grand Mosque, when asked last week about the proposed Islamic center in New York by a French journalist, replied, "You don't, just like that, build a mosque on such a symbolic site.
But no good novel is an editorial.
But neither did she think that her woman's vision introduced anything particularly novel into the editorial mix.
Two years after she published the story, Welty wrote an essay called "Must the Novelist Crusade?" The essay attempts to distinguish the novel from the editorial, the novelist from the journalist.
Next, between 1940 and 1944, Lowry revised the novel, with crucial editorial assistance from the actress Margerie Bonner, who saved him from the worst of his alcoholism and later became his second wife.
This is the meaning the novel gave to the editorial device of antiquity, one of its more compelling reinventions.
It's good to read that a handful of state attorneys general recognize global warming as a public nuisance ("A Novel Tactic on Warming," editorial, July 28).
Willes' business initiative will heavily rely on a novel strategy that some editorial purists have been quick to sneer at.
A compromise was reached, and Authentic was born as a monthly magazine in paperback format, with a single novel and a short editorial feature in each issue, plus an occasional short story.
