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"I wish there was a Le Carré quality here, you know," he said, referring to the late British spy novelist.

But Fugard, who though primarily known as a playwright was also an accomplished novelist, director and actor, understood the limits of propaganda.

If Joan Didion had an overarching preoccupation as a journalist and novelist, it was to find interstices where truth and myth blend into each other.

With “The Antidote,” Russell raises the stakes of her efforts as a novelist.

“I’m an aspiring novelist, and it made me feel like a book character,” Brown says while offering a scone in her cozy living room.