Harold Pinter is sneaky. The playwright’s stories start out canted, and slowly slide from seemingly mundane settings and people — strangers at a party; former college classmates reminiscing in a ...

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Harold Pinter, praised as the most influential British playwright of his generation and a longtime voice of political protest, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 78. Pinter, whose ...