Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, January 7th

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, January 7th

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The Oak and the Larch by Sophie Pinkham review – are Russia’s forests the key to its identity? | History books

The Oak and the Larch by Sophie Pinkham review – are Russia’s forests the key to its identity? | History books

When Sophie Pinkham opens her fascinating book with the claim that “Russia has more trees than there are stars in our galaxy”, it might seem as though she is merely using a... Read more »
What we’re reading: Alan Hollinghurst, Samantha Harvey and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in December | Books

What we’re reading: Alan Hollinghurst, Samantha Harvey and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in December | Books

Tomasz, Guardian reader Ever since my father presented me with a copy of The Unicorn, beautifully translated into my mother tongue, I have been an ardent admirer of Iris Murdoch’s. I went... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, January 7th

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, January 6th

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Arborescence by Rhett Davis review – why would people turn into trees? | Fiction

Arborescence by Rhett Davis review – why would people turn into trees? | Fiction

In the book-length essay Death By Landscape, Elvia Wilk gives a potted history of fiction in which humans turn into plants. There is Daphne, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, who is so afraid she will... Read more »
Michael Schumacher, author of Francis Ford Coppola and Eric Clapton biographies, dies aged 75 | US news

Michael Schumacher, author of Francis Ford Coppola and Eric Clapton biographies, dies aged 75 | US news

Michael Schumacher, a Wisconsin author who produced a diverse array of works ranging from biographies of film-maker Francis Ford Coppola and musician Eric Clapton to accounts of Great Lakes shipwrecks, has died.... Read more »
What we’re reading: Alan Hollinghurst, Samantha Harvey and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in December | Books

The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers review – the midlife adultery story our generation deserves | Fiction

In Erin Somers’s The Ten Year Affair, Cora, a millennial mother, craves a bygone kind of passion from a bygone kind of man. Unfortunately for her, morality in 2015 is rigid and... Read more »
Michael Schumacher, author of Francis Ford Coppola and Eric Clapton biographies, dies aged 75 | US news

Daily Cartoon: Monday, January 5th

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Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, January 7th

The Zorg by Siddharth Kara review – scarcely imaginable horrors at sea | History books

Over the nearly four centuries during which the transatlantic slave trade operated, 12.5 million Africans were trafficked by Europeans to the Americas. 1.8 million of them perished on the voyage under scarcely... Read more »
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