Daily Cartoon: Thursday, January 8th

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, January 8th

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A Long Game by Elizabeth McCracken review – here’s how to really write your novel | Creative writing

A Long Game by Elizabeth McCracken review – here’s how to really write your novel | Creative writing

Trope, POV, backstory, character arc. In the 30 years since I was a student of that benign, pipe-smoking, elbow-patched man of letters Malcolm Bradbury, the private language of creative writing workshops has taken over the world.... Read more »
This, My Second Life by Patrick Charnley review – an astonishing debut of recovery | Fiction

This, My Second Life by Patrick Charnley review – an astonishing debut of recovery | Fiction

“I had to pick through the wreckage, blind at first. I had to find all the pieces of me, scattered all around, and put them back together, one by one.” Following a... Read more »
María Corina Machado to publish book on political vision for Venezuela amid upheaval | María Corina Machado

María Corina Machado to publish book on political vision for Venezuela amid upheaval | María Corina Machado

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado will publish a book in the US that lays out her vision for Venezuela’s political reconstruction as the country faces significant upheaval. The 120-page work titled... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, January 7th

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, January 7th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. Source link Read more »
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 »
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, January 8th

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 »
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