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- Alasdair Gray, Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981)
Best if you’re looking for an epic
This is my favourite book. It is the masterpiece of the late Scottish artist and writer Alasdair Gray, who also wrote Poor Things, which was excellently adapted by Yorgos Lanthimos into a movie last year.
Lanark is a vast, metatextual novel that defies easy catego... See more
Dr. Rebecca Marks • The Artist’s Way: 4 novels about creating
There is something effortlessly composed about French children. They sit patiently at restaurants, sleep soundly through the night, and seem to possess an innate sense of independence and self-control. Meanwhile, their parents appear calm, confident, and seemingly unburdened by the constant stress that defines modern parenting elsewhere. What’s the
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‘Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty.’ – Sir Joseph Paxton