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The Art Of Fiction: Hilary Mantel Culture

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Interview. Interesting throughout. Topics include the virtues of Robert Louis Stevenson, teaching in Botswana, adapting novels for the stage, and the demands of historical fiction. “When I’m writing a novel about historical figures, I have to be everybody. It’s strenuous. You know the concept of the good-enough parent? Well, sometimes you have to settle for the good-enough character. When the people are real, though dead, I have a different feeling toward them. I consider them my responsibility” (11,200 words)

Autism On A Rainy Day Thought

Naoki Higashida | Literary Hub | 20th July 2017

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Memoir by young Japanese man with autism. “I asked my mother how she identified rain by the sound alone. She told me: ‘Well, because that sound’s the sound of rain and when it starts raining, we bring in the washing’. What remains a mystery is how to infer that it’s raining purely from the noise. Even if I could identify the source of rain-noise, making the jump from the thought, ‘It’s raining!’, to bringing in the laundry, would be virtually out of the question. I’d be too occupied just sitting there, entranced” (1,220 words)

Raphael At The Ashmolean Culture

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Raphael is the most admired and least loved of the Renaissance masters. His paintings are too flawless for the modern taste. We think of Leonardo and Michelangelo as more “driven and difficult”, and so more in tune with our notions of what an artist should be. But Raphael was their equal in genius, as a show of his drawings in Oxford reminds us. “No drawing of the 15th century is remotely comparable, and it entirely negates the idea of Raphael as an artist of self-conscious perfectionism” (1,900 words)

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