ANDREY KURKOV on BREAD - UKRAINE WHEAT FIELDS AS CEMETERIES

THE GUARDIAN - PUTIN WAR CRIMES - ANDREY KURKOV 

Title "I have run out of words for the horror of Putin's crimes in Ukraine" by Andrey Kirkov.

Excerpt:  I have long since run out of words to describe the horror brought by Putin to Ukrainian soil. Ukraine the land of bread and wheat.  Even in Egypt, bread and cakes are baked using Ukrainian flour.  It;s the time of year to prepare the fields for sowing, but this work is not being done.  The soil of the wheat fields is full of metal - fragments of shells, pieces of blown-up tanks and cars, the remains of downed planes and helicopters.  And it's all covered in blood.  The blood of Russian soldiers who do not understand what they are fighting for, and the blood of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians who know that if they do not fight, Ukraine will no longer exist.  In its place there will be a cemetery with a caretaker's hut and some kind of governor general send from Russia will sit and guard it.

DEFINITION OF TRAITOR - TREASON

TIME : BENEDICT ARNOLD TRAITOR (Definition of TREASON)   This article from 2018 concerns President Donald Trump and Treason.  Excerpt:  Not that the definition of treason is complicated.  To the frustration of the President's critics, Article III, section 3 of the U.S. Constitution narrowly defines treason against the United States as consisting 'only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid or comfort."  Americans shared this understanding of treason, rooted in English Common Law, even before the Constitution was written.

JOYCE CAROL OATS DOES NOT WRITE QUICKLY

THE GUARDIAN; JOYCE CAROL OATS :PEOPLE THINK I WRITE QUICKLY by Hermoine Hoby

EXCERPT :  Oats, a five time Pulitzer finalist, might be "very intensely interested in a portrait of America", but clearly she has no truck with the ego-vaunting, personality driven paradigm of contemporary celebrity.  She appears more to belong to some other, long-passed era, with a pronounced gothic streak colouring much of her fiction, which tends to be peopled by powerful men and introverted women who frequently experience sexual shame.

COMEDY LITERATURE AWARD

THE GUARDIAN - JILLY COOPER - WOMEN WRITING COMEDIC LITERATURE AWARD

Reigning queen of the pun JILLY COOPER has been awarded the inaugural COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT (CWIP) lifetime achievement award "in recognition of her legacy and inspiration to comic women writers everywhere."

..."We wanted to respect JILLY COOPER as a game changer... at a time when visibility  of witty women writers was still an issue," said the comedian, writer, and actor HELEN LEDERER, who founded the awards to celebrate the female authors of comic fiction she felt were being overlooked. "Her mix of shrewdly placed social satire and criticism made us all connect and want more of her.  She's not only a household name - she's also a witty journalist, author, and influence."