metaphor

Reading time: Less than 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a couple of similes and metaphors from New Yorker writer Carolyn Korman… Can a restaurant for the rich benefit the poor? That was the opening question in a very fine piece of writing by

Reading time: Less than 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about several metaphors from William Trevor… The best figurative writing paints an exceptionally clear and evocative picture in the reader’s mind’s eye. Let me give you an example from William Trevor’s highbrow thriller Death

Reading time: Less than 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a metaphor from scientist Hope Jahren… As a person who completed an honours degree in political science in 1979 — at a time when my department lacked a single professor who was a woman

Reading time: Less than 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of brilliant similes and metaphors from Helen Macdonald…. I wrote yesterday about a new word I learned from Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk. More remarkable than her vocabulary, however,

Reading time: Just over 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors from Anne Enright…. I zipped through the marvellous novel The Green Road, by Anne Enright (pictured above), late last year. But my end-of-the-year finish meant it escaped mention in the last round-up

Reading time: Less than 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a metaphor from Kim Severson… When we renovated our house six years ago we spent a lot of effort on our kitchen. I’m a serious cook, as is one of our daughters, and

Reading time: Less than 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about several striking metaphors from novelist Ayelet Waldman… I read Ayelet Waldman’s affecting 2014 novel, Love and Treasure, last fall. It told the story of the Hungarian Gold Train, which carried valuables stolen from Hungarian

Reading time: Less than 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors and similes from Anthony Doerr. One of my favourite books of the last five years, the novel All The Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr (pictured above), is

Reading time: Less than 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a metaphor from a New York Times review of Benedict Cumberbatch playing Hamlet… I’m a big fan of the actor Benedict Cumberbatch. I find his acting to be remarkably nuanced and clever.