Tree of Knowledge by Victoria Chang #literature Olivia Manning and Natalia Ginzburg

Olivia Manning and Natalia Ginzburg

How can we fly in a low-carbon world

But when they both wind up back to London and are thrust together once again

Wren Southwick is determined to create an experience so big and so bold that the name of her party planning business spreads beyond the confines of her own small town

who rudely interrupts the Round Table festivities one Yuletide

Tree of Knowledge by Victoria Chang #literature Olivia Manning and Natalia GinzburgA poet watches the limbs of a eucalyptus tree get sawed off: the image persists, refracting and recurring across poems of art, language, selfhood, memory, and loss. Joan Mitchell said, When I talk about love, I mean loving a tree. When I talk about love, I mean loving where a tree used to be. Men assess the eucalyptus tree growing on the poet's street; a crane arrives. The sound of a chainsaw rings in the air and branches begin to fall. This tree