woven

“I really wanted to have it be woven into the story in a very metaphoric way, where how these characters play tennis, their technique, tells you who they are.”

Car parts are cleverly woven into the decor, with vintage grills and steering wheels displayed as industrial artwork, while stacked tires serve as the base for glass-top tables.

Here, religion brought by Spanish colonisers in the 16th Century has become woven into the very fabric of society, and given a distinctly Filipino intensity and colour.

But only in Spain is an algorithm woven so tightly into police practice.

Ward’s memoir of growing up poor in Mississippi, woven together with sharp analysis of the ways that racism kills Black men, is some of the best writing I’ve ever read.