Digis Mak

EITHERne of my main fears before submitting a book is that I will die in the hours before the deadline, and all the work I will have done will be for nothing because the publisher will only have an outline and the completed book itself will remain on a password-protected hard drive and ultimately buried in landfill.I have long associated handing in a book and dying because the two seemed connected on some subterranean, unconscious level. Finishing a major project is a form of death – something has ended. But finishing is not something you hear much about in all the short courses, podcasts, MFAs, online articles and books on the creative process.It's all about starting, developing characters, a writing routine, pitching to agents and marketing. But you never get told about the end, ab...

Amateur boxing has been plunged into a fresh crisis after the sole rival to the sport's Russian president was barred from standing on the eve of the International Boxing Association's election.Sources close to Iba have told the Guardian that the Dutch candidate Boris van der Vorst, who had been due to challenge Umar Kremlev for the Iba presidency, was barred for breaching its regulations by being part of an alliance of 18 countries that had openly criticized Iba's reaction to the war in Ukraine and its reliance on Gazprom funding.Van der Vorst is now appealing to the court of arbitration for sport after being blindsided by the news. Five other candidates for Iba's executive board, who were also on the Common Cause Alliance pressure group opposed to Kremlev, have also been barred from F...