Discover Ali Smith's "Glyph," a politically charged novel exploring imagination, language, and resilience in a ...

“Language is like poppies,” says a character in Ali Smith’s “Autumn,” from 2016. “It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words, bright red, ...

Reading Ali Smith’s work feels like wearing my favourite old blue shirt. Her writing is effervescent with kindness, challenging the violence of a political landscape that seeks to confound, divide and ...

On a late summer’s day in Cambridge, England, the writer Ali Smith sat with me on a wooden bench in a patch of garden across from the brick rowhouse where she works. Her new novel, Gliff, was due out ...

Maybe we should look on Smith’s seasonal sequence – now three-quarters of its way through its year, with only Summer to come – as a similar sort of creature. Tied to the moment of publication, each ...

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