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Glyph by Ali Smith: Ghosts in our machinery

The Irish Times 14 Feb 2026
Billed as “family to Gliff”, that being Ali Smith’s 2024 dystopian take on a Kafkaesque future Britain, Glyph is more a refraction than a sequel (though the homophonous Gliff exists within Glyph as a novel discussed by several characters).
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Puns, jokes and weirdness — yes, it’s a new Ali Smith novel

The Times/The Sunday Times 29 Jan 2026
Loosely linked to 2024’s Gliff, Glyph is packed with the Scottish author’s trademark playfulness .
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Glyph by Ali Smith review – bearing witness to the war in Gaza

The Guardian 27 Jan 2026
Never knowingly unknowing, Ali Smith pre-empts the most likely criticism of her latest novel, Glyph, when a character says ... further than any of Smith’s recent work in robustly answering this charge.
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A commentary on the grim present: Glyph, by Ali Smith, reviewed

The Spectator 27 Jan 2026
Glyph (whose sibling, Gliff, was published last year) is Ali Smith’s 14th novel and her fifth since 2016, when her ‘Seasonal Quartet’ saw the beginning of her project to use fiction to comment on contemporary events.
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Ali Smith: ‘Henry James had me running down the garden path shouting out loud’

The Guardian 23 Jan 2026
The Scottish author on a masterclass from Toni Morrison, the brilliance of Simone de Beauvoir and the trim novel by Tove Jansson containing everything that really matters. My earliest reading memory ... My favourite book growing up ... “No ... Terrific. Radiant.
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Glyph by Ali Smith review: 'full of chameleons and tricksters'

The Scotsman 21 Jan 2026
Rather than offering narrative resolution, in Glyph Ali Smith takes the harder path of saying there are some things we can just never know, writes Stuart Kelly ....
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Aly Smith proves to be impactful transfer for Alexandria wrestling

The Herald Bulletin 18 Dec 2025
ALEXANDRIA—Aly Smith’s transfer from Frankton to Alexandria has the potential to make the Tigers’ state championship contending softball team even better ... .
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Por qu� importan las bibliotecas: Ali Smith y la decadencia cultural en Reino Unido

Clarin 24 Nov 2025
Smith reivindica estos espacios como fundamentales para la democracia y la ...
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Can art enhance your life? Here’s what I learned from Ali Smith, Tracey Emin, Claudia ...

The Guardian 10 Nov 2025
In our always online, AI-imperilled lives, simply looking at a painting can improve wellbeing and offer creative guidance. For my new book, artists and writers shared their advice on how to live life artfully ... swiping, liking, scrolling ... ....
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Can art enhance your life? Here’s what I learned from Ali Smith, Tracey Emin, Claudia Winkleman and more

The Observer 10 Nov 2025
From words by artists including Tracey Emin and Marina Abramović to writers such as Ali Smith and Iris Murdoch, each entry includes reflections, rituals, encouragements, and creative exercises.
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