What Simone De Beauvoir knew about loss
Sixty years ago, the French writer’s unflinching memoir of her mother’s death tested the limits of her existentialism.
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Ali Smith
Ali Smith is an author, playwright, academic and journalist. Her work includes the 2014 novelHow to Be Both and the seasonal quartet, ending with Summer (2020).
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Ali Smith on her favourite albums: “Trying to choose one ended in mutiny”
From the Long Players series: writers on their most cherished albums.
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Ali Smith’s Goldsmiths Prize lecture: The novel in the age of Trump
When politics is built on fictions, it’s fiction that can help us get to truth.
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“Not a Christmas story“: A short story by Ali Smith
"I’d forgotten that Bowie had ever recorded that song, and with Bing Crosby of all people."
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History of violence: Ali Smith on Alan Garner
By conjuring mythic landscapes, the novelist and children’s fantasy writer Alan Garner unleashed his fury at the injustices of…
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A gift for John Berger
The art critic who contains multitudes.
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Ali Smith: Looking at the world through the eyes of Barbara Hepworth
Barbara Hepworth’s work and its universe of meaning.
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“And so on”: a new story from Ali Smith
“Every time I sit down to try to write this story about death, life intervenes . . .” Original…
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“The Christmas Story”: a short story by Ali Smith
Unexpected guests arrive in a specially commissioned winter’s tale.
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