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 ...

“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 ...

Most of the story unfolds five years earlier, though, when Bri and their 11-year-old sister, the malaprop-friendly Rose, were designated “UV,” or Unverifiables (Smith’s slap at X’s blue ...

In Ali Smith's latest novel, "Gliff," a brother and sister befriend a horse in a dystopian future. NPR's Scott Simon explores the issue of authoritarianism with the novelist and playwright.

"Gliff" is the name they give a horse and is the title of a new novel from Ali Smith, the novelist and playwright. Won the Orwell Prize for political fiction for her novel "Summer," and she is ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - John Blair Smith Todd is one of the most important people in the development of South Dakota. He ran for mayor of Sioux City and even helped carry a mortally wounded President ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., Feb. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Prominently featured in The Inner Circle, Todd Alan Smith is acknowledged as an Inner Circle Lifetime for his contributions in Emergency ...

Bill Gates’s first memoir; new novels by Ali Smith, Anne Tyler and TJ Klune; a Booker Prize nominee and more. Credit...The New York Times Supported by Briar and Rose, the teenage siblings at the ...

Jessie Diggins, the skiing star from Afton, hit it off with Minnesota writer Todd Smith, whom she shares a commonality: a willingness to work overtime to achieve a dream. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT News ...

Here are some books to help you do just that. Here are some of the characteristics of the books of Ali Smith, who’s been called Scotland’s Nobel laureate-in-waiting: sneaky serialization.