Winter review. Ali Smith probes light in Brexit era
A compact critical portrait of Ali Smiths Winter, second in the quartet, tying Dickens and Shakespearean themes to post Brexit anxieties. The piece tracks Sophia Cleves and Lux, explores forgiveness, media satire, and cultural rebirth while noting the novel can stand alone yet benefits from Autumn.
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Ali Smith
Smith
Trump
Theresa May
Sophia Cleves
Sophia
Tris
Lux
Art — Sophia
Imogen
Britain
Iris
Art
Scrooge
2018 Winter to Spring Book Picks and Upcoming Adaptations
A compact overview of anticipated 2018 fiction with authors like Ali Smith Lucy Hughes Hallett Mira Lee Kristin Hannah Mario Vargas Llosa Tayari Jones Walter Mosley Laura Lippman Robin Oliveira Alan Hollinghurst Tom Rachman Richard Powers Charles Frazier Meg Wolitzer Jo Nesbo Madeleine LEngle Maria Semple Kevin Kwan Ernest Cline Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer. It notes publication dates and film adaptations including A Wrinkle in Time Where’d You Go Bernadette and Ready Player One.
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Mira T. Lee
Lee
Viking
Kristin Hannah
Hannah
Alaska
St. Martin’s Press
Mario Vargas Llosa
Lima
Peru
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Tayari Jones
Kirkus Review
Algonquin
Walter Mosley
NYPD
Brooklyn
Mullholland Books
Laura Lippman
Lippman
James M. Cain
Morrow
Robin Oliveira
Seattle
Oliveira
New York
Sparsholt
Alan Hollinghurst
The
Guardian
Knopf
Tom Rachman
Rachman
Penguin Random House
Richard Powers
Powers
Elliott Bay Book
Rick Simonson
W.W. Norton
Charles Frazier
Varina Howell Davis
Jefferson Davis
Ecco
Meg Wolitzer
Wolitzer
Riverhead
Macbeth
Jo Nesho
Hecateries
Inspector Macbeth
Curtis Sittenfeld
Wild Beauty: Ntozake Shange’s life and poetry examined
A profile of Ntozake Shange, creator of for colored girls who have considered death when the rainbow is enuf, tracing her rise to Broadway fame, disappearance, struggles with bipolar disorder and CIDP, and her new poetry collection Wild Beauty with over 60 poems.
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42Nd Street
Times Square
Ntozake Shange
Shange
Broadway
New York
California
Paula Moss
Moss
Woodie King Jr
King
New Federal Theatre
Joe Papp
Public Theater
Booth Theatre
Europe
Amiri Baraka
Ishmael Reed
Brecht
Langston Hughes
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Maneee
Outlook
Pantheon Books
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
HarperCollins
Madeleine L’engle
Ava DuVernay
Selma
Reese Witherspoon
Chris Pine
Oprah Winfrey
Mindy Kaling
Bernadette
Maria Semple
Cate Blanchett
Kevin Kwan
Singapore
Ernest Cline
Cline
Steven Spielberg
Guernsey
Annie Barrows
Mary Ann Shaffer
Channel Islands
U.S
Ristin
Aed
Wild Beauty
For Colored Girls
Ake
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