The Light and the Dark: On Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’
Summer brings us a completion of the cycle of seasons: suffering to hope, green to gray, life to death, and back again. Or all of them at once. Or not really at all.
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Rites of Spring: Does the Latest in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet Satisfy?
Several themes—migrants, ecology and the procession of the seasons, humans versus the establishment “machine”—have been building with each book.
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Stranger in a Strange Land: Dave Eggers’s ‘The Parade’
Eggers is a master of point of view; you adhere to his protagonist, even if you have little or nothing in common with him, and even when you’re not entirely on his side.
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Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Seasons Quartet Is a Raw Journey through the Writing Process
Leaving aside commercial ploys, should these books have been published as they are, entirely?
Yes, they should have been published as they are, entirely.
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Things Fall Apart: On Ali Smith’s ‘Autumn’ and ‘Winter’
Can art light up anything? If we’re in the worst of times, can things only get better?
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Charlotte Mandell Lives Immersed in Words and Sound: The Millions Interview
I love that feeling of the unknown before I translate a book. It’s what a reader feels when starting to read a book for the first time. You have no idea what’s in store for you, but you’re eager to find out. And invariably you find yourself changed by the time you reach the end.
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