Olivia Wolfgang-Smith’s second novel is about three characters with things to hide in turn-of-the-20th-century New York ...

Ali Smith scrambles plotlines, upends characters, and flouts chronology—while telling propulsively readable stories.

Revolving around two career criminals and a Thameside mansion, The Burial Plot is a gripping historical thriller about murder ...

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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.

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The Cambridge student was only 24 when she released her ostentatious debut. Critics and fellow writers fell over themselves ...

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Welcome to the 2025 Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors collection. For four years, this contest has celebrated stories that invite us to imagine the future we want — futures in ...

Two years ago, when Zadie Smith was only twenty-two, her unfinished first novel was sold on a mere eighty pages for a hefty six-figure advance (and yet more for the foreign rights), the sort of news ...