Winter

‘Where would we be without our ability to see beyond what it is we’re supposed to be seeing.’ The winter months are a time of cold and dark, but also a sense of beauty and calm in the muffled silence of a world blanketed in wet snow. The winter ‘invites a turning in, a quieting, an upped interiority,......more

Winter is the second book I’ve read by Ali Smith (Public Library and Other Stories was the first one). Both times I had to recalibrate my brain according to the following rules in order to enjoy the reading experience: -Slow down – the book is short but you can’t speed through it. -Give in to the lack......more

this is a book that is really excellent in its generalities and totally unreadable in its specifics. or, to be more...specific: it makes such beautiful and intricate arguments in its characters, but it can't resist stating them obviously in terms of ham-fisted inclusion of current events in the kind o......more

This isn’t a ghost story, though it’s the dead of winter when it happens, a bright sunny post-millennial global-warming Christmas (Christmas, too, dead) and it’s about real things really happening in the real world involving real people in real time on the real earth (uh huh, earth, also dead) An......more