Tag: Political fiction
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Glyph by Ali Smith review: bearing witness to the war in Gaza
Glyph and the politics of witnessing Ali Smith’s Glyph, her latest foray into the depending-on-now, is as timely as it is unsettled. The novel steps into a fraught moment—the ongoing war in Gaza and its global reverberations—and asks what narrative responsibility looks like when real lives are at stake. Smith has long been concerned with…
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Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Mantel’s Liverpool Play
Overview: Mantel’s Provocative Tale Finds a New Stage in Liverpool The controversial narrative by Hilary Mantel that imagines the assassination of Margaret Thatcher in the summer of 1983 has moved from page to stage, with plans for a forthcoming Liverpool production. First serialized in The Guardian in 2014 under the headline The Assassination of Margaret…