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A commentary on the grim present: Glyph, by Ali Smith, reviewed
['Francesca Peacock', 'Miriam Balanescu', 'Lee Langley', 'Alex Diggins', 'Boyd Tonkin', 'Stuart Kelly', 'Dimitri Burshtein', 'The Spectator Australia', 'Tom Switzer', 'Judith Sloan']
The Spectator Australia
They call this flattened man ‘Glyph’: it’s ‘the sound he makes when he breathes out’.
We soon skate from this grim past to the grim present.
Glyph is stuffed with knowing references to Gliff – which both sisters and Bill have read.
Even the vaunted wordplay feels like a tired piece of ornamentation that Smith feels she must include.
But I can’t help thinking that Ali Smith is no longer the person to write it.