Leah Hager Cohen, W.H. Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross, reviewed Ali Smith’s “Artful,” a collection of four lectures she delivered at Oxford University last winter, in The New York Times’ Sunday Book Review.
“…[H]er new book, in which she tugs at God’s sleeve, ruminates on clowns, shoplifts used books, dabbles in Greek and palavers with the dead, is a stunner,” wrote Cohen.
“But don’t slink off to the next review just yet; these are like no lectures you’ve ever encountered,” she praised. “Part ghost story, part love story, part mystery, part ode, they weave a narrative that feels more urgent, more naked than academia commonly allows.”
HC’s Jenks Chair Leah Cohen gives stellar review of Al Smith’s “Artful” in The NY Times’ Sunday Book Review.
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