Glyph

First published 2025

Reception

  1. 2026
    The New Yorker

    Reviewed, 27 July

  2. 2026
    New York Review of Books

    Reviewed by Regina Marler, 1 October

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From a literary master, the much-anticipated follow-up to the highly celebrated novel Gliff. With Gliff she brought her remarkable talents for the first time to a work set in an uncertain future, a novel described by Vogue as “chilling…Orwellian…a vivid portrait of a decaying civilization.” And now with Glyph she gallops us back through history to tell a story hidden within the first, a story set in a moment of cultural revolution that examines in her trademark wit and intellect and compassion how we make meaning and how easily it can be lost forever if we don’t hold on to those essential qualities that make us human.

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About the author

Ali Smith, born 1962, United Kingdom.

Catalogue record

Penguin Books, 2025 · 240 pages

Publisher
Penguin Books, 2025
Pages
240
ISBN
978-0-241-66561-9 +1
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Publisher
Penguin Books, 2025
Pages
240
ISBNs
  • 978-0-241-66561-9
  • 978-0-593-70158-4
Editions
  • Penguin Books, 2025, 240 pages 978-0-241-66561-9
  • Penguin Books, 2025, 240 pages 978-0-241-66559-6
Author
Smith, Ali, 1962–
Statement
Glyph / Ali Smith.
Records
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Subjects

  • United Kingdom
  • 2020s

Catalogue data checked 3 October 2026