India, April 29 -- A companion novel to Gliff (2024) that also stands alone, Glyph is Ali Smith's 2026-addition to her duology on modern-day horror. If Gliff stunned you with its structure, this scintillating observation of war, AI, story-telling and the precarity of existence. and technique, will move you with its narrative voice and emotions.

Glyph follows two sisters: Petra and Patch. While Petra Wild has a degree in archaeology and anthropology but works at an ENT centre, Patch has an adolescent daughter who has too many questions about the world. One evening, Petra spends time on the Internet trying to find the story of a young army man flattened to death during the First World War in France. A noise disturbs her all night long. Whe...