"In Ali Smith’s tales, as in the best of Shakespeare, the expert may well be the groundling and the layperson the aristocrat in the velvet chair. A character may be a girl or a boy or both or neither. History is malleable and so, too, is meaning."
“‘Within you,’ she [Parra] says, ‘there's no yoke / apart from being right.’ This should not be read as nihilistic, however. What could be more contradictory than a trans nihilist?”