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(One World, $27) In Olivia Wolfgang-Smith’s “Glassworks,” Boston heiress Agnes Carter dreams of “an unapportioned life” and imagines her future, in which “there would be no subdivision ...
Olivia Wolfgang-Smith, in her sharp and lively second novel, “Mutual Interest,” is after much the same thing. The plot, though, turns on matters that Wharton would have blushed to consider.
In her debut novel, “Glassworks,” Olivia Wolfgang-Smith follows multiple generations of a family over the course of a century, as they struggle to discover and define themselves. By Eleanor ...
Wolfgang-Smith (Glassworks) explores tensions in the private lives of three queer misfits turned business titans in her stunning latest. In 1899, 18-year-old Vivian Lesperance leaves her unloving ...
“The End of Quantum Reality” is ostensibly about mathematician-philosopher-physicist Wolfgang Smith, but the uninitiated (anyone who isn’t already his acolyte and familiar with the movie’s ...
We note with sad acceptance the passing of Dr. J. Wolfgang Smith (1930-2024) a native of Austria. He was just nine years old, living in Poland, when the Nazi hordes began World War 2 by crossing ...
Writer and Scholastic employee Olivia Wolfgang-Smith called her employer's decision, "cowardly, demoralizing, and harmful" in a post on X. PEN America also said in a statement that they were ...