Smith wears a shirt and boots by MARK KENLY DOMINO TAN and a skirt by SLOTH ROUSING. Amalie Smith’s most recent novel, Thread Ripper, presents itself as a “hybrid.” Two different narrative threads—one printed on the left pages and one printed on the facing right pages—decipher the connections between old weaving looms and computers, all the while merging accounts of iconic women in science and mythology together with philosophical and personal ruminations into one coherent story. The term “hybrid” is meant as a genre, but it would also be a fitting way to describe the entire body This story is from Kinfolk Issue Forty-Nine Buy Now Related Stories Arts & Culture Issue 49 Karin Mamma Andersson Inside the moody, mysterious world of Sweden’s preeminent painter. Arts & Culture Issue 49 Studio Visit: Heidi Gustafson A cabin in the Cascade Mountains houses a hermetic artist—and her extraordinary world of natural pigments. Arts & Culture Issue 48 Jordan Casteel The acclaimed painter of people—and now plants. Arts & Culture Issue 48 The Art of Fashion On what artists’ clothes communicate. Arts & Culture Issue 47 Julia Bainbridge On the life-enhancing potential of not drinking alcohol. Arts & Culture Issue 47 Correction: The Starving Artist Bad times don’t always make for good art.
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