SUGGESTED FICTION--PHILOSOPHICAL

Julia Kristeva, The Enchanted Clock: A Novel, translated from the French by Armine Kotlin Mortimer (New York: Columbia U. Press, 2015, 2017).

Ali Smith, Winter: A Novel (New York: Pantheon Books, 2017):

  July: . . . 

And by the way, under the Trump administration, he says, you'll be saying Merry Christmas again when you go shopping, believe me. Merry Christmas. They've been downplaying that little beautiful phrase. You're going to be saying Merry Christmas again, folks.
   In the middle of summer it's winter, White Christmas. God help us, every one.  Art is nature.

Id. at 322. From the book jacket: "Smith's shapeshifting novel casts a warm, wise, merry and uncompromising eye over a post-truth era in a story rooted in history and memory and with a taproot deep in the evergreens, art and love."

Karl Ove Knausgaard, Winter, illustrated by Lars Lerin, translated from the Norwegian by Ingvild Burkey (New York: Penguin Press, 2017).