_________The word malcontent has appeared in 13 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on August 17 in the book review “Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’ Ends a Funny, Political, Very Up-to-Date Quartet” by Dwight Garner:Sacha is so woke that she won’t ride in a car because it uses fossil fuels. Robert plays violent video games and admires Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s political Svengali. (To admire anything to do with Brexit, if you’re an adult in an Ali Smith novel, is to be among the especially damned.) … Along the way there is a good deal of talk about evanescence — of summertime and everything else. Leave it to Robert, the malcontent, to compare summer to “the smell round a rubbish truck as it moves through the city and like you’re stuck on a bike behind it going way too slowly down a too-narrow street.”

Source: New York Times November 13, 2020 13:41 UTC