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My Sharon is dealing with “the Change,” which seems also to be on Paley’s mind in “My Father.” (“We should probably begin at ...
As The New Yorker turns a hundred, we asked Zadie Smith, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Ottessa Moshfegh to compose new stories that were ...
She could sit on a bench in Europe completely unmolested, without a single human being saying a word to her, until the sun fell out of the sky.
Zadie Smith: I really had a wonderful time in New York in my early 30s. It was a wonderful period in my life and I daydream about that a lot, particularly spring in New York.
Upon opening “Feel Free,” Zadie Smith’s new essay collection, you’ll be surprised to learn that she doubts her literary talent, her critical acumen.
Zadie Smith: 'I tried to read White Teeth for the anniversary – but didn’t get past the first page’ - INTERVIEW: The Cambridge student was only 24 when she released her ostentatious debut.
Zadie Smith, the literary icon at her best when she’s out of fashion. Since her big-money debut advance at a precocious 24 years of age, Zadie Smith has been expected to speak for her generation.
Zadie Smith Makes 1860s London Feel Alive, and Recognizable Her new novel, “The Fraud,” is based on a celebrated 19th-century criminal trial, but it keeps one eye focused clearly on today’s ...
Instead, it’s Zadie Smith, plunked glamorously into the pages of British Vogue to discuss her forthcoming novel, “The Fraud.” She is photographed by Tyler Mitchell, the 28-year-old who ...
In her new novel NW , Zadie Smith returns home to her native hood in London to chart the twisty lives of four people from the same housing estate. Lauren Elkin on the novel’s brilliant vision of ...
I n early 2000, the book that Zadie Smith had begun writing at Cambridge University “as a way of managing anxiety about my exams” entered the world. It was called White Teeth.Its creation had ...