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Zadie Smith
September 15, 2023
Lynn Steger Strong
Zadie Smith Puts the Novel on Trial
“The Fraud” is a courtroom drama about an impostor, set against the backdrop of British imperialism. But the most suspect characters of all are the writers.
March 1, 2023
Melissa Rodman
“I Don’t Find Her So Very Outspoken”: How Zadie Smith Took On the Wife of Bath
A conversation with Zadie Smith about her new play, “The Wife of Willesden,” adapting Chaucer, her early influences, and making art in a pandemic
July 28, 2020
Rumaan Alam
Zadie Smith Takes On the Pandemic
Lots of writers have done the coronavirus essay. Smith has made a book of them.
July 26, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Zadie Smith’s Right to Be Wrong
The writer's short story in 'The New Yorker' is a puzzling allegory about social media and the #MeToo movement.
February 20, 2018
Hermione Hoby
Zadie Smith’s Book of Essays Explores What It Means to Be Human
The varieties of individuality in “Feel Free”
November 1, 2016
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Lidija Haas
The Escape Artist
Social climbing and self-discovery are entwined in Zadie Smith’s new novel.
December 7, 2015
Sam Sacks
Professional Fictions
Should writing be an art or a career?
February 9, 2010
Ruth Franklin
THE READ: We Are the World
July 24, 2000
James Wood
Human, All Too Inhuman
On the formation of a new genre: hysterical realism.
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