Need something brilliant to read over the holidays? Here are six of our best pieces from 2025. Look out for part two next Saturday
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Zadie Smith
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Yael van der Wouden : ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy cured my fear of aliens’ ⊖⊖
The Safekeep author on her secret childhood reading, falling in love with Elizabeth Strout and why she keeps coming back to Zadie Smith
My earliest reading memory
I had a children’s encyclopedia on t…
87 days ago
More than 200 leading cultural figures call for release of jailed Palestinian leader ⊕
Group including Margaret Atwood, Ian McKellen and Richard Branson sign open letter to free Marwan Barghouti
More than 200 leading cultural figures have come together to call for the release of Marwan …
3 months ago
‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
With daft jokes and experimental wordplay, the first comprehensive translations of his lesser-known stories show Anton Chekhov in a new light
Few writers are as universally admired as Chekhov. As Book…
Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith ⊕
The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced priorities
You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country v…
Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith review – essays for an age of anxiety ⊕
From cultural appropriation to gender, Smith nails the politics of creativity. But on actual politics, she is less assured
Accepting a literary prize in Ohio last year, the novelist Zadie Smith descri…
4 months ago
From White Teeth to Swing Time: Zadie Smith’s best books - ranked! ⊕⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Twenty-five years on from her dazzling debut, and as a new collection of essays comes out, we assess the British author’s best books
How do you follow a smash hit like White Teeth, which, as everyone …
5 months ago
From a new Thomas Pynchon novel to a memoir by Margaret Atwood: the biggest books of the autumn ○
Essays from Zadie Smith; Wiki founder Jimmy Wales on how to save the internet; a future-set novel by Ian McEwan; a new case for the Slow Horses - plus memoirs from Kamala Harris and Paul McCartney… a…
6 months ago
Zadie Smith, Michael Rosen, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson sign letter calling for Israel boycott ○
More than 200 writers request cessation of all trade until people of Gaza given adequate food, water and aid
Middle East crisis – live updates
Zadie Smith, Michael Rosen, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Wint…
Authority: Essays on Being Right by Andrea Long Chu review – scorching hot takes ○
The Pulitzer-winning critic has some choice words for the likes of Zadie Smith, Hanya Yanagihara and Bret Easton Ellis
Andrea Long Chu stands accused of not playing by the rules, of appraising works o…