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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
At a talk on her latest essay collection, Dead and Alive, Smith said she ‘sometimes’ reads male novelists, but more often seeks the wisdom of older female writers like Helen Garner
“I don’t know when …
47 days ago
Fans of both sides are feeling similar levels of stress at different ends of the Premier League table
Zadie Smith once wrote that “the square mile around Arsenal’s stadium could be a suitable surrogat…
5 months ago
Need something brilliant to read over the holidays? Here are six of our best pieces from 2025. Look out for part two next Saturday
Continue reading...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…
6 months ago
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 …
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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…
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…
7 months ago
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…
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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 …
9 months ago
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…