From dynamite debuts to must-read memoirs and magical children’s fiction, here’s our selection of this year’s hottest holiday reads
• Leading authors Mark Haddon, Samantha Harvey, Zadie Smith select t…
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What to read this summer by Mark Haddon, Samantha Harvey, Zadie Smith and more ⊕
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Leading authors including Sarah Waters, William Dalrymple, Bernardine Evaristo and Anne Enright reveal their perfect holiday reading
• Read our selection of 70 brilliant books for the summer
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Zadie Smith: ‘I don’t know when I read men any more’ ⊕
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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 …
Arsenal second, Spurs facing relegation: is there really panic on the streets of north London? ○
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…
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Six great reads – best of 2025: a deep-cover KGB agent, Zadie Smith on Tracy Chapman, and the boy who came back ⊕⊕
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...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…
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 …
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‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side ⊕
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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…