D evonté Hynes is telling me how he came to be living back in his childhood home in Ilford, east London, at the age of 37, after his mother had fallen ill. “It was a surreal experience, ” he says of t...
10.24.2025 Theguardian.com and 2 sitesHow do you follow a smash hit like White Teeth, which, as everyone now knows, sold for a six-figure sum while the author was still at university, and turned Zadie Smith into a literary superstar and p...
10.27.2025 Theguardian.com and 1 sites
DEAD AND ALIVE: Essays , by Zadie Smith “Today, everything exists to end in a photograph, ” Susan Sontag wrote in 1977, updating Stéphane Mallarmé’s 19th-century claim that everything in the world exi...
10.28.2025 Nytimes.com and 1 sitesLast year the prolific and gifted Zadie Smith stumbled into controversy with the publication of “Shibboleth” in the New Yorker. She purportedly approached the white-hot Gaza demonstrations with the nu...
10.28.2025 latimes.com , yahoo.comIt's a fun fact that Zadie Smith and Susan Straight, two boldface names in literary fiction over the past quarter-century, both live in the neighborhoods where they were raised. Smith returned to northwest London after some sojourns abroad, while Straight has remained in Riverside, Calif. ; both are now but a stone's throw from the scenes of their childhood. Both authors also have new books out this week. Smith's essay collection and Straight's novel lead a batch of publishing highlights that al...
10.28.2025 Wqln.org and 32 sites1 of 2 | Fran Lebowitz arrives on the red carpet at HBO's "The Regime" premiere at the American Museum of Natural History on February 26, 2024, in New York City. The writer turns 75 on October 27. Fil...
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10.28.2025 Dailykos.com and 6 sites
Good evening, everyone. Tonight, it’s right to this week’s books: THIS WEEK’S NOTABLE NEW NONFICTION The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding , by Joseph J. Ellis . On the eve...
10.29.2025 Dailykos.com and 5 sites
Today is Saturday, Oct. 25, the 298th day of 2025. There are 67 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 25, 1929, former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall was convicted of accepting br...
10.23.2025 nydailynews.com , chicagotribune.com and 31 sites
Zadie Smith’s new essay collection, Dead and Alive, is a reckoning with art, politics, technology, and the vanishing commons, which are flickering spaces where people still meet to think, argue, and imagine together. For Smith, one of the most uncont...
10.28.2025 Indianexpress.com