Dead and alive essays
"A profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essays In this eagerly awaited new collection, Zadie Smith brings her unique skills as an essayist to bear on a range of subjects that have captured her attention in recent years. She takes an exhilarati...
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Eyeballing
- European Family
- The Muse at Her Easel: Celia Paul's Self-Portrait
- Toyin Ojih Odutola's Visions of Power
- The Instrumentalist: On Tár
- Stormzy at Glastonbury: King Michael Wears
- His Crown
- Part II. Considering
- Fascinated to Presume: In Defence of Fiction
- Under the Banner of New York
- Egypt: Laughter in the Dark
- Some Notes on Mediated Time
- Part III. Reconsidering
- Black England
- Black Manhattan
- What Do We Want History to Do to Us?
- On Kara Walker
- A Speech for the Kenyon Review
- The Tufton Pragmatists
- Ruination
- Shibboleth
- The Dream of the Raised Arm
- Trump Gaza Number One
- Part IV. Mourning
- The Opposite of Magical Thinking: On Didion
- Daughters of Toni
- A Writer All the Way Down: On Philip Roth
- Martin Amis: England's Only Living Writer
- What Lodged in Her Mind: Remembering
- Hilary Mantel
- Part V. Confessing
- The Realm of the Unspoken
- Agelessness
- The Fall
- On Writing The Fraud
- Some Questions from El Cultural
- Conscience and Consciousness: A Craft Talk for the People and the Person
- Kilburn, My Love
