Day 3 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky#books#zadiesmith
#Generalelection2024#Politics#Society#ZadieSmith ‘Here comes the sun’: Zadie Smith on hope, trepidation and rebirth after 14 years of the Tories: I used to shock US audiences with my stories of Britain’s excellent, accessible universities and healthcare. Then the Conservatives ruined the…
I used to shock US audiences with my stories of Britain’s excellent, accessible universities and healthcare. Then the Conservatives ruined the country. Now real change is on the horizon Twenty-four years ago, when I was 24, I did my first reading in an…
400 pages later it still feels more like an idea of a novel than a completed piece of work. Smith introduces so many options and pathways that she leaves hanging. #OnBeauty#ZadieSmith#WomensPrize#BookChat#booksky
It’s like Smith started with the climactic—literally—problem and constructed her way to introduced it 317 pages in. #OnBeauty#ZadieSmith#WomensPrize#BookChat#booksky
There are sentences, even paragraphs, where Smith doesn’t seem quite in her own skin. It’s like she’s trying on a voice rather than owning it. It’s like she researched the tone but couldn’t really hit it. #OnBeauty#ZadieSmith#WomensPrize#BookChat#booksky
I’m not on board with Smith’s use of parentheses. I keep trying, but I can’t justify them. #OnBeauty#ZadieSmith#WomensPrize#BookChat#booksky
I like #ZadieSmith. But her essay on Gaza in the New Yorker seems to take hemming and hawing as a moral position. It just isn't. In the time it took her to write that, at least a hundred women and children were killed n Gaza. Passive agressively not "having a position" is a position.
"Smith imagines Eliza as a thwarted intellectual — every Zadie Smith book must have at least one..." #zadiesmithwww.vulture.com/article/zadi...
Since her audacious debut, she has been moving toward character-driven realism. In the process, she’s become the least interesting version of herself.