Zadie Smith

A Subterranean Kinship: Rachel Lyon and Leslie Jamison on Writing Separate But Related Books

A Conversation About Mythology, Motherhood, Literary Resonances, and More

 
By Leslie Jamison  March 6, 2024
Best of 2023

The Ultimate Best Books of 2023 List

By Emily Temple  December 23, 2023
literary criticism

Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

By Marion Turner  December 11, 2023
Dick Lit

Men Who Don’t Know Women: On Unlearning the Lessons of “Dick Lit”

By Molly McGhee  October 17, 2023
Talk Easy

Zadie Smith on Radical Work

By Talk Easy  October 3, 2023
Audiobooks

For Your Listening Pleasure: The Best Audiobooks of September

By Literary Hub  September 29, 2023
Reading List

25 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

By Emily Temple  September 6, 2023
New Books Tuesdays

There are 26 new books out today!

By Gabrielle Bellot  September 5, 2023
The Hub

Was What Women Want based on Chaucer?

By Janet Manley  July 11, 2023
Pandemics

What Kind of Pandemic Storytelling Do We Actually Need?

By Emma Staffaroni  April 20, 2023
Cities

Multicultural London: A Reading List of Displacement, Diaspora, and Diversity

By Cecile Pin  March 22, 2023
The Hub

Attention: a new Zadie Smith novel is coming this fall.

By Emily Temple  March 2, 2023
The Annotated Nightstand

The Annotated Nightstand: What Parini Shroff is Reading Now and Next

By Diana Arterian  January 5, 2023
First Draft

Omer Friedlander on Listening to Your Characters

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 21, 2022
Midlife

Finding Your True Self in Middle Age: Ten Midlife Coming-of-Age Novels

By Sarah McCraw Crow  July 21, 2022
The Hub

Fun fact: Zadie Smith’s younger brother is in the bad Austen adaptation.

By Emily Temple  July 20, 2022
Film

On the Politics of Caste and Feminine Joy in Satyajit Ray’s Classic Charulata

By TANAÏS   May 17, 2022
Race

What Does it Look Like to Decenter Whiteness in Fiction?

By Kasim Ali  March 10, 2022
TV

What Lovecraft Country Gave to Black Audiences

By James Andrew Miller  November 24, 2021
The Hub

An ode to the brilliant, hilarious opening scene of Zadie Smith’s White Teeth.

By Snigdha Koirala  October 25, 2021
The Hub

At least one person hasn’t read Sally Rooney, and it’s Jonathan Franzen.

By Walker Caplan  October 1, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Zadie Smith on Reading While You Write

By Zadie Smith  July 23, 2021
The Hub

Watch Jack Antonoff perform a song he wrote with Zadie Smith.

By Walker Caplan  July 13, 2021
The Hub

Zadie Smith’s mom has written a novel.

By Walker Caplan  June 7, 2021
5 Questions

Writer’s Block? Maggie Shipstead Befriends It Instead of Fighting It

By Literary Hub  May 7, 2021
But Make It Fashion

20 Famous Writers’ Sartorial Trademarks, Ranked

By Emily Temple  April 23, 2021
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