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I've sometimes thought it would be great fun to chat with Zadie Smith about books and films. I'm not sure I any longer feel that. In these essays Zadie Smith proves how erudite she is but my feeling often was that this was her principle insecure aim. To show us how erudite she is. The first few essa Leggi tutto

I'm going pop off this quick little salvo and then move on to other things. Zadie Smith never calls the novel dead in this book. She also never tries to bury the lyrically realistic novel, one gets the feeling that she enjoys the more experimental side of literature but she seems more to want both s Leggi tutto

Since Mr. David Giltinan has already said everything I wanted to say about this book, plus a lot of other stuff I didn’t want to say but can certainly live with, please turn to his review now: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... For my money—and that’s Canadian money, so beware: it’ll fuck up yo Leggi tutto

This book contains a collection of essays from the supremely talented Zadie Smith. In a wide-ranging assortment, she expounds upon subjects such as literature, movies and family, all with razor-sharp insight and typical eloquence. I have to say I liked the literary criticism least of all. I found the Leggi tutto

As nearly every single review of Changing My Mind goes out of its way to emphasize, Zadie Smith is a smart person. A smart, smart, smart person. And in this collection of essays—which span from literature to cinema to autobiography and many places between—intelligence is on full display. But what ma Leggi tutto

Con el capítulo que dedica a Barthes/Nabokov que releí nada más terminarlo, y que me mantuvo despierta hasta las 2 de la mañana, tuve que arrodillarme y aplaudir este ejemplar de este ensayo tan entretenido, lleno de lecturas y de belleza.

I have been inside Zadie Smith’s crafty, clever head for many hours and pages this past week. I have digressed from the essay collection itself a number of times, only to go down various Google holes to read interviews with Zadie, articles by or about her. There is so much food for thought in this c Leggi tutto