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My childhood took place in the widening gap.
Zadie Smith • Swing Time: A Novel
I just read Elizabeth Strout’s new novel on the train here and it was just joy. I just felt this unbelievable joy to be with these 20 random old people in Maine. It was so moving. She loves those people so much that it just radiates off the page and you feel encased in this love of people. I thought, there’s not many places I can go anymore and
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Zadie Smith • Swing Time: A Novel
What We Want from Essays: DEAD & ALIVE by Zadie Smith
podcasts.apple.comWe were all, at one and the same time, people she knew and loved but also objects of study,
Zadie Smith • Swing Time: A Novel
The death of the public intellectual
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she herself was “color blind” and saw only what was in a person’s heart.
Zadie Smith • Swing Time: A Novel
That age “progressively destroys” women, but not men, is the crux of what Susan Sontag termed the double standard of aging, back in 1972.