Zadie smith

In 2010 Zadie Smith told the Guardian her ten rules of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else. When an adult, try to read your…

The White Teeth author on authenticity, literature, and making connections.

Two weeks before the release of her sixth novel, the author and essayist spoke to her friend about middle-age injuries, SoulCycle shame, and what to do when mortality and creativity collide.

The most exciting photo shoot in the September fashion issues is Zadie Smith, plunked glamorously into the pages of British Vogue to discuss her novel “The Fraud.”

This year needed Zadie Smith. 2016 was crying out for her particular clarity in describing identity, race and class relationships, and intimate lives in modern London; her illuminating essays on po…

After 17 years abroad, Zadie Smith has returned to her literary stomping ground of north London. She talks about fame, therapy and finding inspiration for her new historical novel on her doorstep

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Many, if not, most writers teach---whether literature, composition, or creative writing---and examining what those writers teach is an especially interesting exercise because it gives us insight not only into what they read, but also what they read closely and carefully, again and again, in order to inform their own work and demonstrate the craft as they know it to students.

Zadie Smith tells Jeffrey Eugenides why trauma and self-disgust lurk beneath the glittering surface of her new novel