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Zadie Smith on the magic of Tracy Chapman: ‘She didn’t just look like us – she was singing our songs’
31 Mar 2025 15:11 GMT
On 11 June 1988, I was 12 and sitting with my family watching the Free Nelson Mandela Concert on TV. As a clan, we were old hands at trying to free Mandela, having done our fair share of marching and boycotting over the years, and this concert felt like …
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Zadie Smith reflects on the 25th anniversary of her debut novel 'White Teeth'
11 Mar 2025 22:38 GMT
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Zadie Smith ponders the nature of regret
10 Mar 2025 20:05 GMT
… Martin talks with acclaimed writer Zadie Smith about her biggest regret and … MARTIN: One, two or three?
ZADIE SMITH: Two.
MARTIN: What emotion do … ;s everywhere and continual.
MARTIN: Zadie Smith, the author of many books …
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Zadie Smith is learning to accept the limits of time
06 Mar 2025 14:28 GMT
… bunch of literary awards.
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Early success like that can … all kinds of pressure. Zadie Smith put all that aside and … you often daydream about?
Zadie Smith: I really had a … ;s everywhere and continual.
Zadie Smith reading at the Calabash International …
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Zadie Smith lives more in the world than on the page
06 Mar 2025 08:28 GMT
… very different from the one Zadie Smith grew up in and the …
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The best books of the last 30 years: Honorable mentions
14 Apr 2025 10:43 GMT
… Images for RFF; Penguin Press)
Zadie Smith
Beginning with her 2000 debut …
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Zadie Smith on her groundbreaking debut, White Teeth, 25 years on: ‘I never think about my novels a year after I’ve written them’
31 Jan 2025 07:06 GMT
… early 2000, the book that Zadie Smith had begun writing at Cambridge … gallery
A mind in movement: Zadie Smith was 24 years old at … i-D magazine suggested that “Zadie Smith’s cracked it big style … image in gallery
Picture this: Zadie Smith said it was an honour …
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Zadie Smith’s multicultural fantasy
27 Jan 2025 00:01 GMT
… what the LRB thought of Zadie Smith’s last book. But was … for this exuberant age than Zadie Smith whose debut unleashed genuine hysteria … refined English authors before her, Zadie Smith had read her Eliot, Dickens …
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Zadie Smith on White Teeth: ‘I’ve never reread it. I never will’
26 Jan 2025 01:25 GMT
… Teeth — 25th Anniversary Edition by Zadie Smith (Hamish Hamilton £25 pp560). To …
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25 years of White Teeth — how Zadie Smith’s debut became an instant classic
24 Jan 2025 21:34 GMT
… five years ago, Zadie Smith tore back British literature … archive: India Knight meets Zadie Smith
“It was clearly a … fake it so convincingly.
• Zadie Smith interview: I will have to … Teeth — 25th Anniversary Edition by Zadie Smith (Hamish Hamilton £25 pp560). …