Zadie Smith Book of the week Feel Free by Zadie Smith review – wonderfully suggestive essays Exploring a range of subjects from hip-hop to JG Ballard to Get Out, Smith is both the coolly appraising connoisseur and the excited book nerd, the culture geek Dropping her inhibitions … Zadie Smith. I was happily reminded of the way Smith blended Howards End with Public Enemy in her novel On Beauty, but this piece, written in 2012, is a different example of subversion. Zadie Smith: ‘I have a very messy and chaotic mind’ Read moreIn fact, the only target, really, is herself, still clinging to her love of Wu-Tang Clan. The title Feel Free itself implies the contradiction: can you order a feeling? • Feel Free is published by Hamish Hamilton.

Source: The Guardian February 03, 2018 07:30 UTC