Just 25 years into the 21st century, the folks at The New York Times Book Review are recognizing some of their favorite titles.

The Cambridge student was only 24 when she released her ostentatious debut. Critics and fellow writers fell over themselves ...

Smith was 24 years old then, the daughter of a white father and a Jamaican mother, and had grown up in northwest London. A voracious reader, she changed her given name of Sadie to Zadie at the age ...

Clothes can be a source of comfort — and restore a sense of self — to those who have lost their belongings as a result of ...

There are countless books by mixed-race people about how complicated their existence can be (Zadie Smith and Danzy Senna ... could look so different from her mother. Let her know that she ...