Zadie Smith: 'I tried to read White Teeth for the anniversary – but didn’t get past the first page’
INTERVIEW: The Cambridge student was only 24 when she released her ostentatious debut. Critics and fellow writers fell over ...
Zadie Smith on her groundbreaking debut, White Teeth, 25 years on: ‘I never think about my novels a year after I’ve written them’
INTERVIEW: The Cambridge student was only 24 when she released her ostentatious debut. Critics and fellow writers fell over ...
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Zadie Smith: 'I tried to read White Teeth for the anniversary – but didn’t get past the first page’
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 ...
Bill Gates: How being sent to therapy as a child changed my life
In this exclusive extract from his new memoir ‘Source Code’, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates opens up ...
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In ‘Shattered’, Hanif Kureishi writes through paralysis
Hanif Kureishi's Shattered is a collection of online dispatches that he dictated randomly to his wife, Isabella, and his ...
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My Wife’s Tendency to Blow Things Out of Proportion Just Reached a Wild New Level
My daughter favors her father in appearance ... by mixed-race people about how complicated their existence can be (Zadie Smith and Danzy Senna have made whole careers of this), and they often ...