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Barcode30053003833764
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No824.914 SMIT
Title Dead and alive : essays / Zadie Smith.
Author Smith, Zadie author
CollectionNEW: Adult 800-899
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003833764824.914 SMIT3/31/2026 Available

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Personal Name Smith, Zadie author
Title Statement Dead and alive : essays / Zadie Smith.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Penguin Press, 2025.
Physical Description xi, 335 pages ; 25 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
General Note Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note Part I. Eyeballing. European family ; The muse at her easel: Celia Paul's Self-portrait ; Toyin Ojih Odutola's visions of power -- The instrumentalist: on Tâar ; Stormzy at Glastonbury: King Michael wears his crown -- Part II. Considering. Fascinated to presume: in defence of fiction ; Under the banner of New York ; Egypt: laughter in the dark ; Some notes on mediated time -- Part III. Reconsidering. Black England ; Black Manhattan ; What do we want history to do to us? : on Kara Walker ; A speech for the Kenyon Review ; The Tufton pragmatists ; Ruination ; Shibboleth ; The dream of the raised arm ; Trump Gaza number one -- Part IV. Mourning. The opposite of magical thinking: on Didion ; Daughters of Toni ; A writer all the way down: on Philip Roth - Martin Amis: England's only living writer ; What lodged in her mind: remembering Hilary Mantel -- Part V. Confessing. The realm of the unspoken ; Agelessness ; The fall ; On writing The fraud -- Some questions from El Cultural ; Conscience and consciousness: a craft talk for the people and the person ; Kilburn, my love.
Summary, Etc. "Zadie Smith brings her unique skills as an essayist to bear on a range of subjects that have captured her attention in recent years. She takes an exhilaratingly close look at artists Toyin Ojih Odutola, Kara Walker, and Celia Paul. She invites us along to the movies, to see and to think about Tâar, and to New York to reflect on the spontaneous moments that connect us. She takes us on a walk down Kilburn High Road in her beloved North-West London and welcomes us to mourn with her the passing of writers Joan Didion, Martin Amis, Hilary Mantel, Philip Roth, and Toni Morrison. She considers changes of government on both sides of the Atlantic--and the meaning of 'the commons' in all our lives"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Criticism.
Index Term-Genre/Form Essays lcgft
Index Term-Genre/Form Literary criticism. lcgft

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