At a talk on her latest essay collection, Dead and Alive, Smith said she ‘sometimes’ reads male novelists, but more often seeks the wisdom of older female writers like Helen Garner ...

You are sitting there, staring at yourself on a screen, when suddenly, you’re no longer alone. Peering out from the digisphere is a true literary rock star: the singular Zadie Smith, an author as ...

Last year the prolific and gifted Zadie Smith stumbled into controversy with the publication of “Shibboleth” in the New Yorker. She purportedly approached the white-hot Gaza demonstrations with the ...