Topic: Zadie Smith

I've always been fascinated by the failures of genius. Consider Bob Dylan. How did the same songwriter who produced Blood on the Tracks and Blonde...

Thinking about reading

To mark its 21st birthday, Vintage Books has released a collection of essays on reading called Stop What You're Doing and Read This! Contributors...
Why do you read books?. . I read because I believe that literary fiction may be the most accurate account of history as it's often written with no...
Kensal Rise library was opened by Mark Twain in 1900 -- and how it could do with the support of the great American man of letters now to fight off its threatened extinction as government cuts bite.The red-brick Victorian building has closed ...
Don't fill in this field Book Think Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) Tweet . The literary essay I've enjoyed most this year has been "The Stockholm...
Emma Donoghue's Booker Prize-nominated novel Room and Kathleen Winter's debut novel Annabel are among the nominees for the Orange Prize, the UK's...
Islamic beauty. Join Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya as he reads from his new novel, "The Storyteller of Marrakesh," about the beauty of Islamic culture.7...
One day recently, while reading as a procrastination from writing, I came across an eye-catching quote from Will Self, who was being interviewed in...
The Book of Other People, edited by Zadie Smith . The Position, by Meg Wolitzer . The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows . The Believers, by Zoe Heller . The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by ...
I'm an ardent reader of contemporary British and American fiction, I'm not focussed on any specific author or subject and normally read what comes my way, but recently have decided to stay away for some time from 1) Campus Novels ...