Dead and alive : essays / Zadie Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Zadie, author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Opinion (Philosophy).

Criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 335 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Dead & alive

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Press, 2025.

Contents:

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 Tár

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version Smith, Zadie Dead and alive

ISBN:

9780593834695 (electronic bk.)

0593834690 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

40032991319

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.