I never say yes to these things. But when I mentioned it to my teenage daughter she said: ‘Mum, get over yourself, you’re ...

Now without any effort on her part ... a subconscious sense that something ungraspable is being grasped at. Zadie Smith is absolutely a great novelist, but, in The Fraud, while there is much ...

The Fraud review: Zadie Smith’s first foray into historical ... sings live – and it was at Cambridge that she met her now husband, the Irish poet Nick Laird, whom she married in 2004.

In early 2000, the book that Zadie Smith had begun writing at Cambridge ... all day,” Smith says now, 25 years and several million sales later. “I’d have a massive fried breakfast at Café ...

Smith—now 47, having spent the last few decades ... Call it a kind of porousness: “Zadie is always, always listening,” Nelson tells me. “Not in a way where she’s listening to catch ...

Zadie Smith did not understand why anyone would ... and Smith expressed annoyance at the hyper-popularity of Charli XCX: “Now we’ll never be able to see her live. That’s the only ambition ...

Then again, perhaps it is the work of Zadie Smith, lightly indulging in a novelist’s word for brown. Now if I am Smith’s ideal reader, finely aware and richly responsible, then I will find ...

Zadie Smith may have had a few parallel experiences ... Martin: Are you bored now? Smith: It's different. I'm not easily bored because I can get a lot out of just looking at anything.

Zadie Smith is clever enough to make anything ... None of his books is in print now. And much of the comedy in “The Fraud” suggests why: He was an extraordinarily dull and ridiculous writer.