Twenty-five years on from her dazzling debut, and as a new collection of essays comes out, we assess the British author’s best booksHow do you follow a smash hit like White Teeth, which, as everyone now knows, sold for a six-figure sum while the author was still at university, and turned Zadie Smith into a literary superstar and poster girl for multiculturalism at 24? With a novel about a pot-smoking Chinese‑Jewish autograph hunter, the dangers of fame and the shallowness of pop culture, of course. Continue reading...
Wednesday 29 October 2025
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