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December 15, 2025

41:32

Zadie Smith's heads up to young people: 'You are absolutely going to become old'

author Zadie Smith. Her new collection of essays is called "Dead And Alive."

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September 5, 2023

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In 'The Fraud,' Zadie Smith seeks to 'do absolute justice to the truth'

The Fraud is a work of historical fiction centering on the real-life Victorian Era Tichborne trial – and one of the trial's witnesses, a formerly enslaved man from Jamaica.

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November 21, 2016

50:30

Novelist Zadie Smith On Historical Nostalgia And The Nature Of Talent

Smith's latest book, Swing Time, tells the story of two girls who dream of being dancers, but only one has the talent to do so

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Zadie Smith's heads up to young people: 'You are absolutely going to become old'

In 'The Fraud,' Zadie Smith seeks to 'do absolute justice to the truth'

Novelist Zadie Smith On Historical Nostalgia And The Nature Of Talent

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