Tag: Zadie Smith

A reading list on the weird and wonderful culture of Great Britain.

Lawson’s photographs capture the divinity and stateliness of its working-class subjects.

At Harper’s, Smith doesn’t really feel like she is engaging in her subject matter with much care or heart.

Zadie Smith examines the racially-charged work of Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’ and Dana Schutz’s ‘Emmett Till’

-From Zadie Smith’s New Yorker profile of Comedy Central stars Key and Peele. Keegan-Michael Key reprised his role as Luther for President Obama’s weekend speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Read the story

There is the scientific and ideological language for what is happening to the weather, but there are hardly any intimate words. Is that surprising? People in mourning tend to use euphemism; likewise the guilty and ashamed. The most melancholy of all the euphemisms: “The new normal.” “It’s the new normal,” I think, as a beloved […]

[Not singe-page] The rap superstar discusses his career and how he’s remained relevant: In the years since his masterpiece ‘Reasonable Doubt,’ the rapper has often been accused of running on empty, too distant now from what once made him real. In ‘Decoded,’ he answers existentially: ‘How distant is the story of your own life ever […]