Tag Archives: Zadie Smith

Labo[u]r Day Roundup

Posted on September 2, 2023 by Jeffrey Manley

–Writing in the New  York Review of Books, Michael Gorra reviews novelist Zadie Smith’s latest book The Fraud. This is the lead article of this issue, and in it Gorra places the novel in the context of Smith’s other works … Continue reading →

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Telegraph Compares New Zadie Smith Novel to Brideshead

Posted on November 20, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

In a Daily Telegraph review of Zadie Smith’s new novel Swing Time, the reviewer James Walton compares it with Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. The novel involves a narrator and a friend who who live in different social strata of the same … Continue reading →

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