fullyabstract, 1 month ago to random

“Shibboleth”, by Zadie Smith in The New Yorker

In the campus protests over the war in Gaza, language and rhetoric are—as they have always been when it comes to Israel and Palestine—weapons of mass destruction.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/shibboleth-the-role-of-words-in-the-campus-protests

#ZadieSmith #Gaza #StudentSpring

(Gift links are, sadly, not supported.)

magdelenehall, 9 months ago to random German

Zadie Smith: ‘I get in trouble when I talk about the state of the nation’
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/26/zadie-smith-i-get-in-trouble-when-i-talk-about-the-state-of-the-nation?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#ZadieSmith

deweyritten, 4 months ago to random

Zadie Smith came out with a new book aaaand something tells me Im going to be sleep deprived this week reading all night 😆

PS this is what Sunday afternoons are made forrrr

#TheFraud #ZadieSmith #bookstodon #contemporarylit #newfiction

mediapart, 8 days ago to random French

[#LEspritCritique] «L’esprit critique» littérature: disparaître, finir et bluffer

Notre podcast culturel débat de «L’Imposture», de #ZadieSmith, du livre de #GeoffDyer «Les Derniers Jours de Roger Federer» et de «Disparition inquiétante d’une femme de 56 ans», d’#AnnePlantagenet.

› https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-et-idees/090624/l-esprit-critique-litterature-disparaitre-finir-et-bluffer