Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith is the author of three novels, most recently On Beauty, and the editor of the short-story anthology The Book of Other People.

From the Review

February 26, 2009: Speaking in Tongues

November 20, 2008: Two Paths for the Novel

Netherland by Joseph O’Neill

Remainder by Tom McCarthy

August 14, 2008: E.M. Forster, Middle Manager

The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929–1960 edited by Mary Lago, Linda K. Hughes, and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, with a foreword by P.N. Furbank

July 17, 2008: F. Kafka, Everyman

The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay by Louis Begley

From New York Review Books

The Ermine of Czernopol The first of Rezzori's three books based on memories of his Austro-Hungarian hometown, a "melting pot for dozens of ethnic groups, languages, creeds, temperaments, and customs." While the story centers on the downfall of a once glamorous Hussar, it is really about childhood enchantment and richness of a vanished world. "A flashing novel of ideas." —Time