Dead and Alive

''Zadie Smith is a wonderful essayist. She is a natural. She writes as she thinks, and she thinks crisply and exactly'' - Tessa Hadley, Guardian
In this keenly awaited new collection, Zadie Smith brings her unique skills as an essayist to bear on a range of subjects which have captured her attention in recent years. She takes an exhilaratingly close look at artists Toyin Ojih Odutola and Celia Paul. She invites us along to the movies, to see and to think about Tar, and to Glastonbury to witness the ascendance of Stormzy. She asks us to look again at the young Michael Jackson and to mourn with her the passing of writers Joan Didion, Martin Amis, Hilary Mantel, Philip Roth and Toni Morrison. And she shows us once again her unrivalled ability to think through critically and humanely some of the most urgent preoccupations and tendencies of our troubled times.<>

About the author

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives. The Fraud is her first historical novel.

Product details

• Authors: Zadie Smith, Smith Zadie
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.10.2025
• EAN: 9780241729595
• ISBN: 978-0-241-72959-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 240 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Popular Culture, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays, Biography and non-fiction prose, c 2020 to c 2029