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Zadie Smith

Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

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  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    These are “occasional essays” in that they were written for particular occasions, particular editors.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    I am especially grateful to Bob Silvers, David Remnick, Deborah Treisman, Cressida Leyshon, Lisa Allardice and Sarah Sands for suggesting I stray into film reviewing, obituaries, cub reporting, literary criticism and memoir.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Two thousand words about Christmas? About Katharine Hepburn? Kafka? Liberia? A hundred thousand words piled up that way.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Zadie Smith’s essays contain stimulating and cranky observations about writing, politics, high culture, pop culture, and even Katharine Hepburn.”
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    “With Changing My Mind, Smith has given the art of the essay its most interesting and educational revival in years.”
    —Michael Lee, BookPage
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    a collection of criticism, essays, and reviews for outlets such as The New Yorker and the U.K.’s Guardian,
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Her essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Believer.
  • Zlata Veresniakhas quoted6 years ago
    These days “self-actualization” is the aim, and if you can’t do it alone you are admitting a weakness.
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