5/28/2023 0 Comments Feel free zadieZadie Smith handles the many subjects with grace and wields her knowledge on each subject easily she also is transparent to the point of admitting when she may not be all that knowledgeable about a given topic. The book displays, as essays often do, the breadth of the writer’s interests and abilities. They vary in length and style, but the most notable variety of the collection is in the subject matter. (It’s almost twice as long as Changing My Mind, her first essay collection.) Feel Free contains thirty-one essays, divided into five sections: In the World (politics and current events), In the Audience (music, film and television), In the Gallery (art), On the Bookshelf (books), and Feel Free (miscellaneous, personal essays). Smith regularly publishes essays in Harper’s, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, and these essays and more are gathered in her new collection Feel Free.īeyond the beautiful cover, the most striking thing about the book itself is its size-for a book of contemporary essays, it is quite hefty at 464 pages. Zadie Smith, an author known best for her novels, already puts quite a lot of herself into her fiction even so, when she takes to writing nonfiction, this sense of pulling back the veil does happen, and maybe even more so because of her straightforward writing style. When writers of literary fiction leave the foundations of their craft-narrative structure, character development, plots, themes, motifs-to write essays, there is always some sense of pulling back the veil and offering a clearer picture of the writer herself.
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