The ‘NW’ author brings a real 19th-century trial to life in a novel that resonates with themes of race, class and money – and has much to say about Britain today, writes Martin Chilton
After 17 years abroad, Zadie Smith has returned to her literary stomping ground of north London. She talks about fame, therapy and finding inspiration for her new historical novel on her doorstep
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In Zadie Smith’s new novel, her first in seven years, two characters are discussing George Eliot’s Middlemarch. “Couldn’t get through volume one,” one character
Zadie Smith’s decision to introduce Dickens into her latest novel, The Fraud, isn’t surprising. As she pointed out in a recent New Yorker article, when she was