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Swing Time’s Zadie Smith may not be a “fashion person,” but the author is thoughtful and perceptive about her alluring, vintage-inspired style.

From Vogue

She confronts colorism and cultural boundaries

From Nylon

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When people talk about multicultural fiction, Zadie Smith’s name is usually first up. The British author burst onto the scene at the tender age of 24 with the brilliant novel White Teeth, a multigenerational story of two London families—one Bengali, one British and Jamaican. In three novels and countless essays since, Smith has explored identity, race, gender and class, and has...

In Bookpage

Who has the time? That is the central question posed by Zadie Smith's mesmerizing fifth novel, "Swing Time." It's not only a question of having enough time, but also of owning the concept of time itself. Who gets to determine time's boundaries, fix its meaning, set its value and decide to whom it applies? Is it possible to rob entire peoples of their sense of time, and what effect does that have on their bodies and souls?

From Chicago Tribune

at Three Lives!

The narrator of Zadie Smith's new novel is never named — fitting, for a book about the illusions of identity and the ways people try and fail to know and define themselves.

from NPR

By The Book in New York Times