HORN! REVIEWS: NW
This is an important work about the urgent need to hold on to your life and your morals at the same time.
...moreThis is an important work about the urgent need to hold on to your life and your morals at the same time.
...moreAll too often, it gets hurled at strong women like a boulder of hate tied up with a big red misogynistic bow.
...moreFor our first interview of 2013, we sit down with the incomparable Zadie Smith for a thoughtful chat about identity, the pleasure of reading, and how to write honestly about the state of humanity.
...moreThe fat sun stalls by the phone masts. This is how Zadie Smith opens her latest novel, NW, and how appropriate–that something so fiery and core-hot, so screaming and universal could appear dumbfounded, loafing, stagnant. Meet North West London, a relative dystopia from those adolescent promises that London made Smith’s crew of characters.
...more“Pencil leaves no mark on magazine pages. Somewhere she has read that the gloss gives you cancer. Everyone knows it shouldn’t be this hot. Shrivelled blossom and bitter little apples. Birds singing the wrong tunes in the wrong trees too early in the year. Don’t you bloody start! Look up: the girl’s burnt paunch rests […]
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