In her new novel NW, Zadie Smith returns home to her native hood in London to chart the twisty lives of four people from the same housing estate. Lauren Elkin on the novel’s brilliant vision of ...

"Who are you?" a man shouts at his wife at the climax of "NW," Zadie Smith's provocative latest novel. A universal question, but even more vexed if you are a product of the simmering multiracial ...

Zadie Smith wrote her last novel On Beauty seven years ago — a long time in the anxious world of publishing. Her new novel NW was released in the U.S. on Monday. Critic Maureen Corrigan asks ...

We recently spoke to Smith while she was in Washington, D.C., on her book tour: ART BEAT: What sparked wanting to write “NW”? ZADIE SMITH: You know, it just comes to the point where you’re ...

Zadie Smith writes regularly for The New Yorker and the New York ... "On Beauty" won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction and her novel "NW" was named as one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2012.

Zadie Smith’s newest novel is somehow more British than any she’s written before. Beyond its setting in northwest London and frequent Cockney dialect, “The Fraud” — Smith’s first stab at historical ...

Zadie Smith did not intend to write a play ... When Brent, the area of northwest London where she lives, applied to be London’s “Borough of Culture” for 2020, she was asked to add her ...