Zadie Smith attends The Summer Party 2019, presented by Serpentine Galleries & Chanel
(Picture: Dave Benett)ZADIE Smith was called the voice of a new generation when she published her novel White Teeth in 2000 at the age of 24. But now Smith is confused by the next generation, who she fears are too swift to “unfollow” artists whose views they don’t like.
Writing a piece about new film Tár for the New York Review of Books, the writer says she is “severely triggered” by people who say Chaucer was misogynistic or Virginia Woolf was racist. “I am of that generation whose only real shibboleth was: ‘Is it interesting?’” she says.
