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INTERVIEW: The Cambridge student was only 24 when she released her ostentatious debut. Critics and fellow writers fell over themselves with enthusiasm, hailing Smith the voice of fiction’s future. Now, 25 years later, the author speaks to Nick Duerden about the book that changed her life

The US standup on why his show on white nationalists resonated so widely, being taught writing by Zadie Smith and working on a new spinoff of The Office

Letters: Readers respond to an article in which Zadie Smith writes that real change is on the horizon after the Tories ruined Britain

Victoria Thomas Bowen says she is raising money for a cause ‘close to my heart’

The Royal Academy had celebrities splashing their cash as the Summer Exhibition opened in style

Smith was among the famous faces who paid tribute to Amis at his memorial service

Narrated by the author, this story of a Victorian author and his housekeeper cousin, who is obsessed by the Tichborne claimant, explores the lies people tell themselves

The Women’s prize for fiction has been championing women writers since it launched in 1996. It is one of the most influential and popular literary prizes in world with writers like Zadie Smith and Andrea Levy, among its past winners.

Tension at a writers’ co-op is spliced with the hunt for a gifted footballer in the Netherland author’s first book in 10 years, an exceptional tale of desire and betrayal