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Zadie Smith hats, Fellini tops: the rise of litcore

Cerebral types are wearing their literary and cinematic pretensions on their sleeves, quite literally

The Guardian - US

Given up on book clubs? Why not try a short story club instead

Author Laura Jean McKay raises her pint to pithy writing that provokes questions – and still gets you home in time for tea

The Guardian - AU

Slavery, illusion and dead white men: Zadie Smith's The Fraud explodes the historical novel

Victorian England loved a juicy scandal and Zadie Smith situates The Fraud in one of the mid-19th century’s most toothsome cause célèbres: the Tichborne case.

The Conversation

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Stunning pop, Theater Camp and new Zadie Smith: Australia’s best things to watch, read and do this weekend

New films, shows, books and a seasonal recipe to spend your time with, selected by the culture and lifestyle desks

The Guardian - AU

Autumn reads: the unmissable new books to hunker down with

From spine-chilling short stories to philisophical memoirs and historical fiction, Alex Peake-Tomkinson picks the most exciting new books to tuck into this Autumn

Evening Standard

'The Fraud' asks questions as it unearths stories that need to be told

Zadie Smith's latest novel revisiting a piece of history is packed with great writing and shining passages that go from humorous to deeply philosophical. But it is also very long.

WEKU

Stop moralising about British history, Zadie Smith tells fans

She also spoke about abstaining from social media and recording the audiobook of her new novel

Evening Standard

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The Best Books of Fall 2023

An eclectic list featuring the season’s most compelling new novels, nonfiction, and poetry, as curated by The Walrus

The Walrus

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Fraud by Zadie Smith and Holly by Stephen King.

The Independent UK

OPINION - Sadiq Khan has shown courage on Ulez, but now he needs to stop ignoring knife crime

Whether you’re violently anti or hysterically pro-Ulez, you have to admit that it demonstrated admirable qualities in our Mayor, Sadiq Khan. He showed us he can be refreshingly intractable and dogged, that he doesn’t mind upsetting people under incredible pressure from half of London, and even his own party leader.…

Evening Standard

The Fraud by Zadie Smith review: a dazzling depiction of Victorian colonial England

Zadie Smith’s latest novel, The Fraud, is her first foray into the world of historical fiction. The result is a stunning, well-studied examination of Victorian colonial England and some of its inhabitants.

The Conversation

Prigozhin’s downfall: inside the 1 September Guardian Weekly

What next for Putin, Russia and Wagner? Plus: Zadie Smith comes home

The Guardian - UK

The Fraud by Zadie Smith review – a trial and no errors

Inspired by an extraordinary court case, and featuring a real-life Victorian novelist, Smith’s funny, almost flawless new novel examines identity, the notion of truth and 19th-century England and Jamaica in flux

The Guardian - UK

Zadie Smith: ‘I get in trouble when I talk about the state of the nation’

After 17 years abroad, Zadie Smith has returned to her literary stomping ground of north London. She talks about fame, therapy and finding inspiration for her new historical novel on her doorstep

The Guardian - UK

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Zadie Smith, Stephen King and Rachel Cusk’s pirated works used to train AI

Works by thousands of authors also including Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami and Jonathan Franzan fed into models run by firms including Meta and Bloomberg

Evening Standard

The Fraud by Zadie Smith review: a rich, inconsistent novel about a society in denial

ZADIE Smith has never set much store by consistency. “Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don’t, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work,” she once told this newspaper. “It’s not consistent. I am…

Evening Standard

Sanditon series 3 ‘has nothing do to with Jane Austen’, says expert

‘Heteronormative’ author would never have written a gay love story, claims Professor

The Guardian - UK

The Fraud by Zadie Smith review – from Victorian London to slavery in Jamaica

Inspired by a celebrated court case, Smith’s dazzling historical novel combines deft writing and strenuous construction in a tale of literary London and the horrors of slavery

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Authors threaten boycott of Edinburgh book festival over sponsors’ fossil fuel links

An open letter signed by more than 50 authors including Zadie Smith, Ali Smith and Katherine Rundell calls for investment firm Baillie Gifford to be dropped as main sponsor for 2024

Evening Standard

To be or not to be? Discover the new literature unpacking the motherhood dilemma

Post-Roe v Wade, authors are tackling the fraught business of parenthood, says Alex Peake-Tomkinson

The Guardian - UK

Retroland by Peter Kemp review – an author preoccupied with his past

The veteran Sunday Times critic’s survey of 50 years of British fiction rattles through titles, authors and genres, but often at the expense of insight

The Guardian - UK

Invasion of the cool-girl ceiling-smashers: why I love the revamped National Portrait Gallery

From Tracey Emin to Jann ‘Sgt Pepper’ Haworth, this London landmark’s new additions are game-changers. The result is a thrilling, uplifting gallery that reflects a Britain I am proud to be part of

The Guardian - UK

Facial recognition: the 10 best exhibits in the revamped National Portrait Gallery

To mark the London gallery’s reopening this week after a £35m redevelopment, its director and chief curator introduce their favourite paintings from the expanded collection

The Guardian - UK

The great face off: 16 of the most wonderful portraits ever painted

As the National Portrait Gallery prepares for its grand reopening this week, critics, artists and curators pick their favourite works from 500 years of portraiture

The Independent UK

Martin Amis, literary ‘enfant terrible’, dies aged 73

Author of ‘London Fields’ and ‘The Information’, who divided opinion over his writing style and personal views, died of oesophageal cancer at his home in Florida

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