Dead and Alive
On Sale 10/28/25
The profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essays
In the past two decades, few writers have mastered the craft and art of the essay in the way that Zadie Smith has. Her writing, at once an occasion for personal reckoning and communal reflection, studies the fault lines that divide us and consistently finds grounds for solidarity and compassion.
With an eye toward the past and the present, Smith examines what it means to identify with our contemporary world and the history that frames it.
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