British writer Zadie Smith has published only two novels: White Teeth, winner of two major literary awards and with over one million copies in print, and The Autograph Man. Smith burst into the intern...
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Nigeria's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won Britain's Orange Prize for fiction by women, becoming the first African to take the award in its 12-year history, organizers said Wednesday.Adichie, 29, also ...
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Hill and Bill cry and pry their way into a squeaker victory in New Hampshire. (Who cares if the blogosphere is crackling with questions about those curious voting machine vs. paper ballot discrepan...
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James Wood has had a standing offer to join the staff of The New Yorker for about as long as people have been calling him the best literary critic in the world.
Until recently, Mr. Wood did not wan...
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Roman Kaplan, the majestic owner of the Russian Samovar, used to have a blog, but he stopped updating it in October because the people who were doing the typing and translating for him weren’...
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“Your class is a cult classic …. Your class is all about never ever saying I like the tomato …. It’s properly intellectual … nobody’s pretending the tomato will ...
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Monica Ali is not a subscriber to the guest-worker school of fiction, the vaguely held assumption that what was born abroad should stick with and to its own kind. Like the rest of Europe, the pale ...
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Monica Ali is not a subscriber to the guest-worker school of fiction, the vaguely held assumption that what was born abroad should stick with and to its own kind. Like the rest of Europe, the pale ...
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As Chris Rock had it, something sure has changed in America when the best golfer is black and the best rapper, white. Rock's choice of words is remarkable: not richest, not most famous, but best. B...
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Zadie Smith
Young Nigerian wins British book award
