Dead and Alive: Essays

Dead and Alive: EssaysA profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essays In this eagerly awaited new collection, Zadie Smith brings her unique skills as an essayist to bear on a range of subjects that have captured her attention in recent years. She takes an exhilaratingly close look at artists Toyin Ojih Odutola, Kara Walker and Celia Paul. She invites us along to the movies, to see and to think about Tr, and to New York

When the Zhu family's eighth-born son

and trauma are propelled into stunning clarity by Brown’s mastery

Sylah and Hassa must navigate the politics of this new world

and their white commanders up coastal South Carolina's Combahee River in three gunboats

who now live either enslaved by the Patternists or in the wild

Ashleigh shelled boiled peanuts and coveted the jars of pickles in her great-aunt Hattie Mae's larder

but powerful ways--invites readers to bring these practices into their own lives

" her "power to open us up to the wonder and awe that the world still inspires" (The New York Times)

teeming with music

Creator: Pounded Yam Productions

and help us imagine a world without borders

from navigating the perils of eating out alone and public displays of affection to learning to accept yourself--natural hair and all