Tag: Zadie Smith

• Difficult Literature and the Skill of Reading

  Some thoughts on reading as a distinct skill, from Mauro Javier Cárdenas, Jessa Crispin, and Zadie Smith.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  May 5, 2021

  On Reading

  Genre Fiction vs. Literary Fiction, Jessa Crispin, Michael Silverblatt, Reading as a Skill, Zadie Smith

• Robinson Redux

  A review of Marilynne Robinson’s essay collection The Givenness of Things.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  March 7, 2018

  Reviews

  J.M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson, Susan Sontag, Zadie Smith

• Mr. Saunders of Sesame Street

  On James Ley’s pointed critique of the fiction of George Saunders.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  June 20, 2017

  Book Reviewing

  George Saunders, James Ley, Zadie Smith