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Smith, Zadie, author.

Feel free : essays / Zadie Smith.

New York : Penguin Press, 2018.

452 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"Arranged into five sections--In the World, In the Audience, In theGallery, On the Bookshelf, and Feel Free--this new collection [of essays] poses questions we immediately recognize ... Gathering in one place for the first time previously unpublished work, as well as already classic essays, such as, 'Joy,' and, 'Find Your Beach,' [this collection] offers a survey of important recent events in culture and politics, as well as Smith's own life. Equally at home in the world of good books and bad politics, Brooklyn-born rappers and the work of Swiss novelists, she is by turns wry, heartfelt, indignant, and incisive--and never any less than perfect company"--Amazon.com.

English essays.

English literature -- History and criticism.

Includes index.

In the world. Northwest London blues -- Elegy for a country's seasons -- Fences : a Brexit diary -- On optimism and despair -- In the audience. Generation why? -- The house that Hova built -- Brother from another mother -- Some notes on attunement -- Window on the will : Anomalisa -- Dance lessons for writers -- In the gallery. Killing Orson Welles at midnight -- Flaming June -- "Crazy they call me" : on looking at Jerry Dantzic's photos of Billie Holiday -- Alte Frau by Balthasar Denner -- Mark Bradford's Niagara -- A bird of few words : narrative mysteries in the paintings of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye -- The tattered ruins of the map : on Sarah Sze's Centrifuge -- Getting in and out -- On the bookshelf. Crash by J. G. Ballard -- The Buddha of suburbia by Hanif Kureishi -- Notes on NW -- The Harper's columns -- The I who is not me -- Feel free. Life-writing -- The bathroom -- Man versus corpse -- Meet Justin Bieber! -- Love in the gardens -- The shadow of ideas -- Find your beach -- Joy.

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