Whomph!
Joanna Biggs: Zadie Smith, 1 December 2016
Swing Time
by Zadie Smith.
Hamish Hamilton, 453 pp., £18.99, November 2016,978 0 241 14415 2 Show More
by Zadie Smith.
Hamish Hamilton, 453 pp., £18.99, November 2016,
“... Smith tries out here, the seemingly non-fictional sort seen in the novels of Ben Lerner and Sheila Heti, and in Smith’s own essays. As the title On Beauty had been already used by Elaine Scarry, so Swing Time has been borrowed from the title of the 1936 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers vehicle, a black and white musical of waltzes and tap dances and a ... ”
