Tagged: women and books

Zadie Smith Helps Us Find Our Light in Swing Time

Zadie Smith is a British-born literary sensation. A novelist, short story writer, and essayist, she has won the Orange Prize for Fiction, been on Granta’s list of the top 20 young writers, and now teaches in the Creative Writing program at New York University.

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Review: The Mare by Mary Gaitskill

MARY GAITSKILL’S THE MARE revolves around a pun: the aural slippage between the title — “mare” — and “mère,” which is French for “mother.” To see this…

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