By now, Zadie Smith has long ago come into her own as an author. Her largely autobiographical voice, which has always served her well (particularly with her debut, White Teeth–and, incidentally, Smith pulls a rather Bret Easton Ellis move in that her narrator references going to school with Irie Jones, who also has a Jamaican mother), reaches a more elevated, literary stride with her fifth … Continue reading Zadie Smith’s Swing Time Is An Undercutting Attack on Stagnation & Surrendering Your Voice to Others