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Six great reads – best of 2025: a deep-cover KGB agent, Zadie Smith on Tracy Chapman, and the boy who came back

Need something brilliant to read over the holidays? Here are six of our best pieces from 2025. Look out for part two next Saturday

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Yael van der Wouden : ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy cured my fear of aliens’

The Safekeep author on her secret childhood reading, falling in love with Elizabeth Strout and why she keeps coming back to Zadie Smith

The Guardian - UK

Friday essay: racism, misogyny and culture wars: Zadie Smith and Anne Enright help us make sense of troubling times

Essay collections gather a writer’s thoughts over time and can be read as an oblique form of memoir, one in which the self is revealed through a series of conversations with the world.

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The best books to give as presents this Christmas, personally recommended

CHRISTMAS 2025: When it comes to gifts, you can’t go wrong with a good book. Here you’ll find standout titles across genres and styles, thoughtfully selected by The Independent’s culture staff to suit readers of every predilection

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The life-affirming gospel according to Patti Smith

Patti Smith, once again, shows us a better way to be ourselves

Evening Standard

11 Novels About Dysfunctional Families to Put You at Ease When You're Home for the Holidays

Looking for an escape from the family function? Read these books by Emma Straub, Zadie Smith, and more.

Marie Claire

British Library strikers deserve our support

Letters: Jane Ghosh says it’s time to value all library workers, while Keith Flett wonders if the local MP can help

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Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library

The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced priorities, says novelist Zadie Smith

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Zadie Smith gives a masterclass in the modern essay

Zadie Smith once again confirms that she is among the most expert essayists of her generation

Evening Standard

Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith review – essays for an age of anxiety

From cultural appropriation to gender, Smith nails the politics of creativity. But on actual politics, she is less assured

The Guardian - UK

From White Teeth to Swing Time: Zadie Smith’s best books - ranked!

Twenty-five years on from her dazzling debut, and as a new collection of essays comes out, we assess the British author’s best books

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s scary how many St George’s flags there were’: Blood Orange on coming home to Essex and mourning his mother

After grief brought Dev Hynes home, he reconsidered the county that shaped him. The result is a masterful new album – made with a little help from Lorde and Zadie Smith

The Guardian - UK

Best books about London: Tales that capture the essence of the world's best city

From the satirical to the sublime, these books are simply, quintessentially, London

Evening Standard

Lola Young and Alexa Chung's confessions at the Elle Style Awards

Plus what went on in London this week

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Marie Claire

I’m an Avid Reader, Writer and Bookshop Dweller – These Are the Literary Festivals Not To Miss This Autumn

From women's fiction and crime writing, to luxe writing retreats

The Guardian - UK

Blood Orange: Essex Honey review – an exquisitely eclectic portrait of grief

Gorgeous melodies ground Dev Hynes’s questing fifth album, via dancefloor rhythms, indie pop and languorous funk – and cameos from Lorde and Zadie Smith

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Zadie Smith, Michael Rosen, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson sign letter calling for Israel boycott

More than 200 writers request cessation of all trade until people of Gaza given adequate food, water and aid

The Guardian - UK

Authority: Essays on Being Right by Andrea Long Chu review – scorching hot takes

The Pulitzer-winning critic has some choice words for the likes of Zadie Smith, Hanya Yanagihara and Bret Easton Ellis

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Gurnaik Johal: ‘I had no idea Zadie Smith was such a big deal!’

The author on a brilliant biography of Buster Keaton, coming round to Joseph Conrad, and marathon training with Karl Ove Knausgård

The Conversation

Roland Barthes declared the ‘death of the author’, but postcolonial critics have begged to differ

Our cultural touchstones series examines works that have had a lasting influence

The Independent UK

Helena Bonham Carter, Zadie Smith and Jennifer Saunders gather for RA Summer Exhibition party

As the annual societal bash gathers famous faces from art, music, and fashion, Olivia Petter reveals what went down at the highlight of London’s social calendar

The Guardian - UK

Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’

Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid

Evening Standard

Society summer: your guide to London's hottest parties and events

From secret literary salons to the Serpentine’s celebrity-studded lawns, we bring you the inside track on the most exclusive parties of the season — and the ones you can actually get into

The Guardian - UK

Talkin’ ’bout seeing Tracy Chapman live

Letters: David Morgan remembers the singer-songwriter as the opening act at a John Martyn concert, and Trevor Brewster reminds us of her presence at the start ofan Amnesty International tour

Evening Standard

OPINION - I'm a young person who won't debase myself on social media — and that causes a big problem

In my younger and more vulnerable years my sister was given some advice which I’ve been turning over in my mind since. “You will see people who you think are stupider than you go much further than you, because they worked harder”.

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