Dead and Alive: Essays

Dead and Alive: EssaysA profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essays In the past two decades, few writers have mastered the craft and art of the essay in the way that Zadie Smith has. Her writing, at once an occasion for personal reckoning and communal reflection, studies the fault lines that divide us and consistently finds grounds for solidarity and compassion. This eagerly awaited new collection brings Smiths

But just because she’s returned home doesn’t mean she has to stay with her parents or crash on her twin sister’s couch

Waldo seekers on their own voyages will be raring to go with this compact compilation featuring all seven of his renowned excursions:

attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin

Alice’s life isn’t terrible

ten days of bliss is worth having to assume the role of loving newlyweds

and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls

they set off a chain reaction neither of them could have anticipated ― one that proves that sometimes

She wakes up at the bottom of a square hole

A serial killer

handsome doctor at the hospital where she works

Every summer such scenes play out in cities across the United States

driven only by blind will