Feel free : essays

Smith, Zadie (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780670068388 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9781594206252 (hardcover)
ISBN: 1594206252 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
452 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Publisher: [Toronto] : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Canada, 2018.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 438-444) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I: In the world. Northwest London blues -- Elegy for a country's seasons -- Fences : a Brexit diary -- On optimism and despair -- Part II: In the audience -- Generation why? -- The house that Hova built -- Brother from another mother -- Some notes on attunement -- Window on the will : Anomalisa -- Dance lessons for writers -- Part III: In the gallery -- Killing Orson Welles at midnight -- Flaming June -- "Crazy they call me" : on looking at Jerry Dantzic's photos of Billie Holiday -- Alte Frau by Balthasar Denner -- Mark Bradford's Niagara -- A bird of few words : narrative mysteries in the paintings of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye -- The tattered ruins of the map : on Sarah Sze's Centrifuge -- Getting in and out -- Part IV: On the bookshelf -- Crash by J. G. Ballard -- The Buddha of suburbia by Hanif Kureishi -- Notes on NW -- The Harper's columns -- The I who is not me -- Part V: Feel free -- Life-writing -- The bathroom -- Man versus corpse -- Meet Justin Bieber! -- Love in the gardens -- The shadow of ideas -- Find your beach -- Joy.