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From Zadie Smith, one of the very most beloved writers of her technology, a new assortment of essays Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut book almost two decades earlier, Zadie Smith has generated herself not simply as one of the world's preeminent fiction writers but also a brilliant and singular essayist. She contributes regularly to The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books on a range of subject matter, and each little bit of hers is a literary event in its own right. Assemble into four portions - On the globe, Within the Audience, Within the Bookshelf, and Feel Free - this new collection poses questions we immediately acknowledge. What's The Social Network - and Facebook itself - really about? "From the cruel portrait folks: 500 million sentient people entrapped in the recent careless thoughts of the Harvard sophomore." Why do we love libraries? "Well-run libraries are filled with people because just what a good collection offers can't be easily found anywhere else: an indoor public space where you do not have to buy anything in order to stay." Exactly what will we tell our granddaughters about our collective failure to address global warming? "THEREFORE I might say to her, look: the thing you have to understand is the fact that we'd just been through a hundred years of relativism and deconstruction, where we were informed that most of our fondest-held principles were either uncertain or simple wishful thinking, and in many regions of our lives we'd recently been asked to accept that nothing is essential and everything changes - which had taken the fight out folks somewhat." Gathering in one place for the very first time previously unpublished work, as well as already common essays, such as, "Enjoyment," and, "Find Your Beach," Feel Free offers a survey of important recent incidents in culture and politics as well as Smith's own life. Evenly at home in the wonderful world of good books and bad politics, Brooklyn-born rappers and the task of Swiss novelists, she actually is by converts wry, heartfelt, indignant, and incisive - rather than any very poor company. That is literary journalism at its zenith.
