Arts & Culture
A resistance of form: Zadie Smith’s “Dead and Alive”
By Nick Penniman | November 13, 2025“But perhaps I am asking the question the wrong way around,” Zadie Smith writes at one point in her essay “Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction,” which can be found in her new collection, “Dead and Alive.” It’s a typically Smithian line: an expression of self-doubt signalling the ...
