Zadie Smith's first published collection of non-fiction is, like her career as a novelist, always intelligent and hilarious, occasionally surprising, too often infuriating and sometimes glaringly overambitious.
Split into five sections: "Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling, Remembering", these essays and lectures cover a range of interests, from EM Forster, Franz Kafka and George Eliot to the writer's craft, attending Oscar night, travelling through Liberia and, in a beautifully crafted essay that pays for the cover price, memories of the author's immigrant father and his distinctly British sense of humour.
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