Zadie Smith, Escape Artist

Social climbing and self-discovery are entwined in Smith's new novel, "Swing Time." She has become increasingly adept at combining social comedy and more existential concerns—manners and morals—through the flexibility of her voice, layering irony on feeling and vice versa. In a culture that often reduces identity politics to a kind of personal branding, Smith works the same questions into a far deeper (and more truly political) consideration of what it takes to form a self.
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