The White Teeth author on authenticity, literature, and making connections.

Writer Zadie Smith on fellow girl crush Katharine Hepburn: "It was by learning to play herself, and by continuing to do so, more or less, for the rest of her career, that Hepburn became a screen icon and a goddess."

Two weeks before the release of her sixth novel, the author and essayist spoke to her friend about middle-age injuries, SoulCycle shame, and what to do when mortality and creativity collide.

The most exciting photo shoot in the September fashion issues is Zadie Smith, plunked glamorously into the pages of British Vogue to discuss her novel “The Fraud.”

A reading list of prize-winning author Zadie Smith's favorite books, including classic works by Vladimir Nabokov, George Eliot and Zora Neale Huston.

After 17 years abroad, Zadie Smith has returned to her literary stomping ground of north London. She talks about fame, therapy and finding inspiration for her new historical novel on her doorstep

Zadie Smith’s debut heartened many readers when it first appeared with its breezily multicultural story. It seems a more complicated tale in 2020

This year needed Zadie Smith. 2016 was crying out for her particular clarity in describing identity, race and class relationships, and intimate lives in modern London; her illuminating essays on po…

Zadie Smith tells Jeffrey Eugenides why trauma and self-disgust lurk beneath the glittering surface of her new novel