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The Art of the Impersonal Essay

By Zadie Smith · The New Yorker · September 2025
The Art of the Impersonal Essay
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"Zadie Smith, the author of “Swing Time,” “The Fraud,” and “Dead and Alive,” reflects on how the essay-writing habits of her school days still influence her writing today."

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