In Zadie Smith’s new novel, performance is the tie that binds, and divides
IT HAS BEEN 16 YEARS SINCE ZADIE Smith published White Teeth, becoming, at 24 years old, a standard bearer for contemporary Anglophone fiction. Her fifth novel, Swing Time, comes out Nov. 15. My favorite remains her last one, NW, an ambitious chronicle of four characters from a London council estate, whose lives take dark
