BOOKS. Book Reviews. Add Topic. Zadie Smith has another hit with 'Swing Time' Eliot Schrefer. Special for USA TODAY. At one point in Zadie Smith’s wise and illuminating new novel, ...

If ever a novel conjured a sound and dance track, it is “Swing Time,” a multilayered tour-de-force from Zadie Smith. She begins with an epigram from northern Nigeria: “When the music changes ...

Zadie Smith’s early novels, 2000’s “White Teeth” and 2005’s “On Beauty,” were bright, colorful novels full of eccentric characters and Dickensian plot twists. “Swing Time ...

Zadie Smith returns to her home ground of northwest London for the setting of her remarkable new novel Swing Time, a multifaceted story of two biracial girls growing up in significantly different ...

SWING TIME, by Zadie Smith. Penguin Press, 453 pp., $27. “I had been offline for seventy-two hours and can remember feeling that this should be counted among the great examples of personal ...

“I ignored the ridiculous plots of these movies,” confides the never-named, first-person narrator of “Swing Time,” Zadie Smith’s fifth novel. “To me they were only roads leading to the ...

Zadie Smith's splendid new novel, Swing Time , borrows its title from a movie that's all about dance, and dance is a motif that ties together the book's many subjects: art, race, power and, ...

In the opening pages of “Swing Time,” Zadie Smith’s vibrant fifth novel, her narrator, recently dismissed for disloyalty and publicly humiliated after working 10 years around the clock as ...

They met when they were children; both dark-skinned and dreaming of becoming dancers. However, only Tracey really had the talent for it. As Tracey shimmied from strength to strength, stage to dance ...

Steve Coogan’s production company Baby Cow, whose credits include Oscar-nominated movie “Philomena,” has acquired the TV adaptation rights to Zadie Smith’s latest novel “Swing Time ...