Split into four sections—‘Reading’, ‘Being’, ‘Seeing’ and ‘Feeling’
—Changing My Mind invites readers to witness the world
from Zadie Smith’s unique vantage point. Smith casts
her acute eye over material both personal and cultural,
with wonderfully engaging essays—some published here for
the first time—on diverse topics, including literature,
movies, going to the Oscars, British comedy, family,
feminism, Obama, Katherine Hepburn and Anna Magnani.
Changing My Mind announces Zadie Smith as one of our
most important contemporary essayists, a writer with
the rare ability to turn the world on its side with
both fact and fiction. Changing My Mind is a gift to readers,
writers and all who want to look at life more expansively.
Praise for Changing My Mind
‘A preternaturally gifted writer with a voice
that’s street smart and learned,
sassy and philosophical all at the same time’
New York Times
‘An outstanding novelist with a powerful
understanding both of what the brain knows
and of what love knows’
Observer
‘One of the handful of novelists writing at present
who really matter and who, we may confidently assume,
will “last”. She is “canonical” ’
The Times
