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On Beauty

Zadie Smith

Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three...

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

The novel was cited alongside White Teeth and Swing Time as part of Zadie Smith's celebrated back catalog.

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If you've not read her back catalog like White Teeth and On Beauty and Swing Time, I almost envy you.

— Episode: Zadie Smith on Populists, Frauds and Fli...

Episode: Zadie Smith on Populists, Frauds and Flip Phones

The novel was cited alongside White Teeth and Swing Time as part of Zadie Smith's celebrated back catalog.

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If you've not read her back catalog like White Teeth and On Beauty and Swing Time, I almost envy you.

Fresh Air

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Fresh Air

On Beauty was listed among Smith's earlier novels in the opening remarks.

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including the novels White Teeth and On Beauty. Her new book, The Fraud, is a historical novel...

— Episode: Best Of: Zadie Smith / Maria Bamford

Episode: Best Of: Zadie Smith / Maria Bamford

On Beauty was listed among Smith's earlier novels in the opening remarks.

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including the novels White Teeth and On Beauty. Her new book, The Fraud, is a historical novel...

Episode: Zadie Smith On 'The Fraud'

The title was listed among Smith's previous novels along with White Teeth and Swing Time.

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Her other novels include On Beauty and Swing Time.

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