Zadie Smith Publishes Essay Collection Questioning the Era's Certainties
In a new interview with El País, the British novelist discusses her essay collection 'Muertos y vivos,' touching on artificial intelligence, politics and the passage of time.
Zadie Smith has published a new collection of essays titled, in its Spanish edition, 'Muertos y vivos,' according to El País. The book gathers writing on art, politics, technology and the passage of time.
In an interview accompanying the piece, Smith describes herself as someone addicted to contradicting consensus, and says she is wary of the certainties that dominate current debate. She points to the contradiction of a moment in which people argue over whether artificial intelligence can write poems while the same technology's creators warn of humanity's possible extinction as a species.
El País does not specify a publisher, page count or release date for the collection, nor detail the individual essays it contains beyond the general themes of art, politics, technology and time. No information is given about a French edition.
Smith, known internationally for novels such as 'White Teeth' and for previous essay collections, remains one of the more closely watched voices in contemporary English-language letters, and her interventions on technology and public discourse tend to travel beyond Anglophone readership.
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