It's really not very simple

  • Tue, Sep 30, 2025
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Zadie Smith:

Any essay that includes the line “It’s really very simple” is never going to be the essay for me. Nothing concerning human life is simple. Not aesthetics, not politics, not gender, not race, not history, not memory, not love.

“On the Impersonal Essay: Thinking in Six Parts,” in The New Yorker, Sept 29, 2025

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