Cressida Leyshon talks with Zadie Smith about the fiction writer and essayist’s story “The Lazy River,” which appears in this week’s issue of the magazine.

Zadie Smith is fearless. ... “The Lazy River” may be a theme park ride in real life, but as a story, it’s a symbol for the human condition during the relentless chaos of 2017, ...

Zadie Smith is fearless. ... 'The Lazy River” may be a theme park ride in real life, but as a story, it's a symbol for the human condition during the relentless chaos of 2017, ...

Zadie Smith Polishes the Art of the Short Story in ‘Grand ... In the outstanding “The Lazy River,” the stream-of-consciousness narrations are captivating and full of Smith’s proclivity for ...

Those who loved Zadie Smith's first novel “White Teeth” will welcome the sock of energy that is “Grand Union,” Smith’s first collection ... The lazy river is both real and ...

Practically, there are no longer any people not in it that the lazy river seems to be the right metaphor." Zadie Smith, Caryl Phillips and Aleksandar Hemon on reading and writing; Zadie Smith's ...

GRAND UNION Stories By Zadie Smith. ... Take “The Lazy River,” in which a first-person narrator considers the pool attraction at a resort in southern Spain as a metaphor for modern inertia.

Zadie Smith published her first story in The New Yorker in December of 1999, when she was twenty-four. ... In “The Lazy River,” a pool at an all-inclusive hotel in Spain, ...

“The Lazy River,” meanwhile, ... Zadie Smith. Penguin Press: 246 pp, $27. Ulin is a former book editor and critic at The Times. More to Read . 30 must-read books for summer. May 14, 2025.

Zadie Smith is with us to talk about her first short story collection, ... Then we all climb back into the metaphor. The Lazy River is a circle, it is wet, it has an artificial current.

Zadie Smith is fearless. ... “The Lazy River” may be a theme-park ride in real life, but as a story, it’s a symbol for the human condition during the relentless chaos of 2017, ...

In the outstanding “The Lazy River,” the stream-of-consciousness narrations are captivating and full of Smith’s proclivity for the colorful and oddly specific. They follow the structure of an inner ...