Zadie Smith on Jay-Z. My only regret is that it's not twice as long. If she ever decides to write a hip-hop novel, it will probably be the ultimate marriage of those two worlds (the hip-hop thread in White Teeth is exquisitely done).
I have not yet begun NW, if only because the mediocre reviews don't inspire confidence: apparently, she really did decide to be done with literary realism in favor of experimentalism.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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