Zadie Smith Reads “The Silence”

Zadie Smith Reads “The Silence”

Update: 2025-07-06
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Zadie Smith reads her story “The Silence,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Smith, a winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, among others, is the author of two short-story collections and six novels, including “NW,” “Swing Time,” and “The Fraud,” which was published in 2023.



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Zadie Smith Reads “The Silence”

Zadie Smith Reads “The Silence”

The New Yorker