Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

01 January, 2010

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By Zadie Smith

Penguin, 320 pages, Rs 550

Smith casts her acute eye over material both personal and cultural, with wonderfully engaging essays – some published here for the first time – on diverse topics including literature, movies, going to the Oscars, British comedy, family, feminism, Obama, Katharine Hepburn, and Anna Magnani.

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