Zadie Smith’s Swing Time

I liked, but did not love this book.The book begins with failure. Or “my humiliation” as the narrator, a young woman, puts it. The young woman has been sent back to London by some unknown employer. She is hiding in considerable affluence and is tasked with avoiding the public, not to escalate a situation. From …

Yes, dear teenage self, this is a difficult Saturday evening for you. Jan Delay just opened the ARD Eurovision Songcontest Warm-Up. And the 30 year old you? Is listening to electronic dance music compiled by NPR – and is loving it. Especially the opening cut by Fatima Al-Qadiri is amazing. Later on I will sit …