Book of the Week: Feel Free

RADIO 4FM, 9.45AM

Zadie Smith’s extraordinary, extensive collection of essays from the last eight years, Feel Free, is a feast of a Book of the Week to enjoy every morning this week. Many of the pieces in the book are serious-minded works of criticism, while others are deftly turned flights of fancy, interpreting modern pop culture through the lens of critical theory. The book has been described in this newspaper as “philosophical stand-up”. Today’s instalment is about growing up in multicultural London in the Eighties.