Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith (Penguin, October 30)
Best-selling and critically acclaimed novelist, essayist, and short-story writer Zadie Smith has a new essay collection coming out in late October. Smith’s essays cover a wide range of topics that have captured the author’s attention lately: films like Tár, Queen Elizabeth II, Michael Jackson, Toni Morrison, political issues on both sides of the Atlantic, and much more.