In the Arena

Occupying A Dream

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I am a huge Zadie Smith fan. Her novels have a hurtling, tossed-off humanity, an overstuffed joy to them. Here she tries to pin down the transcendence of Barack Obama. I don’t anybody has quite nailed it yet, but she comes close. In any case, it’s enormous fun to watch her think and speak in harmony.