In Dead and Alive, her prose, which once animated fictional worlds in White Teeth and Swing Time, now turns its sharp observational lens toward real life — our politics, our technologies and our shared fragility. The result is an often melancholy meditation on what it means to stay human amid the noise of the digital age.
This collection spans art, culture and personal memory. She jumps from eulogies for Joan Didion and Martin Amis to a vivid film review of Tár, which earned her a Pulitzer nomination, and reflections on artists such as Toyin Ojih Odutola and Kara Walker.
