" A mostly charming read, gathering together a number of Zadie Smith's published journalism and essays in between On Beauty and her new novel, due out this fall. Were it not for the tediously long memorial for David Foster Wallace (38 pages, I think) that closes the book, I might have offered a fourth star, but after so much pleasant reading on literature, film, British life, etc., I was dismayed to be bogged down with a fan's turgid notes on one of her favorite writers. DFW, as much as I admire his intellect and ambition, is not among my favorites and Smith's long quotations from his fiction were an undisciplined departure from an otherwise lovely read. "
— Michael, 1/20/2014