Zadie Smith Reads “The Silence”

Hear and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign as much as obtain our weekly Books & Fiction e-newsletter.Zadie Smith reads her story “The Silence,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, problem of the journal. Smith, a winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, amongst others, is the creator of two short-story collections and 6 novels, together with “NW,” “Swing Time,” and “The Fraud,” which was revealed in 2023.