Zadie Smith's heads up to young people: 'You are absolutely going to become old'
- Posted on December 15, 2025
- By NPR
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Zadie Smith's heads up to young people: 'You are absolutely going to become old'

Smith was 25 in 2000 when she published her critically acclaimed first novel. Now 50, her latest collection of essays, Dead and Alive, reflects on middle age, climate change and generational gaps.