Though New York City-based board-certified dermatologist Dhaval G. "This sounds like snake oil," one dermatologist, who's name I'll keep out of this story, said when I asked her to comment. TikTok may have fallen in love with the head spa, but some in the medical establishment are not so sure. What usually follows this interest is appropriation, so I'm so thrilled that this time head spa is gaining a lot of attention as an Asian-rooted practice." "The way we do things in Asia is often popular here in the West - look at jade rolling, facial Gua Sha, etc. "Many Asian healing traditions are often enticing and alluring to a western audience that has not seen or experienced it before," she explains. Just send us an email and we'll put the best up on the site.Chiu adds that the head spa has become popular on TikTok and Instagram because westerners see it as "an intriguing foreign novelty." You can read more book reviews or buy Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith at. You can read more book reviews or buy Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith at .uk Amazon currently charges £2.99 for standard delivery for orders under £20, over which delivery is free. Other collections of essays with a literary flavour include The Brain-dead Megaphone by George Saunders, and At Large and At Small and Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman. There is a review of Netherland by Joseph O'Neill here. The literary criticism in Changing My Mind made me want to read a number of the novels discussed. I read the hardback but it will also be available at the same time in paperback and unabridged on audio CD, read by Barbara Rosenblat. I especially enjoyed At the Multiplex, Smith's film reviews for the Sunday Telegraph, in which she applies her academic critical skills and her lively opinions to a few mainstream commercial films, with no arthouse choices permitted.įeeling was my favourite section of the book I love reading about family relationships and I found Smith's recollections of her father Harvey, who died last year aged 81, and her relationship with him, really moving.Ī collection like this is perhaps not designed to be read straight through, on the tube and at lunchtimes, under pressure of a review deadline, but I found it interesting and thought-provoking and am grateful to have had the opportunity to read it, thanks to the publishers who sent a copy to the Bookbag. Like Obama, Smith has one white and one black parent, and she praises his ability to speak in different voices to varied audiences. Speaking in Tongues is the text of a lecture given at New York Public Library shortly after the election of Barack Obama as US President. Other writers discussed in this section are Franz Kafka, Vladimir Nabokov and Roland Barthes.īeing includes an essay adapted from a lecture to Creative Writing students on how Smith writes, and an account of a visit to Liberia with Oxfam. The essay on Middlemarch by George Eliot also made me want to dig out my copy. Smith's piece is a very personal response about reading as a black woman she describes her reluctance to read the book when her mum gave her it at fourteen, and how it challenged her ideas of what good writing was. However, the piece on Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, originally written as an introduction to a reprint by Virago Modern Classics, reminded me of a book I really want to read. Tom McCarthy is compared to Joseph O'Neill's Netherland, and Smith argues that Netherland simply indulges the fears and weaknesses of its readers, obviously much preferring McCarthy's Remainder.
Smith's tastes include some very experimental writing, including the work of Tom McCarthy and the late David Foster Wallace she admires these writers a great deal, but I doubt I will be seeking out their books. The Reading and Remembering sections are literary criticism, and these are the parts I found most challenging to read. It is divided into five sections under the headings Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling and Remembering. This collection is a mixture of literary criticism and journalism, including travel writing, reviews and other writing on film and several pieces about Zadie Smith's family, and especially her father. She now teaches Creative Writing at Columbia University in New York. Zadie Smith is best known as the author of three novels: White Teeth, The Autograph Man and On Beauty. Summary: A lively, thought-provoking selection of literary criticism, film and travel writing and memoir.
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