An excellent essay by Zadie Smith about essays vs novels

This touches on some important issues about the distinction between fact and fiction; the essence of narrative; the desire for truth; all touching on the contemporary outlook post-post-modernism etc. A thread that binds science, politics, sociology and history, as well as literature.

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