| Feel Free: Essays | |
| Author: | Zadie Smith |
| Audio Read By: | Nikki Amuka-Bird[1] |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Essay collection |
| Publisher: | Hamish Hamilton |
| Release Date: | 8 February 2018[2] |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages: | 464 |
| Awards: | 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism |
| Isbn: | 978-0241146897 |
Feel Free: Essays is a 2018 book of essays by Zadie Smith. It was published on 8 February 2018 by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books. It has been described as "thoroughly resplendent" by Maria Popova, who writes: "Smith applies her formidable mind in language to subjects as varied as music, the connection between dancing and writing, climate change, Brexit, the nature of joy, and the confusions of personhood in the age of social media."[3]
Smith borrowed the title from Nick Laird, her husband, who has also published a collection of poems by the same name.[4] [5]
Feel Free was generally well-received among critics. According to Book Marks, the book received "rave" reviews based on thirty-seven critic reviews with twenty-four being "rave" and eleven being "positive" and two being "mixed".[6] On Bookmarks May/June 2018 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.0 out of 5) based on critic reviews with a critical summary saying, "With the exception of an essay trying to link Justin Bieber and Martin Buber based on their last names, the critics were wowed by Smiths "coolly appraising, connoisseurial, discerning" output (Guardian)".[7] [8]
Feel Free won the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.[9] The Times named it among 2018's best literary nonfiction.[10]
