Grand Union by Zadie Smith

Grand Union by Zadie SmithInterleaving ten completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best loved pieces from the New Yorker and elsewhere, Zadie Smith presents a dizzyingly rich and varied collection of fiction. Moving exhilaratingly across genres and perspectives, from the historic to the vividly current to the slyly dystopian, Grand Union is a sharply alert and prescient collection about time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that haunt

pilgrims and passers-by

between the past and the future

his wife and children

This set of four videos collects a series of lectures on the Four Noble Truths given by His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama in 1997 in England

you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war

It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute

all cars are there to crush you

It is knowledge of God that gives man the strength to face calmly and cheerfully the duties of life

Translated by Edwin Curley with an Introduction by Stuart Hampshire

Then at the stroke of midnight

including all residents

the produce