Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, UK, Director of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies.

• Introduction, Philip Tew \ Part I: Individual Novels \ Section One: White Teeth (2000) \ 1. The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Zadie Smith's White Teeth and the Posthuman, Brad Buchanan \ 2. White Teeth Reconsidered: Narrative Deception and Uncomfortable Truths, Ulrike Tancke \ 3. Body Larceny: Somatic Seizure and Control in Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Joanna O'Leary \ Section Two: The Autograph Man (2002) \ 4. "I could have been somebody": Identity and Mediation in Zadie Smith's The Autograph Man, Tracey K. Parker \ 5. Celebrity, Suburban Identity & Transatlantic Philographic Traces of Meaning in The Autograph Man, Philip Tew \ Section Three: On Beauty (2005) \ 6. On Beauty and Being Right, Lynn Wells \ 7. History in Zadie Smith's On Beauty, Susan Alice Fischer \ Part II: Other Works, Broader Perspectives \ Section Four: Beyond the Novels and the Public Domain \ 8. An Alternative Zadie Smith: Reading the Short Stories, Lucienne Loh \ 9. "Hysterical Realism": Reflections on the Smith / Wood Debate, Joe Brooker \ 10. Negotiating Zadie Smith's Non-Fiction, Karen Zouaoui \ Section Five: Fakery and Belief \ 11. ‘A Breed of Lyrical Realism': Form and Fakery in the Novels of Zadie Smith, Christopher Holmes \ 12. On Religion: Postsecular Quests, Scriptural Borrowings and Irreducible Beauty in the Fiction of Zadie Smith, Magdalena Maczynska \ Conclusion \ Further Reading \ Index.