IanDagnall Computing/Alamy
How Chaucer’s medieval Wife of Bath continues to make her voice heard
They call her The Wife of Willesden.
Marc Brenner
Zadie Smith’s first play delivers on what women want.
Zadie Smith’s debut White Teeth was part of a wave of interest in “multicultural writing” in the early 2000s.
ROLF VENNENBERND/EPA
Interest in Black British writing has grown and shrunk since the late 1940s. Is the current wave going to crash like those before it?