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Namara Smith

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 17, 2026
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Jul 8, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Namara Smith

    The New Yorker’s Coverage of the 2026 National Book Award Fiction Nominees (opens the original)

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    All week, The New Yorker has been exclusively announcing the National Book Award longlists. Today, the fiction list has arrived. It includes many works that our critics have commented on, and some that have even been excerpted in the magazine. It should come as no surprise that one of the nominees is Marlon James’s tour de force “The Disappearers,” which was also nominated for a Booker Prize this spring and was praised by Dwight Garner, in an ecstatic Times review, as “the novel of the d

  2. Article · Aug 5, 2026 · Namara Smith

    Four Histories of Race in America (opens the original)

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    On November 10, 1898, armed white supremacists took over the city of Wilmington, North Carolina, killing an unknown number of Black townspeople and ousting the multiracial, democratically elected municipal government—an act that is thought to be the only successful coup on American soil. The massacre devastated Wilmington’s flourishing Black middle class and sent a message of impunity to white vigilantes nationwide. Lauren Collins, a staff writer who grew up in Wilmington, writes about that day

  3. Article · Jul 8, 2026 · Namara Smith

    Rachel Aviv on Writing About Moms (opens the original)

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    The people closest to us can sometimes be the hardest to see clearly—and mothers might be the blurriest. “The mother-daughter relationship, perhaps more than any other, seems to defy a fixed point of view,” Rachel Aviv writes in “You Won’t Get Free Of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters.” The book, which came out this week, collects six essays originally published in The New Yorker. “I wrote some of these stories feeling, existentially, like a daughter,” Aviv notes in the book’s preface. She de

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