PositiveNPR\"Most of these essays have been published previously; and most, but not all, are worth reading ... essays, like \'Generation Why?,\' a 2010 review of The Social Network joined with a rant against the \'only connect\' ethos of Facebook, feel outdated ... Smith\'s exquisite essay on Joni Mitchell, \'Some Notes on Attunement,\' belongs alongside other essays on art by the likes of Matthew Arnold and Susan Sontag ... It\'s a rare piece of critical writing that can contemplate a great work of art and deepen our understanding of it, without \'solving\' its mysteries. This essay and some of the others in Feel Free have that open-ended power. When Zadie Smith is writing at her best, she, like Joni Mitchell, is free, unfettered and alive.\
