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This author called growing older “the great unsexing” in an essay also reflecting on John Berger and Balthasar Denner’s painting Alte Frau. A term originally applied to this author was modified to apply to the overly emotional criticism of Jia Tolentino in Lauren Oyler’s essay “Ha ha! Ha ha!” This author critiqued Justin Bieber, the films Anomalisa and Get Out, and Dana Schutz’s Open Casket in the 2018 essay collection Feel Free. This author wrote about the housekeeper of William Harrison Ainsworth observing the Tichborne case in her 2023 (10[1])novel (10[2])The Fraud. (10[1])James Wood coined the term (10[1])“hysterical realism” to describe a 2000 novel by this author featuring the Londoners Samad (10[1])Iqbal and Archie Jones. (10[1])For 10 points, name this contemporary British author of White Teeth. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Zadie Smith (Oyler used the term “hysterical criticism” to describe the work of Tolentino, borrowing Wood’s term “hysterical realism.”)
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