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This fall, Spike Lee, Bobby Flay, Zadie Smith, and Eliot Spitzer go back to school. VIEW OUR GALLERY of big names on campus.

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In her latest critically acclaimed novel, On Beauty, Zadie Smith skewers academia for its pomposity. But the award-winning British writer can’t seem to leave the university fold.

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