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The Cure: Part 1 with Hanif Abdurraqib

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The Stranger Is Lightly Racist

"It's insane to me that now in this year of our Lord 2023, that song's not on streaming," he says. "I was a really unwell child who clearly thought it was like a whole ass personality to love the stranger by Albert Camus", Smith adds about his teenage obsession with 'The Stranger' The singer-songwriter also talks about being called racist for liking an Arab novel at 13 and 14 years old. He writes: "You can you make the argument that like the stranger is lightly racist."

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