![]() ![]() These are above all personal essays: small by definition, short by necessity.’Ĭrafted with the sharp intelligence, wit and style that have won Zadie Smith millions of fans, and suffused with a profound intimacy and tenderness in response to these unprecedented times, Intimations is a vital work of art, a gesture of connection and an act of love - an essential book in extraordinary times. What I’ve tried to do is organize some of the feelings and thoughts that events, so far, have provoked in me, in those scraps of time the year itself has allowed. This is not any of those - the year isn’t half-way done. Yet, throughout the book, she both explicitly and implicitly demonstrates that. ![]() ‘There will be many books written about the year 2020: historical, analytic, political and comprehensive accounts. In Intimations, Zadie Smith discusses a whole host of emotional responses she has so far experienced during the coronavirus pandemic, including the disruption of daily routines, isolation from friends and neighbors, the collapse of work/life boundaries, and more. ‘As well as offering a new guide to living in a wild, messy and unfair world, Smith provides a reminder that we can use this crisis to imagine a better one’ Evening Standardĭeeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our timeįrom the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more Thought-provoking and deeply consoling, a perfectly distilled set of essays on the strangest year many of us have experienced, from one of our wisest and most humane thinkers ![]() One of Time Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 and an FT Best Book of the Year ![]()
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