Intimations: Six Essays
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“While quarantined amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Smith penned six dazzling, trenchant essays burrowing deep into our contemporary culture of disease and upheaval and reflecting on what was ‘once necessary’ that now ‘appears inessential . . .’” —O, The Oprah Magazine, Best Books of 2020
“Smith does more than illuminate what we're going through right now. She offers a model of how to think ourselves through a fraught historical moment without getting hysterical or sanctimonious, without losing our compassion or our appreciation for what's good in other people. She teaches us how to be better at being human.” —John Powers, Fresh Air
A New York Times Bestseller
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of reflective essays by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time.
Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation. What does it mean to submit to a new reality—or to resist it? How do we compare relative sufferings? What is the relationship between time and work? In our isolation, what do other people mean to us? How do we think about them? What is the ratio of contempt to compassion in a crisis? When an unfamiliar world arrives, what does it reveal about the world that came before it?
Suffused with a profound intimacy and tenderness in response to these extraordinary times, Intimations is a slim, suggestive volume with a wide scope, in which Zadie Smith clears a generous space for thought, open enough for each reader to reflect on what has happened—and what should come next.
The author will donate her royalties from the sale of Intimations to charity.
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“While quarantined amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Smith penned six dazzling, trenchant essays burrowing deep into our contemporary culture of disease and upheaval and reflecting on what was ‘once necessary’ that now ‘appears inessential . . .’” —O, The Oprah Magazine, Best Books of 2020
“Smith does more than illuminate what we're going through right now. She offers a model of how to think ourselves through a fraught historical moment without getting hysterical or sanctimonious, without losing our compassion or our appreciation for what's good in other people. She teaches us how to be better at being human.” —John Powers, Fresh Air
A New York Times Bestseller
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of reflective essays by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time.
Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation. What does it mean to submit to a new reality—or to resist it? How do we compare relative sufferings? What is the relationship between time and work? In our isolation, what do other people mean to us? How do we think about them? What is the ratio of contempt to compassion in a crisis? When an unfamiliar world arrives, what does it reveal about the world that came before it?
Suffused with a profound intimacy and tenderness in response to these extraordinary times, Intimations is a slim, suggestive volume with a wide scope, in which Zadie Smith clears a generous space for thought, open enough for each reader to reflect on what has happened—and what should come next.
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Starred review from July 20, 2020
In this incisive and insightful collection, Smith (Grand Union) ruminates on the pandemic, racial injustice, and the writer’s role in a time of social upheaval. The collection begins with “Peonies,” in which a memory of admiring flowers in a community garden sparks reflections on the female body. In “The American Experience,” Smith blasts Donald Trump’s pandemic response and considers how the crisis has undermined ideas of American exceptionalism. “Something to Do,” the most substantial piece, reflects on doing creative work during quarantine and how her own life of “executing self-conceived schedules: teaching day, reading day, writing day, repeat” was upended by having family at home. In “Screengrabs,” she briefly profiles familiar faces around her neighborhood, including a man Smith fans will recognize from a story in her Grand Union collection and a woman who is the “ideal city dweller” and cultivates “community without overly sentimentalizing the concept.” In a postscript to this essay, Smith skillfully demonstrates how the pandemic and police brutality constitute two sides of the same coin for Black Americans. Smith is at her perceptive and precise best in this slim but thematically weighty volume of personal and civil reckoning.
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The six personal essays that comprise this compelling brief volume gives us novelist Smith's (Swing Time) impressions and thoughts during the pandemic lockdown following the killing of George Floyd by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. A major voice of contemporary literature, Smith gently and thoughtfully takes on a broad range of issues that are personal to her but speak universally to many of us. Her essay on "The America Exception" is a challenge to President Trump's misplaced nostalgia. The series of vignettes that make up "Screengrabs" uses Smith's sharp writing skills to create several disparate portraits--one of a man who runs a nail salon in New York, another of the IT student whose "style" is a trait of youth, and still another of a "heavy smoking" neighbor, among others. The most compelling observations in "Postscript: Contempt As a Virus" bring us back to the acute uneasiness of the present moment as reflected in behaviors by British prime minister Boris Johnson's senior adviser, Dominic Cummings, who violated shelter-in-place orders in Great Britain, and also the brutality of Floyd's murder. VERDICT Smith demonstrates once again that she is a powerful albeit quiet voice for our challenging times. Highly Recommended.--Herbert E. Shapiro, Boca Raton, FL
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Starred review from July 15, 2020
Rueful, angry, deftly-crafted and potent responses to ominous times. With 2020 barely "halfway done," fiction writer and essayist Smith offers an incisive collection of short pieces reflecting, she writes, "some of the feelings and thoughts that events, so far, have provoked in me." Those events, not surprisingly, center around the pandemic but also include the killing of George Floyd and the worldwide response to racial injustice that the murder incited. Sheltered with her family, Smith reflects on the meaning of creativity, particularly writing, which seems at once a way to gain control ("when I am writing, space and time itself bend to my will!") and a way to fill time. "There is no great difference between novels and banana bread," she writes. "They are both just something to do." Yet these essays clearly have emerged from profound "moral anxiety" about privilege, hatred, and oppression: of "contempt as a virus." The pandemic, she notes, has underscored pervasive inequality and injustice. "Untimely death has rarely been random in these United States," she writes. "It has usually had a precise physiognomy, location, and bottom line." At the heart of those distinctions is racism, laid bare by Floyd's murder: "It was the virus, in its most lethal manifestation." She once thought, she writes, "that there would one day be a vaccine: that if enough people named the virus, explained it, demonstrated how it operates, videoed its effects, revealed how widespread it really is, how the symptoms arise, how irresponsibly and shamefully too many Americans keep giving it to each other, generation after generation, causing intolerable and unending damage both to individual bodies and to the body politic--I thought, if that knowledge became as widespread as could possibly be managed or imagined, we might finally reach some kind of herd immunity. I don't think that any more." In just under 100 pages, Smith intimately captures the profundity of our current historical moment. Quietly powerful, deftly crafted essays bear witness to the contagion of suffering.COPYRIGHT(2020) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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“Smith does more than illuminate what we're going through right now. She offers a model of how to think ourselves through a fraught historical moment without getting hysterical or sanctimonious, without losing our compassion or our appreciation for what's good in other people. She teaches us how to be better at being human.” —John Powers, Fresh... - sortTitle
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