![]() ![]() The author created essays of the perfect size, able to digest and absorb them, one at a time. When I read a couple of essays in succession, I did not have the time to reflect upon her insights and appreciate their impact. 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. Another essay filled a 15-minute work break. I found myself reading a complete essay while waiting for pasta to boil. ![]() I was grateful to find a new prism from which to view the calamities of 2020. ![]() This is the first pandemic book I’ve read. How did we handle the empty time, and was it truly empty? Did work – home spaces blur? Who and what is essential? How will we remember this era? What is suffering and is all suffering the same? She does not answer these questions, but poses them for self-reflection and perhaps discussion. This is a short study of humans in crisis.Įach of six essays offers a concept or series of questions that confronted us in spring 2020. ![]() Review by Seana Zimmer, adult services library assistant at the Hillsborough branchĬontemporary award-winning novelist Zadie Smith shares her thoughts about the first months of the pandemic, a time she describes as “global humbling.” In this slim volume “ Intimation: Six Essays ,” elegant prose is not weighed down in the settings or plot. “ Intimations: Six Essays” by Zadie Smith ![]()
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