![]() ![]() ![]() And when the subject is her own interiority, the essays fairly gleam with precision. Organize them Smith has, with her characteristic lucidity and novelistic sense of character. Instead, the six essays that make up Intimations are her attempt to “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.” So she isn’t trying to write a “comprehensive account” of 2020. “The year isn’t halfway done,” Smith allows in her brief foreword. And as I read it, I couldn’t help but wish she’d waited five years to do so. Zadie Smith wrote and published her new collection of essays, the slim and polished Intimations, entirely during the pandemic. ![]()
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