Intimations Intimations

Intimations

Six Essays

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Publisher Description

“[Smith’s] slim collection of essays captures this peculiar moment with startling clarity. . . . The personal and political intermingle for a powerful indictment of America’s social systems.” —TIME, The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020

“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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2020
July 28
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
112
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
1
MB

Customer Reviews

Ria Range ,

Food for Thought

Reads like a delicious high protein meal giving you the clarity and fuel (inspiration) to nourish your mind and spirit. Leaving you wanting more!

demarthin ,

Premature excuse to rant about anything and everything

Given that this was published 2 months into a now 2 year long pandemic, her thoughts on the pandemic seem very premature. She references the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius in the forward, but digresses from there. A political rant; a gender rant; and a justification for why she abandoned her “community” in NYC when the pandemic came, at some of the topics.

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