Intimations is the third and slimmest of her essay collections, at 100 pages, but its psychic heft is substantial.
Since then her prodigious output has included four additional novels, a novella, and a short story collection. Smith burst onto the literary scene 20 years ago with her stunning debut novel, White Teeth. Drafted soon after "the global humbling began" and completed in the days after George Floyd's murder, the book is "above all personal essays" that capture the author's reflections during a time outside of time. Zadie Smith makes that much clear in the foreword to her newest essay collection, Intimations, noting: "There will be many books written about the year 2020: historical, analytical, political, as well as comprehensive accounts." Intimations isn't one of those books.
If narrative and storytelling are among our most essential tools for making meaning of the world - and I believe they are - then periods of upheaval can be especially fertile for writers.
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