Intimations: Six Essays

"Of all the books published this year, I’m betting that few speak to the current moment as directly as Zadie Smith’s most recent essay collection, Intimations. Drafted soon after “the global humbling” of the pandemic began, and completed in the days after the killing of George Floyd, these six essays feel as intimate as a long walk with an old friend. Smith deftly tackles an array of questions brought to the forefront in recent months, from the nature of isolation and what it means to be confined with the people we love to addressing police brutality and economic injustice. It’s worth a read."