Intimations

"These intimations she lets us overhear are blazing evidence that every artist’s art is their coping mechanism, their floatation device for the slipstream of uncertainty we call life — evidence that a great artist makes of it a raft large enough to fit more of us, robust enough to carry us across the cascades of time and understanding."

"During our wrenching election season, I took comfort in reading very short books: two about life in pandemic times, Zadie Smith's "Intimations" and Bill Hayes's "How We Live Now.""