Hi friends, happy Wednesday, I hope you’re all well! Today I’m posting my review of Zadie Smith’s essay collection, Intimations.

Intimations by: Zadie Smith: A collection of six short essays depicting Smith’s thoughts and muses through the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s something about Smith’s non-fiction that just hits different for this reader. The reader liked that these essays were short because it gave enough time for the reader to read and reread her thoughts and to really let the words she’s saying sink in before moving on to something else, like you’re really absorbing what you’re reading. The way she writes leaves so much room for thought. Her ideas are definitely thought provoking and really make you think about things in different ways or in ways that they wouldn’t have thought otherwise. It’s great to read from different perspectives to see how other people perceive the world. Obviously, no one is obligated to agree with everything she says, and this reader didn’t agree with everything, but they appreciated her views and could respect her opinions. Speaking of the pandemic, that’s one thing this reader has learned a lot from it, realizing that not everyone is going to have the same thoughts, which was already known, but learning to respect those opinions and how to have better conversations around that, and Smith touches on that here. It’s also wild to be reading this almost exactly four years after she wrote this and to see how far (or not so far) we’ve come since then. It made it feel a little introspective, but it’s still a pretty relevant read and certainly worth the read.