![]() ![]() She finds herself checking her privilege at a fast-food restaurant. She considers online memes in this time of COVID-19. The essays are also nimble ruminations on vignettes from her daily life. Intimations is as personal as it is political, covering Trump, Black Lives Matter, and Dominic Cummings’ breaking of his own Lock Down rules. Her new collection of meditations on this peculiar time of liberty and captivity beguiles with its meticulous thought patterns, alluring felicities and rhapsodic turns of phrase. Fortunately, the New York-based British author Zadie Smith is as deft an essayist as she is a novelist. ![]() A global pandemic and a lock down forcing us to re-examine and reconfigure our parameters of normality would seem tailor-made for analysis via the interrogative gaze of the essay genre. ![]()
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