A review by samsundaram
Intimations by Zadie Smith

4.0

A little on the academic side, but aside from that really appreciated this collection of essays from the early pandemic days. Smith captured both societal failures and individual concerns (to put both lightly) related to ~Life During the Coronavirus.~

“Even as we do something, we simultaneously accuse ourselves: you use this [banana bread making/winning Minecraft/instagramming food] as only another occasion for self-improvement, another pointless act of self-realization.” -p. 23