Smith presents her ‘Intimations’ with artistic precision and gives this slim collection reams of book club discussion and pause for individual thought as well as a chance to get closer to the author. So short it’s definitely a +1 read for book clubs but one that will have you talking in new unexplored discussion about the creative process, the shared experiences of the pandemic and new found liberties of ‘locked up’ time.
But perhaps nowhere in the world has this effort - and its relative success - been linked so emphatically to money as it is in America.'Intimations: Six Essays' by the celebrated author Zadie Smith is our Wild Card read - a read for every book club.Īs a short compilation of six essays Smith’s ‘Intimations’ provides a thought provoking and personal perspective on the early days of the pandemic. Not that there is anything ridiculous about trying to lengthen the distance between the dates on our birth certificates and the ones on our tombstones: ethical life depends on the meaningfulness of that effort. Wars on drugs, cancer, poverty, and so on. Death absolute is the truth of our existence as a whole, of course, but America has rarely been philosophically inclined to consider existence as a whole, preferring instead to attack death as a series of discrete problems. The kind of death that comes to us all, irrespective of position. Wrong attitude to the police officer What we were completely missing, however, was the concept of death itself, death absolute. Wrong position of hands when asked to exit the vehicle. Wrong Zip Code, wrong beliefs, wrong city.
We had "unequal health outcomes." But, in America, all of these involved some culpability on the part of the dead. We had body counts and sometimes even photos in the newspapers of body bags, though many felt it was wrong to show them.
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