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''Intimations'' is a 2020 collection of essays by writer
Zadie Smith Zadie Smith (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, ''White Teeth'' (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She became a tenured professor in the ...
. Smith began writing the book around the time the COVID-19 pandemic began in the United States, and completed it soon after the
murder of George Floyd On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black American man, was murdered in Minneapolis by Derek Chauvin, a 44-year-old White police officer. Floyd had been arrested after a store clerk reported that he made a purchase using a c ...
. The essays discuss topics including creative writing, the pandemic, and the murder of George Floyd. __TOC__


Reception

''Intimations'' received generally positive reviews. According to
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, the book received a "positive" consensus, based on twenty-four critic reviews: fourteen "rave", seven "positive", and three "mixed". In Books in the Media, the book received a (3.69 out of 5) based on six critic reviews. On the September/October 2020 issue of
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, the book received a (4.0 out of 5) with the critical summary saying, "Despite the essays' unevenness, "Smith has taken a mirror and reflected us back to ourselves during the earliest moments of this crisis," concludes ''NPR''. "It is up to us to change if we don't like what we see". Constance Grady, writing for '' Vox'', referred to Smith's essays about current events as occasionally "facile" and that the collection was best when addressing the nature and utility of writing.


References

2020 non-fiction books Penguin Books books English essay collections Essay collections by Zadie Smith Essays about literature Essays about politics Books about the COVID-19 pandemic {{COVID19-pandemic-stub