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| Author | Zadie Smith |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Intimations is a 2020 collection of essays by writer Zadie Smith. 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. [1]
The essays discuss topics including creative writing, the pandemic, and the murder of George Floyd. [2]
Intimations received generally positive reviews. According to literary review aggregator Book Marks , the book received "positive" reviews with fourteen being "rave" and seven being "positive" and three being "mixed". [3] [4] In Books in the Media , a site that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a 
(3.69 out of 5) from the site which was based on 6 critic reviews. [5] On Bookmarks Magazine Sep/Oct 2020 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.0 out of 5) based on critic reviews with a 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." [6]
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. [7]
Zadie Smith FRSL 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 Creative Writing faculty of New York University in September 2010.
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