![]() ![]() Suffused with a profound intimacy and tenderness in response to these extraordinary times, Intimations clears a generous space for thought, open enough for each reader to reflect on what has happened-and what should come next. What does it mean to submit to a new reality-or to resist it? How do we compare relative sufferings? What is the relationship between time and work? In our isolation, what do other people mean to us? How do we think about them? What is the ratio of contempt to compassion in a crisis? When an unfamiliar world arrives, what it does it reveal about the world that came before it? “Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation. Publishing company Penguin Random House released this statement: “I am no more a Stoic now than I was when I opened that ancient book, but I did come out with two invaluable intimations,” she explained. Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential. According to Zadie Smith the collection named Intimations was inspired by her early-quarantine read of Marcus Aurelis’s Meditations. ![]()
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