
‘There’s no great difference between novels and banana bread. In her third essay in the collection, ‘Something to Do’, Smith writes that this seemingly endless and unmarked time has exposed a necessity to place artificial limitations on our days, to ensure that they aren’t wasted. Zadie Smith describes her collection of short essays, Intimations, as a product of her need to fill the gaping hole of time that the pandemic and isolation provided her with.


2020 is a year that has and will continue to inspire an abundance of musings and introspections, both personal and published, that reflect upon what it is to experience such a momentous shift in our mutual understanding of the world, caused by the pandemic.
