Zadie Smith’s ‘Intimations’ Essays Pandemic with Erudite Wit and Compassion
Zadie Smith's Intimations is an essay collection of gleaming, wry, and crisp prose that wears its erudition lightly but takes flight on both everyday and lofty matters.
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‘High Cotton’ Is Culturally Astute and Progressive
Kristie Robin Johnson's collection of essays in High Cotton dismantle linear thinking with shrewdness and empathy.
Patrick Madden’s ‘Disparates’ Makes Sense in These Crazy Times
There's no social distancing with Patrick Madden's hilarious Disparates. While reading these essays, you'll feel like he's in the room with you.
Joan Didion’s Crystal-Clear Vision Only Got Better with Age
Reading the Library of America's comprehensive anthology, Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s, is like walking out of the rain and into a time warp.
In ‘Afterimages’ Laura Mulvey Returns to Feminist Film Criticism with Fresh Insights
Mulvey's Afterimages draws together her recent writing on women and film to create an engaging collection that is both timely and time-centred.
‘Vanity Fair’s Women on Women’ Is a Missed Opportunity
Women writing about famous women does not a feminist or otherwise interesting collection make.
Debut Essay Collection ‘Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now’ Takes a Slice from the Americana Songbook
Although Andre Perry's essays in his debut, Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now, traverse various geographical journeys, they are, overall, ballads, images from the self, the man isolated and marginalized in other countries and in his own land.
On Jennine Capó Crucet’s Course in Continuing Education, ‘My Time Among the Whites’
In her memoir My Time Among the Whites, Jennine Capó Crucet demonstrates that making your home among strangers is harder than it seems.
Jia Tolentino’s ‘Trick Mirror’ Is a Studied Index of Contemporary Ills
Jia Tolentino's first collection of essays, Trick Mirror, expertly navigates how the byproducts of capitalism and the Internet permeate culture, values, politics, and the daily lives of people worldwide.