Drafted soon after 'the global humbling' of COVID began and completed in the days after George Floyd's murder, Zadie Smith’s collection of personal essays capture the author's reflections during a time outside of time.
If narrative and storytelling are among our most essential tools for making meaning of the world — and I believe they are — then periods of upheaval can be especially fertile for writers., noting:"There will be many books written about the year 2020: historical, analytical, political, as well as comprehensive accounts."isn't one of those books.
Even though Smith has long split her time between New York and London and has taught in the U.S. for over a decade, she retains an outsider's capacity to observe the country from a afar. This perspective is perhaps most evident in"The American Exception." In it, Smith quotes the president's yearning for the good old days when"we [Americans] didn't have death.
There is no gentle questioning here, but instead a direct assault on the centuries of injustice in this country. In it, Smith takes on contempt,"less flashy than hate," but far more harmful because"in the eyes of contempt, you don't even rise to the level of a hated object — that would involve a full recognition of your existence." It was contempt then, not hate, at work in the murder of George Floyd.
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