3 Tiny Nonfiction Books for Flying Coach

In 2020, Zadie Smith published Intimations, a short series of essays, and donated all of the proceeds to charity. For many of us at the time, Intimations was one of the first books that explored the big ideas uncovered by the pandemic. Isolation, sense of self, compassion, grief—Smith grapples with all of these ideas, untangling them slowly, bit by bit. Now, years later, these essays feel like a time capsule of a moment in history that changed the course of the world forever.