![]() ![]() In under 90 pages, these essays manage to cover a great breadth of experience. With her gorgeous knack for natural story-telling and drawing you into a much bigger world through minuscule moments, these essays highlight the looming themes the pandemic has served up onto our dinner plate in beautiful and heartfelt ways. Composed of six short essays, these are vignettes of the writer moving through the year that is. While Intimations (2020), Zadie Smith’s offering from her time in lockdown, can’t be compared to three of Shakespeare’s standout plays, it’s an offering more than worthy of our attention right now. On Googling to find out whether this was true, it seems Shakespeare actually penned King Lear, Macbeth and Antony Cleaopatra during his year of quarantine. One that has stuck in my mind is the “reminder” that Shakespeare wrote King Lear during quarantine. Some humorous, some conciliatory, some making attempts at motivation. During lockdown, there have been many memes doing the rounds. ![]()
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