How do poverty, racism, misogyny, and homophobia structure our thought? How can we work around them, if at all? The point is that not all of us can, from our current vantage point, feel free. These essays occasionally leave one wishing she’d consider these hindrances.
Her call to dwell in ambiguity assumes a certain kind of individual: one with the luxury of detaching herself from the world’s flux in order to better observe its dynamics. Feel Free’s chief (if unstated) concern is that the kind of intellectual rigidity that lacks interest in aesthetic detail translates easily into intolerance and disregard for human complexity. She homes in on her subject’s most minute details, unspooling layers of meaning in a way that perhaps only a literary critic can do. For Smith, anything is a potential text that she can subject to her talent for keen observation.
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