Like Love

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Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's passion for dialogue and dissent. The range of subjects is wide - from Prince to Carolee Schneemann to Matthew Barney to Lhasa de Sela to Kara Walker - but certain themes recur: intergenerational exchange; love and friendship; feminist and queer issues, especially as they shift over time; subversion, transgression and perversity; the roles of the critic and language in relation to visual and performance arts; forces that feed or impede certain bodies and creators; and the fruits and follies of a life spent devoted to making.

Arranged chronologically, Like Love shows the writing, thinking, feeling, reading, looking and conversing that occupied Nelson while writing iconic books such as Bluets and The Argonauts. As such, it is a portrait of a time, an anarchic party rich with wild guests, a window into Nelson's own development and a testament to the profound sustenance offered by art and artists.

©2024 Maggie Nelson (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Critics Review

  • Nelson’s admiration and enthusiasm for her subjects is a palpable driver of joy and delight . . . A revelatory gathering of beloved art and artists presented with distinctive prose

    Kirkus (starred review)

  • Maggie Nelson’s shimmering genius is on full display in this collection

    Cathy Park Hong

  • Like Love is a convergence of the most incandescent parts of Maggie Nelson’s inimitable craft

    Johanna Hedva

  • One of the most wonderful, poetic minds of this generation

    Paste

  • Maggie Nelson is one of the most unique voices in non-fiction: enquiring, political, lyrically dazzling, empathetic

    Sinéad Gleeson

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