No Judgement

Critics Review

• The pre-eminent and most widely read critic of her generation

  The Times

• This is a seriously thought-provoking book … fascinating, original, seductive. No Judgement made me want to live a little more

  The Times

• Brisk, honest and soaring with élan. Oyler persuasively advocates clear thinking through doing it herself with such poise. Her critical approach isn’t currently common sense, but it should be, and soon enough maybe it will

  Naoise Dolan, author of The Happy Couple

• Like stumbling into the best archival New Yorker essays – smart and unafraid and (thank God) funny. This is exactly what I want to read

  Monica Heisey, author of Really Good, Actually

• Funny, insightful and bang on the money, No Judgement is a series of essays exploring where we’re at right now. Covering everything from existential anxiety to the attention economy, it’ll be everywhere this year

  Stylist, the best non-fiction for 2024

• A collection of interconnected essays about, among other things, literature, gossip and the attention economy by the funny and pugnacious American critic Lauren Oyler (and I can hardly wait for it)

  Observer

• Lauren Oyler’s collection of essays, No Judgement, is a big moment: expect mordantly funny cultural commentary and incisive literary analysis

  The Skinny

• Oyler is one of our sharpest and most fearless cultural critics …. Opining on gossip and anxiety, autofiction and vulnerability, and much, much more, [her] caustic wit and penetrating voice shine through every essay

  The Millions

• A series of interconnected essays about modern life, from gossip and anxiety to books and criticism. Scathing, wry and incisive

  The i

• Witty, agile, stimulating … by turns anecdotal, playful, ironically self-deprecating. Oyler has a talent for cutting through hype and getting to the nub of things

  Guardian