No JudgmentAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 19 March 2024
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A Most Anticipated Book of 2024: Elle, The Millions, LitHub, Nylon, BookPage, PureWow, and more
From the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new pieces about the role of cultural criticism in our ever-changing world.
In her writing for Harpers, the London Review of Books, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, Lauren Oyler has emerged as one of the most trenchant and influential critics of her generation, a talent whose judgments on works of literaturewhether celebratory or scarily harshhave become notorious. But what is the significance of being a critic and consumer of media in todays fraught environment? How do we understand ourselves, and each other, as space between the individual and the world seems to get smaller and smaller, and our opinions on books and movies seem to represent something essential about our souls? And to put it bluntly, why should you care what sheor anyonethinks?
In this, her first collection of essays, Oyler writes with about topics like the role of gossip in our exponentially communicative society, the rise and proliferation of autofiction, why were all so vulnerable these days, and her own anxiety. In her singular prosesharp yet addictive, expansive yet personalshe encapsulates the world we live and think in with precision and care, delivering a work of cultural criticism as only she can.
Bringing to mind the works of such iconic writers as Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, and Terry Castle, No Judgment is a testament to Lauren Oylers inimitable wit and her quest to understand how we shape the world through culture. It is a sparkling nonfiction debut from one of todays most inventive thinkers.
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