Autor Maggie Nelson
V osobní a žánrově nevyhraněné knize na pomezí memoáru a eseje propojuje Maggie Nelson vlastní životní zkušenosti s filozofickým uvažováním. Předmětem reflexe je její partnerský vztah, genderová tranzice, kterou její protějšek prochází, těhotenství i…
A keen, ardent celebration of unbridled female ambition in the work of Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath
A rallying, celebratory essay about Sylvia Plath, Taylor Swift and unbridled female ambition by the adored author of Bluets and The ArgonautsIn The Slicks, Maggie Nelson positions culture-dominating pop superstar Taylor Swift and feminist cult icon Sylvia…
Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. From Sylvia Plath's poetry to Francis Bacon's…
*A GUARDIAN 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK*'One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation' - Olivia LaingSo often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by…
Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in the Guardian. 'Maggie Nelson's short, singular books feel pretty light in the hand... But in the head and the heart, they seem unfathomably vast, their cleverness and odd beauty lingering on' Observer. In 1969,…