Maggie Nelson is the author of several books of prose and poetry including The Red Parts, Bluets, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winner The Argonauts, On Freedom, Like Love and, most recently, Pathemata. She teaches at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.
With insight and intellectual rigour Nelson wrestles the concept of
"freedom" away from its contemporary political misuses and explores
what it means in the context of art, sex, drugs and climate.
*Guardian*
Part of what makes [Nelson's] writing so compelling is a comfort
with uncertainty... It is a delight to spend time with Nelson's
erudite mind.
*Times Literary Supplement*
Nelson is such a friend to her reader, such brilliant company. Her
book is a nuanced, exhilarating rallying cry for all those who are
tired of the drab norms of our tech-topia and who long for another
conversation
*Literary Review*
[Nelson's] books vary between an academic or lyrical register, but
all revel in the recognition that feeling and thought aren't
fixed... They encourage a slowing down, an absorbing... [and a]
willingness for intellectual and linguistic exploration.
*Financial Times*
This account soars in its ability to find nuance in considering
questions of enormous importance... Once again, Nelson proves
herself a masterful thinker and an unparalleled prose stylist.
*Starred Publishers Weekly Review*
Maggie Nelson is an expert at distilling whatever topic she tackles
into crystalline prose. She is the queen of the effortless jumping
off point, catapulting her readers into the far reaches of Big
Questions.
*Lit Hub, 'Most Anticipated Books of 2021'*
Maggie Nelson needs no genre. Reading her books... tends to make
classification of any kind feel destructive, like it would slice
through her writing's vital connective tissue... Reading Nelson is
like watching a prima ballerina deliver the performance of a
lifetime: athletic, graceful, and awe-inspiring.
*Vulture*
A top cultural critic plucks the concept of freedom away from
right-wing sloganeers and explores its operation in current
artistic and political conversations. . . . The subtlety of
Nelson's analysis and energy of her prose refresh the mind and
spirit.
*Kirkus Review*
Profound . . . wide-ranging essays analyzing freedom as it relates
to the arts, sexuality, addiction, and, perhaps surprisingly,
climate change. . . . A heady mix of erudite analysis and personal
revelation. . . . Nelson brings a critically nuanced appreciation
of individual and societal freedom to her mapping of the minefields
involved in simultaneously embracing liberty and jettisoning habits
of control and paranoia that threaten liberation.
*Booklist*
On Freedom proves that Nelson continues to do us a great service as
a critic, which is to herself digest, and sometimes wrestle with,
copious amounts of literature and theory . . . and to integrate
this material into a relatively short book, in an accessible,
felicitous voice all Nelson's own.
*Boston Globe*
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