Maggie Nelson

In The Slicks, Maggie Nelson positions culture-dominating pop superstar Taylor Swift and feminist cult icon Sylvia Plath as twin hosts of the female urge toward wanting hard, working hard, and pouring forth – and as twinned targets of patriarchy’s ancient urge to disparage, trivialise and demonise such prolific, intimate output.The Slicks is a heady, rallying and unexpected melding of popular...

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson is an extraordinary memoir that deftly navigates the challenging and ever-evolving terrain of love, language, and family. At its heart is the author’s transformative romance with artist Harry Dodge, who exists beyond the constraints of traditional gender roles. Through this deeply personal and intellectually rigorous narrative, Nelson chronicles their union, exploring the poetic and profound...

Bluets is a Guardian Book of the Year and was featured on BBC2's Between the Covers. "Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation." - Olivia Laing Bluets winds its way through themes of depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with...

An expansive, exhilarating work of nonfiction on freedom, by one of the most significant writers of our day. What can freedom really mean? 'One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation' — OLIVIA LAING In this invigorating, essential book, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience...

A major and profound, new original work by the author of The Argonauts and Bluets. It's not the dream that matters, it's the telling of the dream - the words you choose, the risks you take in externalising your mind. This is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends...

A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists. 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...

A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists. 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...

In this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics The Argonauts and Bluets. The poems of Shiner experiment with a variety of styles—syllabic verse, sonnets, macaronic translation, Zen poems, walking poems—to express love, bewilderment, grief, and beauty. This book, Nelson’s first, heralded the arrival of a...

A profound and deeply personal exploration of pain, the body, and loss by the beloved author of Bluets and The Argonauts. It's not the dream that matters, it's the telling of the dream - the words you choose, the risks you take in externalising your mind. This is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself...

The genre-defying, thought-stirring memoir about America's obsession with violence, from the critically acclaimed author of The Argonauts. 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...