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Essays on Being Right
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A bold, provocative collection of essays by a Pulitzer winner on one of the most urgent questions of our time: what is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything? 'A rigorous thinker armed with a killer turn of phrase' Observer 'Her writing is razor-sharp, personal,...
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A bold, provocative collection of essays by a Pulitzer winner on one of the most urgent questions of our time: what is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything?
'A rigorous thinker armed with a killer turn of phrase' Observer
'Her writing is razor-sharp, personal, and vociferous in its proclamations, but it’s also fun – it’s got bite' New Statesman
'A galaxy-brain-level thinker' Torrey Peters
A bold, provocative collection of essays by a Pulitzer winner on one of the most urgent questions of our time: what is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything?
This book brings together sharp, illuminating essays on everything from musical theatre to sci-fi novels, as well as an acclaimed tetralogy of personal essays. Throughout, Andrea Long Chu defies the imperative to leave politics out of art, charging fellow critics with complacent humanism and modelling how the left might brave the culture wars with both its faculty of judgment and its sense of justice intact.
'A pure joy to read' Claire Dederer
'Provocative, beautiful and addictive… I couldn’t stop reading' Angela Saini
'Thrilling... Authority reminds us we haven’t yet felt all there is to feel' Kaveh Akbar
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781804955178
Publisher: Cornerstone
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 August 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin (Cornerstone)
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 19.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 182g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Plt;bPgt;Andrea Long ChuPlt;/bPgt; is a Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist and critic at Plt;iPgt;New YorkPlt;/iPgt; magazine. Her book Plt;iPgt;Females Plt;/iPgt;was published by Verso in 2019 and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Nonfiction. Her writing has also appeared inPlt;iPgt; n+1,Plt;/iPgt; the Plt;iPgt;New York TimesPlt;/iPgt;, the Plt;iPgt;New YorkerPlt;/iPgt;, Plt;iPgt;ArtforumPlt;/iPgt;, Plt;iPgt;Bookforum, Boston Review Plt;/iPgt;and Plt;iPgt;Jewish Currents.Plt;/iPgt;
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