Like Love

Like Love may be one of the most movingly specific, the most lovingly unruly celebrations of the ethics of friendship we have * Guardian *
A polyphonic assemblage … Graceful and aesthetic, deftly crossing boundaries and definitions, a concordant symphony * Irish Times *
Maggie Nelson is one of the most unique voices in non-fiction: enquiring, political, lyrically dazzling, empathetic – Sinéad Gleeson
To read Like Love is to watch [Nelson] circling issues of gender and sexuality, but refracted through a variety of different prisms, so that the end result is a constellation of ideas that seem to be expanding outwards * Telegraph *
Nelson’s admiration and enthusiasm for her subjects is a palpable driver of joy and delight … A revelatory gathering of beloved art and artists presented with distinctive prose * Kirkus (starred review) *
Maggie Nelson’s shimmering genius is on full display in this collection – Cathy Park Hong
Drawn from nearly twenty years of genre-defying author Maggie Nelson’s work, Like Love offers incisive commentary on topics ranging from music and literature to feminism and queerness to motherhood and love * TIME *
We have a sense, I think, of the false border sequestering art from theory. And so to remark on Maggie Nelson’s facility in mating the two is to say the least about how she does so – which is with a hurtling gusto that nonetheless invites us to pause and think * New Yorker *
Like Love is a convergence of the most incandescent parts of Maggie Nelson’s inimitable craft – Johanna Hedva
A luminous gathering of dispatches from the delicate adventure of thinking alongside other people. Like Love is a reminder of wow – Jeremy Atherton Lin
One of the most wonderful, poetic minds of this generation * Paste *
A pleasure to read: incisive, smart and witty, it will leave you looking and love and life anew * i *

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.

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