
Pathemata
Or, The Story of My Mouth
$25.14
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2026
Summary
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 externalizing your mind.”
This is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends with chronic pain, and with a pandemic raging in the background, she sets out to examine the literal and symbolic…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529951363 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529951364 |
| Author: | Maggie Nelson |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 68g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 7mm |
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Critics Review
‘Among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation’ – Olivia Laing
‘One of the most unique voices in non-fiction: enquiring, political, lyrically dazzling, empathetic’ – Sinéad Gleeson
‘Always brilliant’ – Geoff Dyer
‘Her words come as though from a great distance and strike incredibly close’ – Anne Enright
‘Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking that is as challenging as it is liberating’ – Eula Biss
‘Maggie Nelson who writes with such passion, clarity, explicitness, fluidity, playfulness and generosity that she redefines what thinking can do today’ – Wayne Koestenbaum
In Pathemata, Nelson somehow manages to write with perfect emotional pitch: its melancholia balanced with humour, its moments of grief and pain tempered by joy. Full of warmth, wisdom and weirdness, it is bound to become a classic. I adored it – Jenny Mustard
About The Author
Maggie Nelson
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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