Una de las ensayistas más brillantes y radicales de nuestro tiempo aborda los grandes retos y dilemas del presente a través de una colección de artículos, perfiles y conversaciones. Aparecen en estos textos temas como el femini...
Es difícil dar cuenta en unas pocas líneas de los múltiples ecos y «usos de la cultura» a que remite este «mosaico nómada», como lo ha llamado la crítica. Bluets es un híbrido experimental...
En línea con la tradición de Susan Sontag y Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson se ha convertido en una de las principales críticas culturales con este ensayo sobre las representaciones de la crueldad y la violencia en el arte. Desde la poes...
De una honestidad implacable, en esta memoria (ganadora del National Book Critics Circle Award) y a la vez ensayo, Maggie Nelson narra su singular y entrañable historia de amor con Harry Dogde, un artista transgénero, y cómo, en un...
Un dia de març del 1969, la Jane Mixer, que aleshores tenia vint-i-tres anys, anava cap a casa els seus pares per dir-los que es casava; a través del butlletí del campus universitari on estudiava Dret s?havia posat en contacte amb...
La retòrica de la llibertat, tan sovint lligada al ultranacionalisme i als crits amenaçadors a favor de la unitat, o simplement centrada en moments puntuals i èpics d?alliberament col·lectiu, pot arribar a encendre tant com...
Bluets és una obra narrativa, filosòfica i sovint explícita sobre el patiment personal i les limitacions de l?amor, tot passat pel filtre del color blau. A través de dos-cents quaranta textos breus i aparentment inconnexos,...
«Una de las escriptores nordamericanes més electrificants d'avui en dia [?]. Fusionant el que, en altres mans, podrien ser teories espesses i confessions sentimentals, Nelson crea un llenguatge poderós». Olivia Laing, The...
In this invigorating, essential book, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience or talk about freedom. Drawing on pop culture, theory and real life, she follows freedom - with all its complexities - through four realms- art, sex, drugs and...
'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
Before Maggie Nelsonâs name became synonymous with such genre-defying, binary-slaying writing as The Argonauts and The Art of Cruelty , this collection of poetry introduced readers to a singular voice in the making: exhilarating, fiercel...
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
Part elegy, part true crime story, this memoir-in-verse from the author of the award-winning The Argonauts expands the notion of how we tell stories and what form those stories take through the story of a murdered woman and the mystery surrounding her...
Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the...
One day in March 1969, twenty-three- year-old Jane Mixer was on her way home to tell her parents she was getting married. She had arranged for a ride through the campus bulletin board at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she was one of a hand...
Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. It binds an account of Nelson's...