Like Love

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. Like Love not only spans the breadth of her generous and supple thinking but also highlights the steadfast consistency of her principles, which seek to elucidate the aesthetic, moral and political conditions that could expand our notion of human coexistence. I'm grateful for her theories that always bring light to the murk, that hold and think through opposing arguments to find the meridian points between. Like Love is a celebration of friendship and outlaw communities of artists and writers that demonstrates how we can hold onto love as we hurtle uncertainly into the future -- Cathy Park Hong Like Love is a convergence of the most incandescent parts of Maggie Nelson’s inimitable craft: there is her ceaseless curiosity, her capacity not only to hold complexity but to court it with equal parts desire and critique, the generosity and gratitude of her thinking held by gorgeous turns of phrase. I have always wanted to be brought along with her, to participate in the conversation, to hang out, to get ruminative and lucubratory, to spend time with the cool people she's spending time with, to get lost, to get found, then to get lost again. Like Love is that invitation -- Johanna Hedva Maggie Nelson is one of the most unique voices in non-fiction: enquiring, political, lyrically dazzling, empathetic -- Sinéad Gleeson