On Freedom

Named a Most Anticipated, Best Book of the Month by- Npr, Usa Today, Time, Washington Post, Vulture, Women's Wear Daily, Bustle, Lit Hub, The Millions, Vogue, Nylon, Shonda land, Chicago Review of Books, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly. So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept's complexities in four distinct realms- art, sex, drugs, and climate. Drawing on a vast range of material, from critical theory to pop culture to the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience, or talk about freedom in ways responsive to the conditions of our day. Her abiding interest lies in ongoing ""practices of freedom"" by which we negotiate our interrelation with-indeed, our inseparability from-others, with all the care and constraint that entails, while accepting difference and conflict as integral to our communion.