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Authority reminds us we haven't yet felt all there is to feel\"\u003c\/em\u003e - Kaveh Akbar\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A pure joy to read\"\u003c\/em\u003e - Claire Dederer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince her canonical 2017 essay \u003cem\u003eOn Liking Women\u003c\/em\u003e, the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as one of the most provocative, funny, brilliant, and stylish critics at work today. With devastating wit and polemical clarity, she defies the imperative to leave politics out of art, instead modelling how the left might brave the culture wars without throwing in with the cynics and doomsayers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAuthority\u003c\/em\u003e brings together Chu's critical work across a wide range of media — novels, television, theatre, video games — as well as an acclaimed tetralogy of literary essays first published in \u003cem\u003en+1\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Feminism, Chu argues, is an untenable claim, and “when you make an untenable claim, your desire is showing, like a shy tattoo peeking out from a sleeve.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing inspiration from Valerie Solanas’s \u003cem\u003eSCUM Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e and her forgotten play \u003cem\u003eUp Your Ass\u003c\/em\u003e, this book in numbered theses whips through a variety of ugly objects (films, manifestos, performance art, psychoanalysis, porn, and the alt-right) to give a portrait of femaleness as a universal category of self-ablation against which all politics—even feminist politics—revolts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA provocative and searching text from our most exciting new public intellectual. 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