All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess - Couverture souple

Rothfeld, Becca

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0349016240 ISBN 13 : 9780349016245

Editeur : Virago, 2025

Synopsis

'I loved her ruthless, impatient thinking, her ferocious attention' Adam Thirlwell, New Statesman Books of the Year 2025

From one of the most talented young thinkers in the US, a warm, funny and intellectually dazzling call for excess, ecstasy and disorder in an age of sterility and minimalism

TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024
NEW YORK TIMES' 100 MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2024
PROSPECT BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2024

'Scintillating writing of breadth and power' Observer

'Seriously precise and very funny' Telegraph

'A radical and important book' James Wood

Our culture's embrace of minimalism and uniformity has left our souls impoverished. Decluttering has reduced our living spaces to empty non-places; the mindfulness trend has emptied our minds of the thoughts that make us who we are; and the regularization of sex has drained it of unpredictability and therefore true eroticism.

In an age of oppressive sterility and limitation, All Things Are Too Small is a refreshing and much-needed tonic: a soul cry for derangement, imbalance, obsession, ravishment and disorder.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

A finalist for a National Magazine Award and a two-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian reviewing prize, Becca Rothfeld is an essayist, critic, editor, and philosopher. She has written for publications like The New York Review of Books, The TLS, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Art in America, The Baffler, The Nation, The New Republic and many others. On hiatus from a Philosophy PhD at Harvard, she is currently non-fiction book critic at The Washington Post and an editor at The Point.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

'In these essays, Becca Rothfeld stages passionate duels between egalitarianism and distinction, abstinence and appetite, control and disproportion, and wins the battle, beautifully and eloquently, for the side of expansiveness and mess and desire' James Wood

Our culture's embrace of minimalism and uniformity has left our souls impoverished. Decluttering has reduced our living spaces to empty non-places; the mindfulness trend has emptied our minds of the thoughts that make us who we are; and the regularization of sex has drained it of unpredictability and therefore true eroticism.

In an age of oppressive sterility and limitation, All Things Are Too Small is a refreshing and much-needed tonic: a soul cry for derangement, imbalance, obsession, ravishment and disorder.



'Rothfeld is unexpected, intelligent, engaging - and clearly delights in her task' New Statesman


'Her range of reference - from Moby-Dick to Troll 2 - is immense, as is her intelligence, though it's all leavened by a wonderful sense of humour' Prospect, Books of the Year


'A carnival of high-low allusion and analysis . . . an exhilarating ride' New York Times

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Virago
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0349016240
• ISBN 13: 9780349016245
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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