Like Love

Maggie Nelson's shimmering genius is on full display in this collection

Cathy Park Hong

Like Love is a convergence of the most incandescent parts of Maggie Nelson’s inimitable craft

Johanna Hedva

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)

One of the most wonderful, poetic minds of this generation

Paste

Maggie Nelson is one of the most unique voices in non-fiction: enquiring, political, lyrically dazzling, empathetic

Sinéad Gleeson

A pleasure to read: incisive, smart and witty, it will leave you looking and love and life anew

i

Like Love may be one of the most movingly specific, the most lovingly unruly celebrations of the ethics of friendship we have

Guardian

A polyphonic assemblage . . . Graceful and aesthetic, deftly crossing boundaries and definitions, a concordant symphony

Irish Times

To read Like Love is to watch [Nelson] circling issues of gender and sexuality, but refracted through a variety of different prisms, so that the end result is a constellation of ideas that seem to be expanding outwards

Telegraph

We have a sense, I think, of the false border sequestering art from theory. And so to remark on Maggie Nelson’s facility in mating the two is to say the least about how she does so – which is with a hurtling gusto that nonetheless invites us to pause and think

New Yorker

Drawn from nearly twenty years of genre-defying author Maggie Nelson’s work, Like Love offers incisive commentary on topics ranging from music and literature to feminism and queerness to motherhood and love

TIME

A luminous gathering of dispatches from the delicate adventure of thinking alongside other people. Like Love is a reminder of wow

Jeremy Atherton Lin

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