No Judgement: On Being Critical
(Hardback)
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Published: 12th March 2024
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Published: 11th June 2024
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Published: 25th February 2025
Publishing Details
No Judgement: On Being Critical
By (Author) Lauren Oyler
Little, Brown Book Group
Virago Press Ltd
11th June 2024
7th March 2024
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
824.92
Physical Properties
Hardback
288
Width 140mm, Height 218mm, Spine 34mm
420g
Description
A brilliant and addictive collection of brand-new essays on modern culture - from 'the pre-eminent and most widely read critic of her generation' The Times
I heard this crazy story, and I want you to know.It is the age of internet gossip; of social networks, repackaged ideas and rating everything out of five stars. Mega-famous celebrities respond with fury to critics who publish less-than-rapturous reviews of their work (and then delete their tweets); CEOs talk about reclaiming 'the power of vulnerability'; and in the world of fiction, writers eschew actually making things up in favour of 'always just talking about themselves'.In this blistering, irreverent and very funny first book of non-fiction, Lauren Oyler - one of the most trenchant, influential, and revelatory critics of her generation - takes on the bizarre particularities of our present moment in a series of interconnected essays about literature, the attention economy, gossip, the role of criticism and her own relentless, teeth-grinding anxiety.Illuminating and thought-provoking, by turns drily scathing and disarmingly open, No Judgement excavates the layers of psychology and meaning in how we communicate, tell stories and make critical judgements - to offer dazzling insights into how we live and think today.'Oyler is the kind of dangerous contemporary writer we need more of' Niamh Campbell, author of We Were YoungReviews
The pre-eminent and most widely read critic of her generation * The Times *
Brisk, honest and soaring with lan. Oyler persuasively advocates clear thinking through doing it herself with such poise. Her critical approach isn't currently common sense, but it should be, and soon enough maybe it will -- Naoise Dolan, author of The Happy Couple
Like stumbling into the best archival New Yorker essays - smart and unafraid and (thank God) funny. This is exactly what I want to read -- Monica Heisey, author of Really Good, Actually
Author Bio
Lauren Oyler is the author of the novel Fake Accounts. Her essays on books and culture appear regularly in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the London Review of Books, Harper's, the Guardian and other publications. She lives in Berlin.
