Opinions

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Since the publication of her groundbreaking books Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society -- state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women's rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy -- alongside more individually personal matters: can I tell my co-worker her perfume makes me sneeze Is it acceptable to schedule a daily 8am meeting In her role as a New York Times opinion section contributor and the publication's 'Work Friend' columnist, she reaches millions of readers with her wise voice and sharp insights.

Bold, funny, sharp, humane, Opinions is a collection of Roxane Gay's best nonfiction pieces from the past ten years. Covering a wide range of topics -- politics, feminism, the culture wars, civil rights, and much more -- with an all-new introduction in which she reflects on the past decade, this sharp, thought-provoking anthology will delight Roxane Gay's devotees and draw new readers to this inimitable talent.

Author Bio

Roxane Gay is the author of the essay collection Bad Feminist, which was a New York Times bestseller; the novel An Untamed State, a finalist for the Dayton Peace Prize; the memoir Hunger, which was a New York Times bestseller and received a National Book Critics Circle citation; and the short story collections Difficult Women and Ayiti. A contributing opinion writer to the New York Times, she has also written for Time, McSweeney's, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Rumpus, Bookforum, and Salon. Her fiction has also been selected for The Best American Short Stories 2012, The Best American Mystery Stories 2014, and other anthologies. She is the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She lives in Lafayette, Indiana, and sometimes Los Angeles.