{"product_id":"authority-essays-hardcover","title":"Authority: Essays - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrea Long Chu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold, provocative collection of essays on one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything? \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince her canonical 2017 essay \"On Liking Women,\" the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as a public intellectual straight out of the 1960s. With devastating wit and polemical clarity, she defies the imperative to leave politics out of art, instead modeling how the left might brave the culture wars without throwing in with the cynics and doomsayers. \u003ci\u003eAuthority \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together Chu's critical work across a wide range of media--novels, television, theater, video games--as well as an acclaimed tetralogy of literary essays first published in \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e. Chu places \u003ci\u003eThe Phantom of the Opera\u003c\/i\u003e within a centuries-old conflict between music and drama; questions the enduring habit of reading Octavia Butler's science fiction as a parable of slavery; and charges fellow critics like Maggie Nelson and Zadie Smith with a complacent humanism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCriticism today is having a crisis of authority--but so says every generation of critics. In two magisterial new essays, Chu offers a revised intellectual history of this perennial crisis, tracing the surprisingly political contours of criticism from its origins in the Enlightenment to our present age of social media. Rather than succumbing to an endless cycle of trumped-up emergencies, \u003ci\u003eAuthority \u003c\/i\u003emakes a compelling case for how to do criticism in light of the genuine crises, from authoritarianism to genocide, that confront us today.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrea Long Chu\u003c\/b\u003e is a Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist and critic at \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003emagazine. Her book \u003ci\u003eFemales \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in 2019 and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Nonfiction. Her writing has also appeared in \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Boston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Chronicle of Higher Education, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e4Columns\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Jewish Currents.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.08 x 9.2 x 6.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 08, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43157326889023,"sku":"9780374600334","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/LFd_QfFDsX9780374600334.webp?v=1776980186","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/authority-essays-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}