el_tuttle 's review for:

Like Love: Essays and Conversations by Maggie Nelson

4.0

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Like Love is primarily a collection of conversations with artists/thinkers with some essays included along a similar vein. Maggie Nelson is someone who is constantly challenging form and structure, and here what she's able to do is put twenty years of conversations into further conversation with one another. It's like a time capsule tracing twenty years of discourse on art, power, detournement, affect, sex, violence, trauma, and freedom. I particularly loved the sections with Bjork - who I love - and Carolee Schneemann - who I hadn't known about. This collection offers a lot to think about and brings to light some subversive artists that aren't necessarily garnering mainstream attention.

Anyone who has an interest in queer, transgressive art will find some moving conversations in this collection.

I thank NetGalley and Graywolf Press for this arc.