A review by seventhswan
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning by Maggie Nelson

4.0

There were (expectedly) a lot of graphic descriptions of terrible things in this book, so I got what I went in for and proved Nelson's point at the same time. However, after a while it all got a bit repetitive (maybe also the point?) and there were quite a lot of references I had to look up to understand - I didn't realise this was such an 'academic' text as I'd seen it highly recommended in books that were far less so. Overall, though, really made me think (including about some things I'd rather not)