Maggie Nelson

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color A lyrical philosophical and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love as refracted through the color blue With Bluets Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists Maggie Nelson …

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center …

Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson’s aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane’s murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area. Nelson was born a few years …