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From the celebrated national bestselling novelist and critic, a groundbreaking collection of essays exploring the state of cultural criticism and what meaning art has in our ever-challenging world. Lauren Oyler has emerged as one of the most trenchant, influential, and revelatory critics of her generation, a talent who famously skewers and celebrates literary works with unsparing acuity. Her writing--acerbic, prismatic, and staggering in its genius and forthrightness--has crashed the London Review of Books website twice. Oyler delights in using her biting insights like a crowbar, whether…mehr

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From the celebrated national bestselling novelist and critic, a groundbreaking collection of essays exploring the state of cultural criticism and what meaning art has in our ever-challenging world. Lauren Oyler has emerged as one of the most trenchant, influential, and revelatory critics of her generation, a talent who famously skewers and celebrates literary works with unsparing acuity. Her writing--acerbic, prismatic, and staggering in its genius and forthrightness--has crashed the London Review of Books website twice. Oyler delights in using her biting insights like a crowbar, whether smashing shibboleths in her essays or shattering conventions in her first novel Fake Accounts. But what is the significance of being an author, critic, and social media personality in today's fraught world; how do these fragments form a whole and what is the relevance? Lauren's classic Oylerian response: Who cares? In this blistering, irreverent, and very funny manifesto, Oyler takes genuine pleasure in dissecting the forces that shape her life, as well as ours--our deeply-held notions of what constitutes the contemporary American experience. No Judgement takes on the political and cultural roots of joy, the psychology and influence of "hot takes," the rise of autofiction, and the elusive state of "cool." Oyler argues that art and ideas aren't "necessary"--but they matter implicitly. Explaining to readers, and herself, why--what "the stakes" are--has always been the goal of her writing. In this, her luminous and sometimes mind-bending first book of nonfiction, she encapsulates the world we live and think in with precision and care--delivering a witty, provocative, and brilliant work of cultural criticism as only she can.
Autorenporträt
Lauren Oyler's essays on books and culture appear regularly in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, Harper's, the Guardian, New York magazine's The Cut, Bookforum, the Baffler, the New Republic, and other publications. From 2015 to 2017, she was an editor at Broadly, the now-defunct women's site at Vice. Before that, she was a freelance copy editor in Berlin. She co-wrote two books with Alyssa Mastromonaco and has ghostwritten other works as well. Her first novel, Fake Accounts, was a national bestseller and is currently being adapted into a television series. She lives in Berlin.
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"The essay collection everyone's talking about." - New York

"Brisk, honest and soaring with élan. Oyler persuasively advocates clear thinking through doing it herself with such poise. Her critical approach isn't currently common sense, but it should be, and soon enough maybe it will." - Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times and The Happy Couple

"Like stumbling into the best archival New Yorker essays-smart and unafraid and (thank God) funny. This is exactly what I want to read." - Monica Heisey, author of Really Good, Actually

"Absorbing and funny . . . [Oyler] has plenty of interesting things to say about autofiction, spoilers, and life as an expatriate. . . . A challenging and often eye-opening nonfiction debut." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Oyler's commentary is incisive, and her prose is lucid and playful. . . . This is as intellectually stimulating as it is fun to read." - Publishers Weekly

"Oyler is one of our sharpest and most fearless cultural critics....Opining on gossip and anxiety, autofiction and vulnerability, and much, much more, [her] caustic wit and penetrating voice shine through every essay." - Sophia Stewart, The Millions

"[Oyler's] takes would be dizzying if she were not so skilled in constructing solid arguments that deepen our understanding of cultural criticism. No Judgment is deeply funny and wise." - BookPage

"These peppery inquiries are rigorously informed, deftly composed, and deeply conceptualized interpretations of human foibles and endeavors in a world feverish with social media and hooked to the 'attention economy' . . . Oyler is frank, fierce, funny, and brilliant; her brainy, passionate criticism exhilarating." - Booklist (starred review)

"Here, Oyler writes about her profession, her own anxiety, and topics from gossip to vulnerability-giving all a close, honest look that leaves the reader with a kind of clarity that didn't exist before." - Town & Country

"Whether she's writing a personal essay, journalism or criticism, Oyler brings to the task evidence of wide reading, thoughtful engagement and vigorous prose. . . . Her journalistic explorations of gossip and of online reviews, especially those on Goodreads, are both enlightening and provocative. Oyler is a writer who will have readers nodding in agreement on one page and shaking their heads vigorously on the next. Whatever the reaction at a given moment, one can rest assured that her writing is never dull." - Harvey Freedenberg, BookPage

"Witty, agile essays from the novelist and New Yorker writer with a talent for cutting through the hype...stimulating company on the page." - The Guardian

"[Oyler's] sense of humor is present, as is her agile thinking....Several essays here provoked the surprising thought, 'This is the sanest thing I have ever read on this topic'....These episodes are fluidly stitched together with added context from history and literature, which is the structure of most of the essays in the book. At its best, it feels like your smart friend explaining to you something you missed on the internet, why it's important and what it means....Oyler is a sharp and confident critic." - New York Times Book Review

"Oyler adeptly employs her research and logic to stay tight to a theme. Most delightfully, her sardonic voice permeates the entire collection." - Shelf Awareness

"With her new collection of essays, No Judgment, Oyler is self-aware in her observations, covering at length, for instance, the dominance of autofiction over the last decade, a genre that Oyler explored with her 2021 debut novel, Fake Accounts. It's rare that young writers get the chance to go this granular on topics of their choosing; with, No Judgment, Oyler takes this advantage and runs with it, diving into subjects like the utility of gossip, anxiety, life in her now-home city of Berlin, and the rise of the star rating system for books-or, the act of reviewing itself." - W, The Most Talked-About Books of 2024 (So Far)

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