Authority: Essays
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Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Many worry that criticism is suffering from a crisis of authority. In a world where everyone’s a critic, what is criticism for? Since her canonical essay “On Liking Women,” the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as a leading public intellectual and a bold cartographer of the new landscape of taste itself.
Authority brings together sharp, illuminating essays on everything from musical theater to sci-fi nov...






















