Personal memoir and cultural treatise: Offers intimate insights and broader perspectives on art and morality
Explores controversial artists: Engages with figures like Hemingway, Polanski, and Picasso for a nuanced discussion
Addresses cancel culture: Relevance in today's literary and cultural landscape
Blunt moral questions: Provokes readers to consider ethical boundaries in art and audience engagement
Engaging prose: Lively, passionate writing that challenges assumptions about art and genius
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A timely, passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of cancel culture, and of the link between genius and monstrosity. Can we love the work of controversial classic and contemporary artists but dislike the artist?