The Argonauts
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. It binds an account of Nelson's relationship ...show moreBUY THE BOOK
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Woah. This is a lot. I wouldn't know where to start reviewing it. Probably you should read it, but if you do please don't blame me for telling you to read it.
Intelligent and heartfelt meditations on motherhood, sexuality, gender, marriage and love. Sometimes the academic references went a little over my head, but other times I nodded frantically for paragraphs at a time. Most accurate description of childbirth I’ve ever read. Brave, original and quite romantic.
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