{"title":"Cultural Studies","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"dont-leave-your-friends-behind-concrete-ways-to-support-families-in-social-justice-movements-and-communities","title":"Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of articles and narratives on ways people can support parents, children, and caregivers involved in social movements, focusing on social justice, mutual aid, and collective liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon't Leave Your Friends Behind is a collection of concrete tips, suggestions, and narratives on ways that non-parents can support parents, children, and caregivers in their communities, social movements, and collective processes. Don't Leave Your Friends Behind focuses on issues affecting children and caregivers within the larger framework of social justice, mutual aid, and collective liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do we create new, nonhierarchical structures of support and mutual aid, and include all ages in the struggle for social justice? There are many books on parenting, but few on being a good community member and a good ally to parents, caregivers, and children as we collectively build a strong all-ages culture of resistance. Any group of parents will tell you how hard their struggles are and how they are left out, but no book focuses on how allies can address issues of caretakers' and children's oppression. Many well-intentioned childless activists don't interact with young people on a regular basis and don't know how. Don't Leave Your Friends Behind provides them with the resources and support to get started.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors include: The Bay Area Childcare Collective, Ramsey Beyer, Rozalinda Borcil, Mariah Boone, Marianne Bullock, Lindsey Campbell, Briana Cavanaugh, CRAP! Collective, a de la maza perez tamayo, Ingrid DeLeon, Clayton Dewey, David Gilbert, A.S. Givens, Jason Gonzales, Tiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia), Jessica Hoffman, Heather Jackson, Rahula Janowski, Sine Hwang Jensen, Agnes Johnson, Simon Knaphus, Victoria Law, London Pro-Feminist Men's Group, Amariah Love, Oluko Lumumba, mama raccoon, Mamas of Color Rising\/Young Women United, China Martens, Noemi Martinez, Kathleen McIntyre, Stacey Milbern, Jessica Mills, Tomas Moniz, Coleen Murphy, Maegan 'la Mamita Mala' Ortiz, Traci Picard, Amanda Rich, Fabiola Sandoval, Cynthia Ann Schemmer, Mikaela Shafer, Mustafa Shakur, Kate Shapiro, Jennifer Silverman, Harriet Moon Smith, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, Darran White Tilghman, Jessica Trimbath, Max Ventura, and Mari Villaluna.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781604863963\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 11 Jan 2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: Oakland, United States\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 22.9(H)x15.2(L)320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 320\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eVictoria Law is a mother, photographer, and writer. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, which won the 2009 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award and earned her the 2011 Brooklyn College Young Alumna Award.   Widely known as the grandma of the mama zine scene and a pioneer in the genre of radical parenting writing, China Martens raised her daughter as a single mother on welfare and working poor while continuing to put out The Future Generation, the longest-running parenting zine in the history of the Western world (1990 to the present). Her daughter is nearly 24 years old and her zine has been anthologized into the book The Future Generation: The Zine-book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends and Others (Atomic Book Company 2007).\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is mind-blowing, brilliant, and urgently needed! It is full of useful models and strategies for creating resistance that breaks down barriers to participation for children and people caring for children, and integrates deeply transformative commitments to building radically different activist culture and practice. This is a must-read for anyone trying to build projects based in collective action.\" \u003cbr\u003e--Dean Spade, author of \u003cem\u003eNormal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eDon't Leave Your Friends Behind\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential resource for the interdependence revolution in progress. As a queer, chronically ill woman of color who loves and needs the parents and kids in my communities, I am hungry for these on the ground stories of how parents, allies, comrades, fam and friends are rewriting the world by refusing to hold mamas, papis and kids anywhere but at the center of our movements and communities, where we're supposed to be.\" \u003cbr\u003e--Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, co-editor, \u003cem\u003eThe Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Activist mothers Law and Martens propose that radical movements interested in winning must welcome parents and their children--the youngest rabble rousers. They have created a practical guide for us all to do just that, but with zero guilt trips and moralizing. \u003cem\u003eDon't Leave Your Friends Behind\u003c\/em\u003e puts teeth into the slogan, Another World is Possible by showing us what a healthy left might look like.\" \u003cbr\u003e--James Tracy, co-author of \u003cem\u003eHillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A powerful mixture of self-help and literature, putting 'family values' in a new light and on the agenda of social justice movements. 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The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the Americas, they were shocked to discovered that Vladimir Putin himself was a beneficiary of the crime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As law enforcement agencies began freezing the money, Putin retaliated. He and his cronies set up honey traps, hired process servers to chase Browder through cities, murdered more of his Russian allies, and enlisted some of the top lawyers and politicians in America to bring him down. Putin will stop at nothing to protect his money. As \u003ci\u003eFreezing Order\u003c\/i\u003e reveals, it was Browder’s campaign to expose Putin’s corruption that prompted Russia’s intervention in the 2016 US presidential election.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAt once a financial caper, an international adventure and a passionate plea for justice\u003ci\u003e, Freezing Order \u003c\/i\u003eis a timely and stirring morality tale about how one man can take on one of the most ruthless villains in the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781398506107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 15 Feb 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x13(L)x2.1(W)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eBill Browder is the founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management and was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005. Since 2009, when his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was murdered in prison after uncovering a $230 million fraud committed by Russian government officials, Browder has been leading a campaign to expose Russia’s endemic corruption and human rights abuses. Before founding Hermitage, Browder was vice president at Salomon Brothers. He holds a BA in economics from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Stanford Business School.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e'I was \u003cb\u003ehooked\u003c\/b\u003e from the first paragraph. More \u003cb\u003eexplosive, compulsive\u003c\/b\u003e and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly \u003cb\u003ethrilling\u003c\/b\u003e than any fiction I have read for years, \u003ci\u003eFreezing Order\u003c\/i\u003e has a \u003cb\u003estunning plot\u003c\/b\u003e – international conspiracy, malign and hidden rings of power and corruption, a dark threat to any hope of world order – but with this stunning twist: it is all true... Browder – with incredible courage, resilience and grace, and always at great risk to his personal safety and freedom – continues to chase after Putin and his henchmen... This is \u003cb\u003ereal heroism\u003c\/b\u003e, and what a \u003cb\u003ecracking good read\u003c\/b\u003e it makes for.'  -- Stephen Fry\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eMind-blowing\u003c\/b\u003e. Bill Browder takes us down the rabbit hole of Kremlin lawfare where down is up and wrong is right, and powerful Russian interests are trying to upend our legal and political systems. This personal account of Browder's battle for justice is \u003cb\u003eat times terrifying, at times deeply touching\u003c\/b\u003e - and leads inexorably to a vast money-laundering scheme the Kremlin will seemingly stop at nothing to cover up.' -- Catherine Belton\u003cbr\u003e'[\u003ci\u003eFreezing Order\u003c\/i\u003e] tells the story of Browder’s quest to establish a global regime for sanctioning Russians involved in corruption and criminality. But it \u003cb\u003ereads like an international spy thriller\u003c\/b\u003e. If its subject matter weren’t so grave, the book could be said to have all the elements of a high-octane drama. Murder. Conspiracy. Piles of dirty money. Sexual intrigue. \u003ci\u003eFreezing Order \u003c\/i\u003eshudders with the constant threat of assassination, abduction or sudden, extreme violence. It is \u003cb\u003ea tense and gripping read\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Jamie Susskind * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eFreezing Order\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ea gripping tale\u003c\/b\u003e of assassinations, legal battles and billions in cash. It would be entertaining fiction, but as a true story it’s a warning and a roadmap for fighting back against the waves of crime and corruption emanating from Putin’s Russia and other dictatorships. Bill Browder has shown that one man with courage can make a difference, and that even the most powerful regimes have weak spots. It’s \u003cb\u003ean inspiring message\u003c\/b\u003e we should all heed, and with urgency.' -- Garry Kasparov\u003cbr\u003e'This tale is \u003cb\u003efull of villains\u003c\/b\u003e - not just the Russians...but also the politicians, lawyers and judges in the West who carry out the Kremlin's dirty work. Despite the complexity of the affair, Browder has made his story into \u003cb\u003ea\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ereal page turner\u003c\/b\u003e. Amid the horrors\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ebeing reported every day from Ukraine, it also provides \u003cb\u003ea highly readable\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003einsight \u003c\/b\u003einto the true nature of the regime that is responsible for them..' -- Peter Conradi * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e'Browder’s account of how he stood up to Putin in the face of danger, arrest warrants, and bullying is \u003cb\u003emandatory reading\u003c\/b\u003e for anyone who wants to understand the tactics of modern autocracy.' -- Anne Applebaum\u003cbr\u003e'[A] \u003cb\u003ezesty\u003c\/b\u003e new book about the theft, extortion, intimidation, lies and murder that are the Russian state’s daily levers of power...a \u003cb\u003ebreakneck financial thriller\u003c\/b\u003e compelling breathless attention...\u003cb\u003esplendidly readable\u003c\/b\u003e... One of the most sobering aspects of Browder’s \u003cb\u003erollicking, dangerous adventure\u003c\/b\u003e [is] that late-period Putin has found it so easy to manipulate our western democracies from the inside.' -- Julian Evans * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eAbsolutely gripping\u003c\/b\u003e. Bill Browder’s new book on the Magnitsky affair follows the money all the way to the top of Russia’s murderous kleptocracy. \u003ci\u003eFreezing Order\u003c\/i\u003e ought to be compulsory reading. Luckily it \u003cb\u003ereads like a thriller\u003c\/b\u003e.' -- Tom Stoppard\u003cbr\u003e'It’s \u003cb\u003ean incredible story\u003c\/b\u003e, told with \u003cb\u003epace and panache\u003c\/b\u003e, that \u003cb\u003ereads like a thriller\u003c\/b\u003e. There’s something deeply offending to our sense of justice about an innocent man framed by powerful forces...but what is most troubling here is how acquiescent the western establishment has been to Russian crimes and lies.' -- Andrew Anthony * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e'Bill Browder's \u003cb\u003ethrilling\u003c\/b\u003e new book digs deeper into the kleptocratic world enabled and supported by the Russian state, for the benefit of the most powerful and well-connected crooks in Russia and beyond. This exploration of the dark heart of corruption asks the question of what one person can do in the face of such insidious corruption, and makes us ask what we can find in ourselves to stand up and resist those forces that would steal, decieve and murder for their own gain.' -- Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat\u003cbr\u003e'The author has been trying to get the west to take the threat from Putin's Russia seriously for many years. In return, the Putin regime has pursued him around the world. Browder's new book recounts this struggle and is \u003cb\u003epart thriller, part policy prescription\u003c\/b\u003e. In the aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine it has \u003cb\u003edeservedly become a bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e.' -- Gideon Rachman * Financial Times Best Summer Reads *\u003cbr\u003e'An \u003cb\u003eessential work\u003c\/b\u003e by someone who understood long before the rest of the world did just how far corrupt Russian officials and businesspeople will go to defend their ill-gotten wealth, and how foreign lawyers, lobbyists and public relations firms enable them... He expertly walks us through the ins and outs of various legal strategies and developments that include enough \u003cb\u003ehigh drama, plot twists and colourful characters \u003c\/b\u003efor a movie. Browder’s \u003ci\u003eFreezing Order \u003c\/i\u003eis not just \u003cb\u003ea cracking good read\u003c\/b\u003e - it is a reminder of the urgency of addressing the global plague of money laundering.' -- Timothy Frye * Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eCould not be more timely\u003c\/b\u003e in illustrating why the support of Russia’s super-rich and their funds have become crucial to Putin’s powerbase.' * Independent *\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eFast paced and engaging\u003c\/b\u003e, Browder’s book reads like a spy novel, but it also makes a \u003cb\u003epowerful and remarkably prescient\u003c\/b\u003e case for the need to use all the legal and financial tools available to separate Putin’s financiers from their foreign-held bank accounts and luxury yachts.' -- Katie Stallard * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eGripping reading\u003c\/b\u003e... there is no question that Browder’s dogged persistence against a backdrop of undoubted stress and personal courage have made an important contribution in highlighting the failures of contemporary Russia and the west alike, and offered new tools with potential to try to redress them.' -- Andrew Jack * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eA must-read\u003c\/b\u003e for fans of \u003ci\u003eRed Notice\u003c\/i\u003e... \u003cb\u003eRevealing and damning\u003c\/b\u003e, exposing Putin and his minions as little more than greedy international criminals. 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It's a book full of the nuance that the cancel culture debate so often lacks -- *Books of the Year* * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eEnthralling, challenging and downright unsettling . . . smart and provocative . . . \u003ci\u003eMonsters\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ea vital book for our times\u003c\/b\u003e, and it offers so much rich food for thought -- Martin Chilton * Independent *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThrilling\u003c\/b\u003e * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eA properly \u003cb\u003ehonest and passionate\u003c\/b\u003e book that will help set this debate alive -- Andrew Marr * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eAn exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life. This timely book inhabits both the marvellous and the monstrous with generosity and wit -- Jenny Offill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExhilarating\u003c\/b\u003e -- Kathryn Hughes * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExcellent \u003c\/b\u003e. . . Frank . . . A work of deep thought and self-scrutiny that honors the impossibility of the book's mission\u003c\/p\u003e -- Melissa Febos * The New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonsters \u003c\/i\u003eis an incredible book, the best work of criticism I have read in a very long time.\u003c\/b\u003e It's thrillingly sharp, appropriately doubtful, and more fun than you would believe, given the pressing seriousness of the subject matter. \u003cb\u003eClaire Dederer's mind is a wonder, her erudition too\u003c\/b\u003e; I now want her to apply them to everything I'm interested in so I can think about them differently -- Nick Hornby\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003ehot and urgent\u003c\/b\u003e monologue structured around a problem without a solution . . . The conclusion to this immersive and doubtlessly important book is both tentative and bold -- Frances Wilson * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart memoir, part treatise, and all treat\u003c\/b\u003e . . . \u003cb\u003enimble, witty\u003c\/b\u003e . . . her exquisitely reasoned vindication of Lolita brought tears to my eyes . . . This is a book that looks boldly down the cliff of roiling waters below and jumps right in, splashes around playfully, isn't afraid to get wet. \u003cb\u003eHow refreshing\u003c\/b\u003e * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eA timely interrogation of the eternal question: can you separate the art from the artist? It showed me my bookshelves, my record collection, the pictures and films I love - even myself - in a new, unflinching light.\u003cb\u003e I'm pressing it into the hands of everyone I know.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Erin Kelly, author of The Skeleton Key\u003cbr\u003eNuanced and exploratory . . . \u003cb\u003eWith verve and empathy\u003c\/b\u003e, she asks if we can - if we should - separate the work from the biography -- Suzanne Harrington * Irish Independent *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHumming with originality, clarity and humour\u003c\/b\u003e . . . The book's questions might be zeitgeisty, but it is far more satisfying than the circular arguments about cancel culture that abound in Twitter threads. It sketches a Venn diagram of creativity and depravity before plunging into its intersection - dangerous water, but one I emerged from reinvigorated . . . * i News *\u003cbr\u003eDederer asks, with witty self-deprecation, how we should respond to art from artists guilty of morally squalid deeds . . . Instead of rushing to the barricades of ongoing culture wars, Dederer offers - and enacts - a way of thinking that acknowledges the ever growing diversity of intellectual and moral life -- Pankaj Mishra, summer reads * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSane and nuanced - even refreshingly brave.\u003c\/b\u003e This is no dry compendium of intellectual arguments about artistic meaning, but rather an emotional journey through audience experience told with engaging chattiness from an insider's perspective -- Kathleen Stock * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eAn incredibly nuanced and human work -- Barry Pierce * Big Issue *\u003cbr\u003eIn this book you may not find the answer, but you will find \u003cb\u003eheaps of wit and wisdom\u003c\/b\u003e - on monsters, victims, hate, love, and the big grey area in between -- Chloë Ashby * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eClever and provocative\u003c\/b\u003e * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lively, personal exploration of how one might think about the art of those who do bad things\u003c\/b\u003e . . . It's such a pleasure to stretch out in a big, nuanced conversation about a topic that can be so easily flattened into wrong and right, good and bad; it's a pleasure to be asked to think * Vanity Fair *\u003cbr\u003eDederer's exploration offers up no easy answers, but the journey is never less than \u003cb\u003eilluminating\u003c\/b\u003e -- Summer holiday reads * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonsters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a dazzling book\u003c\/b\u003e . . . If you too love the work of Polanski - or Picasso, Hemingway, Allen, Davis, and so on - sticking with Dederer on her curlicued journey might be \u003cb\u003ethe best gift you can give yourself\u003c\/b\u003e. The final chapter feels its way toward a conclusion that burns clean, though it hurts a little too -- Stephanie Zacharek * Time *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVital, exhilarating\u003c\/b\u003e . . . Although Dederer has done her homework, her style is breezy and confessional . . .\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003eMonsters \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eleaves us with Dederer's passionate commitment to the artists whose work most matters to her, and a framework to address these questions about the artists who matter most to us\u003c\/b\u003e * Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exciting read . . . I was shaken to my core\u003c\/b\u003e * Los Angeles Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerceptive and engaging\u003c\/b\u003e * ArtReview *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonsters \u003c\/i\u003eis both a nimble exploration of fan culture and \u003cb\u003ea spirited call to action\u003c\/b\u003e -- Ruth Madievsky * GQ *\u003cbr\u003eA blisteringly erudite and entertaining read. Dederer holds the moral ambiguity of her subject matter, landing her arguments with precision and flair. It's a book that deserves to be widely read and will provoke many conversations -- Nathan Filer\u003cbr\u003eDederer provides a fascinating new way of looking at how the work and lives of problematic artists are bound together. She poses so many topical questions, plays with so many pertinent ideas, that I'm still thinking about this book long after I finished -- Claire Fuller, author of \u003ci\u003eUnsettled Ground\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMonsters is extraordinary - engaging, enraging, provocative, and brilliant. It's like a long conversation with your smartest friend. I am buying this book for everyone I know -- Ann Patchett, author of \u003ci\u003eTom Lake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eConversational, clear and bold without being strident \u003c\/b\u003e. . . Dederer showcases her critical acumen . . . In this age of moral policing, Ms. Dederer's instincts to approach such material with an open mind - and heart - are laudable * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003eAn invigorating, engrossing, and deeply intelligent book. By guiding us through her critical dilemmas, Dederer performs an act of generosity: she allows the reader the space and encouragement to interrogate their own beliefs. \u003ci\u003eMonsters \u003c\/i\u003emade me laugh, argue, tear up, and most importantly, think -- Julia May Jonas, author of \u003ci\u003eVladimir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmart and engaging, never dogmatic or pious, I loved this. -- David Nicholls\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExcellent. Erudite and unpretentious, ruthlessly honest\u003c\/b\u003e, a searching self portrait as well as moral inventory of good artists doing bad things -- Stephanie Danler, author of \u003ci\u003eSweetbitter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThoughtful -- Susie Goldsbrough * The Times *\u003cbr\u003ePunchy and sharp . . . Exploring her own relationship to art made by shitty men, the book moves beyond tedious cancel culture discourse to interrogate ethics, art and fandom with nuance and compassion -- Katie Goh, Books to be excited for in 2023 * i-D *\u003cbr\u003eThe book is \u003cb\u003etangled and fascinating, chasing down arguments and questions that can't always be easily resolved\u003c\/b\u003e. Dederer's shrewd, vivid descriptions of movies and books suggest just how much they mean to her and how deeply any sacrifices on the altar of contemporary sexual ethics might cut * Slate *\u003cbr\u003e[Dederer] just keeps getting better and smarter . . . it's \u003cb\u003eabsolutely exhilarating\u003c\/b\u003e to read the work of someone so willing to crumple up her own argument like a piece of paper, throw it away and start anew. She's constantly challenging her own assumptions, more than willing to find flaws in her own thinking * San Francisco Chronicle *\u003cbr\u003eI flat-out admire her book and want to share it with my students. As a thinker, \u003cb\u003eDederer is smart, informed, nuanced and very funny\u003c\/b\u003e -- Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh Air\u003cbr\u003eThe rare polemic that's full of greedy love for the good stuff in this world, \u003ci\u003eMonsters\u003c\/i\u003e is an expansion of Dederer's instant classic \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e essay from 2017, 'What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men.' With a larger canvas, she lets both her cast of monsters and our culpability grow, and manages to one-up herself over and over again. \u003cb\u003eCooly pensive on an overheated subject, Dederer writes powerfully about art's ability to move us, teach us, and entrap us\u003c\/b\u003e * Bustle *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonsters \u003c\/i\u003eis like having the best version of the \"good art by bad people\" conversation. Dederer writes like your wisest, most compassionate friend, helping to guide you to your own thoughts and generously offering her own. I loved it -- Lizzy Stewart, author of \u003ci\u003eAlison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSlyly funny, emotionally honest, and full of raw passion, Claire Dederer's important book about what to do when artists you love do things you hate breaks new ground, making a complex cultural conversation feel brand new. \u003ci\u003eMonsters \u003c\/i\u003eelegantly takes on far more than 'cancel culture' - it offers new insights into love, ambition, and what it means to be an artist, a citizen, and a human being -- Ada Calhoun, author of \u003ci\u003eAlso a Poet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe asks important questions . . . \u003cb\u003eSubtle and adroit\u003c\/b\u003e * The Atlantic *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDauntless, cannily reasoned and barn-burning\u003c\/b\u003e . . . \u003ci\u003eMonsters\u003c\/i\u003e isn't just the book that art-loving feminists have been waiting for; it's the book that anyone determined to live an intentional life owes it to themselves to read * Shelf-Awareness *\u003cbr\u003eNuanced and incisive . . . Dederer's candid appraisal of her own relationship with troubling artists and the lucidity with which she explores what it means to love their work open fresh ways of thinking about problematic artists. Contemplative and willing to tackle the hard questions head on, this pulls no punches * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSharp and unflinching\u003c\/b\u003e . . . 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So on point is \u003ci\u003eMonsters: A Fan's Dilemma\u003c\/i\u003e about the historical moment in which we currently find ourselves, \u003cb\u003eyou want to carry it around with you and whip it out at every bar or dinner party\u003c\/b\u003e -- Tom Shone * Avenue Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eSmart * People *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpectacular \u003c\/b\u003e. . . A work of pop-culture criticism that's fun to read, \u003ci\u003eMonsters \u003c\/i\u003ewill for sure help us have deeper conversations around the perennial question of whether it's possible and OK to separate the work from the art and what it really means to be a fan. 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Her previous, award-winning title, \u003ci\u003eThe Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism\u003c\/i\u003e, formed the basis of the documentary feature, \u003ci\u003eGod \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/i\u003e, produced by Rob Reiner. Her 2012 book, \u003ci\u003eThe Good News Club,\u003c\/i\u003e focused on efforts, by the religious right, to infiltrate and undermine public education. 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Books like hers function not as weapons but as maps, navigating a way around the edges of the abyss. -- Jennifer Szalai * The New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoney, Lies, and God\u003c\/i\u003e paints not only a devastating picture of the state of American democracy but one that also contributes texture and context to understanding the current American political moment. American democracy isn’t simply dying. It is, as Stewart observes, being murdered. -- Casey Michel * The New Republic *\u003cbr\u003eOrganized, clear, and compelling . . . journalism of the highest order . . . This is an important book and it couldn’t appear at a more opportune time. * California Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eAmong the dozens of books that have attempted to identify the forces that Trump rode to power, this is one of the most closely reported and cogent. -- Jessica T. 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And this is a book we need now. * Word \u0026amp; Way *\u003cbr\u003e[Stewart]’s eyewitness account is riveting and will terrify anyone who believes in democratic governance . . . a compelling read. * New Pages *\u003cbr\u003eStewart insightfully identifies the anxieties that lead everyday Americans to embrace what is clearly an antidemocratic and authoritarian political movement. . . \u003ci\u003eMoney, Lies, and God\u003c\/i\u003e was written before the 2024 election. It may seem even more relevant now than it did when it was written, given the Trump administration’s crafting of policies that fit the Christian nationalist agenda, including attacks on transgender people, the deportation of immigrants who were in the United States legally, and the gutting of the Department of Education, which has long been a target of people seeking to move tax dollars to private schools. 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Writing with sympathy and insight, Mr Grosz distils 25 years of work into a series of slim, piercing chapters that read like a combination of Chekhov and Oliver Sacks -- Michiko Kakutani * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eThe success of \u003ci\u003eThe Examined Life\u003c\/i\u003e by the psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz has, I think, relatively little to do with his clinical know-how; it rests, as Freud's did, on his story-telling abilities -- Rachel Cooke * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eGrosz is a superb storyteller and tells lots of his patients' stories with sensitivity, but also with great acuity. You might keep thinking you recognise things about people you know -- William Leith * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eA wonderful example of a book that provides a safe space that can be used as a base to explore the less safe -- Alex Clark * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eRiveting... 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