No Judgement - Lauren Oyler

A brilliant and addictive collection of brand-new essays on modern culture - from ''the pre-eminent and most widely read critic of her generation'' The Times Included as a 2024 highlight in the Observer, Stylist, the Skinny, BBC Online and the Independent ''Funny, insightful and bang on the money'' Stylist''Very fun to read ... exhilarating and original'' New Statesman--------------------------------------------I heard this crazy story, and I want you to know.It is the age of internet gossip; of social networks, repackaged ideas and rating everything out of five stars. Mega-famous celebrities respond with fury to critics who publish less-than-rapturous reviews of their work (and then delete their tweets); CEOs talk about reclaiming ''the power of vulnerability''; and in the world of fiction, writers eschew actually making things up in favour of ''always just talking about themselves''.In this blistering, irreverent and very funny first book of non-fiction, Lauren Oyler - one of the most trenchant, influential, and revelatory critics of her generation - takes on the bizarre particularities of our present moment in a series of interconnected essays about literature, the attention economy, gossip, the role of criticism and her own relentless, teeth-grinding anxiety.Illuminating and thought-provoking, by turns drily scathing and disarmingly open, No Judgement excavates the layers of psychology and meaning in how we communicate, tell stories and make critical judgements - to offe
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