Andrea Long Chu

Praise for Authority

Andrea Long Chu is one of the most charismatic and original thinkers at work today. These essays made me want to call a friend and get into an argument—about literature, about culture, about life. With style ...

Brandon Taylor, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Real Life

In an era of ethical infantilization, shitty cynicisms, and limpid rhetorical hygienics, Chu names exactly, irreducibly, what she sees and feels and believes... Like all truly great works of criticism, Authori ...

Kaveh Akbar, author of the New York Times bestseller Martyr!

Reading Andrea Long Chu is always an exhortation to dismantle some authority--outer, inner, or usually both. The writing is triggering, exhilarating, and illuminating. She demands we think counterintuitively, ...

Lexi Freiman, author of The Book of Ayn

Andrea Long Chu is one of the most charismatic and original thinkers at work today. These essays made me want to call a friend and get into an argument—about literature, about culture, about life. With style ...

Brandon Taylor, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Real Life

In an era of ethical infantilization, shitty cynicisms, and limpid rhetorical hygienics, Chu names exactly, irreducibly, what she sees and feels and believes... Like all truly great works of criticism, Authori ...

Kaveh Akbar, author of the New York Times bestseller Martyr!

Reading Andrea Long Chu is always an exhortation to dismantle some authority--outer, inner, or usually both. The writing is triggering, exhilarating, and illuminating. She demands we think counterintuitively, ...

Lexi Freiman, author of The Book of Ayn

Andrea Long Chu is one of the most charismatic and original thinkers at work today. These essays made me want to call a friend and get into an argument—about literature, about culture, about life. With style ...

Brandon Taylor, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Real Life

In an era of ethical infantilization, shitty cynicisms, and limpid rhetorical hygienics, Chu names exactly, irreducibly, what she sees and feels and believes... Like all truly great works of criticism, Authori ...

Kaveh Akbar, author of the New York Times bestseller Martyr!

Reading Andrea Long Chu is always an exhortation to dismantle some authority--outer, inner, or usually both. The writing is triggering, exhilarating, and illuminating. She demands we think counterintuitively, ...

Lexi Freiman, author of The Book of Ayn