One of the Best Books of the Year- Kirkus Reviews
A timely and lavishly comprehensive collection from the inimitable
critical firebrand-hailed as "a fearless public intellectual and
more necessary than ever" (The New York Times)-tackling sex, art,
feminism, politics, and education, and covering the full span of
her wide-ranging and important career.
CAMILLE PAGLIA is the University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is the author of Free Women, Free Men; Glittering Images; Break, Blow, Burn; The Birds; Vamps & Tramps; Sex, Art, and American Culture; and Sexual Personae.
“Paglia is a brilliant thinker on culture and human nature.” —The
New Criterion
“An essential public intellectual.” —VICE
“With her signature acerbic wit, Paglia offers astute and humorous
cultural commentary across pop culture, art, feminism, and
politics.” —Vogue
“Brilliant. . . . The scholar and culture warrior comes out
swinging. . . . Paglia covers a vast swath of society and culture
at large, including sections on popular culture, literature,
education, art, politics, and more. She is still at her fiery
intellectual best as a teacher, whether she's throwing out odd but
intriguing comparisons—Captain Ahab and Ziggy Stardust are both
‘scarred by lightning,’ each ‘a voyager who has defied ordinary
human limits and paid the price’—or deciphering poetry, happily
butchering sacred cows along the way. . . . This career
retrospective is both maddening and essential.” —Kirkus Reviews
(starred)
“Outrageous, just as we expected and hoped! Not a neutral observer,
Paglia has an eye. She can see movement, see fissures developing,
hear the winds shift. Here, in her collection of essays, we are
doing time travel, but with destinations set. The author is
showing us what she sees ahead.” —Patricia E. Moody, Blue Heron
Journal
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