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Book Synopsis"This is criticism at its best." —Carolyn Kellogg,
Los Angeles TimesTrade Review"An important and frequently surprising book… could be read as the foundation for a post-avant-garde aesthetics… Nelson, who is also a poet, is such a graceful writer that I…just sat back and enjoyed the show." -- Laura Kipnis - New York Times Book Review
"[Nelson’s] critiques of individual artists are delightfully fierce without being mean spirited… Fascinating and bracingly intelligent…
The Art of Cruelty’s prose is often gorgeous." -- Troy Jollimore - Boston Globe
"A lean-forward experience, and in its most transcendent moments, reading it can feel like having the best conversation of your life." -- Rachel Syme - NPR Books
"I hope that critics, and aspiring critics, and those who are interested in the relationship between art and ethics, read [
The Art of Cruelty]." -- Susie Linfield - New Republic
"[Nelson] dexterously, and creatively, manages to hold a mirror to our culture’s fascination with cruelty and invites us to reflect on our personal reasons for indulging it." -- Eleni Theodoropoulos - Literary Hub
