The Argonauts
by Maggie Nelson
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Pub Date Jan 26 2016 | Archive Date May 31 2025
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Description
Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson, the iconic, groundbreaking modern classic named a Best Book of the 21st Century by the New York Times
Winner of the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of “autotheory” offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author’s relationship with artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes the author’s account of falling in love with Dodge, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, is an intimate portrayal of the complexities and joys of (queer) family making.
Writing in the spirit of public intellectuals like Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Nelson binds her personal experience to a rigorous exploration of what iconic theorists have said about sexuality, gender, and the vexed institutions of marriage and childrearing. Nelson’s insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry for this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.
Advance Praise
“Sometimes classics are classics for a very good reason and such is the case with Maggie Nelson’s genre-bending memoir The Argonauts.”—Book Riot
“Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today.”—Olivia Laing, The Guardian
“So much writing about motherhood makes the world seem smaller after the child arrives, more circumscribed . . . Nelson’s book does the opposite.”—The New York Times Book Review
“The Argonauts is a moving exploration of family and love, but it’s also a meditation on the seductions, contradictions, limitations, and beauties of being normal, as a person and as an artist.”—The New Yorker
“Nelson’s vibrant, probing and, most of all, outstanding book is also a philosophical look at motherhood, transitioning, partnership, parenting, and family.”—NPR
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781555977351 |
| PRICE | $17.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 160 |
