Summary
"In this unflinching, deeply personal book that expands on her instantly viral Paris Review essay, "What Do We Do With the Art of Monstrous Men?" Claire Dederer asks: Can we love the work of Hemingway, Polanski, Naipaul, Miles Davis, or Picasso? Should we love it? Does genius deserve special dispens... Full description
- Prologue: The Child Rapist
- Roll Call
- The Stain
- The Fan
- The Critic
- The Genius
- The Anti-Semite, the Racist, and the Problem of Time
- The Silencer and the Silenced
- The Anti-Monster
- Am I a Monster?
- Abandoning Mothers
- Lady Lazarus
- What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Women?
- Drunks
- The Beloveds.