The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning by Maggie Nelson

The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

Maggie Nelson with Tavia Gilbert (Narrator)

8 hours first pub 2011 (editions) user-added

nonfiction art essays philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiveness of images of torture, horror, and war has all but demolished the twentieth-century hope that such imagery might shock us into a less alienated s...

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challenging 80%
informative 80%
reflective 73%
dark 63%
inspiring 15%
tense 8%
emotional 4%
funny 4%
hopeful 2%

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medium 42%
fast 15%

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