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Read by the author, this bold, provocative collection of essays asks one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything?
Since her canonical 2017 essay “On Liking Women,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as a public intellectual straight out of the 1960s. With devastating wit and polemical clarity, she defies the imperative to leave politics out of art, instead modeling how the left might brave the culture wars without throwing in with the cynics and doomsayers. Authority brings together Chu’s critical work across a wide range of media—novels, television, theater, video games—as well as an acclaimed tetralogy of literary essays first published in n+1. Chu places The Phantom of the Opera within a centuries-old conflict between music and drama; questions the enduring habit of reading Octavia Butler’s science fiction as a parable of slavery; and charges fellow critics like Maggie Nelson and Zadie Smith with a complacent humanism.
Criticism today is having a crisis of authority—but so says every generation of critics. In two magisterial new essays, Chu offers a revised intellectual history of this perennial crisis, tracing the surprisingly political contours of criticism from its origins in the Enlightenment to our present age of social media. Rather than succumbing to an endless cycle of trumped-up emergencies, Authority makes a compelling case for how to do criticism in light of the genuine crises, from authoritarianism to genocide, that confront us today.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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"I can’t wait to disappear into this collection of essays from one of my favorite critics . . . tackling culture in all its forms—and also, in two new essays, taking on criticism itself, and how it should (or can) be practiced today. If anyone should know, it’s Chu." —LitHub
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Songs of No Provenance tells the story of Joan Vole, an indie folk singer forever teetering on the edge of fame, who flees New York after committing a shocking sexual act onstage that she fears will doom her career. Joan seeks refuge at a writing camp for teenagers in rural Virginia, where she's forced to question her own toxic relationship to artmaking—and her complicated history with a friend and mentee—while finding new hope in her students and a deepening intimacy with a nonbinary artist and fellow camp staff member.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story, unlikable protagonist
- De Madeline en 06-24-25
De: Lydi Conklin
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Goliath's Curse
- The History and Future of Societal Collapse
- De: Luke Kemp
- Narrado por: Luke Kemp
- Duración: 11 h
- Versión completa
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
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Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
Stepping back to look at our precariously interdependent global society of today—with the threat of nuclear war ever present, the world getting hotter and hotter, and the rapid creation of dangerous algorithms—one couldn’t be blamed for asking: Will we make it? Addressing this question with the seriousness it demands, Cambridge scholar Luke Kemp conducts a historical autopsy that stretches over 300,000 years, from our beginnings as a species to early attempts at cities to Egypt, Rome, and on into our cloudy future.
De: Luke Kemp
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Searches
- Selfhood in the Digital Age
- De: Vauhini Vara
- Narrado por: Vauhini Vara, Anastasia Davidson
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
When it was released to the public in November 2022, ChatGPT awakened the world to a secretive project: teaching AI-powered machines to write. Its creators had a sweeping ambition—to build machines that could not only communicate, but could do all kinds of other activities, better than humans ever could. But was this goal actually achievable? And if reached, would it lead to our liberation or our subjugation?
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5 out of 5 stars
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I think the title sums this complex book up well!
- De irontri455 en 05-07-25
De: Vauhini Vara
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Whack Job
- A History of Axe Murder
- De: Rachel McCarthy James
- Narrado por: Jennifer Pickens
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 10
Whack Job is the story of the axe, first as a convenient danger and then an anachronism, as told through the murders it has been employed in throughout history: from the first axe murder nearly half a million years ago, to the brutal harnessing of the axe in warfare, to its use in King Henry VIII's favorite method of execution, to Lizzie Borden and the birth of modern pop culture.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Nothing Exciting.
- De Amazon Customer en 06-30-25
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Aggregated Discontent
- Confessions of the Last Normal Woman
- De: Harron Walker
- Narrado por: Harron Walker
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
In sixteen wholly original essays that blend memoir, cultural criticism, investigative journalism, and a dash of fanfiction, Walker places her own experiences within the larger context of the pressing and underdiscussed aspects of contemporary American womanhood that make up daily life. She explores the allure and violence of assimilating into white womanhood in all its hegemonic glory, exposes the ways in which the truth of trans women's reproductive healthcare is erased in favor of reactionary narratives, and considers how our agency is stripped from us—purely on account of our bodies.
De: Harron Walker
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A/S/L
- De: Jeanne Thornton
- Narrado por: Jeanne Thornton
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 2
It is 1998; Lilith, Sash, and Abraxa are teenagers, and they are making Saga of the Sorceress, a game that will change everything, if only for the three of them. 18 years later, Saga of the Sorceress still exists only on the scattered drives of its creators.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Should have hired a narrator
- De Andy en 06-03-25
De: Jeanne Thornton
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So Many Stars
- An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color
- De: Caro De Robertis
- Narrado por: Caro De Robertis
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
So Many Stars knits together the voices of trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, and two-spirit elders of color as they share authentic, intimate accounts of how they created space for themselves and their communities in the world. This singular project collects the testimonies of twenty elders, each a glimmering thread in a luminous tapestry, preserving their words for future generations—who can more fully exist in the world today because of these very trailblazers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Groundbreaking Collection
- De Andre en 06-14-25
De: Caro De Robertis
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The Little Book of Data
- Understanding the Powerful Analytics That Fuel AI, Make or Break Careers, and Could Just End Up Saving the World
- De: Justin Evans
- Narrado por: Justin Evans
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
In The Little Book of Data, each chapter illustrates one of the core principles of solving problems with data by featuring an expert who has solved a big problem with data—from the entrepreneur creating a “loneliness score” to the epidemiologist trying to save lives by finding disease “hotspots.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bringing data to the rest of us
- De HeySue en 07-03-25
De: Justin Evans
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Culture Creep
- Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
- De: Alice Bolin
- Narrado por: Kristen Sieh
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
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Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
In seven stunning original essays, Alice Bolin turns her gaze to the myriad ways femininity is remixed and reconstructed by the pop culture of the computer age. The unlikely, often insidious forces that drive our popular obsessions are brilliantly cataloged, contextualized, and questioned in a kaleidoscopic style imitating the internet itself.
De: Alice Bolin
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The Shutouts
- A Novel
- De: Gabrielle Korn
- Narrado por: Gail Shalan
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 9
The year is 2041, and it's a dangerous time to be a woman driving across the United States alone. Deadly storms and uncontrollable wildfires are pummeling the country while political tensions are rising. But Kelly's on the road anyway; she desperately needs to get back to her daughter, who she left seven years ago for a cause that she's no longer sure she believes in.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Chilling and gorgeous
- De Steve en 12-11-24
De: Gabrielle Korn
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Before They Were Men
- Essays on Manhood, Compassion, and What Went Wrong
- De: Jacob Tobia
- Narrado por: Jacob Tobia
- Duración: 11 h
- Versión completa
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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The conversation about masculinity, patriarchy, and misogyny has never been so prominent or heated. Alarmed by a new generation of angry, broken young men, genderqueer writer Jacob Tobia sets out to explore what’s going on and comes to a shocking conclusion: Emotionally and spiritually speaking, men and boys may be the ones suffering the most under the gender binary right now.
De: Jacob Tobia
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Walk Yourself Well
- Step into a Healthier, Happier You
- De: Nina Barough
- Narrado por: Nina Barough
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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In Walk Yourself Well, walking expert Nina Barough will teach you how to make the most out of every step–from mastering your technique and setting your pace to walking in different climates and terrains. Go that extra mile, and get inspired, with step-by-step walking techniques, tips to make your experience more mindful and fun, plus motivational training programmes for every level.
De: Nina Barough
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Ocean
- Earth's Last Wilderness
- De: Sir David Attenborough, Colin Butfield
- Narrado por: Sir David Attenborough, Colin Butfield
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 20
Through personal stories, history and cutting-edge science, Ocean uncovers the mystery, the wonder and the frailty of the most unexplored habitat on our planet—and the one which shapes the land we live on, regulates our climate and creates the air we breathe. The book showcase the oceans' remarkable resilience: they are the part of our world that can, and in some cases has, recovered the fastest, if we only give them the chance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing works
- De Klein Moretti en 05-16-25
De: Sir David Attenborough, y otros
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To Save and to Destroy
- Writing as an Other
- De: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Narrado por: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Duración: 5 h y 20 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet Nguyen arrived in the United States as a child refugee in 1975. The Nguyen family would soon move to San Jose, California, where the author grew up, attending UC-Berkeley in the aftermath of the shocking murder of Vincent Chin, which shaped the political sensibilities of a new generation of Asian Americans. The essays here, delivered originally as the prestigious Norton Lectures, proffer a new answer to a classic literary question: What does the outsider mean to literary writing?
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Strangers in the Land
- Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America
- De: Michael Luo
- Narrado por: Eric Yang
- Duración: 17 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8
In 1889, while upholding Chinese exclusion, Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field characterized them as “strangers in the land.” Only in 1965 did America’s gates swing open to people like Luo’s parents, immigrants from Taiwan. Today there are more than twenty-two million people of Asian descent in the United States and yet the “stranger” label, Luo writes, remains. Drawing on archives from across the country and written with a New Yorker writer’s style and sweep, Strangers in the Land is revelatory and unforgettable, an essential American story.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Thank you for this important history
- De cindy en 06-22-25
De: Michael Luo
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Project Mind Control
- Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA
- De: John Lisle
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8
Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s most cunning chemist. As head of the infamous MKULTRA project, he oversaw an assortment of dangerous—even deadly—experiments. Among them: dosing unwitting strangers with mind-bending drugs, torturing mental patients through sensory deprivation, and steering the movements of animals via electrodes implanted into their brains. His goal was to develop methods of mind control that could turn someone into a real-life “Manchurian candidate.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting and shocking
- De Jennifer en 06-25-25
De: John Lisle
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Disappoint Me
- A Novel
- De: Nicola Dinan
- Narrado por: Martin Sarreal, Mei Mei MacLeod
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 8
Thirty years old with a lifetime of dysphoria and irritating exes rattling around in her head, Max is plagued by a deep dissatisfaction. Shouldn't these be the best years of her life? Why doesn't it feel that way? After taking a spill down the stairs at a New Year’s Eve party, she decides to make some changes. First: a stab at good old-fashioned heteronormativity.
De: Nicola Dinan
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