Monsters

This book is half excellent and half terrible. First, it’s a great subject, horrible people who make great art is something that bothers all of us here I think. Claire Dederer asks all the right questions and rounds up all the usual suspects, Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Hemingway, Picasso, JK Rowli......more

thank god i can go back to watching Annie Hall in peace.......more

Frankly, the whole discussion about the cancellation of problematic artists is rather silly, because it's based on a false dichotomy: That we have to categorize artistic output as either morally good or morally bad in order to validate our consumption of it. In our post-postmodern world, we should b......more

Ooof I think Claire Dederer mentions praxis only once in this book and it shows. Maybe some people find this book helpful and I don't want to poo-poo them. I don't think this book is entirely without merit, but I also don't think that this book is the "ambitious" book that the author says is her goa......more

I didn't get what I wanted from this one.There were far too many tangents and too many potted biographies of the artists being discussed. An interesting premise but one the author struggled to add depth to, resulting in the book feeling really padded out.......more