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Opinions

By Roxane Gay
Opinions by Roxane Gay digital book - Fable

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From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between.

Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society—state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women’s rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy—alongside more individually personalized matters: can I tell my co-worker her perfume makes me sneeze? Is it acceptable to schedule a daily 8 am meeting? In her role as a New York Times opinion section contributor and the publication’s “Work Friend” columnist, she reaches millions of readers with her wise voice and sharp insights.

Opinions is a collection of Roxane Gay’s best nonfiction pieces from the past ten years. Covering a wide range of topics—politics, feminism, the culture wars, civil rights, and much more—with an all-new introduction in which she reflects on the past decade in America, this sharp, thought-provoking anthology will delight Roxane Gay’s devotees and draw new readers to this inimitable talent.

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3.5
Thinking Face“Very eerie reading this book during the current administration. The exhaustion the author felt in 2017, is the exhaustion I feel today. But she reminds us that giving up is not the answer. The chapters about BLM felt especially heavy and were hard to get through, but I am glad I did. In the end, we can’t simply choose to look away or try to dissociate from the things are going on in our communities. I didn’t care for the celebrity interviews but as a whole I’ve started to care less about celebrity culture. I’ve come to realize I don’t love books about “current events” but they are important to read and provide a different perspective on current events. There were tons of opinions I disagreed on with the author but also a lot that I co-signed 100%. Again, some parts were really eerie to read especially during this very specific, complicated and challenging time. But an important reminder, that the work is not done.”
Thinking Face“roxane gay is one of my favorite writers, and bad feminist truly radicalized me—it completely shifted how i think and approach the world. i’ve been on the hunt for hunger or not that bad, but alas, the shop only had bad feminist (already a cherished read) and opinions, which i hadn’t read yet. 💭 i’m glad i picked it up because her voice never fails to inspire and challenge me. also, so glad i can now keep up with her on substack— what a gift! 😊”

About Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay is the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist; the novel An Untamed State, a finalist for the Dayton Peace Prize; the New York Times bestselling memoir Hunger; and the short story collections Difficult Women and Ayiti. A contributing opinion writer to the New York Times, for which she also writes the “Work Friend” column, she has written for Time, McSweeney’s, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Harper’s Bazaar, Tin House, and Oxford American, among many other publications. Her work has also been selected for numerous Best anthologies, including Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018 and Best American Mystery Stories 2014. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. In 2018 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and holds the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University’s Institute for Women’s Leadership.

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