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Drawing inspiration from a forgotten play by Valerie Solanas-who wrote the SCUM Manifesto and shot Andy Warhol-Chu aims her searing wit and surgical intuition at targets ranging from performance art to psychoanalysis, incels to porn, and even feminists like herself. Each step of the way she defends the indefensible claim that femaleness is less a biological state of women and more a fatal existential condition that afflicts the entire human race-men, women, and everyone else. 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'A rigorous thinker armed with a killer turn of phrase' Observer  'Her writing is razor-sharp, personal, and vociferous in its proclamations, but it’s also fun – it’s got bite' New Statesman  'Fun reading' Guardian  'A galaxy-brain-level thinker' Torrey Peters  'One of the most charismatic and original thinkers at work today' Brandon Taylor  'Thrilling... Authority reminds us we haven't yet felt all there is to feel' Kaveh Akbar  'A pure joy to read' Claire Dederer Since her canonical 2017 essay ‘On Liking Women’, the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as one of the most provocative, funny, brilliant and stylish critics at work today. 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. 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