{"product_id":"9780349016221-all-things-are-too-small","title":"All Things Are Too Small","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEssays in Praise of Excess\u003cbr\u003eFrom one of the most talented and stylish writers in the US, a beautiful, passionate and intellectually dazzling response to modern culture - and a call for excess and abandon in an age of minimalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e MAGAZINE'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e' 100 MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Bracing and brilliant . scintillating writing of breadth and power'\u003c\/b\u003e Kate Kellaway, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A radical and important book' \u003c\/b\u003eJames Wood, author of \u003ci\u003eSerious Noticing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeriously precise . and very funny' \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAll Things Are Too Small\u003c\/i\u003e, virtuoso young critic and philosopher Becca Rothfeld turns her clear gaze to a series of interconnected cultural and political questions - about aesthetics, taste, literature, equality, power and sexuality. In a healthy culture, she argues, economic security allows for wild extremes of aesthetic experimentation, yet in our society we've got it flipped. The gap between rich and poor yawns hideously wide, while we compensate with misguided attempts to effect equality in love and art, where it does not belong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur culture's embrace of minimalism has left our souls impoverished: decluttering has reduced our living spaces to empty non-places; the mindfulness trend has emptied our minds of the thoughts that make us who we are; the regularization of sex has drained it of unpredictability and therefore true eroticism; and our quest for balance has yielded fictions whose protagonists aspire to excise their appetites.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As intellectually illuminating as it is gloriously carnal and earthy, \u003ci\u003eAll Things Are Too Small\u003c\/i\u003e is a much needed tonic in a world of oppressive sterility and limitation, and a soul cry for derangement, imbalance, obsession, ravishment and disorder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41033063432289,"sku":"9780349016221","price":17.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_22262805.jpg?v=1714042145","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780349016221-all-things-are-too-small","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}