Monsters

''Funny, lively and convivial... how rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read'' MEGAN NOLAN, SUNDAY TIMES

''An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life'' JENNY OFFILL

A passionate, provocative and blisteringly smart interrogation of how we experience art in the age of #MeToo, and whether we can separate an artist''s work from their biography.

What do we do with the art of monstrous men? Can we love the work of Roman Polanski and Michael Jackson, Hemingway and Picasso? Should we love it? Does genius deserve special dispensation? What makes women artists monstrous? And what should we do with beauty, and with our unruly feelings about it?

Claire Dederer explores these questions and our relationships with the artists whose behaviour disrupts our ability to understand the work on its own terms. She interrogates her own responses an