This highly anticipated book by the Pulitzer Prize winning critic Andrea Long Chu asks one of the most urgent questions of our time what is authority when everyone has an opinion on everythingA rigorous thinker armed with a killer turn of phraseObserverHer writing is razorsharp personal and vociferous in its proclamations but its also fun its got biteNew StatesmanFun readingGuardianA galaxybrainlevel thinker Torrey PetersOne of the most charismatic and original thinkers at work today Brandon TaylorThrilling. Authority reminds us we havent yet felt all there is to feel Kaveh AkbarA pure joy to read Claire DedererSince her canonical 2017 essay On Liking Women the Pulitzer Prizewinning 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.Authority brings together Chus critical work across a wide range of medianovels television theater video gamesas well as an acclaimed tetralogy of literary essays first published in n1.