The Argonauts

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family

Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. It binds an account of Nelson's relationship with her partner and a journey to and through a pregnancy to a rigorous exploration of sexuality, gender, and "family." An insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry for this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.

Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 01/26/2016
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781555977351


Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 02/14/2016 pg. 28

About the Author
Maggie Nelson is a poet, critic, and nonfiction author of books such as The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning, Bluets, and Jane: A Murder. She teaches in the School of Critical Studies at CalArts and lives in Los Angeles, California.