Becca Rothfeld

An acclaimed debut author's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from topics such as Sally Rooney, sadomasochism, and women who wait All Things Are Too Small is brilliant cultural critic Becca Rothfeld’s soul cry for derangement: imbalance, obsession, gluttony, ravishment, ugliness, and unbound truth in aesthetics, whether we’re talking about literature, criticism, or design. In a healthy culture, Rothfeld argues, economic security allows for wild aesthetic experimentation and excess; alas, in the contemporary Anglophone West, we’ve got it flipped. The gap between rich and poor, privileged and oppressed, yawns hideously wide, while we stagnate in a cultural equality that imposes restraint.

Essays in Praise of Excess

All Things Are Too Small

Jonny Thakkar

Agnes Callard

Angie Cruz

Samuel Scheffler

Wesley Hill

Robert Bird

Timothy Aubry

James Duesterberg

Apoorva Tadepalli

Nargol Aran

Jonah Galeota-Sprung

Charlie Tyson

Issue 20

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