Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life

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On Certainty shatters the mainstream consensus on truth, politics, violence, the self, and our relationships. Following on from Joan Didion, Roxane Gay and Maggie Nelson, Natasha Lennard's powerful essays carve out a new path from the political to the personal. Along the way she shatters a number of liberal shibboleths-on truth and justice, violence and anti-fascism, sex and suicide. Lennard has a radical perspective on the world that is both capacious and politically committed, and looks towards new political strategies that might follow from it.

Natasha Lennard is a contributing writer for the Intercept, and her work has appeared regularly in the New York Times, Nation, Esquire, Vice, Salon, and New Inquiry, among others. She teaches critical journalism at the New School for Social Research, and Violence (with Brad Evans) will be published this year by City Lights.

Full of surprising insights and intelligent compassion. -- Sarah Leonard, co-author of The Future We Want Immediate and relevant but also profoundly philosophical. -- Razia Iqball * BBC News * Natasha Lennard's prose is taut and unexpectedly gorgeous. -- Molly Crabapple Love, the supernatural, and the state are all explored with the same fervour, reflecting on toxic relationships, a childhood ghost, and how the process of getting an American Green Card drove home the uncomfortable ties between our bedrooms and the state. * Dazed * Concise and wonderfully acerbic * Quietus * Lennard's perspective encourages an active, thoughtful view of citizenship in a disconcerting era. * TANK Magazine, Summer Reads * An especially helpful analytical framework for the twenty-first century, a world with billions of digital selves interacting in a hypersurveilled universe, within which we are anything but free or empowered. * Vogue * Riveting . Being Numerous is an enlightening and eminently readable guide to the radical politics of today. * Times Literary Supplement * beautifully, written, often incisive and astute, and eminently relevant. * Jewish Currents * Lennard is a lively, committed and thoughtful writer * Morning Star *