The Argonauts


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. At its center is a romance: the story of the author´s relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson´s account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, offers a firsthand account of the complexities and joys of (queer) family-making...