Monsters

"What do we do with great art made by men (it’s mostly men) who’ve done bad things? Men like Pablo Picasso, Norman Mailer, Ernest Hemingway, Roman Polanski, Miles Davis and Woody Allen, to name but a few. Do we put blinders on and just focus on the work? Do geniuses, as Monsters asks, get a “hall pass” for their behavior? Or do we “cancel” the art of men who’ve been “monstrous” in their behavior? Claire Dederer, who started out as a film critic, writes with wit and passion in this slim, smart book."

"I was reading Claire Dederer's Monsters and found out that Jenny Diski was Doris Lessing's foster daughter! I was so shocked, I stopped reading."