pbAn expansive, exhilarating work of criticism by one of the most significant writers of our dayb pSo often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism or both iOn Freedomi examines such questions by tracing the concept's complexities in four distinct realms art, sex, drugs, and climate. pDrawing on a vast range of material, from critical theory to pop culture to the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience, or talk about freedom in ways responsive to the conditions of our day. Her abiding interest lies in ongoing practices of freedom by which we negotiate our interrelation with--indeed, our inseparability from--