Against Everything: Essays is driven by a thirst

is driven by a thirst for knowledge and by a hatred of civilization--and he refuses to let his "guests" leave

When nationality becomes the primary source of identity and belonging

Battle by battle

the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for

Against Everything: Essays is driven by a thirstFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award The essays in Against Everything are learned, original, highly entertaining, and, from start to finish, dead serious, reinventing and reinvigorating what intellectuals can be and say and do. Key topics are the tyranny of exercise, the folly of food snobbery, the sexualization of childhood (and everything else), the philosophical meaning of pop music, the rise and fall of the hipster, the uses of