A Left-Handed Woman

A collection of essays from Judith Thurman, National Book Award-winning writer andNew Yorkerstaff writer.

Judith Thurman, a prolific staff writer atThe NewYorkerfor more than two decades, has gathered a selection of her essays and profiles inA Left-HandedWoman. They consider our culture in all its guises: literature, history, politics, gender, fashion, and art, though their paramount subject is the human condition.

Thurman is one of the preeminent essayists of our timea master of vivisection, as Kathryn Harrison wrote inThe New York Times. When shes done with a subject, its still living, mystery intact.

Hardcover, Dec 6th 2022