An engaging collection of 12 essays...In them she discusses fundamental themes such as creation and love, the relations between aesthetics and politics, and the place of beauty in contemporary art. Her book is to be read as a 'mediated, fragmented, nontotalized, postmodern, and fortunately still unfinished autobiography'...This well-orchestrated collection of essays highlights Suleiman's very personal views on contemporary artistic and literary expression.
-- Library Journal
Suleiman offers an arresting vantage point on the progress of postmodern thought as it grapples with its own proscriptions.
-- Estella Lauter Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism