In this Unflinching, deeply personal book, Claire Dederer asks: Can we love the work of Hemingway, Polanski, Woody Allen, Miles Davis, or Picasso? Should we love it? How do we balance our undeniable moral outrage with our equally undeniable love of the work? In an age when the monstrousness of human behavior is on constant display, how do we retain our connection to the films, books, and music that have made us feel most alive? This brilliant and electrifying book expands on Dederer's instantly viral essay "What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men? which shaped the conversation about art and morality in the psychic theater of public condemnation. With ferocious intelligence, extraordinary nuance, and a fan's reluctance to part with the works of art that have been foundational for her, Dederer clings in these pages-ambivalently at times, frequently comically, always with ardor-to the art she reveres. She resists pieties, wrestles with contradictions, and turns an unforgiving eye back on herself, looking with unmitigated candor at her own long-held secrets, and at the monsters she has hidden in her own life. Wise, funny, ruthlessly honest, and destined to incite controversy and conversation, Monsters is a work of extraordinary urgency and erudition from a writer at the height of her powers.