The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson's genre-crossing memoir braids queer love, pregnancy and gender transition with sharp philosophical inquiry, making a fierce, tender case for a life that refuses easy categories.

At a glance A writer falls in love with an artist who is fluidly gendered, and as she carries a… What it's about The Argonauts is a work of autotheory, part memoir, part criticism, that… Moving fluidly between intimate personal narrative and the writings of thinkers she… Themes Nelson examines queerness and the fluidity of gender, motherhood and the radical…

The Argonauts is a work of autotheory, part memoir, part criticism, that centres on Maggie Nelson's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge, her pregnancy, and their building of a queer family.