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Authority: Essays and adventure: catnip for aLonglisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award Many worry that criticism is suffering from a crisis of authority. In a world where everyones a critic, what is criticism for? Since her canonical essay On Liking Women, the Pulitzer Prizewinning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as a leading public intellectual and a bold cartographer of the new landscape of taste itself. Authority brings together sharp, illuminating essays on