A collection of essays from Judith Thurman, a writer "blessed with intellectual curiosity, a sharp wit and unwillingness to receive opinions" (The New York Times).
Judith Thurman, a National Book Award—winning biographer and essayist, and a staff writer at The New Yorker for more than two decades, has gathered a selection of her essays and profiles from the past fifteen years in A Left-Handed Woman. Her subjects are greatly varied, ranging from fashion and art to literature and history, with examinations of politics, culture, and the human condition suffused throughout.
Thurman is one of the preeminent essayists of our time, and this collection displays the great heights of her wit, feeling, and curiosity. As Amanda Heller wrote in The Boston Globe, Thurman's writing is "Elegant yet casual, knowledgeable without being intimidating, self-revealing but never self-indulgent... Thurman's crisp intelligence [is] always at home."
"Judith Thurman notices everything. Meticulous observation has been a hallmark of her 50-year career as a writer whose laser-sharp gaze traverses millenniums, countries and genres . . . A strong through-line that distinguishes Ms. Thurman's multifarious work is her determination to bring light to the hidden corners of culture, particularly those occupied by brilliant women."
Rhonda Garelick, The New York Times
"[Thurman] taught me things I never knew about writing and the world we live in."
