Love: A History Condition:Well Read Winner of the 2015 PEN

Winner of the 2015 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction"Daum is her generation's Joan Didion

but he has brought his demons with him

But it's not just a guide to giggling at sleepovers—although that's included

Read it and remember that

An updated Selected Bibliography is also included

Love: A History Condition:Well Read Winner of the 2015 PENLoveunconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally acceptingis worshipped today as the West's only universal religion. To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos. In this pathbreaking and superbly written book, philosopher Simon May does just that, dissecting our resilient ruling ideas of love and showing how they are the product of a long and powerful cultural heritage. Tracing over 2,500 years of human thought and history, May