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A Business Doing Pleasure With You: On Becca Rothfeld's "All Things Are Too Small" — Cleveland Review of Books

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There are nefarious forces at work in the sphere of taste.

A Business Doing Pleasure with You: On Becca Rothfeld’s “All Things Are Too Small” Mitch Therieau · December 10, 2024 Becca Rothfeld | All Things Are Too Small | Metropolitan Books | April 2024 | 304 Pages There are nefarious forces at work in the sphere of taste. Dislike and possibly judgment itself have been outlawed. Phalanxes of stans stand ready to dox critics and unbelievers. Haters are held at post-point until they recite, and believe, that article of anti-critical faith: “Shhh. Let people enjoy things.” Those endowed with a special sensitivity to great and obscure works are iden

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