Monsters : What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People? by Claire Dederer NX3414265048

TEAM SUMMER PICKS: I read this when itcame out and lovedit, but its so richlydrawn, I feel like itrequires a rereadthis summer, possiblywhile on my verylong flight back toAustralia.Megan

Pablo Picasso beat his partners. Richard Wagner was deeply antisemitic. David Bowie slept with an underage fan.

But many of us still love Guernica and the Ring cycle and Ziggy Stardust. And what are we to do with that love? How are we, as fans, to reckon with the biographical choices of the artists whose work sustains us?Wildly smart and insightful, Monsters is an exhilarating attempt to understand our relationship with art and the artist in the twenty-first century.