Press Reviews

• The Times

  The pre-eminent and most widely read critic of her generation

• Naoise Dolan, author of The Happy Couple

  Brisk, honest and soaring with élan. Oyler persuasively advocates clear thinking through doing it herself with such poise. Her critical approach isn't currently common sense, but it should be, and soon enough maybe it will

• Monica Heisey, author of Really Good, Actually

  Like stumbling into the best archival New Yorker essays - smart and unafraid and (thank God) funny. This is exactly what I want to read

• Stylist, the best non-fiction for 2024

  Funny, insightful and bang on the money, No Judgement is a series of essays exploring where we're at right now. Covering everything from existential anxiety to the attention economy, it'll be everywhere this year

• Rachel Cooke

  Observer

  A collection of interconnected essays about, among other things, literature, gossip and the attention economy by the funny and pugnacious American critic Lauren Oyler (and I can hardly wait for it)

• The Skinny

  Lauren Oyler's collection of essays, No Judgement, is a big moment: expect mordantly funny cultural commentary and incisive literary analysis

• The Millions

  Oyler is one of our sharpest and most fearless cultural critics .... Opining on gossip and anxiety, autofiction and vulnerability, and much, much more, [her] caustic wit and penetrating voice shine through every essay

• The Times

  This is a seriously thought-provoking book ... fascinating, original, seductive. No Judgement made me want to live a little more

• The i

  A series of interconnected essays about modern life, from gossip and anxiety to books and criticism. Scathing, wry and incisive

• Guardian

  Witty, agile, stimulating ... by turns anecdotal, playful, ironically self-deprecating. Oyler has a talent for cutting through hype and getting to the nub of things

• New Statesman

  Oyler is a practitioner of what one might call autofictional criticism. Her essays frequently double as personal-romantic quests - there are often boyfriends in the background and allusions to melancholy - and are ingeniously self-reflexive. Very fun to read ... exhilarating and original

• Vogue

  Expect it to be the most-discussed collection by a female essayist since Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror

• Irish Times

  Oyler is ferociously intelligent and none of her many judgements is easy. She pushes arguments beyond the expected resolution into an original spin on the initial premise

• Financial Times

  Entertaining and insightful ... self-deprecating, honest and witty ... well-chosen, timely subjects, tackled with a sharp mind

• New York Times Book Review

  Sharp and confident ... feels like your smart friend explaining to you something you missed on the internet, why it's important and what it means