"Joanna Walsh is fast becoming one of our most important writers."--Deborah Levy
"Walsh's writing has intellectual rigour and bags of formal bravery... boldly intellectual work."--Financial Times
"Luminous, philosophical"--Lauren Elkin
"Steeped in the pure poetics of now...a smart, allusive meditation."--Colm Tóibín
"Walsh is a sublimely elegant writer ... artful and intelligent."--The New Statesman
Thought-provoking... Central to Walsh's take on Godard's oeuvre is her curiosity about and understanding of the women who appear in them. --Publisher's Weekly
She articulates the sickening feeling of only ever appreciating one's body in the rearview mirror with such terrible precision that it stunned me.--Philippa Snow, The New Republic
It is rare to find a writer who can take such candid pleasure in beauty--the beauty of faces, figures, clothing, and cities--while also querying its injustices. To watch Godard's films through Joanna Walsh's eyes is to see envy and appreciation, longing and disavowal, walking hand in hand. This book is a gorgeous complex gesture of criticism.--Merve Emre, author of The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway
