The I Index

Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth

Bottom of the pile

14

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

11/100

Critics

17/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Jennifer Banks

Publisher:

W. W. Norton & Company

Date:

May 2, 2023

An exploration of natality, a much-needed counterpoint to mortality, drawing on the insights of brilliant writers and thinkers.

What The Reviewers Say

Becca Rothfeld,
The Washington Post
[Banks struggles] to break with the established scripts, even linguistically.
Anna Katharina Schaffner,
Los Angeles Review of Books
Elegantly subversive.

Kirkus
The author’s contribution isn’t providing new information about her subjects but rather illuminative, variable insights via her particular, occasionally amorphous lens.