A stands for art criticism and for "Ah man, I don't know where to start with this one." Oh, how the title backoned me. "What Do We Do With Great Art By Bad People?". The by now age-old debate. What DO we do? With Woody Allen's films? With Picasso's paintings? With all the filmmakers and musicians and painters who we know have done terrible, terrible things. Can we separate the art from the artist? And if we can, does than automatically mean that we should? Claire Dederer has written a wonderfully timely (and also enjoyably readable) essay on this conundrum, yes. But before you go out and spend your hard-earned money on this book in hopes of getting answers to your questions: You won't. And you know what? I personally think that this is the book's biggest strength. Its ability to navigate a difficult topic that moves us all in one way or another without coming from a moral high ground, without telling us what is right or what is wrong. Instead, Dederer find's a wonderfully human way of laying out her thoughts, of describing the difficulties and pitfalls that lay in consuming art by monsters and (and that is the greates achievement of the text) she points out the monster that is in all of us. Chapeau I say. 4/5 starts and quiet applause from the last row of the lecture hall. Well done, well done.