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Those who are first introduced to\\xa0Maggie Nelson\\xa0soon notice her name throughout their literary and social worlds. The award-winning writer, scholar, poet, and critic is one of the most prolific and influential Western thinkers today. She\\u2019s the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award winning work The Argonauts, a\\xa0genre-bending memoir\\xa0that gives a firsthand account of the complexities and joys of queer family-making. Her latest work,\\xa0On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, draws on a vast range of material to explore how we might think, experience, or talk about freedom. Thinking publicly through the knots in our culture\\u2014from recent art-world debates to the turbulent legacies of sexual liberation, from the painful paradoxes of addiction to the lure of despair in the face of the climate crisis\\u2014is itself a practice of freedom, a means of forging fortitude, courage, and company. Hear her in conversation with bookseller-turned-librarian\\xa0Baharak Yousefi.