The Reckonings Essays
The Reckonings Essays by Lacy M. Johnson is a timely collection published by Scribner on October 9, 2018, featuring 336 pages in English. This work is rooted in Johnson’s personal experiences with sexual assault and explores complex themes surrounding justice, sexual violence, and retribution. The essays draw from a variety of disciplines, including philosophy, art, and literature, to expand the conversation about justice beyond traditional notions of vengeance.
Readers will find a meditative examination of societal issues, as Johnson addresses topics such as the challenges of being believed in cases of assault, the nature of evil, and the representation of women in art. The essays engage with significant contemporary issues, including workplace harassment and environmental disasters, while offering insights into compassion, mercy, and grace. The Reckonings serves as a profound contribution to discussions about justice and societal wrongs, reflecting on the broader implications of personal and collective experiences.
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This extraordinary, timely new collection of essays by the award-winning writer of The Other Side—rooted in her own experience with sexual assault—pursues questions of justice, sexual violence, and retribution.
In 2014, Lacy Johnson was giving a reading from The Other Side, her “instant classic” (Kirkus Reviews) memoir of kidnapping and rape, when a woman asked her what she would like to happen to her rapist. This collection, a meditative extension of that answer, draws from philosophy, art, literature, mythology, anthropology, film, and other fields, as well as Johnson’s personal experience, to consider how our ideas about justice might be expanded beyond vengeance and retribution to include acts of compassion, patience, mercy, and grace.
From “Speak Truth to Power,” about the condition of not being believed about rape and assault; to “Goliath,” about the concept of evil; to “Girlhood in a Semi-Barbarous Age,” about the sacred feminine, “ideal woman,” and feminist art, Johnson creates masterful, elaborate, gorgeously written essays that speak incisively about our current era. She grapples with justice and retribution, truth and fairness, and sexual assault and workplace harassment, as well as the broadest societal wrongs: the BP Oil Spill, government malfeasance, police killings. The Reckonings is a powerful and necessary work, ambitious in its scope, which strikes at the heart of our national conversation about the justness of society.
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