Chris Kraus

Chris Kraus is a cutting-edge LA-based writer of fiction and art criticism. Her books include I Love Dick (1997), Aliens & Anorexia (2000), Torpor (2006), Summer of Hate (2012) and Where Art Belongs (2011). She was awarded the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism from the College Art Association in 2008. She founded the Native Agents series for Semiotext(e).

Works By Chris Kraus

The New Universal
After publishing five or six of these books, I realised they had something in common. Yes they were all written by women – yes they were all written in the first person – and like practically all books and films of their time, they included writi...
17 Oct. 2014

Works Featuring Chris Kraus

Discarding Congeniality: lessons from the life of Kathy Acker
Kraus’s oeuvre has been dedicated to the writing of unlikeable women; challenging congeniality as the bedrock of femininity and exploring the uncomfortable and often humorous situations generated by ambitious, creative women when they cast off con...
26 Feb. 2018

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Chris Kraus

Works By Chris Kraus

The New Universal

Works Featuring Chris Kraus

Discarding Congeniality: lessons from the life of Kathy Acker