I WROTE THIS BOOK BECAUSE I LOVE YOU

New York Times essayist, cartoonist, and author of We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider explores the age-old issues of love and relationships in his second collection of essays and ponders why they’re so bafflingly hard to get right.

In his latest collection, Kreider focuses on a common theme: This is a book about love—about sex and companionship, relationships and breakups, frustration and desire. In each essay, Kreider expands on these experiences, touching on psychology, religion, politics, and philosophy. Intimate and universal, this collection is a powerful portrait of just what love is and can be: complicated, messy, hilarious, embarrassing, and yet irrepressible, uplifting, and sustaining.

Kreider is a regular contributor to the New York Times and his essays throughout the past couple years have consistently gone viral and straight to the top of Times’s “most emailed” list. Through this work along with essays for the New Yorker online and appearances on Radiolab, This American Life, and The Tim Ferriss Show, Kreider has gained stature and recognition since his last book.