Truisms II
Alexander Theroux
November 5, 2024
ISBN 9798218501648 / Hardcover / 452 pages / $30.99
ISBN 9798218545178 / Paperback / 452 pages / $24.99

In Truisms II, Alexander Theroux returns to one of his enduring preoccupations: the cataloguing of his "truisms," distilled from a lifetime of reading, writing, and thinking. Each one is a fixed insight, a small repository of what he considers the inevitable and irresistible marks of human nature and the world at large.

Yet the very assertion of a truism—its confidence in its own authenticity—courts controversy. What feels incontrovertible to one reader may strike another as dogmatic, even domineering. Theroux embraces this tension. As the Prologue to this new volume makes clear, these truisms exist to be tested. They confront the reader, inviting either challenge or assent; they demand a kind of reckoning.

Like its 2022 predecessor, Truisms II is a work of uncommon intellectual vigor that will provoke, unsettle, and resonate for generations to come.