All About Love: New Visions

Written by bell hooks

Narrated by January LaVoy

A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' ""Love Song to the Nation"" trilogy.  All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces.

“The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. 

As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperAudio
• Release date: Oct 17, 2023
• ISBN: 9780063342699

bell hooks

bell hooks was an influential cultural critic, feminist theorist, and writer. Celebrated as one of America’s leading public intellectuals, she was a charismatic speaker and writer who taught and lectured around the world. Previously a professor in the English departments at Yale University and Oberlin College, hooks was the author of more than 17 books, including the New York Times bestseller All About Love: New Visions; Salvation: Black People and Love; Communion: the Female Search for Love, as well as the landmark memoir  Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood.

Reviews for All About Love

[jon · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Great book it started off very well but I did find that it wasn’t as good towards the end. Still a must read

[Tamara · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Wow!!! What an awesome and great book.!!! All about love

[Jessica Harrison · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I’m going to have to go get a hard copy of this book. There were so many good nuggets that I want to meditate on and think about. This book is literally all about love. Not just romantic love, but what it means to live by a love ethic out in the world, and also how many of us may have been cared for but not received love from parents/caregivers. We can’t give something we’ve never received.

[Leah Brickhouse · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Bell Hooks gives pause, thought, and space for one's definition of love. This is food for your soul. Don't be afraid to try it.