The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory, by Emily Eakin.
This “terrific” nonfiction debut traces the rise — and eventual fall — in influence of continental postmodernist philosophy, with all its charismatic, badly behaved, weird characters: Jacques Derrida, Michael Foucault, and so on.
The book is “gossipy and personal and completely fascinating,” and Eakin has a “talent for highly entertaining, occasionally salacious storytelling.” Buy The Frenchmen from your local bookstore.