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elizapills 's review for:
Everybody
by Olivia Laing
If only this cast of characters could meet in real life, embodied. Nina Simone, Sigmund Freud, Agnes Martin, Susan Sontag, Ana Mendieta, Malcolm X, Marquis de Sade, Phillip Guston, Andrea Dworkin, Christopher Isherwood. I’m so fascinated by the way Laing’s brain works, and I will continue to devour anything she writes. I highly recommend this book for a brain-bending, mind-opening read.
Lonely City had more emotional resonance for me, since I was reading it during a very lonely time in my life, so that’s why this is only four stars! But I could easily give it 4.5 stars and round up, too.
I thought this New Yorker review gives a good sense of the experience of reading this book: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/olivia-laings-strange-sublime-book-on-the-body
Lonely City had more emotional resonance for me, since I was reading it during a very lonely time in my life, so that’s why this is only four stars! But I could easily give it 4.5 stars and round up, too.
I thought this New Yorker review gives a good sense of the experience of reading this book: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/olivia-laings-strange-sublime-book-on-the-body