A review by cerysejones
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing

4.0

Took me a long time to read but I quite liked taking it in chunks so I had a chance to reflect on and look into each artist she focused on. I liked the interweaving of her own thoughts with the lives and criticisms of artists (would’ve been cool to have at least some focus on female artists too tho). Also I found the depiction of the (male focused) LGBT narrative insightful. An interesting investigation into what loneliness and isolation really means, but am curious about how positive it was meant to be because I am not feeling particularly uplifted. Also the last chapter was wild people are so weird.