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Everybody
by Olivia Laing
Everybody is a beautifully strange and emotive examination of the human body through the lenses of sexuality, gender, violence and various civil rights movements throughout history.
Laing masterfully weaves her own experiences with character studies of everybody (pun not intended) from Susan Sontag to Nina Simone, with the whole thing threaded together by an in-depth exploration of the life and work of psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, a protégé of Sigmund Freud and the subject of Kate Bush's 'Cloudbusting'.
The more that I read, the more I was engrossed in Laing's examination of bodily freedom and the many ways it has been encroached upon throughout the last century, and I found myself genuinely moved on several occasions.
Laing masterfully weaves her own experiences with character studies of everybody (pun not intended) from Susan Sontag to Nina Simone, with the whole thing threaded together by an in-depth exploration of the life and work of psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, a protégé of Sigmund Freud and the subject of Kate Bush's 'Cloudbusting'.
The more that I read, the more I was engrossed in Laing's examination of bodily freedom and the many ways it has been encroached upon throughout the last century, and I found myself genuinely moved on several occasions.