Olivia Laing

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's still time?

Cea mai cunoscută carte a Oliviei Laing, Orașul solitar este un text radiant despre singurătate, mecanismele care o provoacă și despre cum ne putem ...

Embodiment is not an easy business. From violence to illness, sexuality to racism, the fact of a body can be impossibly hard to inhabit. Olivia Laing draws on her own background in protest and alternative medicine to investigate the reasons why....

The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich....

Humano, provocativo y conmovedor, este audiolibro nos habla sobre los espacios que unen a las personas y las cosas, acerca de la sexualidad, la mortalidad y las posibilidades mágicas del arte....

Humano, provocativo y conmovedor, este audiolibro nos habla sobre los espacios que unen a las personas y las cosas, acerca de la sexualidad, la mortalidad y las posibilidades mágicas del arte....

Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It’s the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart. Fast-paced and frantic, Crudo unfolds in real time from the full-throttle perspective of a commitment-phobic artist who may or may not be Kathy Acker....

From a Tuscan hotel for the super-rich to a Brexit-paralysed UK, Kathy spends the first summer of her 40s trying to adjust to making a lifelong commitment just as Trump is tweeting the world into nuclear war....

Over 60 years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives....

Olivia Laing's widely acclaimed account of why some of the best literature has been created by writers in the grip of alcoholism....

In the age of Trump and Brexit, every crisis is instantly overridden by the next. The turbulent political weather generates anxiety and makes it difficult to know how to react. Laing makes an inspiring case for why art matters more than ever, as a force of both resistance and repair....

In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the 21st century....

Un relato bello y exigente de los abundantes placeres y posibilidades de los jardines como lugares de encuentro y descubrimiento.Inspirándose en la...

"Il nuotatore di Cheever comprime tra le sue tenaglie tutta la vita di un alcolista. Io volevo seguire la stessa traiettoria oscura. Volevo sapere perché gli scrittori bevono e come questa miscela...

Bisogna aver toccato l'abisso per saperlo raccontare. Per descrivere il vuoto avvolgente di una ferita che diventa uno stigma...

Tutto è corpo, il corpo è tutto. Il corpo ci rende potenti e vitali, ci umilia e ci offende. Il corpo è una vittima...

Kathy scrive. Kathy prende il sole a bordo piscina in un resort della Toscana, si ubriaca di porto, frequenta le mostre più in voga di Londra...

Gita al fiume è un omaggio, un tributo, un’esperienza. È il viaggio di una scrittrice sulle orme di un’altra. Con la prosa poetica a cui si sono affezionati...

Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton’s Paradise Lost to John Clare’s enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth.