Un viaje poético por las orillas del río Ouse, donde Olivia Laing entrelaza naturaleza, historia y literatura en un relato cautivador sobre la memoria, el paisaje y la humanidad.
Inspirándose en la restauración de su propio jardín, Olivia Laing se embarca en una estimulante investigación del paraíso. En 2020, comenzó a restaurar un jardín amurallado del siglo XVIII en Suffolk, un...
Olivia Laing nos ofrece en este nuevo ensayo un análisis del cuerpo y sus insatisfacciones a través de los grandes movimientos por la libertad del siglo XX.
Kathy tiene cuarenta años y su vida está a punto de cambiar para siempre: se acerca el día de su boda, el día en que dejará atrás definitivamente su pasado excéntrico y desordenado para entregarse al compro...
En un relato personal, íntimo y profundo, a raíz de su propia experiencia con un padre alcohólico, Olivia Laing nos propone una nueva perspectiva para entender los procesos creativos de seis célebres escritores norteamericanos...
¿Por qué las muchas de las mejores obras de la literatura universal fueron escritas por autores ebrios o en las garras del alcoholismo, una adicción que les costó mucho en términos de felicidad personal y causó...
Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip of alcoholism, an addiction that cost them personal happiness and caused harm to those who loved them? In 'The Trip to Echo Spring', 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...
From the award-winning author of Crudo , this is an exhilarating and eminently readable study of the long struggle for bodily freedom - from gay rights and sexual liberation to feminism and the civil rights movement.
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 twenty-first century.
Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. She writes for the Guardian, New Statesman and Frieze among many other publications. Her first book, To the River , was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Y
What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people? When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on...
Over sixty 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, tracing their intricate flow through...
A dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism on the subject of loneliness, told through the lives of iconic artists, by the acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Spring .