Olivia Laing Everybody : A Book About Freedom Paperback

Intensely moving, vital and artful GuardianA dizzying ride . . . both timely and beguiling Sunday TimesFrom the awardwinning 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. Drawing on their own experiences in protest and travelling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthyera America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century, among them Nina Simone, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag and Malcolm X. At a time when basic rights are once again in danger, Everybody is a crucial examination of the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world. Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. An ambitious, absorbing achievement that will make your brain hum Evening StandardSets her alongside the likes of Arundhati Roy, John Berger and James Baldwin Financial Times | Olivia Laing Everybody : A Book About Freedom Paperback