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Author has always felt like something of an outsider and it has been a spur for their writing

The 26ft high statue called the Yoxman, described as East Anglias answer to The Angel of the North, has already been labelled a danger to traffic by some locals due to drivers staring at it as they pass.

Diarmuid Hester’s travelogue celebrates the history of queer spaces in 20th century subculture, from Josephine Baker’s Paris to EM Forster’s Cambridge

The 26ft high statue called the Yoxman has already been labelled a danger to traffic by some locals due to drivers staring at it as they drive past.

Women’s prize judge Lorraine Candy, journalist Sarah Shaffi and Guardian readers Kate and Saffron discuss the titles they’ve read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

For much of the 20th century, before the dawn of our own wellness-focused era, madness and substance abuse were often considered prerequisites for great art.

Review: Where Malcolm X meets the Marquis de Sade: Olivia Laings intense new essays on freedom David L. Ulin © (Sophie Davidson) Olivia Laing, whose most recent book of essays is "Everybody: A Book About Freedom." (Sophie Davidson) Olivia Laing’s fifth work of nonfiction, “Everybody: A Book About Freedom,” is a compendium of echoes. The approach recalls much of her spirited nonfiction work: “The Trip to Echo Spring,” which traces the link between alcohol and the wor...

By Olivia Laing Norton: 368 pages, $27 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Olivia Laing’s fifth work of nonfiction, “Everybody: A Book About Freedom,” is a compendium of echoes. The approach recalls much of her spirited nonfiction work: “The Trip to Echo Spring,” which traces the link between alcohol and the work of writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Berryman and Raymond Carver; or �...