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Madison Malone Kircher: Do you remember the first time you saw the Zola thread, your immediate thought? Jeremy O. Harris: Yes. I was at my friend Dante’s house in the Hills, and I was reading it tweet by tweet. It was like 30 tweets in. I thought it was the funniest thing I’d ever read, and I was like, “What even is this?” And they were like, “If you’re not reading the Zola thread right now, I don’t know what you’re doing.” It blew me away. It felt like the richest writing I h...

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Susan Sontag rubs shoulders with the Marquis de Sade in Olivia Laing's Everybody – an eclectic study of art, flesh and freedom

“Mom, if I was born a boy,” “Like you were supposed to be,” without a tinge of playfulness as she scanned the bar cart in the living room for her preferred drink. She resembled a mannequin and had even once been on the cover of a Roxy Music album, but her hands had always been veiny, gnarled. Villainous. The skin slithered over them like cellophane. I mostly noticed the vulgarity of her pearly, oval claws as she tapped them on various bottles until she found the winner.  “Anyway, Mom...

Fiona McGregor and the art of the incisive essay We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Declan Fry Save Normal text size Giramondo, $26.95 “Things fall apart as soon as they form.” And nowhere more so than in the cultural scenes surveyed by Fiona McGregor in her debut essay collection. Its subjects range from performance art through to refugee policy, gentrification, friendship, and the joy of queer scenes. This last subject account...

Booksellers Favourite Books Of All Time Sellers of the field play favourites with books perfectly, and personally, pitched Tuesday May 11, 2021 A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson Often my favourite book is the one I’m currently recommending to customers. At present, I’m raving about A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson. I toyed with choosing a classic ( Anne of Green Gables) or a Booker winner ( Girl, Woman, Other) as my favourite read, but nothing beats discovering a hidde...

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 �...

After a brutal winter, made even more difficult by the pandemic and killer storms, the Spring Equinox has arrived and warmer weather days are in sight. The following new non-fiction books are a good way to welcome the new season.