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In “Everybody,” the author draws on a chorus of voices to investigate the physical meaning of freedom.

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. Let Me Tell You What I Mean (Knopf, 2021) by celebrated writer Joan Didion opens with a lengthy intro by gay writer Hilton Als, before delighting readers with previously uncollected essays written between 20 and 50 years ago on topics as timely as ever, including coll...

Olivia Laing, Everybody (2021)Courtesy of Picador It’s quite a big place to start, but how can we reckon with the problem of existing inside a body?  Olivia Laing: Well, thats the question that made me write the book. I feel like that question has always been quite live to me. The body is the site of so many different experiences. Sometimes we’re happily and delightful embodied and other times, it feels like were sort of stuck in this prison. And the body has needs, and those needs can be ...

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May Day Moscow by Mexican artist Diego Rivera, 1928. MoMA, fair use. CHICAGO—Celebrate International Workers Day with a HotHouse special online cultural program featuring Jon Langford & Sally Timms, Marvin Tate, and Bill MacKay, plus shout-outs from activists in the labor movement. Jon Langford and Sally Timms have been performing together in and around U.K. Punk Rock band the Mekons since the early 1980s. This acoustic duo situation is most likely born of pandemic necessity because they priz...

On finding freedom for every body Lauren LeBlanc © Mason Trinca A protestor waved a Black Lives Matter flag in front a Nina Simone music video during demonstrations in Portland, Ore., last year. Author Olivia Laing captures a moment where Simone, in conversation with an interviewer, recognizes that the absence of fear is, for her, the embodiment of freedom. Today, long after 9/11, freedom remains an overdetermined concept. Remember “Freedom Fries?” The word itself has bee...

Olivia Laing’s Reading Piles Are Far From Organized Credit...Jillian Tamaki April 29, 2021 “There are something like 15,000 books in our house,” says the author of “Everybody” and other books, “including pretty much every poetry pamphlet published in the 20th century. It’s a problem.” What books are on your night stand? Seed catalogs, and a book that says on the cover “Bear I love you, bite my head off” (on closer inspection it’s called â�...

On finding freedom for every body By Lauren LeBlanc Globe Correspondent,Updated April 28, 2021, 11:03 p.m. Email to a Friend A protestor waved a Black Lives Matter flag in front a Nina Simone music video during demonstrations in Portland, Ore., last year. Author Olivia Laing captures a moment where Simone, in conversation with an interviewer, recognizes that the absence of fear is, for her, the embodiment of freedom.Mason Trinca/NYT Today, long after 9/11, freedom remains an overdetermined con...

Olivia Laing’s Everybody is a sprawling meditation on freedom and the body By blending memoir, art criticism and biography, Laing explores how the body you are born into shapes your life, your freedom and your opportunities.   Wilhelm Reich’s best ideas, and his weirdest, wildest ones, stemmed from his understanding of how our personal and political histories imprint themselves on our bodies. As a young psychoanalyst working in Vienna – a protégé of Sigmund Freud – he noticed ho...

Fred Jordan, Former Grove Press Editor and Pantheon Publisher, Dies at 95 By John Maher | Apr 28, 2021 Fred Jordan, an influential longtime editor at Grove Press for three decades and, later, publisher of Pantheon Books, died on April 19. He was 95. The Viennese-born Jordan, né Alfred Rotblatt, emigrated to the United States in 1949 after surviving the Holocaust. After working as a journalist, in 1953, Jordan began a long and storied publishing career with a one-man publ...