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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 accounts for much of the book’s pathos – the sense of how, when we look back on the past (that va...

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 hidden gem. A book that slips stealth-like into your hand by an author you’ve never heard of. As a boo...

Review: Where Malcolm X meets the Marquis de Sade: Olivia Laing's 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 work of writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Berryman and Raymond Carver; or “The Lonely City,�...

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 “The Lonely City,” an examination of urban loneliness through the lens of artists Henry Darger and...

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.