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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 been appropriated across the entire political spectrum. Too often it’s co-opted to bludgeon human rig...

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 “Bear,” by Marian Engel). What’s the last great book you read? “In the Cut,” b...

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 concept. Remember “Freedom Fries?” The word itself has been appropriated across the entire po...

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 how his patients carried their emotional pain physically. He could locate the tension in their bodies,...

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 publisher of esoterica, Falcon's Wing Press. In 1956, he joined Grove Press, then comprised of just thre...