In Olivia Laing’s arresting new “The Silver Book” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), their eighth book and second novel, historical fiction, and much else, is turned on its head. Its historical side is a ...
“It is always worth making a garden, no matter how temporary your stay,” writes Olivia Laing in her sixth book of nonfiction, “The Garden Against Time.” Admittedly, this is a sentiment that one could ...
The most famous garden, certainly in literature, is the Garden of Eden. It’s a paradise, Olivia Laing writes in her new book, and “every story told about it also incorporates it into a political ...
On a Sunday afternoon in May, the Elizabeth Street Garden, a serene public park wedged between Manhattan’s SoHo and Little Italy neighborhoods, was filled with people undeterred by the gray sky and ...
On the cusp of the Covid-19 pandemic in January 2020, Olivia Laing and her husband, Ian, toured a house in England’s Suffolk County. It looked like something out of a children’s drawing, she reports: ...
The lonely city of the title is teeming with painters, filmmakers, writers, and thinkers. In her new book, Laing (The Trip to Echo Spring) creates a “map of loneliness,” tracking its often-paradoxical ...
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