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Book The Garden Against Time  In Search of a Common Paradise

Download or read book The Garden Against Time In Search of a Common Paradise written by Olivia Laing and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Oprah Daily Summer Reading Recommendation • Named one of the most anticipated books of 2024 by the BBC, The Observer, Irish Times, The Guardian, and The Millions. Inspired by the restoration of her own garden, "imaginative and empathetic critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing embarks on an exhilarating investigation of paradise. In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an 18th century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there’s still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton’s Paradise Lost to John Clare’s enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth. But the story of the garden doesn’t always enact larger patterns of privilege and exclusion. It’s also a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams. From the improbable queer utopia conjured by Derek Jarman on the beach at Dungeness to the fertile vision of a common Eden propagated by William Morris, new modes of living can and have been attempted amidst the flower beds, experiments that could prove vital in the coming era of climate change. The result is a humming, glowing tapestry, a beautiful and exacting account of the abundant pleasures and possibilities of gardens: not as a place to hide from the world but as a site of encounter and discovery, bee-loud and pollen-laden.

Book Everybody  A Book about Freedom

Download or read book Everybody A Book about Freedom written by Olivia Laing and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement. Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and traveling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century—among them Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag, and Malcolm X. Despite its many burdens, the body remains a source of power, even in an era as technologized and automated as our own. Arriving at a moment in which basic bodily rights are once again imperiled, Everybody is an investigation into the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.

Book Crudo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Olivia Laing
  • Publisher : Pan Macmillan
  • Release : 2018-06-28
  • ISBN : 1509892850
  • Pages : 94 pages

Download or read book Crudo written by Olivia Laing and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I couldn't put it down' – Sally Rooney, author of Normal People Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It’s the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart. Kathy spends the first summer of her forties trying to adjust to making a lifelong commitment – marriage. But it’s not only Kathy who is changing. Political, social and natural landscapes are all in peril. Fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is hotting up. Is it really worth learning to love when the end of the world is nigh? And how do you make art, let alone a life, when it could all end at any moment? From a Tuscan hotel for the super-rich to a politically-paralysed UK, Olivia Laing's first novel is a love letter, inspired by the life and work of Kathy Acker. It is a blistering rewire of the form and a brilliant, funny and emphatically raw account of love in the apocalypse. '[Crudo] will blow you away' – Deborah Levy, author of Hot Milk Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the Goldsmith's Prize and the Gordon Burn Prize

Book Milton  Paradise Lost

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  • Author : John Milton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1900
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Milton Paradise Lost written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Holy thoughts on holy things  selected and arranged by E  Davies

Download or read book Holy thoughts on holy things selected and arranged by E Davies written by Holy thoughts and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary of Phrase and Fable  Giving the Derivation  Source  Or Origin of Common Phrases  Allusions  and Words that Have a Tale to Tell

Download or read book Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Giving the Derivation Source Or Origin of Common Phrases Allusions and Words that Have a Tale to Tell written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Download or read book Dictionary of Phrase and Fable written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Our House

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  • Author : Merilyn S. Mohr
  • Publisher : Camden East, Ont. : Camden House Pub.
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780921820925
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Our House written by Merilyn S. Mohr and published by Camden East, Ont. : Camden House Pub.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Garden

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1892
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 662 pages

Download or read book The Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Star of the Magi

Download or read book Star of the Magi written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Complete Works of J  G  W      with     Illustrations

Download or read book The Complete Works of J G W with Illustrations written by John Greenleaf WHITTIER and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An American Dictionary of the English Language

Download or read book An American Dictionary of the English Language written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 1864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan

Download or read book Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan written by Michigan State Horticultural Society and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Michigan State Pomological Society

Download or read book Report of the Michigan State Pomological Society written by Michigan State Pomological Society and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: