Crudo Av Olivia Laing

<p><b>'Intensely moving, vital and artful' - <i>Guardian</i><br>'A dizzying ride . . . both timely and beguiling' - <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>From the award-winning...

<p>Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate...

The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic rights are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using...

Olivia Laing, prize-winning, bestselling author of The Lonely City and Crudo, returns with a career-spanning collection of essays on the power of art in times of crisis.