Everybody

<p><b><i>Everybody</i>: A Vital Examination of the Long Struggle for Bodily Freedom</b><br> <br> From the award-winning author of Crudo, <i>Everybody</i> is an exhilarating and eminently readable study of the long struggle for bodily freedom - from gay rights and sexual liberation to feminism and the civil rights movement.<br> <br> Drawing on their own experiences in protest and travelling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, Olivia Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century, among them Nina Simone, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag and Malcolm X.<br> <br> At a time when basic rights are once again in danger, <i>Everybody</i> is a crucial examination of the forces arranged against freedom - and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.<br> <br> 'Intensely moving, vital and artful' - <i>Guardian</i><br> <br> 'A dizzying ride . . . both timely and beguiling' - <i>Sunday Times</i><br> <br> 'An ambitious, absorbing achievement that will make your brain hum' - <i>Evening Standard</i><br> <br> 'Sets her alongside the likes of Arundhati Roy, John Berger and James Baldwin' - <i>Financial Times</i><br> <br> Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize.</p>