A review by tasho
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing

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5.0

I really enjoyed this book. I thought the premise of connecting loneliness to depictions in art would be pretentious and wishy-washy, but it’s actually deeply insightful. Olivia discusses connections to feelings of loneliness and social isolation to class, identity, mental illness, upbringing, into ways that I found fascinating but also quite sad. It gave me great perspective into the art scene as well as lived experiences of the lower class and what barriers are enforced between us by the structures of classism, capitalism and gentrification. Strongly recommend.
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