FIGURES OF POWER
May 28, 2021
3 minutes
By Josh Cohen
At the end of this exhilarating journey through a century’s struggles over the human body, Olivia Laing invites her reader to “imagine, for a minute, what it would be like to inhabit a body without fear”. This simple hope comes to sound like a radical demand for the impossible; after such a vivid catalogue of the humiliations and cruelties a body can be made to bear, it isn’t easy to imagine.
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