A sideways look at love
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14 February is, we’re sure you know, the feast day of Valentine, patron saint of beekeepers, epileptics and greetings card manufacturers. Here’s a sideways look from our shelves at one of his other interests.
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Translated by Larry Goldsmith‘Monogamy is not dismantled by fucking more or by falling in love simultaneously with more people, but by constructing relationships in a different way, relationships that allow us to fuck more and…
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“elseship is a kaleidoscopic exploration of all that can exist between two people caught in the middle of friendship and unrequited love. It’s a gorgeous and delicately rendered tapestry of desires—and a bracing…
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An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism'A clarion voice from a new generation of British feminists' Sophie Lewis, author of Abolish the Family'A powerful, utterly…
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Is it possible life without romantic love isn't so bad?An essential memoir about building life on your own terms***A SUNDAY TIMES AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***'The book I've been waiting for my entire life'DOLLY ALDERTON, author…
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‘We ache for love, but love eludes us. Out of this crisis comes so much of what it means to be human’Shon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the feeling that love was not for her. Not just romantic love: the secret fear of her…
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Translated by Philip FreemanA splendid new translation of one of the greatest books on friendship ever writtenIn a world where social media, online relationships, and relentless self-absorption threaten the very idea of deep and…
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A profoundly enlightening look at loneliness in modern life.At no time before have so many people lived alone, and never has loneliness been so widely or keenly felt. Why, in a society of individualists, is living alone perceived as a…
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'A couple is a conspiracy in search of a crime. Sex is often the closest they can get.'All the present controversies about the family are really discussions about monogamy. About what keeps people together and why they should stay together.…
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEChosen as 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' by Observer, Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, HeraldWhen Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself…
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