Everybody: A Book About Freedom

"The formula works for her ..."

"Here she takes a tangible approach to freedom by focusing on how our bodies ..."

"She writes about the sick body, imprisoned bodies, bodies that protest, the sexual body, bodies that have experienced acts of violence—illuminating the strengths and the weaknesses of the corporeal form ..."

"But she is too canny a writer to miss the rich and bitter irony in which efforts to realise this promise so often get caught: every movement to liberate the body comes to be marked in some way by the constrictive regime it's trying to escape ..."

"This is worthwhile, reflective reading."

"Intellectually vigorous and emotionally stirring."

"Indeed, she encourages us all to ask new questions to discover how it feels, and what it means, to be free — queries that are as vital as they are resistant to any single answer."

"This lucid foray into some of life's deepest questions astonishes."

"Deftly grappling with Reich's failures alongside his 'obviously more fertile ideas', Laing charts the impact of his ideas on her own life and values, and finds a line connecting the revolutionary impulse of Reich to the emancipatory movements of feminism, gay liberation and US civil rights that shaped the second half of the 20th century."