The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism

#1 Book of the Year from Brain Pickings

Named a best book of the year by NPR, Newsweek, Slate, Pop Sugar, Marie Claire, Elle, Publishers Weekly, and Lit Hub

The 10th anniversary edition of the beloved and dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism on the subject of loneliness as told through the lives of iconic artists—“a beautiful meander of a book” (The New Yorker).

When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her...