Step into the world of The Silver Book with Olivia Laing, award-winning author of The Lonely City , Everybody , and Funny Weather , as they discuss their spellbinding new novel of art, queer love, and illusion. Laing was joined in conversation by acclaimed novelist Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrower s and The Mars Room .

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Laing, celebrated for their acclaimed nonfiction and deep engagement with art and culture, brings their signature insight and lyricism to this haunting work of historical fiction. Blending truth and imagination, intimacy and spectacle, The Silver Book is both a love story and a meditation on the moral power of art.

Kushner shares Laing’s fascination with artists working in the shadow of political and personal upheaval. Both writers explore the charged space where art collides with power and desire.…