To celebrate the release of their new novel, The Silver Book, the author shares a list of literary works that have inspired them

From Mx Justin Vivian Bond to Andy Warhol: fan artists in New York

For Benjamin Britten, Wolfgang Tillmans and Virginia Woolf, something grows when civilization fails

A new exhibition in London shows the late painter as a master of colour – even after losing his eyesight

‘He wasn’t English, but he was playing an English game, the fag in the Establishment, a light entertainer, undisguised yet somehow unseen, an open secret’

There’s a difference between respecting people’s right to tell their own stories and refusing to look at all

Indecency surrounds us, we must not look away

The frieze columnist's first novel is an homage to, and embodiment of, the late, great Kathy Acker

Derek Jarman, circular time and seed catalogues: Olivia Laing takes the long view

The intertwined imaginations of Anthony Powell and Nicolas Poussin

Philip Guston's 'Klan' paintings are more relevant than ever

As morbid devotional objects go on show at Frieze Masters, one writer asks: why do we look at violent religious art?

Reflections, a favourite verse, and a new poem dedicated to one of the English language’s most renowned poets of the past century

How can art and literature respond to disaster? 

Conspiracy theories and reparative reading

Olivia Laing uses dance to prove the existence of tenderness, solidarity and personal freedom

What's so great about authenticity?

Trying to make sense of it all

The intertwining of life and death in poetry, art and nature

Olivia Laing, a judge of this year’s Frieze Writer’s Prize, explains how she became a writer