Fernanda Eberstadt

Ravishing and provocative. -OLIVIA LAING "I bite my friends to heal them." Diogenes, c. 350 BC The example of the Greek philosopher Diogenes, who lived "a dog's life," sleeping, teaching, having sex in the public square, sets the tone for this extraordinary, genre-bending memoir. Posing crucial questions about what drives certain individuals to risk physical suffering in the name of...