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Lauren Elkin

Lauren Elkin
Lauren Elkin is the author, most recently, of Flâneuse: Women Walk the City (Chatto & Windus/FSG), which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2017, and was a finalist for the PEN/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She is the translator of Claude Arnaud's biography of Jean Cocteau (with Charlotte Mandell), which won the 2017 French-American Foundation Translation Award, and of Michelle Perrot's The Bedroom: An Intimate History, just out from Yale UP. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the London Review of Books, the Guardian, frieze, and Vogue, among others, and she is a contributing editor at The White Review. A native New Yorker, she has lived in Paris since 2004.


What We Remember When
We Walk in the City

Lauren Elkin on the Yearning to Leave an Imprint
April 20, 2020  By Lauren Elkin
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Sigrid Undset’s Doomed Flâneuse is
a Cautionary Tale

Lauren Elkin on Jenny, a Novel of Rome
October 2, 2019  By Lauren Elkin
0

Notre Dame on Fire: Toward the Symbol
at the Center of a City

Lauren Elkin in the Streets of Paris
April 16, 2019  By Lauren Elkin
0

Languages Cannot Be Assimilated or Colonized, for They Contain Multitudes

Lauren Elkin on Translation as Transhumance
November 17, 2017  By Lauren Elkin
2

Lessons From Parisian Protest Culture

Lauren Elkin Discovers May 1968 Through the Eyes of Mavis Gallant
February 28, 2017  By Lauren Elkin
1

Donald Trump, Anti-Flaneur

Lauren Elkin on the Importance of Conversation and Why She Will Never Stop Walking
November 7, 2016  By Lauren Elkin
1

All the Life in the World on One Street In Paris

Elaine Sciolino and Lauren Elkin in Conversation About Their Adopted City
December 11, 2015  By Lauren Elkin
0

Ordinary Paris and the Art of Noticing

On Seeing Georges Perec's Infraordinary World
November 17, 2015  By Lauren Elkin
0



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