Lauren Elkin

Lauren Elkin is the author of several books including Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art and Flâneuse: Women Walk the City, a Radio 4 Book of the Week, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017, and a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel award for the art of the essay. Her essays on art, literature, and culture have appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Times, Granta, Harper's, Le Monde, Les Inrockuptibles, and Frieze, among others. She is also an award-winning translator, most recently of Simone de Beauvoir's previously unpublished novel The Inseparables. After twenty years in Paris, she now lives in London.

Art Monsters

Art Monsters

Lauren Elkin
Flaneuse

Flaneuse

Lauren Elkin

Author Contributions

Swimming in Paris

Swimming in Paris

Colombe Schneck, translated by Lauren Elkin and Natasha Lehrer

Books by Lauren Elkin from The MIT Press

No. 91/92

No. 91/92

Lauren Elkin