Lauren Elkin
Writer and Translator, London
Lauren Elkin is a writer and translator. She is the author of Flâneuse: Women Walk the City (2016) and No. 91/92: Notes on a Parisian Commute (2021). Her next book, Art Monsters: On Beauty and Excess, is forthcoming from Chatto & Windus. She lives in London.
Written by Lauren Elkin
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Art
Her body is a problem
When 1970s women artists put the female body under the female gaze, why did the critics see only obscene monsters?
Lauren Elkin
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Thinkers and theories
Susan Sontag was a monster
She took things too seriously. She was difficult and unyielding. That’s why Susan Sontag’s work matters so much even now
Lauren Elkin