Lauren Elkin

Destined to become a new classic Chris KrausA dazzlingly original reassessment of women s stories bodies and art and how we think about them For decades feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies Queer bodies sick bodies racialised bodies female bodies what is their language what are the materials we need to transcribe it Exploring the ways in which feminist artists have taken up this challenge Art Monsters is a landmark intervention in how we think about art and the body calling attention to a radical heritage of feminist work that not only reacts against patriarchy but redefines its own aesthetic aims Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag Helene Cixous and Maggie Nelson Lauren Elkin demonstrates her power as a cultural critic weaving daring links between disparate artists and writers from Julia Margaret Cameron s photography to Kara Walker s silhouettes Vanessa Bell s portraits to Eva Hesse s rope sculptures Carolee Schneemann s body art to Theresa Hak Kyung Cha s trilingual masterpiece DICTEE and shows that their work offers a potent celebration of beauty and excess sentiment and touch the personal and the political

Un ensayo reivindicativo sobre la experiencia singular de pasear siendo mujer.El flâneur nació en el París del siglo XIX. Su hábitat natural eran los bulevares y las galerías de la ciudad. "La multit

Flaneuse flanne euhze noun from French Feminine form of flaneur flanne euhr an idler In this book the author defines her as a determined resourceful woman keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city and the liberating possibilities of a good walk

«El flâneur nació en el París del siglo XIX. Su hábitat natural eran los bulevares y galerías, donde paseaba y observaba sin mezclarse. Para Baudelaire, la flâneuse no existía: las mujeres carecían d

The Susan Sontag of her generation Deborah Levy The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north east Paris almost fifty years apart In 2019 Anna a psychoanalyst is processing a recent miscarriage Her husband David takes a job in London so she spends days obsessing over renovating the kitchen while befriending a younger woman called Clementine who has moved into the building and is part of a radical feminist collective called les colleuses Meanwhile in 1972 Florence and Henry are redoing their kitchen Florence is finishing her degree in psychology while hoping to get pregnant But Henry isn t sure he s ready for fatherhood Both sets of couples face the challenges of marriage fidelity and pregnancy The characters and their ghosts bump into and weave around each other not knowing that they once all inhabited the same space A novel in the key of Eric Rohmer Scaffolding is about the bonds we create with people and the difficulty of ever fully severing them about the ways that people we ve known live on in us and about the way that the homes we make hold communal memories of the people who ve lived in them and the stories that have been told there Atmospheric and evocative the prose elegant and poised Observer

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR FICTION 2023 NERO BOOK AWARDS After the death of a young girl the finger of suspicion is pointing at one reclusive family Ambitious and original DAVID NICHOLLS Gripping A triumph SUNDAY TIMESIt s 1990 in London and after the death of a young girl on an estate the finger of suspicion is pointing at one reclusive Irish family the Greens At their heart sits Carmel beautiful other worldly and once destined for a future beyond her circumstances until life and love got in her way Now as the scandal unfolds and the tabloids hunt their monster she must confront the secrets and silences that have trapped her family for so many generations A DAILY TELEGRAPH TIMES NEW STATESMAN AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Daring brilliant Bold and beautiful DAILY TELEGRAPH A compulsive read THE TIMES Heartbreaking VOGUE

Two couples inhabit the same Paris apartmentone in 1972, the other in 2019unaware of their shared space across time. As Anna and Florence navigate love, fidelity, and identity, their stories intertwine in a haunting, sensual narrative. Elkins debut novel is a philosophical and emotionally rich exploration of desire, memory, and feminist resistance.