If you’re a Francophile with an interest in psychoanalysis, Lauren Elkin’s smart and steamy debut novel, “Scaffolding,” may be for you. Even if you’re just a reader looking for an intriguing story of ...

From Scaffolding, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. One day, with nothing else to do, I go back to my old journals, rows and rows… ...

Medieval England had knights. The American Old West had cowboys. Paris in the nineteenth century had a heroic lone male who was a bit subtler — the flâneur. The ultimate inhabitant of newly developed ...

Vanessa Bell is often best remembered for the creative milieu she cultivated, but a new exhibition of her work makes a case for her as a groundbreaking artist. By Roslyn Sulcas The new book by Lauren ...

SCAFFOLDING. By Lauren Elkin. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 400 pages. $28. If you’re a Francophile with an interest in psychoanalysis, Lauren Elkin’s smart and steamy debut novel, “Scaffolding,” may be ...