Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London touched with sadness

touched with sadness

an audacious

For the Company

Fifteen-year-old Horace Berry

and she believes in us

Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London touched with sadnessFINALIST FOR THE PEN DIAMONSTEIN SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 The flneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flneuse who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her wonderfully gender bending new book, the flneuse is a determined, resourceful individual keenly attuned to the