Lauren Collins
Lauren Collins has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008. She is the author of “ When in French: Love in a Second Language .”
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Lauren Collins on a food-world star’s method and mess.
Lauren Collins writes about how the star of “Lupin” pulled off his greatest confidence trick.
France’s young President is now Europe’s most forceful progressive, but violence at home and the success of right-wing parties throughout the Continent threaten his ambitions, Lauren Collins writes.
The founder of a popular South Carolina barbecue restaurant was a white supremacist. Now that his children have taken over, is it O.K. to eat there?
Lauren Collins on the more than a hundred thousand minors, mostly from Syria and Afghanistan, who have travelled unaccompanied across continents in search of asylum in Europe.
Despite her humble origins, she seems to have internalized Donald’s outlook. She’s as imperial as her husband, if not more so. Lauren Collins writes.
Lauren Collins on the world of IKEA. “The company’s vision, one executive said, is ‘to create a better life for the many.’ ”
Lauren Collins’s 2011 Profile of the shoe designer Christian Louboutin. “The sole of each of Louboutin’s shoes is lacquered in a vivid, glossy red. Like Louis XIV’s red heels, they signal a sort of sumptuary code, promising a world of glamour and privilege.”
Lauren Collins’s 2010 Profile of Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
The many lives of Arianna Huffington.
Pascal Dangin’s virtual reality.
Before the 2008 elections, Lauren Collins profiled Michelle Obama, the wife of Barack Obama and future First Lady.
Lauren Collins’s Profile of Donatella Versace, the larger-than-life fashion designer who took over the Versace brand after the murder of her brother Gianni.