Lauren Berlant

Biography

Lauren Berlant teaches English at the University of Chicago. Her most recent books are Cruel Optimism (Duke, 2011), Desire/Love (Punctum, 2012), and Sex, Or the Unbearable (Duke, 2013), coauthored with Lee Edelman.

See Work

#VQRTRUESTORY / Fall 2016

Stony Island Story Problem

By Lauren Berlant ,  Illustrations by Stephanie Brooks

It’s the first day of summer and everyone’s scurrying to a thing they’re unsure of, eyes locked away from the guy who’s approaching the driver’s side window. Jack the five-year-old rides by on his orange bike with its propellers spinning a...