Lauren has written about film, art, music, and literature for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Oxford American Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, Playboy, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. Her essay on Jodeci was recently anthologized in the “Greatest Hits” issue of the Oxford American, guest edited by Brittany Howard. She is an alumna of the New York Film Festival Critics Academy.
“How a Year Without the Library Has Changed Me,” Literary Hub, March 8, 2021.
“Now I Don’t Know Who I Am,” The Oxford American Magazine, Winter 2019. 21st Annual Southern Music Issue.
“The Gospel of Jodeci”, The Oxford American Magazine, Issue 103, Winter 2018. 20th Annual Southern Music Issue
“Simone de Beauvoir at the Movies,” Oxford University Press, February 10, 2019.
“A New Vanguard of Women in Cuban Jazz”, The New Yorker, January 24, 2019.
“At 81, jazz titan Archie Shepp’s legacy comes into clear focus,” The Washington Post, February 8, 2019.
“Bomba: The Enduring Anthem of Puerto Rico”, New York Times, Style, July 7, 2018.
“Cuban Revolutions,” Topic, April 2018.
The Artist Formerly Known as Janet Malcolm,” The Daily Beast.
