A flâneuse is, in Lauren Elkin’s words, “a determined resourceful woman keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city, and the liberating possibilities of a good walk.” Virginia Woolf called it “streethaunting,” Holly Golightly epitomized it in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and Patti Smith did it in her own inimitable style in 1960s New York. Part cultural meander, part memoir, Flâneuse traces the relationship between singular women and their cities as a way to map her own life―a journey that begins in New York and takes us to Paris, via Venice, Tokyo, and London―including the paths beaten by such flâneuses as the cross-dressing, nineteenth-century novelist George Sand, the Parisian artist Sophie Calle, the journalist Martha Gellhorn, and the writer Jean Rhys. With tenacity and insight, Elkin creates a mosaic of what urban settings have meant to women, charting through literature, art, history, and film women’s sometimes liberating, sometimes fraught relationship to the metropolis.

一段不寻常的友谊，一位失而复现的旧爱，一桩处在转折点上的婚姻，一场可能不是约会的约会，一个不因循守旧的新家庭——八篇纽约小品，九段“摩登情爱”，演绎当代生活中爱之纷繁复杂，将个中滋味向我们娓娓道来。 剧集改编自《纽约时报》同名专栏“摩登情爱”，“探索当代人复杂的感情生活，以及爱的痛苦与欢愉。”

2010 film by Pang Ho-cheung

有一种人生，叫做“摩天轮”：你始终站在观光舱里透过玻璃看风景，即使转到最高点，即使无限接近，风景也不属于你。当转完一整圈之后，依然孤孤单单地离开摩天轮。 《巴黎没有摩天轮》讲述都市OL宁默正在进行着的人生，就困在摩天轮的某一圈里。她跟所有北漂小白领们一样过着朝九晚五的枯燥生活，只是职业听起来很美：时装编辑。爬行在时尚圈外沿，她穿女王的新衣，挤平民的公交，像蚂蚁一样琐碎忙碌地工作，像核桃一样被夹在旧恋情与新生活的缝隙里无法进退。 关于工作，她正处在这个华丽浮躁的圈子的种种规则之中；关于感情，她经历过前男友林非的背叛，正与白彦保持着不远不近的暧昧；关于生活，她的闺蜜顾昕正要远赴巴黎开始新生活；她的合租室友于筝一边吃模特这碗青春饭一边寻找出路。 一切都在发生，一切都看不到终点。 很多人都相信，如果幸福不在路上，就一定在路的尽头。 在转动的摩天轮里，有谁能够看到路的尽头是什么样的风景？在地平线与天空之间，谁能恰好坐在幸福的旁边？他们的命运将被旋转到哪个未知的终点？