About Me

Laura Strauss is a Brooklyn-based book reviewer, essayist, and relentless collector of marginalia. Known for her sharp wit and discerning taste, she has contributed literary criticism and cultural commentary to a range of online and print publications, where she champions under-the-radar fiction, bold debuts, and emotionally intelligent storytelling.

A lifelong reader with a soft spot for doomed love stories, moody narrators, and anything set in a crumbling hotel, Aimee brings both warmth and rigor to her reviews. When she’s not buried in an ARC or annotating her fifth copy of The Secret History, she can usually be found wandering a used bookstore, chasing a dog that isn’t hers, or debating the best breakup scene in modern literature.

She is currently at work on her first collection of essays, tentatively titled Unreliable Women.