Lauren Puckett-Pope

Selected Writing

You can find all my work for ELLE on my author page. For selected highlights, please see the list below.

Can Influencers Predict the Next Big Thing in Books? (ELLE, Feature, January 2025)

Torrey Peters Cuts Through the Noise with Stag Dance (ELLE, Profile, March 2025)
Dylan Mulvaney Turns the Page—With Help from Laverne Cox (ELLE, In-Conversation, March 2025)
Sabaa Tahir Refuses to Pull Her Punches (ELLE, Profile, October 2024)
Katie Kitamura Will Return in 2025 With Her Newest Novel, Audition (ELLE, News, July 2024)
Deborah Harkness, the ‘Accidental Novelist,’ Has Years’ Worth of All Souls Books in the Pipeline (ELLE, Profile, July 2024)
Is Elin Hilderbrand Really Retiring? It’s Complicated. (ELLE, Profile, June 2024)
Kaliane Bradley Fell in Love With a Dead Man. The Result is The Ministry of Time. (ELLE, Profile, May 2024)
Can You Rescue A Writer With 1000 Words? (ELLE, Q&A/Essay, January 2024)
V.E. Schwab is Rewriting the Rules of Fantasy (And Maybe Life Itself) (ELLE, Profile, October 2023)

We Already Know How Sunrise on the Reaping Ends. That Doesn’t Change Its Impact. (ELLE, Review, March 2025)

Women Creatives Thought Hollywood Could Change. Were They Wrong? (ELLE, Feature, December 2023)

Myha’la Claims Her Name (ELLE, Profile, September 2024)
Morfydd Clark Isn’t Afraid to Face the Fan Fervor (ELLE, Profile, August 2024)
Bella Ramsey Wants Much More Than Survival (ELLE, Profile, January 2023)
Quinta Brunson Has A Hit. Better Yet, She Has A Plan. (ELLE, Profile, April 2022)
Confronting the Eternal Youth of Anna Chlumsky (ELLE, Profile, February 2022)
Mackenzie Davis Wakes From a Fever Dream (ELLE, Profile, December 2021)

Severance Season 2 Recaps (ELLE, Recaps, January-March 2025)
Zero Day Squanders Its Chance to Meet the Moment (ELLE, Review, February 2025)
Industry Season 3 Recaps (ELLE, Recaps, August-September 2024)
So, Are We Ready to Talk About the Bridgerton Season 3 Carriage Scene? (ELLE, Review, May 2024)
I Was Begging The Morning Show Not to Do This (ELLE, Review, November 2023)
The Silo Season Finale Is Somehow Mostly About Tape (ELLE, Review/Recap, July 2023)
King George’s ‘Madness’ In Queen Charlotte Confronts the Myth of the Love Cure (ELLE, Essay, May 2023)
Abbott Elementary Understands the Art of the Slow Burn (ELLE, Review, April 2023)
Outer Banks Never Needed to Do This Much (ELLE, Review, February 2023)
Andor Played the IP Game the Right Way (ELLE, Review, November 2022)
Stranger Things Refuses To Twist The Knife. Yet. (ELLE, Review, July 2022)

The Simple Yet Remarkable Feat of Women Talking (ELLE, Feature, January 2023)
Have We Reached the Peak Of the Princess Diana Cinematic Universe? (ELLE, Feature, November 2021)

After Anora, Mikey Madison Will Never Be the Same (ELLE, Cover Story, November 2024)
Hannah Berner Took the Funniest Possible Road to Fame (ELLE, Profile, July 2024)
Let Fala Chen Reintroduce Herself (ELLE, Profile, August 2021)

We Live in Time Proves It’s More Than a Tear-Jerker (ELLE, Review, October 2024)
At Least It Ends With Us Knew How to End (ELLE, Review, August 2024)
Dune: Part Two Gives Us a Warped Take on ‘The One’ (ELLE, Review/Explainer, March 2024)
The Best (and Buzziest) Films of the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival (ELLE, Review, September 2023)
Barbie’s Final Joke Is Also Its Most Meaningful Lesson (ELLE, Review, July 2023)
Blonde Isn’t Mere 'Fictionalization.’ It's Negligence. (ELLE, Review/Explainer, September 2022)
Don’t Worry Darling’s Plot Twist Is Its Ultimate Undoing (ELLE, Review/Explainer, September 2022)