One has the impression, reading The Flaneur, of having fallen into the hands of a highly distractible, somewhat eccentric poet and professor who is determined to show you a Paris you wouldn't otherwise see . . . Edmund White tells such a good story that I'm ready to to listen to anything he wants to talk about.

New York Times Book Review

White's charming book is for literati, voyeurs and aesthetes, and for travelers who love familiar terrain from a different viewpoint.

Publishers Weekly

An iconoclast to the end . . . I'm grateful that he left us so much work, and that the full, unadulterated sound of his voice is so potent, so convivial, so fresh and living on every page.

Seán Hewitt, The Guardian