Madeleine Schwartz 12/5/24 Madeleine Schwartz 12/5/24

Au Revoir!

What’s happening in France?

Julia Webster Ayuso 11/21/24 Julia Webster Ayuso 11/21/24

Can a Comma Solve a Crime?

How forensic linguists use grammar, syntax and vocabulary to help crack cold cases.

Guka Han (Tr. Katie Assef) 11/12/24 Guka Han (Tr. Katie Assef) 11/12/24

Earshot

“Day after day, I kept turning up the volume of the music, but it only seemed further and further away. After a few months, it had disappeared completely.”

Chris Knapp, Giada Santana, & Juli Simond 9/26/24 Chris Knapp, Giada Santana, & Juli Simond 9/26/24

The Toxic Legacy of the French Banana

France knew the pesticide chlordecone could cause cancer and destroy the environment. It allowed banana plantations in Martinique and Guadeloupe to use it anyway.

Maylis de Kerangal (Tr. Jessica Moore) 9/19/24 Maylis de Kerangal (Tr. Jessica Moore) 9/19/24

After

“I ran through the school gates and jumped on my bike without looking back, five kilometers down this road more familiar than even my mother’s voice, and which was suddenly evasive, distant, like a laminated picture under a transparent film.”

Nicole Dirks 9/5/24 Nicole Dirks 9/5/24

To the Ends of the Earth

Does radical activism help or hurt the climate movement?

Phineas Rueckert 7/16/24 Phineas Rueckert 7/16/24

The Displacement Machine

How the Olympics exacerbated the housing crisis in Paris.

The Dial 7/16/24 The Dial 7/16/24

Investigating Paris’ Olympics Evictions

A conversation with Phineas Rueckert, whose article on the acceleration of evictions in Paris ahead of the Olympic Games was published in our Sports issue.

Thuận (Tr. Nguyễn An Lý) 5/29/24 Thuận (Tr. Nguyễn An Lý) 5/29/24

Paris

“What can I do, I will always be, at heart, an emigrant — but what lessons have I drawn from it?”

Scholastique Mukasonga & Max Lobe (Tr. Katie Assef) 5/29/24 Scholastique Mukasonga & Max Lobe (Tr. Katie Assef) 5/29/24

Letters from Exile

“What can I do, I will always be, at heart, an emigrant — but what lessons have I drawn from it?”

Christopher Clark 4/25/24 Christopher Clark 4/25/24

Bad News

The rise of CNews and the making of France’s far-right media empire.

The Dial 4/25/24 The Dial 4/25/24

The Rise of CNews

A conversation with Christopher Clark, whose article on the French far-right media outlet was published in our Pundits issue.

Jakuta Alikavazovic (Tr. Daniel Levin Becker) 3/21/24 Jakuta Alikavazovic (Tr. Daniel Levin Becker) 3/21/24

Like a Sky Inside

“How would you go about stealing the Mona Lisa?”

Madeleine Schwartz 7/20/23 Madeleine Schwartz 7/20/23

Can Anyone Stop Paris From Drowning?

The city is preparing for the return of a hundred-year flood that could displace millions.

Youssef Rakha 3/28/23 Youssef Rakha 3/28/23

Past Plunder

The reparative fictions of Egyptian novelist Sonhallah Ibrahim.

Lucie Geffroy & Emmanuelle Josse (Tr. Lauren Elkin) 1/25/23 Lucie Geffroy & Emmanuelle Josse (Tr. Lauren Elkin) 1/25/23

“A Complete Reconfiguration of the World”

A conversation between Nobel Prize-winning author Annie Ernaux and filmmaker Céline Sciamma on feminisms past and present.