Skip Navigation
France
November 15, 2015
Emily Greenhouse
Life and Death on the Boulevard Voltaire
Terror returns to a Paris street with a long history of violence.
October 30, 2015
Anna Wiener
Paris Was Wild, Once
Luc Sante’s new book looks longingly back at a more sinful time
October 23, 2015
Thomas Chatterton Williams
A ‘Charlie Hebdo’ Cartoonist’s Childhood in the Middle East
Riad Sattouf’s graphic memoir is an indictment of the adult world
October 21, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
What’s Wrong with French Secularists’ Pro-Pork Agenda
September 22, 2015
Thomas Chatterton Williams
The Rise and Fall of French Intellectual Culture
September 21, 2015
The Conversation
Thomas Piketty: "France Needs to Have More Courage"
The French economist on the Greek election and Europe's "permanent state of crisis"
August 27, 2015
James McAuley
The Mystery of Patrick Modiano
August 24, 2015
Peter Wieben
Inside the Migrant “Jungle” in Northern France
A dispatch from the front lines of Europe's immigration crisis
July 30, 2015
James McAuley, Patrice Higonnet
The Untold Inner Life of the First Politician to Embrace his Jewishness
May 10, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
The Risks of Siding With French Secularism
The National Front's defense of 'Charlie Hebdo' should make the mag's progressive American defenders wary
May 8, 2015
Jeet Heer
The Aesthetic Failure of 'Charlie Hebdo'
The French satirical magazine refuses to evolve, using a stale artistic strategy from the 1960s
May 6, 2015
Jeet Heer
How Did Everybody Suddenly Become an Expert on French Visual Satire?
May 4, 2015
Jeet Heer
The Anti-Islam Exhibit Attacked in Texas Is a Clearer Free Speech Case Than 'Charlie Hebdo'
March 27, 2015
Diana Pinto
I'm a European Jew—and No, I'm Not Leaving
March 20, 2015
Robert Zaretsky
Nicolas Sarkozy Is Pulling a Netanyahu Ahead of the French Elections
January 20, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
France Should Stop Treating Jews as an Idea Rather Than as People
January 16, 2015
James McAuley
There's a Model for How France Should Treat Its Muslims. It's How France Treats Its Jews.
January 16, 2015
Matt Schiavenza
China Is Using 'Charlie Hebdo' to Justify Its Own Crackdown on Free Speech
January 14, 2015
Eli Valley
A Cartoonist's Dilemma After the 'Charlie Hebdo' Massacre
January 14, 2015
Jeet Heer
Found in Translation
Arthur Goldhammer is America's finest bridge to French culture