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What World War I Trench Art Tells Us About Its Creators

What World War I Trench Art Tells Us About Its Creators

Ann Hood on Commemorating the Fallen and Unknown Soldiers of the Great War

By Ann Hood | May 7, 2024

Slaves of New York and Couldn’t Stop Reading It"> The Time I Stole Tama Janowitz’s <em

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Slaves of New York and Couldn’t Stop Reading It">

Slaves of New York and Couldn’t Stop Reading It">The Time I Stole Tama Janowitz’s Slaves of New York and Couldn’t Stop Reading It

Elwin Cotman on His Frustration and Enchantment with a True 1980s Classic

By Elwin Cotman | April 16, 2024

A Vanishing World: On Europe’s Disappearing Peasantry

A Vanishing World: On Europe’s Disappearing Peasantry

Patrick Joyce Explores the Social and Cultural Transformation of Rural Life

By Patrick Joyce | February 28, 2024

Who Made Who? On the Creative Collaboration of Man Ray and Kiki de Montparnasse

Who Made Who? On the Creative Collaboration of Man Ray and Kiki de Montparnasse

Mark Braude Considers the Blurred Lines Between Object and Participant, Artist and Muse

By Mark Braude | February 9, 2024

What A Long History of Terror Tells Us About Modern France

What A Long History of Terror Tells Us About Modern France

Nabila Ramdani on the Relationship Between Terrorism and the French State

By Nabila Ramdani | October 6, 2023

Is There a French National Dish? On the History and Making of French Cuisine

Is There a French National Dish? On the History and Making of French Cuisine

Anya von Bremzen Considers Questions of Culinary Nationalism

By Anya von Bremzen | June 20, 2023

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Why I Needed to Write About My Abortion

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Paul Lafargue on the Spectacle of Victor Hugo’s Funeral

Paul Lafargue on the Spectacle of Victor Hugo’s Funeral

“The most magnificent funeral of the century.”

By Paul Lafargue | November 28, 2022

How Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes Revolutionized Dance

How Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes Revolutionized Dance

Rupert Christiansen on the Modernization of Ballet

By Rupert Christiansen | October 19, 2022

Jacques Pépin on Learning the Many Ways to Cook a Chicken as a Young Parisian Chef

Jacques Pépin on Learning the Many Ways to Cook a Chicken as a Young Parisian Chef

“This classic tour de force was carried out to the guests in the dining room...”

By Jacques Pépin | October 6, 2022

How Kiki de Montparnasse Made Her Life Into a Work of Art

How Kiki de Montparnasse Made Her Life Into a Work of Art

Mark Braude on the Dueling Artistic Passions of Man Ray and a Muse With a Mind of Her Own

By Mark Braude | August 4, 2022

Happy Bastille Day: Will the Center Hold in France? Should It?

Happy Bastille Day: Will the Center Hold in France? Should It?

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Rachel Careau on How Translating Roger Lewinter Helped Her Translate Colette

Rachel Careau on How Translating Roger Lewinter Helped Her Translate Colette

"I could tell Lewinter, they are not so very different after all."

By Rachel Careau | July 8, 2022

1980s Glam French Rebellion: A Literary Playlist

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Three">By Valérie Perrin, Author of Three

By Valérie Perrin | July 5, 2022

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