{Warning: This post includes graphic descriptions of domestic violence and discusses a case of suicide.} In the summer of 2003, I was an intern reporter […]
For some reason— no reason, really— I was lying awake at 5:00 am this morning contemplating something that’s long puzzled me. Why is French culture so […]
As someone who called Paris home for over a decade, and has been a French citizen for even longer, you might assume I’d stopped experiencing […]
What is it about the stubborn, enduring power of French stereotypes? Most people indulge in throwing them around from time to time. What American hasn’t […]
Most visitors come to Paris to explore its grand museums and historic landmarks, but the city is also home to an energetic street art scene […]
As someone who’s long been interested in writing a historical novel rooted in literary history, I was intrigued to happen upon a recent book centered […]
Timeless landmarks. Cultural treasures. Precious vestiges of a less harried, pre-digital way of life. All of these descriptions can, and have been, applied to the […]
Wine, Music, Weird Ceremonial Robes & More Every October in the steep heights of Paris’ Montmartre district, the former independent village starts to feel a […]
With its some 40,000 restaurants and eateries, Paris is, as poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen quipped in a signing of his own lithograph print depicting […]
Bruno Monnier has stood at the forefront of digital art spaces and concepts in France for years. As Founder and CEO of Culturespaces, the group […]
Good Spots For Working, Thinking & World-Gazing Generations of writers have elected Parisian cafés as ersatz offices, even second homes. How many novels, short stories […]
It’s been years since I started following the writing and recipes of David Lebovitz, a pastry chef and bestselling author of cookbooks and memoirs such […]
It’s a sprawling Avenue famous not only for its expensive sidewalk brasseries and high-end shops, but also for its headache-inducing traffic, noise and air pollution. […]
Many people interested in American contributions to Parisian art or literary history beeline to the Hemingway Bar at the Ritz, but couldn’t tell you where […]
Any basic web search on the rules of French etiquette can send you down a rabbit hole of exasperated forum posts on TripAdvisor or Reddit– […]
The outdoor café is part of what gives Paris its charm and energy. Whether it’s occupied for breakfast and morning coffee, pre-dinner apéritifs with friends, […]
In 2009, the stretch of the Seine River that runs through Paris made headlines– and the news was unusually good. Wild Atlantic salmon had been […]
From “Last Tango in Paris” to “Amélie”, “Les Amants du Pont Neuf” to “Before Sunset” and “Midnight in Paris”, many well-known movies about the French capital […]
When the world was turned upside-down by a minuscule, spike-covered virus, in 2020, many of us who take joy in travel had to find creative […]
During the heyday of train travel in the late nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries, rail stations in major cities were places where wealthy travelers showed off […]
