The Secrets of Paris
To form secrets with a city is to treat it like a lover, to imagine you know it better than anyone, but to still expect it to surprise you for…
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The End of Bouquinistes?
Amazon launched an online bookstore two decades ago. Since then, the Internet has been changing the way readers buy books. Paris has been a major book-selling city since the 17th…
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Christine Sneed
Suzanne Clores talks with novelist Christine Sneed about Paris, beauty, and her latest book, Paris, He Said.
Nous devons être plus que Charlie (We Need to Be More than Charlie)
The only true way to defend free speech is to exercise it—not just talk about it.
Kerouac’s House and the End of Doubt
A perfectionist who claws for each word, I could use a little spontaneity. How tempting to try loosening up, to compose wildly, undisciplined, the “crazier the better.” To accept that I’m a genius all the time.
Amazing Bookshops from around the World
A character in Jim C. Hines’s Libriomancer calls bookstores “the closest thing I have to a church.” If you, too, worship at the altar of crowded shelves and cracked spines, you’ll…
Mavis Gallant and Monsieur Le Verbe
Alors, Mademoiselle, have you noticed how we French, unlike our Anglo-Saxon friends, use all the muscles in our face and mouth when speaking? Raise your upper lip toward your nose.…
Strolling the Streets of Paris
Stroll the streets of Paris with the New Yorker’s Henri Cole in his essay “Street of the Iron Po(e)t.” Cole’s essays often read like poetic journal entries as he discusses…
Rebekkah Dilts, The Last City I Loved #2: Paris, France
I have to drive a lot these days. More than I ever thought I would, and with it comes the challenge of what to do with all that time.
The Unstable Identity of an Algerian in Paris
Leïla Marouane’s 2010 novel The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris layers identity upon identity as it unravels the story of an Algerian-born Parisian banker.
Teleny and Camille
A story of gay erotica often traced to Oscar Wilde has been made into a luscious graphic novel, courtesy of Nefarismo illustrator Jon Macy.
The Cost of Living
A new volume of stories by Mavis Gallant traces the writer’s development from early stories of bewilderment and disappointment to the sharp, incisive later work of a master.