On French Culture

In Defense of the Notoriously Arrogant French Waiter
A Eulogy to an Overlooked Art
Wall Street Journal
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The Death of Eros?
Are today’s legal definitions of rape helping or hurting women?
Elle Magazine
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Cassoulet Avec Moi, Ce Soir
On the Improbable Sexiness of Beans (from Toulouse)
Condé Nast Traveler
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The Story of Eau
Meditation on French Water and Wine
Conde Nast Traveler
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Letter from Paris: A Gallic Shrug for DSK
On rape charges and rich politicians—and what the French find worse
New York Magazine
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Un Homme in Full
On French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his biographer Yasmina Reza
The Atlantic
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No Exit
Essay on Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.
New York Times
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Letter from Paris: Writers in Paradise
On the wonders and wiles of the French literary scene.
New York Times
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Isn’t It Romantic?
Art versus Life, or the Art of Life, in Paris.
Condé Nast Traveler
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It Takes a Village
Why small is beautiful: feature on village life in Europe
Condé Nast Traveler
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Love Hurts
On the consuming passion of Heloise and Abelard
New York Times
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Love in the Time of Hedonism
Is France’s most famous novelist and swinger a cynic, as everyone says?
Harper’s Magazine
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Paris is Boring: Claiming France for the New Homebodies
New Yorker columnist, Adam Gopnik, publishes a book on the French Capital and gets it all wrong.
Harper’s
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Trisomie: Aimer un Enfant a la Marge
Reflections sur ma fille, sur la relativité de nos acquis, et sur un gros livre d’Andrew Solomon
Slate
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