How can a cartoon character help us decipher a nation? The latest album in the series is an opportunity to reexamine le phénomème Astérix […]

For ideological, financial, or health care reasons, more and more Americans are moving to France – 12,200 first-time residence permits were granted to U.S. […]

The French do not speak the language of Molière, but rather a creolized tongue that is constantly growing through its encounters with literature and […]

Paris-trained Senegalese writer and philosopher Souleymane Bachir Diagne directs the Institute of African Studies at Columbia, where he connects French thought with Sub-Saharan cultures. […]

Sales of no- and low-alcohol wine soar in France amid deep-seated cultural change. But your correspondent keeps his true feelings bottled up. […]

Slow growth in France is benefiting public infrastructure, but purchasing power is sluggish. In the United States, booming growth is a windfall for individual […]

As a keen observer of both France and the United States, Alexis de Tocqueville worried that democracy would lead to despotism. Does the contemporary […]

Some books should be read in the original. Eighty years after it first appeared in print, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic novella merits a re-read. […]

Entrepreneur and investor Olivier Coste left Paris for New York City in 2014, having worked as an advisor to Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and […]

A recent book entitled Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France is shaking up preconceptions about the contribution of American artists in France […]