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After Islamophobia, what word should go next: Racism? Relativism?

Viral Avant La Lettre

Viral Avant La Lettre

Dreams Rise in the Darkness

Dreams Rise in the Darkness

‘While Beach found fun in capers and antics, Monnier held the literary punks at bay’

‘While Beach found fun in capers and antics, Monnier held the literary punks at bay’

The Writer’s Prison

Reflections on a Jewish Mirror

Reflections on a Jewish Mirror

Non

Old Vagabond

The Stranger, the Mother and the Algerian Revolution

The Stranger, the Mother and the Algerian Revolution

Image gallery:

Takashi Murakami at Versailles

Interview with “an old Calvinist pain-in-the-ass”

Slideshow:

The Gitans of Perpignan

‘Quite where Provence began was another of Ford’s variable facts. Perhaps it depended on when the train jogged him awake…’

‘Homosexuals were executed under Mao, but early gay-liberation militants in France had waved his red book. Their movement transcended its inspiration…’

‘If you look closely, Sarkozy’s latest austerity measure is a symbol of the greater failures of his Presidency…’

‘At one time, a lot of us – fewer now – put our money on French haute cuisine.’

‘Victor Hugo, it turns out, was as orientalist as his compatriots.’

Lautréamont’s recipe for “toxic emanations” still as pungent as ever

UX under Paris

Libelles and liberty