THE REVOLUTIONARY SELF: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800, by Lynn Hunt “Over the course of the 1700s,” Lynn Hunt writes in...
The story of Notre-Dame’s restoration starts with a fire, as Claire Tabouret is well aware. Officials in France have chosen her, a Frenchwoman who, for the...
The Louvre Museum in Paris will move the Mona Lisa to a newly created exhibition space, President Emmanuel Macron of France announced on Tuesday as he...
When in Morocco, one might visit the El Badi Palace, walk the grounds of the Koutoubia Mosque or enjoy a meal of dates and chebakia at...
One early evening in December, the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled his country as rebel forces advanced on Damascus. In France, three days later, one of...
Bertrand Blier, an acclaimed director whose films scandalized, captivated and entertained 1970s and ’80s France with their sometimes brutal projections of French men’s sexual imaginations, died...
Howard Buten, a college dropout from Detroit, juggled three extraordinary lives. In one, he was a tender, clumsy and wordless red-nosed clown named Buffo. He sold...
In 2021, the hashtag #MeTooThéâtre began trending on social media in France. Thousands of stories about sexual abuse and harassment in the country’s theaters and drama...
By Michael Kimmelman Graphics by Mika Gröndahl Michael Kimmelman, the architecture critic of The Times, reported on Notre-Dame after the fire and toured the cathedral this...
