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Triangulation

As of this writing, the United States, which has 4.2 percent of the world’s population, accounts for nearly 30 percent of total COVID-19 mortalities. Among Americans, a common response to…

Survive and Advance

by Albert Camus,Translated by Madison Mainwaring,

A letter written in 1943 in response to a request from the Committee of National Liberation in Algiers to outline the mood in France, which was under Nazi occupation at…

Killing Time

by Jean Giono,Translated by Jody Gladding,

From Occupation Journal, a diary that Giono kept during the Nazi occupation of France, which was published last month by Archipelago Books. Translated from the French by Jody Gladding. tuesday,…

Oceans Apart

by Violet Lucca,Guest Tommy Trenchard

The Comoro Islands are a microcosm of the global climate crisis to come

Minor Threats

by Jean Genet,Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman,

By Jean Genet, from The Criminal Child: Selected Essays, published this month by NYRB Classics. This text is an abridged version of the essay “The Criminal Child,” which was commissioned…

Trash, Rock, Destroy

by Lauren Elkin,

Is Virginie Despentes the French writer America needs?

A Play with No End

by Christopher Ketcham,

What the Gilets Jaunes really want

A Play with No End

by Harper’s Magazine,

Force majeure: What the American left could learn from the Gilets Jaunes

Republic of Letters

by Elisabeth Badinter, Jean Birnbaum,Translated by John Cullen,

From an interview in the November 28, 2018, edition of Le Monde with Élisabeth Badinter, conducted by Jean Birnbaum. Badinter is a French public intellectual and historian whose three-part history…

Who Are Those Damned Yellow French?

by Jean-Philippe Immarigeon,Translated by Madison Mainwaring,

“Who, save for the little barons of Wall Street, believes in the progressive virtues of capitalism?”

Kiss and Tell

by Marina Tsvetaeva,

From a letter written by Marina Tsvetaeva to Boris Pasternak in 1927. Tsvetaeva (1892–1941) was a poet. The letter was included in the February issue of the PN Review. Translated…

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Triangulation

Survive and Advance

Killing Time

Oceans Apart

Minor Threats

Trash, Rock, Destroy

A Play with No End

A Play with No End

Republic of Letters

Who Are Those Damned Yellow French?

Kiss and Tell

April 2018

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