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Lipstick

by Luz,

By Luz, from Catharsis, his memoir about the terrorist attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo in January. Luz, a cartoonist for the magazine, was late to work on the…

Curling Parents and Little Emperors

by Pamela Druckerman,

Soon after my book Bringing Up Bébé appeared, in 2012, I discovered an animated video made by a company in Taiwan. In it, a woman who’s supposed to be me…

A Deeply Integrated Europe

by Emmanuel Todd, James K. Galbraith, Ulrike Guérot, John Gray, Christiane Lemke, Jeff Madrick,

The euro and its discontents

How Germany Reconquered Europe

by James K. Galbraith, Ulrike Guérot, John Gray, Christiane Lemke, Jeff Madrick, Emmanuel Todd,

The euro and its discontents

The Joke

by Justin Smith,

By Justin E. H. Smith, from “The Fundamentals of Gelastics,” a work in progress. Smith’s latest book, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference (Princeton), will be published in June. In…

From “Voyage Alone in the Rob Roy,” which appeared in the May 1868 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete essay — along with the magazine’s entire 164-year archive — is available online at harpers.org/fromthearchive.

My Two Visits to Verdun

by Walter Hale,

commenced in February. It was over the Voie Sacrée that the gallant Twentieth Corps — the corps d’attaque that has been used as the drivingwedge in every big assault since…

Francis and the Nuns

by Mary Gordon,

Is the new Vatican all talk?

Stop Time

by Chloe Dewe Mathews, Geoff Dyer,

Remembering World War I’s executed deserters

Invasion Diary

by Vernon Bartlett,

Tuesday, June 6. I turned on the radio for the eight a.m. news. The announcer spoke about special warnings which had been broadcast to our Allies in Western Europe. There…

Voltaire in Vichy

by Jean Guéhenno,Translated by David Ball,

By Jean Guéhenno, from Diary of the Dark Years, 1940–1944: Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied Paris, out this month from Oxford University Press. Guéhenno (1890–1978) was a writer,…

France

Lipstick

Curling Parents and Little Emperors

A Deeply Integrated Europe

How Germany Reconquered Europe

The Joke

A Floating Freehold

My Two Visits to Verdun

Francis and the Nuns

Stop Time

Invasion Diary

Voltaire in Vichy

Debug

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Lipstick

Curling Parents and Little Emperors

A Deeply Integrated Europe

How Germany Reconquered Europe

The Joke

A Floating Freehold

My Two Visits to Verdun

Francis and the Nuns

Stop Time

Invasion Diary

Voltaire in Vichy

June 2014

Debug