Louis Menand’s new book traces the decline of a defining ideal.

The show set in a French talent agency is the antidote to superficial satires on Hollywood.

Wider sidewalks and no-car zones are the new hot commodity. They could even help businesses reopen.

Nelson Algren infused his best writing with passionate political conviction.

“Non-Fiction,” his new film, is about getting by in a disrupted world.

France’s gilets jaunes protests are the latest Western uprising against rule by technocratic insiders.

Yes, French politics and society are in turmoil. But there's a simpler lesson from the cathedral's burning.

Civilization creates. Civilization endures destruction. Civilization builds again.

The world that 1968 ushered in is a far cry from the one activists imagined.

John Merriman's new book tells the story of a violent gang in nineteenth-century Paris.

A new movie about the Paris branch of ACT UP is a milestone in HIV/AIDS film.

From Paris withdrawal to Obamacare repeal, their agenda is just like the juvenile truck-pollution trend: Its goal is to piss off liberals.

Either she never cared about issues like climate change, or she’s a massive failure as a White House adviser.

Lauren Elkin's new book "Flâneuse" takes a meandering look at the history of women in the city.

Republicans say they call it as they see it—until the tables are turned on them.