
Thoughts on ethical culture
The restaurant at Paris’ Musée d’Orsay conjures up the bustling atmosphere of the train station this museum once was. The [...]

On Christmas carols
The day was a cold one. The rooftops on Main Street in Flers, the town where I attended high school, [...]

The Queen’s Suite
In 1958, Queen Elizabeth II and jazz legend Duke Ellington met for the first time at an arts festival in [...]

Open letter to James Baldwin
A letter from Will Keppler Robinson, young writer on the cusp of adulthood to James Baldwin, a writer who needs [...]

Finding hidden shapes
The lights are regulated correctly, there is a perfect distance between my bass and the amp, between my mouth and [...]

On Armistice Day
On a day when everyone searches for peace, columnist Will Robinson muses on the history of a protest song.

Tannenbaum for the migrant
Living in a time and place in which religious faith is unfashionable, France-based columnist Will Robinson decides to believe anyway.

A miraculous catch
In the Brittany seaside town I visited in July, situated in the northernmost region of Finistère (literally, land’s end), there [...]

Les chiens
I was studying for a three-hour French exam, scheduled the next day, while getting ready for bed when I heard [...]

Melodies for homesickness
Although I’ve probably been to the United States close to twenty times, if not more, and though I'm a U.S. [...]

James and Peggy in the Latin Quarter
This is excellent, wrote my bass teacher, sending me a link to an article about American writer James Baldwin’s relationship [...]