
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 [...]

Celebrating oneself
If you’re as incurably literary a person as I am, any library in proximity is a beautiful haven. There are [...]

Some lyrics to hope by
This column, truthfully, is a love letter to writing. It comes after after a bout with creative infertility that lasted [...]

My place to be
The first time I heard the late English singer-songwriter Nick Drake, I thought he was Welsh because of the inflexions [...]

James Baldwin saved my life
Some things leave a mark. This school year did. Its awkward summer break came after a (pointless) return to school [...]

A gift at le marché
For as long as I can remember, the Thursday morning farmer's market has been a weekly institution, a hive that [...]