Robinson’s Way
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 comes to pass a somewhat enchanted event my host calls the pêche miraculeuse (or miraculous [...]
Les chiens
I was studying for a three-hour French exam, scheduled the next day, while getting ready for bed when I heard a neighbor pass by our rural Normandy house. I wasn't the only one to hear [...]
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. citizen, I can’t profess to ever having lived there for more than six months at [...]
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 with France. He knows that Baldwin is among my heroes. I’ve been guided by his [...]
Celebrating oneself
If you’re as incurably literary a person as I am, any library in proximity is a beautiful haven. There are many such havens in my area, but the New York Public Library is one that [...]
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 at least a month. As in most love letters, this one is confused, more garbled [...]
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 that peppered his melodic singing voice. This, as I later found out, came from his [...]
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 that followed a four-month confinement. My life during this period was a carefully-stitched amalgam of [...]
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 brings vitality to an otherwise gray day (and there are many) in the town of [...]
The acoustic release
I was in a phone conversation with my father in the United States when I learned of the May 25 murder of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Something reverberated within [...]
Author
Will Keppler Robinson was born in Greenwich Village, New York, in 2005. He has written two poetry collections, a novel, and is currently working on his third novel. A passionate lover of music, he also translates and writes songs. He now lives in Paris, pursuing a dual major in history and English literature at the Sorbonne.