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Posted inEditor's Pick

Beyond Borders

by Seyward Darby March 16, 2023March 21, 2023

“Everything a man keeps on himself, in cases of capture, can save his life.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Last of the Bougainvillea Years

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 12, 2022October 19, 2022

In a contemplative essay, Lebanese poet Zeina Hashem Beck considers her time in Dubai before a move to Paris, and explores the idea of home and finding one’s place in the world. I dread Paris, though I’m aware it must be more forgiving than Dubai. Isn’t that why we’re moving? We repeated the reasons every […]

Posted inStory

Exilium Vita Est: The Island Home of Victor Hugo

by Emma Jacobs September 9, 2019January 27, 2023

Emma Jacobs takes us on an illustrated journey of Hugo’s writing life in exile on Guernsey, where he completed Les Misérables.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Exploring The Paris Underneath Paris

by Aaron Gilbreath July 3, 2019October 19, 2022

Drawn to the culture of urban exploration, the author crawls through narrow tunnels under Paris so we don’t have to.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

Rewriting A Symphony In Stone

by Summer Brennan April 19, 2019October 19, 2022

Summer Brennan considers the art and ritual of reinvention in the history of Notre Dame cathedral, and its witness to a Parisian millennium.

Illustrator Kate Gavino walks a group of dogs in Paris and speaks in French when giving commands.
Posted inNonfiction, Story

Unleashed in Paris

by Kate Gavino April 3, 2019October 19, 2022

As a semi-professional dog walker in Paris, expat Kate Gavino has found a comfortable way to learn French.

Illustrator Kate Gavino walks a group of dogs in Paris and speaks in French when giving commands.
Posted inNonfiction

Unleashed in Paris

by Kate Gavino April 3, 2019October 19, 2022

As a semi-professional dog walker in Paris, expat Kate Gavino has found a comfortable way to learn French.

Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story, Travel

A Three-Day Expedition To Walk Across Paris Entirely Underground

by Longreads March 13, 2019October 19, 2022

Journalist Will Hunt, who made the crossing with a group of urban explorers, recounts being menaced by rainwater and rats — and meeting fellow subterranean wanderers along the way.

Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Story

Alexa de Paris

by Miles Marshall Lewis November 27, 2018October 26, 2022

Miles Marshall Lewis remembers a love of Prince and Paris.

Posted inBooks, Story

A Crocodile In Paris: The Queer Classics of Qiu Miaojin

by Ankita Chakraborty June 7, 2018October 19, 2022

As the first woman in Chinese literature to come out as openly gay, Qiu Miaojin adopted and humanized the bestial expectations of a cruel public.

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