Rachel Donadio
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Bloomsbury Deborah Levy’s Disorienting, Captivating Fiction
The British novelist’s wry books veer from concrete realism to fractured blends of dream and memory.
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Benoit Tessier / Reuters The Unending Disquiet After Attacks in Paris
The French capital suffered a wave of violence in 2015 and 2016, and while the years since have been more peaceful, a recent attack resurfaced unease.
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Charles Platiau / Reuters Why IVF Has Divided France
The country is forever caught between tradition and innovation, universalism and individual rights.
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Evan Agostini / Invision / AP The Disparate Reactions to a New Woody Allen Film
The Paris premiere of A Rainy Day in New York highlighted the tension between American morality and France’s high-minded belief that the art transcends the artist.
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Yara Nardi / Reuters Italy’s Populists Lost Power—And Now the Press
Much of the Italian press gushed over the far-right leader Matteo Salvini as he rose. Now that he is in opposition, it feels free to be more critical.
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Pool / Reuters Europe Marvels as Britain Convulses Over Brexit
Onlookers in Paris, Rome, Berlin, and elsewhere across Europe have been stupefied by the internecine battles in London.
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Gianni Cipriano The New Populist Playbook
Matteo Salvini is not merely a Donald Trump facsimile—the Italian politician has been testing whether Facebook likes translate into votes, and is remaking his country along the way.
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Tristan Reynaud / SIPA / AP The Joys of a Quiet Paris
The French capital empties out in August, but still has energy—just a different sort.
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Yara Nardi / Reuters Italy’s Transition From One Weak Government to Another
The pact between the populist Five Star Movement and the center-left Democratic Party, engineered to keep Matteo Salvini from power, may have its days numbered.
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Remo Casilli / Reuters Italy’s Leaders Are Divided on Policy, United in Fear of One Man
The far-right politician Matteo Salvini has triggered a government crisis, forcing parties that despise one another to contemplate alliances, if only to block his rise.
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Pool / Reuters Emmanuel Macron Expounds as the World Burns
The French president has an answer for every problem, but is anyone listening?
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Remo Casilli / Reuters Salvini Puts Italy on a Collision Course With Europe
Matteo Salvini, Italy’s interior minister and the country’s most powerful politician, has called for early elections, but will have to deflect a poor economy and allegations of links to Moscow.
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Guglielmo Mangiapane / Reuters Teflon Salvini: Italy’s Untouchable Politician
The Italian interior minister has been linked to Russian money. It’s just the latest crisis he’s brushing off.
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Yannis Behrakis / Reuters Greece Is Over Its Crisis, but Europe Isn’t
In Greece, a cycle is ending, and the country is returning to political normality. But across Europe, the legacy of its crisis is still a factor.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Italian Donald Trump Visits Washington
Matteo Salvini’s trip helps secure his power in Italy and contribute to his image as a strong, responsible statesman.
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Francois Mori / AP Nothing Prepares You for Visiting Omaha Beach
The grief at the Normandy American Cemetery feels world-historical.
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Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters A Journalist Was Killed in an EU Country. Why Has No One Been Caught?
A new report says the rule of law in Malta is “seriously undermined by the extreme weakness of its system of checks and balances.”
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Max Rossi / Reuters Macron and Salvini: Two Leaders, Two Competing Visions for Europe
The French and Italian politicians see different futures for the continent. Both face tests in this week’s European Parliament elections.
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Charles Platiau / Reuters How I. M. Pei Shaped a Change-Resistant Paris
Parisians hated Pei’s pyramid when it first opened. It is now as synonymous with the Louvre as the Mona Lisa.
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Thomas Samson / AFP / Getty A Motto for a World-Weary Paris
The Notre-Dame fire brought Parisians together, for just a moment, in a way that even the November 13 terrorist attacks could not.
