Rachel Donadio
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Tolga Akmen / AFP / Getty The World Isn’t Laughing at Just Trump
American allies are laughing at the whole country.
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Philippe Matsas / Flammarion A Novel Made for the “Yellow Vest” Moment
Michel Houellebecq’s latest provocation takes aim at the EU.
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Lukasz Bak Cold War Meditates on Exile, Nationalism, and Love
Pawel Pawlikowski’s latest film masterfully depicts how deep emotional ties blossomed and survived during an era of extreme conflict in Poland.
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Stephane Mahe / Reuters France’s ‘Yellow Vest’ Protesters Aren’t Against Climate Action
Just because they oppose Emmanuel Macron’s proposed fuel-tax hike does not mean that the French activists will oppose any policy designed to fight climate change.
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Gabriel Bouys / Getty A New Answer to the World’s Biggest Literary Mystery
Who is Elena Ferrante? One of our reporters believes that she’s figured it out.
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Stephane Mahe / Reuters France’s Fuel-Tax Protests Expose the Limits of Macron’s Mandate
France’s prime minister announced major concessions on Tuesday, but the “yellow vest” protesters don’t plan to quit anytime soon.
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Jon Han An Open Letter to Elena Ferrante—Whoever You Are
The pseudonymous author has said all along that her identity lies in her writing. I’ve followed the literary clues. Here’s where they’ve led me.
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Fred Lancelot / Reuters What the November 13 Attacks Taught Paris
For years, deadly terrorist strikes in France were widely treated as isolated incidents. That changed forever in 2015.
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Francois Mori / Reuters Trump’s Bromance With Macron Fizzles Spectacularly
A weekend of presidential drama in Paris culminated in the French president’s warning against an emerging global disorder.
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Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters Europeans Are Obsessed With the U.S. Midterms
“Right now we have almost-daily U.S. coverage on Trump and everything that’s connected to him.”
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Cathal McNaughton / Reuters France’s Jews Look to Pittsburgh ‘Across a Narrow Bridge’
“What’s been a reality for us has now become a reality for them,” said one worshipper at the Mouvement Juif Libéral de France in Paris.
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Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters Continuing the Work of a ‘One-Woman WikiLeaks’
A year after Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder in Malta, her family still wants answers—and it wants other reporters to complete her final stories.
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Remo Casilli / Reuters The EU Has Rejected Italy's Budget. That's Just What Rome Wanted.
The EU’s move comes amid growing economic problems in Italy, but the country’s ascendant populists will flaunt Brussels’s decision as a victory.
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Tony Gentile / Reuters Pope Francis Is Still Equivocating on the Sex-Abuse Crisis
He stands by those to whom he’s loyal but, when faced with new evidence, is also willing to change his mind.
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Erik Aavatsmark / Netflix Paul Greengrass, Auteur of Globalization and Its Discontents
In his new film 22 July, the director portrays the Norwegian killer Anders Breivik as a harbinger of the ‘alt-right.’
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Adam Hale American Weirdness: Observations From an Expat
The disorientation of coming home and buying toothpaste
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Stefano Rellandini / Reuters Italy Defied Starbucks—Until It Didn’t
The chain has opened its first outfit in Milan. But does “the country of coffee” really need it?
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Stefano Rellandini / Reuters The Power Play Driving the Latest Vatican Crisis
An explosive letter calling on the pope to resign may say more about its author than anything else.
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Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters Italy’s Voters Aren’t Anti-Immigration—But Their Government Is
The country’s electorate is torn between humanitarianism and nationalism, and it wound up with leaders on the nationalist side.
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Kayhan Ozer / Reuters How a Soccer Star Sparked a Ferocious Debate in Germany
Mesut Özil has dramatically quit the national team, declaring: “When we win, I am German. When we lose, I am an immigrant.”
