Rachel Donadio
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Gao Jing Xinhua / eyevine / Redux A Letter From Wartime France
Streets that are normally busy, all of a sudden aren’t.
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Alessandro Grassani / The New York Times / ... Italy Shut Down. Which Country Will Be Next?
Europe and the West are in denial about the compromises that will need to be made.
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Manuel Silvestri / Reuters Italy’s Coronavirus Response Is a Warning From the Future
The country placed severe travel restrictions on a swath of its north. Other democracies are watching closely.
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Philippe Wojazer / Reuters Sexts, Lies, and Kompromat?
The era in which French public figures were able to keep their private life private is quite possibly over.
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Guglielmo Mangiapane / Reuters An Italian Flash Mob Just Pushed Back Europe’s Populist Tide
A regional election offers lessons on combatting the rise of the far right, both across the Continent and in the United States.
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Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters A Tiny Island Exposes Europe’s Failures
The investigation into the murder of Malta’s most famous journalist has done more than plunge the country into crisis.
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Musée du Louvre Leonardo da Vinci’s Unexamined Life as a Painter
A new show marks the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death, and reveals some of his innermost thoughts.
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Adam Nurkiewicz / Stringer / Getty France’s Growing Pushback Against Roman Polanski
Despite the director’s history of sexual assault, the country has long supported his artistic freedom. But with the debut of his latest film, the tide may be changing.
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Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP via Getty ‘Welcome to Europe. Now Go Home.’
The overcrowded Moria refugee camp in Greece is where Europe’s ideals—solidarity, human rights, a haven for victims of war and violence—dissolve in a tangle of bureaucracy, indifference, and lack of political will.
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Luca Bruno / AP Italy Has an Intolerance Problem. Does It Still Have a Moderate Right?
The anti-Semitic attacks on the Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre have spurred a national debate about intolerance.
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Remo Casilli / Reuters Pope Francis, the Revolutionary, Takes On the Traditionalists
A three-week conference that prioritized the environment highlights a culture war in the Catholic Church.
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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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