French

Bust-up in Bordeaux

Short work at one of Cognac’s ‘Big Three’. France’s cognac industry is buckling under the double whammy of tariffs and other trade measures placed on it by China and the...

Paris-Saigon

The fustigations of a French architect in Vietnam. It’s not so fanciful to view architecture as a kind of language, a system which forms the structures in which people live...

The Literary Voice of Vodou

An exploration of Vodou as a system of thought and a means of understanding the world through Haitian poetry and literature Vodou, at its core, is a religion of oral...

With the Warrior Poet in Burma

A French journalist visits a rebel leader who has swapped words for guns in his fight against the military regime In Burma, notes journalist Guillaume Pajot in an article for Revue XXI, “poetry...

The pain and the beauty

A French journalist talks about his time as a hostage in Mali, and how he sees the future Oliver Dubois tried to escape from his captors in Mali four times....

Warm waters, closing nets

How climate change is driving dolphins into deadly contact with fishing fleets in the Bay of Biscay In this article for the French daily newspaper Libération, journalist Julie Renson Miquel reports...

Whitewashing the German countryside?

A French take on the rise of the ‘ecologically minded’ extreme-right in Germany Evil doesn’t die; it reinvents itself. Following the worrying results of last September’s local elections in Saxony—where...

Norm war

A French perspective on the performative power games of Donald Trump The beginnings of Trump’s second term as President of the United States have been eventful. A brutally disruptive tariff...

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