On 15 July 2003, Roberto Bolaño's liver marked a turbulent half-century by failing. The Chilean writer's death at the age of 50 was noted by a
Anyone who lives in France, as I do, has by now grown weary of writing about or discussing the contrat première embauche (CPE, or "first employment contract"). March
There are a few passages that I will always remember from my time as an editor at the opinion page of the New York Times. Some were just beautifully crafted,
In the United States, a lawsuit has been filed against the internet ad site Craigslist for violating fair-housing practices. Cited in the lawsuit were ads for roommates that said such
I'm not the first to observe that the physical nature of movement internationally has become much easier in the past century. But in other aspects the movement of
One of the reasons I moved to France was to get away from the materialism of black American culture. By no means is materialism in the United States limited to
On 1 December 2005 the French government finally announced that a dream of President Jacques Chiracs, an international news channel, would become a reality. Chirac has spoken of the
My mandate for this column is to write about global affairs, but I was asked gently by my editor if I might like to say anything about black history month
On 25 September, Karen Hughes, the recently confirmed under-secretary of state for public diplomacy for the United States, began her first tour with a note of humility: I hope to
The fourth anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in New York is approaching. For those New Yorkers without the constant reminder of a missing presence, a loved one
As I prepare to leave New York and my position at the New York Times for a self-imposed exile, I wonder whether my time abroad will be longer than the
I still have Jacques Derridas voice captured in my answering machine: Hello, this is a message for Kay Dilday, from Jacques Derrida, from Paris. When he called, it had
