Paris Update
Lavinia
The Wine Price Is Right A vast choice of wine to go with your meal. Lavinia is a large, upmarket wine supermarket with an upstairs restaurant that opens six days a week for lunch and occasionally in the evening when … Read More
La Vie Moderne
Focus on French Farmers
Raymond Depardon is justly celebrated for the range of his work, covering photojournalism, photography, feature films and, with greatest success most recently, documentaries. His new documentary, ironically titled La Vie Moderne (Modern Life), focuses on a number of farms in … Read More
Amici Miei
Pizza Party Pooper The Lu Lioni came with Italian sausage and red peppers. Reader reaction posted Oct. 31, 2008 Last week I took some time out for a long weekend in Florence to visit a friend who is soon to … Read More
La Belle Personne
High-School Princess
The two literary works that to my mind are the most difficult to adapt for the cinema or stage, Jane Austen’s Emma and Mme de Lafayette’s La Princesse de Clèves, are, perhaps for that very reason, the ones that seem … Read More
Le Fait du Prince
21st-Century Moraliste
Novelist Amélie Nothomb is known for churning out a book without fail every year for the rentrée littéraire, wearing flamboyant hats and being extremely media-savvy. Her latest offering, Le Fait du Prince (the almost untranslatable title of which means something … Read More
Entre les Murs
Reality School
The movie Entre les Murs has caused quite a stir in France, not least because it is the first French film to have won the coveted Palme d’Or at Cannes in 21 years. This is all the more surprising an … Read More
Parlez-moi de la Pluie
Breaking Down Barriers
After the glorious Le Goût des Autres and the disappointing Comme une Image, I waited with nervous anticipation for the opening of Parlez-moi de la Pluie (Let It Rain is the less poetic official English title), Agnès Jaoui’s third film … Read More
Soit Je meurs, soit Je Vais Mieux
Double Trouble
Is it a ploy to draw in the large teenage market during the summer holidays? All the new French films appearing in Paris this week seem to deal with the problems of adolescence: Nos 18 Ans is about high-school pupils … Read More
Podcast. With Jake Lamar
Interview with Jake Lamar
The American writer Jake Lamar, author of a memoir and five novels, will be reading from his latest thriller, Ghosts of Saint-Michel (St. Martin’s Minotaur), at the Village Voice Bookshop (6 rue Princesse, 75006 Paris) on Tuesday, September 12 at … Read More
Interview with John Biguenet
On the Verge O. Henry Award-winning writer John Biguenet, who lives in New Orleans, is in Paris this month for the launch of his novel Oyster, published in French as Le Secret du Bayou, and to teach a creative writing … Read More