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    Cover of A Good Place to Hide: How One French Village Saved Thousands of Lives During World War II
    Non­fic­tion
    A Good Place to Hide: How One French Vil­lage Saved Thou­sands of Lives Dur­ing World War II
    Peter Grose
    Cover of Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
    Non­fic­tion
    Vil­lage of Secrets: Defy­ing the Nazis in Vichy France
    Caroline Moorehead
    Interview

    Inter­view: Mark Poliz­zot­ti on Trans­lat­ing the Work of Patrick Modiano

    Patrick Modi­ano, who won the 2014 Nobel Prize for lit­er­a­ture, has recent­ly seen a flur­ry of atten­tion here in the U.S., where he had been rel­a­tive­ly unknown until…
    Beth Kissileff
    March 6, 2015
    Cover of Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas
    Fic­tion
    Sus­pend­ed Sen­tences: Three Novellas
    Patrick Modiano; Mark Polizzotti, trans.
    Essay

    The Absence of the ​“Jew­ish Ques­tion” in Irene Nemirovsky’s Suite Francaise

    Ear­li­er this week, Alex­is Lan­dau shared the sto­ry behind her debut nov­el, The Empire of the Sens­es, as well as books that inspired her while she wrote. She has been…
    Alex­is Landau
    February 26, 2015
    Essay

    World Zion­ism and Paris’s Per­son­al and Polit­i­cal Patterns

    Roger Cohen is a colum­nist for The New York Times, where he has worked since 1990: as a cor­re­spon­dent in Paris and Berlin, and as bureau chief in the Balka­ns…
    Roger Cohen
    January 19, 2015
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    Rhine­stones, Reli­gion, and the Repub­lic: Fash­ion­ing Jew­ish­ness in France
    Kimberly A. Arkin
    Interview

    Inter­view: Robert Harris

    by Elise Coop­erRobert Harris’s lat­est book, An Offi­cer and A Spy, is a fic­tion­al account of the Drey­fus Affair. This is a thrilling his­tor­i­cal nov­el that…
    Elise Coop­er
    June 17, 2014
    Cover of Diary of the Dark Years, 1940- 1944: Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied Paris
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    Diary of the Dark Years, 1940- 1944: Col­lab­o­ra­tion, Resis­tance, and Dai­ly Life in Occu­pied Paris
    Jean Guehenno; David Ball, annotator and trans.
    Interview

    Inter­view: Nan­cy K. Miller

    by Tah­neer OksmanNan­cy K. Miller’s new mem­oir, Breath­less: An Amer­i­can Girl in Paris, recounts the years that the author spent abroad after grad­u­at­ing from Barnard…
    Tah­neer Oksman
    December 9, 2013
    Essay

    Charles Belfoure on Cut­ting Mate­r­i­al from His Novel

    Charles Belfoure is the author of the debut nov­el The Paris Archi­tect (Source­books Land­mark), an Octo­ber Indie Next Pick and Nation­al Read­ing Group Month Selec­tion. He…
    Charles Belfoure
    October 15, 2013
    Essay

    The French Dur­ing the Holo­caust and the Com­pli­ca­tions of History

    Ear­li­er this week, Lau­ren Grod­stein wrote about her strange rela­tion­ship with her son’s all-Amer­i­can looks. Her most recent nov­el, The Expla­na­tion for Every­thing,…
    Lau­ren Grodstein
    August 29, 2013
    Interview

    Inter­view: Maryann Macdonald

    by Michal H. MalenMaryann Mac­don­ald is the author of Odette’s Secrets (Blooms­bury).Michal H. Malen: Please tell us some more about the real Odette Mey­ers, the per­son on…
    Michal Hoschan­der Malen
    July 1, 2013
    Recommended Reading

    The Jews of Poland: Rec­ol­lec­tions and Recipes by Edouard de Pomiane

    Last week, Rebec­ca Miller wrote about Gluck­el of Hameln. She has been shar­ing texts that shed light on the his­to­ry of Jew­ish life in France, the set­ting of her new…
    Rebec­ca Miller
    May 23, 2013
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Tri­al of the Tal­mud: Paris, 1240
    John Friedman, Jean Connell Hoff & Robert Chazan
    Essay

    Rebec­ca Miller on Gluck­el of Hameln

    This week on the Vis­it­ing Scribe, Rebec­ca Miller will be shar­ing texts that shed light on Jew­ish life in eigh­teenth-cen­tu­ry France, the set­ting of her new nov­el,…
    Rebec­ca Miller
    May 13, 2013
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