Madeleine Schwartz

Generation Mélenchon

A new alliance is attempting to revive the French left by bringing candidates from a range of parties under a single banner.

Macron on the Precipice

French President Emmanuel Macron is favored to win reelection, but his mixed record makes it a close race. If he loses to Marine Le Pen, France’s place in Europe may be radically altered.

Bike Lane to the Élysée

The environmentalist policies of Anne Hidalgo, the Socialist mayor of Paris, have transformed the capital. Why is her presidential campaign faltering?

A Necessary Detachment

The work of Xiaolu Guo both plays with the globalization of literature and rebukes it.

Criminalizing a Constitutional Right

For many Americans, Roe v. Wade might as well have been overturned already.

Anywhere But Here

Pandemic Journal, March 17–22

Dispatches on the coronavirus outbreak from Madeleine Schwartz in Brooklyn, Anne Enright in Dublin, Joshua Hunt in Busan, Anna Badkhen in Lalibela, Lauren Groff in Gainesville, and more.

The Devourer

Marie NDiaye is so intelligent, so composed, so good, that any description of her work feels like an understatement.

Inside the Deportation Courts

There is no principle of innocent until proven guilty in immigration court.

How Should a Millennial Be?

The novels of Sally Rooney

The Disillusionist

The violent, emotionally tangled, lushly written work of Elsa Morante

The View from the Attic

Pushing Against the Apocalypse

Lara Feigel’s ‘Free Woman: Life, Liberation, and Doris Lessing’

Merkel’s Problem on Her Right

The number of people trying to get to Europe has dropped drastically. Yet, since 2015, fear of a new “wave” of immigrants has shaped German politics.

Notes from the Inside

Rachel Kushner’s ‘The Mars Room’

Germany: With Centrists Like These…

Germany’s political direction depends far more on the two center parties, the SPD and especially the CDU, than the far-right AfD.

Give Birth or Get Out

Jane Poe’s case is the third in a recent disturbing pattern among undocumented minors in custody who have been denied abortions.

Writing on Thin Ice

Germany's Unspeakable Election

Germany’s far-right party’s success came at the expense both of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democratic Party of Germany, which saw its worst result since World War II.

El Salvador's Violence

In recent years, El Salvador’s record-high murder rate has earned it the dubious status as the most violent peacetime country in the world. Could the strategy of one peaceful town be replicated at a national level?