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Christophe Delory
Mark Lilla is a Professor of Humanities at Columbia and the author, most recently, of The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction and The Once and Future Liberal. (May 2021)
How the French Face Terror
Four recent books show a country going through the classic stages of trauma
Open Letter: On Blasphemy, Islamophobia, and the True Enemies of Free Expression
by Charb, with a foreword by Adam Gopnik
Who Is Charlie?: Xenophobia and the New Middle Class
by Emmanuel Todd, translated from the French by Andrew Brown, with maps and diagrams by Philippe Laforgue
Situation de la France [France’s Situation]
by Pierre Manent
Terreur dans l’Hexagone: Genèse du djihad français [Terror in the Hexagon: The Genesis of French Jihadism]
by Gilles Kepel, with Antoine Jardin
March 24, 2016 issue
The Strangely Conservative French
How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People
by Sudhir Hazareesingh
October 22, 2015 issue
Slouching Toward Mecca
Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Soumission’
Soumission
by Michel Houellebecq
April 2, 2015 issue
France: A Strange Defeat
Éric Zemmour’s ‘Le Suicide français’
Le Suicide français
by Éric Zemmour
March 19, 2015 issue
France on Fire
It is hard to escape the feeling that a major battle is beginning
March 5, 2015 issue
The Defense of a Jewish Collaborator
Claude Lanzmann’s ‘The Last of the Unjust’
The Last of the Unjust
a film directed by Claude Lanzmann
Terezin: Il ghetto-modello di Eichmann [Theresienstadt: Eichmann’s Model Ghetto]
by Benjamin Murmelstein
“Der Letzte der Ungerechten”: Der “Judenälteste” Benjamin Murmelstein in Filmen 1942–1975 [“The Last of the Unjust”: The “Jewish Head Elder” Benjamin Murmelstein in Films 1942–1975]
edited by Ronny Loewy and Katharina Rauschenberger
December 5, 2013 issue
Arendt & Eichmann: The New Truth
Margarethe von Trotta’s film ‘Hannah Arendt’
Hannah Arendt
a film by Margarethe von Trotta
Hannah Arendt: Ihr Denken veränderte die Welt [Hannah Arendt: Her Thought Changed the World]
edited by Martin Wiebel, with a foreword by Franziska Augstein
November 21, 2013 issue
Republicans for Revolution
On Corey Robin’s ‘The Reactionary Mind’
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
by Corey Robin
January 12, 2012 issue
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