Mira Kamdar

Pandemic Journal, April 6–12

Brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Verlyn Klinkenborg in East Chatham, Hugh Eakin in Minneapolis–St. Paul, Dalia Hatuqa in Amman, and more.

Paris Pastoral: A City Recultivated

The Brutalist public housing complexes of Seine-Saint-Denis, once triumphant monuments to socialist modernism, are now sites of social marginalization. It’s the last place one would imagine seeing wandering shepherds tending their flocks. Yet here, and elsewhere in metropolitan Paris, an urban agricultural revolution is taking root.

A Grand Redesign for Paris

President Macron has promised to modernize French society and economy, by bringing necessary reforms to what he clearly sees as a sclerotic society. In order to accomplish his aims, he will need to extend his attention to the banlieues.