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Rachel Donadio

Rachel Donadio is a Paris-based contributing writer at The Atlantic, a former Rome bureau chief and correspondent for The New York Times, and the Curator of Cultural Programs at the American Library in Paris. (January 2025)

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Unsinkable Paris

Unsinkable Paris

The spirit of celebration on the streets of Paris during the Olympics was all the more meaningful to those of us who had lived through so many of the city’s darker recent chapters.

Impossible City: Paris in the 21st Century

by Simon Kuper

Paris in Turmoil: A City Between Past and Future

by Éric Hazan, translated from the French by David Fernbach

Paris Is Not Dead: Surviving Hypergentrification in the City of Light

by Cole Stangler

V13: Chronicle of a Trial

by Emmanuel Carrère, translated from the French by John Lambert, with a postscript by Grégoire Leménager

The Zone: An Alternative History of Paris

by Justinien Tribillon

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January 16, 2025 issue

Italy’s Great, Mysterious Storyteller

The epic novels of Elena Ferrante

My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

The Story of a New Name

by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

The Lost Daughter

by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

Troubling Love

by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

The Days of Abandonment

by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

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December 18, 2014 issue

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