The New York Times – Travel:
After 17 years in France, Tharshan Selvarajah has yet to apply for citizenship. But he has made bread for President Emmanuel Macron.
Author: Roger Cohen
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At the Serge Gainsbourg’s Paris House, Time Stands Still
The New York Times – Music:
The long-contested, now beloved French singer’s home is open to the public, with everything exactly as it was on the day he died in 1991.
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‘Tirailleurs’: Movie Honors the African Soldiers France Tried to Forget
The New York Times – Film:
The success of “Tirailleurs,” set in the mire and mayhem of World War I, has helped resurface the often neglected story of colonial soldiers forced to take up somebody else’s fight.
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Zar Amir Ebrahimi, an Iranian Exile, Channels Trauma in ‘Holy Spider’
The New York Times – Film:
Zar Amir Ebrahimi, who had to flee Iran after an intimate tape was leaked, has been transfixed by the protests erupting there as her film “Holy Spider” is released in the U.S.