I am a Paris-based writer and journalist, a contributing writer for The Atlantic and a former Rome Bureau Chief and European Culture correspondent for The New York Times. I regularly publish textured profiles and features at the intersection of culture and politics, as well as literary criticism. I’ve reported from more than two dozen countries and interviewed heads of state as well as major cultural figures, including four Nobel Laureates in literature. My work appears in publications ranging from The New York Review of Books to Vogue. I grew up in Middlebury, VT, graduated from Yale University and have spent much of my life in New York, Rome and Paris. 

In 2023, I served as Executive Director of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, an international artist residency in Umbria. I have also served as administrator of the American Library in Paris Book Award, which honors the year’s best English-language title about France. I have been a visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton, a visiting critic at The American Academy in Rome, a visiting fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s SNF Agora Institute and a visiting fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. I frequently moderate discussions, deliver lectures and comment on European affairs in English, French and Italian, such as on NPR, France’s Arte and FranceInter, and Italy’s La7.

Here’s a selection of my work, my full New York Times archive and full Atlantic archive.

I am represented by The Wylie Agency. (The photo of me on the home page is by Dmitry Kostyukov)