France

France is a home and a fascination. For The Atlantic I’ve written on French laïcité compared to American religious liberty, explored the Yellow Vest movement, France’s crisis of representative democracy, debates over race, the response to the 2019 fire at Notre-Dame, and the initial French response to the #MeToo movement. For Vogue, I’ve profiled the new creative director of the historic Parisian fashion house Chloé. For The New York Review of Books I’ve written on how the pandemic has challenged President Emmanuel Macron. I’ve also followed a high-profile French terrorism trial and for the Times I embedded with the staff of Charlie Hebdo as they put out their first issue after a deadly terrorist attack. I’ve covered the Cannes Film Festival, written on the films of Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Audiard, and Agnès Varda, and interviewed French cultural figures obsessed with a perception of French decline.