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French Studies
Interviews with scholars of France about their new books.
September 10, 2024
On Both Sides of the Tracks
An analysis of social mobility in contemporary French literature that offers a new perspective on figures who move between social classes. Social cli…
September 7, 2024
Revolutionary Warfare
The Algerian War of Independence constituted a major turning point of 20th century history. The conflict exacerbated divisions in French society, culm…
September 7, 2024
Encyclopédie Noire
If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-M…
September 6, 2024
Me and My House
The last sixteen years of James Baldwin's life (1971–87) unfolded in a village in the South of France, in a sprawling house nicknamed “Chez Baldwin.” …
September 1, 2024
Through the Morgue Door
Today I talked to Anne Landau and Margaret Sinclair, the translators of Through the Morgue Door: One Woman’s Story of Survival and Saving Children in …
August 28, 2024
Doctors at War
Ellen Hampton's Doctors at War: The Clandestine Battle Against the Nazi Occupation of France (LSU Press, 2023) tells the stories of physicians in Fran…
August 27, 2024
The Last Treaty
In The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East (Cambridge UP, 2023), Michelle Tusan profoundly reshapes the story …
August 23, 2024
Between Community and Collaboration
The first comprehensive, comparative study of the 'Jewish Councils' in the Netherlands, Belgium and France during Nazi rule. In the postwar period, th…
August 23, 2024
Twist in the Tail
A Twist in the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavoured Western Cuisine (Hurst, 2024) by Christopher Beckman takes readers on a tantalising voyage throu…
August 21, 2024
Beauty Is in the Street
In post-war Europe, protest was everywhere. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, from Paris to Prague, Milan to Wroclaw, ordinary people took to the str…
August 16, 2024
Fragments of a World
Lesley Smith of Oxford University joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Fragments of a World: William of Auvergne and His Medieval Life (Univer…
August 7, 2024
Automotive Empire
In Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Andrew Denning uncovers how roads…
July 11, 2024
Assassination in Vichy
During the night of 25 July 1941, assassins planted a time bomb in the bed of the former French Interior Minister, Marx Dormoy. The explosion on the f…
July 9, 2024
Vichy's Double Bind
Karine Varley's book Vichy's Double Bind: French Collaboration between Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War (Cambridge UP, 2023) advances …
July 2, 2024
An Age to Work
Childhood as lived during the French Third Republic was very different from childhood during the modern era. Working-class children laboured alongside…
June 30, 2024
Capitalism
What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what’s at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? I…
June 29, 2024
The (ir)Rational Mob: On the Life and Legacy of Gustave Le Bon
Every protest movement has been dismissed as a mere ‘mindless mob,’ caught in a psychological frenzy. Where did this idea come from, and why does it l…
June 24, 2024
Europe Against Revolution
Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and c…
June 9, 2024
Selling French Sex
Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking, and Global Migrations (Cambridge UP, 2024) is an illuminating account of the cultural, social, and econ…
May 31, 2024
Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives
Polo B. Moji's book Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives (Routledge, 2022) approaches the study of AfroEurope …