Tag Archives: books

The Bells of Notre Dame Are Ringing!

To tell the truth, today I am content to listen to the newly resurrected bells (a trial run), or to classical music, or to small kids playing in the park. It grates, though, to hear the repetitive lamentations and blame-throwing, or American tourists in Paris who chatter and whoop… as if. As if anything. Leave […]

Don’t Drink the Water!

An Anglophone writer living now partly in France, well-versed in French leftist philosophy, brings out with much fanfare a novel that uses the serious French farmers’ and ecologists’ aggravation over ‘mega-reservoirs’ as background and hook. I’ll be curious to see what French readers make of this fiction, once translated. Meanwhile, the Arts Fuse published my […]