I fell in love with Paris in the cafés of Montparnasse. It was Spring 1999, I was on my junior year abroad, and, a confirmed Anglophile and English major, I had wanted to study in London. But circumstances conspired to send me to Paris instead, and this cosmopolitan switch-off was...

Tell me, would you be awfully surprised if President Bush said, to a guy who insulted him while he was out shaking hands, "get the hell out of here, loser," and it was picked up on news shows across the country and was the number one video in YouTube and...

The end of the university semester here in France...means it's once again time to grade a stack of papers, and as this semester saw me teaching a discussion section of an American civilization lecture course, this means I'm grading final exams which respond to questions like "define multiculturalism" and "describe...

An American in Paris, no matter how besotted with the food, the wine, and the breathtaking beauty of the place, will invariably, after several weeks of apartment hunting, be tempted to turn right around and head back to America.

There, or at least in New York, where I'm from,...