News and views about books, authors, the life of the mind, the information age, and the American Library in Paris.

15 March 2010

Through the backstage door

A note to our youth librarian, Helen Géhin, from Library member Brita Long: “I want to thank you again for organizing Kathryn Lasky’s visit the other […]
14 March 2010

Susan Sontag in Paris

Alice Kaplan’s memoir of her embrace of the French language, “French Lessons,” is a beloved classic. She has continued to write books of history that explore […]
14 March 2010

Joyful noise

A great open house at the Library Saturday, with lots of newcomers looking around (and joining!), the children’s department alive with a book group and much […]
13 March 2010

How is that pronoun-ced?

“One doesn’t have to be a psycholinguist to obsess over pronouns,” writes Jessica Love in the spring issue of The American Scholar. But it surely helps. […]
How is that pronoun-ced?
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