The Julia Child fascination   Julia Child Rules is the fourth and final installment in what has been dubbed my “Kick Ass Women” series — a […]

In Memory of Maya Angelou (1928-2014)   Maya Angelou, whose landmark 1969 book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings — an unsparing account of growing […]

Paris Before Haussmann   I decided to write How Paris Became Paris for two reasons. In the first place, I wanted to set the record straight.  […]

Translating Welcome to the Free Zone   Translators will read a book “with more care than anybody else, more demandingly, more enquiringly” writes Daniel Hahn in […]