The Official Selection lineup of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. (It's 3 a.m., so apologies for any typos.)

🇫🇷 France is once again tangled up in a controversy over headscaves, banned in 1ry & 2ry school. A HS principal stepped down after receiving online death threats when he asked a student to remove hers. Why is this such a 3rd rail in 🇫🇷? Here's why:

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The power of print, even in the absence of print. No digital equivalent.

🙏 ⁦Thanks Simon Kuper⁩ for the Financial Times shoutout to my 2018 ⁦The Atlantic⁩ essay on Elena Ferrante - or “Elena Ferrante” 😉 - in this smart piece on collective writing!

What makes responsible #SpaceExploration , and what are its social and #environmental risks?

Today on States podcast: Villa Albertine Resident and astrophysicist Fatoumata Kebe hosted by Rachel Donadio. Tune in: linktr.ee/Villa_Albertin…

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Introducing States podcast: a new platform by Villa Albertine exploring the intricacies of the current US cultural landscape.

States' first series, Coast to Coast, conversations with Villa Albertine Residents, hosted by Rachel Donadio, is available now: bit.ly/3PaAQyO

'The first thing writers want is a quick response. Once they’ve finished a new manuscript, they exist in a state of suspended emotional and psychic animation until they hear from their editor, and it’s cruelty to animals to keep them waiting.' theparisreview.org/interviews/176…

Media: 'To Italians, Berlusconi was constant entertainment — both comic and tragic, with more than a touch of off-color material — until they booed him off the stage. But he kept coming back.' Berlusconi dead at 86. Jason Horowitz Rachel Donadio bit.ly/3N5BriP The New York Times

🇮🇹 Silvio Berlusconi, who transformed Italy, turned a viewership into an electorate and provided endless copy to journalists for years, has died at 86.

Obit by me (a while ago) and Jason Horowitz

Nathalie Sarraute “was interested in identity liberated from biography, in capturing a person’s essence.... This is what makes her work so intriguing—and so utterly alien today, when the dominant cultural mode is to valorize personal history.” go.nybooks.com/43hEf30

Thrilled to be embarking on a new adventure as Executive Director of one of the world's great international artist residencies!

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Introducing States podcast: a new platform by Villa Albertine exploring the intricacies of the current US cultural landscape.
 
States' first series, Coast to Coast, conversations with Villa Albertine Residents, hosted by Rachel Donadio, is available now: villa-albertine.org/magazine/intro…

Our June 22 issue is online now, with - on the ingenious index, Rachel Donadio on Nathalie Sarraute, @SteveCollNY on the Taliban’s second emirate, Ruth Franklin on Ken Burns’s Holocaust, Gary Saul Morson on Tolstoy’s conversion, and much more. go.nybooks.com/3qkIYCE