Rachel Donadio
@RachelDonadio
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Contrib. ✍️ @TheAtlantic | Words @nybooks @nytimes (ex-🇮🇹 Chief & 🇪🇺 Culture Corro) | Curator of Cultural Programs @amerlibparis | [email protected]
Joined January 2012
It was a bit jarring to see a rather similar piece in today's @nytimestravel ! But I'm always glad for more shout-outs to Brodsky and his indelible WATERMARK.
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Today is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. In 2015, I visited Auschwitz and wrote about the moral and practical challenges of preserving the death camp. @nytimesarts
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🇫🇷📚 Join us at the American Library in Paris Tuesday, Jan 14 for Meghan O'Rourke on THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM: REIMAGINING CHRONIC ILLNESS — in conversation with Clémentine Goldszal @meghanor @Clemgold @amerlibparis Sign up in person or on Zoom!
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🇫🇷 Ten years ago this week, terrorists struck Charlie Hebdo and France entered an annus horribilus. Today these scars have become part of Paris' cityscape. My latest for @nybooks:
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🇫🇷📚 Sign up live or zoom for these great events at the @amerlibparis! Jan 8 Rachel Kushner in convo w/me Jan 14 Meghan O'Rourke w/Clémentine Goldszal Jan 15 Claire Messud w/Dan Gunn Jan 22 Melissa Febos wkshop Jan 29 Maylis de Kerangal w/Donatien Grau
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🇫🇷 Paris is an exquisite city full of exquisite complainers, forever beset by a pervasive sense that things are terrible or dirtier or somehow worse than they used to be, when things are not, in fact, terrible or dirtier or worse. My latest @nybooks
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🇫🇷 Closing out the year with one more for @nybooks — on Paris, city of revolutions past and perhaps future, city of rich and poor, city of attacks and survivors. Books by @ColeStangler, @KuperSimon, @JustinienT, Emmanuel Carrère, Éric Hazan
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🇫🇷 The first Mass in a gorgeously restored Notre Dame is underway this morning. For more on church and state in France, here is my laïcité deep dive for @TheAtlantic
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RT @NoahBookbinder: A reminder that we may not know election results tomorrow night and the results may ebb, flow and change direction as m…
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RT @ChatWithChauke: “Sometimes you don’t survive whole, you just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt. It’s not about…
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RT @TomSnarsky: Without expectations, fears, or hopes, Czesław Miłosz, tr. the poet & Robert Hass
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🇮🇹 Alessandro Giuli, director of Rome's Maxxi Museum, is Italy's new culture minister, replacing Gennaro Sangiuliano, who left after a melodramatic scandaletto. I interviewed both for this tour d'horizon of culture under PM Georgia Meloni. @nybooks
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RT @martin_briens: Con la scomparsa di Alain Delon se ne va un immenso attore, con un talento unico che ha illuminato capolavori della gran…
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RT @ianbremmer: italian air force over the hudson river in nyc coming to invade after finding out about pineapple on pizza
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RT @MichelleObama: I’m still not over this beautiful moment of sisterhood and sportsmanship! You can just feel the love shining through the…
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🇫🇷😂♥️ I love this thread imagining what the various philosophes would have made of Olympic medal biting...
Bourdieu : "La morsure de la médaille est un parfait exemple d'habitus incorporé au sein du champ sportif. Il s'agit d'une violence symbolique subtile, où l'athlète reproduit les attentes du système médiatique, tout en croyant exprimer sa joie individuelle." #JO2024 #DUPONT
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