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Byline: Rachel Donadio Dozens of books have disappeared from Warsaw to Paris. The police are looking into who is taking them, and why - a tale of money, geopolitics, crafty [...]

Dozens of books have disappeared from Warsaw to Paris. The police are looking into who is taking them, and why -- a tale of money, geopolitics, crafty forgers and lackluster [...]

ROME -- Silvio Berlusconi, the brash media mogul who revolutionized Italian television using privately owned channels to become the country's most polarizing and prosecuted prime minister over multiple stints in [...]

ROMA — Silvio Berlusconi, el impetuoso magnate de los medios de comunicación que revolucionó la televisión italiana con canales de propiedad privada que utilizó para convertirse en el primer ministro [...]

Byline: Ian Fisher and Rachel Donadio He defined a conservative course for the Roman Catholic Church, but his papacy was noted for his struggle with the clergy sexual abuse scandal [...]

He defined a conservative course for the Roman Catholic Church, but his papacy was noted for his struggle with the clergy sexual abuse scandal and for his unexpected resignation. Benedict [...]

El papa emérito definió un rumbo conservador para la Iglesia católica romana, pero su papado se destacó por su dificultad para lidiar con el escándalo de abusos sexuales en el [...]

SEMUR-EN-AUXOIS, France -- Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's far-right National Rally, has worked hard during this election campaign to soften, even detoxify, her image. It seems to be [...]

Byline: Rachel Donadio SEMUR-EN-AUXOIS, France - Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's far-right National Rally, has worked hard during this election campaign to soften, even detoxify, her image. It [...]

Byline: Rachel Donadio IN DEFENSE OF WITCHESThe Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on TrialBy Mona CholletTranslated by Sophie R. Lewis Catalonia's left-leaning Parliament recently passed [...]

V.S. Naipaul, the Nobel laureate who documented the migrations of peoples, the unraveling of the British Empire, the ironies of exile and the clash between belief and unbelief in more [...]

The article focuses on Benedict XVI, the pope emeritus described as a scholar who spent his time enforcing and defending church doctrine and the first pope in six centuries to resign in February 2013. It mentions the former pope's death at the age of 95 years in December 2022 with no cause given but citing his frail health and advanced age. It discusses Benedict's involvement in a scandal wherein he allegedly mishandled cases of minor sexual abuse between 1945 and 2019.

PARIS -- Nathan Englander's latest book and second novel, ''Dinner at the Center of the Earth,'' is both a thematic and stylistic departure from his previous work. Instead of the [...]

Byline: RACHEL DONADIO PARIS -- Nathan Englander's latest book and second novel, 'Dinner at the Center of the Earth,' is both a thematic and stylistic departure from his previous work. [...]

PARIS -- Luc Besson's latest sci-fi extravaganza, ''Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,'' has every hallmark of his work: action, romance, sassy women packing heat, underwater scenes, special [...]

Byline: RACHEL DONADIO PARIS -- Luc Besson's latest sci-fi extravaganza, 'Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,' has every hallmark of his work: action, romance, sassy women packing heat, [...]

PARIS -- François Pinault's decades-long battle to place his contemporary art collection here took a leap forward this week when the Japanese architect Tadao Ando unveiled his design to turn [...]

Paris -- It was announced in November with fanfare. Jeff Koons would donate a monumental sculpture, a hand holding a bouquet of balloon tulips, to the City of Paris to [...]

Byline: RACHEL DONADIO Paris -- It was announced in November with fanfare. Jeff Koons would donate a monumental sculpture, a hand holding a bouquet of balloon tulips, to the City [...]

ANTIBES, France -- Around 11 on Saturday night, Mary J. Blige walked into the party hosted by Vanity Fair and Chopard at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc. Her wingwoman was her [...]

''May I just have your room number?'' the waiter at the Bellini Bar of the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes asked when I walked in around 9 p.m. on Saturday [...]

CANNES, France -- The Cannes Film Festival has always been a jarring clash of the glam and the grim, between often dark films and the stars who pose on the [...]

CANNES, France -- As controversy continued to swirl here over the presence of two Netflix titles that are playing in the Cannes Film Festival's main competition but won't appear in [...]

PARIS -- The world was just catching its breath after World War II when the Cannes Film Festival began in 1946. Since then, the festival has helped introduce the Italian [...]

CANNES, France -- France is a paradise for moviegoers, with thriving cinemas and state subsidies for new productions. Netflix is a global streaming giant founded on the concept that movie [...]

Byline: RACHEL DONADIO CANNES, France -- France is a paradise for moviegoers, with thriving cinemas and state subsidies for new productions. Netflix is a global streaming giant founded on the [...]

PARIS -- Facing pressure from French theater owners upset that Netflix films would go straight to streaming, the Cannes Film Festival said Wednesday that it would change its rules to [...]

PARIS -- Maybe it was the suspect timing of the leaked documents. Or the staggering amount and possibility that some were fake. Or a feeling among the French that, having [...]

VENICE -- In 2015, the Venice Biennale with Okwui Enwezor as curator sometimes felt more like a political manifesto, with readings from Marx's ''Das Kapital'' and work that touched on [...]

Byline: RACHEL DONADIO VENICE -- In 2015, the Venice Biennale with Okwui Enwezor as curator sometimes felt more like a political manifesto, with readings from Marx's 'Das Kapital' and work [...]

PARIS -- The French comedian Sophia Aram took to the airwaves of one of France's most popular morning radio shows this week. In the squealy voice of a teenage girl, [...]

New films by Sofia Coppola, Noah Baumbach, Todd Haynes, Michael Haneke and Michel Hazanavicius will be among the competitors for the Palme d'Or at the 70th Cannes Film Festival next [...]

BERLIN -- Kenda Hmeidan arrived here from Damascus, only in November. She left behind a country at war, and her family. The separation was painful, but her path was not [...]

Byline: RACHEL DONADIO BERLIN -- Kenda Hmeidan arrived here from Damascus, only in November. She left behind a country at war, and her family. The separation was painful, but her [...]

ATHENS -- In 2013, the curator Adam Szymczyk proposed a radical reinvention of Documenta, the prestigious contemporary art exhibition held every five years in Kassel, Germany: to split the show [...]

SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE, France -- From 1970 until his death in 1987, James Baldwin lived and wrote in a house with an idyllic garden in this medieval village on the Côte d'Azur, [...]

Byline: RACHEL DONADIO SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE, France -- From 1970 until his death in 1987, James Baldwin lived and wrote in a house with an idyllic garden in this medieval village on [...]