Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, "French Lessons" is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of...

"The Stranger" is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as at likely to be fou...

A year in Paris... since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision – and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light".Dreaming in French" tells three stories of that experience, and how it changed the lives o...