A pair of researchers who gave the French revolutionary Robespierre a disputed 3D makeover raised the possibility Friday that the man best known for unleashing the ...

“I sometimes look at my daughter, and I feel really bad for her,” Gillian Robespierre says to me during a particularly warm summer afternoon in New York City. We were talking about her latest movie, ...

Ruth Scurr (ed.) Carlyle’s The French Revolution (London and New York: Continuum, 2010) and Ruth Scurr, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (London: Vintage, 2006) The boy kneels in ...

Revolutionary France in 1794 was a crucible, combining all the elements that would embody Western politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. All eyes were on Paris. Depending on who was ...

ROBESPIERRE, one of the great typical, symbolic figures of history, by reason of his very typicalness has come to have in the mind of the less considerate reader a kind of false unity and simplicity ...

Yes, Obvious Child is a romantic comedy. And, yes, it includes an abortion. But describing it as an “abortion rom-com” sells short what a thoughtful story director Gillian Robespierre has crafted.

Some years ago, in Paris, my son and I read Christopher Hibbert’s history of the French Revolution. When we were done, we talked about how the book had inadvertently convinced us that Maximilien ...

According to the French revolutionary calendar, Year I began in September 1792 with the abolition of the Bourbon monarchy and the declaration of a republic. In the National Convention, the new ...

EXCLUSIVE: Gillian Robespierre (Obvious Child, Landline) and Mathilde Dratwa (Milk and Gall) have been tapped to executive produce and pen the adaptation for Separation Anxiety, a limited series based ...

A few weeks ago, the Washington Post disclosed that the global head of news for Reuters had written an internal memo asking reporters to avoid using the word "terrorist" to describe the airplane ...

Here’s a superbly observed David Brooks column about the generation gap between older liberals and young progressives. Excerpts: Two great belief systems are clashing here. The older liberals tend to ...