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Posted on 19th January 202321st January 2023 by sjohns

Catsuited, rebooted

Veteran French director Olivier Assayas has spun his cult 90s film Irma Vep into a sexy, funny and dizzyingly multilayered TV series…

Posted on 18th January 202319th January 2023 by sjohns

REVIEW Anthologie bilingue de la poésie latine

Modern anthologies of Latin poetry are rare birds, but for historical span alone, number 652 in Gallimard’s prestigious Bibliothèque de la Pléiade must be unique…

Posted on 18th January 202318th January 2023 by sjohns

REVIEW Paris dans l’oeil de ses habitants

As anyone who follows one of its social media accounts will know, Paris ZigZag is a stylish and authoritative guide to the French capital’s culture and history…

Posted on 18th January 202318th January 2023 by sjohns

REVIEW The House of Fragile Things

The recent announcement that the Musée d’Orsay is to return a Klimt to the heirs of its Jewish owner shows how much the plunder of art by the Nazis is a live issue even today…

Posted on 18th January 202318th January 2023 by sjohns

REVIEW Invisible ink

A private eye tries to trace a missing woman. But in what sense is she missing? And why does the case have such a hold on him, years later?

Posted on 17th January 202318th January 2023 by sjohns

REVIEW French Chateau Style

At one end of the château scale are A-listers like Versailles and Fontainebleau; towards the other, a multitude of lesser-known but no less charismatic properties…

Posted on 17th January 202317th January 2023 by sjohns

REVIEW The Vanished Collection

“I love riddles and mysteries”, writes the heroine of this real-life detective story, and the one she sets out to solve leads deep into a tangle of European and family histories…

Posted on 17th January 202317th January 2023 by sjohns

REVIEW The French Royal Wardrobe

No, not a book about a large cupboard: the Hôtel de la Marine, on place de la Concorde in Paris is a storage facility on an altogether different scale…

Posted on 11th January 202312th January 2023 by sjohns

REVIEW Timeless Paris

They could just as easily have called it Time Travel Paris. This beautiful book is a portal into the past, via 18 shops and museums…

Posted on 11th January 202312th January 2023 by sjohns

REVIEW Chanson

“For me for-midaaable…” Cool cat cover star Charles Aznavour sets the tone for this sleek hardback survey of France’s smokiest musical genre…

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I’m Simon Johns, a jack of several trades: writer, photographer, editor and translator, entre autres. I’ve worked in publishing and print and broadcast media for over 20 years.

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