Staff Writer Isabelle Watts recounts life as an English-speaking au pair in France, and explores the wide-ranging effects of cross-Channel attitudes to bilingualism.

Drawing on a wealth of primary materials from the Middle Ages and an array of secondary literature, Staff Writer Jude Jones explores the how the body of Christ is fundamentally queer in an eloquent and sophisticated piece.

Columnist Martha Leggett discusses the legacy left by female-only salons in French literary culture.

In the second instalment of his musings on the wider reach of ‘International Klein Blue’, staff writer Jude Jones explores how the works of Australian artist Gordon Bennett offer a different angle to artistic reactions to ‘IKB’; and brings to light the perspective certain artworks can bring to contemporary crises.

In this moving creative piece, Vincent de Piedmont challenges the boundaries between the human and material through his emotional exploration of the bicycle.

Daphne Pleming reviews the album ‘Nonante-cinq’ by Angèle, exploring the way she expresses Belgian identity through her melancholic and diverse music.

Have you ever wondered which Mitski song best encapsulates the psycho-sexual melodrama of Madame Bovary? If you answered yes then I hate you but you're welcome to read this column nonetheless - though, you're on thin ice.

Staff Writer Joseph Hanlon brings the paradox of the French education system to light, questioning the future of the humanities in France.