A Walk Through Paris

Eric Hazan, a radical writer and publisher, has an “endearingly idiosyncratic” perspective on his native city, said Eugene Brennan in The Washington Post. In this chronicle of a recent stroll he took across Paris, Hazan decries the effects of gentrification he witnessed on the Left Bank but celebrates the persistence elsewhere of lively working-class communities. As he toasts both the city’s revolutionary tradition and its lovely details, what emerges most strongly is his deep affection for the place.