Thomas Chatterton Williams

Thomas Chatterton Williams is the author of a memoir, Losing My Cool: Love, Literature, and a Black Man’s Escape from the Crowd. He lives in Paris with his wife and daughter.

Seaside Sojourns

Fleeing the heat of the French capital

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday July 24, 2019
Black and white photo of ICE agents deporting migrants

In Praise of Shame

Without it, we are lost

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday July 17, 2019

Step Aside

Do we really want to live in a society where credentials don’t matter?

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday July 10, 2019

Beating the Heat

Brittany is France’s best refuge from soaring temperatures

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday July 3, 2019

Selective Lip Service

Attending an elite college is not an entitlement

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday June 19, 2019

The Best and Worst of Times

A weekend trip exposes France’s contradictions

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday June 12, 2019

Mornings of Stillness and Wonder

How my son is helping me to rediscover the City of Lights

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday June 5, 2019
Children on an amusement park swing

The Battle of All Against All

What would a truly equal society look like?

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday May 29, 2019
Close-up of basketball

Better Than the Real Thing

The strange pleasure of sports highlights

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday May 22, 2019
Two children, one black and one white, play in an airport terminal in the 1960s

Life in Black and White

A new volume commemorates the work of a brilliant photographer of the 1960s

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday May 15, 2019

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