View from Rue Saint-Georges
A blog about expatriate life in Paris. Thomas Chatterton Williams is the author of a memoir, Losing My Cool. He is at work on a book about how we define race in America, told through his own experience of growing up with a white mother and black father, and of raising a blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter in France.
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Reaching Out
The best way to escape our current political predicament is to keep talking
By Thomas Chatterton Williams October 30, 2019
You Must Be Joking
A comic book, a movie, politics, and race
By Thomas Chatterton Williams October 9, 2019
Language Unbound
How the words we use influence how we think
By Thomas Chatterton Williams October 2, 2019
On the Turning Away
Our tendency to ignore human suffering
By Thomas Chatterton Williams September 25, 2019
License to Chill
Life slows down when you can’t drive
By Thomas Chatterton Williams September 18, 2019
Too Much of a Good Thing
Relief at the end of summer vacation
By Thomas Chatterton Williams September 4, 2019
Priceless Moments
How having children focuses a writer’s mind
By Thomas Chatterton Williams August 28, 2019
The Battle of All Against All
What would a truly equal society look like?
By Thomas Chatterton Williams May 29, 2019
Better Than the Real Thing
The strange pleasure of sports highlights
By Thomas Chatterton Williams May 22, 2019
Life in Black and White
A new volume commemorates the work of a brilliant photographer of the 1960s
By Thomas Chatterton Williams May 15, 2019
Scootering Around Town
The automobile’s appeal is in decline thanks to the proliferation of alternatives
By Thomas Chatterton Williams May 8, 2019
Disconnection in a Connected Age
On the mixed blessing of technological advancement
By Thomas Chatterton Williams May 1, 2019
A Loss to Paris and the World
The fire at Notre Dame should remind us to see the world’s wonders while we
By Thomas Chatterton Williams April 17, 2019
Family Matters
Closing my distance from a distant relation
By Thomas Chatterton Williams April 3, 2019
