Paris Is Not Dead explores the past, present, and future of the City of Light through the lens of class conflict, highlighting the outsized role of immigrants in shaping the city’s progressive, cosmopolitan, and open-minded character—at a time when politics nationwide can feel like they’re shifting in the opposite direction. This is the Paris many tourists too often miss: immigrant-heavy districts such as the 18th arrondissement, where crowded street markets still define everyday life. Stangler brings this view of the city to life, combining gripping, street-level reportage, stories of today’s working-class Parisians, recent history, and a sweeping analysis of the larger forces shaping the city.

Cole Stangler is a French-American journalist based in Marseille covering labor and politics. A contributor to the international news network France 24, Cole has also published work in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, The Nation, Jacobin, The Atlantic, Dissent, VICE and The New Republic. He is also a former staff writer at International Business Times and In These Times. Cole is a graduate of Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and has a masters’ degree in contemporary social history from the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is the author of La solidarité et ses limites: la CFDT et les travailleurs immigrés dans les années 68 (Ed. Arbre bleu, 2022).