Rachel Donadio joined The Atlantic in the fall of 2017 as a Paris-based staff writer and Europe correspondent, covering politics and culture across the Continent. She previously spent 13 years at The New York Times, including stints as the paper’s European Culture Correspondent, Rome Bureau Chief and a writer and editor at the New York Times Book Review. She grew up in Middlebury, Vermont and is a graduate of Yale University. She’s a bit concerned about Europe at the moment—populism, authoritarianism, terrorism, stagnation—and would love to learn about some promising counter-trends!