The French Dispatch

The French Dispatch is the final issue of a beloved American magazine published from a fictional French city — and Wes Anderson’s film, structured as the magazine’s final three articles, is a love letter to a specific tradition of American journalism: the kind practiced at the New Yorker in the mid-twentieth century, in which writing about food, art, and politics was done with the same intelligence, the same seriousness, and the same delight in the specific detail.

This Faber volume presents the complete screenplay — one of Anderson’s most densely written — alongside production stills and the contextual material that illuminates the film’s extraordinary visual and verbal richness. For Anderson devotees and anyone who loves the tradition of magazine journalism it celebrates.

Published by Faber & Faber.