Au courant

Doctor Portman and Smirke were both cautious of informing the widow of the constant outbreak of calumny which was pursuing poor Pen, though Glanders, who was a friend of the house, kept him au courant.

As Hemingway once noted, Paris is an old city—and so even a 1946 film looks au courant: part of the aesthetic air.

Its hipness recalls the films of Jean-Jacques Beineix and Leos Carax, making for an intoxicating blend of the retro and au courant.

A paragon from the Global South, as no one I know who lives there calls it, would be very 21st century, very au courant.

“Know Your Enemy,” an au courant lefty podcast, has devoted multiple episodes to discussions of Freud, who has become a frequent topic of conversation among the show’s hosts.