When the novel coronavirus claimed the world’s attention in 2020, so too did a novel by Albert Camus. With the quickening of the pandemic, “The Plague” became an item almost as essential as toilet ...

Hmm. One spring a highly contagious disease arrives in a community. The authorities try to keep it quiet. But soon people are sick and dying. As quarantines are imposed, the people’s disbelief turns ...

For months now the Ebola virus has been wreaking havoc in the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. More than 700 people have died, and it seems that doctors are near-powerless ...

Laura Marris, an adjunct lecturer in the Department of English, will begin a series of events in the coming weeks to discuss her translation of Albert Camus’ “The Plague,” the first new translation of ...

Laura Marris never imagined the approaching relevance of Albert Camus’ “The Plague” when she began working on a new translation of the novel last September for the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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I recently wrote about my fondness for existentialism, notably as developed by Jean-Paul Sartre and—even more—Albert Camus. In that regard, current events in Egypt bring to mind the compelling final ...