Albert Camus' "The Plague," read in quarantine for the first time, warns us to reset our own priorities ... Some books are so venerated, so sacralized, they are almost forbidding to the touch.

I still hope that books from the past can be a kind of serum for the future, as Camus intended his novel to be. He knew that his book would be needed again, long after his death, in a context he ...

Albert Camus grappled with virtually every crisis of the 20th century ... Throughout the book, Hawes sensitively reads Camus’ writings and judiciously dips into his biography to vividly evoke ...

In 1948, Stephen Spender wrote for the Book Review about Albert Camus’s “The Plague,” a novel about an epidemic spreading across the French Algerian city of Oran.

Albert Camus' Algerian Chronicles, finally available in translation, collects essays, columns and speeches from the writer's days as a young journalist. Camus was criticized for his moderate ...

Albert Camus in Paris following the announcement that he had won the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature. (AFP/Getty Images) By David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic ...

T hey say you should never judge a book by its cover, but as a man intrigued by the concept of judgement, the French philosopher Albert Camus would allow us to make an exception. Happily the ...