In the Greek story of Sisyphus, the king was condemned for eternity to move a massive rock up a hill but never reach the summit. Albert Camus famously saw it as a parable of the human condition ...

It’s funny. Underneath all the stress and the pressure of deadlines, I’m not unhappy. Not really. In the end, I chose all this for myself. But not unhappy is not happiness, writes Michelle Fu.

"But to write my own story, to have closure no matter the outcome, it’s a gamble I’m willing to take — to climb even if there is no summit," Gao writes.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy,” wrote Camus. “His fate belongs to him. His rock is his thing.” Shaking sand from the tangled thready roots of a clump of clover, I could relate. Given eternity to ...

President-elect Donald Trump comes to address the crowd during an election night party in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) One must imagine Sisyphus exhausted. One ...