In an account that reads more like a spy thriller than a political history, British author Charlie English recounts the story of how the CIA smuggled books behind the Iron Curtain ...

As literacy grew during the Industrial Revolution, more people were writing letters, and those who could afford the best often looked to Waterman.

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Edinburgh crime: Woman and baby taken to hospital after armed police attend disturbance in Scottish Capital ...

Dean Kalimniou reviews Stolen Violets by Maria A. Kampyli—a poetic reflection on memory, loss, solitude, and survival written ...

Albert Camus turned the absurd into art and made existential questions feel strangely comforting. This guide helps beginners ease into his world, where simplicity hides depth, and detachment reveals ...

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My husband and I had two children and lost them both,” writes Yiyun Li early in her latest book, Things in Nature Merely Grow. And then, with harrowing directn ...

I have written about Albert Camus before, but haven’t written a formal review of one of his books. To usher Camus into the book review series, I am starting with “The Outsider.” Some may ask ...

lines in literature are as famous as the opening of Albert Camus’s L’Étranger: “Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I don’t know.” The most famous work by Ca ...

Albert Camus, Stranger in a Strange Land: New York The French writer spent three months in the city in 1946. Seventy years later, a monthlong festival is celebrating his residency. By Jennifer ...

Kierkegaard and Camus each pointed to some fundamental conditions of our existence. Life is about creating meaning. When one lives passionately, one can die without rebellion.