In Albert Camus’ novel, The Plague, set in the French Algerian town of Oran, rats one day begin showing up dead on residents’ ...

Colleagues and former students will gather to discuss the work of the eminent professor of French and philosophy.

Hendricks’ father opened The Book Rack, a franchise, in Cape Girardeau for Hendricks’ mother in 1977, as Hendricks and his ...

Sisyphus appears in several Greek myths, though today he is often associated with just one. In the famous legend, he is punished by Zeus for cheating death and condemned to endlessly push a boulder up ...

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 ...

It can be succinct, sharp, and biting, or it can be breezy, with words flowing into one another, depending on the artistic ...

Blake Gopnik, author of 'The Maverick's Museum,' on the contradictory life and legacy of the man behind the world-famous ...