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 ...

The Italian writer, once Mussolini’s pet propagandist and later a literary cult hero, was an unmatched chronicler of Europe’s ...

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

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 ...

If an abyss is where I shall be for the rest of my life’, writes Yiyun Li, ‘the abyss is my habitat.’ Her book is a major ...

Both saw life as absurd. Camus chose struggle. Cossery chose leisure. One pushed the boulder up; the other watched it roll by ...

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 ...

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 Camus—an editor ...

Maybe being a stepmom is my chok. A path that defies neat halachic categories but still carves out something sacred. It doesn’t always feel certain. It rarely feels understood. But it is real. And i ...

On Threads, sci-fi-romance novelist Jess K Hardy wrote: “Sabrina Carpenter has started a very important conversation with ...

The exchanges between China and Russia in literature and drama translation have laid a social foundation for broader cooperation in politics, economy, and technology, said writers, translators and ...