The French writer, Albert Camus, was 'a moralist who insisted that while the world is absurd and allows for no hope, we are not condemned to despair.' Zaretsky, in A Life Worth Living, portrays Camus ...

The markers of last year's English exams said choice of text film, novel, play, poem or short story is critical to students' success, but many teachers are making poor choices. Level 1 markers said ...

This year has not only seen revived interest in Albert Camus’s novel The Plague (1947), it also marks a key anniversary: Camus’s death at the age of forty-six in a sudden car crash sixty years ago.

Toward the end of January, I began to notice a strange echo between my work and the news. A mysterious virus had appeared in the city of Wuhan, and though the virus resembled previous diseases, there ...

In Canada, the name of our new NAFTA treaty does not have to be the unpronounceable USMCA. It falls to the Star’s editorial board to give this entity a better name, a clearer name, and one that makes ...

At first, Lisa Halliday's novel seems too familiar: It's about a young would-be writer who has an affair with a famous older man. But partway... At first, Asymmetry seems like a story we've heard ...

At first, Asymmetry seems like a story we've heard before: Young, pretty would-be writer Alice launches an affair with Ezra, a literary celebrity several decades her senior. He gets a stent, she gets ...