Two police officers are the only ones on Rome's Spanish Steps on March 10 amid the coronavirus outbreak. (Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images) In my self-isolating household in upstate New York, the pandemic ...

Matthew Sharpe works for Deakin University. He is the author of Camus, Philosophe: To Return to Our Beginnings (Brill, 2015/16) and an editor at the Journal for Camus Studies. Some weeks ago, I got an ...

‘There have been as many plagues as wars in history,” Albert Camus writes in The Plague (now an Amazon best-seller!), “yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.” The latter example ...

In 1948, Stephen Spender wrote for the Book Review about Albert Camus’s “The Plague,” a novel about an epidemic spreading across the French Algerian city of Oran. “The Plague” is a parable and sermon, ...

We live in dangerous times! The number of people who have been infected and died from the Coronavirus Pandemic proves it. Our America is running at half-speed at the moment. As of today, over 80,000 ...

Like any lover of literature, I have turned to books for help in coping with our current crisis. One novel, Albert Camus’s The Plague is frequently mentioned as an outstanding example of “plague ...

In 1947, French author Albert Camus published "The Plague" ("La peste"), a novel about an epidemic of bubonic plague in the city of Oran in Algeria. The book remains in print today. Camus won the ...

It’s amazing how many pandemic books there are, and how thoroughly the idea of a global pandemic had crept into our popular culture well before the current situation. My daughter and I watched the Tom ...

Serena G. Pellegrino ’23 is a resident of Lowell House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays. “Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to ...

Hello to readers who accepted my invitation to read the 1947 Albert Camus novel The Plague together, and discuss it. I expect to cover the book in four or five posts over the next week to 10 days. I ...

For months now the Ebola virus has been wreaking havoc in the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. More than 700 people have died, and it seems that doctors are near-powerless ...

In my self-isolating household in upstate New York, the pandemic has thus far produced boredom eating, boredom watching, hiking, candlelight dinners and, later in the evening, some reading out loud.