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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

When the novel coronavirus claimed the world’s attention in 2020, so too did a novel by Albert Camus. With the quickening of the pandemic, “The Plague” became an item almost as essential as toilet ...

What message does Albert Camus’ novel “The Plague” have for the post-Holocaust world and today’s COVID-19 environment? That question and others will be explored in a 90-minute online Zoom workshop ...

“Each of us has the plague within him, no one, no one on earth is free from it. We must keep endless watch on ourselves lest in a careless moment we breathe in somebody’s face and fasten the infection ...

Regular readers will recall that the Wyoming Doctor recommended in this space last week that we all read The Plague, the Albert Camus novel about how the people of an Algerian city react when the ...

Albert Camus never wrote for comfort. His books question morality, freedom, absurdity, and the quiet loneliness inside modern ...

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 ...

Her frenetic new dance-theater work, which opens a new festival at the new park on the Hudson, includes references to Camus and music by T Bone Burnett. By Naveen Kumar Andy Cohen, Fran Lebowitz and ...