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 ...

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, ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.