More honored than read? Albert Camus’s The Stranger reconsidered
Henri Cartier-Bresson’s iconic 1944 photo in Paris. (Courtesy Magnum/Cartier-Bresson) “I was poised midway between poverty and sunshine,” wrote Albert Camus, describing his impoverished childhood in...
View ArticleTranslator, poet Matthew Ward and his “immense intellectual hunger.”
A fierce poem from a feverish bed. (Photo courtesy the Ward family) In his brief life, Matthew Ward translated works by Colette, Jean Giraudoux, and Roland Barthes into English – but his favorite...
View ArticleSo long see you tomorrow, Toby! An evening of Camus, crowds, and many fond...
I present some surprises to Toby. Another Look’s graphic designer Zoë Patrick at left. (Photo: David Schwartz) Stanford’s Another Look book club was born of one man’s love for a short novel – that...
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