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June 2024

  • Covers and spine of book

    Handwritten ‘draft’ of Albert Camus’s L’Étranger sold in Paris for €650,000

    Text appears to have been copied out and backdated by Camus in 1944, possibly as a way to raise funds during Nazi occupation

July 2020

  • Map of San Serriffe, the fictional archipelago featured in the Guardian on 1 April, 1977

    Brief letters

    Where's the air bridge to San Serriffe?

    Brief letters: Protective bubbles | Pandemic literature | Sculptural distancing | Johnson’s gestures | Visiting San Serriffe

May 2020

  • Daisy Edgar Jones and Paul Mescal in the TV adaptation of Normal People

    Look, don't touch: what great literature can teach us about love with no contact

  • Volunteers from a mutual aid group in Islington, north London, preparing food parcels for members of their community

    Building a better world through mutual aid

April 2020

  • A Woman Reading a Book

    The Guardian view on lockdown reading: not just a way of escaping

    Editorial:It’s no surprise that people read a lot when stuck at home. But novels are more than a way to kill time

March 2020

  • A witness to a wedding in Sydney, where ceremonies are restricted to five people.

    We need to be physically distant, but we need to share our collective pain

    Tim Costello

  • Albert Camus smoking cigarette on a balcony

    Albert Camus novel The Plague leads surge of pestilence fiction

  • That’s quarantainment … Elisabeth Moss in The Handmaid’s Tale, Gary Oldman as George Smiley, Henry Cavill in The Witcher, and Albert Camus.

    Lockdown culture

    Got 150 hours? Great audiobooks to listen to on lockdown

  • Camus At Home<br>French writer and philosopher Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) at home, 13th June 1947. (Photo by RDA/Getty Images)

    Publishers report sales boom in novels about fictional epidemics

January 2020

  • The first typed page of Albert Camus’ unpublished letter.

    Wartime Albert Camus letter lays bare his Vichy-era anguish

    Letter found in Gen Charles de Gaulle’s archives written when France was under Nazi control

December 2019

  • Camus At Home<br>French writer and philosopher Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) at home, 13th June 1947. (Photo by RDA/Getty Images)

    New book claims Albert Camus was murdered by the KGB

    Study expands on archive finds revealed in 2011, and suggests that the French state may have abetted the 1960 car crash that killed him

October 2019

  • Odysseus (Ulysses) tied to the mast of his ship to save him from the Sirens. Homer Odyssey, epic Greek poem. Roman mosaic, 3rd century AD, Tunis.<br>UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1754: Odysseus (Ulysses) tied to the mast of his ship to save him from the Sirens. Homer Odyssey, epic Greek poem. Roman mosaic, 3rd century AD, Tunis. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

    Top 10s

    Top 10 books about Europe

    From Homer to Camus by way of Brecht, French author Laurent Gaudé picks the books that tell us something important about the continent today

March 2019

  • Malcolm McDowell as Alex in 1971’s A Clockwork Orange

    Top 10s

    Top 10 evil narrators

    Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, American Psycho ... many of these books were originally condemned as immoral for humanising the evil at their heart

November 2018

  • Marcel Proust in the garden of Reynaldo Hahn.

    Book clinic

    Book clinic: which books best examine the nature of loneliness?

    From Proust’s explorations of consciousness to Olivia Laing’s meditations on isolation, solitude is literature’s friend

September 2018

  • Sam Frenchum and Sam Alexander in The Outsider (L’Etranger) by Albert Camus. Adapted by Ben Okri @ Print Room at the Coronet. Directed by Abbey Wright (Opening 18-09-18) ©Tristram Kenton 09-18 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The Outsider review – Ben Okri adapts the Camus classic

  • Ben Okri

    Ben Okri: 'I was nearly shot because I couldn’t speak my dad’s language'

June 2018

  • TO GO WITH STORY BY JEAN-MICHEL STOULLIG (FILES) A picture taken in 1959, shows French writer and Nobel prize laureate Albert Camus (1913-1960), reading a newspaper in Paris. French and Algerian experts have joined together to trace the steps of Albert Camus in his birthplace in Algeria, where 50 years after his death he raises both pride and political suspiscion. AFP PHOTO/- (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

    Book clinic

    Book clinic: which books best explain why life is worth living?

  • Frida Kahlo exhibit at the V&A

    Art and authenticity: Frida Kahlo, fakes and the fate of a stolen work

April 2017

  • Martin Turner, Joseph Alessi and Burt Caesar in The Plague, directed by Neil Bartlett.

    The Plague review – Neil Bartlett's ingenious update of Camus' chilling fable

    Bartlett asks what this 1947 allegory of Nazi occupation means today in a striking production as focused on optimism as on despair

November 2016

  • The Stranger (Der Fremde)

    Stranger things: Albert Camus' enigmatic outsider hits Berlin

    The Schaubühne is staging the absurdist classic with three actors sharing the main role. Director Philipp Preuss reflects on what ‘otherness’ means in society

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