Albert Camus’ Struggles with Earthly Existence in ‘Travels in the Americas’
The Albert Camus of Travels in the Americas diaries is a passionate, despairing reckoner with the struggles of earthly existence, both personal and societal.
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Choosing Experience in Abbas Kiarostami’s ‘Taste of Cherry’
Critic Roger Ebert was frustrated with Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry because the film subverts our desire to understand another -- the very core of cinema's intent.
Taking a Page About Community and Responsibility from Albert Camus’ ‘The Plague’
Initially, the city of Oran does not take care of its most vulnerable populations in Camus’ The Plague, and as a result, the city suffers for it. This parallels today’s COVID-19 world.
‘Looking for The Stranger’: Sometimes the Truth Is as Strange as the Fiction
Aspiring writers with ambition to shape the philosophies of the future can benefit from Camus as both an inspiration and a cautionary tale.
‘Left Bank’ Explores Ideas, Art and Passion in the City of Light
The artists and writers of Paris' Left Bank brought scandal and controversy in their time. In so doing they shaped the artistic and intellectual milieu of the modern world.
Patti Smith Is Some Messed Up Kind of Saint
Perhaps what Smith's Devotion teaches us most easily is the virtue of hubris.
Looking for ‘The Stranger’: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
Albert Camus’ classic The Stranger has finally earned its very own biography from esteemed scholar Alice Kaplan
Alinea Emphasizes Ideology: You Have No Choice But to Think While You Eat
Alinea is my kind of noun, shot through with an intentionality so thorough in its precision and detail that it teeters wonderfully on the edge between magic and psychosis.