As literacy grew during the Industrial Revolution, more people were writing letters, and those who could afford the best often looked to Waterman.

A secret American programme put 10m Western books and magazines in the hands of intellectuals and professionals in Eastern ...

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My husband and I had two children and lost them both,” writes Yiyun Li early in her latest book, Things in Nature Merely Grow. And then, with harrowing directn ...

I have written about Albert Camus before, but haven’t written a formal review of one of his books. To usher Camus into the book review series, I am starting with “The Outsider.” Some may ask ...

Albert Camus, Stranger in a Strange Land: New York The French writer spent three months in the city in 1946. Seventy years later, a monthlong festival is celebrating his residency.

lines in literature are as famous as the opening of Albert Camus’s L’Étranger: “Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I don’t know.” The most famous work by Ca ...

Kierkegaard and Camus each pointed to some fundamental conditions of our existence. Life is about creating meaning. When one lives passionately, one can die without rebellion.

lines in literature are as famous as the opening of Albert Camus’s L’Étranger: “Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I don’t know.” The most famous work by Camus—an editor ...

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Amazon Books editors have once again emerged from the literary battlefield, crowning "Wild Dark Shore" by Charlotte McConaghy the "Best Book of the Year So Far.". Around the halfway point every ...

The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the ...