Albert Camus was born on November 7 ... from Dwight Eisenhower to Simone de Beauvoir. “He is our only ambassador.” Yet despite Camus’ monumental achievements and deep attachment to his ...

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De Beauvoir wrote later that on hearing this Sartre turned ... who withstood Nazi oppression and clearly perceived Heidegger’s culpability; Albert Camus, much given to high-flown rhetoric but with a ...

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Out of print for 40 years, it’s the sheer energy of this short novel that overwhelms. It follows black American Lewis Jones as she navigates the decadent worlds of 1970s New York and Detroit ...

Life in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century was unstable; wars, economic crises, a pandemic—it was hard not to ...