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…died in 2014. Albert Camus—Winner in 1957 Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published The Stranger—one of the most widely read novels of the twentieth century—in 1942. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident. His seminal work, The Plague, will be released with a brand-new English language translation by Laura Marris in 2021. William Faulkner—Winner in 1949 William Faulkner, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, was…
Read more ›Introducing “How Have I Not Read This?” – A New Virtual Book Club
…ll hope that books from the past can be a kind of serum for the future, as Camus intended his novel to be. He knew that his book would be needed again, long after his death, in a context he couldn’t predict or imagine.” ALICE KAPLAN, Yale University’s Sterling Professor and chair of the Department of French, was quoted by NPR on April 1: “I never imagined I would be teaching this novel in the midst of an epidemic…. I never imagined I’d need to giv…
Read more ›New in eBook, September 7: David Mamet, Langston Hughes, and More
…by Meredith Small What’s Love Got to Do with It? by Meredith Small Albert Camus: A Life by Olivier Todd Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Moss Roberts The Fifth Son by Elie Wiesel Legends of Our Time by Elie Wiesel Montessori Today: A Comprehensive Approach to Education from Birth to Adulthood by Paula Polk Lillard True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor by David Mamet Coasting by Jonathan Raban The Messenger: The Rise and Fall o…
Read more ›Classics We Love to Revisit
…terary masterpieces that always warrant another read. The Plague by Albert Camus The first new translation of The Plague to be published in the United States in more than seventy years, bringing the Nobel Prize winner’s iconic novel to a new generation of readers. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation, and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into…
Read more ›The Pleasures of Cooking for One by Judith Jones
…editor working primarily on translations of French writers such as Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. She had worked before that for Doubleday, first in New York and then in Paris, where she was responsible for reading and recommending The Diary of Anne Frank. In addition to her literary authors, she has been particularly interested in developing a list of first-rate cookbook writers; her authors have included Julia Child (Judith published Julia’…
Read more ›Now on Sale! The Pleasures of Cooking for One by Judith Jones
…editor working primarily on translations of French writers such as Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. She had worked before that for Doubleday, first in New York and then in Paris, where she was responsible for reading and recommending The Diary of Anne Frank. In addition to her literary authors, she has been particularly interested in developing a list of first-rate cookbook writers; her authors have included Julia Child (Judith published Julia’…
Read more ›Beach Reads, Knopf Style
…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Dead Path by Stephen M. Irwin Bob Camus, Night Production Manager (a.k.a a friend who doesn’t work here and refused to be photographed) Love Stephen King and all things Australian. I am so ready for a good scary read on a beautiful summer day. I’ll get back to you about how I liked it!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ….
Read more ›And the Show Went On by Alan Riding
…as different as the virulent anti-Semite Céline and the anti-Nazis Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. Meanwhile, as Jewish performers and creators were being forced to flee or, as was Irène Némirovsky, deported to death camps, a small number of artists and intellectuals joined the resistance. Throughout this penetrating and unsettling account, Riding keeps alive the quandaries facing many of these artists. Were they “saving” French culture by wor…
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