Two police officers are the only ones on Rome's Spanish Steps on March 10 amid the coronavirus outbreak. (Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images) In my self-isolating household in upstate New York, the pandemic ...

Matthew Sharpe works for Deakin University. He is the author of Camus, Philosophe: To Return to Our Beginnings (Brill, 2015/16) and an editor at the Journal for Camus Studies. Some weeks ago, I got an ...

We live in dangerous times! The number of people who have been infected and died from the Coronavirus Pandemic proves it. Our America is running at half-speed at the moment. As of today, over 80,000 ...

In 1948, Stephen Spender wrote for the Book Review about Albert Camus’s “The Plague,” a novel about an epidemic spreading across the French Algerian city of Oran. “The Plague” is a parable and sermon, ...

Toward the end of January, I began to notice a strange echo between my work and the news. A mysterious virus had appeared in the city of Wuhan, and though the virus resembled previous diseases, there ...

Read The New Yorker’s complete news coverage and analysis of the coronavirus pandemic. The novel’s hero and narrator, Bernard Rieux, a physician, takes quiet moral action amid his city’s devastation, ...

At the precise hour when Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Mich., declared an emergency in my home state, and my university's president ordered an unprecedented shutdown of the entire academic enterprise, I ...

This year has not only seen revived interest in Albert Camus’s novel The Plague (1947), it also marks a key anniversary: Camus’s death at the age of forty-six in a sudden car crash sixty years ago.

Author and philosopher Albert Camus died in a car crash in 1960, aged just 46. But the existential, moral and political ...

In my self-isolating household in upstate New York, the pandemic has thus far produced boredom eating, boredom watching, hiking, candlelight dinners and, later in the evening, some reading out loud.

Hmm. One spring a highly contagious disease arrives in a community. The authorities try to keep it quiet. But soon people are sick and dying. As quarantines are imposed, the people’s disbelief turns ...