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The Stranger, The Plague, and the Existentialists">On Albert Camus: The Stranger, The Plague, and the Existentialists

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The Plague as Sci-Fi Noir">How to Reframe the Strangeness of The Plague as Sci-Fi Noir

Lawrence Wright Traces the Parallels Between the Black Death and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ricardo Piglia's Alter Ego on Epidemics of Violence in Argentina

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The Plague">Death, Pestilence, Emptiness: Putting Covers on Albert Camus's The Plague

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When Albert Camus was sick, his buddies set the gold standard for socially distant friendship.

King Lear during a plague. Well, good for him, say all the writers.">So Shakespeare wrote King Lear during a plague. Well, good for him, say all the writers.

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The Plague">What We Can Learn (and Should Unlearn) From Albert Camus's The Plague

Sales of plague-themed literature on the rise in Italy. Is America next?

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