Serena G. Pellegrino ’23 is a resident of Lowell House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays. “Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to ...

In 1947, French author Albert Camus published "The Plague" ("La peste"), a novel about an epidemic of bubonic plague in the city of Oran in Algeria. The book remains in print today. Camus won the ...

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 ...

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.

When the novel coronavirus claimed the world’s attention in 2020, so too did a novel by Albert Camus. With the quickening of the pandemic, “The Plague” became an item almost as essential as toilet ...

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What message does Albert Camus’ novel “The Plague” have for the post-Holocaust world and today’s COVID-19 environment? That question and others will be explored in a 90-minute online Zoom workshop ...

A mysterious illness appears out of nowhere. Case counts rise exponentially, as authorities attempt to downplay the severity of the disease. Transportation is cut off, and many are left stranded in ...

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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Laura Marris never imagined the approaching relevance of Albert Camus’ “The Plague” when she began working on a new translation of the novel last September for the Knopf Doubleday ...

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 ...