Writer’s Note - This is the first in a three-part series about wineries visited by the author this year in Meursault, France. MEURSAULT, France - A chalky-white brick wall runs along Rue Pierre ...

The brother of ‘the Arab’ murdered in Camus’ masterpiece gets a revenge of sorts in this astonishing take on French colonialism The most notorious literary killing of the 20th century takes place on a ...

Kamel Daoud's The Meursault Investigation turns Albert Camus' novel The Stranger inside out in a provocative but occasionally irritating way. Like the late Nobel laureate Camus, Daoud is an important ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Few literary characters have unsettled readers as quietly and persistently as Meursault, the protagonist of 'The Stranger' by Albert Camus. Published in 1942, the novel arrived at a moment when Europe ...

Retelling Camus’s The Outsider through Arab eyes, this debut novel develops a specifically Algerian take on the absurd condition In The Outsider, Albert Camus’s tale of alienation, ennui and ruthless ...

“The Literature of the Absurd” is a reflection on prominent authors in the Absurdist tradition — Beckett, Camus and beyond — and the ways in which their writings can intertwine with life in sometimes ...