Results for "Kaplan, Alice"

Albert Camus’s lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s, available again in a new translation. In March 1946, the young Albert Camus crossed from Le Havre to New York. Though he was virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, all that was ... Read More about Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World (The France Chicago Collection)

States of Plague examines Albert Camus’s novel as a palimpsest of  pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis. As one of the most discussed books of the COVID-19 crisis, Albert Camus’s classic novel The Plague has be... Read More about States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic

A gripping inside account of African American soldiers wrongly accused of rape in France after D-Day, with a new introduction by bestselling author Éric Vuillard.“OK, Joe!” the American lieutenant calls out to his driver. He hops into his jeep and heads out through French countryside just liberated ... Read More about OK, Joe: A Novel

The first biography of the Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, celebrated in mid-twentieth-century Paris, her life shrouded in myth.   On a flower farm in colonial Algeria, a servant and field worker named Baya escaped the drudgery of her labor by coloring the skirts in fashion magazines. Thr... Read More about Seeing Baya: Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris (Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Collection)

States of Plague examines Albert Camus’s novel as a palimpsest of  pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis. As one of the most discussed books of the COVID-19 crisis, Albert Camus’s classic novel The Plague has be... Read More about States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic

From Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Marcel Proust, from Marguerite Duras to George Sand, from Colette to Patrick Modiano, gardens appear in novels as representations of the real world, but also as reflections of the imagination. In Paper Gardens: A Stroll through French Literature, velyne Bloch-Dano con... Read More about Paper Gardens: A Stroll Through French Literature