Why Camus' 'The Stranger' Is Still a Dangerous Novel

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Many have recently re-discovered Albert Camus’ classic novel, "The Plague." The story of an epidemic sweeping a city in French Algeria, it's obviously pretty relevant to today. But Steve thinks Camus’s first novel, "The Stranger," speaks even more strongly to the search for meaning. It’s the story of an alienated man who commits a senseless murder. Literary critic Alice Kaplan calls it "the perfect Black Lives Matter book."