Alice Kaplan

Alice Kaplan is the John M. Musser Professor of French at Yale University. Her most recent book is Looking for “The Stranger”: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic.

Algeria’s New Imprint

Algeria’s New Imprint Algeria’s New Imprint

How Éditions Barzakh publishes books for Algerians who think and dream for themselves.

Mar 14, 2017 / Feature / Alice Kaplan

Camus Redux

Camus Redux Camus Redux

Today, Albert Camus is still alive but changed, thanks to the art of David Oelhoffen and Kamel Daoud.

Feb 4, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Alice Kaplan

Dreaming in French: On Angela Davis

Dreaming in French: On Angela Davis Dreaming in French: On Angela Davis

Angela Davis’s student years in France were an alchemy of discipline and distraction.

Mar 14, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Alice Kaplan

Ghostly Demarcations: On Ramon Fernandez Ghostly Demarcations: On Ramon Fernandez

The novelist Dominique Fernandez struggles to understand his father's years as a Nazi collaborator.

Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Alice Kaplan

La Zone Grise La Zone Grise

Five books explore the sorrows and moral complexity of Irène Némirovsky and others who suffered Nazi persecution in France.

Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Alice Kaplan

Love in the Ruins Love in the Ruins

Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française, published fifty-two years after she perished at Auschwitz, offers an unsparing critique of France under the German occupati...

May 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Alice Kaplan

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