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‘The Stranger’ Turns Existentialism Into Something Dangerous

April 26, 2026 Neal Pollack 3 Comments absurdism, Albert Camus, Algiers 1930s, arthouse cinema, Benjamin Voisin, best films 2026, black and white film, book adaptation, Camus adaptation, classic literature, colonial history, colonialism, culture criticism, existential philosophy, existentialism, film adaptation, film criticism, film reviews, foreign film, François Ozon, French Algeria, French cinema, French New Wave, Italian neorealism, Jean-Paul Sartre, media analysis, Meursault, movie reviews, Orson Welles adaptation, philosophy in film, Pierre Lottin, postcolonial themes, race and identity, Rebecca Marder, The Cure Killing an Arab, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Stranger, violence and morality

François Ozon’s elegant Camus adaptation finds new urgency in colonial Algiers

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Your New Night ‘Out’ is an Online Silent Reading Party

June 10, 2020June 9, 2020 Katie Smith 1 Comment Carmen Maria Machado, Silent Reading, The Stranger

Seattle’s The Stranger hosts a weekly Zoom meeting for lonely readers

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Is Maggie O’Farrell’s New Novel ‘Land’ Just Grief Porn?

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‘The Invite’ Prompt Was — Bergman, But Make It Funny!

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Traumatized Young Woman?

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‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ With the Revolutionary Guard

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