Here's a new Substack piece that I wrote on Andrew D. Kaufman's story of Dostoevsky's second wife, Anna Grigoryevna Dostoevskaya (née Snitkina).
Above: my two copies of Albert Camus's L'Étranger. Top left: The Outsider, published by The Folio Society. Top right: The Stranger, published by Vintage Books. Not pictured: the deary missed tattered blue and yellow Vintage International copy that I read and reread in high school and had to return to the library of Brent International School, Manila. Below: Looking for The Stranger by Alice Kaplan, published by The University of Chicago Press, ordered weeks ago and just arrived in my mailbox. Kaplan traces the history of The Stranger to provide a better picture of the novel and how Camus came to write and publish it while he was only in his twenties.