
Pierre-Jean Boquet, The Burning of Cap Français, 1791.
7,803 words
The monumental significance of the fall of Saint-Domingue, the crown jewel of the French colonial empire, and its ensuant descent into the African savagery of Haiti cannot be overstated. The terrible birth of Haiti as a mangled, stillborn phoenix from a river of white blood Read more …
L’Etranger to Himself: Race & Reality in Albert Camus’ The Stranger
Albert Camus
Trans. Joseph Laredo
The Stranger
London: Penguin, 2000 (1942)
“I love my country too much to be a nationalist.”
— Attributed to Albert Camus Read more …