About this volume / Steven G. Kellman -- Career, life, and influence. On Albert Camus / Steven G. Kellman -- Biography of Albert Camus / Scott McLemee -- The Paris review perspective/ Katherine Stirling for the Paris review -- Critical contexts. Algeria's others / Christine Margerrison -- Albert Camus and the metaphor of absurdity / Brent C. Sleasman -- Albert Camus and W.G. Sebald : the search for home / Henry L. Carrigan, Jr -- Albert Camus's critical reception : from celebration to controversy / Matthew H. Bowker -- Critical readings. Camus's Hug / Philip Hallie -- Silence follows : Albert Camus in Algeria / Robert Zaretsky -- Caligula : Camus's anti-shaman / Patricia Hopkins -- A reading of Albert Camus' La mort heureuse / George Strauss -- Richard Wright's The outsider and Albert Camus's The stranger / Yoshinobu Hakutani -- Is the absurd the problem or the solution? The myth of Sisyphus reconsidered / Avi Sagi -- Space/place and home : prefiguring contemporary political and religious discourse in Albert Camus's The plague / John Randolph LeBlanc and Carolyn M. Jones -- Camus's The fall : the dynamics of narrative unreliability / Amit Marcus -- Pathologies of pride in Camus's The fall / Robert C. Solomon -- The popular-ritual structural pattern of Albert Camus' La chute / Evelyn H. Zepp -- A story of Cain : another look at "L'hôte" / Elwyn F. Sterling.