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Albert Camus' classic existential novel 'The Stranger' receives a sleek, stunning cinematic update

The Stranger is a classic of modern French literature, and adapting it for the screen must have been daunting, but Ozon, an eclectic and often playful and original filmmaker who is up to the task.

Benjamin Voisin stars as Meursault, who wrestles with questions of how to act in a godless universe where everything is absurd and meaningless.
10 DOWNING STREET, the residence of Britian’s prime ministers, is the site of an ingenious Russian drone attack in the plot of ‘Ransom.’

Daniel Silva's newest novel 'Ransom' proves to be a superb and timely spy thriller - review

CITY OF CONTRASTS: Sarah Tuttle-Singer walks the Old City streets next to an Arab Muslim woman.

New book 'Fairy Lights in God’s Backyard' is messy, beautiful, and full of light - review

Sally Rooney attends a photocall during the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Irish author Sally Rooney's books no longer sold in UK over support for banned Palestine Action


‘Homeland’ creators to adapt ‘Dinner at the Center of the Earth’ to TV

The book centers on a Prisoner Z who is being held at a secret prison site in Israel’s Negev Desert.

Man Watching TV

Publishing my father's novel was my alternative to Kaddish

My father left a nearly finished version of that book, The Bell Tower, on his computer, which my brother, Dave, emailed to me following my father’s death.

Walter Blum

Judy Blume's teen classic 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' turns 50

The coming-of-age classic, focuses on 11-year-old Margaret as she navigates puberty and questions her faith after growing up without a religious affiliation.

Judy Blume

Gruesome adaptation of Holocaust novel 'The Painted Bird’ now on demand

In the 1960s, the author Jerzy Kosiński’s suggested that the novel — about a Jewish boy who witnesses sexual deviance and violence during World War II — was autobiographical

Stellan Skarsgaard, left, as Hans in "The Painted Bird."

Novel races to top of Amazon after fans spot parallels with coronavirus

Dean Koontz's novel 'The Eyes of Darkness,' released in 1981, features a killer virus named 'Wuhan-400'.

Residents line up to collect vegetables purchased through group orders at a residential area in Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, Hubei province, China March 5, 2020.

The Holocuast Lover-a historical novel in two volumes

This historical novel by Matt Nesvisky, a former writer for both The Jerusalem Post and The Jerusalem Report, takes the reader on an emotional ride from the revolt at Sobibor to present day

The Holocaust Lover Matt Nesvisky Published independently 2018 397 pages; $12

French novelist published Holocaust denials and caricatures 30 years ago

“Everybody knows the camps never existed,” a caption alongside that caricature read.

Israel depicted as killing children in a Palestinian cartoon

Book review: Revelatory reunions

Richard Russo’s novel ‘Chances Are…’ is a beguiling, surprising reunion of college friends.

REUNIONS – ILLUSTRATIVE.

Book review: Kidnapping on steroids

‘The Chain’ is a kidnap yarn made for the big screen

‘TO GET your child back, you must pay a token ransom and abduct someone else’s child.’

Boris Johnson’s novel, Seventy-Two Virgins: A glimpse into his inner world

The book takes place over a few hours during which a group of Islamic terrorists plan to kidnap the US president while the Johnson-like hero stumbles across the plot and tries to foil it.

Boris Johnson