Friday night, March 31, 2023, The Battle of the Badges features the FDNY Bravest Boxing and the NYPD Fighting Finest, as they lace up their gloves and step
Hurst and Company, 2020, $29.53, 184 pp.
After Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus was perhaps France’s most prominent philosophical writer of the 20
th century, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, and producing masterpieces such as
The Stranger and
The Plague, as well as actively contributing to the moral and political issues of the day.
Camus died on January 4, 1960, when the car he was in swerved at high speed on a highway leading towards Paris and slammed into a plane tree. Camus, in the front passenger seat, was killed instantly, and the driver, his publisher Michel Gallimard, died a few days later in hospital. Fortunately, Gallimard’s family, sitting in the back, escaped relatively unharmed.