The Outsider, Albert Camus'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.' In The Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds

Can we pull off these changes in time

From the outset the play was a sensational success

'Don't lick the bus stop Archie

Didion—a native Californian—reassesses parts of her life

Gladwell sits with Ron Popeil

' Max Porter

Did she fall in love - with a place and its people

to a commune in New Mexico

it traces a deep

and hundreds of short stories

wisdom-spouting

he must ask himself: is it patient or psychiatrist whose life is being laid bare