Camus's inoculation against hate

Laura Marris wrote an essay for The New York Times about the strange parallels of her work completing a new translation of Albert Camus’s novel “The Plague” during the COVID-19 crisis. The experience for Marris has been both bizarre and hopeful for many reasons. She hopes that books from the past can be a kind of serum for the future, as Camus intended his novel to be. He knew that his book would be needed again, long after his death, in a context he couldn’t predict or imagine.