My deepest thanks to Richard Regosin and Suzanne Gearhart, who read a number of chapters and made invaluable suggestions for improving parts of the book.

Parts of the following chapters have previously appeared in print, but all have been substantially expanded and revised. A small amount of material from the introduction overlaps with pages from “Albert Camus—Political Journalist: Democracy in an Age of Terror,” the foreword I wrote for Camus at Combat: Writing 1944–1947, ed. Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006). The last half of chapter 1 is a revised version of “Guilt by ‘Race’: Injustice in Camus’s The Stranger,” Cardozo Law Review 26, no. 6 (2005): 101–113. Chapter 2 is a revised and expanded version of “The Colonial City and the Question of Borders: Albert Camus’s Allegory of Oran,” L’Esprit Créateur 41, no. 3 (Fall 2001): 88–104. Chapter 7 is a substantially revised and greatly expanded version of a section of “Camus’s Algeria: Birthrights, Colonial Injustice, and the Fiction of a French-Algerian People,” in “Camus 2000,” special issue, Modern Language Notes 112, no. 4 (Summer 1997): 517–549.