Camus And Orwell’s Hypothetical Coffee Date

In 1945 George Orwell was scheduled to meet Albert Camus at a café in Paris. However, Camus became ill and the two authors never met. Now, for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Matthew Lamb speculates what might have happened had the two actually had the opportunity to speak. With the help of the authors’ biographies, Lamb imagines a brief conversation surrounding topics of censorship, journalism, and the Spanish Civil War.