In the desert, an office not-love story. Outside, the scorpions chatter. "And it is woman remember, who bears the shield: for both the Greeks and the Romans. She wields it up and over her man, on every coin we can find." - - If Camus' Stranger had existed in the wilds of Arizona, he would surely have composed these barefaced ruminations, gnarly and gnomic for a hyperconnected and troubled time. Alex M. Frankel, author...