The notebooks of Albert Camus, the French philosopher and novelist, have been collected in a single volume for the first time. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through ...

François Ozon’s handling of classic novel draws both praise and criticism, including from the author’s daughter More than 80 years after it was published, Albert Camus’s L’Étranger remains one of the ...

Albert Camus died in a car crash in 1960, but his books refuse to stay buried in the past. While other philosophers gather dust on academic shelves, Camus still gets quoted in coffee shops, on social ...

Albert Camus grew up surrounded by violence in Algeria, a land torn by conflict between native Algerians and colonizing French Europeans. His early experiences were marked by the trauma of war—his ...

Albert Camus never set out to become the conscience of a century, yet history placed him there. His life was marked by brilliance, loss, and a quiet rebellion against despair. He lived through wars ...

A man who shares his surname with the philosopher who taught the world to accept meaninglessness had, without intending to, captured the Absurd in motion. The coincidence is almost too poetic: a Camus ...

The world finds itself in a cultural setting in which large swaths of democratic countries place their faith in faux salvific “strongmen”, part of whose “populist” appeal is based on their ability to ...

Albert Camus’s short life began in Algiers in 1913 and ended in a car crash near Paris in 1960. After being rejected from the École Normale because of a failed medical assessment, Camus became a ...

On the surface, it retells part of the story of Albert Camus’s 1942 novel The Stranger. In that book the protagonist, Meursault, shoots an Arab on a beach and is sentenced to death. The Meursault ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Never trust anyone who tries to be ethically pure. This is the message of Albert Camus’s short novel La Chute (The ...