Albert Camus' words offer solace to overthinkers. His philosophy emphasizes conscious living and resistance to despair. The ...

Read The New Yorker’s complete news coverage and analysis of the coronavirus pandemic. The novel’s hero and narrator, Bernard Rieux, a physician, takes quiet moral action amid his city’s devastation, ...

Even if you’ve read Albert Camus’s slim novel The Stranger (L’ Étranger) repeatedly, there are still a few things you may not know about the masterpiece, which has sold more than 6 million copies. 1.

I first met Albert Camus in the fall of 1980, when I was a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania. I say met because it felt that personal to me. His 1942 provocation “The Myth of Sisyphus” was ...

This year has not only seen revived interest in Albert Camus’s novel The Plague (1947), it also marks a key anniversary: Camus’s death at the age of forty-six in a sudden car crash sixty years ago.

I MET him first in Paris in the early days of June, 1945. He had published The Stranger, which I had read and arranged to publish in America, and was about to complete The Plague (of which my office ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

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 ...

MY LIBERTY is absolute,” said the nihilist to the Englishman. “There is nothing which prevents me from punching you in the nose if I wish to.” “Oh, yes, there is,” replied the Englishman, “Your ...

Albert Camus grappled with virtually every crisis of the 20th century intellectual. He was an anti-colonial activist in his native Algeria during the 1930s and a member of the Resistance in occupied ...