Algiers, 1930. Albert Camus, philosopher, novelist, playwright, journalist, future Nobel Prize winner and current goalkeeper ...

There is much that human beings rebel against, and there are various forms of rebellion, many of which psychiatry ...

François Ozon’s adaptation of the 1942 novella L’Etranger passionately honours the original text while bringing a contemporary perspective to its themes of empire and race ...

French philosopher and Nobel Prize-winning author Albert Camus once wrote, “When the soul suffers too much, it develops a ...

Explore Albert Camus' perspective on the complexities of lying and emotional honesty. Discover why people bend the truth and ...

Camus used his journals to wrestle with the ideas he explored in books such as “The Stranger” and “The Myth of Sisyphus.” ...

Albert Camus, who would be 100 years old Thursday, is ageless. The French Algerian’s life and work reflect the long tragedy of the 20th century, marked by disquiet, genocide and violence, but his ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. It’s the same sun beating down on us all, Albert Camus memorably conveyed in his oft-debated 1942 novel “The ...

A version of this story ran in the December 2013 issue. In the United States, though, Camus has always been adored. Inverting the Jerry Lewis syndrome, Americans have taken to Camus while Balzac and ...

In this week’s issue, Adam Gopnik calls Albert Camus the “Don Draper of existentialism.” During Camus’s first and only trip to the United States, in 1946, New Yorkers treated him like a celebrity.